Fourth-grade students at The Agnon School started learning about ancient Greece in an integrated education unit that culminates at Chanukah time with ‘Greek Chanukah Night.’
Agnon 4th graders Callie Gordon, Hannah Froimson, Rachel Goetz & Helena Costantini wearing chitons.
The studies began in September.
This unique program brought language arts, social studies, Judaic studies, technology, art, music and math together in a presentation that begins at 7 p.m. Wednesday at the school, 26500 Shaker Blvd.
“One of the program’s major goals is to enhance each student’s Jewish identity,” said Barbara Goldstein, an Agnon fourth-grade teacher. Through the study of ancient Greece and Hellenism, along with the Jewish history of this time, fourth graders see the relevance of Chanukah and feel the pride of being Jewish.”
During the evening program, students will demonstrate everything they learned about the Jewish victory in 165 BCE over the Hellenist Syrians and Antiochus, the Greek King of Syria, who outlawed Jewish rituals and ordered the Jewish people to worship Greek gods.
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