Building a Jewish World - Session 2: Your Partner Group's Surroundings

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	Unit 2: My environment
	Session 2: Your Partner Group's Surroundings

In this lesson you will learn about the surroundings of your partner group.
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.	Read the articles and stories about the town and the community of your partner group.

2.	Choose the most interesting story.

3.	Send questions.

Group Activity:

1.	Discuss the stories of your partner group with your classmates.

2.	View the criteria for the "town" and "community" of your partner group.

3.	Answer the questions in the Writing Page.

Interactive Part:

1.	Write a short description of the photo or the drawing you brought and send it to your partner group.

Personal Activity

A. Your Partner Group's Stories

Enter the forum and read some of the stories your partner group wrote.

Enter the Forum

Ready?

Answer the following questions:

Were the stories you read interesting? Explain.
What did you learn about your partner group when you read their stories?
Are there additional things you want to know about the members of your partner group?

Complete the
Writing Page

Try this:

Choose one story and send questions to the forum.

Enter the Forum

B. Your Picture or Photo

Look at the pictures and photos you brought. What can you learn about your town or community from them.
Enter the Information Center for more ideas on this subject.

In the interactive part you will send the pictures and photos together with a short description to your partner group.

Information Center
What can you learn about your town
or your community from the pictures?

Group Activity

A. Discussion

Discuss the following questions with your classmates:

What can you learn about your partner group from the stories you read?
How is the town described in the stories?
How is the community described in the stories?
How are people from the community involved in the town?

B. The Criteria Your Partner Group Chose

Enter the "criteria tool", view the criteria your partner group chose and compare them with the criteria of your group.

Enter the Criteria Tool
and view the criteria your partner group chose

Ready?

Discuss the following questions:

What did you learn about your partner group from the differences between the criteria?
What did you learn about your group?

Interactive Part

A. Differences and Similarities

Summarize the differences and similarities between the groups and send the summary to your partner group.

Enter the Forum

B. Your Pictures

Write a short description of the picture you brought, scan the picture and send it to your partner group.

Enter the Forum
and send the picture you brought.

The next session:
Mementos and stories
In the next lesson you will learn more about your town and community. For this lesson you will bring mementos and stories from your community and the town you live in.
You can bring: documents, old and new maps, books, symbols, mementos from community members, interviews with community members, etc.
Use internet sites, libraries, archives, interviews with older citizens of your town or community members.

Next activity (Lesson 3: Learning more about your home and community)

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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