7th Grade

All students in 7th grade attending faith formation at CtR for 2020-2021 would join RISE, and have the option of attending or doing Home-Based RISE. You can visit the Rise Homepage to learn more about what happens at Rise. 

Each 7th-grade student is placed in a small group based on their gender and which middle school they attend. Each small group is facilitated by an adult Core Team member and a high school Teen Leader. Small groups provide a setting where students break open and discuss the topic that was covered in the large group session and apply it to their everyday lives.

The 7th-grade students may also choose to be enrolled in Home-based RISE instead of in-person Rise to fulfill their 7th-grade faith formation. Home-based RISE consists of weekly videos of one of our other youth ministers giving a talk (the teaching portion) on the topic for that week, following our 2-year middle school curriculum from the archiocese. Previously we have included corresponding worksheets to be filled out and turned in, but are implementing a software that will embed the questions into the video teaching so the student can submit it virtually. The main difference between in-person RISE and home-based RISE is that home-based does not include the small group discussion portion that is part of attending RISE, where students are placed in a grade-specific small group led by an adult leader to discuss, share and ask questions in order to unpack the content. The teaching portion is the same for either option. Please contact Angela for more information.