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Recent Acquisitions
Curriculum guides are designed to serve as guides for teaching either a full-year class (approximately 30 sessions) or a complete camp season. Instead of providing already written lesson plans, the curriculum guide allows for teacher creativity in fashioning appropriate learning experiences for his/her particular context. Each unit in the curriculum guide provides goals, objectives, suggested activities, resources, and evaluation. The curriculum guides submitted in May 2011 are:
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| Abramovitz, Joel |
My World to Come: Doikayt and Imagination in Yiddish Literature. A Language Arts Curriculum for Jewish Day School Juniors and Seniors (Grades 11-12, Day School)
This curriculum explores the parallels and intersections of two themes in Yiddish literature: imagination of the fantasy genre (as portrayed by dreaming, dybbuks, demons, and radical visions of afterlife) and doikayt (an idea that literally translates as "hereness," meaning the socio-political stance of improving the conditions of the world in which one lives). These two concepts are constantly in play in Yiddish literature, producing a series of short stories, poems, plays, and novels that confront the realities of the present while dreaming of a better future. By engaging with these texts, students create their personal vision of the world to come.
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| Abrasley, Laura |
Making a Mensch: A Jewish Parent's Guide to Parenting Teens (Parents or caregivers of adolescents, Adult Education)
The art of parenting a teenager is an amazing adventure, but often leaves one desperately searching for answers. Judaism can deeply influence and enrich this parenting act. This guide is a blend of Jewish textual tradition and secular parenting knowledge designed to guide adult learners who are actively engaged in the parenting of an adolescent. It seeks to create a framework of Jewish sources that will serve as a scaffold upon which learners can refine their Jewish parenting values.
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| Battis, Jordana Schuster |
Ki gerim hayyitem b'eretz Mitzrayim: An introduction to Jewish textual learning (Adult/college, Adult Education; or in an immersion program, such as a liberal yeshiva setting)
This curriculum guides learners through the process of Jewish textual learning, teaching them how to "do" text study through study of the phrase "For you were strangers in the land of Egypt," as it appears in biblical and early rabbinic texts. Multiple modalities and venues for learning are included, including study in chevruta and as a group, interpretation through art, and allowing learners to teach others.
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| Chernow-Reader, Jordana |
Making baby time into Jewish time: Infusing Spirituality into the first year of your child's life (Parents of young children, Adult Education)
This curriculum guide was written as a spirituality guide for new parents. Becoming a parent is an exciting, scary, overwhelming, daunting, inspiring, and miraculous time. This curriculum guide is an opportunity for new parents to share their experiences with one another, to create community and to learn from Jewish tradition. Throughout this curriculum, students are encouraged to draw from their experiences as parents to enhance their connection to Judaism, to heighten their spiritual awareness and practices, and to create their own prayers, blessings, and rituals based on Jewish tradition.
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| Dreffin, Matthew |
Beyond Judaica: Investigating how Modern and Contemporary Jewish Artists can enable our own Expression of Jewish Identity. (Grades 11-12, Day School)
All Jewish Artists eventually struggle with what their Judaism means to the creation of their Art. Through this curriculum, the student will experience Jewish Art and Artists through Art History, Studio Art, and an exploration of the self. Emerging Artists of high school age are at a critical stage in their personal development and can use art as a vehicle for self-understanding as well as self-expression. The curriculum provides experiences that will hopefully move them towards a better understanding of their heart as well as a better ability to relate through their head and hands. (Note: not an introductory art class; some skills are a pre-requisite.)
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| Dreffin, Matthew |
There is Nothing New Under the Sun: A Biblical Guide to the Modern Family (Adult, Adult Education)
This curriculum guide will give learners the opportunity to study Torah in depth, cultivate relationships within the class, and fortify the learner's personal identity as a member of a family and as a Jew. The guide will achieve these goals by giving the learners the chance to study a subject with which they are intimately familiar- what it means to be a part of a family. Through the study of Torah, the learner can feel a spiritual connection to the texts because for centuries, Jews all over the world have turned to Torah to help them understand being part of a family.
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| Souther, Callie |
From Stumptown to the Emerald City: A History of the Jews of the Pacific Northwest (Grade 9, Religious School)
This curriculum guide is designed to teach history in a way that focuses on contextual understandings of history. Rather than learning dates and place names, the curriculum embraces a multi-media approach to the uncoverage of knowledge. This curriculum teaches American Jewish history through a particular regional lens, dealing solely with the Jewish communities of Portland, OR and Seattle, WA. The material is thus more personal to learners from the Pacific Northwest Region.
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| Weisman, Greg |
V'Dibarta Bam B'Veitecha - Speak of Them in Your Home: An Exploration of Jewish Ritual and Practice for the Young Family (Parents of children new to Jewish learning, Adult Education)
This guide offers opportunities to engage in the textual basis of Jewish rituals and practices. The learners will create a personal and family practice and contribute to the ongoing conversation that is halakhah. It is aimed at parents of children beginning their religious school experience, encouraging them to model for their children engagement in Jewish learning as a lifelong endeavor. The guide is divided into four curricular units-Lifetime, Yearly, Weekly, and Daily Practices-which demonstrate the cyclical nature of engagement in our Jewish tradition.
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