Yesodot Mid-Year Project

Yesodot Mid-Year Project

Presentations: Friday Dec 4th

• You will have an opportunity to represent your insights into tefillah in a variety of different ways. What you choose is entirely up to you!

• Each assignment will have a written and oral component. You can do your assignment individually or in pairs.

• In each case, your goal is to represent your profound understanding of this person’s approach to Tefillah and what you have learned from him/her.

Interview someone about Tefillah and their experience. It should be someone you’ve seen davening whom you admire. He/she should be at least 5 years older than you. Use what your interviewee has said to complete one of the project options below!

Project Options:

1. Essay: Write a formal essay (2-3 pages) in which you offer an insightful understanding of your interviewee’s approach to tefillah. Analyze what he/she has said and why you agree or disagree.

2. Playlist assignment: Create a playlist. Design an album cover with a unique title and image which represent your interviewee’s internal landscape. Choose one song from the playlist and write an analysis of the lyrics which illustrates how this particular song relates to this person’s thoughts on tefillah.

3. Create Your Own Siddur: Choose a couple of tefillot from Shacharit you or your interviewee find particularly meaningful. Create a commentary, formatted like the artscroll siddur, which explains the meaning of these tefillot. They should not be tefillot we have already covered in class.

4. Wild Card: A super-creative assignment of your own devising that shows your profound understanding of the interviewee’s thoughts on tefillah. Make sure the final “product” can be shared with the class.

Good luck and looking forward to your presentations!