Grade JUDAIC STUDIES HEBREW K Jewish Foundations I Hebrew Literacy I Prayer, Shabbat & Holidays, and the Introduction to Conversational Weekly Torah Portion Hebrew ● Students utilize Hebrew conversation, ● Students begin to speak in music, art, visuals, and manipulatives to conversational Hebrew learn prayers, explore Shabbat and the through immersion; Jewish holidays, and begin to learn ● acquire a working vocabulary about the weekly Torah portion. of everyday Hebrew words; ● These create experiential learning and opportunities that foster deep emotional ● learn the letters of the Hebrew connections between children and their alphabet. Jewish heritage and practices. ● Students draw connections between each subject area and the Land of Israel. 1 Jewish Foundations II Hebrew Literacy II Prayer, Shabbat & Holidays, and the Conversational Hebrew, Reading, Weekly Torah Portion and Writing ● In addition to extending their knowledge ● Students learn to read and of prayer, Shabbat and holidays, and write fluently in Hebrew, and weekly Torah portion, students: ● significantly expand their ● contextualize the holidays against the working Hebrew vocabularies backdrop of the Jewish calendar, and and level of conversational ● become familiar with the wider narrative fluency. arc of the Torah portions. 2 Jewish Foundations III Hebrew Literacy III Prayer, Shabbat & Holidays, and the Advanced Hebrew Literacy; Weekly Torah Portion Fundamentals of Hebrew Grammar ● Students continue to deepen their ● Students achieve increased knowledge of the prayers, holidays, and mastery of reading, writing, weekly Torah portion; and speaking Hebrew; ● learn about key stories from the rabbinic ● further extend their Midrash; and vocabularies; and ● memorize key concepts, including the ● gain their first exposure to the dates of the Jewish holidays and names fundamentals of Hebrew of the Torah portions. grammar. 3 Rabbinic Hebrew I Biblical Hebrew I Mishnah Berakhot (Blessings) Genesis 12-14 ​ ​ ● Students gain their first systematic ● Students deepen their fluency exposure to rabbinic Hebrew and texts, in modern Hebrew; using brief selections from Mishnah ● use the earliest Abraham Berakhot, the first tractate of the narratives as a foundation for Talmud, as a foundation. understanding Hebrew ● Throughout the Rabbinic Hebrew vowels, accents, prepositions, sequence, significant time continues to and nouns; and be dedicated to prayer, Shabbat and ● gain their first exposure to holidays, and the weekly Torah portion. cantillation. 4 Rabbinic Hebrew II Biblical Hebrew II Tractate Megillah Genesis 15-20 ​ ​ ● Students utilize their knowledge of ● Students utilize the next rabbinic Hebrew to engage in their first segment of the Abraham sustained text study of Mishnah, narratives as a foundation to beginning with Tractate Megillah. continue their systematic ● This course of study allows students to acquisition of biblical Hebrew, gain a contextual understanding of including nouns, adjectives, Rabbinic Hebrew. and verbs. ● Students become accustomed to studying significant quantities of biblical text. 5 Rabbinic Hebrew III Biblical Hebrew III Moed (Holidays) Genesis 21-25 ​ ​ ● Students become accustomed to studying ● Students conclude their study significant quantities of rabbinic texts, of biblical grammar by: and ● completing their study of verb ● study sections of Seder Moed, the second constructs, and in the six orders of the Mishnah. ● mastering the most common words in biblical Hebrew. .