Sunday, May 28, 2017

The Jerusalem Magic Candy Shop Study Guide Chapter 2

What do you know about Ancient Egypt?  The Pyramids?  The Nile River?  
Alex and Laura find themselves in Ancient Egypt, and see incredible things! 

Questions
How do Alex and Laura figure out where they are? 
Who knows more about history, Alex or Laura? 
Why does Laura tell Alex to put his phone away? 
Why did they go to Ancient Egypt? 
What do we see in the illustration? 
Why do they go see the huts instead of the palace? 



Homework: 
What do you already know about Ancient Egypt?  Where would you like to visit there? 
Who would you like to meet? 

Thursday, May 25, 2017

Timelinks G5 History and Culture pages 12 - 13


History Past and Present.  If we don't learn from the past, then we are doomed to repeat it.  This is why I am always interested in learning history so that I can see how and why events happened before. Then I can learn from other's mistakes and not make the same mistake myself.



Vocabulary 

historian 
artifact
culture
primary source
secondary source 


Questions


Which artifacts from the past are most reliable source of information? 
Give an example of a primary source oral history?  written primary source? 
What is a secondary source?  Give an example. 
Is a museum a primary source or a secondary source?


Homework: Write about an historical place in your city.  What happened there? 
Who lived there?  What is the site being used for now? 

Wednesday, May 24, 2017

The Jerusalem Magic Candy Shop Study Guide Chapter 1

The Jerusalem Magic Candy Shop Study Guide Chapter 1

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In Chapter 1 We meet Alex and Laura.  They are new Olim, that is new immigrants to Israel who live in Jerusalem. They have been in Israel for a while, but still miss the United States.  Alex is very smart, and he has really put a lot of effort to learn Hebrew.  Laura, on the other hand is more interested in having fun and looking good.  She has not truly adjusted to living in Israel and misses her friends "back home."  

This story takes place the day after Passover ends, and in Israel it is not a holiday, but according to religious Jews who live outside of Israel it is a holiday. 
The kids are happy to be out on the town, and to have an extra day of vacation from school.  

All of the Hebrew terms are defined in the Glossary at the back of the book, but I will define them here in the study guide as well. 

Key Terms
 Isru Chag – The second day of a holiday in Israel, it is a semi-holiday in Israel corresponds to the second day of a holiday outside of Israel 

Bureaka – a pastry that is made from oil, flour and usually potatoes. Not kosher for Passover. 

Chag - Holiday

kitnyot – Types of food that may be mistaken for bread or wheat products. Ashkenazi Jews don’t eat these products during Passover.

Kosher – Food that has been supervised by the Rabbinical council and has a label to show that it the Jewish dietary rules were followed during manufacture or harvest.

Matza – The special “bread” that religious Jews eat for the Passover holiday.

Hol HaMoed – Intermediate days of Passover and Succot.

Questions: 

How long have Alex and Laura been living in Israel?
Why do the kids stop on Jaffa street? 
What is interesting about all the candy in the shop? 
How much money did Alex get for finding the Afikomen? 
What does the Moshe Rabbainu Mocha Munchie candy taste like? 
Why does Laura grab Alex's hand? 

Homework: 
Write about a time in history that you would like to go back and witness?  What happened then?  Why is this time period interesting for you?  Would you try to change the event? 





Thursday, May 18, 2017

The Jerusalem Magic Candy Shop Study Guide Prologue

Everybody wants to know more about the The Jerusalem Magic Candy Shop!

