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Resource book of strategies for the composition classroom.

Koch explores what prayer is, where God is met, and defines the God which believers encounter in prayer. He guides readers on the many pathways to prayer, including petition, thanks and praise, journal writing, meditation, community prayer, and traditional prayer.

The accompanying teaching manual fully supports the student textbook and includes prayers, prayer services, review questions and answers, student activities, discussion questions, role-play situations, suggestions for interviews and guest speakers, student handouts, and much more.

De La Salle is recognized as the patron of teachers because he taught, worked out the best ways to instruct poor children, and trusted that God would guide and bless him each step of the way. The meditations in this book are designed to help readers pray with De La Salle on such themes as faith, zeal, trusting in Providence, the person of the teacher, perseverance, and discerning God's will. Stories about De La Salle, his writings, and passages from the Scriptures form the basis of each meditation. Many of the other books in the Companions for the Journey series are available from Word Among Us Press at http://bookstore.wau.org.

Sometimes the right words aren't easy to find when you're talking to a teen. Send Your Spirit offers prayers to supply words when your own may seem insufficient or incoherent. Easily adaptable to various situations, these prayers touch on the key themes and issues in teenage life and include a passage from the Bible to focus attention on God and inspire, challenge, and comfort teens. Send Your Spirit will help adults draw closer to the teenagers in their lives by helping them communicate with God and provide a way to hear God's voice.

Senior year is a pivotal moment in the life of teens, a time when young men and women areshaping their goalsandhopes for the future and seeking spiritual guidance.Creating a Christian Lifestyle,a comprehensive one-semester course, addresses significant issues teens will face as they choose among the many life paths they may travel--single or married life, religious life, or ordained ministry. The text examines themes common to all these paths: identity and autonomy, love, communication, sexuality, friendship, creativity and learning, work, money and possessions, and suffering and healing. The accompanyingteaching manualsupports the student text and includes prayers, prayer services, review questions and answers, student activities, discussion questions, role-play situations, suggestions for interviews and guest speakers, student handouts, and much more. The teaching manual contains the following additional resources: goals and objectives suggestions for using specific features of this course an appendix of additional suggestions for effective teaching a list of recommended audiovisuals and other resources a list of audiovisual distributors a bibliography of additional professional resources sample test questions, also available free of charge in editable format More activities are suggested in the manual than a teacher could use in a semester. This wide selection allows teachers to choose the activities that are best suited to their students.