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The Value of Forgiveness (Video)
*Sound On Please
Masada Academy's student, Amy said good leader is someone who knows the value of forgiveness.
*What kind of leader is a good leader to you ?
*Amy is attending international school in Singapore
*Amy's teacher, Kate is currently studying Medicine in the United Kingdom
Curriculum
Students can enhance their problem solving abilities by practising Havruta !
Teaching students English based on the Talmud story, History and Culture of Israel and News article.
A. Vocab Learning:
Learn vocabs from the English Talmud and News Article
*The Talmud story provided by Masada Academy is strictly chosen by the Rabbis at Yeshiva (Rabbi School). Thus, it is different from the Talmud stories known in Korea which do not have exact source from the Talmud books.
B. Writing 1:
Practising making full sentence based from the vocab learning stage.
C. Reading:
Exercising how to analyse text and make paragraph in detail.
D. Speaking:
Exercising how to speak logically to persuade others efficiently during the debate by solving problems by themselves.
E. Writing 2:
Exercising how to make Essay plan and advocate personal opinion to the public logically both with written document and verbal speech.
Example of the Talmud Story
In order to commence the Havruta debating, make sure you understand the meaning of each vocabulary below. Creating your own sentence with the vocabularies below will be able to help you to understand the content of story and meaning of each vocabulary in depth.
*Vocabs:
- Perception,
- Belong,
- Thoughtful,
-Possess,
- Generous
*The Talmud Story: (Source: Bava Metzia, 1:4a) Peter and Michelle were walking on a public sidewalk. Peter saw something on the curb. He said to Michelle, “That looks like money over there near the grass. Please pick it up and let me see it.” Michelle walked over to it and picked it up. It was a ten dollars bill. Michelle said, “Wow! Ten dollars ! I am going to keep it.” “Just a minute,” said Peter. “I saw it first and asked you to give it to me.” “Yes, but I picked it up and it belongs to me.” Replied Michelle.
*Question: In your perception, who should possess the ten dollars ? Why ?
Please discuss about this question with your Havruta partner by using the vocabularies above.
*What is Havruta ?
▷Havruta means a pair in Hebrew. It helps students to enhance creativity by debating and questioning with others.
▷Many influential Jewish people studied Havruta since when they were young.
WHY MASADA ACADEMY ?
*Reading
#Enhancing analysing skill by reading the Talmud stories.
#Using creative and mathematical Talmud stories
*We also teach History and Culture of Israel including Jewish functions such as Shavuot, Rosh Hashannah and Yom- Kippur
#Prominent Orthodox Jewish School, Masada College and Yeshiva (Rabbi School) provide the Talmud Stories
#Additionally, using the 9 themes/Talmud stories related to Family, Leadership, Thankfulness, Wisdom etc
*Writing
#Writing essay based on the Talmud story and news article
#Teaching how to make essay plan
#Checking essay with MarkUp tool on iPad
*Listening
#Teaching how to do note taking while debating
#Teaching listening others is important too
#Enhancing analysing skill
*Speaking
#Teaching how to speak logically
#Teaching how to persuade with manner
#Teaching how to solve problem by themselves in Havruta way
