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 young people to think beyond themselves and to treat others with tolerance and respect. Using Biblical and Rabbinic texts as a basis, youth explore appropriate ways to relate to others. They 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. Activities explore aspects of friendship and compromise.
Using a traditional Jewish text as its basis, this lesson emphasizes the importance of sharing in a relationship.
Through discussion of the book The Sneetches by Dr. Seuss, we learn about tolerance and the value of diversity in community.