Living the Legacy - Lesson groupings
We know that most educators do not have the time to teach every lesson in Living the Legacy and that the material in the lessons is not always relevant to the subjects you must cover. Here we have provided a list of lessons based on topic, time frame, and setting, to help you use the wealth of material in LTL more efficiently and effectively.
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- Jewish Values
- Social Responsibility
- Supplementary School - twelve class sessions
- Supplementary School - five class sessions
- Day School
- Service Learning
- Just a Few Lessons
- Martin Luther King, Jr. Day Commemoration
- Labor Day/May Day
- Understanding Myself
- Sisterhood/Women's Adult Ed
- Adult Education
- Popular Culture
- Summer Camp/Youth Groups
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Jewish Values
Civil Rights
- How Does My Identity Inform My Actions?
Go to lesson | Preview - Jews and the Civil Rights Movement: the Whys and Why Nots
Go to lesson | Preview - Community Organizing I: Freedom Summer
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or Community Organizing II: Wednesdays in Mississippi
Go to lesson | Preview - Jewish clergy in the Civil Rights Movement
Go to lesson | Preview - Civil Rights and Social Justice Today
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Labor
- Bread and Roses - Defining Basic Needs
Go to lesson | Preview - Jews and Agricultural Labor
Go to lesson | Preview - Contemporary Jewish Labor Campaigns: The Labor Movement Begins at Home
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- How Does My Identity Inform My Actions?
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Social Responsibility
Civil Rights
- Jews and the Civil Rights Movement: the Whys and Why Nots
Go to lesson | Preview - Power, Privilege, and Responsibility
Go to lesson | Preview - Moments of Personal Resistance
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or Civil Disobedience: Freedom Rides
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or Community Organizing I: Freedom Summer
Go to lesson | Preview - De facto segregation in the North: Skipwith vs. NYC Board of Education
Go to lesson | Preview - Community Organizing II: Wednesdays in Mississippi
Go to lesson | Preview - Civil Rights and Social Justice Today
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Labor
- Bread and Roses - Defining Basic Needs
Go to lesson | Preview - From Suffering to Action, From the Individual to the Collective
Go to lesson | Preview - Workers and Their Allies, Then and Now
Go to lesson | Preview - Contemporary Jewish Labor Campaigns: The Labor Movement Begins at Home
Go to lesson | Preview
- Jews and the Civil Rights Movement: the Whys and Why Nots
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Supplementary School - twelve class sessions
Civil Rights
- Exploring My Identity
Go to lesson | Preview - Jews and the Civil Rights Movement: the Whys and Why Nots
Go to lesson | Preview
(two class sessions) - Moments of Personal Resistance
Go to lesson | Preview - Civil Disobedience: Freedom Rides
Go to lesson | Preview
or Community Organizing II: Wednesdays in Mississippi
Go to lesson | Preview - Community Organizing I: Freedom Summer
Go to lesson | Preview
(two class sessions) - Jewish clergy in the Civil Rights Movement
Go to lesson | Preview
or The March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom
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(one to two class sessions) - Jews and African Americans: Siblings in Oppression?
Go to lesson | Preview
Growing tensions I: Black-Jewish Relations
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and/or Growing tensions II: Affirmative Action
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(one to two class sessions) - Moving Inward: bringing liberation movements into the Jewish community
Go to lesson | Preview - Civil Rights and Social Justice Today
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- Exploring My Identity
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Supplementary School - five class sessions
If you can only teach a few sessions about the Labor Movement, these are the most popular lessons in the curriculum and they give a broad range of activities, sources, and issues for students to explore.Civil Rights
- How Does My Identity Inform My Actions?
Go to lesson | Preview - Moments of Personal Resistance
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and Community Organizing II: Wednesdays in Mississippi
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(one class session each) or Community Organizing I: Freedom Summer
Go to lesson | Preview
(two class sessions) - Jewish clergy in the Civil Rights Movement
Go to lesson | Preview - Jews and African Americans: Siblings in Oppression?
