Year 9 RE at STM

I thought I would start a post on some of the excellent title pages I know I am going to receive. I have managed to photograph one already, so I will start straightaway. Keep up the good work!

I have been very impressed with the high standard of much of the work so far received from the Vocations Assessments. I have also enjoyed discovering new sources through reading your work. For example, I would like to thank one of my pupils who drew to my attention Cardinal Paulo Evaristo Arns’ Palm Sunday homily, entitled “From Hope to Hope”, which considers the role of the laity in the Church. Another pupil found an excellent description of the vows that Religious take at the Archdiocese of Boston’s site. Well found!

I may well post other websites and books as I come across them in your work. Watch this space!

One important for everyone to consider. When you are completing homework which involves research, I know that many of you will use books and websites to give you ideas. So do I, when writing university essays for example. In fact, it is encouraged, and I encourage you all to use some of the websites featured on here and others that you find using search engines carefully. What is very, very important is that whenever you do use information from a website, either by quoting directly from it or by using its ideas in your own words, you should always quote it.

For example, the above page I mentioned with the former Archbishop of Sao Paulo’s homily would read www . findarticles . com/ p/ articles/ mi_m1141/ is_22_39/ai_99983923/ pg_1, (without the gaps, of course – for some reason it keeps on disappearing when I write it as a proper webpage!) although I could always write it as “From Hope to Hope: Role of Laity in Church Reform – A Lenten Homily by Cardinal Paulo Evaristo Arns, 4 April 2003″.

Then I can not only applaud your good taste and excellent research skills, but I can also see that you are becoming a skilled academic who clearly references other people’s work so that future readers can extend their own knowledge too!

I look forward to receiving long bibliographies at the end of all your homework from now on!

Here are some of the good pieces of homework from last term. Hopefully they will inspire you all to produce even more beautiful title pages this half term!

(If your work is here, and you would like me to take it down, please let me know – but hopefully you will be happy with sharing your great work!)

(Click on any picture if you would like to see it bigger.)

Also, if you want to make any constructive and helpful comments on any of these pieces of work, remember: 2 stars and a wish! What’s good about it? How could it be improved?

This blog is also a place where we can share good work. For example, in class today we were learning about Vocation. Here is an acrostic poem by Samson.

Vocation means “calling”
Out to serve God
Continuous call through life
A call to good
There are many paths to God
Is a way to reflect Christ
Our call to selflessness
No-one hates you

It would be great if some of you could add some more of your acrostic poems to this blog – use the comments page below!