{SQT} Getting the Religious Ed Classroom Ready

Item: Code Name Verity
Rating: 5
Author: Amanda Marie

Posted September 27, 2015 in Faith / 0 Comments

Seven Quick Takes is a weekly link-up hosted by This Ain't The Lyceum.

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It is absolutely crazy to realize that religious education starts this coming Wednesday. Usually we would have begun already, but the Director just had her baby so we held off starting. I have been working very hard to get the classroom all ready for the students. It is just about there.

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First there is the west wall that starts the theme for my classroom this year: Divine Mercy. The small board on the left is based on the Divine Mercy image. I had a lot of fun getting that board ready.

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The northern wall continues the theme of Divine Mercy. This is also the main wall of the classroom and the boards that I use most often. As you can see, I already have the Creed and the first two mysteries of the Rosary ready to go on Wednesday.

Tagged as Catholic, Jesus, Mary, Religious Education, Saints, Seven Quick Takes

{F56} Encountering Truth

Posted September 25, 2015 in Faith, Reading / 8 Comments

The Friday 56 is a weekly meme hosted by Freda’s Voice.

Rules

Grab a book, any book.
Turn to page 56 (or 56% on ebook).
Find any sentence that grabs you.
Post it.
Link it at Freda’s Voice.

Tagged as Blogging for Books, Friday 56, Jesus, Pope Francis

{Review} Code Name Verity – Historical Fiction on WWII

Posted September 24, 2015 in Reading, Review / 0 Comments

Code Name Verity by Elizabeth Wein
Series: Code Name Verity #1
Publisher: Disney Hyperion (2012)
Hardcover (332 pages)
Via: Library
Rating:
Reading Challenges: Read 2015

Synopsis

Oct. 11th, 1943-A British spy plane crashes in Nazi-occupied France. Its pilot and passenger are best friends. One of the girls has a chance at survival. The other has lost the game before it’s barely begun.
When “Verity” is arrested by the Gestapo, she’s sure she doesn’t stand a chance. As a secret agent captured in enemy territory, she’s living a spy’s worst nightmare. Her Nazi interrogators give her a simple choice: reveal her mission or face a grisly execution.
As she intricately weaves her confession, Verity uncovers her past, how she became friends with the pilot Maddie, and why she left Maddie in the wrecked fuselage of their plane. On each new scrap of paper, Verity battles for her life, confronting her views on courage, failure and her desperate hope to make it home. But will trading her secrets be enough to save her from the enemy?
A Michael L. Printz Award Honor book that was called “a fiendishly-plotted mind game of a novel” in The New York Times, Code Name Verity is a visceral read of danger, resolve, and survival that shows just how far true friends will go to save each other.

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Tagged as 5 star, All Time Favorites, Library, Read 2015, You Read How Many Books Challenge