Rivka+Herman

.My name is Rivkah Herman, and I teach Chumash in grades 9-12. Chumash, as well as several other subjects in our school are taught on a tiered system based on skill level and ability rather than traditional grades - for example in my level one "beginners" group, I have students from all four grades.

This year, we studied many perakim in Chumash Breishis. Below I have created a wordle based on Perek Yud Tes, one of the last prakim we studied. What is visible in this wordle is that some main themes in this perek of text are dialogue, and fleeing from Sdom. Main players here are Lot, the melachim (here called "men") and Lot's daughters. With that knowledge, the student could look for conversations in the text between the 3.