Lesson Groupings
We know that most educators do not have the time to teach every lesson in Living the Legacy and that the material in the lessons is not always relevant to the subjects you must cover. Here we have provided a list of lessons based on topic, time frame, and setting, to help you use the wealth of material in LTL more efficiently and effectively.
If you would like support using the material on jwa.org, please contact our education staff.
- Jewish Values
- Social Responsibility
- Supplementary School - twelve class sessions
- Supplementary School - five class sessions
- Day School
- Service Learning
- Just a Few Lessons
- Martin Luther King, Jr. Day Commemoration
- Labor Day/May Day
- Understanding Myself
- Sisterhood/Women's Adult Ed
- Adult Education
- Popular Culture
- Summer Camp/Youth Groups
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Jewish Values
Civil Rights
Labor
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Social Responsibility
Civil Rights
- Jews and the Civil Rights Movement: the Whys and Why Nots
- Power, Privilege, and Responsibility
- Moments of Personal Resistance
or Civil Disobedience: Freedom Rides
or Community Organizing I: Freedom Summer - De facto segregation in the North: Skipwith vs. NYC Board of Education
- Community Organizing II: Wednesdays in Mississippi
- Civil Rights and Social Justice Today
Labor
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Supplementary School - twelve class sessions
Civil Rights
- Exploring My Identity
- Jews and the Civil Rights Movement: the Whys and Why Nots
(two class sessions) - Moments of Personal Resistance
- Civil Disobedience: Freedom Rides
or Community Organizing II: Wednesdays in Mississippi - Community Organizing I: Freedom Summer
(two class sessions) - Jewish clergy in the Civil Rights Movement
or The March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom
(one to two class sessions) - Jews and African Americans: Siblings in Oppression?
Growing tensions I: Black-Jewish Relations
and/or Growing tensions II: Affirmative Action
(one to two class sessions) - Moving Inward: bringing liberation movements into the Jewish community
- Civil Rights and Social Justice Today
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Supplementary School - five class sessions
Civil Rights
- How Does My Identity Inform My Actions?
- Moments of Personal Resistance
and Community Organizing II: Wednesdays in Mississippi
(one class session each) or Community Organizing I: Freedom Summer
(two class sessions) - Jewish clergy in the Civil Rights Movement
- Jews and African Americans: Siblings in Oppression?
Labor
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Day School
Civil Rights
- Power, Privilege, and Responsibility
or Moments of Personal Resistance - De facto segregation in the North: Skipwith vs. NYC Board of Education
- Civil Disobedience: Freedom Rides
- The March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom
- Growing tensions I: Black-Jewish Relations
- Growing tensions II: Affirmative Action
- Moving Inward: bringing liberation movements into the Jewish community
Labor
- Power, Privilege, and Responsibility
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Service Learning
This group of lessons focuses on understanding what motivates social action, exploring methods for making change, and encouraging students to examine their roles as participants in service learning programs.Civil Rights
Labor
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Just a few lessons
If you only have time to teach a few lessons, these are the ones we recommend to give a broad historical view and a diversity of sources and activities.Civil Rights
Labor
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Martin Luther King, Jr. Day Commemoration
Civil Rights
Labor
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Labor Day/May Day
These are the lessons we think best complement special programs for labor related holidays. They also provide information for sermons or articles relating to these annual observances of labor struggles.Labor
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Understanding Myself
These lessons encourage students to explore their own identities through hands-on activities and the stories of others. These are great lessons for leadership programs, or for introducing the “big ideas” of activism and social justice.Civil Rights
Labor
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SIsterhood/Women's Adult Ed
These lessons specifically chronicle the contributions and stories of women in their many roles as wives, mothers, community leaders, and heads-of-house.Civil Rights
Labor
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Adult Education
The lessons in this group are more easily adapted to adult learning groups who may have some knowledge and life experience relating to the events in LTL, and who may find meaning in exploring the Jewish side of these movements more deeply. These lessons focus on the unheralded stories, rather than the events “we all know.”Civil Rights
Labor
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Popular Culture
These lessons are centered around cultural experience and cultural products—especially film. They will help learners think critically about how cultural products relate to issues and events in society.Civil Rights
Labor
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Summer Camp/Youth Groups (Group A)
Choose two or three lessons from this group AND two or three lessons from Group B.
This lesson grouping combines lessons focused on self-discovery and identity work with lessons that exemplify youth spirit, activism, and the power of young people organizing for social justice. Many have hands-on activities that will work well in an informal setting and do not require a computer or internet connection for the actual lesson.
Civil Rights
Labor
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Summer Camp/Youth Groups (Group B)
Choose two or three lessons from this group AND two or three lessons from Group A.
Civil Rights
Labor
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Purim
Exploring the themes of resistance, identity, and collective responsibility.Civil Rights
Labor
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Hanukkah
Related to the concept of taking action against injustice.Civil Rights
Labor
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Tu B'shevat
An agricultural perspective that goes beyond “trees” to see how Jews have historically connected to working the land, and what motivates them.Labor
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Passover
Examines what is complicated about shared narratives of oppression, and how it influences Jews’ relationships with other communities.Civil Rights
