Recommended for Grades 11-12

This Student Exercise Book complements the Teacher Manual with the same title. It helps teens develop healthy relationships through a Catholic perspective, and it challenges students to search their inner selves to establish their own sense of sexual identity. Understanding sexuality requires faith in a creative, loving God present to every dimension of our lives. This study stresses the importance of sequential and rational sexual decisions. These decisions are based upon affirmations that our bodies are the created gift of a loving God and that it is through love, not simply sexual experience, that one discovers the meaning of life and the presence of God.

The text consists of six parts: Rooting Human Sexuality in Faith; Sexual Awakening and Life’s Changes; Moral Thinking and Sexual Ethics; Moral Reasoning and Controversial Issues; Developing Healthy, Christian Relationships; and Sexuality and Spirituality. Exercise books can serve as records of individual faith journeys. Activities stimulate class involvement, explore real-life experience, promote biblical and doctrinal literacy, foster creative thinking, teach community commitment, invite spiritual growth and prayer, and present service as essential to discipleship. This resource is to be used in conjunction with the Teacher Manual by the same title.