CHRISTIAN EDUCATION CURRICULUM & RESOURCE CATALOG 2019-2020 2019-2020 DEPARTMENT OF CHRISTIAN EDUCATION CURRICULUM & RESOURCE CATALOG This catalog outlines the basic curriculum and supplementary texts and materials available through the Department of Christian Education at Diocesan headquarters in New York City. To order, use accompanying order form. Department of Christian Education Diocese of the Armenian Church of America (Eastern) 630 Second Avenue New York, NY 10016 www.vemkar.us www.armenianchurch.us Elise Antreassian 212 686-0710 X157 Fax 212 779-3558 [email protected] 2019-2020 | TABLE OF CONTENTS Sunday School Curriculum Primary High School Pre-School 4 Grade Nine 9 Kindergarten 4 Grade Ten 10 Grade One 4 Grade Eleven 11 Grade Two 5 Bibles /Bible Reference 13 Elementary Grade Three 6 Teacher Aids 14 Grade Four 6 Grade Five 7 Books for Children & Young 15 People Middle School/Junior High Grade Six 8 Books 18 Grade Seven 8 Grade Eight 8 Christian Education Curriculum and Resource Catalog | 3 2019-2020 | PRIMARY Pre-School (ages toddler-4) Kindergarten Grade One This year, we suggest using the Pre-K for ages The newly updated Kindergarten We Believe God and Me Together 2 through 4. This is effective when there is Student Text consists of twenty-eight full God and Me Together focuses on the simple, more than one teacher in the classroom, so color individual newsletter lessons, chockfull happy facts of faith: the life and teachings of that for occasional activities the older group of stories, photos, illustrations, activities, and Jesus, the power of the Holy Spirit, the people may work separately. songs. An accompanying storybook, Jesus: of the Bible, the celebration of holy days and The theme of We Believe Pre-School comes Bible Stories for Children, relates the life holidays, and the life of the community as it from a very popular, simple children’s prayer, and teachings of our Lord from His birth to lives out its faith in worship and joy together. one that children will be using regularly at Pentecost. Each story is paired with a full-color Grade One consists of twenty-eight full-color snack-time during the year. It is also the year’s illustration, blending Biblical and contemporary individual newsletter-style lessons, chockfull basic lesson. Each Sunday, the church’s littlest styles with traditional Armenian motifs. Order of stories, photos, illustrations, activities, and faithful will be hearing about the wonder of one copy for the teacher to read aloud from; hymns. A special feature is My Badarak Book, God’s good creation and the glory of His gifts. ideally, purchase a set for students to follow a palm-sized booklet about our Divine Liturgy along with (the set remains permanently in In the joy of others and God’s beautiful world, that the class will put together. This year’s the Sunday School library). A complimentary these little ones, God’s favorites, will feel His curriculum uses the storybook Jesus: Bible Teacher Manual makes it simple to provide presence and enjoy their faith through the fun Stories for Children from which children were children with a fun and fascinating 60-minute and laughter of the pre-school classroom. And read to last year. They now each get a copy of lesson. parents will be kept well-informed with weekly their own to follow along with and at the end of the year it is theirs to take home. parent cards. Student Text, CR068, $25.00 Theme: God is great, God is good. Teacher Manual available online Free Student Text CR086 $25.00 Jesus: Bible Stories for Children, CR067 Teacher Manual CR087 $8.00 Teacher Manual CR019A $7.00 $15.00 Jesus: Bible Stories for Children CR067 Parent Cards CR037A $10.00 $15.00 To access and download Teacher Manuals or review Students Texts, go to the new ministries website www.venmkar.us. Click on Resources at top and then click on Faith Formation on the drop down menu. Now scroll down to Teacher Manuals/ Student Texts. Christian Education Curriculum and Resource Catalog | 4 | PRIMARY 2019-2020 Recommended for use with Primary grades Early Reader’s The Life of Jesus Bible p. 13 in Miniatures: An Armenian Coloring Book p. 16 Grade Two Circles of Faith I Go To C Through story, song, puzzles, and lots of crafts “handmade with love,” en hu r h ch ARMENIAN PRAYERS W FOR CHILDREN Second Graders experience the “circles” of faith that connect them Հայերէն Աղօթքներ Ե մ Մանո կներո Համար րբ ա through Jesus to a loving God and a nurturing Church. Four Units anchor ԵկեղեցիԿ’երթ their journey. Circles of Faith explores the sophisticated concepts of the 1 Holy Trinity and the Holy Church. Jesus and Me reviews prayer as the all- Armenian Prayers for important path to knowing our Lord, whether