Monday, December 3, 2012

Final Test

Material to be covered on the Final Test.

  1. I Won't Let The Nazis Take Me - Story from ESCAPE
  2. Map and Chart Activity
    1. I will place the information needed to answer the questions
  3. Documentary - video
  4. Movie: The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas
The test will consist of
  1. Matching
  2. True or False
  3. Multiple Choice
  4. Fill in the blank
Don't let the illustration fool you.  This guy is just relaxing. Please reply with the word Okay to receive a bonus of 2 points. This offer will last until Thursday, December 6, 2012 at 9:00a.m.  Students that post after the dead line will not get the bonus points.

Wednesday, November 28, 2012

Homework

After viewing the movie "The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas".  Copy or type the following questions on separate piece of paper and answer each one using complete sentences.  This assignment must be written in blue or black ink or typed.

Value: 40 points

Due date: Monday, December 10, 2012.

 
  1. Why is the boy in the striped pajamas in the house? How did he get there?
  2. Why is the boy in the striped pajamas afraid to eat the food Bruno has offered?
  3. Why didn't Bruno speak up to defend his friend?
  4. What propaganda did the Nazi spread out through the world about the "working camps"
  5. What is Bruno's reaction to this propaganda? Provide details.
  6. How do Bruno and the boy in the striped pajamas plan to play together?
  7. Name 3 themes present in this story. Give details to justify your answers.
  8. Why does the author give a surprising ending? Give details to justify your answer.

Tuesday, October 30, 2012

Closing Activity (10-2)

Only (10-2) Will post here.

Instructions: Each person or pair will enter 1 post indicating the type of closing activity given. If you did not make a closing activity, you are required to post no closing activity done. Look at the following example to guide you creating your post.

Example:
Chapter: The Shawl - Joanne and Robert - Closing Activity: Dramatization

Chapter: From Night - Alexander - Closing Activity: None


Part I The Situation of the Jews in Germany Under Hitler
Pages
  1. The Nuremberg Laws
12-18
  1. Kristallnacht
19-28
Part II The Ghettos
  1. The Creation of Ghettos
34-42
  1. Life in Lodz
43-52
  1. The Last Morning
53-61
  1. From All But My Life
62-73
Part III The Concentration Camps
  1. One Year in Triblinka
101-108
  1. The Verdict (only one person)
109-114
  1. From A Man for Others
115-125
Part IV The Perpetrators
  1. Chelmno
132-139
  1. Commanding a Concentration
140-149
Part V Liberation
1. Liberation (One pair will present)
150-156
2. From Night
157-160
Part VI Responding to The Holocaust
1. Shame
172-184
  1. The Shawl (only one person)
196-202
  1. 1988 (only one person)
203-205

Closing Activities for 10-1

Only  (10-1) Will post here.

Instructions: Each person or pair will enter 1 post indicating the type of closing activity given. If you did not make a closing activity, you are required to post no closing activity done. Look at the following example to guide you creating your post.

Example:
Chapter: The Shawl - Joanne and Robert - Closing Activity: Dramatization

Chapter: From Night - Alexander - Closing Activity: None


Part I The Situation of the Jews in Germany Under Hitler
Pages
  1. The Nuremberg Laws
12-18
  1. Kristallnacht
19-28
Part II The Ghettos
  1. The Creation of Ghettos
34-42
  1. Life in Lodz
43-52
  1. The Last Morning
53-61
  1. From All But My Life
62-73
Part III The Concentration Camps
  1. One Year in Triblinka
101-108
  1. The Verdict (only one person)
109-114
  1. From A Man for Others
115-125
Part IV The Perpetrators
  1. Chelmno
132-139
  1. Commanding a Concentration
140-149
Part V Liberation
1. Liberation (One pair will present)
150-156
2. From Night
157-160
Part VI Responding to The Holocaust
                         1.  Shame
172-184
  1. The Shawl (only one person)
196-202
  1. 1988 (only one person)
203-205

Tuesday, October 16, 2012

Quick Review 18 points


Instructions: Place the term with its definition and email it to me.  You will post an OKAY, once you have emailed the assignment. 
Due Date: This assignment is due Wednesday, October 24, 2012. 

Aryan  Concentration camp    Nationalism   Dehumanization   Socialism    Warsaw ghetto  Third Reich  Gestapo    Ghettos   Degenerate art    SS  Auschwitz – Birkenau
_______  1.                 A complex consisting of concentration, extermination, and labor camps in Upper Silesia.
_______  2.                 Art which did not fit the Nazi ideal.
_______  3.                 The Nazi policy of denying Jews basic civil rights such as practicing religion, education, and adequate housing.
_______  4.                 A term for peoples speaking the language of Europe and India. In Nazi racial theory, a person of pure German "blood."
_______  5.                Prisons used without regard to accepted norms of arrest and detention.
_______  6.               A movement, as in the arts, based on the folk idioms, history, aspirations, etc.
_______  7.               A theory or system of social organization that advocates the ownership and control of land, capital, industry, etc. by the community as a whole. In Marxist theory it represents the stage following capitalism in a state transforming to communism.
_______  8.            (Schutzstaffel /shoots shtahfl/ or Protection Squad). Guard detachments originally formed in 1925 as Hitler's personal guard
_______  9.            Meaning "third regime or empire," the Nazi designation of Germany and its regime from 1933-45. Historically, the First was the medieval Holy Roman Empire, which lasted until 1806. The Second included the German Empire from 1871-1918.
_______  10.        Established in November 1940, it was surrounded by a wall and contained nearly 500,000 Jews. About 45,000 Jews died there in 1941 alone, as a result of overcrowding, hard labor, lack of sanitation, insufficient food, starvation, and disease.
_______  11.        Were characterized by overcrowding, malnutrition, and heavy labor. All were eventually dissolved, and the Jews murdered.
_______  12.        Acronym for Geheime Staatspolizei /gehaime shtahtspolitsai, meaning Secret State Police.