Lesson Plan About The Life of St. Francis

Semi-Detailed Lesson Plan in REED 8
I. Objectives
At the end of the lesson, students should be able to:
a. understand the life of St. Francis;
b. interpret some lines of St. Francis;
c. reflect from the life of St. Francis
II. Subject Matter
Topic: Life of St. Francis of Assisi
Reference: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_of_Assisi
Materials: Hand-outs
III. Procedure
A. Awareness
The teacher will ask the following:
1. Are you willing to sacrifice all your wealth and lure to serve and to follow God?
B. Activity
Students will read "The Life of St. Francis of Assisi"
LIFE OF SAINT FRANCIS OF ASSISI
Saint Francis of Assisi abandoned a life of luxury for a life devoted to Christianity
after reportedly hearing the voice of God, who commanded him to rebuild the Christian
church and live in poverty. He is the patron saint for ecologists.
Francis of Assisi was born in late 1181, one of several children of an Italian
father, Pietro di Bernardone dei Moriconi, a prosperous silk merchant, and a French
mother, Pica de Bourlemont, about whom little is known except that she was a
noblewoman originally from Provence. Pietro was in France on business when Francis
was born in Assisi, and Pica had him baptized as Giovanni. Upon his return to Assisi,
Pietro took to calling his son Francesco ("the Frenchman"), possibly in honor of his
commercial success and enthusiasm for all things French. Since the child was renamed
in infancy, the change can hardly have had anything to do with his aptitude for learning
French, as some have thought.
Indulged by his parents, Francis lived the high-spirited life typical of a wealthy
young man. As a youth, Francesco became a devotee of troubadours and was
fascinated with all things Transalpine. He was handsome, witty, gallant, and delighted in
fine clothes. He spent money lavishly. Although many hagiographers remark about his
bright clothing, rich friends, and love of pleasures, his displays of disillusionment toward
the world that surrounded him came fairly early in his life, as is shown in the "story of
the beggar". In this account, he was selling cloth and velvet in the marketplace on
behalf of his father when a beggar came to him and asked for alms. At the conclusion of
his business deal, Francis abandoned his wares and ran after the beggar. When he
found him, Francis gave the man everything he had in his pockets. His friends quickly
chided and mocked him for his act of charity. When he got home, his father scolded him
in rage.
Around 1202, he joined a military expedition against Perugia and was taken as a
prisoner at Collestrada, spending a year as a captive. An illness caused him to re-
evaluate his life. It is possible that his spiritual conversion was a gradual process rooted
in this experience. Upon his return to Assisi in 1203, Francis returned to his carefree
life. In 1205, Francis left for Apulia to enlist in the army of Walter III, Count of Brienne. A
strange vision made him return to Assisi, having lost his taste for the worldly life.
According to hagiographic accounts, thereafter he began to avoid the sports and the
feasts of his former companions. In response, they asked him laughingly whether he
was thinking of marrying, to which he answered, "Yes, a fairer bride than any of you
have ever seen", meaning his "Lady Poverty".
On a pilgrimage to Rome, he joined the poor in begging at St. Peter's Basilica.

He spent some time in lonely places, asking God for spiritual enlightenment. He said he
had a mystical vision of Jesus Christ in the forsaken country chapel of San Damiano,
just outside Assisi, in which the Icon of Christ Crucified said to him, "Francis, Francis, go
and repair My house which, as you can see, is falling into ruins." He took this to mean
the ruined church in which he was presently praying, and so he sold some cloth from his
father's store to assist the priest there for this purpose. When the priest refused to
accept the ill-gotten gains, an indignant Francis threw the coins on the floor.
In order to avoid his father's wrath, Francis hid in a cave near San Damiano for
about a month. When he returned to town, hungry and dirty, he was dragged home by
his father, beaten, bound, and locked in a small storeroom. Freed by his mother during
Bernardone's absence, Francis returned at once to San Damiano, where he found
shelter with the officiating priest, but he was soon cited before the city consuls by his
father. The latter, not content with having recovered the scattered gold from San
Damiano, sought also to force his son to forego his inheritance by way of restitution. In
the midst of legal proceedings before the Bishop of Assisi, Francis renounced his father
and his patrimony. Some accounts report that he stripped himself naked in token of this
renunciation, and the Bishop covered him with his own cloak.
For the next couple of months, Francis wandered as a beggar in the hills behind
Assisi. He spent some time at a neighbouring monastery working as a scullion. He then
went to Gubbio, where a friend gave him, as an alms, the cloak, girdle, and staff of a
pilgrim. Returning to Assisi, he traversed the city begging stones for the restoration of
St. Damiano's. These he carried to the old chapel, set in place himself, and so at length
rebuilt it. Over the course of two years, he embraced the life of a penitent, during which
he restored several ruined chapels in the countryside around Assisi, among them San
Pietro in Spina (in the area of San Petrignano in the valley about a kilometer from
Rivotorto, today on private property and once again in ruin); and the Porziuncola, the
little chapel of St. Mary of the Angels in the plain just below the town. This later became
his favorite abode. By degrees he took to nursing lepers, in the lazar houses near
Assisi.
C. Analysis
The teacher will discuss the lesson with the help of the guide questions below.
1.Who is St. Francis of Assisi?
2. What did the voice of Christ tell Francis to do?
3. Did Francis follow the voice? Did Francis repair the San Damiano Church and some
other Christian Churches?
4. If you were in the situation of St. Francis, would you do the same thing as Francis?
5. Why does St. Francis consider as the patron saint of ecologists?
D. Abstraction
The teacher will ask about what have the students learn from the life of St. Francis of
Assisi.
E. Application
The students will be grouped into four. They will interpret some famous lines of St.
Francis. There will be only two representatives each group to report in class.
1. "For it is in giving that we receive."
2. "While you are proclaiming peace with your lips, be careful to have it even more fully
in your heart."
3. "All the darkness in the world cannot extinguish the light of a single candle."
4. "Preach the Gospel at all times and when necessary use words."
IV. Assessment
Directions: Draw St. Francis of Assisi.
V. Assignment
Directions: Write a reflection paper about the life of St. Francis.

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Semi-Detailed Lesson Plan in REED 8

At the end of the lesson, students should be able to:

a. understand the life of St. Francis;

b. interpret some lines of St. Francis;

c. reflect from the life of St. Francis

II. Subject Matter

Topic: Life of St. Francis of Assisi

The teacher will ask the following:

Students will read "The Life of St. Francis of Assisi"

LIFE OF SAINT FRANCIS OF ASSISI

On a pilgrimage to Rome, he joined the poor in begging at St. Peter's Basilica.

1.Who is St. Francis of Assisi?

2. What did the voice of Christ tell Francis to do?

5. Why does St. Francis consider as the patron saint of ecologists?

1. "For it is in giving that we receive."

Directions: Draw St. Francis of Assisi.

Directions: Write a reflection paper about the life of St. Francis.

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