Teaching Tolerance (Private-Religious)
What does it mean to compromise? What does it mean to be a good friend? What does it mean to be tolerant of others?
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This unit encourages students to think beyond themselves and to treat others with tolerance and respect. Using Biblical and Rabbinic texts as a basis, students explore appropriate ways to relate to others. Students will then focus on issues of discrimination and tolerance, both in fictional and non-fictional situations.
This lesson emphasizes the importance of respecting others and their opinions. Students will delve deeper into their understandings of friendship and compromise, and work on a collaborative project to apply what they have learned.
Using a traditional Jewish text as its basis, this lesson emphasizes the importance of sharing in a relationship.
The purpose of this lesson is to emphasize to students that there are many types of people in the world, and we must be tolerant of everyone’s uniqueness.