Integrating Zionism: An Interdisciplinary Approach to Israel Narratives

This curriculum guide explores four core narratives of Zionism: Political, Labor, Cultural, and Religious, with a strand of American Zionism woven through each.  Using the method of integration (bringing different content areas into relationship with with one another), each narrative is taught through a primary lens of a different academic discipline: history, physical education, music, and religious literature.  Students are asked to synthesize the different narratives into their own personal Zionist ideology through a final project-based unit on art.