Group Research and Oral Presentations

On Friday, 9/23, groups will present prepared oral presentations, with visual aids (Powerpoint, poster, web resources, etc). The presentations need to be between 5 and 10 min in length. Each group can be no larger than three people. You will be graded based on content, presentation (eye contact, preparation, presence), and the quality of your visual aid, as well as meeting the time requirement. Please see me to sign up for a topic today. Each topic must be covered and obviously some will be covered more than once. Therefore, if you see a topic you really want, get to me quickly to sign up. You have computer time to research on Monday and Tuesday.

Topics:

Victim Groups: Homosexuals, Sinti-Roma, Jehovah's Witnesses, Handicapped, and Poles (5 major groups), political dissidents (minor group)

Immigration of German and Austrian Jews from 1933-1939: number of Jews who emigrated to Israel (Palestine), the US, Latin America, Shanghai, Spain, and other areas of Europe and why those countries were chosen

Propaganda: the historical use of propaganda in the US, differences in the ways it could be used in the US and Nazi Germany, and prepared political cartoons to protest the Nazi government's anti-Jewish pograms

Primary/Secondary Source Materials: select a particular event that took place during the time leading up tot he Holocaust and compare and contrast primary and secondary sources that recount that event (outline differences in how the event or experience was explained in each of the sources)1. 1. B
1. burning of the Reichstag
2. odyssey of the SS St. Louis
3. Hitler Youth
4. Anchluss
5. 1936 Olympic Games in Berlin
6. Leni Riefenstahl
7. Another idea you have that fits in this time period.