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Ms. Leslie's Holocaust Key words Assignment

Introduction

Words carry real power, meaning and information. Together, a group of words can tell a vivid story. In this assignment each student will be given a keyword or phrase (scroll down) related to the Holocaust to research. As a class, we will piece together the words and learn about the larger theme.

Assignment: Each student will be given a word/phrase to research and will produce:

1)    A Poster (on cardboard or online)

2)    Questions about the information in their poster.

STEP ONE: RESEARCH YOUR WORD/PHRASE, FILL IN THIS 2- COLUMN CHART

 

COLUMN ONE

COLUMN TWO

FACTS:

Cut-and-paste quotes & images: who, what, when where, why, how

 

URL: for each source

 

WRITE IN YOUR OWN WORDS

Fact

URL

 

Fact

URL

 

Fact

URL

 

STEP TWO: DESIGN A POSTER

It must have facts and images, artifacts if you like . It also must also include a…

 

Critical Thinking Structure such as:
  • Compare and contrast (Then and now)
  • Problem and solution at the time
  • Foundation for what happened later in time (e.g. impact on the war)
  • Advancement from what took place earlier

 

STEP THREE:

Create 3 questions, to be handed in to the teacher, based on your research

1)    One question that asks students to recall facts

2)    One that asks students to summarize an idea in a few sentences

3)    One that includes a critical thinking structure (see chart above)

STEP FOUR: Your teacher will amalgamate all questions into a fill in sheet. Posters will be put up as a gallery in the classroom (in a computer lab if posters are online). Students will scan the posters and fill in the sheets.

STEP FIVE: ESSAY TEST

There will be an open book inclass essay test on  the Holocaust. Please bring in all your notes (filled in sheet) .

 

KEYWORD OR PHRASE

STUDENT

Auschwitz

 

Babi Yar

 

Creation of ghettos

 

Dachau

 

Death camps

 

Einsatzgruppen

 

Final solution

 

Forced labour camps

 

Heinrich Himmler

 

History of the Yellow star

 

Josef Mengele

 

Kristallnacht – when why what

 

            Liberation – German citizen reaction

 

Life in camps – food, diseases, labour

 

Methods of killing before gas chambers

 

Nuremberg laws – when, why, what

 

Nuremberg trials

 

Oskar Schindler

 

Partisans/resistance

 

Persecution of Homosexuals

 

Persecution of Roma/Gypsies

 

Raoul Wallenberg

 

Ravensbruck

 

Rudolf Hess

 

Transportation/Location of camps

 

Treblinka

 

Universal declaration of Human Rights

 

Wannsee Conference

 

Warsaw ghetto

 

Why the Jews were targeted (different theories)

 

Zyklon B