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Dear parents of students in this Summer Faith Course,
Thank you for letting your sons attend this summer class. This is the third time St. Louis U. High is offering Theology courses in the summer. This will be a very new and different experience for your son. There are many unique advantages of summer courses. I told your sons that my goals for this course include every student earning an A or A+, emphasizing cooperative learning and trying some new and different pedagogy and all having a good and enjoyable experience in which they do some real and significant learning. I will do all I can for these things to happen.
I will be at school every day by 8 am if your son wants to come in for extra help or to use the iBooks or just to be here. Every day I, and the laptops, will be available till noon. I want to give my students a chance to help each other in learning to build web sites or with course material.
There is a lot of information about the course and all its aspects available on the Summer Theology Web Site. Please ask your sons to show this to you. They should have it bookmarked. Ask to see their web sites. Please take some time to look around.
If there are any concerns or questions, feel free to e-mail me or call.
Matthew Sciuto
home phone: 314-771-2098
e-mail: [email protected]
Please visit our course web site at
Summer Faith Course 2005 Home Page.
Here you can view an outline of the course, a daily calendar with class activity and homework, our probable grading system and much more. As the course progresses you will be able to view student work, not only your son's but other student's in the class. Please read these, not academically, not to correct, but to learn more about what he is learning and, perhaps, more about him. Discuss these with him. Ask a lot of questions. Listen.
Parents are the primary educators of their children, in all areas, but especially in the area of religion.
from a Prep News interview with Fr. Hagan 9/26/97
PN: What would you say is your philosophy on how to live a good life?
Fr. Hagan: Seek beauty, seek the truth, seek goodness. No matter what kind of faith - people get all tangled up in their faith. The one great duty in life is to seek the truth. And what is true will be beautiful and what is beautiful will be good. And that's my goal in life.