This unit is structured using Empowered by the Spirit (Year Six) and the Teaching and Learning Resource Confirmation by the Religious Education Archdiocese of Perth. Below is a break down on the three main sections the unit is based around, and its purpose.
Empowered by the Spirit - the breakdown.
(A) WONDERING AT THE CREATOR OF THE HUMAN SPIRIT
The purpose of this step is to assist the development of students’ religious awareness. It aims to help them understand the religious meaning of significant experiences – an essential step for both Evangelisation and new Evangelisation.
The students will be provided with opportunities to wonder in A1 and A2 and celebrate (rather than merely understand) the related attribute of God in A3 (B) THE PROMISE OF CHRISTIAN SALVATION
The purpose of Step B is to show Jesus as the model of truly human behaviour, and then to focus upon how the world of the students’ experience would be different if all accepted his promise of the power of his Spirit.
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(C) CHRISTIAN RESPONSE
The purpose of Step C is to experience Christian Promise. To experience the Christian Promise requires personal Christian conversion. In the words of Jesus, this means people must [Mark 1:15]: Repent, and believe the gospel. Religious Education contributes to their New Evangelisation by helping students to understand what is involved in repenting and believing. Religious Education needs to help students discover ‘what exactly faith in Jesus Christ is.’ [General Directory for Catechesis 75].
(Archdiocese of Perth Western Australia, 2001).