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**Goal**: To introduce students to the distribution of Jews across the world and different ways their families came to Philadelphia area over many generations. To provide a sense of continuity with the past. **Materials –** **1. Gain attention of the learner:** Draw a picture of your house **2. Review relevant past learning**: Each person in the class belongs to a family. Can your students describe the different places their families lived before coming to the Philadelphia (describe where they live now, how they got there – Show on a map of World) **3. Present new material**: Brief review of current dispersion of Jews in the world and the origins of American Jews including Sephardic, German, late 19th, early 20th Century Eastern European and late 20th century Russian. Show origins on a map (see Historical Atlas of the Jews). **4. Provide guided practice**: Imagine that the Folkshul is moving to another place. Discuss how you would like the classroom to be set up. Would you like it to be like the one you are in now? Completely different? Partly the same, partly different? **5. Provide independent practice**: Imagine that you have been told that you are moving to a new city and that you can bring only ten of your things with you. Make a list of the ten things you would bring//.// Make a list of ten things you would miss.
 * 3-1 Discovering our Family Roots **
 *  6. Close the lesson: **Come together and share lists along with explanations of why the things on their lists are important. Discuss how these things would provide continuity between your future and your past and why that would be important.