Lesson Plan Outline for Flipped Classroom

Subject: Gemara Makos 7a-7b

Grade: 8 boys
Link to video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oI6hUdRRvPk
The video sent to students consists of an introduction to the 2nd perek of Maseches Makos that details
the basic halachic distinction between one who needs to go to exile for killing accidentally and one who
is exempt.
The video also has two extra Did you know? sections at the end for students who want to know more.
After watching the video at night, students are equipped to fill in a quick multiple choice pretest to see
if they absorbed the basic concepts outlined in the video.
Students who successfully pass the pretest can then go on to a more advanced version of the handout,
which can then be worked on in a group. The second handout is to be translated by students. Any words
that are hard can be looked up in the back of their Gemara (which contains translations).
The advantage of the pretest is that the teacher can focus his attention on the students who need the
extra help with the concepts discussed in the video, while the more advanced students can work
independently as a group.

Perek , Introduction
Slide 3- Three Categories of Killing
What would be the halacha for one who kills ?
a.
b.
c.
d.

He gets killed.
He runs to one of the cities of refuge ()
The can chase him.
b and c.

What is it called when an accident occurred that was out of your control?
a.
b.
c.
d.

Slide 4- Three Types of

If someone kills by accident, in a manner that was very negligent, what would be the ?
a.
b.
c.
d.

He gets killed.
The chases him, and he is not protected by the .
The chases him, and he is protected by the .
He gets lashes.

Is there ever a case of a negligent accident where one would go free?

a.
b.
c.
d.

Yes, when the negligence was very slight.

No, one never goes free if there is negligence.
Yes, when there is no .
One always goes free if he killed by accident.
Slide 6- The Mishna

In the first case of the Mishna, why was the person rolling a roller?
a.
b.
c.
d.

Because he was baking bread.

He was on the roof trying to roll off leaves that fell.
He was trying to roll the roller off of a roof.
He was trying to roll plaster on a roof to make a downward slant.

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