About Solidarity

This eLearning sampler course introduces students’ hearts and minds to the Catholic social teaching theme of solidarity. Enliven dynamics with Solidarity’s engaging polls, contemporary storytelling, interactive decision-making activities, and compelling discussion prompts. Solidarity is a great way to inspire your students to respond to our Pope’s challenge to follow Jesus by creating a culture of encounter in our one human family.

Solidarity can also be used as a community-building experience for faculty development or for groups preparing for service events or mission trips.

Made for the way Generation Z learns: In an increasingly connected world, Saint Mary’s Press’ eLearning platform is designed for the way your students learn best:

  • Discovery: The course structure and content allows students to get into topics and discover answers for themselves.
  • Conversation: Theological content is woven into student questions, comments, and discussions.

Solidarity is a responsive curriculum, mediated by the wisdom and knowledge of the instructor.

General Info
Length: 3 Lessons
Grade Level: 11th – 12th
Interactive Glossary:  ✓
Online Activity Teacher Tips:  ✓

Rich Content with Solid Theology

Solidarity engages students by teaching as Jesus taught: with storytelling, conversation, and relevant application. Imagine students encountering the Catholic teachings on solidarity in a way that connects with their lived experience.

Storytelling

Storytelling

One of the real-life stories focused on a Jewish family in Billings, Montana who celebrated Hanukkah by placing a menorah in the window, which resulted in a hate group coming to their home. In this section, students will read how a community came to together to help and support the family. These examples in this course help individuals build a foundation of personal power united strengthened by Catholic faith and scriptures.

Storytelling types:

  • Examples of Role Models
  • Real-Life Scenarios
  • Biblical Scriptures

Conversation

Conversation

In activities like “Becoming an Ally”, students will complete polls of real-life scenarios individually, then gather in a group to discuss. While students learn about the Catholic faith, they’ll also get to know their classmates and discover more about themselves—a perfect blend of the personal, social, and intellectual.

Activities consist of:

  • Student-Centered Questions & Exercises
  • Dynamic Group Discussions
  • Online Imagery Sharing

Application

Application

In Solidarity, students use prayer as form of reflection and promise to apply their new understanding of the world around them to their daily lives. In this prayer of light and hope each student is invited to say one line and all respond at the end of the prayer, reinforcing the united community and empowering students to apply what they are learning to real-life situations.

Applied learning categories:

  • Interactive Matching Tests
  • Online Multiple Choice Polls
  • Prayer of Students’ Role in the Community

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Learning Styles & Personality Types

The Solidarity sampler course was created by our  instructional designer to help students and individuals from all backgrounds and learning styles to understand the Catholic Social Teaching of solidarity. The course encourages us to not just memorize faith, but make a difference by exploring, processing and discussing relevant issues that are happening within the world today.

To read more about student’s experiences with our eLearning courses, go to the experience page.

Solidarity Course Platform

Throughout this course there are impactful interactions that anyone can utilize within the classroom or group. With these interactions and tools, the platform eliminates prep-work and frees-up teachers or group leaders so they can concentrate on the conversations. To learn more about tools and platform features, go to the classroom page.

Learning Styles & Personality Types

Course Outline for Stations of the Cross
Lessons:
  1. Introduction to the Stations of the Cross
    • Take Up Your Cross
  2. The Way of the Cross
    • First Station: Jesus Is Condemned to Death
    • Second Station: Jesus Takes Up His Cross
    • Third Station: Jesus Falls the First Time
    • Fourth Station: Jesus Meets His Mother
    • Fifth Station: Simon Helps Jesus Carry His Cross
    • Sixth Station: Veronica Wipes the Face of Jesus
    • Seventh Station: Jesus Falls the Second Time
    • Eighth Station: Jesus Comforts the Women of Jerusalem
    • Ninth Station: Jesus Falls the Third Time
    • Tenth Station: Jesus Is Stripped of His Garments
    • Eleventh Station: Jesus Is Nailed to the Cross
    • Twelfth Station: Jesus Dies on the Cross
    • Thirteenth Station: Jesus Is Taken down from the Cross
    • Fourteenth Station: Jesus Is Buried in the Tomb
    • Fifteenth Station: Jesus Rises from the Dead
    • Closing and Sending Forth

Course Outline for Solidarity
Lessons:
  1. One Human Family
    • You Have Been Chosen
  2. Stereotypes and Prejudice
    • Checklist: How Diverse Are Your Interactions?
    • Interacting in the World
    • I Am Not a Stereotype
  3. Allies for Change
    • Jesus Inspires Us
    • Becoming an Ally
    • People of Light and Hope
    • People of Light and Hope
  4. Now It’s Your Turn!
    • Thank you for your participation!

