I hope everyone is safe and sound during the storm. Yesterday was a lot of fun, we learned about how women challenged the status quo during the time in the bible when Moses and the tribal leaders were dividing up the land. Tzelafchad, one of the women descended from Joseph, comes before the men and tells them that her five daughters have no father. None of them are married and Tzelafchad's husband died of his own mistakes in the desert. If the land is divided the way the tribal leaders are planning, then Tzelafchad and her daughters will be left with nothing. After speaking with God, Moses is told that Tzelaphchad was correct in coming to him with this concern. From now on, the land will be passed down to the daughters of tribal members if there are no sons.
This is a large change from many of the other tribes in the area. Through her question about fairness and a place to live, Tzelaphchad made sure that there was a place for women in Israel much bigger than it might have otherwise been. In class we made a play showing how important this was and describing how it worked. We also talked about how there have been many women throughout history who have changed the situation they were in for the better through both questioning the status quo and doing something about it.
Outside of the Great Debate through Jewish History, for the third hour we continued our work on devising a game which incorporates both Historical and Biblical figures. We split the seventh grade class into two in order to do this, and once we've finished making the games we're going to exchange them between the two groups. Our group worked on making up a game where there will be at least three teams of players and a way for them to answer questions and come up with different activities.
The kids got very in to the activity and enjoyed devising how the gameplay was going to work. Next week we'll be working on the creation. I can't wait to see what the create.
In other news, for homework I would like all the students to write three lines about a woman who changed history for the better. They get to choose who the woman is, however it needs to be someone they feel is truly important and within those three lines explain why they chose her. If possible I would like them to post their lines in the comment section of the Seventh Grade Blog which isseventhgradecbe.blogspot.com
If you have problems posting, I will happily take the sentences via email and post them there myself.
If you have any questions feel free to contact me a bchalmer@gmail.com.
Have a wonderful week,
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