The Religion Curriculum of the Archdiocese of Chicago incorporates the mission of the Church to evangelize and to catechize. Through the curriculum goals students are invited to understand the life of faith as expressed in the Living Tradition of the Church and through Sacred Scripture. Through the catechetical process of teaching and learning, students are called to respond by living their lives fully in Christ through active participation in the life of the Church and its mission to the world.
The Curriculum is available in eleven documents - The Introduction and then Grades Pre-Kindergarten through Eight. If you click on a title at the bottom, you will open the document in PDF format. You will need an application like Adobe Acrobat Reader to open these documents.
Read the Introduction before reading any of the Grade Level documents.
The "major themes" documents give a wonderful overview summary of what each grade level is to accomplish.
Catechists can use the checklist forms at the right to make sure that they are including the elements of their own grade-level curriculum.. They can download grade level checklists and use them in planning and course evaluation.
The complete package for each catechist is the grade level major themes document, the detailed curriculum, and the checklist.