CLASSROOM RESOURCES SENIOR YEARS 10-12

MATHS:

● Map the five Catholic Dioceses of Queensland. ● Calculate the area of each Diocese, order them from smallest to largest. ● Give directions for moving between the different dioceses. ● Research the number of students in Catholic Schools in Queensland. ● Work out the percentage of students who attend Catholic Schools. ● Create graphs depicting …

Research and learn the local indigenous counting system, names for the seasons. Basically, whatever you are working on in maths during Catholic Education Week, use the figures from Catholic Schools in your problem solving and investigations. ENGLISH: Catholic Mission – Song Competition Catholic Mission are currently running a song competition based on the theme of the Extraordinary Month of Mission. The purpose of the competition is to engage children and young people of every Diocese in composing and ‘singing for mission’. All school aged students, school music groups and choirs, parish choirs, youth groups, youth music groups/bands/choirs and individual music students up to the age of 19 years, are invited to compose a song and submit it to Catholic Mission. Competition closes 26/7/19. This is a beautiful song that could be used for a range of purposes – ‘Many Voices, One Spirit’ Kevin Wood https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hsvRwyJz08I . Would be certainly beautiful for meditation. Learning Different Voices In this International Year of Languages, students could be encouraged to research the local Indigenous language and find the words for hello, goodbye, spirit, welcome, etc. Invite Indigenous storytellers to come to schools and share their story.

Read a variety of Indigenous stories. Make comparisons to the Catholic Tradition. For example, comparing The Creation Story and The Rainbow Serpent. Research the different places of worship. Many voices that make up our world – a church, a temple, a mosque, a synagogue, an ancestral place of worship and a place of meditative silence. Seeing the commonalities in experiences of diverse people helps promote unity and an appreciation of values. Connect to Catholic Social Teaching – discussion, group work, joint construction of slideshow that show students, groups, agencies being the hands, feet and heart of God in the world today. Flash Fiction The theme of togetherness is covered by the idea that you do this in groups. The theme can also be covered by the words you give them.

● Level 1 – Give groups five words to generate a short story of 50 words ● Level 2 – the group has to edit their story down to 40 words ● Level 3 – the group has to edit down to 30 words.

This activity fosters teamwork and creativity. Example Scary It took three game systems, a 60-inch HDTV, junk food, and surround sound to get their son to be unafraid of the basement. They snuck upstairs. She said, “You know what would be funny? Go down there like monsters.” “I’ll find the ski masks,” he said. “I’ll get the knives.”

Word Lists (Middle Primary to Yr12 levels) change wait need unity laughing tradition together laugh memory belonging compassion Class Trivia Competition Twenty questions, four rounds with five questions based on the works studied. For example:

● Years 10 to 12: Lord of the Flies, To Kill A Mockingbird, The Crucible, Macbeth, Romeo and Juliet, The Great Gatsby, BladeRunner (film), Ladies In Black (film).

● Years 7 to 9: Holes, Surviving Hitler, Pavana, Harry Potter series, Wonder, Peter Pan, BFG. Google search ‘literary trivia questions and answers for middle school pdf’.