Grade 7 Curriculum
Overall Theme
Jewish Values
Texts Used
Basic Judaism For Young People Choosing to be Chosen
Highlights
The holiday customs and symbols are also reviewed in an age-appropriate way. Students take on the role of facilitators at school holiday celebrations, and lead the entire assembly in the recitation of the appropriate prayers.
In the spring, the class is encouraged to collaborate in selecting (and sometimes writing or adapting) a play or appropriate presentation for the graduation ceremony held in May. The graduates are also asked to write a short biographical essay for the yearbook.
Topics include
- Emunah – trust and trust exercises
- Emmet – truth and truth exercises
- Kavanah – sharing of special interests
- Tikkun Olam -making the world better
- Intergenerational discussion of values and ideas - parents are invited
- Web of Sin Day - special activity for Yom Kippur
- Simchat Torah demonstration – students share what their Torah portions are about
- Yetser Hara - the good and evil in us all
- Justice - tempered with mercy
- Being Jewish at Christmas - special issues for mixed families
- Defining Judaism - through process of elimination
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