Ave Maria Press High School Curriculum Series — Ave Maria Press

Designed with both teachers and students in mind, these textbooks offer updated content, engaging resources, and a renewed emphasis on evangelizing catechesis to both educate and inspire students in their Catholic faith. Input from Catholic high school theology teachers, students, and educational experts shaped this text, ensuring a student-friendly design and a portable 6” x 9” format that's easy to carry and features:

• Inspiring artwork—both classical and contemporary—opens each chapter, encouraging spiritual reflection and further study.
• Focus questions engage students with the chapter’s core theme, reinforced throughout the chapter in multiple ways to cater to diverse learners.
• Bolded vocabulary terms with definitions in the margins and glossary enhance understanding.
• End-of-section assessments include reading comprehension, vocabulary, and personal reflection questions check students’ understanding.
• "Pull-out" sections offer fresh perspectives on each chapter’s objective.
• Enrichment text referenced in footnotes provide opportunities for students who want to go deeper into the material or for an honors-level course.
• Chapter summaries restate the focus question, provide a review, feature a faithful disciple profile, and conclude with a prayer connected to the content of the chapter.
• Five creative student project options adapt to various learning styles (essays, art projects, oral presentations, and so on) and class formats, such as block scheduling and group assignments.
• Online Resources: a wide variety of classroom resources including videos, PowerPoints, handouts, crossword puzzles, reading guides, and tests are available on the Ave Maria Press classroom resource website.

All courses are in conformity with the Catechism of the Catholic Church and the USCCB's Curriculum Framework. (©2025)

NOTE: Course V, The Seven Sacraments, and Course VI, Catholic Morality coming Spring 2026.