Year 9 RE at STM

Homework is due on Monday 11 February.

You need to find and record the definitions for all the key words used in this unit. You will be given a sheet in class, but the key words are listed below:

ABORTION
AUTONOMY
CATECHISM
CONSCIENCE
ETHICS
EUTHANASIA
FORGIVENESS
FREEDOM
GRAVE SIN
IMMORAL
INFORMED
INTRINSIC EVIL
LOST
MAGISTERIUM
MITIGATING CIRCUMSTANCES
MORAL
MORAL DILEMMA
MORALITY
MORTAL SIN
NON-MORAL
OBJECTIVE MORALITY
ORIGINAL SIN
PAPACY
PARABLE
PHILOSOPHERS
PRINCIPLE OF DOUBLE EFFECT
REPENTANCE
SACRAMENT
SIN
SUBJECTIVE MORALITY
TEMPTATION

Homework is due on Monday 4 February 2008.

Complete the worksheet given in class. It is based on the question, “What should Christians do?” For each teaching of Jesus, you will need to consider how it can be applied by a Christian in everyday life. The quotes are below, in case you lose your sheet …

“Do not take revenge on someone who wrongs you”
“Anyone who looks at a woman and wants to possess her is guilty of committing adultery”
“When you give something to a needy person, do not make a big show of it.”
“Do not judge others and God will not judge you.”
“Let the children come to me, do not stop them.”
“Blessed are those that work for peace”
“Love your enemies and prayer for the those who are against you.”

Homework due on Monday 28 February.

Jesus taught his followers to: “Forgive us our trespasses as we forgive those who trespass against us”. Bitterness, being unable to forgive, destroys people from the inside.
Forgiving someone is not the same as saying that they did not do it, or letting people walk all over you, but it is important.

• You must explain why forgiveness is important.
• You should link in the Bible passages that you learnt about in class. (Luke 15:11-32 and Luke 19:1-10)
• You could link in the Parable of the Lost Sheep.

You will be given a worksheet in class to write your answer on. (If you click on the Bible links, you will be taken to the Bible Gateway site, where you can look up these Bible verses in a large number of different languages.)

Homework is due on Monday 21 January 2008.

Imagine you were Jesus – write a diary entry for each time you were tempted in the Wilderness and in the Garden of Gethsemane.
* You must write about exactly how you felt.
* You should write about why you reacted the way you did.
* You could write about how you found the strength to resist temptation.

You can read about this experience in Matthew 4:1-11.

Extension homework for 9A: Find out what Immanuel Kant had to say about freedom and free will.

Homework due on Monday 14 January 2008.

Complete the front page for the new topic: Conscience.

This half term we will be learning about: Conscience

By the end of the unit we will know:
• What is conscience?
• What is free will?
• How do we form a conscience?
• What is temptation?
• What is sin?
• What is forgiveness?
• How to solve moral dilemmas?