S_SH7-5+Assignment

Grade 7 Lesson 5 (3/20) Assignments (All Assignments)
 * History
 * Holidays -Table contains descriptions and both secular and religious purposes of Jewish Holidays
 * Purim: Use my talk on Purim as well as any web or other sources to modify the entry. Put in positive terms, what is important about the holiday for both secular and religious Jews. Try to condense/shorten the material about why it is not a true story. Change the short definition to better reflect what is celebrated (eg the story does not say that Jews were slaves in Persia). Try the definition on your friends and see what they think.
 * Add an entry for Passover
 * Remove column headings from the middle of the table
 * Culture
 * Share shalach mones with your friends in honor of Purim. Be prepared to tell them in positive terms what the holiday is about
 * Add an entry to the Heroes page for Baruch Spinoza.
 * 7th Grade Curriculum - Interview with friends
 * Find out how your friends know that there is a God or a heaven or lives are recycled
 * In case they were wrong about their beliefs, how could they find that out.
 * FAQs - Table contains short and longer answers to frequently asked questions
 * Add entry for: For animals grown as food for people, Is it better that they lived and died or that they never lived at all?
 * Fix Page structure to get rid of the lines above the title
 * Fix table structure so that all rows have 3 columns
 * Modify answer to first question so that it begins with a positive sentence.
 * See if you can add a column at the left side of the table which will contain the number of the question.
 * Vocabulary - A table of words or phrases of interest to secular humanist Jews.
 * Fix the table structure
 * Talmud - include its purpose/function in its definitions
 * Secular Humanist - modify definition to include both secular and humanist information. You may want to take a look at the definitions on the folkshul [|web site]
 * Fill in definition for secular humanist Jew.