Educational DVDs and teacher’s resource guides for use in the state’s required “Peoples of North Carolina” curriculum for the fourth and eight grades. Currently, no educational material is available for this purpose.

Goals:

• To Build Community
• To demonstrate the state’s long history as a multicultural society
• Promote diversity and tolerance
• A familiarity with various cultures builds a better community
• To share Jewish values
• To show how Jews revere justice, freedom and equality
• To present how Jews have contributed to a progressive and civil society
• To illustrate how Jewish philanthropy benefits the entire state
• To teach our fellow citizens
• To introduce our neighbors to Jewish beliefs and practices
• To demonstrate commonalities with other religions and cultures
• To provide much needed curriculum materials for the public schools

Educational Videos and Teacher’s Guides: Introduction

The Down Home 4th and 8th grade educational videos are part of a multimedia project that will explore immigration, ethnic differences, integration into NC’s populace, tolerance, and the maintaining of culture of origin, through the story of Jewish immigration to North Carolina. The program will seek to portray the character and contributions of this particular ethnic group to the state’s economic and cultural development, as well as give a view of their way of life, with an eye to understanding the diversity of the people who make up this state.

The educational DVDs will include footage for the Down Home documentary – researched and written by Jewish Southern Historian Dr. Leonard Rogoff. These programs will follow and be consistent with objectives of the appropriate NC Standard Course of Study Social Studies curriculum guidelines.