Book excerpt: This full-color teacher's guide features 12 ready-to-use lesson plans that will bring vividly to life the limitless of God's mercy throughout Salvation History, while showing young people how to integrate the corporal and spiritual works of mercy into everything they believe and do as Catholics. Each self-contained lesson is teacher-written, classroom-tested, and scholar-reviewed, and provides an easier and more effective way to engage your students with God's mercy. To help you differentiate instruction, this guide includes lessons at three grade levels. Each lesson is clearly marked with an intended audience and reading level. Based on the students you have from class to class and year to year, you can decide which resources to use with which students. Each lesson is designed in a flexible, modular format, and includes: Connections to the Catechism of the Catholic ChurchLearning goals and connections to the Catechism of the Catholic ChurchBiblical touchstonesComprehension and critical thinking questionsWarm-up / bell workMain activity such as primary source analysis, role-playing, structured debate, and many othersHomework and extension optionsBulletin Board extension options for elementary lessons The veteran schoolteachers who wrote the twelve lessons included here know firsthand your needs in the classroom. Even the layflat binding makes it easy for you to photocopy all the provided handouts and activities. Lessons include: Unit One: God's Mercy Revealed in Salvation History Lesson 1: Understanding Mercy and CovenantsLesson 2: God's Mercy Revealed in the Covenant with AdamLesson 3: God's Mercy in the Covenant with NoahLesson 4: The Plan of Mercy Inaugurated: The Covenant with AbrahamLesson 5: God's Mercy Tested: The Covenant with MosesLesson 6: God's Mercy Persists: The Covenant with DavidLesson 7: God's Plan for Mercy Comes to Fulfillment: The New Covenant in Christ Unit Two: Experiencing and Living Mercy Lesson 8: Exploring the Corporal and Spiritual Works of Mercy with Sacred ArtLesson 9: Introduction to the Corporal and Spiritual Works of MercyLesson 10: Jesus Teaches us How to Live the Works of MercyLesson 11: Mercy's Work of Showing God's LoveLesson 12: Saints of MercyAppendix B: Teacher Toolkit: Special Projects for Entering into the Story of Salvation Includes 20 Saint Cards with short, engaging biographies of: St. Margaret Mary AlacoqueSt. BernadetteSt. Catherine of SienaSt. Peter ClaverServant of God Dorothy DaySt. Vincent de PaulBl. Pier Giorgio FrassatiSt. FaustinaSt. Ignatius of LoyolaPope St. John Paul IISt. Maximilian KolbeSt. Maria GorettiSt. Martin of ToursMary, Mother of MercySt. Peter NalascoSt. Teresa of AvilaSt. Therese of LisieuxBl. Miguel ProSt. John VianneySt. Francis Xavier