The Holocaust: Day Five

Today's Objective:

Students will read and analyze a series of print and film texts dealing with The Holocaust in order to review target HSA indicators dealing with appropriate research and documentation strategies while preparing for third quarter benchmark exam.

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Today's In-Class Reading Assignment:

"Night" by Elie Wiesel

"I Have Lived a Thousand Years" by Livia Bitton- Jackson

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Today's Lesson Notes:

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Tonight's Homework:

Which Print Text Is Best? (on www.Edmodo.com)

Which of the books we are reading in class do you find to be the most interesting and informative? You MUST choose from the list of the following titles:

"Night" by Elie Wiesel
"The Diary of a Young Girl" by Anne Frank
"Maus" by Art Spiegelman
"Number the Stars" by Lois Lowry
"I Have Lived A Thousand Years" by Livia Bitton-Jackson

Explain your thinking in a five-sentence B.C.R., and TURN IN your assignment.

The Holocaust: Day Four

Today's Objective:

Students will read and analyze a series of print and film texts dealing with The Holocaust in order to review target HSA indicators dealing with appropriate research and documentation strategies while preparing for third quarter benchmark exam.

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Today's In-Class Reading Assignment:

"Maus" by Art Spiegelman (chapter 4)

"The Diary of A Young Girl" by Anne Frank

"Number the Stars" by Lois Lowry (chapter 5)

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Today's Lesson Notes:

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Tonight's Homework:

Summarize a Holocaust Video (on www.Edmodo.com)

1) Visit the website of the Anne Frank museum: http://www.annefrank.org/en/Subsites/Home/Enter-the-3D-house/#/house/20/

2) Click through the site to take an online "virtual tour" of the rooms in the secret hiding place.

3) TURN IN a five-sentence summary of what you saw, learned and felt after exploring the family's hiding place.

The Holocaust: Day Three

Today's Objective:

Students will read and analyze a series of print and film texts dealing with The Holocaust in order to review target HSA indicators dealing with appropriate research and documentation strategies while preparing for third quarter benchmark exam.

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Today's In-Class Reading Assignment:

"Night" by Elie Wiesel (pages 12-20)

"The Diary of A Young Girl" by Anne Frank (pages 38-40, 41-42)

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Today's Lesson Notes:

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Tonight's Homework:

Summarize a Holocaust Video (on www.Edmodo.com)

1) Find a video clip of Holocaust-related footage online. You can browse YouTube or any other video-sharing website, or you can check out the online video archives of the US Holocaust Memorial Museum: http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/media_list.php?MediaType=fi

2) Watch the video.

3) POST THE LINK to the video when you turn in your assignment here, and write a five-sentence summary of what you found. In order to receive credit, your summary should include some indication of how REPUTABLE the source is.