Week of 9/10

Monday, 9/10
Weimar Republic
Memorial Planning

Tuesday, 9/11
SP Activity

Wednesday, 9/12
Nazi Germany's Anti-Jewish Policy

Thursday, 9/13
Kristallnacht Jigsaw

Friday, 9/14
Kristallnacht

Week of 9/3

Monday, 9/3
No School

Tuesday, 9/4
"Image Before My Eyes"
Memorial Planning
Share research

Wednesday, 9/5
Propaganda E and R

Thursday, 9/6
Propaganda

Friday, 9/7
Assign Salvaged Pages
SP Reading Day

Week of 8/20

Monday, 8/20
Holocaust/genocide/anti-Semitism

Tuesday, 8/21
Unit 1 Test

Wednesday, 8/22
Intro to "Fiddler"

Thursday, 8/23
"Fiddler"

Friday, 8/24
Finish "Fiddler"

Week of August 13

Monday, 8/13
Prejudice/Discrimination

Tuesday, 8/14
Stereotyping

Wednesday, 8/15
Racism

Thursday, 8/16
"GATTACA"

Friday, 8/17
"GATTACA"

Links to audio, video

Only comment on the Silent Discussion for the ones you watch. You don't have to watch every single link. Totally up to you.

Music
http://www.cpr.org/classical/story/voice-silenced-and-terezin-composers-lost-holocaust

Theater
http://www.pri.org/stories/2014-03-12/seventy-years-later-holocaust-survivor-remembers-performance-her-lifetime

Personal Histories, USHMM
https://www.ushmm.org/exhibition/personal-history/

First Person Testimonies, USHMM
https://www.ushmm.org/information/visit-the-museum/programs-activities/first-person-program/first-person-podcast

Testimonies by topic, Yad Vashem
http://www.yadvashem.org/yv/en/remembrance/multimedia.asp

Victor Frankl TED Talk
https://www.ted.com/talks/viktor_frankl_youth_in_search_of_meaning

Disturbing article

THIS is why you are here. THIS is why I do what I do. You already know more than the majority. By May, you will know more than anyone who is not a Holocaust scholar.

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/12/us/holocaust-education.html

Week of April 9

Monday, 4/9
Camps

Tuesday, 4/10
Camps
Letter to Liberator

Wednesday, 4/11
ABML
Other Letter

Thursday, 4/12
Watch "Europa! Europa!"

Friday, 4/13
Watch "Europa! Europa!"

Week of April 2

Monday, 4/2
NO SCHOOL

Tuesday, 4/3
"Sarah's Key"

Wednesday, 4/4
"Sarah's Key"

Thursday, 4/5
Mobile Killing Squads

Friday, 4/6
T-4 Euthanasia Program

Week of March 19

Monday, 3/19
Wannsee Conference

Tuesday, 3/20
ACT/Service Day

Wednesday, 3/21
Evaluation

Thursday, 3/22
Deportations

Friday, 3/23
Deportations

Week of March 12

Monday, 3/12
Maus, Salvaged Pages, Swing Kids Discussion

Tuesday, 3/13
Memorial Planning

Wednesday, 3/14
Poetry
Lodz Ghetto Notes
Ghettoes

Thursday, 3/15
Chaim Rumkowski
Journal Assignment

Friday, 3/16
Wannsee Conference

Week of March 5

Monday, 3/5
Book Thief Seminar
Assign ABML

Tuesday, 3/6
Presentations

Wednesday, 3/7
Book Thief Projects due
"Swing Kids"

Thursday, 3/8
"Swing Kids"

Friday, 3/9
Maus, SP Discussion

Week of February 12

Monday, 2/12
Propaganda E and R

Tuesday, 2/13
Propaganda

Wednesday, 2/14
Assign Salvaged Pages
SP Reading Day

Thursday, 2/15
SP Activity
Memorial Planning

Friday, 2/16
Weimar Republic

Photo Research Part 2

Assignment #2 Photo Analysis
Using the following questions, analyze ONE of the photos. Write this on a separate piece of paper.

Describe what you see. · What do you notice first? · What people and objects are shown? · How
are they arranged? · What is the physical setting? · What, if any, words do you see? · What other details can you see?

Why do you think this image was made? · What’s happening in the image? · When do you think it was made? · Who do you think was the audience for this image? · What tools were used to create this?
· What can you learn from examining this image? · What’s missing from this image? · If someone made this today, what would be different? · What would be the same?

What do you wonder about...
who? · what? · when? · where? · why? · how?

Assignment #3 Photo Research-- type these paragraphs in onenote. You will present them tomorrow.
Look up each town from your two photographs. You need to write a well-researched paragraph for each in which you will note the following:
How large was the town/city's Jewish population and how long had Jews been living there?
What was the Jewish life/culture in that town/city like prior to the Nazi invasion?
Where is or was that town/city located?
When and how did the town/city come under Nazi rule?
What was the fate of this particular town's/city's Jews during the Holocaust? What about the country?

Assignment #4 Photo Reflection-- using one of the photos you selected from the archives and the photo you brought from home to "match" it, please answer the following questions, also in a typed paragraph:
Identify evidence that suggests that life was normal for Jews prior to the Nazis.
What did you discover as you looked through your own family's photos in comparison to those that you had researched?
Which photo of your family did you choose that relates and why?

