Jesus, the Way, the Truth, the Life is the seventh grade text in the Image of God
series published by Ignatius Press. It is a large softcover worktext of
over two hundred fifty pages divided into twenty-two chapters or units.
The pages are pleasing to the eye with a nice layout of clear text,
full color photos and illustrations of stained glass windows. Each unit
has questions, with space to write answers, interspersed instead of
culminating exercises at the end of each.
The open ended title is reflected in the variety of unit names
ranging from "God" to "How Should I Act?" to "The Church Carries on the
Work of Jesus". Included in the units are many references to Scripture,
stories of the lives of saints, and real life scenarios to better help
students to understand their Faith in action. What does seem to be
missing are references or corelations to the Catechism of the Catholic
Church. The text appears to be written at a grade appropriate reading
level although at times the topics seem a bit deep for twelve year old
tweens.
I have used the Image of God Who Am I? workbook
to teach a preschool Mommy and Me class when my eldest was 3 yrs old
and I have used the 6th grade text with my five children in a homeschool
setting. I have loved both and always recommend them to other
homeschoolers and DREs. I will not be recommending this text with the
same enthusiasm since it introduces topics of a sensitive nature such as
marital love, natural family planning, contraception and homosexuality
for which some tweens are not yet ready. I also miss the end of unit
activity worksheets that were included in the 6th grade text.
There are two supplements to the worktext that I was not able to review - a teacher's manual
and a resource binder (which I discovered does reference themes in the
text to the CCC). It seems at least one of these would be necessary to
use Jesus, the Way, the Truth, the Life to its fullest potential.
You can purchase this book here.
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1 comment:
Good review! My son is far from old enough for this book (he's 6), but good to keep in mind for the future.
We used the Who Am I? workbook for preschool, too. Andrew really enjoyed it.
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