Mercy and Justice Shall Meet

Order this interactive CD rom from www.mercyworld.org/majsm

Senior Student Worksheets for Mercy and Justice Shall Meet

A set of ten worksheets was initially developed in 2005 by Anna Nicholls RSM and Siobhan Lee of St Mary’s College, Auckland, and Ann Dyer, of McAuley High School, Auckland, with further support from Ethel Bignell RSM, Teresa Anderson RSM and Anne Corry, to enable our students to access the wealth of the Interactive CD Rom Mercy and Justice Shall Meet ("MAJSM") produced by Fraynework Multimedia. We are grateful to St Mary’s College, Auckland and McAuley High School, Auckland for providing the release time to do this.

Each of the worksheets has since been tested in our classrooms and rewritten. If you have suggestions for further improvements please forward to ani@villa.school.nz so we can make these resources as user friendly as possible for students.

There are worksheets, as follows, for seven of the eight MAJSM sections:

MAJSM Story	Worksheet
“Ways to come home”	Addiction - Australia version \| New Zealand
“Accepting difference”	Difference
“Violence to empowerment”	Economic violence Violence (long and shorter versions of task)
“Denial to healing”	Healing
“Building and Strengthening”	Housing
“Displacement to resettlement”	Refugees
“Centres of support and skill”	Te Waipuna Puawai

They are in PDF format and you can download them above or
contact: msea@mercy.org.au

We have not supplied answer sheets as it is essential that teachers work through the CD rom before using with students due to the content of some of the video clips.

We have devised a grid outlining some possible links for the worksheets to the NZ Religious Education Programme, Understanding Faith. This is available from the editor of this newsletter.

Some suggestions for ease of use:

Instruct students to read through the whole sheet before beginning the worksheet.
We recommend using a data projector to outline the software for the students before beginning to demonstrate how to access the context, story, inspiration and action sections as well as the attached fact files. The help button on the programme gives a good overview.
The worksheets can take up to two lessons to complete.
Our students really like the use of the journal. They were instructed to create one, (if his has not already been done) using the user name Mercy and password Mercy.
If students are working individually on computers, headphones are necessary.

Anna Nicholls RSM, May 2006, Villa Maria College Christchurch, NZ

Print Resource for Mercy and Justice Shall Meet

Order copies of the print resource for “Mercy and Justice Shall Meet”: go to www.mercyworld.org/resources/viewesource.asp?id=228

DVD Circle of Mercy

A reflection on the works of the Sisters of Mercy throughout the world based on Jeannette Goglia’s song Circle of Mercy, and produced to support Mercy and Justice Shall Meet.
Available from Fraynework. Email contact@fraynework.com.au

A Reflection of Mercy

Prayer services, liturgies and resources for Mercy Schools and Communities.
By Sandy Flaherty. go to: www.mercyworld.org/resources/viewresource.asp?id=204