This document outlines an assignment for a religious education class to analyze sections of a 2004 statement on cultivating a culture of peace from the Australian Catholic Bishops Conference. Students will work in groups to identify the key message of assigned sections using a ten word strategy, then present their summaries to the class. The document provides guidance on the assignment and examples of section summaries.

1. Y10 Religious Education
Term 1, 2013

2. Work in groups to identify the message of one
section of The Australian Catholic Bishops
Conference 2004 Social Justice Sunday Statement:
„Peace Be with You – Cultivating a Culture of Peace‟
http://www.socialjustice.catholic.org.au/content/PDF/SJSS2004pdf.pdf
Sections:
Shalom – may things go well with you
The family
Reconciliation with Indigenous Australians
Cultivating a culture of peace between religions
Cultivating a culture of peace in the field of democracy and society
Spreademocratic and multicultural values
„Development is the new name for peace‟
ding Cultivating a culture of peace in the context of national and international
security
Use the Ten Word Strategy to present to the class.

3. In learning teams students discuss the meaning of the paragraph or
section. Each team member should provide a meaning.
The learning team then negotiates a ten-word meaning for the
paragraph or section.
One student should record the meaning.
All students should be involved in creating the ten-word meaning.
No more than ten words can be used for each meaning.

4.  Families suffering of poverty and violence
need peace in their lives.

5. From the conclusion of the Australian Catholic Bishops
Conference 2004 Social Justice Sunday Statement,
Peace Be With You – Cultivating A Culture Of Peace
Peace is our vocation. We are called to cultivate peace
wherever possible – in our families, communities, in
national life and even globally. The values of truth,
justice, love and freedom, when made real in people‟s
lives, are dimensions of the abundant peace that the
risen Christ brings to his followers and to the world.
Those who bend their efforts to cultivating this peace in
the many fields of Australian society and beyond can be
reassured by the Divine promise: “Blessed are the
peacemakers, for they shall be called children of God.”
(Matt 5:9)

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8.  Seeing, hearing, and experiencing the lived reality
of individuals and communities.
 Naming what is happening that causes you
concern
 Carefully and intentionally examining the primary
data of the situation. What are the people in this
situation doing, feeling, and saying? What is
happening to them and how do you/they respond?

9.  The word „judge‟ is used here in a positive
sense – to analyse the situation and make an
informed judgement about it.
 This involves two key parts:
i) social analysis
ii) theological reflection.

10.  Planning and carrying out actions aimed at
transforming the social structures that
contribute to suffering and injustice.
# Further resources to assist in seeing, judging
and acting well are available from the Australian
Catholic Social Justice Council

11. “We were asked to make a video on assessing the
concepts of litter. We were asked to see - judge -
act. Our approach was for the video to be
entertaining and challenge people to make a
difference” (10 minutes).
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YBgcG8PckwM
While watching the short video, note what the
students saw, judged and acted on.

12.  Use the See, Judge, Act method to investigate one of the
following Media Releases:
◦ Call for children and their families to be released from
Australia's offshore detention camps (26/11/2012)
The Australian Catholic Social Justice Council has voiced its
concern regarding Australia's detention of children and their
families.
◦ Dignity of workers should be more than a 'casual concern'
(30/04/2012)
A new approach is needed in labour market policy that would
place the dignity of the worker at the centre of deliberations on
pay and conditions, says Chairman of the Australian Catholic
Social Justice Council, Bishop Christopher Saunders.
 Media Releases available at: Australian Catholic Social
Justice Council www.socialjustice.catholic.org.au