Conquest High School Program

Program Description

The best way for a 9^th-12^th grade young man to grow in his faith and make it his own is to have him lead and share his faith with others. Conquest High School Program is just that. Made to respond to the needs and questions of a high school boy, the curriculum centers around themes from the Youcat, virtues and projects where the boys can work together to make a difference. It consists of 3 series of curriculum. Each series is made up of 4 team leader guidebooks with 31 weeks of curriculum. Each guidebook is built around the apostolic service project and offers specific opportunities to live faith in their daily reality. Let your high school boys grow into the Christian leaders who impact the world around them.

High School Curriculum

Virtue Centered

Our curriculum is virtue-centered. A virtue is “an interior disposition, a positive habit, a passion that has been placed at the service of the good. That means that we must change on our way to God” (Youcat 299) Most of our spiritual life and living of faith is God’s action, what we can do from our side is respond by good actions, actions that repeated enough times become a habit. This creates a positive inner space in our hearts for us to develop our friendship with God. This good habit or good inner disposition is what we call virtue. Then there are “superpower” virtues that God gives as gifts too. Kids today need to see virtue modeled and who better to set an example than the saints! Each guidebook of curriculum centers around a virtue. Virtue is the strength of a man.

Service Driven

Our curriculum is service driven. Each guidebook is built around a service project with each of the weekly meetings offering content to help form the missionary disciple, a young Catholic leader, in carrying out this project. Mission is an anecdote to adolescent egocentrism and gives the young man a worthwhile project, a worthy conquest, to invest himself in and show true manliness by a gift of himself.

Adolescent

Our curriculum responds to the needs of the adolescent. It is based off of questions that reveal the deeper needs of the adolescent. Each session strives to awaken the question through experiences, respond to them and help them make faith life!

Each curriculum set includes 3 books. Each book includes 5 weeks of curriculum, one main virtue, and one service project. The Advent / Lent book can be added to all curriculum sets to give you 8 more weeks of meetings and two more service projects. All books have lots of material downloads available from the online resource center.

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The Conquest High School Series 1 curriculum set includes 4 books. The books in this series feature 31 weeks of content and five service projects: Cardboard City, Party On, Garage Sale, Giving Tree, and Living Stations.

The Conquest High School Series 2 curriculum set includes 4 books. The books in this series feature 31 weeks of content and five service projects: Hot Dogs for the Homeless, Teach the Word, Breakin’ a Sweat, Block of Toys, and Mission Youth Holy Week Missions.

The Conquest High School Series 3 curriculum set includes 4 books. The books in this series feature 31 weeks of content and five service projects: Save the Date, Movie Night Done Right, International Courage, Bethlehem Shop, and Exultation Celebration.

Weekly Meeting Description

It is suggested for the weekly meeting to be 1 ½ or 2 hours.

There are six parts to a Conquest Meeting:

Conquest Products:

These are products that correspond to the curriculum and offer a support and hands-on reminder for your high school boys.

Create a sense of belonging and brotherhood by getting Conquest Merch! This can be an exciting addition your high school program. Consider having “I appreciate you” gifts for your team leaders and adult leaders. Running a parent info night? Get everyone a Conquest give-away. Promoting Conquest at your parish ministry fair? Get items to help make Conquest known. Need a prize for a competition? Find Conquest merch that works best for you!

High School Leader

Curriculum Guidebook

It can help to have a couple of copies to use between your Leadership Team.

3 Curriculum Books for boys in 9th and 12th Grade.

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Advent & Lent

Leader Guidebook

1 Curriculum Book with material for the Seasons of Advent and Lent.

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Conquest Notebook:

Encourage the boys during the meeting to write in their notebooks about the things that they learn. Write down the question, theme and resolution each week.

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