Tanach Circles

By: Mrs. Norma Mintz
from Rae Kushner Yeshiva High School

Category:
Development of Critical and / or Creative Thinking

Subject(s) of entry:
Literature, Tanach

Pedagogy:

Grade(s) to which this was taught:
9, 10, 11, 12, High school

Grade(s) for which this will be useful:
K, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, Elementary school, Middle school, High school

After introducing my English students to literature circles with great success, I decided that I wanted to use that model to create "Tanach circles." In Tanach circles, students choose a sefer of Nach that they would like to learn, and then they learn the sefer independently, and meet four or five times per semester to have a sort of "book club," in which they each must prepare a submission about the material and engage in a discussion around the material that they learned. At the end of the year, student groups have a collective siyum celebrating their learning, and sharing with the other groups an introduction to their chosen sefer as well as some of their favorite points that emerged in their discussions.

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