Curriculum Map

Chart of Goals, Assessments, and Activities

Goal
Knowledge
Knowledge of the story line of Joseph and

Assessment

Activity

Summative

The various activities

the brothers.

assessment

described all bellow will all

Traditional

lead to knowledge of the

written test

story. Some of these would

on the

include the frontal teaching,

subject
Knowledge of the content of Rashis

matter.
Both

Teacher teaching in class,

commentaries on the material in the unit.

formative

reading in pairs, filling out

and

worksheets

summative
Both
traditional.
Deep Understanding
Students will understand how pervasive

Formative,

Class discussion and mock

jealously can be.

Summative,

trial defending or

Affective

prosecuting fairy tales and

their impact on childhood

The students will understand the

Formative,

Reading the story and

importance of finding peaceful solutions

summative

seeing the terrible

and non-violent conflict resolution.

consequences of conflict, in-

Students will understand that even great

Formative

class discussions, PBL

DI

Understanding that the generation of the

Formative,

Frontal instructions

12 tribes was the first generation in which

summative

people can make mistakes and

mishandle situations and that does not
mean that they are not great.

there was no process of selection and

that everyone remains chosen even
though there are differences between
them.

Skills
Be able to read Hebrew well and go

Performance

Choral reading, reading in

through the psukim by themselves.

pairs, reading out loud to

to easily decode the meaning of the

the class, practice at home.

Students will be asked

Performance

verses; they will be able to look at a word

throughout the unit to read

and extract the root(shoresh), prefixes,

and to show their skills in

suffixes, and their meaning.

reading. They will have

sheets they will need to fill
out showing these verbal
skills.
Choral reading, reading in

Students will be able to read through

Rashi font smoothly and easily.

Performance

pairs, reading out loud to

the class, practice at home.

Students will be able to understand what

formative

question Rashi has and what his answer

In-class discussion, frontal

teaching, think-pair-share

is.

Students will be able to distinguish

formative

between Midrash and commentaries that

Frontal teaching,
worksheets.

are on peshuto shel mikra.

Affective
For the students to understand and

Affective,

Reading of the story, PBL,

realize the difficult consequences and

summative

and homework sheets

outcomes of fighting, jealousy,

divisiveness, and slander.

For the children to realize that sometimes

Affective

really difficult things happen and it is for

Frontal teaching and

discussion.

us to realize that it is for us to make the

best of those situations.

For the students to realize the value of

Affective

diplomacy, saying the right things and

Frontal teaching and

discussion.

avoiding making statements that would

elicit negative responses.

To learn the importance of standing up for

Summative,

Learning the content, in

someone who is being hurt or persecuted.

Affective

class discussion, take home

Standing up for the weak and oppressed.

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