MediaKit Contents:
Night
All But My Life
Syllabus:
Week 1 – Introductions/Expectations
Assignments for the week:
Student Preliminary Survey
Holocaust Themes Sheet
Discussion Forum
Private Thread
Week 2 – History of Anti-Semitism
Assignments for the week:
Discussion Forum
Read Media Center Document “Why the Jews?”
Write a 2-3 page summary of the history of anti-Semitism
Week 3 – Hitler’s Rise to Power
Assignments for the week:
Read Media Center Document "Adolph Hitler"
Read Media Center Document “Timeline Resources”
Create a Timeline on the Rise of Hitler to Power
Discussion Forum
Private Thread – Report on Preliminary Plans for Final Project
Week 4 – Nazi Propaganda and Education
Assignments for the week:
Contact Partner
Research the use of Propaganda in Nazi Germany
Read Media Center Document “The Poisonous Mushroom”
Discussion Forum
Week 5 – Life in the Ghetto
Assignments for the week:
Research the Warsaw Ghetto
Discussion Forum
Read Media Center Document “Ghetto Life”
Create Writing Brainstorm
Week 6 – Victims, Perpetrators & Bystanders
Assignments for the week:
Read Media Center Document “Other Victims”
Create a Power Point Presentation
Discussion Forum
Create Interview Questions for Final Project
Week 7 – Concentration Camps
Assignments for the week:
Read “Night”
Read Media Center Document “Stages of the Holocaust”
Read Media Center Document “Extermination Camps”
Create an Assignment Detailing Life in Select Concentration Camps
Discussion Forum
Virtually Visit Auschwitz
Read Media Center Document “The Nuremberg Trial Testimony of Rudolph Hoess”
Week 8 – “Field Trip” to the Holocaust Museum
Assignments for the week:
Virtually visit the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum
Discussion Forum
Field Trip Reflections
Week 9 – Nazi Medicine
Assignments for the week:
Read Media Center Documents on the Medical Experiments and Doctor’s Nuremberg
Testimonies
Follow the Instructions in the “Discussing Medical Experiments Lesson Document”
Read media Center Article on Twin Experiments
Follow the Instructions in the “Discussing Twin Studies Lesson Document”
Short Research Assignment on other, non-Nazi, Experimentation Programs
Continue Work on Final Project
Discussion Forum
Week 10 – Survivors
Assignments for the week:
Read Quotes in the Media Center, Locate Your Own, Connect Them With the Themes
Discussed in Week One.
Post Responses to the “Quote Exercise” in a Discussion Forum
Read Chapter 1-12 in “Al But My Life”
Discussion Forum
Continue Work on Final Project
Week 11 – Genocide
Assignments for the week:
Read Part 2 of “All But My Life”
Discussion Forum
Create a Work Assignment About Another Example of Genocide.
Week 12 – Liberation
Assignments for the week:
Finish Reading “All But My Life”
Complete Book Review of “All But My Life”
Read Media Center Document “Liberation Readings”
Discussion Forum
Week 13 – Justice! The Nuremburg Trials & the Trial of Adolph Eichmann
Assignments for the week:
Read the Materials in the Media Center on “The Nuremberg and Eichmann Trials”
Research Another War Crimes Trial
Test of Readings
Discussion Forum
Week 14 – Commemoration, Remembrance & Memorialization
Assignments for the week:
View the”Boston Holocaust Memorial” Power Point/Answer Questions
Return Your Media Kit
Read Media Center Documents on “The Vietnam Veterans Memorial: & “The Holocaust Museum”
Test on Power Points
Discussion Forum
Final Project Due
Week 15 – Summary and Wrap-Up
Assignments for the week:
Discussion Forums
Post Your Own Holocaust Memorial
Course Objectives:
Students will:
1. gain an understanding of the Holocaust from an historical perspective.
2. who are the victims, perpetrators and bystanders
3. make connections to the victims through different literature
4. analyze a survivor and their story
5. Visit the USHMM
6. express their thoughts about this horrific event in history
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