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"Hanoch L'naar Al pi Darko"
This is one of the tenets of any successful education. For text study to be
complete and to allow the students to internalize the text, especially in
this day and age, it is important to allow for different venues of
internalization. One way is to research the time period and costume of a
text (cross-curricular) through the history class in a school and have the
students create different scripts, or improvisations based on a text and
that time period. I have also done this with midbar sinai. We were in the
chumash on the exodus. We took out a costume book and some stories on
ancient Egypt. We then created dolls (sixth and tenth graders did this)
based on the information we had to date. As we read the story in the
chumash we had the students jot down a journal of their "doll's trip" and
everything he/she saw. Students were allowed to keep a visual or written
journal. I suppose it would also work to allow for an audio-journal for
those with more technology in their classrooms. The text may take longer to
learn.=20
This is just one example. Again, the concept itself is of utmost
importance. It may ultimately influence students' internalization of
Judaism and text into their professional and family lives if they are
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