...Many people don’t know about the Holocaust or only know that it happened during the time of WW II. The Holocaust was the mass massacre of 6 million Jews and other minorities in Europe by the Nazi regime(Holocaust Encyclopedia). Some people might not want their kids to be taught this in 8th grade because they believe that their children’s minds will be polluted by thoughts of killing and extended torture(Wisconsin Department of Education). Students in 8th grade should definitely be taught about the Holocaust because it is necessary to teach them to learn from history, never judge anyone by their race, and finally explain to them that being silent towards other suffering can lead to mass destruction. These type of ideas can create confusion...
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...story about a teacher and her students, but instead it was much more than what was anticipated. It was hard not to be moved by the stories of each student and the difference this teacher was able to make in their lives. This story of a young, fairly inexperienced teacher named Erin Gruwell shows just what one person can accomplish when one cares as much as Erin did. She had to deal with much adversity while attempting to teach at-risk students who were dealing with their own every day battles. Erin gives her students a chance to share their own story by giving them each a notebook to write in about their life. The story of each student is brought to life through what they share on the pages of their own notebook. And this is how the title of the story, Freedom Writers was incorporated. Erin also learns, through a joke made on another student in the class, that they have never heard or know anything about the Holocaust. Erin is completely surprised and saddened to learn of their ignorance about such a horrific time in our world. After learning that her students were unaware of the atrocities of the Holocaust, Erin makes it her mission to make certain that her students learn what happened during World War II. After reading The Story of Anne Frank and visiting a Holocaust museum, the students realize that like them, others have suffered greatly. It was not easy to watch this movie at times as pictures and stories from the Holocaust were hard...
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...developed my understanding of the holocaust? The sources I used to do my assignment have helped my understanding of the holocaust hugely making my knowledge of the holocaust even wider as there is so much detail and effort put into this very important and devastating event that occurred I had little understanding of the holocaust before these sources broadened my knowledge there are so many things about hitlers plans to get rid of jews that it so horrible I couldn’t even imagine how he could come up with such horible things . The one source that helped me a lot to do my assignment and to teach me more about the holocaust was the united states memorial dedicated to the victims of the holocaust. The one thing that triggered my mind which I learnt about via this website was the jewish partisans and nazi genocide , I didn’t realize that there were jews to fight against the nazi party in this way this site has made me want to investigate more on why hitler targeted this race and others . And It doesn’t make sense why hitler would want to kill people who had actually fought for Germany and defended Germany in world war 1. The other sources I used I didn’t find as effective as this one because they were lacking in all information however I found that they did answer the question that needed to be answered but it didn’t have the same depth and knowledge that the other site did have. Overall I think both sites increased my knowledge of the holocaust and world war 2 hugely as there...
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...“There can not be many of us left, it is up to us to tell the story.” The Holocaust was a devastating time and the person who made all of this happen was Adolf Hitler. The Holocaust killed many Jews and the Holocaust tore many people apart. Theodora Klayman is a survivor of the Holocaust. “Theodora Klayman is 80 years old, Theodora lived in Yugoslavia.” She survived the Holocaust, Theodora never went to a concentration camp or a ghetto. Although it is hard to talk about what happened during the Holocaust, the survivors should speak out so people can learn more about what happened during the Holocaust. “Before the Holocaust Theodora lived in Yugoslavia with her parents until the Nazis invaded.” “Theodora spent most of her time in Ludbreg with...
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...“For me the Holocaust was not only a Jewish tragedy, but also a human tragedy,” said Simon Wiesenthal. “After the war, when I saw that the Jews were talking only about the tragedy of six million Jews, I sent letters to Jewish organizations asking them to talk also about the millions of others who were persecuted with us together – many of them only because they helped Jews.” Mr. Wiesenthal was just one of the survivors from the brutal Holocaust who will forever remember the worst time of his life. How he was torn away from his family and was used as a slave for the Nazis. Yet he was still able to have sympathy and think about others. The Holocaust had a significant impact on America by giving lessons about genocides and preventing other genocides, how they punished war criminals after the...
