Materials and resourcesmore
Materials
(documents available via link below in "procedure" section)
- Images and primary source documents that portray the history of your congregation or community
- costume for the actor/volunteer who plays Rebecca Samuel
- 4x6" index cards
- a long sheet of butcher paper
- markers
- tape
OPTIONAL: Guest speakers to share about community s history or to speak about being new to the community, children s story about the life of an immigrant or your states history.
NOTE TO EDUCATOR: This lesson requires the advance set-up of three separate stations.
Evidence of Learningmore
• Participants will be able to explain why it was important for Rebecca Samuel to have a Jewish community in which to participate.
• Participants will be able to connect images from their community to shared communal ideas, values, and traditions.
• Participants will be able to list similarities and differences between the traditions in their communities and the one described in the text.
• Participants will be able to posit Rebecca Samuels feelings about their communal traditions based on information in her letter.
Lesson Contributors
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