Go to lesson | Preview
Labor
- Bread and Roses - Defining Basic Needs
Go to lesson | Preview - From Suffering to Action, From the Individual to the Collective
Go to lesson | Preview - Identity, Independence, and Becoming American Jews
Go to lesson | Preview - Workers and Their Allies, Then and Now
Go to lesson | Preview - Contemporary Jewish Labor Campaigns: The Labor Movement Begins at Home
Go to lesson | Preview
- How Does My Identity Inform My Actions?
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Day School
These lessons will fit well in the context of a larger history course where students have more historical context, more frequent class sessions, and an expectation for completing homework.Civil Rights
- Power, Privilege, and Responsibility
Go to lesson | Preview
or Moments of Personal Resistance
Go to lesson | Preview - De facto segregation in the North: Skipwith vs. NYC Board of Education
Go to lesson | Preview - Civil Disobedience: Freedom Rides
Go to lesson | Preview - The March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom
Go to lesson | Preview - Growing tensions I: Black-Jewish Relations
Go to lesson | Preview - Growing tensions II: Affirmative Action
Go to lesson | Preview - Moving Inward: bringing liberation movements into the Jewish community
Go to lesson | Preview
Labor
- From Suffering to Action, From the Individual to the Collective
Go to lesson | Preview - Identity, Independence, and Becoming American Jews
Go to lesson | Preview - Workers and Their Allies, Then and Now
Go to lesson | Preview - Housewives and Consumer Organizing
Go to lesson | Preview - Jewish Radicalism and the Red Scare
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- Power, Privilege, and Responsibility
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Service Learning
This group of lessons focuses on understanding what motivates social action, exploring methods for making change, and encouraging students to examine their roles as participants in service learning programs.Civil Rights
- How Does My Identity Inform My Actions?
Go to lesson | Preview - Community Organizing I: Freedom Summer
Go to lesson | Preview - Civil Rights and Social Justice Today
Go to lesson | Preview
Labor
- Bread and Roses - Defining Basic Needs
Go to lesson | Preview - Workers and Their Allies, Then and Now
Go to lesson | Preview - Housewives and Consumer Organizing
Go to lesson | Preview - Contemporary Jewish Labor Campaigns: The Labor Movement Begins at Home
Go to lesson | Preview
- How Does My Identity Inform My Actions?
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Just a few lessons
If you only have time to teach a few lessons, these are the ones we recommend to give a broad historical view and a diversity of sources and activities.Civil Rights
- How Does My Identity Inform My Actions?
Go to lesson | Preview - Civil Disobedience: Freedom Rides
Go to lesson | Preview
or Community Organizing II: Wednesdays in Mississippi
Go to lesson | Preview
or The March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom
Go to lesson | Preview - Jews and African Americans: Siblings in Oppression?
Go to lesson | Preview
Labor
- Bread and Roses - Defining Basic Needs
Go to lesson | Preview - From Suffering to Action, From the Individual to the Collective
Go to lesson | Preview - Workers and Their Allies, Then and Now
Go to lesson | Preview - Contemporary Jewish Labor Campaigns: The Labor Movement Begins at Home
Go to lesson | Preview
- How Does My Identity Inform My Actions?
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Martin Luther King, Jr. Day Commemoration
Civil Rights
- Power, Privilege, and Responsibility
Go to lesson | Preview - Jewish clergy in the Civil Rights Movement
Go to lesson | Preview - The March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom
Go to lesson | Preview
Labor
- Bread and Roses - Defining Basic Needs
Go to lesson | Preview
- Power, Privilege, and Responsibility
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Labor Day/May Day
These are the lessons we think best complement special programs for labor related holidays. They also provide information for sermons or articles relating to these annual observances of labor struggles.Labor
- Bread and Roses - Defining Basic Needs
Go to lesson | Preview - Workers and Their Allies, Then and Now
Go to lesson | Preview - Contemporary Jewish Labor Campaigns: The Labor Movement Begins at Home
Go to lesson | Preview
- Bread and Roses - Defining Basic Needs
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Understanding Myself
These lessons encourage students to explore their own identities through hands-on activities and the stories of others. These are great lessons for leadership programs, or for introducing the “big ideas” of activism and social justice.Civil Rights
- How Does My Identity Inform My Actions?
