High School: Church History Overview (Schedules, etc.)
CHURCH SCHOOL CURRICULUM
CHURCH HISTORY
HIGH SCHOOL
This sample schedule is provided for the convenience of Church School directors. Feel free to plug in your own dates and teachers.
Teachers:
General Plan of lessons:
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Beginnings: Pentecost
UNIT 1: THE BEGINNINGS
Objective: Students should be able to discuss the beginnings of the Christian era, its place in the Roman world, the major players at the first council, the debate about Jews and Gentiles and its conclusion, the foundation of the sacraments of baptism and chrismation.
WEEK 1: PENTECOST
Beginnings: Gospel to the Gentiles
WEEK 2: SPREAD OF THE GOSPEL TO GENTILES
Philip and the Ethiopian Eunuch:
Beginnings: Council of Jerusalem
WEEK 3: COUNCIL OF JERUSALEM
St. Paul and his Journeys: Conversion and 1st Journey
UNIT 2: ST. PAUL
Objective: Students should be able to discuss the conversion of Saul, the importance of St. Paul’s ministry, and detail each of his 3 missionary journeys and his final journey to Rome.
St. Paul and his Journeys: 2nd and 3rd Journeys
PAUL AND HIS JOURNEYS: WEEK 2
Apostolic Synod in Jerusalem, 50 A.D. – review this from the last unit.
Who was there?
What was decided?
St. Paul and his Journeys: Final Journey to Rome
PAUL AND HIS JOURNEYS, WEEK 3
Paul’s Final Journey to Rome: 59-64 A.D., Acts 22-28 – continue in the pattern of the previous lessons:
1. The Journey itself:
- Jerusalem, vow of purification, arrest, Sanhedrin, plot: Acts 21:26-33, 22:23-27,
23:12-15
Apostolic Age: St. Peter
UNIT 3: THE APOSTOLIC AGE
Objective: Students should be able to name each of the apostles, his ministry and death, to discuss the importance of the Dormition and the role of the Theotokos in the early Church, the Revelation to John including his admonitions to each of the 7 churches and the Second Coming, and the existence and nature of angels as evidenced by the Scriptures.
WEEK 1: ST. PETER
Peter as a disciple of Jesus:
Apostolic Age: Apostles and Dormition
WEEK 2: APOSTLES/DORMITION
Apostles and their missions:
Apostolic Age: St. John and the Revelation
WEEK 3: ST. JOHN AND THE REVELATION
John the Disciple
Review the life of John as a disciple of Jesus. Have the students take turn reading these Scriptures about John:
Luke 5:1-11 Calling of the fishermen