Course Outline for Creating Justice
Module 1: Catholic Social Teaching – The Art of Living Together
Module 2: Stewards of God’s Creation – Caring for our Common Home
Module 3: Seeking Solutions to Poverty – Charity and Change
  1. Guided by Three
  2. Catholic Social Teaching: It’s All about Love
  3. Charity and Justice
  4. Uniting for Human Rights
  5. A Spirituality for Justice
  6. Summative Assessment Project
  1. Partners in Creation
  2. Gospel of Creation
  3. A Planet in Crisis
  4. How Natural Are Our Disasters
  5. The Work is Yours
  6. Solidarity for Integral Ecology
  7. Mercy, Mercy, Me
  8. Summative Assessment Project
  1. Our Global Reality
  2. Understanding Poverty
  3. The Global Poverty Trap
  4. The American Struggle
  5. Making a Difference
  6. Summative Assessment Project
Module 4: The Dignity of Work – People and Profit
Module 5: Solidarity – Uniting as One Human Family
Module 6: Peacemaking – Creating a Culture of Encounter
  1. Work and Vocation
  2. Workers’ Rights at Risk
  3. Structures That Support Workers
  4. Be an Ethical Consumer
  5. The Spirituality of Work
  6. Summative Assessment Project
  1. One Human Family
  2. Stereotypes, Prejudice, and Implicit Bias
  3. Diversity and Solidarity
  4. Champions and Allies for Change
  5. Summative Assessment Project
  1. Deep Roots in Justice
  2. Culture of Life
  3. Seamless Garment
  4. Path to Peace
  5. Summative Assessment Project

Course Outline for Understanding Racism
Lessons:
  1. What Is Race?
  2. Race and Biology
  3. What Is Racism?
  4. Learning and Unlearning
  5. Is There an “Advantage” to Being White?
  6. How Does Racism Affect the Targeted Groups?
  7. What Strategies Work?
  8. Taking a Stand and Making a Difference
  9. Will There Always Be Racism?
  10. Confronting and Disrupting Racism

