Homework

=Rabbi Bellas' Homework Page=

I will be listing your homework on this wiki page. All homework assignments will be posted here before 5:30pm on the evening following a class session. It is each student's responsibility to check this page each evening on a day we have class and to read wiki mail for any updates. If you use your //yoman//, be sure to remind yourself to check this wiki page there.

Homework will be assigned regularly and students will be expected to check this page in the evening on a day when we have class. Most often, homework will be posted shortly after the school day ends so that it can reflect the progress the class has made. Homework assignments are due one week from the assignment date, unless it is a longer term project that requires more time. I will send out wiki mail announcements to inform you that the homework which I announced in class has been posted.
 * Homework Schedule:**

Homework assignments will be graded according to two scales. For smaller assignments, I use the √+, √, √- system, which correspond to grades A, B, and C, just of a smaller value. Larger assignments will be graded with letter grades from A range to C range. All incomplete homework will be given a grade a **I** and returned to you for completion.
 * Homework Grading:**

Students who have incomplete work lasting over more than one additional class session will be sent to study hall to complete the work. Late assignments result in the lowering of a grade unless a prior arrangement for illness or other reason has been made with me. Two late assignments will result in a call home to parents.
 * Incomplete Homework:**

The email address rabbibellashomework@gmail.com is still fully operational and can be used to submit homework assignments on the day they are due. Questions about homework can also be sent to that address.
 * Homework Email Address:**

In the table below, you will find all of your homework assignments listed with the most recent assignment at the top. I will assign a row to each week, as you will see below. The columns will be assigned to different subjects
 * Homework Spreadsheet**:

Read mishna 12 on page 9, complete the questions on page 9 & 10. 6A&B Complete page 7 6B - I will be checking page 6 again next week given what Mrs. D. reported to me! with a teacher be a "double-edged sword," meaning be both a potential positive and a negative? Complete the questions on page 5 of the packet for mishna ה
 * ===Week of=== || ===Rabbinics=== || ===חומש=== || ===Judaics Journal/Blog posts=== ||
 * June 13th || Pirkei Avot:
 * Due: Monday, June 20th** ||  ||   ||
 * June 6th || Pirkei Avot:
 * Due: Monday, June 13th** ||  || How can developing a close relationship
 * Due: Monday, June 13th** ||
 * May 16th || Pirkei Avot:

paragraph of the Sh'ma. Use the PDF and MP3 file to practice for our next class.
 * Due: Monday, May 30th** || Practice reading and reciting the 2nd

media type="file" key="V'haya Im Shamo'a.mp3" width="240" height="20" ||  || Complete the questions on page 4 of the packet for mishna ד.
 * May 9th || Pirkei Avot:

of feeling the "awesomeness of heaven upon you?"
 * Due: Monday, May 16th** ||  || How do you now understand the meaning

1) Fill in YOUR 3 things on which the continued survival of the world depends.
 * Due: Monday, May 16th** ||
 * May 2nd || Pirkei Avot:

2) Complete questions on page 3 for mishna gimmel.

assignment more in line with the actual instructions, feel free to do so. No "re-do's" will be accepted after the deadline below.
 * Due: Monday, May 9th** || If you would like to resubmit your job ad

questions related to our next unit in Torah: 1) Keeping a strong faith in God is not always easy. Agree or disagree and why?
 * Due: Monday, May 16th** || Post on the following two statements/

2) I doubted my faith in God when _ __(fill in the blank with your story.__ || 4. Read the mishna on page 5 in advance of Tuesday's class. Mishna Gimmel (3) for class tomorrow. the seder that we do today is based not only on a structure set up 2000 years ago in the Mishna, but on rituals commanded by the Torah 3400 years ago? (They are in parashat Bo - Sefer Shmot/Exodus). __ Bish'vat material. Study the study __ __ guide in the time leading up to the __ __ test. The study guide is on the __ __ Rabbinics wiki page as a link. __ __ **Test: Monday, February 28th** __ __ 2) Questions 1 & 2 on page 1 of __ __ the Purim handouts. __ __ **Due: Monday, February 28th** __ ||  ||   || __material. Study the study guide__ __in the time leading up to the test.__ __The study guide is on the__ __Rabbinics wiki page as a PDF.__ __**Test: Monday, February 21st**__ ||   || How is the basis for daily life and the calendar different today from what it was in Mishna time? Nation project on our Humash wiki page and prepare a draft plan of how you are going to complete the assignments for Part I of the project. Due: Tuesday, February 8th ||   || English Transliteration: http://www.hebrewsongs.com/?SongID=3356 Hebrew Text:
 * April 11th || Answer the questions on page
 * Due: Tuesday, April 12th** ||  ||   ||
 * April 4th || Answer Questions 1 & 2 on
 * Due: Tuesday, April 5th** ||  || What does it mean to you that
 * Due: Monday, April 11th** ||
 * February 21st || 1) Test on H__anukkah and Tu__
 * February 8th || Test on H__anukkah and Tu Bish'vat__
 * Due: Monday, February 14th** ||
 * February 1st ||  || Read the description of the Organizing a
 * January 24th ||  || SHABBATON SONG TO PRACTICE:

