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Building Jewish Identity 2: Sacred Time
ISBN: 978-0-87441-863-7
SKU: 863
Grade level: 3 - 4
Price: $7.95
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Examines a Jewish view of time through the lens of the building blocks of Jewish identity - our shared history and stories, shared language, symbols and rituals, and ethical teachings. Students will develop an understanding of how time is an important and sacred part of Jewish life.
Sacred Time is the second volume in the Building Jewish Identity series, a flexible two-year Jewish identity curriculum in four units.
Volume 2 is about living according to Jewish time - the Jewish calendar, Shabbat and the cycle of holidays, and life cycle events. It examines a Jewish view of time through the lens of Jewish identity - our shared history and stories, shared language, symbols and rituals, and ethical teachings. Students will develop an understanding of how time is an important and sacred part of Jewish life.
Contents: Sacred Time
- Times of Your Life
- Making Time for the Jewish Week
- Celebrating the Jewish Year
- The First Steps in a Jewish Life
- Preparing to Be a Jewish Adult
- Establishing a Jewish Home
- Mourning a Loss the Jewish Way
- This Jewish Life
- Words to Know
About the Building Jewish Identity Series:
Establish a foundation for lifelong Jewish engagement
The Building Jewish Identity series introduces students to core knowledge that is essential to developing a strong Jewish identity. It uses stories, interviews, and activities to explore the ethical teachings, laws, language, rituals, symbols, and myths that create a distinctive Jewish worldview using a journal/activity book format that invites personal reflection.
The series is designed to be used in four units over two years. Appropriate for grades 3, 4, and 5, each volume is available separately to allow maximum flexibility to fit into your program.
Enduring Understanding
Our Jewish community, our shared language, our sacred writings, our stories and history as Jews help unite us and connect us to each other and to our Jewish identity. Our experience of time and celebration of important moments provides a lifelong, emotional connection to our heritage, our culture, and our values.
Materials:
The print materials include four volumes of activities, games, thought questions, texts, and profiles of real kids as well as historical figures, plus other background your students will need to explore and build their identity as Jews.
Matching Lesson Plan Manuals (each covering two volumes) provide step-by step guidelines for each class meeting plus experiential and project based learning ideas, instructions for complementary family education programs, assessments and reviews, plus ideas for teaching holidays through the building blocks of Jewish identity.
- Building Jewish Identity Lesson Plan Manual (Vols. 1 & 2) sold separately.
An optional digital companion for each volume can be used either in class or from home to bring a rich assortment of interactive games, videos, songs and other components to enliven your students’ exploration of their Jewish identity. Each online companion comes complete with its own lesson plans.
- Preview the Digital Companion for Volume 2
- The digital companion is only sold as a set with the book. Click here to go to the book + digital companion set.
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