S_WH7-15+Assignment

Grade 7 Lesson 15 - Roots of Secular Humanistic Jewishness (All Assignments)


 * History
 * Holidays - for each of the holidays listed below, provide short descriptions ((1 sentence - 200 characters max) of its purpose from both a secular and a religious point of view
 * Culture
 * Heroes/Heroines - write a short and long description of why each was important, include what problems they were trying to solve (ie what was driving them to do the work we consider important) - you can go to Wikipedia for info
 * Abraham Geiger
 * Achad Ha'am (Asher Ginsberg, 1856-1927)
 * Simon Dubnow (1860- 1941)
 * Chaim Zhitlovsky (1865-1943)
 * Mordechai Kaplan
 * 8th Grade Curriculum
 * FAQs - for each of the questions below, provide a short answer (1 sentence - 200 characters max) and a longer one (1 paragraph - 800 characters max)
 * Which is more important - belief or action? To put it another way, if you are being bullied into giving money for a good cause (e.g. cancer research), should you give even though you don't want to or should you only give when your heart wants you to?
 * Vocabulary - for each of the words below, provide a short definition (1 sentence - 200 characters max) and a longer definition (1 paragraph - 800 characters max)