How do the photos show similarities between you, your family, or your community to those in European Jewish life prior to WWII?

Jewish Life Pre-WWII

In order to better understand what Jewish cultural and communal life was like in Europe prior to WWII, you will be finding photographs from that time period and analyzing them, as well as researching the town(s) where the photos were taken. Follow the assigments below in order, working at your own pace.

Sidenote: Spend a few minutes looking around the Holocaust Museum website. That link is here.

Assignment #1 Photo Collection
Think of two words that symbolize "everyday life". Ex: shopping, school, family time, sports, etc. Go to the USHMM Photo archives collection and type your word into the search engine. Don't pick the very first picture you find. Instead, browse the pictures. Spend some time looking at what is available and thinking about them. Your photo cannot be dated AFTER Nazi occupation, which varied by country. Below is a list of Nazi occupation dates:
Austria March 1938
Poland Sept 1939
Czech March 1939
Denmark 1944 but not really
Norway April 1940
Holland May 1940
Belgium, Luxembourg, France June 1940
Transylvania 1940
Greece April 1941
Yugoslavia April 1941
Russia June 1941
Hungary 1944
Slovakia, Romania 1940
Italy-->Albania April 1939
Sov Union -->Poland 1939
Sov U --> Finland 1940
Sov U --> Romania June 1940

Make certain that the photo you choose includes a location where it was taken.

The link to the archives is here.

Once you have found a photo for each key word that you really like, right click on it, copy it, and paste it into a word doc. Also copy and paste ONLY the date and location (city and country) (no other info like captions). Print it.

Photo requirements are that it must have people in it, cannot be what is classified as a portrait, and must be prior to German occupation.

Week of February 5

Monday, 2/5
OFF

Tuesday, 2/6
Judaism Discussion
Memorial Planning

Wednesday, 2/7
Pre-WWII Jewish Life
Research Photos

Thursday, 2/8
Research towns, etc

Friday, 2/9
"Image Before My Eyes"
Share
Memorial Planning

Week of January 29

This is a week in the curriculum that I love! Can't wait to explore Judaism with you!

Monday, 1/29
Fiddler

Tuesday, 1/30
Fiddler

Wednesday, 1/31
Speaker

Thursday, 2/1
Judaism Discussion
Memorial Planning

Friday, 2/2
Judaism Activity
Memorial Planning

Genocide Info

This link will take you to the information I mentioned about the steps to genocide.  Important link for the test 

Week of January 22

Even though it feels like school just started, Unit 1 will end this week! That was fast! I have been really pleased with our discussions in this first unit and have high hopes for the remainder of the school year.

Monday, 1/22
GATACCA

Tuesday, 1/23
GATTACA

Wednesday, 1/24
Holocaust/Shoah
Genocides

Thursday, 1/25
Unit 1 Test

Friday, 1/26
"Fiddler on the Roof"

Never Again?

Aleppo Links:

Twitter 

My Blog

The Last Pediatrician in Syria

Hunger Camp at Jaslo
by Wislawa Szymborska
Write it. Write. In ordinary ink
on ordinary paper: they were given no food,
they all died of hunger. "All. How many?
It's a big meadow. How much grass
for each one?" Write: I don't know.
History counts its skeletons in round numbers.
A thousand and one remains a thousand,
as though the one had never existed:
an imaginary embryo, an empty cradle,
an ABC never read, 
air that laughs, cries, grows,
emptiness running down steps toward the garden,
nobody's place in the line.

We stand in the meadow where it became flesh,
and the meadow is silent as a false witness.
Sunny. Green. Nearby, a forest
with wood for chewing and water under the bark-
every day a full ration of the view
until you go blind. Overhead, a bird-
the shadow of its life-giving wings
brushed their lips. Their jaws opened.
Teeth clacked against teeth.
At night, the sickle moon shone in the sky
and reaped wheat for their bread.
Hands came floating from blackened icons,
empty cups in their fingers.
On a spit of barbed wire,
a man was turning.
They sang with their mouths full of earth.
"A lovely song of how war strikes straight
at the heart." Write: how silent.
"Yes." 

Breaking News

Today

"All the people like us are we, and everyone else is they." ~Rudyard Kipling

"When you think of the long and gloomy history of man, you will find more hideous crimes have been committed in the name of obedience than in the name of rebellion." ~C.P. Snow

"The world is too dangerous to live in-- not because of the people who do evil, but because of the people who sit and let it happen." ~Albert Einstein

"Genocide, after all, is an exercise in community building." ~Philip Gourevitch

"I graduated from a special school. Four years I spent there... all my days were nights. Everything that was near and dear to me they took. There is only one thing worse than Auschwitz itself, and that is if the world forgets there was such a place." ~Henry Appel, survivor

"Goodness, like evil, often begins in small steps. Heroes evolve; they aren't born." ~Ervin Staub

Preemptive Love

Week of December 12

We are close to the end now....

Monday, 12/12
Connections

Tuesday, 12/13
NO CLASS

Wednesday, 12/14
Other Genocides

Thursday, 12/15
Now What?

Friday, 12/16
Timeline Activity