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 * COURSE TITLE: Teaching the Holocaust to 21st-century Students**
 * MODEL**

Sunday-Thursday (5 day course)


 * vacation week? Christmas/Yeshiva vacation/February week/Summer
 * during school year? 5 consecutive Mondays?
 * Sunday/Wed/Sun/Wed/Sun
 * Three weeks/Nine days?
 * **30 hours: 6 hours/day; 9:15am (arrival) start 9:30-4:30 pm**


 * WHEN?**
 * Summer 2011
 * Fall 2011 (no breaks here)
 * Winter 2012 (Yeshiva week/Presidents' week)

This course is to designed to support 8th grade and high school social studies, history, language arts, and religion teachers, as well as cross-curricular teams, in teaching the Holocaust. The course will approach the teaching of the Holocaust through a variety of disciplines, including history, literature, and the arts. The themes of children and family, Jewish resistance and response, and individual decisions will be discussed.
 * COURSE DESCRIPTION**

Participants will engage with primary source materials, including historical documents, diaries, and testimonies. Attention will also be paid to secondary sources, including memoirs, documentaries, and novels. Participants will learn the guidelines for teaching the Holocaust according to the International Task Force for International Cooperation on Holocaust Education, Remembrance, and Research, as well as The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C. Participants will apply these guidelines to selecting appropriate educational materials and pedagogical strategies for classroom use.


 * REQUIRED TEXTS and RESOURCES**
 * //(1) Salvaged Pages// Alexandra Zapruder [] ($16.32 x 20)**
 * (2) The Call of Memory: Anthology (class set of 20 plus free teacher's guide) [] $400.00 add'l copies $25.00 on Amazon**
 * (3) Sourcebook (provided)**
 * (4) PRISM Issue 2 (available on a complimentary basis)**
 * (5) An Azrieli Memoir []**


 * SUPPLEMENTAL READINGS**
 * //A History of the Holocaust Second Edition// Yehuda Bauer**

Loose ends from day before/lingering Qs || Upon completion of this course you will be able to: 1. Identify and explain key historical events of the Holocaust 2. Explain and discuss the implications of the Holocaust on the family unit and children, in particular 3. Identify key people in the Holocaust (Janusz Korczak, Moshe Flinker, Anne Frank, Wilhelm Krutzfeld) 4. Define key terms (Hitlerjuden; Kristallnacht; “resettlement;” ghetto etc.) 5. Identify educational resources for teaching the Holocaust 6. Choose educational materials from a variety of disciplines thereby allowing for multiple entry points for your students 7. Evaluate the quality and suitability of educational material for your classroom setting 8. Apply the pedagogical guidelines of the USHMM for Holocaust education 9. Choose from a variety of educational methods and apply them to Holocaust education (journaling, cooperative learning) 10. Develop historically accurate lessons while fostering empathy in your students.
 * COURSE SCHEDULE**
 * TIME || **DAY 1** || **DESCRIPTION** ||
 * 9:30-10:00 || Opening Activity || Build Community/Establish norms
 * 10:00-12:00 || CHUNK 1 ||  ||
 * 12:00-1:00 || LUNCH and RESOURCE REVIEW ||  ||
 * 1:00-1:30 || ACTIVITY ||  ||
 * 1:30-3:00 || CHUNK 2 ||  ||
 * 3:00-4:30 || Research/Group Work ||  ||
 * 1:30-3:00 || CHUNK 2 ||  ||
 * 3:00-4:30 || Research/Group Work ||  ||
 * 3:00-4:30 || Research/Group Work ||  ||
 * 3:00-4:30 || Research/Group Work ||  ||


 * Matrix of Themes, Disciplines, and Resources **
 * || **HISTORY** || **LITERATURE** || **ART** ||
 * **CHILDREN/FAMILY** || Marion Kaplan; //Salvaged Pages/I'm Still Here; her speech to MJHNYC// || //Call of Memory: Bread, Grandson, A Chicken for the Holidays, No Way Out// || Terezin/Friedl Dicker Brandeis;//Brundibar// ||
 * **DECISIONS/CHOICES**
 * (responses, complicitness, gray zone)** || Evian Conference; Kindertransport (Centropa Film); Bystanders-PRISM Issue 2; Rescuers (Diplomats), Righetous (Irena Sendler, Le Chambon, //Weapons of the Spirit//) || //Kurt; Defying the Tide;// PRISM Issue 2 (//Prelude)// || PRISM Issue 2; Felix Nussbaum ||
 * **JEWISH RESISTANCE** || //Salvaged Pages/I'm Still Here// || //A Chicken for the Holidays;// JPEF; || Terezin/Friedl Dicker Brandeis;//Brundibar;// ||
 * **RETURN TO LIFE** || SURVIVOR TESTIMONY/ Centropa || Azrieli memoirs || Samuel Bak ||
 * **PEDAGOGY** || Totten and Feinberg-using primary sources article || Totten and Feinberg- Shawn's Article || Totten and Feinberg; Bauer; What's in a Hyphen (Almog) ||

