Plant the Seeds of Discipleship
A Letter from the Publisher Dear Partner in Ministry,
We at RCL Benziger are imagining what the world would be like if it was filled with Christ’s disciples. Do you share our vision and our hopes? Be My Disciples shares the Christian story in a catechumenal model using reflection on Scripture and doctrine. It initiates children into the community of faith and challenges them to discipleship. Be My Disciples is a balanced approach that invites, teaches, and challenges young people to become disciples of Jesus. It leads Catholic children and their families to grow in their conversion to Jesus Christ; accept the demands of discipleship; decide each day to choose life in Christ and live as active, committed members of the Catholic Church. Using a spiral structure, the six units of Be My Disciples explore the Catechism of the Catholic Church’s four pillars of Creed, Liturgy, Morality, and Prayer. Every chapter incorporates Sacred Scripture. Fifteen seasonal lessons at each grade level give children the opportunity to experience the beauty and richness of the liturgical year of the church and its major feasts and seasons.
Activities and prayer experiences help children and their families keep their minds and hearts open to discipleship as witnessed in the life of Jesus.
The Be My Disciples family of texts provides a comprehensive program for parish religious education. The program for elementary children in Grades 1-6 builds on the seeds of faith planted through Stories of God’s Love, s our unique Scripture-based religion readines program for preschool and kindergarten students. It dovetails with Our Catholic Heritage, RCL Benziger’s two-level entry level program for intermediate and juniorhigh students who are just beginning formal catechesis. Be My Disciples will soon be joined by Be My Disciples Junior High and other adult resources correlated to the major
themes of Be My Disciples. BeMyDisciples.com is a unique web site that invites all persons of faith to share their stories of discipleship and offers unparalleled resources for children, parents and educators. We at RCL Benziger are excited by the promise of Be My Disciples. We hope you share our vision after previewing this program and will join us in promoting “Disciple Power!” Best wishes,
Jo Rotunno Jo Rotunno Publisher RCL Benziger
Features in Be My Disciples Focus on Faith Formation for Children and Catechists Child’s Book 3 Age-Appropriate Approaches Consider Developmental Needs of Younger Children
Provide successful learning opportunities that engage children’s religious imagination
3 Disciple Power Children focus on a specific virtue or gift as they form the habits of discipleship
3 Looking Ahead
A quick preview of the chapter content
3 Faith-Filled People
S aints and holy people give children models for discipleship
3 I Follow Jesus
Plant the Seeds of Discipleship
Make a decision about how faith will be lived
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Multi-Media Catechist Guide 3 Catechist Workshop Your starting point for confident, capable,
committed catechesis. This built-in interactive workshop and the Be My Disciples in-service video will help you get the year off to a great start. You’ll also find a correlation to related modules in the Echoes of Faith program for catechist formation that will increase your confidence still further.
3 Lesson Planner with Time Guide Easy-to-follow plan for teaching each chapter 3 Connections with the National Directory for
Catechesis and Catholic Social Teaching
How to’s for making connections and
implementing important directives
3 Enrichment Ideas for Every Lesson
Teaching options and a connection to a specific lesson concept
Resources 3 B eMyDisciples.com
Extensive creative and practical resources, interactive connections between textbooks and the Web site, and innovative social networking opportunities
3 Music Program
Eight music CDs help children build a repertoire of liturgical music
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3 Assessment Tools
Create an assessment portfolio with chapter tests and other assessment instruments
3 Additional Activities
Time-saving reproducible activities extend learning in class or at home
3 Program Director’s Manual
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We asked pastors, DREs, catechists and parents throughout the country to share what they considered to be the essential elements of discipleship. As a result of their input, the features and benefits of the Be My Disciples program will help you meet the needs of the children and families you serve as they grow in the knowledge of their faith and live as disciples of Jesus. Be My Disciples shares the Christian story in a catechumenal model, using reflection on Scripture and doctrine. It initiates children into the community of faith and challenges them to discipleship.
Build a World Filled with Christ’s Disciples!
The balanced approach to catechesis offered by Be My Disciples:
3 Teaches, reinforces, and extends knowledge of Scripture, Catholic doctrine, and the Church’s seasons every year in every grade through RCL Benziger’s unique spiral structure.
3 Invites children to discipleship through a dynamic methodology that incorporates the latest findings in brain research, psycho-social development, and emotional intelligence.
3 Challenges children to a deeper integration of faith and life by leading them to higher levels of thinking and encouraging a weekly faith choice.
