TENTH GRADE SUPERVISED STUDY UNITS
FAITH FORMATION/CONFIRMATION PLAN
(TEN COMMANDMENTS & APOSTLE’S CREED)
1. OVERVIEW: This unit is intentionally using a team learning experience on behalf of the students. Students form groups of from two (2) to four (4) members who will work together in completing study guides and at Pastoral Reflection Time.
Space needs: Three separate areas. Large room, spaced out; Three Sunday School classrooms, as example.
- Room 1: Resource Room, which consists of stored resources for completing the respective worksheets, tables and chairs for teams to work together at, a “head table” for teams to sign in and out each evening (session) at which parents are scheduled to monitor. Monitor sees that students/teams are signed in and out, check out audio/video resources, oversees scheduling of Pastoral Reflection time with Pastor, and maintains sense of discipline in room.
- Audio/Video room with equipment to view specific materials
- Pastoral Reflection Room consists of table with chairs for team members on one side; Pastor on the other
Schedule Plan:
10 Commandments
- Meeting with Parents/Students in Spring, preceding Fall Schedule to review the Unit Plans of the Ten Commandments to be done as described above for initial sign up of Monitors and giving students ample time to self/family select teams.
- Between Labor Day and Thanksgiving have set aside eight (8) Wednesdays for the rooms to be open, supplied, and Mentor ready.
- Each Wednesday, Monitor will be present for three hours, example: 6 pm to 9 pm.
- Student teams (necessarily together) sign in for at least one hour, but up to all three if they choose, as the 4 page study guided unit will take average students about 8 hours to complete, on/in the time line they choose during the eight weeks of the rooms being open for three hours each night.
- A Pastoral Reflection time is to be scheduled by each team following their completion of each of the four study guides. Scheduled on the Pastoral Reflection Schedule provided. Pastoral Reflection time is for the team to review what they have learned, by using the study guide just completed. (about ½ hour)
- Teams proceed at their own rates, and at their own times. May be in for three hours one night and not back at all the next week, for example. Need to know that completing the unit in the prescribed 8 weeks is the expectation, and the scheduled Wednesdays all available to them.
- Any team(s) which are not able to complete the unit in prescribed time go into “Overtime” (it is football season, after all!). Overtime means that the parents of the team(s) not finished will continue as mentors until the overtime team wins! (Provides a certain amount of parental encouragement, as you might guess!)
The Apostle’s Creed
The second unit (This We Believe! ) is done on/in a Retreat setting in the Spring; with sessions Friday eve, Saturday am & pm and evening, or Sunday am. With the same format of resource area study, audio/visual space and Pastoral Reflection space. Parents are in charge of transportation, meals/food/snacks, activities and chaperoning. A Bible camp; another larger church or ??? as a destination…we even used a National Forest Campground one time, with three parent campers as the three spaces to meet, if outside didn’t work!
Lutheran Confirmation 