Course Outline for Catholicism 101
1. Welcome!
2. Revelation
3. The Bible
4. Jesus Christ
  • Good Reasons
  • Introduce Yourself
  • In Unity
  • Your Turn
  • God is Mystery
  • God Became Human
  • Your Turn
  • Bible Basics
  • The Old Testament
  • The New Testament
  • The Bible as Guide for Today
  • Your Turn
  • God With Us
  • The Way, The Truth, And The Life
  • Images of Jesus
  • Your Turn
5. The Trinity
6. The Paschal Mystery
7. Loving Our Neighbor
8. Original Sin, Morality, and Grace
  • Unity of Three
  • Great Mysteries
  • The Unifying Power of Love
  • Your Turn
  • New Life
  • Jesus' Saving Actions
  • New Beginnings
  • Your Turn
  • Seeing the Needs of Others
  • Not Alone
  • Catholic Social Teaching
  • Your Turn
  • Missing the Mark
  • Free Will
  • God's Special Help
  • Your Turn
9. Prayer
10. Sacraments and Liturgy
11.Mary and the Saints
12. Last Things: Heaven, Hell, and Purgatory
  • Building Friendship
  • Friendship with God
  • Traditional Prayers
  • Your Turn
  • Beyond Our Senses
  • The Seven Sacraments
  • It's About Commitment
  • "Do This in Memory of Me"
  • Your Turn
  • Faithful Guides
  • Pray for Us
  • Mary, Mother of God
  • Your Turn
  • The Big Picture
  • Room for All
  • Open to Mystery
  • Your Turn
13. Review Challenge
  • You Can Do This!
Case Studies Topics and Locations
Topic
Module
Lesson
Activity Sets
Human Rights Defender: The United Nations Module 1 Lesson 4 3
Who Is My Neighbor? Refugee Crisis Module 1 Lesson 4 4
A Complex Legacy: Earth in Crisis Module 2 Lesson 3 1
Refugees of Hurricane Katrina Module 2 Lesson 4 3
The Majesty of Mountains Module 2 Lesson 4 4
Those Bad Habits! The Story of Stuff Module 2 Lesson 5 2
Nature Can’t Wait: Endangered Species Module 2 Lesson 6 3
On Eagle’s Wings: Bald Eagles and DDT Module 2 Lesson 7 3
Reverence for All Life: Role Models Saint Francis, Rachel Carson, Pope Francis Module 2 Lesson 7 3
What Does It Mean to Share? Changing Social Structures Module 3 Lesson 2 2
The Face of Global Hunger: Six Critical Reasons for World Hunger Module 3 Lesson 3 2
The 5 Ps of Least-Developed Countries: Focus on Country of Chad Module 3 Lesson 5 3
Solidarity and Poverty: Pope Francis’ Leadership Module 3 Lesson 5 1
The Paradox of Giving and Receiving: The Corporal and Spiritual Works of Mercy Module 3 Lesson 5 3
Understanding Social Structures: Spotlight on the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire Module 4 Lesson 3 1-4
Greed Leads to Injustice: Spotlight on the Immokalee Farmworkers Module 4 Lesson 4 2
Ethical Consumerism Module 4 Lesson 4 7
Growing through Adversity: Nelson Mandela Module 5 Lesson 4 1
People of Light and Hope: Billings, MT Stands in Solidarity Against Hate Groups Module 5 Lesson 4 8
What is Peace? Pope Paul VI’s Message for Celebrating Peace Module 6 Lesson 1 3
God’s Gift of Life: Abortion Survivor Gianna Jessen Module 6 Lesson 2 2
Shalom: Creating Peace in Colombia Module 6 Lesson 4 2
Always, We Pray for Peace: Bomb, Sadako, and Paper Cranes Module 6 Lesson 4 7
Projects Topics and Locations
Topic
Module
Lesson
Activity Sets
National and Global Social Justice Organizations Module 1 Lesson 4 2
Everyday Heroes Module 1 Lesson 6 1
On Care for Our Common Home: Pope Francis’ Encyclical Module 2 Lesson 2 3-5
See, Judge, Act Module 2 Lesson 8 3-5
Green Living Module 2 Lesson 8 1-2
Walk a Mile in Someone Else’s Shoes: Balance a Family Budget Module 3 Lesson 4 2
Poverty Project Module 3 Lesson 6 1-2
Champion for Change Module 4 Lesson 6 1-2
Disrupting Prejudice and Oppression Module 5 Lesson 5 1-2
Life Issues Module 6 Lesson 3 4-6
Peace Campaign Module 6 Lesson 4 4-6
This I Believe Module 6 Lesson 5 1
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Course Outline for Understanding Catholicism
Module 1: The Journey to Happiness
Module 2: Finding God and Being Found by God
Module 3: Inspired by the Trinity
  1. You Are on a Journey
  2. Who Are You?
  3. A Life of Happiness
  4. Jesus, Our Ultimate Guide to Happiness
  5. Other Guides for Our Journey
  6. In Communion with the Saints
  7. When the Journey Isn’t Easy
  8. False Road Maps to Happiness
  9. Embracing Human Dignity
  10. Case Study: The Homeboys and Homegirls of Los Angeles
  11. Which Road Map Will You Follow?
  12. Summative Assessment Project
  1. Thirsting for God
  2. The Gift of Revelation
  3. The Need and Hope for Salvation
  4. Salvation History Begins in Creation
  5. The Fall
  6. Salvation History Continues through Covenants
  7. Salvation History Up-Close and Personal
  8. The Paschal Mystery
  9. The People of God
  10. Summative Assessment Project
  1. God Is Mystery
  2. Revealing God the Father
  3. Revealing God the Son
  4. Revealing God the Holy Spirit
  5. Revealing the Blessed Trinity
  6. Called to Participate in the Life of the Trinity
  7. Summative Assessment Project
Module 4: Being Church in the World
Module 5: Weaving a Sacramental Life
Module 6: Following Jesus and Growing in Morality
  1. The Mystery of the Church
  2. Images of Church
  3. Marks of the Church
  4. Inspired by Scripture
  5. Inspired by Tradition
  6. United by Liturgy
  7. Summative Assessment Project
  1. Symbols: More Than Meets the Eye
  2. What Is a Sacrament?
  3. Jesus: Our Fundamental Sacrament of Love
  4. Sacraments of the Church
  5. Sacraments of Initiation
  6. Sacraments of Healing
  7. Sacraments at the Service of Communion
  8. Virtues: Growing in Holiness
  9. Sacramental Worldview
  10. Summative Assessment Project
  1. The Foundations of Christian Morality
  2. The Courage to Be Happy
  3. Expressing Love by Following the Ten Commandments
  4. Agape through Servant Leadership
  5. A Christian Model for Moral Decision Making
  6. A World in Need of Salvation
  7. Catholic Social Teaching
  8. Case Study: Make a Difference
  9. The Stations of the Cross
  10. Summative Assessment Project
Case Studies Topics and Locations
Topic
Module
Lesson
Activity Sets
The Homeboys and Homegirls of Los Angeles Module 1 Lesson 10 1-3
Make a Difference: Building a Culture of Encounter Module 6 Lesson 8 1-3
Projects Topics and Locations
Topic
Module
Lesson
Activity Sets
Saints Module 1 Lesson 6 1-2
Natural Revelation Module 2 Lesson 2 3-4
Bible Person Module 2 Lesson 7 1
Sharing Salvation History and the Paschal Mystery Module 2 Lesson 10 1
Trinity Module 3 Lesson 1 6-9
The Spiritual Meaning of Christmas Module 3 Lesson 3 3-5
Rublev’s Icon of the Trinity Module 3 Lesson 5 1-2
Trinity Coat of Arms Module 3 Lesson 7 1-2
Catholic Outreach with the Poor and Vulnerable Module 4 Lesson 1 8
Many Ways of Holiness Module 4 Lesson 3 5-7
On the Day I Was Born Module 4 Lesson 7 1-3
The Ten Commandments Module 6 Lesson 3 1-3
Create a Make a Difference Story Module 6 Lesson 10 1-2
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Course Outline for Seasons of Faith
  • The Gift of Time
  • The Liturgical Seasons
  • Advent and Christmas
  • Ordinary Time
  • Lent and Easter
  • An Examination of Conscience
  • Holy Week
  • Prayer: I Have Called You by Name

