Introduction to the Unit and Web Site

Check out books: The Boy Who Dared or alternate title

Discuss Expectations and Considerations

Read: "Studying the Holocaust: Considerations to Keep in Mind"

Read: "36 Holocaust Questions and Answers "

Respond to this:
In an age when bullying is so prevalent, the Holocaust lesson of “don't be a victim, don't be a perpetrator, and above all don't be a bystander” takes on a new perspective. Research states that 85% of our students are not bullies. There is power in numbers. What if 85% of Europe had stood up to Hitler? The course of history would have been changed. The Holocaust was not inevitable. It began with acts of prejudice. When students today are bystanders to acts of prejudice and evil, their silence gives permission to the perpetrators. Students must learn to stand up for what is right.

Read:  Article 1: "Antisemitism"

Read:  Article 2:  "Antisemitism"

The Holocaust in Germany during the time of Adolf Hitler is an example of a genocide.

Read these article about Genocide:

     > What is Genocide?

What "stages" can you identify by the way the Jews were treated by the Nazi government.  

Sadly, Antisemitism is not a thing of the past.  Find and print an Internet article about Antisemitism in the news recently.

Read the required information about Genocide.

List 5 other genocides since 1900.  You may want to use this link.

Make an entry in your Learning Journal.  Remember to include the information about the "stages" of genocide and how the Jews were treated by the Nazi goverment.

Be ready to share what you have read & learned.

Read "CommonStudent Questions about the Holocaust"

Read "Anti-Jewish Plans of the Nazis Published Before their Rise to Power"

View the "Photographs" and "Artifacts" sections of the Anti-Semitism Lesson from Echoes & Reflections

View the links on the "Propaganda" page.     >> Choose one Propaganda image to print and explain to the class.

Read: "Herschel Grynszpan"

Read "A Police Report Referring to the "Kristallnacht " in Bebra -- November 1938"

How did the Nazis explain the cause of Kristallnacht?  Who did the damage according to this report?

Read "Anti-Jewish Legislation"   How do these laws fit in with the 8 Stages of Genocide?

Finish reading the above information.

Make an entry in your Learning Journal.

Read NIGHT

Watch the following animated maps.  Have a paper and pen/pencil ready to take notes.   They are full of information and quite interesting!  

** Some contain graphic images. If this becomes offensive to you, STOP watching.  Choose another video.

     1.  The Holocaust Animated Map (USHMM)

     2.  Dachau Animated Map (USHMM)

     3.  World War II and the Holocaust Animated Map (USHMM)

     4.  The Voyage of the St. Louis Animated Map (USHMM)

     5.  Warsaw Ghetto Animated Map (USHMM)

     6.  Lodz Ghetto Animated Map (USHMM)

     7.  Auschwitz Animated Map (USHMM)

These are also interesting, but optional.  Watch them if you want:

     A.  60 Minutes:  Brundibar: How the Nazis Conned the World   (Be patient...it takes awhile for the video to download.)

     B.  60 Minutes:  Hitler's Secret Archives   (There will be an advertisement first, then wait for the video to begin.) 

     C.  60 Minutes:  The Children of Nazi Leaders    (Be patient...it takes awhile for the video to download.)

     D.  Trailer for Schindler's List

     E.  The Boy in Striped Pajamas Trailer and clips

Finish viewing the above videos.

Make an entry in your Learning Journal.

Read NIGHT.

Go to the Rescuers page.  Read through the links on that page.

Go to the Resistance page.  Read through the links on that page.

Finish viewing the above videos.

Make an entry in your Learning Journal.

Read NIGHT.

Read the following articles and watch the animated maps.  Have a paper and pen/pencil ready to take notes. 

     Resistance - Animated Map (USHMM)    This had some facts I didn't know before watching it.

     Death Marches (USHMM)   The evacuations of the concentration camps had three purposes.  Read carefully for these 3 purposes.

     Death Marches 2 (USHMM)   

Look over these 2 maps showing the routes of the Death Marches:   Map 1              Map 2                      .

Go the Liberators page.  Watch the animated maps and read the information.

More optional viewing/information:

** Liberation of Nazi Camps - Photographs (USHMM)

** Death Marches (Yad Vashem)

Finish reading/viewing the above links.

Make an entry in your Learning Journal.

Finish reading NIGHT.

Day 9 - Thursday, May 10

Go to the Personal Histories page.

As you pass the mouse pointer over the images, a menu of choices appears...like the example shown below for the section titled "Children." 

This example has 6 choices of Personal Histories. 

Each section will have a list of choices of the Personal Histories of Holocaust Survivors.   As you can see, the sections are:

CHILDREN, GHETTOS, CAMPS, REFUGEES, RESISTANCE, HIDING, SURVIVAL, DEPORTATION, AID & ESCAPE, LIBERATION, AFTERMATH AND INVIDUALS.

For each section, choose one Personal History to read.   You may, of course, read more than one history if you want!  :-)

Begin working on your project. 

Finish the above reading.

Make an entry in your Learning Journal.

Work on your project.

Finish NIGHT.    
 

Finish any of the reading from the previous days.

Work on your project.

Check with Mrs. Eschliman for a "PowerPoint Guidelines" before starting your PowerPoint or  Read them online...click here.

Work on your project.

Finish NIGHT. 
 

Change of Plan:  Discussion of NIGHT will be tomorrow, not today.

I would like to see your projects before you present them, so I will come Tuesday when you (hopefully) have them closer to finished than you do today.

So, today will be a work day. 

  >>   Don't forget the PowerPoint Guidelines.  

  >>   Also, if a picture (image) looks fuzzy or blurry when you enlarge it on your slide, don't use it.  Find another.

Work on anything you need to finish:

1.  Your Learning Journal:  Remember....
     ** Entries should be labeled for each day.
     ** Font should be an easy-to-read style...size 11 or 12 depending on your font choice
     ** Line spacing should be 1.5 to 2 spaces    
     ** Make sure you have detailed facts that show understanding of what you learned.

2.  The article (you printed on Day 2) about a recent example of Anti-Semitism

3.   The example (you printed on Day 4) of Anti-Semitic propaganda.

4.   Bonus Tickets

5.   Your project, if it is on paper.  If it's digital, you will present it in class.

This is our last day together in Independent Study.

Discussion:  NIGHT.

Discussion:  Assessing and Defining Responsibility.

Hand out:  Checklist and folder.

I want to see your projects. 

Your Language Arts teachers will tell you when your projects need to be turned in/presented in class.

POWERPOINT GUIDELINES

Finish everything!! 

MORE BONUS TICKETS