Mission Week
Mission Week at AHS, a weeklong, innovative learning experience in which students do not attend regular classes but instead become involved in exciting new activities designed to challenge their understanding of themselves and their world.
Mission Week 2010
BLOOM Theatre Project Sign-up - A central part of the week’s focus is using the dramatic arts to make an artistic statement about the theme of Mission Week, which this year deals with the power of community in addressing all forms of poverty: material, spiritual, emotional, social, etc. Participants will write original pieces that will be performed at Assumption’s theater from February 4 -11, 2010.
Mission Week 2009
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Photographs: Ian Husk.
Music: "StreetMusic" by Dr.Didg.
Mission Week 2009
The theme of Mission Week 2009 was “The Power of Community.”
Highlights of the Week
College Boot Camp - Seniors participated in activities involving what they want and need to know about college and what to expect when they get there.
Poverty Simulation - Juniors had the chance to participate in a poverty simulation activity that gives them first hand experience with the seriousness and effects of poverty in our city.
Job Shadowing - All juniors arranged to spend a day with a professional in their chosen field.
Dating Violence Awareness - All sophomores heard from the scholarship winners regarding their work with the Mary Byron Foundation and the opportunity to receive future scholarships with a commitment to pursue education on dating violence.
Mercy Heritage - Freshmen were immersed in Mercy education, learning about Catherine McAuley, Mercy schools throughout the states, and vocations from the Sisters of Mercy here in Louisville.
Dead Man Walking Project
The Power of Community was seen in activities and experiences all week, but perhaps most poignantly in the Dead Man Walking project. The play, based on the book by Sr. Helen Prejean, is designed to widen the discourse on the death penalty in our country, one of the few countries in the world that executes. The power of the play combines with academic study projects and creative school events to deepen the reflection and debate on this key moral question of our day. Sr. Helen Prejean writes of her experience: “I have seen state killing close up, seen with my own eyes the agony, the torture of human beings anticipating death, trying to bolster courage to walk to the killing chamber.” Our expectation from this project, which continued throughout Lent, is the power of forgiveness, the call to be the face of Christ, even to these “deemed so unredeemable that they have been condemned to die.” (Sr. Helen Prejean)
