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This document outlines steps for an Pesach art project where students: 1. Research the definition and significance of each step of the Seder and create an interactive activity or game for engaging with the step. 2. Take notes on the definition, significance, and interactivity for each step. 3. Place all the information onto index cards and decorate a CD case to hold the cards and present the project. The goal is to engage friends and family in learning about each step of the Seder.
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Who is rich
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Anavah Secondary Sources
The documents discuss how humility can be learned from nature and everyday objects. The Mishnah teaches that knowing our mortality should make us humble. The Talmud says Torah finds those who are humble like water flows to low areas. It also notes Adam was created last to remind the proud of their place. Derech Eretz Zutta advises being like a threshold all can step on rather than a door letting in wind or making others bend. Nature and objects can teach humility if we reflect on how they demonstrate our smallness in the world.
Primary Quiz
This document provides examples of various primary sources or documents and asks whether each example would be considered a primary source. Primary sources are original materials created at the time under study that provide first-hand accounts of events or experiences. The document lists examples like letters, diaries, maps, photographs, newspaper clippings, audio/video recordings, artifacts, eyewitness accounts, and other original materials created during the time period being studied.
Primary and Secondary Sources
Primary sources are original documents or artifacts created during the time being studied, providing first-hand accounts. Secondary sources are analyses or interpretations of primary sources created later. Primary sources include diaries, speeches, historical documents, photographs, and sound recordings from the period. Secondary sources include biographies, textbooks, newspaper articles analyzing past events, and scholarly articles interpreting primary sources. Both can provide valuable historical information but primary sources are considered more reliable as first-hand accounts.
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Seder steps in a case
- 1. An Pesach art project
- 2. All the steps in one: 1. Write the definition of the step. 2. Write the significance or a deeper meaning of the step. 3. Write a interactive for the step.
- 3. Step One Research the definition of the step. Some useful links: http://www.aish.com/h/pes/h/Seder-Plate-15-Steps.html http://www.chabad.org/kids/article_cdo/aid/1609/jewish/The-Seder.htm
- 4. Step Two Take notes of the definition.
- 5. Step Three Research a deeper meaning or significance of the step Some useful links: http://www.meaningfullife.com/torah/holidays/7a/The_Original_Fifteen_Step_Program. php http://www.torah.org/learning/dvartorah/5757/pesach.html
- 6. Step Four Take notes of the meaning in bullet form.
- 7. Step Five Create an interactive activity or game that can be played or used to engage friends or family in the Step. Creative Game Ideas for each step of the Seder : http://nleresources.com/wp- content/uploads/2012/07/CreativeSeders.pdf
- 8. Step Six Take notes of the interactivity in bullet form.
- 9. Step Seven Place all of your information onto the cards.
- 10. Step Ten Decorate your case with puff fabric paints. Place all of the steps in order in the CD sleeves.