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...During the Holocaust, millions of Jews, gypsies, and members of other groups were persecuted and murdered by Nazi occupied Europe. However, many forget to acknowledge that among these were children. It may never be known exactly how many children were murdered but it is said that as many as some 1.5 million children may have fell victim to the Nazi party. Although children were not a main target of the Nazi's violence, they did fall subject to persecution along with their parents. Jewish children were first exposed to persecution in school. Many of their friends who were not Jewish began not socializing with them and even began to treat them in prejudice ways. This was soon followed with the announcement that, "German Jewish children were prohibited from attending German schools (www.mtsu.edu/.baustin/children.html). The life of children had quickly become as torn apart as their parents. However, there were more efforts to help the children escape the grips of the Nazi rule. Before 1939, several thousand children were able to escape in "Kindertransports to the Netherlands, Great Britain, Palestine, and the United States (www.mtsu.edu/.baustin/children.html). Those who were not able to escape were placed in ghettos and transit camps. These ghettos and transit camps served as the foreground to the death and slave labor camps that would soon follow. It was written in a Jewish diary, A Jewish ghetto in the traditional sense is impossible; certainly a closed ghetto is...
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...MAED Capstone EDU 695 Ethel Stanford Instructor Kathleen Lunsford December 6, 2014 MAED Capstone Title | Holocaust Web Quest: Evaluation and Citations | Grade | Level: 7 | Type of Lesson: | Flexible Collaboration Continuum | Area Topic | Moderate Content Area: Language Arts Content Topic: Diary of Anne Frank Unit | Standards for the 21st-Century Learner | | Skills Indicator(s): | 1.1.5 Evaluate information found in selected sources on the basis of accuracy, validity, and appropriateness for needs, importance, and social and cultural context. | Responsibilities Indicator(s): | 11.3.1 Respect copyright/intellectual property rights of creators and producers. | Dispositions Indicator(s): | 1.2.4 Maintain a critical stance by questioning the validity and accuracy of all information | Self-Assessment Strategies Indicator(s): | 1.4.1 Monitor own information-seeking processes for effectiveness and progress, and adapt as necessary. | Scenario: | In two sessions, this lesson is designed to teach students how to evaluate and cite information gathered from web sites related to the study of the Holocaust. The lesson reinforces the concept that not all resources are reliable and useful and that all sources must be cited to avoid plagiarism. The lesson is part of a language arts unit on The Diary of Anne Frank, and it teaches research standards as they are imbedded in the literature content. The teacher will be responsible...
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...[Author’s Name] [Instructor’s Name] [Course title] [Date] Freedom Writers- Movie Review “Freedom Writers" has a great advantage over all those other idealistic and somewhat naïve teachers who come to inner city schools and initially face setbacks but persevere and eventually gain the students' interest and teach them to achieve far beyond the expectations of society movies. Hilary Swank who stars as Erin Gruwell is an idealistic and somewhat naive new teacher who wears pearls and too-short skirts and is convinced she can help her low-achieving inner-city students. These kids though "kids" is the wrong word considering the advanced age of most of the actors live the worst lives possible in America. Every single one in the class of high school freshmen had a friend who has been killed, and most know more than one. Every single one (except the white kid) has been shot at. None of them (except the white kid) has ever heard of the Holocaust. The popular movie, Freedom Writers, is based on the true story of a Long Beach (CA) teacher who mentors a group of students following the LA riots of 1990. The teacher, Erin Gruwell, finds herself hated by her ethnically diverse "gangbanging" students (LaGravenese). Through writing, both Gruwell and her students work through one of the most tumultuous times of racial tension in the United States since the 1960s (Gruwell). In other words, the movie is indulging in a little hard-knock overkill. Every one of these 14-year-olds has been shot...
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...Study the holocaust Trinity cooper Hey! I gotta ask you something. Do you know what the holocaust is about ,well if you don't I recommend you study the topic.. Im telling you to study it because many different reasons. It teaches you many different lessons. I'm gonna tell you those reasons and hopefully you would take them to consideration because the holocaust was a big part in our history and many still talk about it today. If you haven't learned about it than it was a time where many jews were taken from their family and put in concentration camps or killed on the spot by nazis. Some jews went into hiding like Anne frank and her family went into hiding and while in there she wrote In diary that u can purchase a copy of today so if you're...
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...Wiesel was also a teacher. On biography.com the author gives a short summary of his life, including, “In 1978, he became a Professor of Humanities at Boston University.”(Elie Wiesel Jewish)He also taught Judaic studies at the City University of New York. He was also a part time teacher at Yale. He taught many classes and was regarded as a very good teacher. He also gave lectures regarding the holocaust. The lectures are usually based on his individual experience. He also does lectures on other people or just the holocaust in general. Not only did Wiesel encounter the holocaust, but he lived to tell the story. And telling the story is exactly what he did. He has written many, many books about his experience. In the article the author notes,...