Go to lesson | Preview - Power, Privilege, and Responsibility
Go to lesson | Preview
Labor
- From Suffering to Action, From the Individual to the Collective
Go to lesson | Preview - Identity, Independence, and Becoming American Jews
Go to lesson | Preview - Workers and Their Allies, Then and Now
Go to lesson | Preview
- How Does My Identity Inform My Actions?
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SIsterhood/Women's Adult Ed
These lessons specifically chronicle the contributions and stories of women in their many roles as wives, mothers, community leaders, and heads-of-house.Civil Rights
- Community Organizing II: Wednesdays in Mississippi
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Labor
- Housewives and Consumer Organizing
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- Community Organizing II: Wednesdays in Mississippi
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Adult Education
The lessons in this group are more easily adapted to adult learning groups who may have some knowledge and life experience relating to the events in LTL, and who may find meaning in exploring the Jewish side of these movements more deeply. These lessons focus on the unheralded stories, rather than the events “we all know.”Civil Rights
- How Does My Identity Inform My Actions?
Go to lesson | Preview - Community Organizing II: Wednesdays in Mississippi
Go to lesson | Preview - Moving Inward: bringing liberation movements into the Jewish community
Go to lesson | Preview
Labor
- Bread and Roses - Defining Basic Needs
Go to lesson | Preview - Identity, Independence, and Becoming American Jews
Go to lesson | Preview - Housewives and Consumer Organizing
Go to lesson | Preview
- How Does My Identity Inform My Actions?
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Popular Culture
These lessons are centered around cultural experience and cultural products—especially film. They will help learners think critically about how cultural products relate to issues and events in society.Civil Rights
- Power, Privilege, and Responsibility
Go to lesson | Preview - The March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom
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Labor
- Jewish Radicalism and the Red Scare
Go to lesson | Preview
- Power, Privilege, and Responsibility
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Summer Camp/Youth Groups (Group A)
Choose two or three lessons from this group AND two or three lessons from Group B.
This lesson grouping combines lessons focused on self-discovery and identity work with lessons that exemplify youth spirit, activism, and the power of young people organizing for social justice. Many have hands-on activities that will work well in an informal setting and do not require a computer or internet connection for the actual lesson.
Civil Rights
- How Does My Identity Inform My Actions?
Go to lesson | Preview - Power, Privilege, and Responsibility
Go to lesson | Preview
Labor
- From Suffering to Action, From the Individual to the Collective
Go to lesson | Preview - Identity, Independence, and Becoming American Jews
Go to lesson | Preview - Workers and Their Allies, Then and Now
Go to lesson | Preview
- How Does My Identity Inform My Actions?
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Summer Camp/Youth Groups (Group B)
Choose two or three lessons from this group AND two or three lessons from Group A.
Civil Rights
- Jews and the Civil Rights Movement: the Whys and Why Nots
Go to lesson | Preview - Civil Disobedience: Freedom Rides
Go to lesson | Preview - Community Organizing I: Freedom Summer
Go to lesson | Preview
Labor
- Jews and Agricultural Labor
Go to lesson | Preview - Housewives and Consumer Organizing
Go to lesson | Preview - Contemporary Jewish Labor Campaigns: The Labor Movement Begins at Home
Go to lesson | Preview
- Jews and the Civil Rights Movement: the Whys and Why Nots
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Purim
Exploring the themes of resistance, identity, and collective responsibility.Civil Rights
- Moments of Personal Resistance
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Labor
- From Suffering to Action, From the Individual to the Collective
Go to lesson | Preview
- Moments of Personal Resistance
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Hanukkah
Related to the concept of taking action against injustice.Civil Rights
- How Does My Identity Inform My Actions?
Go to lesson | Preview
or Civil Disobedience: Freedom Rides
Go to lesson | Preview
Labor
- From Suffering to Action, From the Individual to the Collective
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- How Does My Identity Inform My Actions?
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Tu B'shevat
An agricultural perspective that goes beyond “trees” to see how Jews have historically connected to working the land, and what motivates them.Labor
- Jews and Agricultural Labor
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- Jews and Agricultural Labor
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Passover
Examines what is complicated about shared narratives of oppression, and how it influences Jews’ relationships with other communities.Civil Rights
- Jews and African Americans: Siblings in Oppression?
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- Jews and African Americans: Siblings in Oppression?