Course Outline Environmental Justice
Lesson 1: Our Common Home
Lesson 2: Handle with Care
Lesson 3: Our Sisters and Brothers Cry Out
  1. Time for a Micro-Field Trip!
  2. Nature in My Life
  3. Me & We
  4. Creation in Crisis
  5. This Struggle is Real
  6. Take the Goodall Challenge!
  7. Champions of Creation: Pope Francis
  1. Gifts That Keep On Giving
  2. Creation As Gift
  3. Everything is Connected
  4. Laudato Si’
  5. Faith Matters
  6. Nature Can't Wait
  7. Champions of Creation: John Muir
  8. Lectio Divina
  1. The Power of Love
  2. Culture of Encounter
  3. Environmental Refugees
  4. Champions of Creation: Rachel Carson
  5. God is Our Rock
Lesson 4: Choices Matter
Lesson 5: Make a Difference
Lesson 6: Be a Champion
  1. Would You Rather?
  2. New Habits
  3. Learning from the Past
  4. Champions of Creation: Saint Kateri Tekakwitha
  1. Real Actions Make Real Progress
  2. You Have the Power
  3. See, Judge, Act
  4. Champions of Creation: Saint Francis of Assisi
  1. Cause and Effect
  2. What Could You Do?
  3. Be Spiritual; Stay Strong
  4. Champions of Creation Checklist