May 6, 2021
HUMANITIES
We are in the thick of Romeo and Juliet. Romeo is in exile in Mantua, and Juliet is trying to figure out how to be with her new husband. Once we are finished, the seventh graders will actively argue over whether or not Romeo and Juliet were truly in love and who is to blame for their tragic deaths.
In Social Studies, we are analyzing the US Constitution and the founding of the United States. Students are grappling with different sections of the nation’s founding document with rigor, questioning why the founders made certain decisions as well as how certain decisions might affect the country more than two hundred years later.
Sammy
Dear parents,
Hebrew Accelerated
This week we have been busy wrapping up the last Unit in our book- the unit about our family. As a culminating project, the students will next week film a movie presenting their families in Hebrew.
Hebrew Regular:
The students have started the first unit in the Accelerated curriculum NETA. Towards the end of next week, they will prepare a short movie presenting themselves in Hebrew.
I wish everyone a wonderful week,
Andreea
להורים שלום,
השבוע עבדנו על יחידת האוכל. הכרנו עדות שונות בישראל ומסורות הבישול הייחודית של כל אחת מהן. במהלך חקר המקורות, התלמידים נחשפו לסוגי מאכלים שונים שהיהודים הביאו עמם לישראל שחלקם היו מוכרים וחלקם עוררו את סקרנותם.
בשבוע הבא, נעבוד על פרויקט סיכום של היחידה.
מאחלת לכם סוף שבוע נעים ורווי במאכלים טעימים,
אילנה
אילנה
MATH
The 7th Grade has been having a lot of fun for the past month learning about graphs of lines, slopes, y-intercepts, and the Pythagorean theorem! In the next few weeks, in addition to reviewing everything they’ve learned thus far, they will be exploring the volumes of cylinders, cones, and spheres. There are just a few weeks left in the school year, but it will be full of big changes, important events, and lots of fun!
Shana
JUDAIC STUDIES
The 7th graders have begun learning Talmud! We are learning the structural elements of rabbinic arguments, and engaging with challenging questions. For example: what happens when telling the truth and being kind are in conflict? Is there anything wrong with inviting someone to your B Mitzvah if you know they can’t come? If someone misunderstands and thinks you did something nice for them, do you have to tell them they’re wrong? Ask your 7th grader to share some of their thoughts with you!
Next week on Wednesday we will have a quiz on Talmudic terms and key concepts. Study materials are on google classroom.
Shabbat shalom,
Jessica
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