Passover Lesson Plan: Culture

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This lesson accompanies the BrainPOP topic Passover, and supports the standard of describing ways in which language, stories, folktales, music, and artistic creations serve as expressions of culture and influence behavior of people living in a particular culture. Students demonstrate understanding through a variety of projects.

Step 1: ACTIVATE PRIOR KNOWLEDGE

Ask students:

• What do you know about Passover?
• What do you wonder about?

Step 2: BUILD KNOWLEDGE

• Read the description on the Passover topic page.
• Play the Movie, pausing to check for understanding. 

Step 3: APPLY and ASSESS 

Assign Passover Quiz, prompting students to apply essential literacy skills while demonstrating what they learned about this topic.

Step 4: DEEPEN and EXTEND

Students express what they learned about Passover while practicing essential literacy skills with one or more of the following activities. Differentiate by assigning ones that meet individual student needs.

• Make-a-Movie: Produce a tutorial about the origins and rituals of Passover.
• Make-a-Map: Create a concept map identifying different Passover holiday rituals and the significance of each.
• Creative Coding: Code a comic that tells something about the Passover story.

More to Explore 

Related BrainPOP Topics: Deepen understanding of culture and cultural diversity with these topics: High Holidays, Easter, Religion, Egyptian Pharaohs.

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