Gospel of Luke Curriculum

Below, I have shared the most comprehensive version of our curriculum thus far. It’s still difficult for me to share our weekly teacher Zoom meetings with you – for a myriad of reasons – but I was able to share more here this year than last year.

Our church school (grades PreK to 12) finished our study of the synoptic gospels with the Gospel of Luke for the 2023-2024 school year. We focused on learning about iconography in relation to Christ’s life, finding Bethlehem, Nazareth, Jerusalem, the Sea of Galilee, and the Jordan River on a map, and also creating a timeline in relation to the events listed in the Gospel of Luke.

In relation to teaching our kids how to read icons:

Younger children – We focused on teaching them how to identify Christ and the Theotokos, identifying St. John the Baptist and the 12 Disciples (as a group), and major feast days. (Videos available in Week 4 Lessons)

Older children – We focused on making sure all the children could identify key people in icons, tell us what event is happening (miracle, parable, feast day) and tell us as much as they could about the event.

Please make modifications, where needed, to meet the needs of your church school or class.

The classroom lessons were written by Jennifer Hock and submitted weekly to Fr. Vasile Tudora.*Any mistakes or errors within these lessons belong to me, Jennifer Hock. Please forgive me.