For listening and singing practice: media type="file" key="Tzur Mishelo-S'farad.mp3" width="240" height="20" ||  || chart based on the Rosh HaShana Mishna text studied in class today. You will be handing it in at the end of class next Monday. __text as an example, what do we learn__ __about how rabbinic opinions on a__ __Jewish subject develop and evolve__ __over history? (Use specific dates and__ __names of rabbinic periods in your__ __answer.__ || we know EXACTLY what the tasks were that were assigned to both the political leaders (tribal chiefs) and the religious leaders (Levite clans) in B'nei Yisra'el.
 * January 10th || Bring a NEAT and completed
 * Due: Monday, January 18th** ||  || Thinking about the H__anukkah Talmud__
 * January 3rd ||  ||   || In terms of "Organizing a Nation,"

What can we learn from the fact that the specific jobs were detailed? Why was it important for the Torah to give us that much detail? Hanukkah Talmud worksheet for tomorrow. If you do not have the sheet, you can print it off the Rabbinics page of the wiki. Hanukkiyah for each person in the household a combination of the two //hiddur mitzvah// customs from the B'raita we studied? on H__anukkah from the Aramaic-__ __English handout.__ __DO NOT complete the questions__ __on side 2 of the page.__ __Due: Tuesday, November 23rd__ || Go to the H__umash page and read the__ __assignment for chapter 3, written up at__ __the bottom of the page.__
 * Due: Tuesday, January 11th, 2011** ||
 * December 6th || Complete the back side of the
 * Due: Tuesday, December 7th** ||  || How is the custom of lighting one
 * Due: Monday, December 13th** ||
 * November 15th || Read the text of the Talmud

__Due: Tuesday, November 30th__ || Post 1: What is the difference between a H__anukkiyah and a__ __Menorah?__

__Post 2: Why is it important for the__ __Jewish community to set up a__ __central location?__ || for by **Tuesday, Nov. 16th.** || Make a diagram of the how the tribes are ORGANIZED around the mishkan. || Is there more to being a leader than just having specific jobs to do, as were assigned to the tribal chiefs? What does it mean to be a leader? || Answer the following questions and bring them to class on a sheet of paper: 1) Make a list of names of all of the tribal chiefs. Are any of them familiar to you? 2) Look at the names of the chiefs __thing that many of them have in__ __common?__ __3) What job(s) were assigned to the__ __tribal chiefs?__ __Due: Tuesday, November 2nd__ || Please post a response to the following question: 1) Do you agree that the census of the military age men should have been the first step in ORGANIZING THE NATION? If yes, why? If not, why not? || 25th). Use the study guide on the Rabbinics Page of the wiki and Mrs. D's green packet to preapre for the test. || Read Perek Alef, p'sukim 1-16 on Mechon Mamre. The link is on the H__umash page if you need it.__ On a separate sheet__, answer the following questions and bring them to class: 1) What is being organized here? 2) What are the tribal and national results for the census? Due: Tuesday, October 26th ||  || 1) What are the basic structural requirements for a kosher Sukkah? 2) Summarize the big ideas/glasses' frames through which we view the Torah for our purposes of study. What do you they mean to you? DUE: Friday, October 15th || week 2) Complete pages 2-3 from the Sukkot packet Due: Tuesday, October 12th || Answer the following two questions: 1) Why do we study Torah so in-depth? 2) What does the Torah mean to us as Jews? Why is it important? Bring in on a sheet of paper to class. Due: Tuesday, October 12th ||  || page of the wiki. Complete the assignments as described there. 2) Complete Q2-4 on page 2 of the Sukkot packet. Due: Tuesday, October 5th ||  ||   ||
 * November 8th ||  ||   || Please complete the goal setting
 * November 1st ||  || Read Perek Bet, p'sukim 1-30.
 * October 25th ||  || Return to Perek Alef, p'sukim 1-16.
 * in Hebrew**__. Do you notice any-__
 * October 18th || Sukkot test next Monday (Oct.
 * October 12th ||  ||   || Please make two separate posts:
 * October 4th || 1) Finish what was assigned last
 * September 27th || 1) Go to the "Man in the Mirror"