3 Invites parents into a partnership with the parish in the faith formation of their children. This exciting new program leads Catholic children and their families to:
Extend Knowledge of Our Catholic Faith Every Year Trinity • God Our Father and Creator • Jesus Christ, the Son of God • The Death and Resurrection of Jesus •The Holy Spirit • The Bible, the Word of God • The Church, the People of God • Mary • Saints • The Church’s Year of Worship • Liturgy • Baptism • Confirmation • Eucharist and the Mass • Reconciliation • Anointing of the Sick • Holy Orders • Matrimony • Loving God • Loving Others • Virtues • Grace • Ten Commandments • Beatitudes • Conscience • Making Choices • Works of Mercy • Jesus, Model of Prayer • Tradition of Prayer • Transformation through Prayer • Ways of Praying • The Lord’s Prayer
3 grow in their conversion to Jesus Christ. 3 develop the habits of discipleship. 3 decide each day to choose life in Christ. 3 live as active, committed members of the Catholic Church. 2
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Program Components Child’s Book
The structure of each ten-page chapter invites the children to Explore, Discover, and Decide upon a response to the lesson content.
Multimedia Catechist Guide
Guides support you every step of the way with consistent features and resources that help you prepare engaging lessons each week.
Eight Music CDs
A music CD for every grade level contains the program theme song and six hymns sung by young voices to help children build a musical repertoire of liturgical music.
Assessment Tools
Reproducible masters help you create an assessment portfolio for each young disciple.
Additional Activities
Time-saving reproducible activities extend learning in your session or at home.
Be My Disciples At Home
Parents and families share their faith journey using this comprehensive at-home companion.
Be My Disciples Summer Program
Use this guide to adapt the Be My Disciples curriculum for use in a summer program format.
Program Director’s Manual
Ideas for implementing the Be My Disciples program along with catechist training and parent support and are all contained in this accessible E-Resource.
BeMyDisciples.com
Offer more support than ever for children, families, catechists and program directors using this comprehensive site.
Stories of God’s Love, Kindergarten
Sow the seeds for a lifetime of discipleship using this storybased religion readiness program for Kindergarten.
Our Catholic Heritage
Use this initiatory text with intermediate-age and junior high students who are just beginning formal catechesis.
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Present Important Concepts through the Four Pillars
Encouraging Children and their Families to Know and Live their Catholic faith To provide children and their families with a thorough understanding of our Catholic faith, Be My Disciples uses Scripture, doctrine, and the Church liturgical year along with lives of the saints and real-life examples of Christian witness to encourage the growth of Gospel窶田entered moral conscience and Christian discipleship.
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Children Learn Catholic Prayers and Practices
Child’s Book Traditional Prayers in both English and Latin As requested by the Holy Father, traditional prayers taken from the Compendium of the Catechism of the Catholic Church are provided, along with pronunciation key for Latin prayers.
Encountering the Word of God in Scripture The use of Scripture to begin each unit and throughout each chapter helps the children grow in their knowledge of the Word of God.
Belief and Practice Deepen the Path of Discipleship Understanding Catholic Doctrine
Children are introduced to prayers and practices from our rich Catholic heritage.
Each year children encounter and extend their understanding of the core teachings of the Catholic faith through six unit themes.
Celebrating the Liturgical Year Weekly liturgical prayer and fifteen seasonal lessons at each grade level give children the opportunity to experience the rhythm of the Church year.
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Welcome and Engage Children
Introduction and Welcome Children are introduced to the program goals and invited to grow as disciples of Jesus.
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Jesus invites you to be his disciple. He wants you to know him better, to understand his message, and to follow his way of life. During this year, you will learn more about Jesus and what asks of you. You will learn about virtues, habits, and qualities that are the marks of a disciple. And you will learn that Catholics who follow Jesus don’t keep it to themselves. Jesus’ message is such good news that you just have to share it!
Preview Activity
Solve the Puzzle
On the next page you will be invited to search through your student book and get a preview of what you will be learning this year. The puzzle below is a little bit like a crossword puzzle. Begin by solving the six clues in the boxes on page 7. Then transfer the letters of your answers into the puzzle squares below that have the corresponding numbers. The solution is a sentence that tells the main theme of the Gospel.
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Prayer and Ritual
Child’s Book
Honoring the Bible As they gather for prayer, children are introduced to a Catholic ritual for honoring sacred Scripture.
