Devotion to Mary UNIT 6, LESSON 4 Learning Goals Connection to the ӹ The Church’s devotion to Mary is intrinsic Catechism of the to Christian worship. Catholic Church ӹ Devotion to Mary is expressed in various ӹ CCC 487 liturgical feasts and in Marian prayer. ӹ CCC 971 ӹ The saints can teach us about loving Mary. ӹ CCC 2676-2679 Vocabulary ӹ Devotion BIBLICAL TOUCHSTONES And Mary said: “My soul proclaims the greatness When the wine ran short, the mother of Jesus of the Lord; my spirit rejoices in God my savior.” said to him, “They have no wine.” [And] Jesus said to her, “Woman, how does your concern affect LUKE 1:46-47 me? My hour has not yet come.” His mother said to the servers, “Do whatever he tells you.” JOHN 2:3-5 507 Lesson Plan Materials ӹ My Mary Museum Journal ӹ Teacher Resource: Saints ӹ Teacher Resource: Titles of and Mary Discussion Guide Mary Discussion Guide ӹ Teacher Resource: Mary and You ӹ Teacher Resource: Titles of ӹ Crayons, markers, and/ Mary Museum Images or colored pencils ӹ Teacher Resource: Saints ӹ A picture of each student and Mary Museum Images in your class ӹ Butcher paper (or other covering) Prayer Hail Mary, full of grace, the Lord is with thee. Blessed art thou among women, and blessed is the fruit of thy womb, Jesus. Holy Mary, Mother of God, pray for us sinners, now and at the hour of our death. Amen. Note: In advance, create a “museum” in your classroom with three “exhibits”: Titles of Mary, Saints and Mary, and Mary and You. Use butcher paper or some other material to cover up each section so that you can reveal the exhibit only when the students are instructed to tour that section. For the Titles of Mary and Saints and Mary exhibits, print out the entire set of Museum Images from Teacher Resource: Titles of Mary Museum Images (page 517 in this guide) and Teacher Resource: Saints and Mary Museum Images (page 530 in this guide). Hang them in two different spaces in your classroom, keeping the images in each Teacher Resource together. For the Mary and You exhibit, create a space for students to display their own artwork. Print out and hang a picture of each student so they can tape their own artwork underneath their picture. DAY ONE Warm-Up A. Begin by praying the Hail Mary together. B. Ask your students to think about different names they have been called, including nicknames. Then call on a number of students to share their nicknames or other names they might go by. Invitation to Witness: Consider sharing with your students about a nickname or another name that you have gone by or currently go by. Take the time to share a story about how you earned that name. Explain that having nicknames for someone means they are special to us, because they have “earned” those names somehow. Mary has earned a lot of names because she is very very special! 508 © SOPHIA INSTITUTE FOR TEACHERS LESSON PLAN C. Explain to your students that Mary is very special to us as Catholics. We treat her in a special way and show her great respect because of her role in our salvation (by her yes to God, she cooperated with God’s plan for salvation and allowed His Son to be born) and because of how much Jesus loved His mother. We call this special treatment of Mary devotion. Devotion means showing someone great respect and treating him or her in a special way because of how great and important that person is. D. Tell your students that for the next few days, the classroom has been turned into a museum for Mary! They get to be the lucky guests of this museum and will learn about Mary and how to show devotion to her. They will even have the chance to display their own artwork! Activity A. Explain to your students that one of the ways we show our devotion to Mary is by using different names or titles for her that honor her and help us to know her better. Ask your students if they know any names or titles for Mary. Accept reasoned answers. B. Tell your students that in today’s lesson, as they tour the first section of the “Mary Museum,” they are going to learn about some of the many names we use for Mary and some special days on which we can celebrate her. C. Play classical music in the background and create a prayerful atmosphere in the classroom. Lead your students through a tour of the Titles for Mary exhibit: ӹ Have your students gather around to see the images more closely. ӹ Show your students the different names of Mary, one by one, accompanied by the images. Explain each title, image, and feast day using Teacher Resource: Titles of Mary Discussion Guide (page 515 in this guide). ӹ Engage your students in discussion about the images and titles by asking your students a se onal Pa e ans an a Pa les o a whether they have any favorites, whether eons eons A they have heard of this or that name before, nsaon what they notice about each image, what _________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ they like and dislike, and so forth. _________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Formative Assessment _________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Have your students turn to My Mary Museum _________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Journal (page 245). Explain that they will be _________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ keeping a journal of the different exhibits they see _________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ from the Mary Museum. Give your students some _________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 245 time to answer the questions from the Titles of _________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Mary portion of the worksheet. 246 247 UNIT 6, LESSON 4 509 LESSON PLAN DAY TWO Warm-Up A. Begin by praying the Hail Mary together. B. Have your students turn to My Mary Museum Journal again. Make crayons, markers, and/ or colored pencils available. In the space labeled “My Inspiration,” have your students draw a picture of the person from whom they have learned the most in their lives. After a few minutes, have your students take turns sharing their drawing with a neighbor and explaining why they chose to draw that person. C. Then explain to your students that in the Catholic Church we have the saints to look up to, to learn from, and to inspire us. Many saints had a special devotion to Mary. We can learn from these saints how to know and love Mary better. D. Remind your students that they are the lucky guests of a Mary Museum this week! Today they will tour the second section of the museum and learn about some saints who had a particular devotion to Mary. Remind your students that devotion means showing someone great respect and treating him or her in a special way because of how great and important that person is. Activity Play classical music in the background and create a prayerful atmosphere in the classroom. Lead your students through a tour of the Saints and Mary exhibit: ӹ Have your students gather around the exhibit to see the images more closely. ӹ Go through the five saints from this exhibit who have a devotion to Mary. Give your students background on each saint using Teacher Resource: Saints and Mary Discussion Guide (page 527 in this guide). Read the quotes and help the students understand what they mean. ӹ Engage your students in discussion about the saints by asking which of the quotes means the most to them, which saint’s quote is the most interesting, and so forth.