PURIM

1)Taking after the tradition on Purim to send gifts, as a class we will be sending compliments to classmates. Using the vocabulary on page 70, pick a name out of the hat and write a compliment to that person. Give them to teacher who will read the compliment and the students get to guess who the compliment is for. At the end of class, the teacher will pass the compliments out to the students.

2)Taking after the tradition of Purim, we will review the story of purim in illustrated way. In the video, students will have the change to explain each scene and what is being depicted based on the illustratrations. http://www.aish.com/h/pur/mm/Purim_Animated.html

3) Taking after the tradition of Purim, class will be festive. We will play a game. Students will get the change to pull a name out of a hat of one of the key characters in the Purim story. The object of the game is to discover who the person is by asking questions. Rules are that audience can not ask who the person is or if he or she is good or bad.

5) Singing. Listen to the following song below and follow the text as the words a read. When the music stops in the middle of the song, students must guess where. The student waits at the board untill someone elses guesses correctly to take his or her place.

Purim Song - The Maccabeats

Stand stand for a tale so grand
Shushan is the place where it all began
The hidden miracle

One man, second in command
Slay all the Jews was his wicked plan
A scheme so miserable

He chose a day for the disaster
It's ironic what came after
He didn't know a girl named Esther
Would turn it upside down

So raise your glass if you can see the hidden meaning,
it's right in front of you,
we will never be never be anything but proud to tell the story,
v'nahafoch hu (It was turned upside down)
Won't you come on and come on and raise your glass
just come on and come on and raise your glass

Esther became the queen
Cuz' God was pulling strings from behind the scenes
She wore the royal crown

3 days the Jews just prayed,
Queen Esther risked her life went to save the day
She took Haman down

The streets were filled with celebration
Everyone ate Hamantashen
Jubilation for the nation
Ken tihiyeh lanu... (So should it be for us)

So raise your glass if you can see, the hidden meaning,
it's right in front of you,
we will never be never be anything but proud to tell the story,
v'nahafoch hu
Won't you come on and come on and raise your glass
just come on and come on and raise your glass

So get your costumes on
Make noise and drown out Haman
Don't drink like a fool
And remember and remember
What the day's about...

So raise your glass if you see God in hidden places,
He's right in front of you,
We will never be never be anything but proud to tell our story
v'nahafoch hu

So raise your glass if you can see the hidden meaning,
it's right in front of you,
we will never be never be anything but proud to tell the story,
v'nahafoch hu
Won't you come on and come on and raise your glass
just come on and come on and raise your glass...

Lyrics: David Block and Immanuel Shalev
(Lyrics © 2011 David Block and Immanuel Shalev)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TtnMMmIqfLU  Lyrics

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kgJInVvJSZg


STORY OF PURIM

River Song -

River

I was born in the path of the winter wind
And             1            (to raise)  where the mountains are old.
Their springtime waters                  2                 (to come) dancing down,
I                     3                     ( to remember)  the tales they               4                (to tell)
The whistling ways of my younger days
Too quickly                 5                (to fade) on by
But all of their memories linger on
Like light in a fading song.  River take me along in your sunshine,
sing me your song ever moving and winding and free
You are rolling old river,
You            6                (to change) old river,
Let's you and me, river, run down to the sea.   Well, I've been to the city and I've been back again,
I've been moved by some things that                   7                  (to learn)
Met a lot of good people and                8                   (to call) them friends,
Felt the change when the seasons turned.                9             (to hear) all the songs that the children sing,
And                  10              (to listen) to love's melodies
I've felt my own music within me rise
Like the wind in the autumn trees  River, Take me along...  Some day when the flowers are blooming still,
Some day when the grass              11            (to be) still green,
My rolling waters will round the bend
And flow into the open sea. So here is to the rainbow that has followed me here,
And here is to the friends that I               12           (to know),
And here's to the song that           13            (to be) within me now,
I            14              (to sing)  it where ere I go. River take me along...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N0zduRJCYQQ

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7UQTJYsK2SM start at 5:30 minutes - 7:30/8:00


1) Introduction to north woods culture. Trip - Word graph with vocabulary.
2) Show the video
3) Play the song
     a) each student stands up when their word or line is said.
     b) each student fills in one of the words
     c) listen and check
     d) Find metaphores
     e) Who wrote this? Why?