** Requirements: ** 1. active participation 2. attendance 3. five written journal reflections (see rubric) //4.// //Circles// assignment (see rubric) **5.** development of a minimum of two consecutive lessons on a specific topic within the Holocaust (see rubric)


 * COURSE SCHEDULE**
 * TIME ||


 * === DAY 1  === ||

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 * **DESCRIPTION** ||
 * 9:30-10:00 || Opening Activity: Papers around the room; What do you know about the Holocaust- using word/phrases webs? Why do you think studying the Holocaust is important? || Build Community/Establish norms
 * 10:00-12:00 || CHUNK 1: Stages of the Holocaust (Social/Professional Isolation; Ghetoization; Deportation; Murder) (Inspiration Software?) ||  ||
 * 12:00-1:00 || LUNCH and RESOURCE REVIEW ||  ||
 * 1:00-1:30 || ACTIVITY ||  ||
 * 1:30-3:00 || CHUNK 2 ||  ||
 * 3:00-4:30 || Research/Group Work ||  ||
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 * === DAY 2  === ||

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 * **DESCRIPTION** ||
 * 9:30-10:00 || Opening Activity || Build Community/Establish norms
 * 10:00-12:00 || CHUNK 1 ||  ||
 * 12:00-1:00 || LUNCH and RESOURCE REVIEW ||  ||
 * 1:00-1:30 || ACTIVITY ||  ||
 * 1:30-3:00 || CHUNK 2 ||  ||
 * 3:00-4:30 || Research/Group Work ||  ||
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 * TIME || **DAY 3** || **DESCRIPTION** ||
 * 9:30-10:00 || Opening Activity || Build Community/Establish norms
 * 3:00-4:30 || Research/Group Work ||  ||
 * COURSE SCHEDULE**
 * TIME || **DAY 3** || **DESCRIPTION** ||
 * 9:30-10:00 || Opening Activity || Build Community/Establish norms
 * 10:00-12:00 || CHUNK 1 ||  ||
 * 12:00-1:00 || LUNCH and RESOURCE REVIEW ||  ||
 * 1:00-1:30 || ACTIVITY ||  ||
 * 1:30-3:00 || CHUNK 2 ||  ||
 * 3:00-4:30 || Research/Group Work ||  ||
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 * === ** DAY 3 ** === ||

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 * **DESCRIPTION** ||
 * 9:30-10:00 || Opening Activity || Build Community/Establish norms
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 * 12:00-1:00 || LUNCH and RESOURCE REVIEW ||  ||
 * 1:00-1:30 || ACTIVITY ||  ||
 * 1:30-3:00 || CHUNK 2 ||  ||
 * 3:00-4:30 || Research/Group Work ||  ||
 * COURSE SCHEDULE**
 * 1:30-3:00 || CHUNK 2 ||  ||
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 * === DAY 4  === ||

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 * **DESCRIPTION** ||
 * 9:30-10:00 || Opening Activity || Build Community/Establish norms
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 * 12:00-1:00 || LUNCH and RESOURCE REVIEW ||  ||
 * 1:00-1:30 || ACTIVITY ||  ||
 * 1:30-3:00 || CHUNK 2 ||  ||
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 * ** DAY 5 ** ||

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 * **DESCRIPTION** ||
 * 9:30-10:00 || Opening Activity || Build Community/Establish norms
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 * 12:00-1:00 || LUNCH and RESOURCE REVIEW ||  ||
 * 1:00-1:30 || ACTIVITY ||  ||
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**OUTLINE OF HISTORY AND OTHER MATERIALS**

**I)** **Social and Economic Isolation** <span style="font-family: Times New Roman; line-height: 200%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in; text-indent: -0.25in;">a) Dachau March 1933 <span style="font-family: Times New Roman; line-height: 200%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in; text-indent: -0.25in;">b) Boycott, April 1933 <span style="font-family: Times New Roman; line-height: 200%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.75in; text-indent: -0.25in;">i) Outcast film <span style="font-family: Times New Roman; line-height: 200%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in; text-indent: -0.25in;">c) Nuremberg Laws <span style="font-family: Times New Roman; line-height: 200%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.75in; text-indent: -0.25in;">i) Friedrich <span style="background: aqua; font-family: Times New Roman; line-height: 200%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.75in; text-indent: -0.25in;">ii) Jewish Resistance S-P-O-D Werner Rings <span style="font-family: Times New Roman; line-height: 200%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in; text-indent: -0.25in;">d) Evian Conference <span style="font-family: Times New Roman; line-height: 200%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.75in; text-indent: -0.25in;">i) Felix Nussbaum –//The Refugee// <span style="font-family: Times New Roman; line-height: 200%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in; text-indent: -0.25in;">//e)// //Kindertransport// (date?) <span style="font-family: Times New Roman; line-height: 200%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.75in; text-indent: -0.25in;">//i)// Is there a Centropa film here? <span style="font-family: Times New Roman; line-height: 200%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in; text-indent: -0.25in;">//f)// //Kristallnacht// <span style="font-family: Times New Roman; line-height: 200%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.75in; text-indent: -0.25in;">// i) // Outcast film

