January 4  Going over general expectations and procedures of the course.  Forming small groups for Catholic social justice principles presentation.

January 5/6   Reviewing service learning requirement and procedures for the social justice course.  Students are required to complete 24 hours of volunteer community service.

January 7   Students will be working in small groups preparing for small group presentations on Catholic social justice principles.

January 10  Students will finish working in small groups preparing for small group presentations on Catholic social justice principles.

January 11   Teacher presentation on Catholic social justice documents.

January 12/13   Student small group presentation on Catholic social justice principles.

January  14   Students finish small group presentation on Catholic social justice principles is assigned. 

January 18  Student quiz on Catholic social justice principles.

January 19/20  Students begin learning about justice issues surrounding the USA/Mexico border.  Students will be watching the video Crossing Arizona.

January 21   Students will be learning about the tool Creating Justice.  Students will be using this tool to begin analyzing solutions proposed in society for dealing with social injustices.  Students will learn to identify the root of the problem in an injustice.  Students will learn the definitions short and long term solutions and how to apply them to analyzing a justice solution.

January 24   Students continue learning about the tool Creating Justice.  Students will be learning about the concept of inclusion/exclusion, and how it applies to developing a just solution.

January 25   Students will finish being presented the tool Creating Justice.  Students will learn the importance of analyzing the impact of religious faith on a solution as well as past attempts to address a social justice injustice.

January 26/27   Students will use the tool Creating Justice to analyze a solution developed by one of their peers.

January 28   Student quiz on the document Creating Justice.

January 31  Students form small groups and are assigned a social justice topic to research and present on in the second half of the course.  Topics will include woman's injustices in the workplace, school violence, hunger in the USA, homeless in the USA, medically uninsured in the USA, garbage and recycling, toxic waste, endangered species, and global climate change.

February 1       Students will be in the computer lab studying the US Bishop's Pastoral on Criminal Justice.  Students will do an in class assignment summarizing the important points of this document.

February 2 - 4  Teacher will be presenting on the topic of prison issues and criminal justice.

February 7    Research Day #1 in Library.  Students choose five areas they will research on causes of social justice topic, and decide how they will go about this research.

February 8 - 10  Teacher Presentation on Capital Punishment

February 11   Students will be participating in the Junior Day of Servant Leadership planned and led by the campus ministry department. 

February 14 - 17 Students will be watching Shawshank Redemption. Students are to take one of the main characters from the movie and write how that characters dignity was either and respected or disrespected. How did this impact the prisoners ability to be rehabilitated?

February 18  Student will be learning about how the use of language can either add to or take away from a person's human dignity.  This will be presented in a handout titled Language and Respect.

February 21   Students will be going to the library to work on the past solutions part of their social justice semester project.  Student research on injustices will be checked at this time.  

February 22/23   Students will be doing research in class on a given topic of sweatshops.  These are presentations that fit into the unit of the rights and dignity of workers, one of the Catholic social justice principles.

February 28   Students take notes on video Affluenza. 

March 1       Students will take notes on the video Escape from Affluenza.  This video is about a collection of people and families who are choosing to live simply.

March 2   Small group presentation on the "History of Sweatshops in America".

March 3   Small group presentation on the "Five Reasons Sweatshops Exist".

March 4  Small group presentation on "Walmart's Relationship with Sweatshops".

March 7  Final library day for students to work on their semester project presentation.

March 8  Students will be watching the Frontline video is Walmart Good for America?

March 9   Small group presentation on "Disney's Relationship with Sweatshops".

March 10   End of the third quarter

March 21  Two student small group presentations:  "What we can do about the problem of sweatshops", and "Organizations fighting the Problem of Sweatshops".

March 22  Students will be learning  about how globilazation is impacting the American consumer and worker.  We will be watching a video about the taco bell boycott.

March 23/24   Students will be taking a quiz on sweatshop presentations, and the dignity and rights of workers.

 March 25  Lifeskills Presentation:  Theology of the Body

March 28  Lifeskills Presentation:  The Stages of Addiction

March 29  Lifeskills Presentation:  Cocaine and its effects

March 30/31  Alcoholics Anouymous Speakers

April 1 Teacher Presentation on the Church's position on active nonviolence

April 4  Teacher presentation on civil disobedience.

April 5 Students begin watching Gandhi. As students watch the video, they are keeping track on acts of nonviolence, civil disobedience, and Gandhi quotes.

April 8/11 Teacher presentation on military spending vs spending on human development

April 12  Student presentation on Hunger in the USA

April 13/14  Instructor presentation on Hunger in the USA.  Student Presentation on hunger/homeless organizations

April 15  Student presentation Woman's Injustices in the Workplace

April 16/17  Watching Food Inc.  in class

April 18  Student presentation on Homelessness in the USA

April 19  Teacher Instruction on Homelessness in the USA, Family homelessness, primavera, habitat for humanity.

April 20/21  Teacher Presentation on Poverty in the USA

April 22/23/24   Students are Watching the movie Our America

April 26  Student Presentation on the Medically Uninsured

April 27/28  Students watch the Documentary Sick Around the World

April 29  Where students stand on the issue of the medically uninsured.

May 4/5  Student Presentation on Endangered Species

May 6

May 9  Student Presentation on global climate change

May 10  Student Presentations on Garbage & Recycling 

May 11/12  Student Presentation on Toxic Waste, and view video troubled waters

May 13/16  Review Dates for the Semester Exam

May 17 - 20  Students taking final exams according to official school schedule