Cluster 1: How Could the Holocaust Happen?

Media:

• How a Holocaust Happens [Movie Clip: “Freedom Writers”]: 

• Anti-Semetic Propaganda [Video Clip]

• Persecution of Jews [Video Clip]

Text:

1. “The Ball” by Hans Peter Richter [short story]
2. “Family Album” by  Amos Neufeld [poem]
3. “An Anti-Semitic Demonstration” by Gail Newman  [poem]
4. “Crystal Night” by Lyn Lifshin [poem]

Cluster 2: How Were the Victims Oppressed?

Media:

• Jewish Ghettos
• Rise of the Nazis

• Lodz Ghetto
• Kristallnacht [photographs]
• U.S. Holocaust Museum Website: Kristallnacht 
• Europe in 1942

Text:

• “A Spring Morning” by Ida Fink [short story]
• ” A Survivor Remembers” by Berek Lastarus [oral history]

Cluster 3: Was There Resistance?

• “The White Rose” {Mass} by Jacob G. Hornberger.Sophie Scholl & The White Rose Trial
• The White Rose Song by George Donaldson: 
  The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising 1943
  

   Cluster 4:

  Why Should We Remember?

  Text:

  •  “Letter from Dachau” by 1st Lt. William J. Cowling [letter]
  • “The Power of Light” by Isaac Bashevis Singer [short story]
  • Symbolism
  • Glogster Project:  Symbolism in “The Power of Light”

 Cluster 5:

Given the History of Prejudice in the United States,

Could a Holocaust Happen Here?

• Small Group Project Requirements

• How to Create a Good Poster

November 2012 Student Project

Refugees in America:  The Story of ‘Suzy & Leah’

“Suzy and Leah” by Jane Yolen

• Suzy and Leah Story and Study Pack

• Suzy and Leah Questions and Answers

“Kosher”:

Writing a Diary

 

Webquest: The Diaries of the Holocaust

Anne Frank and Her Diary

Diary Writing Project

 

• Suzy and Leah Ppt.