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I want to do a in depth study of the virtues as taught by the great saints and doctors of the church.
Couldn't decide if this question should be in the lapbooking section or a unit study section or the living faith section.
We're only going to be starting our second lapbook. We're quite the newbies on these!
But I'm thinking I would like to spend the next few weeks doing a study on the main virtues and vices and some of the offshoots of those. My kids are young and I've dabbled with understanding the virtues before during a study of the temperaments, so I'm sure learning them better now is a great thing for my parenting.
Has anyone done a lapbook/unit study on the virtues before or seen it done? Any advice, pointers or otherwise suggestion for us this morning? (Heading for my breakfast now, sorry for being incoherent.)
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Hi Ami,
A few years ago I did a whole year of Saints/Virtues units. They were about 3 weeks each and corresponded with feasts. We tried to incorporate geography, history, religion and whatever came up with a particular saint.
I used Character Building by David Isaacs for my planning. It is well laid out for this type of planning. I didn't really teach the vices but Isaacs goes into them in his discussion of problems with teaching the virtues.
You could use Vision books or other another saint story as your main focus and build on that. Maybe you could incorporate a "virtual pilgrimage" and a novena. Sounds fun!
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This is a tremendous idea. Perhaps the Little Flowers or Blue Knights handbooks could give you some inspiration as well. Each unit of Little Flowers sets forth a virtue with a corresponding saint and ideas for activities. I haven't seen the Blue Knights manual, but I believe it is presented the same way (only with male saints).
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Gwen,
The David Issacs book is in my Amazon cart even now! Thanks for the reply! I need this book!
Alice,
Thanks for the idea, I'll look into this!
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alicegunther wrote:
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Yes, the Blue Knights manual has saints and a craft (building portions of a suit of armor) for each virtue. The boys loved it!
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Amie,
I just remembered something else about our units. I had them planned to coincide with feast days and I chose various cultures to study. So just to use May and June as an example, you could study Bl. Damien of Molokai (5/10), Hawaii (history, food, clothing, geography, etc.) and art/art history of the South Pacific. Then in June we have the Ugandan Martyrs (6/3). They are amazing to study. You'd use all the same topics and whatever else came up.
These are just examples; you can pick from tons of saints and cultures and cover all the virtues.
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What resources do you use to gather your saint information? I am just curious! I love love the saints. Aren't they just amazing to study and learn about..it is like finding all these new best friends! 
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