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provide meaning for life? || [|Purposes and Designs of Prayer] [|Traditional Prayers and Rituals] || **3.1 What is the purpose of prayer?** Using 5 Ws and H strategy invite students to respond to the following survey/ questionnaire using Type with Me or Wall Wisher.
 * TOPIC || TITLE || TEACHER BACKGROUND || TEACHING AND LEARNING SEQUENCE ||
 * 3.1 || How does engaging with prayer and ritual
 * What is Prayer?**

What is prayer?

Why do people pray?

When might people pray? Where can people pray?

How do people pray in different ways? Who can pray? Who does pray? Keep this as a folio item and then at the end of these lessons invite students to revisit their responses and add or change what they have written or thought. 1. Prayer is the raising of the mind and heart to God or the requesting of good things from God. 2. Prayer contributes to the faith growth of individuals and the building of Christian community. 3. Schools draw on the richness of the Catholic tradition, the wider Christian tradition and their own particular charism to nurture the prayer life of the school.
 * Explore with students the question What is Prayer? Ask them to read these three statements for the Guidelines for the Religious Life of the School.

Class discussion about ways the school community prays. Why? When?

How does the definition of Catholic prayer agree or disagree with Randell Niles. Responding in prayer to local or world concerns Teach the students about the [|You Who Do Through]structure for composing a prayer. Explore with them different titles or names for God. Folio Ideas:
 * Watch You Tube [|What is Prayer?] Randell Niles What is your response to this talk?
 * Search "Prayer" in the [|Catholic Catechism]
 * Revisit different expressions of prayer : vocal; meditative and contemplative
 * Brainstorm different forms of prayer and explain these : Petition ( for self); Intercession ( for others); Blessings; Prayer of thanks ; Prayers of Praise;; prayers for forgiveness.
 * Praying the News
 * 1) Students to write a definition of prayer
 * 2) Students use concerns or issues in the local/national or world context as a stimulus to write a prayer using the template You Who Do Through. These could be published in a Class Online Book of Prayers



[|Ways Christians pray] [|Teaching Mantras]
 * **Topic** || **Title** || **Teacher Background** || **Learning and Teaching Sequence** ||
 * 3.2 || What are different ways that people pray across faith traditions? || [|Muslim Prayers and Rituals]
 * 3.2 || What are different ways that people pray across faith traditions? || [|Muslim Prayers and Rituals]

[|The Rosary][|Meditation and Rosary][|The Rosary.doc]

[|Praying with Labyrinths] || * Explore Different Ways of Praying p. 36 Module: Making Meaning through Prayer and Ritual
 * Discuss and identify the diverse ways that people pray across faith traditions e.g. Muslims pray five times a day.


 * What is the one of the most well known Christian prayers?**


 * Explore the **Lord’s Prayer** as a prayer that is common to Christian traditions


 * Go to [|Fact File of Christian prayers] for facts about this Christian prayer.The Catechism of the Catholic Church statesthat the Lord’s Prayer is a summary of the whole gospel.


 * Compare [|different versions] of this prayer. Compare traditional prayer with the Aboriginal Our Father.


 * Use [|__Bible gateway__] to locate Matt 6:5-15.


 * Class Discussion: What is the purpose of this prayer? How does Thomas Aquinas write about this ancient prayer? // St Thomas Aquinas said the Lord's Prayer is the most perfect of prayers. In it we ask, not only for all the things we can rightly desire, but also in the sequence that they should be desired. This prayer not only **teaches us** to ask for things, but also in **what order** we should desire them. //


 * What is a Mantra? How do people pray with a mantra?**

Watch the following examples of a Mantra

[|Tibetan Buddhist Chanting]

[|Prayers by Dali Lama]


 * Using Google dictionary to write a definition of Mantra and identify how each of the above examples fulfills the requirements of a mantra.


 * Watch Mysteries: [|The Rosary] What are the key prayers of the Rosary? Revisit the words of the Hail Mary and teach about this prayer. Catholics use beads to pray the Rosary. Explore how beads are used for prayer in other faith traditions e.g. Muslims use a set of 99 beads with each bead representing a name for God in the Islamic faith tradition. Other examples are the Hindu “Mala beads’” and the Buddhist prayer beads.


 * =====Discuss differences and similarities between the Buddhist Mantra and The Rosary. =====
 * ===== Visual Meditation: Watch this example of [|Hail Mary] and critique this production e.g. the visuals, the text, the music used. =====
 * =====Use imovie (or [|__Vuvox__]) to create a visual meditation.(See Folio Ideas) =====
 * =====What is a Labyrinth and how can people pray with Labyrinths? =====


 * Go to the following web site [|__Labyrinth__] and click on About Labyrinths to investigate cathedral labyrinths and contemporary labyrinths.


 * Use the App iPause ( a set of labyrinths used for meditation and prayer. Labyrinths have been used for centuries for meditative prayer and can bring an inner peace for those who are seeking deep self reflection. Read and discuss the description of this App.)


 * [|Labyrinth Meditation] Visit this online Labyrinth

Possible Folio Ideas:


 * 1) Write a short reflection on the relevance of the words of the Our Father and how they make meaning for life in 2011.
 * 2) iMove to create a visual meditation on a mystery of the Rosary.As a class, select 1 mystery of the rosary. Divide the class into 5 groups and each group will be assigned 1 decade. Use [|Corbis Images] to find appropriate images and find a suitable piece of music to accompany these.Share to itunes and create a playlist of all class. Work to create 1 movie. (you will need to send files to other groups via bluetooth)
 * 3) Choose a design for a labyrinth and write a meditation or mantra to pray with this labyrinth. Choose background music to accompany this meditation ||
 * **Topic** || **Title** || **Teacher Background** || **Teaching and Learning sequence** ||
 * 3.3 || What is ritual and how do rituals help people to make meaning of life situations? || [|Everyday Rituals] || * Explore the meaning of the word ritual and distinguish between routine rituals and religious rituals. Name and discuss prayer rituals that occur in the College setting. Read the [|Everyday Rituals] background to gather information.


 * Go to [|Ritual Planning document]
 * Explore the structure of a ritual


 * Look at an example of a ritual [|Sorry Day Ritual] or a Father’s Day Ritual Week 8 of [|Ways to Pray Calendar]


 * Possible Folio Ideas: **


 * 1) Use prayer/s that have been taught about and prayers or meditations created by students in the Core Content Areas 1 and 2 to design a prayer ritual. Students could do this in teams. Students to lead this prayer ritual for different audiences e.g. another year level or for a PC prayer.
 * 2) At the beginning of this unit students engaged in the following learning experience:

Using 5 Ws and H strategy invite students to respond to the following survey/ questionnaire using Type with Me or Wall Wisher.

What is prayer?

Why do people pray?

When might people pray?

Where can people pray?

How do people pray in different ways?

Who can pray? Who does pray?

Students to revisit their responses and add or change what they have learnt about prayer and ritual. ||

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