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Holocaust Lesson Plans
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Eighth graders research and develop an interest in the Holocaust. They evaluate each website they visit on the Holocaust. They fill out worksheets on the Holocaust as they visit each website available to them.
Students research and identify how Holocaust events affected lives of real people who lived in Europe from 1933 through 1945 and after, and create original artwork, poetry, and essays that reflect understanding of Holocaust, and its causes and effects.
Tenth graders reflect on the effects of the Holocaust and the events leading up to World War II. In this World History lesson, 10th graders complete several activities, including a WebQuest, that analyze the Holocaust and its repercussions.
Students examine the Holocaust by using primary source documents. They focus on a person who immigrated to Wisconsin after surviving the Holocaust.
Students explore the events that occurred before, during, and after the Holocaust and create a time line showing how those events are connected. They create a time line showing the events that occurred before, during, and after the Holocaust.
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Students write reactions to selected pictures of the Holocaust. They view selected online pictures about the Holocaust and write their reactions. They use their knowledge about the Holocaust to write reactions to pictures about this period.
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Students research sources to select words, such as terms, place names, or people names, for each letter of the alphabet to best convey the history of the Holocaust.
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Students read and discuss an online collection of actual letters and documents of the Holocaust era.
Eighth graders research the Holocaust and Anne Frank. They write descriptive paragraphs of an Internet website, write a personal reaction paragraph, create theatre design projects, and develop a narrative poem using biographical information.
Young scholars take the personas of eight different groups of people involved in the Holocaust. In this lesson about the Holocaust, students view "The Rise and Fall of Adolph Hitler" young scholars view and discuss the video, focusing on Hitler's views of other races, his personal life, as well as their response to his policies. Students then randomly join one of eight groups to research and present their role in the time period to the class.
