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A JOURNEY OF GRATITUDE
Discover Your Neighbor (DYN) offers unique materials and lessons to inspire young people to engage on issues like Care for Creation so that they can live out their faith as agents of love and service.
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Designed specifically for globally-minded educators who want to guide their students toward making a difference in their world!
2022 Lesson Plan
(Volume 6, No.2)
MIGRATION
A JOURNEY OF GRATITUDE
Objective
Advent is a season for gifts and gratitude. Students will EXPLORE the concept of gratitude…
Step 1: Pray
You Are a Gift
You are a gift that God has created
Your heart was formed to bring…
Step 2: Personal Connections
Tears welled up in Sister Genie C. Natividad’s eyes as she watched a little boy hanging…
MIGRATION
A JOURNEY OF GRATITUDE
Advent is a season for gifts and gratitude.
Students will EXPLORE the concept of gratitude by reflecting on the journeys of 2 refugee families – the Holy Family and a real life family at the border and APPLY the learnings to their own lives.
Students will ANALYZE some of the causes of the refugee crisis
Classroom Activities
Prayer & Reflection
Make Personal Connections
Faith Perspectives
Neighbor Focus
Exploring Scripture & Traditions
Lessons on How To Take Action
An interactive education program for teachers sponsored by the Maryknoll Fathers and Brothers
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DYN lesson plans use global issues to examine those on the margins of society, explores how we think and feel, and guides how youth can act to share God’s love with those in need.
CARE FOR CREATION
FALL / ORDINARY TIME
Pope Francis challenges us to change the “throwaway culture” we live in – what are we called to do in response to the Pope’s challenge?
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MIGRATION
ADVENT
Journey with migrants throughout our faith tradition and explore our call to love all people in light of global migration.
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ECONOMIC JUSTICE
LENT
Live a faith that values all people by discovering and responding to global needs as Jesus would.
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GO FORTH
EASTER / PENTECOST
Answer the call to encounter the
world as a living sign of God’s love.
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CARE FOR CREATION
MIGRATION
ECONOMIC JUSTICE
GO FORTH
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MIGRATION
A JOURNEY OF GRATITUDE
Get started today with our course program for the 2021/22 school year to foster a mission-centered perspective in youth, and guide your students toward making a difference in their world.