It is located on Yaffa Street in Jerusalem.  (well not really, it is a place in my imagination)

You can go there by reading this book: The Jerusalem Magic Candy Shop #1: Moshe Rabbainu Mocha Munchie by [Orbach, Rachael Alice]
Go here to get your copy! The Jerusalem Magic Candy Shop

Key Terms:
Passover - The very important Jewish holiday that happens in the spring, Jews have a big Seder and eat Matza for 7 days.
Shurit Leumi - National Service in Israel.  High school graduates, mostly girls choose to volunteer in a school, hospital, youth village instead of serving in the Army.
wry smile - a smile that is ironic
Hulda - the name of one of the 7 Prophetesses
Badatz sign - all restaurants and outlets that sell food,  that want to cater to religious Jews need to be certified as Kosher.  In Israel the most respected organization that certifies establishments as kosher.
Yaffa Road.  The main road that is in the center of Jerusalem.
landmark - a place where most people know about and go there to see it.

Questions 
Why did Dan and Hulda want to open a candy shop?
What did Hulda's great grand uncle do in Boston?
What is the difference between the candy shop in Boston and the one in Jerusalem?
Why is Hulda happy about Ayala's choice of Shurit Leumi?
Why did they wait until Passover to open the shop?
Why do you thing that Dan and Hulda don't eat in the shop?

Homework
Dan and Hulda have this dream of opening a candy shop.  What is one of your dreams, a goal that you would like to do?  What are the steps that you can do to make this dream a reality?


Wednesday, May 17, 2017

Timelinks G5 The American Economy page 10 -11

It is very important for people nowadays to understand the economy.  Many schools skip over this important subject and jump into teaching names and dates of history, or the part of grammar, But if more people understood economy then they would be able to work more efficiently.

This unit is about the American economy and how it changed.

Key Terms
GDP
Goods and Service,
Supply
Demand
cost-benefit decision
opportunity cost


Questions:
What was the basis of the American economy in the 1700's.
Why did it change?
What is the GDP?
Why is a Free Market important?
What is a good?
What is a service?

Homework:

How is the economy structured in your country? What decisions do you make about which goods and services to buy?  What are your opportunity costs? Write about how you made a decision to buy a "big ticket item" like a car or a property.  What steps did you think about?





Post sponsored by:  The Jerusalem Magic Candy Shop

Monday, May 15, 2017

Lesson Plan about Napster

Lesson Plan Outline
Rachael Orbach

Level Intermediate 3rd Stage Grade 7th May 15th

Domain(s) Access to Information

Purpose of Lesson: (General Aims)
Reading Comprehension of text, analysis of paragraph structure.

Lesson Benchmarks(s): (indicators of progress within each domain)
Understand the main idea and supporting details in this text, using this knowledge to answer questions about the text.

Materials:
Handout, of a paragraph from a newspaper, with questions, white board, markers, students' notebooks to write answers to questions.

Activities

Stage
Description
Time

Set Induction
What makes a great paragraph? How do you know that the paragraph is interesting?
What associations? How does it affect you?
5 minutes
Practise (Groups, Pairs, Individuals
The teacher reads the paragraph, asks questions about it,
15 minutes
Production
Students answer the questions on the handout working quietly, Then teacher asks for the answers writing on the board.
15 minutes
Closure
Students summarize the text
5 minutes

Anticipated Problems and possible solutions

Vocabulary is too hard. Have students look up words in dictionary.

Students don’t have dictionaries. Teacher gives the definitions of hard words.










Introduction: Paragraphs.

Make a list of elements that make writing interesting:

  1. ________________________________________

  1. _________________________________________

  1. __________________________________________

  1. _________________________________________

  1. __________________________________________


Vocabulary:

instantly moguls preliminary injunction pull

the plug appeals court ruling shift membership

testimony entrepreneur rancor legislators topping the charts

royalties munificent reissues bulk existence. Status quo

shut it down

Read the paragraph, underline the elements that you chose










  1. How does the first sentence of the paragraph attract your attention?

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  1. A topic sentence give the main idea of a paragraph. What is the topic sentence of this paragraph?

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  1. How would you state the main idea of the paragraph?

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  1. What is the purpose  of sentence 2?

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  1. What details does the author give?

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  1. What is the conclusion of the article?

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  1. Summarize the paragraph in your own words.

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