Wrap-Up: Additions to your own seder
- Depending on time and your setting, this activity could also be assigned as homework.
- Using what they've learned in class about Jewish/African American identification and its limitations, have your students create something that could be incorporated into their own seder. You may offer your students a choice of the following assignments, or you may choose for them:
- An introduction or commentary to "Let My People Go" that could be included in the seder when the song is sung.
- New verses for "Let My People Go" that reflect the history of Jewish/African American identification.
- A reading for one or two people that reflects the history of Jewish/African American identification.
- A poem that reflects the history of Jewish/African American identification.
- A new version of the four questions that reflects the history of Jewish/African American identification.
- A new version of the four children that reflects the history of Jewish/African American identification.
- You may want to provide your students with samples of different haggadot so that they can get some ideas for their written assignment.
- If you are teaching this lesson prior to Passover, assignments can be taken home and incorporated into your students' seders.
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If you are teaching this lesson after Passover, assignments can be incorporated into a bulletin board or booklet for students to share with their families.
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You may use some readings from the 1969 Passover Seder and some readings written by your students to develop a model seder for a different class or grade.