at home or in church, in good Children When I Go To Church times and bad, knowing that trust and thankfulness will prevail. Being the p. 15 p. 17 Church examines the idea of becoming together what we cannot be alone. Nourished with the forgiveness and love embodied in the Eucharist, Sunday extends into a week of Christ-centered living. Celebrating Jesus: The Church Year demonstrates that Jesus and all the events and people connected n I Was B apt e ize h d with his ongoing story are celebrated in the seasons of the Church. Children W Ե ր ա learn facts and meaning so that feast day traditions might become vehicles բ Ե կրեց to deeper faith. Formatted as twenty-eight full-color individual newsletter lessons. Student Text CR094 $25.00 Teacher Manual available online Free How Armenia Became When I Was Baptized the First Christian p. 17 To access and download Teacher Manuals or review Students Texts, go Nation, p. 16 to the new ministries website www.venmkar.us. Click on Resources at top and then click on Faith Formation on the drop down menu. Now scroll down to Teacher Manuals/Student Texts. Christian Education Curriculum and Resource Catalog | 5 2019-2020 | ELEMENTARY Grade Three Grade Four Finding Your Way Through Walking With God Being a Disciple: It’s Not Just a The Bible Grade Three We Believe emphasizes the lived Fan Club! Paul and Mary Maves discipleship of people of the Bible and church Christ is the central topic of We Believe Grade Four and If the Bible is the most important book in the history. Twenty-eight lessons are organized it is his life that serves as foundation for all the units world, then we need to teach our children in four units: Walking With God: God’s Light that evolve from that center. Twenty-right lessons are how to use it. These one hundred sixty-nine Shining Through Faithful Men and Women organized in five units: Jesus, Lord of My Life takes little pages in a reduced- size workbook (to explores well-known figures from the Armenian students on a chronological and thematic journey through sit comfortably on top of a Bible) will help Christian story from Adam and Eve to St. the events and teaching of our Lord; Being a Disciple: It’s middle and upper elementary school children Nersess Shnorhali: how did God touch their lives Not Just a Fan Club! focuses on the concrete ways worship do just that. Can be used slowly over the then and how does that inform our students’ and prayer, Scripture, and good works lead us to a deeper course of the Third Grade school year or in lives today? Let Us Bow Down Before God relationship with Jesus; Sacraments: A Call to Holy Living two or three sessions. Designed to be used demonstrates that it is love that leads inevitably continues the study of that relationship in the milestone with The Children’s Bible (NRSV). to worship during which praise and thankfulness events that officially bind our lives to Christ; The Church open us to forgiveness and spiritual Celebrates presents the five major feast days as further Paperback, 169 pp, RE010, $6.00 nourishment; Celebrating Our Lord focuses on opportunities for personal and communal spiritual growth; important seasons of the church in a timeless We Worship God reviews the Divine Liturgy as the act of a cycle of preparation and celebration; finally: We “Sunday people”: we attend liturgy as the inevitable fruit Are a Family of Faith: Yesterday, Today, and of faith and grace. Features include: “From Our Hearts to Tomorrow reminds children of the transcendent God” opening prayers, real-life context in the “My World” church community as a place to witness, serve, readings, Scripture and Armenian tradition, fun puzzles and be true disciples. Features include: prayer and activities, Bible memorization and trivia, and Family starters, real-life context in the “Daily Bread” Corner summaries and activity ideas for parents. Colorful readings, Scripture and Armenian tradition, lay-out and photographs drawn from our own community. fun puzzles and activities, Bible memorization and trivia, Family Focus summaries for parents. Student Text CR093 $25.00 Colorful lay-out and photographs drawn from Teacher Manual available online Free our own community. To access and download Teacher Manuals or review Student Text CR092 $25.00 Students Texts, go to the new ministries website www. Teacher Manual available online Free venmkar.us. Click on Resources at top and then click on Faith Formation on the drop down menu. Now scroll To access and download Teacher Manuals down to Teacher Manuals/Student Texts. or review Students Texts, go to the new ministries website www.venmkar.us. Click on Resources at top and then click on Faith Formation on the drop down menu.