Part 3: Demonstrating Understanding
(30 minutes–1 hour, depending on how much time you give students to work on their projects.)
- There are two options for closing activities. Educators may choose to assign one activity or allow students to decide which they would like to do. Educators may also choose whether to have students work individually or in groups.
- Create Your Own Business: This can be done either individually or in small groups. Students will design their own modern-day business model based on the guidelines provided in the Jewish texts they have studied. Students may choose to write out a plan, create a visual art piece or poster, or make a video of a “pitch” explaining their ideas.
- Making a Case: Students will imagine that they are legally advising a union or a factory owner. Using the texts studied in this lesson, a student will prepare a case based on Jewish law that advocates for their client’s goals/interests.
- Provide activity handouts, explain the activity to students, and answer any questions they have.
- Allow students at least 20 minutes to work on their piece.
- Educators should decide whether to have students present their work to the class, to one another in small groups, in pairs, or not at all.