Sunday, February 24, th Grade

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1 Sunday, February 24, th Grade 7 th Sunday in Ordinary Time Gospel Reading: Luke 6:27-38 Provided for you (see below) Class Folder Pink Emergency Folder Pflaum Pamphlet for Feb. 24, Mar. 3 Gathering worksheet: Instructions from God LITURGICAL YEAR / FEAST DAYS CATHOLIC TRADITION Weekly readings and discussion: FEAST DAYS & CELEBRATIONS February 22 Chair of St. Peter March 6 Ash Wednesday Learn more about the Saints: yname.asp Session Notes: Below are the session plans for today. A printed version will be provided for you in your catechist mailbox. We will be using the general outline in the Pflaum this Sunday but we have made some adjustments to how it will be presented. Please review both the Pflaum teaching guide and the session plan to prepare for this Sunday. This is the video about Fannie Lou Hamer that will be shown:

2 Session Plan and Suggested Timeline for February 24, :00am to 9:10am 10:45am 10:55am Welcome & Gathering Activity Welcome your students when they arrive and take attendance. Distribute the Instructions from God worksheet for the children to work on as the class gathers. 9:10am - 9:25am 10:55am 11:10am Prayer / Opening Activity Gather and set up your prayer table. Pray the Sign of the Cross and the Prayer of St. Francis, which can be found at the end of these session notes. Explain that they re going to learn a little about Fannie Lou Hamer a black civil rights leader during the time of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Direct everyone to room 704 to watch a brief video about her life, then return to your own classroom. Distribute the Pflaums and direct the children to open to page 3. Read the final section under the blue heading, Fannie understood (SNCC stands for Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee) o Discuss the Think questions. Answers are on page TG3-26 of the teaching guide. 9:25-9:40 Discover Gospel & Doctrine 11:10-11:25 Direct the children to turn to page 4. Read the title of the Sunday Gospel: Jesus Says, Love Your Enemies. Have one catechist read through the Gospel. Have the children take up their pencils. Now each catechist should take turns reading the different parts of Jesus, pausing after each one. Tell the children to think about following each particular teaching and write down the word easy or hard next to that teaching. o Discuss the Think questions. o Discuss which teachings would be easy or hard to follow. o Ask if they did not understand any of the teachings. Be ready to share what you felt was confusing if the children need help opening up. Read the section under Connecting Gospel and Doctrine. o Discuss the Think questions. Direct the children to page 5 and read the title. Read up until the first blue box. At this point, read the first reading from Mass. (See the last page of the lesson plan) Ask: Saul is trying to kill David, so why doesn t David kill Saul? Ask: How do you suppose Saul reacted to David s words? o Say: According to 1 Samuel 26:25, Then Saul said to David, Blessed be you, my son David! You will do many things and will succeed in them.

3 9:40-9:55 Living the Gospel 11:25-11:40 Have the children turn to page 6. Allow the children 5 minutes to complete the sections titled Consider These Situations and Check Your Choices on their own. Then go over how they answered and discuss why they answered the way that they did. o This activity is important to show that we are called to correct injustice, no matter what form injustice takes, with love. Encourage the children to take some time at home to complete the personal reflection on page 7. 9:55-10:10am 11:40-11:55am Gym Take the children to the gym for a game of Goliath s Hungry! Choose a catechist from the classes to explain the game, and another to monitor the time. o Other catechists need to be on the sidelines keeping the children engaged in the game. Split everyone into two approximately even groups. Put each group on opposite sides of the basketball court (baseline to halfcourt, with the sidelines as the boundaries) Choose one child to be Goliath, and have that child stand between the two groups. When Goliath yells, I m Hungry! each group must run to the opposite side. Goliath tries to tag whomever they can. When a person is tagged, they hold hands with Goliath and become an extension of Goliath. Goliath will continue to prompt those who haven t been tagged to run to the other side by saying, I m Hungry! until all kids have been tagged or there is one left. o Goliath becomes a line of children with only two free hands one at each end. o Goliath may only tag one person with each free hand. This is because the ones tagged by Goliath will then hold hands with Goliath. Each of them will have a free hand, which will be the only hands that can tag any other players, and so on. o Someone who gets tagged and holds hands with Goliath may quickly tag someone else who has not yet finished running to the other side. 10:10-10:15am 11:55-12:00pm Closing prayer Close class by gathering again around the prayer table to pray the Sign of the Cross, the Prayer of St. Francis, Glory Be, and the Our Father

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