This lesson builds on the lesson Saints are Sinners Who Never Gave Up.
After discussing, in the previous lesson, how important conversion and God's grace is in the lives of the Saints students spend time researching the three saints they picked from the previous lesson. Their goal is to answer these questions:
1. What did this Saint struggle with?
2. How did God break through in this Saint's life?
3. How did everything change after God broke through?
After finding the answers to these questions students write a limerick that shows give an idea of the conversion of their saint. The reason we do limericks is because of the pattern a limerick follows. It also gives the whole class a fun way to read a very succinct biography of a lot of different saints' conversion stories.
Here is the page I made to help guide my students through their research. It has links to helpful websites for researching saints as well as how to craft a limerick. I've also included my own examples of saint limericks. Use this link to see the students' limericks!
St. Joseph Benedict Laboure
There was a man named Joseph Laboure
He was always bummed, I'd say
Even sad as a boy
But God brought him joy
And now He is in Heaven's par-tay!
St. Jerome
There was a guy named Jerome
He'd get so angry his mouth would foam
But, he loved God's word
And stayed close to the Lord
Now he's hanging with God in His home!
St. DismasDismas committed a bad crime
His punishment was sublime
On the cross he died
With Christ by His side
He entered Heaven in no time!
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