| Topic | Overview |
| K | The rabbi and the cantor | Students will learn that the rabbi and cantor lead prayer services and help us to celebrate many different events in Jewish life and that cantors help us pray by leading us in special songs during synagogue services. Rabbis Spivak and Schicker visit the classroom. |
| 1-2 | Hanukkah | Students act out their own retelling of the Chanukah story and complete the sentences: I am a part of the Chanukah story today; I am like the Maccabees when I.. |
| 3 | Everything’s B’seder: Everything is in order | Students will articulate the difference between the way order feels and the way disorder or chaos feels and be able to plan one way to bring more order into their lives. |
| 4 | Kiddush | The holiness of the shabbat service |
| 5-6 | The Blessings of the Torah | Students will learn about the blessings before and after the Torah is read, and will contemplate the question of chosenness. |
| 7 | High Holidays | What is the meaning of Kol Nidrei and how does it teach about teshuva and connection to God and community? |
| HS |
| In Jewish History students share with the class family migration stories, collectively build table of historical events of the time period under review, collectively outline factors that might lead to migration and compare current migration situation in 2020’s to that of 100 years ago. In Ethics & Values students develop a starting data set of Jewish sources which describe courageous / strong women, identify the role of media in biasing our thinking with regard to role modeling, hero vs. victim and synthesize ideas regarding Judaism teaching and women’s roles. |
