What Students Will Learn:

• The human body was made by God to make visible the invisible — our spiritual souls and the image of God Himself.
• Jesus invited us to contemplate the nature of the human person and marriage by reflecting on how God originally created us to be in the beginning.
• Jesus invites us to reflect on how God originally created us to be in the beginning.

What Students Will Do:

• Read a background essay that examines Pope St. John Paul II’s basic thesis of Theology of the Body.
• Reflect on the story of the creation of Adam and Eve from Genesis and Jesus’ teaching about marriage.
• Work in groups to become “experts” about the original solitude, original unity, and original nakedness of Adam and Eve and then teach other classmates what they have learned.
• Create a poster that illustrates their understanding of how God’s love for humanity is revealed through us.