Tough Choices: Bringing Moral Issues Home
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Overview
A unique resource for use in Catholic high schools and parish religious education or youth ministry programs, providing concrete ways for teenagers to learn about, apply, and make choices about a number of current and practical moral issues. Tough Choices: Bringing Moral Issues Home offers innovative ways for teens and their parents to share and discuss these dilemmas.Though applicable in several different courses and programs, the basic approach is for a teacher, catechist, or youth minister to assign a moral dilemma to be taken home, read, and discussed using the questions that accompany each. A due date for the assignment is given. By that date, the teenager is to return the sheet to class with his or her own signature and that of his parents. This accountability helps to assure that parents not only have a voice in their teen's moral development, but continue in their God-given role as primary educator of their children.
Among the issues covered in Tough Choices: Bringing Moral Issues Home are those in the areas of:
- Abortion
- Capital Punishment
- Child Abuse/Domestic Violence
- Divorce
- Drugs/Alcohol
- Eating Disorders
- Euthanasia
- Homosexuality
- Honesty (opposed to cheating, plagiarism, and stealing)
- Sexuality
- Suicide
Tough Choices: Bringing Moral Issues Home is a perfect complement to any high school theology course or youth ministry program. Moral dilemmas can be assigned based on their correlation to topics being covered in the curriculum, issues that arise in the school or among the teen's peer group, current events, or in many other situations specific to the particular school or parish.
Tough Choices: Bringing Moral Issues Home also includes on-line access to allow teachers to adjust the dilemmas and change names and situations to better apply them to their own teenagers. The Introduction provides a thorough explanation of the material and ways to use it in a variety of different situations.
Synopsis
A unique resource for use in Catholic high schools and parish religious education or youth ministry programs, providing concrete ways for teenagers to learn about, apply, and make choices about a number of current and practical moral issues. Tough Choices: Bringing Moral Issues Home offers innovative ways for teens and their parents to share and discuss these dilemmas.
Though applicable in several different courses and programs, the basic approach is for a teacher, catechist, or youth minister to assign a moral dilemma to be taken home, read, and discussed using the questions that accompany each. A due date for the assignment is given. By that date, the teenager is to return the sheet to class with his or her own signature and that of his parents. This accountability helps to assure that parents not only have a voice in their teen's moral development, but continue in their God-given role as primary educator of their children.
Among the issues covered in Tough Choices: Bringing Moral Issues Home are those in the areas of:
- Abortion
- Capital Punishment
- Child Abuse/Domestic Violence
- Divorce
- Drugs/Alcohol
- Eating Disorders
- Euthanasia
- Homosexuality
- Honesty (opposed to cheating, plagiarism, and stealing)
- Sexuality
- Suicide
Tough Choices: Bringing Moral Issues Home is a perfect complement to any high school theology course or youth ministry program. Moral dilemmas can be assigned based on their correlation to topics being covered in the curriculum, issues that arise in the school or among the teen's peer group, current events, or in many other situations specific to the particular school or parish.
Tough Choices: Bringing Moral Issues Home also includes on-line access to allow teachers to adjust the dilemmas and change names and situations to better apply them to their own teenagers. The Introduction provides a thorough explanation of the material and ways to use it in a variety of different situations.