Renewed: Your Journey to First Reconciliation Leader's Guide (Includes Online Leader's Access)
Renewed: Your Journey to First Reconciliation Leader's Guide (Includes Online Leader's Access)
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The Leader’s Guide provides an overview and easy structure for every lesson. It includes the complete Student Workbook content with wrap-around leader’s notes and helpful items like lesson objectives and interactive activities. It also offers detailed lesson plans for 45, 60, 90, and 120 minute sessions, as well as how to teach a lesson over the course of a week in a school setting.
About the program
Renewed: Your Journey to First Reconciliation is a twelve-lesson program that provides everything you need to prepare children to receive the Sacrament of Reconciliation. It features gorgeous live-action videos with stunning animations that help communicate the spiritual dimension of the faith to children in a way they can easily understand. The program also offers a Student Workbook, a Leader’s Guide, an Online Parent Certification, a take-with-you Reconciliation book, family activity crates, and more.
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I wanted so, so much to love this Sacrament prep program. The Renewed books are aesthetically pleasing, the videos are sweet but not to corny, and the content showcases the depth and richness of Catholic teaching. I so appreciate that it doesn't "dumb down" Catholicism (kids know when they're being talked down to!) and that the photography doesn't look like it's from the 1990s (a major problem with a lot of "up-to-date" programs).
Unfortunately, I found the content poorly organized, especially considering that most readers will be kids age 7-8. There is just too much text and too many terms in each chapter, and it's not logically organized. For example-- Unit 3 bolds "Anointing of the Sick" as a key term, but the concept of sacrament isn't really introduced and certainly not explained until Unit 4. Perhaps the main issue here is that the book presupposes too much knowledge on the part of the student. It's just not organized in a way that I think would be accessible to your average 2nd grader.