Interactive Prayer An easy-to-follow prayer reminds children that Mary was the first and best disciple. It gives them an opportunity to accept their call to be a disciple.
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Build Religious Literacy
Be My Disciples helps children know and live their faith through loving service to others. Week by week, children gather to: • Grow in Knowledge. Through RCL Benziger’s unique spiral structure, children are introduced to Scripture and the Catholic Tradition, and reinforce and extend their knowledge year by year. • Connect Faith with their Experience. Through a process of presentation, application, reflection, and decision, children relate knowledge of the Catholic faith with their life experience and commit themselves more deeply to the person and mission of Jesus Christ. • Practice the Skills of Discipleship. By learning gifts and qualities of discipleship and practicing its habits and virtues, children learn the skills required to follow Jesus.
Scripture grounds the unit content in the Word of God
Activate the child’s prior knowledge
Forecast key concepts and vocabulary
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Chapter Opener
Child’s Book
Encounter the Word of God. The proclamation and reflection on the Word of God in Scripture begins each unit and each chapter. Throughout each chapter, the children grow in their knowledge and love of the Word of God. They see how God’s loving presence and his Revelation have guided the Church throughout history and continue to guide us in our lives today.
Looking Ahead Offers children a quick preview of chapter content and a synopsis of how they will explore, discover, and decide.
Reflection on Life A question helps the children connect the lesson with their life experience.
Encounter with Scripture An opening Scripture passage and reflection ground the lesson content in the Word of God.
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We Live Out the Values of Jesus
Stories of the People of God This page tells the story of a saint, holy person, or ministry that has made a difference in the world. By learning more about a person or group that has lived the values of Jesus, children begin to learn the demands of discipleship.
Disciple Power This key character formation feature helps children focus on a specific virtue that forms the habits of discipleship.
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Child’s Book
Word and Image Support Core Content
Learn Catholic Doctrine. The spiral structure helps children encounter and extend their understanding of the core teachings of the Catholic faith every year.
Faith Focus A question to focus the child’s attention on the key chapter concept
Faith Vocabulary Calls out the vocabulary terms defined in each chapter
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Discover & Illuminate Core Concepts
Faith-Filled People An additional related example of a saint or holy person who models the way of discipleship.
Catholics Believe Highlights a Catholic doctrine or practice that helps build Catholic knowledge and identity.
Engaging Artwork Photos, illustrations, and fine art provide visible cues to enhance the learning experience.
Engaging Activities Reinforce lesson content with fun-to-do activities in your session or at home.
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Disciples Follow Jesus
Child’s Book
Activity Challenges the children to integrate faith and life as they grow as children of God and disciples of Jesus.
My Faith Choice Children decide how they will live their faith during the next week.
Personal Prayer As the lesson concludes, children are encouraged to pray about their faith choice.
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Concluding the Lesson
To Help You Remember This feature lists three important concepts that foster faith.
Chapter Review A variety of strategies help children reinforce key concepts.
A Prayer Experience concludes the chapter by drawing upon the rich prayer tradition of the Church to help the children learn the many forms and styles of the Church’s prayer life.
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Foster Faith in the Home
Child’s Book
With My Family This tear-out page in each chapter gives families: • Chapter summary • Family activities • Discussion starters • Background on the Church’s tradition of prayer to enhance the spiritual journey of both parents and their children • Connections to related teaching from Church documents
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Unit Review
Unit Review Additional assessment is provided in the form of helpful unit tests.
Group Work Encourages children to learn cooperatively and engages their higher level thinking skills.
Emphasize Learning A variety of approaches for review helps to reinforce and extend learning. • Vocabulary choice • Matching activity • Connecting with Scripture • Be a Disciple
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Spiritual and Cognitive Developmental Needs Be My Disciples considers the developmental needs of children in Grades 1-3. As the Be My Disciples program was developed, consideration was given to both the spiritual and cognitive faith development of the younger child. You will discover an age-appropriate approach to support the faith journey of children in grades 1-3. Key Developmental Features for Grades 1-3
Benefits of Developmental Features
• Shorter sentence length • Appropriate type size • Engaging colorful illustrations • Short ritual prayer experiences • Attention to formula prayers for memorization • Briefer chapter and unit reviews • Teaching strategies that address concrete thinkers with shorter attention spans
• Provide successful learning opportunities helping the child to grow in faith knowledge • Combine art and image to engage the child’s religious imagination • Introduces appropriate virtues to help the child build the habits of Christian living • Assists sacrament preparation by teaching what we believe about the sacraments and how we celebrate them
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Solid Background for Catechists Be My Disciples catechist guides build confident, capable, committed catechists! The Catechist Guide supports you every step of the way with consistent features and easy-to-use resources that help you prepare engaging lessons each week.
