Building a Jewish World - Session 1: Characteristics of Your Home and Community

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	Session1: Characteristics of Your Home and Community

In this lesson you will describe your home and community.
Like all lessons in 'Home and Community', this lesson is divided into 3 parts.

If you have already completed a part of the lesson, skip to the next part..

Personal Activity:

1.	Use the Information Center to learn about the terms "home" and "community".

2.	Define the characteristics of "home" and "community"

3.	Answer the questions in the Writing Page.

Group Activity:

1.	Enter the Information Center and read articles and stories about towns and communities.

2.	Consider the characteristics your group members chose.

3.	Discuss the differences and similarities between the characteristics your group members chose.

4.	Decide with your group members on the characteristics of "home and community".

Interactive Part:

1.	Send to your partner group the characteristics of "home and community" your group members chose.

2.	Write stories about your home and community.

3.	Send the stories to the forum.

Personal Activity

A. Learn about the term "home and community"

Enter the Sorting Game

Sorting Game:
Learn about the term "Home and Community"

Ready?

With your new knowledge decide on the characteristics of "home and community" .

Which characteristics describe the term "community"?
Which characteristics do not fit? Why? (Give two examples)
Which characteristics describe the term "home"?
Which characteristics do not fit? Why? (Give two examples)

Complete the
Writing Page

Try this:

Answer the following questions:

What makes your community unique?
What makes the people in your community unique?
What makes your home unique?
In your opinion, what would someone from another Jewish community like to know about your home and community?
What would you like to know about his/her home and community?

Complete the
Writing Page

Group Activity

A. Expanding your knowledge

After the personal activity expand your knowledge about the term "home and community".

Enter the Information Center and read the articles and stories.

Enter the Information Center
and read the articles and stories

B. Discussion about the stories

Discuss the following questions:

Which story/article is the most interesting for you? Why?
What do you like about your home? What do you like about your community?

C. Characteristics the group members chose

Enter the Group Answering Page and view the various criteria about the term "home and community" chosen by each group member.

Enter the Group Answering Page
and view the various criteria about the term
"home and community"
chosen by each group member

D. Discussion on the characteristics

Consider the data and discuss the following questions with your group members:

Which criteria were chosen by most of the group members?
Which criteria were chosen only by a few?
Do all participants live in the same town? Belong to the same community?
Does a group member belong to more than one town? To more than one community?

Decide on the common criteria to describe "home" and "community".

Interactive Part

A. The common criteria of the group

The group administrator writes the decisions in the Group Description Page and sends it to the partner group.

ADMINISTRATOR: Log in before entering the group description page.
The chosen criteria are published automatically and can be viewed by the partner group.

If you are not the group administrator:
Clicking on the 'Description Page' button shows you the criteria chosen by your group.

Group Description Page
Write the criteria
for "home and community"
chosen by the group

B. My Story

After you agreed upon the common characteristics of "home" and "community" enter the Forum.

Write a short story about your home and community. Use the criteria you decided upon.

Enter the Forum
and write your story.

Next Lesson:
A picture says more than 1000 words!
In the next lesson you will bring a photo or a drawing, which describes your home or the members of your community. In the next lesson you will scan the photo or the drawing and send it to your friends in the partner group.

Next acticity (Session 2: Environment of the partner group )

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Credits	שותפים בפרויקט
The Education Department\| The Israel Department The People to People center\| Partnership 2000 The Ministry of Education - Pedagogic Secretariat	המחלקה לחינוך\| המחלקה לישראל המרכז לקשר יהודי גלובלי \| שותפות 2000- משרד החינוך והתרבות - המזכירות הפדגוגית