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11-27-22

Happy New Year!

In the Church calendar, today is the first Sunday of Advent, the start of a new liturgical year. Our whole year revolves around Christmas and Easter. The 2 purposes of Advent are to prepare for Jesus' birthday, and to prepare for His return in glory at the end of time. Early this week we will fill out a detailed study sheet on Advent and Christmas. It may take us two days to fill out and discuss all the answers. Our homework for the next 3 weeks will be to memorize this study sheet for a significant test around December 14. Five minutes every night is the recipe for success. Beyond that in grade 6 we wil look at Joseph's interpreting the dreams of pharaoh and saving his people from the famine. We should also be working on our family trees. In grade 7 we have a test on Baptism on Wednesday, and we will begin Reconciliation on  Friday. In Geography 7 we will visit a family farm in Indiana and the bustling city of Chicago. In grade 8 we will investigate Martin Luther, John Calvin, and King Henrry VIII to see how they changed Christianity in Europe. In History 8 we will follow the suffragettes who worked for 70 years to get women the right to vote, and then on to the growth of public education in the early 1900s. Have a blessed week!

Mr. Grant


The classes that I am teaching this year are...
Religion 6,7,8
Geography 7
History 8

Supplies needed for my classes are:
yellow notebook for Religion
red notebook for History
blue notebook for Geography
Set of colored pencils to be kept in class
a Bible to be kept at home. Catholic students should have a Catholic Bible
a printer at home that works and has ink