Catechists Workshop Use this built-in interactive workshop and the Be My Disciples in-service video to help you get the year off to a great start.
Chapter Background A short and easy-to-read essay provides theological background on the chapter content that helps you grow in faith. Reflection questions help connect faith concepts with your own life.
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All the Support You Need
Multi-media Catechist Guide
Catechist to Catechist Practical suggestions from master catechists assist you with your sessions and your personal faith journey.
The Church Teaches Includes references from important catechetical documents and includes references to the Catechism of the Catholic Church and the United States Catholic Catechism for Adults for each chapter.
Catechist Prayer This short prayer centers you as you begin to plan your lesson.
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Makes Lesson Planning Easy
Planning At-a- Glance! The plan for teaching each chapter includes: • Chapter focus • Objectives • Outline of the lesson process • Materials list
Color Coding The three-step lesson plan is highlighted in the plan and at the point of use through color coding.
Time Guide Shows a suggested time needed to complete each step in the lesson.
Lesson Activities Outlines materials and suggests additional resources for planning a great lesson.
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Effective Three Step Plan A Lesson Process that Works Follow a simple, effective three-part process for each chapter: • Explore • Discover • Decide
Multi-media Catechist Guide
Looking Ahead Offer learners a quick preview to see how they will Explore, Discover and Decide throughout the lesson.
Explore You will lead the class through an opening process that engages their life experience, grounds the chapter content in Scripture, and invites reflection on it. A second page titled “The Church Follows Jesus” helps you share a story from the Church’s Tradition about a saint, holy person, or ministry that illustrates discipleship.
Prayer and Scripture Begin the Lesson Grounds the chapter content in Scripture and invites prayerful reflection.
Tasks of Catechesis Teaching boxes throughout the program relate lesson components to one of the six Tasks of Catechesis as outlined in the National Directory for Catechesis.
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Provides Wrap-Around Support
Wraparound Lesson Plans oncise point-by-point plans begin with a brief C classroom prayer and then lead you page-by-page through a creative teaching process.
Explore egin the lesson by exploring how B the Church has followed Jesus.
Easy-to-Follow Process Introduce, Reinforce, and Connect to keep children engaged throughout the lesson.
Integration Activity Challenge children to integrate faith and life with meaningful activities.
Disciple Power A specific virtue or gift that forms habits of discipleship is highlighted as children grow in faith.
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Connects You to Church Documents
Multi-media Catechist Guide
Faith Focus Helps children focus on the key concept taught in this section.
Faith Vocabulary Calls out the vocabulary terms defined in each chapter.
National Directory for Catechesis Assists catechists as they make connections between the lesson content and the eight Human Methodologies.
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Celebrate Catholic Tradition
Discover These doctrinal teaching pages are the building blocks of your lessons and will make the core doctrinal content accessible to the children. Each page of the teaching plan names the core concept for the page and provides you with simple teaching steps.
Scripture With Scripture woven throughout each chapter, children grow in their knowledge of the Word of God.
Faith-Filled People Catechists find additional related information on the saint or holy person whose life is a model for the way of discipleship.
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Point-of-Use Tips
Multi-media Catechist Guide
Discover A combination of word and image helps to illuminate core concepts and doctrinal presentations; additional Scripture stories and application activities work together to increase understanding.
Catholic Identity The Catholics Believe section highlights a Catholic doctrine or practice to build knowledge and Catholic identity.
Key Concept The catechist sees the core information for each teaching page.
Teaching Tip Box content on every lesson page of the guide offers additional tips and activities.
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Leads Children to a Faith Decision
Decide This page shows you how to assist the children in integrating the content with their own lives and making a clear faith choice for the coming week to continue their journey of discipleship.
I Follow Jesus This important section assists children as they integrate faith with the experiences of everyday life.
My Faith Choice Children are encouraged to put their choice into practice this week.
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Concludes with Review and Prayer
Multi-media Catechist Guide
Chapter Reviews Children review key terms and concepts using a variety of short assessment tools.
We Pray Your lessons end as they began – with prayer. The lesson plan provides clear instructions for leading the prayer, along with ideas for involving the students and enhancing the prayer experience.