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...The Holocaust is about the killing of six million of Jews that included women, men, and children by Adolf Hitler and the Nazi party. Hitler convince Germans that the Jews were the cause of their problems. With that they started to put restrictions on Jews like where they could shop, eat, how long they could be out, and other cruel things that no one should have been through. Where it began On January 30, 1933, the Holocaust began with the leadership of Adolf Hitler. They started to slowly restrict them from what they could do and where they could go. During this time, Jews in Europe were subjected to progressively harsher persecution that ultimately led to the murder of 6,000,000 Jews (1.5 million of these being children) and the destruction of 5,000 Jewish communities. These deaths represented...
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...during the 1940’s. Anne Frank gave people by giving a little knowledge about her life was, emotional impact, history how Nazis treated the Jew’s, her showing her bravery, and Anne Frank helped the world understand that 6 million Jews was killed in the Holocaust. By Anne famous diary, Anne Frank helped the world understand that 6 million Jews was killed in the Holocaust. Since the persecution of Jew’s in the Netherlands was extremely similar to the early persecution of Jew’s in Germany, the Franks could foresee that just like it had for the Jew’s in Germany. Anne Frank gave people by giving a little knowledge about her life emotion impact. Anne and her family lived in the secret Annex for three years with 8 people; 1994 all 8 people had been arrested sent to Auschwitz and was all split up. Anne was 13 years old when she and her family went in hiding. That did not stop her from being who she was very strong and brave. She also influenced people about Nazis conquering. She helped teach people that the Holocaust died in that camp, it was a horrible thing. Without her diary the world would never know the intensity of the pain and suffering abused during this time. Anne Frank was born in 1929. She has one sister named Margot Frank and a Mother (Eidth Frank) and Father (Otto Frank). Since the publication of her diary Anne Frank has become a symbol of the children that were murdered in the Holocaust. Anne’s diary is still inspiration to people today because even though...
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...Resistance Irena Sendler is considered one of the most unacknowledged heroes in the world. Causing positive impacts and accomplishing innumerable effects Irena Sendler conquers what almost seems the impossible. Throughout the holocaust period “Irena Sendler defied the Nazis and saved 2500 Jewish children by smuggling them out of the warsaw ghetto.” Therefore, her achievements and her endless efforts shall forever be cherished and respected. Irena Sendler is known as a resistance hero during the holocaust due to the fact that she put her own life at risk, accomplished various things, and had the strength to fight for what she believed in. Irena was greatly influenced by her father who was a doctor she eventually embarked as a health worker. Throughout her journey Irena Sendler becomes appalled by the many conditions occurring in her surroundings. Irena decides to join a council for aid to the jews.She comes to the conclusion that while aiding she’ll save the lives of children taking in consideration that she'd be putting her own life at risk . Many years exceed and her plan goes unnoticed, all secrets come out at one point and when Irenas secret was revealed she was arrested, imprisoned, tortured, and sentenced to death. Until the end still no one managed to break her spirit and at last minute she's saved by the Zegota members. Irena Sendler is truly...
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...In two pieces of intriguing Holocaust literature, the authors, with very similar purposes, attempt to make a point using different tones. Both of these authors use a variety of writing tools to make their point clear. In the novel The Devil’s Arithmetic, the author Jane Yolen, describes the brutal treatment in the labor camps through a fictional story using a respectful and compassionate tone. In contrast, Peter Fischl wrote his poem, “The Little Polish Boy Standing With His Arms Up”, about an individual boy being terrorized by the Nazi’s with a more intense and aggressive tone. Both authors drive their point, trying to get the reader to remember the atrocities of the demoralizing camps and teach the audience to not be bystanders. This essay...
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...night, two high school students, Eva (April Lee Hernández), a Latino-American girl and narrator for much of the film, and a Cambodian refugee, Sindy (Jaclyn Ngan), frequent the same convenience store. An additional student, Grant Rice (Armand Jones) is frustrated at losing an arcade game and demands a refund from the store owner. When he storms out, Eva's boyfriend Paco attempts a drive-by shooting, intending to kill Grant but misses, accidentally killing Sindy's boyfriend. As a witness, Eva must testify at court; she intends to guard "her own" in her testimony. At school, Gruwell intercepts a racist drawing by one of her high school students and utilizes it to teach them about the Holocaust. She gradually begins to earn their trust and buys them composition books to record their diaries, in which they talk about their experiences of being abused, seeing their friends die, and being evicted. Determined to reform her high school...
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