Recommended for Grades 11-12
The authors of this book recognize that adolescence is not an easy stage; it is full of pressures. Sensitive to the suffering that can come from misinformed ideas about sexuality, the writers have geared this unit toward formation of sound judgments. This book helps teens develop healthy relationships through a Catholic perspective, and it challenges students to search their inner selves to establish their own sense of sexual identity. Understanding sexuality requires faith in a creative, loving God present to every dimension of our lives. This study stresses the importance of sequential and rational sexual decisions. These decisions are based upon affirmations that our bodies are the created gift of a loving God and that it is through love, not simply sexual experience, that one discovers the meaning of life and the presence of God.
Lesson titles include the following: Rooting Human Sexuality in Faith, Cultural Distortions and the Meaning of Love, The Theology of the Body, Moral Reasoning and Controversial Issues, Looking toward Lifelong Love, and Sexuality and Spirituality.
This minicourse edition offers students the opportunity to study scriptural passages and informative readings and to respond to thought-provoking discussion guides and insightful reflection sheets. Students express attitudes about masculinity and femininity, record elements of love and infatuation, examine six basic steps involved in making decisions, consider how emotions and attitudes affect decisions, and list reasons why some teenagers engage in premarital sexual intercourse and others choose not to.