Teaching Boxes The lesson plan pages also are filled with teaching boxes holding ideas, suggestions, and additional background information to help you. Look for this material at the bottom of each page of the lesson plan. Here are the topics you’ll find: • Catholic Social Teaching • Partnering with Parents • Six Tasks of Catechesis • Human Methodologies • Disciple Power • Faith Vocabulary • Liturgy Tips • Teaching Tips • Special Needs • Background
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Connects With Families
Living as Disciples Families relate to home and family as a school of discipleship and are given background information on the Church’s tradition of prayer for families. Tips for sharing Scripture, prayer, and at-home activities are also provided.
BeMyDisciples.com Children are reminded to visit the web site for additional resources.
Before Moving On At the conclusion of each chapter, a reflection question focuses on how the catechist can grow in skills and confidence.
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Provides Purposeful Activities
Multi-media Catechist Guide
Enriching the Lesson At the end of each lesson plan you will find a page of three enrichment activities that provide teaching options. Each activity includes clear directions, materials needed, and a connection to a specific lesson concept. These activities either provide alternatives to the process in the lesson plan or extend and enrich the lesson for the students.
Purpose Check here if you would like an additional activity that connects to specific lesson content.
Directions and Materials Easy-to-follow directions and a complete materials list for each activity help you plan for fun and purposeful activities to extend and enrich the lesson.
Catholic Social Teaching The last lesson plan box in each unit highlights a principle of Catholic Social Teaching that was addressed in the unit. A related Enriching the Lesson activity on the following page reinforces this teaching for the children.
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BeMyDisciples.com
Exciting New Online Resources Visit BeMyDisciples.com to find outstanding online support with additional chapter reviews, online lesson planning tools, and a variety of other helpful content for children, parents, catechists and program directors. • Interactive connections between textbooks and web site • Easy access to practical and creative resources • Safe social networking opportunities for sharing faith
Scan with your smart phone for a special video about discipleship!
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Resources Resources Designed to Enrich and Enhance Your Sessions! Music Program Directed by well-known Catholic composer and performer Steve Angrisano Each music CD contains: • A program theme song • Six hymns (one for each unit) sung by young voices help children build a musical repertoire of liturgical music as they advance through the grades. • Sung Mass parts reflecting the Roman Missal, Third Edition • Instrumental music for classroom meditation Music Songbook – Complete lyrics and accompaniment for guitar and piano. Steve Agrisano
Assessment Tools Use these reproducible masters to create an assessment portfolio with chapter and unit tests and other assessment instruments.
Be My Disciples Summer Program This complete resource helps parish catechetical leaders adapt the Be My Disciples curriculum for use in a summer program format.
Additional Activities Time-saving reproducible activities extend learning in class or at home.
Be My Disciples At Home An at-home companion to the Be My Disciples program that will help you and your children share your faith journey.
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Program Director’s Manual This accessible E-Resource includes everything the catechetical leader needs to implement Be My Disciples in your parish. You’ll find ideas for catechist training, parent support, meeting models, retreat models, and much more!
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Older Students Beginning Catechesis
Evangelize and Catechize Learners! This comprehensive and engaging two-level program for intermediate-age and junior high students is designed for firsttime older students who are just beginning formal catechesis on their journey of faith. Following the directives of the General Directory for Catechesis, it uses the RCIA’s initiatory approach prescribed by the bishops to both evangelize and catechize new learners in the intermediate grade levels. • Offer a full initiatory catechesis • Lay a foundation for a lived faith • Introduce the Rites of Baptism, Confirmation, Eucharist and Reconciliation • Provide online support
Reach out to returning families
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Lay a foundation for Discipleship Use Stories of God’s Love Kindergarten as the foundation for Be My Disciples.
Sow the Seeds for a Lifetime of Faith! The Scripture-based format of Stories of God’s Love Kindergarten begins where every catechesis should begin – by touching children’s hearts with the Gospel message. Written by a team of kindergarten specialists, Stories of God’s Love Kindergarten follows USCCB guidelines for kindergarten materials, lays a firm foundation for young learners, and can be used with any elementary program. • C hildren learn of and relate to God’s love through Scripture and story. • Parents and families are nurtured through activities, reflection, and prayer that foster Catholic faith and values. • T eachers and catechists find solid background, helpful planning tools, and easy-to-follow lesson plans each week. • Online resources offer support for teachers, catechists, and parents.
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