Grade 10: Values Education Resource Material for Academic Year 2024-2025
By Algae Salapan Densing, LPT
Algae Salapan Densing, LPT is a licensed values teacher currently teaching Bible, and Research subjects at Western Mindanao Adventist Academy. He is also a digital missionary for the Seventh-day Adventist Church. He holds a Bachelor of Arts in Theology from Mountain View College.
First Published: 2024/08/21
Prepared by Algae Salapan Densing, LPT
Western Mindanao Adventist Academy
Second Semester, School Year 2024–2025
Lesson 1: Growing up in a Hostile World
Time Allocation: August 5-9, 2024 (1 week)
Learning Competencies:
- Establish the importance of Scripture in the study of history.
- Explain how the early Christian Church met the challenges of adapting to its cultural environments.
- Evaluate how persecution and martyrdom were powerful factors in the spread of Christianity.
- Evaluate how the Christian should respond to oppressive government.
Reading Log: Find a Different God
Goia, Pavel, and Kelly Mowrer. “Find a Different God.” Pages 18–26 in In the Spirit and Power: God’s Presence and Answers to Prayer in Pavel Goia’s Journey. Madrid: Safeliz, 2022.
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Lesson 2: Hopes, Heresies, and Heroes
Time Allocation: August 12-16, 2024 (1 week)
Learning Competencies:
- Identify how the earliest leaders of the post-apostolic church continued to preach the gospel centered in Christ and the Scriptures.
- Explain how the early Christian Church met the challenges of adapting to its cultural environment.
- Evaluate how persecution and martyrdom were powerful factors in the spread of Christianity.
- Identify lessons to be learned from the experiences of the early Church that could help maintain biblical purity.
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Lesson 3: Enticed by Power and Popularity
Time Allocation: (1 week)
Learning Competencies:
- Examine how the union of church and state occurred and its effect on church organization, practice, and belief.
- Analyze the factors that led to the establishment of the papacy.
- Summarize the influences that led to monasticism and its positive and negative contributions to the growth of the church.
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Lesson 4: Caring Enough to Confront
Time Allocation: (1 week)
Learning Competencies:
- Analyze the develpoment of heresies and the response of the christian church.
- Explore how a biblical view of the nature of Christ enhances one's understanding of salvation.
- Examine the nature and role of creeds and their relevance to our church today.
PDF File: Devotional Article and Rubrics
PDF File: Reading Log Sample
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Lesson 5: Winners and Losers
PDF File: Reading Log Sample
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Lesson 6: Ruined by Rivalry
Time Allocation: (1 week)
Learning Competencies:
- Examine the positive influence of the Roman Catholic Church following the downfall of the Roman Empire.
- Describe the rise of the papacy as a religio-political power.
- Describe the rise and beliefs of Islam and its effect on the Roman Catholic Church.
PDF File: Reading Log Sample
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Lesson 7: Divide and Conquer
Time Allocation: (1 week)
Learning Competencies:
- Explore the feudal system and its effect upon the Christian Church.
- Examine the schism between Roman Catholicism and Eastern Orthodoxy.
- Analyze the reforms that occurred and the challenges that they encountered.
- Discern the role of the cathedrals during the Middle Ages.
- Describe the purpose and the impact of the Crusades.
PDF File: Reading Log Sample