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Lesson Plans and Resources

Lesson Plans and Resources

Resources for further exploration:

COAR Children’s Village

St. Oscar Romero

  • Website of the Romero Trust, based in the UK has an excellent collection of St. Romero’s homilies and other quotes.
  • Biographies and studies of St. Romero are plentiful, and more are published every year. A good place to start, focusing on St. Romero’s scholarship to underpin and defend his writings and actions through the three years that he was Archbishop is:
    Romero: A Life, by James R Brockman, illustrated paperback published 2005
  • Movie: “Romero” 1989, directed by John Duigan

El Salvador

  • Civil War: There are myriad books and articles on El Salvador’s Civil War (1980-1992). These books span a good selection:
    – Revolution in El Salvador: From Civil Strife to Civil Peace, by Tommie Sue Montgomery, 2nd ed. 1995
    – The Church, Dictatorships, and Democracy in Latin America, by Jeffrey Klaiber, SJ, 1998
    – Understanding Central America, by John A. Booth and Thomas W. Walker, 2006
    – What You Have Heard Is True, by Carolyn Forché, 2019
  • Movie: “Innocent Voices” 2004, Directed by Luis Mandoki
  • History: told in a novel: Bitter Grounds: A Novel, by Sandra Benitez, 1997
  • Economic history: if you want a more robust understanding of the economic context of the war and the continuing legacy of economic challenges in Central America: Coffee and Power: Revolution and the Rise of Democracy in Central America, by Jeffery M. Paige, 1997
  • Anthropological history: another great way to understand the people and history of El Salvador that shaped the context of the war: Seeing Indians: A Study of Race, Nation, and Power in El Salvador, by Virginia Q. Tilley, 2005
  • Migration: the crisis of migration, its causes and dangers are reflected in two recent books:
    – Solito: A Memoir by Javier Zamora, 2022
    – American Dirt by Jeanine Cummins, 2020

NorthAmerican Churchwomen

Sr. Dorothy Kazel, OSU

  • Website of the Ursuline Sisters of Cleveland, has an excellent history of Sr. Dorothy Kazel and the Four Churchwomen (murdered December 2, 1980) and an excellent collection of presentations and other materials.
  • Also published by the Ursuline Sisters of Cleveland, a biography of Sr. Dorothy:
    In the Fullness of Life, by Sr. Cynthia Glavac, OSU, 2nd ed. 2019

Jean Donovan

  • Movie, documentary: “Roses in December” 1982, directed by Ana Carrigan and Bernard Stone

Ita Ford & Maura Clark

  • Website of the Maryknoll Sisters has pictures, video, and the history of their murdered Churchwomen, Srs. Ita Ford and Maura Clark, as well as Sr. Carla Piette who died in service to the community they served only months before December 2, 1980.

CLAM Team

Lesson Plan for St. Romero and COAR, contains:

Introduction to El Salvador St. Romero as Archbishop during the civil war (1977-1980) COAR founded 1980, protecting children today from poverty and gang violence Lesson #1: Grades K-2nd Lesson #2: Grades 3-5th Lesson #3: Grades 6-8th

Lesson Plan for St. Romero K-8 from the Archdiocese of Los Angeles:

  • The Missionary Childhood Association of the Mission Office of the Archdiocese of Los Angeles has adapted their own lesson plans from COAR’s above.  They have graciously made them available to download.  
  • ENGLISH:

Plan de lección para St. Romero K-8 de la Arquidiócesis de Los Ángeles:

  • La Oficina de la Misión de la Arquidiócesis de Los Ángeles ha adaptado sus propios planes de lecciones de los COAR anteriores. Ellos gentilmente los han puesto a disposición para descargar.
  • ESPAÑOL!!