
We engaged the 8th graders in an immersive project analyzing posters from Israel’s Independence using primary resources from the National Library of Israel.
We focused on historical facts through art, how visuals, colors, and images reflected the socio-political and cultural climate each year. We design our own posters in class for Israel’s 77th. The students expressed their connection and feelings for Israel with colors and symbols based on how they see today’s reality of resilience and hope. The posters reflect how our heritage, language and identity come to life in the classroom. The love, hope, pride, resilience and pain we all feel. The love for Israel is to embrace the soul of Am Israel, it is that love that shapes our teachings and is reflected every day in our school. The main message is about heritage, past, present and future. A deep connection to our land, our soul and our people. We worked using all the primary resources from NLI about the independence posters since 1948, analyzing each of them from a visual, abstract and social-political climate view.