Core Text
- Introduce hevruta, divide class, pass out “core text” sheets
- Hevrutas read core text to each other and explore discussion questions
- Come back together to discuss what arose in hevruta. Begin by inviting students to share their most interesting questions and listing them on the board. Explain that finding unanswered questions in the text is the starting point of midrash; ask students to refrain from answering questions unless the questions address the basic plot of the story.
