This in-depth course brings to life the books of the Old Testament, with a full-color student text that covers the most important stories and passages of the Old Testament and guides students as they read the Bible. The one-semester course can be taught to ninth graders but is ideal for tenth- and eleventh-grade students. The teaching manual fully supports the third edition of the student text and includes numbered references to the Catechism of the Catholic Church, prayers, prayer services, review questions and answers, student activities, discussion questions, role-play situations, suggestions for interviews and guest speakers, student handouts, and much more. The teaching manual contains the following additional resources: an introduction with background, rationale, goals and objectives, and lesson planning for the course background for the narrative approach used in the course an appendix of additional suggestions for effective teaching an annotated list of recommended audiovisual resources a list of audiovisual distributors an annotated bibliography of suggestions for further reading three articles for teacher background sample test questions, also available free of charge in editable format