Year 10 Religious Education Option 1 - General Stream

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Year 10 Religious Education Option 1 - General Stream

TERTIARY & CAREERS PATHWAYS:

Charity Officer, Curator, Historian, Librarian, Missionary, Outreach Worker, Pastoral Worker, Religious Assistant, Teacher, Writer. 

This program is the mainstream option for most Year 10 students. It is a program of study designed by the college, guided by the learning outcomes of the Catholic Education Melbourne Religious Education framework. It offers a  flexible, adaptable, yet challenging curriculum that facilitates deep learning while serving as a foundation course for Religion and Society, and Texts and Traditions in the VCE. The three core learning capabilities of the program are:

1. Knowledge and Understanding: Students explain the Catholic Tradition and its elements by distinguishing and connecting perspectives from both within and external to the tradition

2. Reasoning and Responding: Students interpret their lives in dialogue with the Catholic Tradition and the cultural context by unpacking the complexities of issues using a range of perspectives with reference to the future.

3. Personal and Communal Engagement: Students reflect on experiences that provoke spiritual and religious insights by articulating the ways people attend to personal and faith formation.

 

Semester 1 - Units of Study:

  • Well-being and virtue in the Christian tradition 
  • Word-views in the Christian tradition 
  • The Catholic tradition in history

Semester 2 - Units of Study:

  • The Gospel of John – Gospel of Life
  • The Eucharist – Source of Life

Learning Standards:

  • To interpret how people of today draw on the Old Testament to shed light on the New Testament
  • To reflect on connections between their lives, sacred texts and the modern world
  • To reflect on the importance of faith and spirituality for themselves and the world
  • To explain the origins and historical development of the Eucharist
  • To interpret the significance of the Eucharist for Catholics today

Assessment:

Assessment across the year will include a range of tasks such as:

  • Research Projects
  • Reflection writing
  • Reports
  • Essays
  • Examinations

Contribution to class discussions and completion of classwork will also be considered.

Prerequisites:

N/A

Recommendations:

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