<span style="font-family: Times New Roman; line-height: 200%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.25in; text-indent: -0.25in;">II) Ghettoization <span style="font-family: Times New Roman; line-height: 200%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in; text-indent: -0.25in;"> a) Salvaged Pages – Diaries as Resistance <span style="font-family: Times New Roman; line-height: 200%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in; text-indent: -0.25in;">//b)// //Bread// <span style="font-family: Times New Roman; line-height: 200%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in; text-indent: -0.25in;">//c)// //Grandson// <span style="font-family: Times New Roman; line-height: 200%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in; text-indent: -0.25in;">//d)// //White Lie// <span style="font-family: Times New Roman; line-height: 200%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in; text-indent: -0.25in;">// e) //// Terezin // <span style="font-family: Times New Roman; line-height: 200%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.75in; text-indent: -0.25in;">//i)// //Brundibar// <span style="font-family: Times New Roman; line-height: 200%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.75in; text-indent: -0.25in;">//ii)// //Friedl Dicker-Brandeis// <span style="font-family: Times New Roman; line-height: 200%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in; text-indent: -0.25in;">// f) // Warsaw Ghetto <span style="font-family: Times New Roman; line-height: 200%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.75in; text-indent: -0.25in;">//i)// Camera of My Life <span style="font-family: Times New Roman; line-height: 200%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.75in; text-indent: -0.25in;">// ii) // Jewish resistance <span style="font-family: Times New Roman; line-height: 200%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt 1in; text-indent: -0.25in;">//(1)// Oneg Shabbes archives <span style="font-family: Times New Roman; line-height: 200%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt 1in; text-indent: -0.25in;">//(2)// Uprising- Mordechai Anieleiwicz <span style="font-family: Times New Roman; line-height: 200%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt 1in; text-indent: -0.25in;">//(3)// Janusz Korczak and his orphans <span style="font-family: Times New Roman; line-height: 200%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in; text-indent: -0.25in;">//g)// Structure of Ghetto Life <span style="font-family: Times New Roman; line-height: 200%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.75in; text-indent: -0.25in;">//i)// Judenrat <span style="font-family: Times New Roman; line-height: 200%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.75in; text-indent: -0.25in;">//ii)// Kapos <span style="font-family: Times New Roman; line-height: 200%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.75in; text-indent: -0.25in;">//iii)// Adam Czerniakow compared to Chaim Rumkowski – gray zone <span style="font-family: Times New Roman; line-height: 200%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.75in; text-indent: -0.25in;">//iv)// Dilemmas <span style="font-family: Times New Roman; line-height: 200%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt 1in; text-indent: -0.25in;">//(1)// Food, medicine, roundups <span style="font-family: Times New Roman; line-height: 200%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt 1in; text-indent: -0.25in;">// (2) // Nazi documents <span style="font-family: Times New Roman; line-height: 200%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in; text-indent: -0.25in;">//h)// Aryan side of the ghetto <span style="font-family: Times New Roman; line-height: 200%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.75in; text-indent: -0.25in;">//i)// //White Lie// <span style="font-family: Times New Roman; line-height: 200%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.75in; text-indent: -0.25in;">//ii)// //Man from the Other Side –Uri Orlev (?)// <span style="font-family: Times New Roman; line-height: 200%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.75in; text-indent: -0.25in;">//iii)// //Island on Bird Street –Uri Orlev// <span style="font-family: Times New Roman; line-height: 200%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.75in; text-indent: -0.25in;">iv) Righteous/Rescue/Resistance (Irena Sendler)

<span style="font-family: Times New Roman; line-height: 200%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in; text-indent: -0.25in;">//i)// Partisans  //i)// Jewish Partisans Foundation [|www.jewishpartisans.org] <span style="font-family: Times New Roman; line-height: 200%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.75in; text-indent: -0.25in;">//ii)// Centropa?

<span style="font-family: Times New Roman; line-height: 200%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.25in; text-indent: -0.25in;">III) Deportation <span style="font-family: Times New Roman; line-height: 200%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in; text-indent: -0.25in;">a) On the trains - - any primary sources? <span style="font-family: Times New Roman; line-height: 200%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in; text-indent: -0.25in;">b) Auschwitz-Birkenau (Poland) <span style="font-family: Times New Roman; line-height: 200%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in; text-indent: -0.25in;">c) Mathausen (Austria) <span style="font-family: Times New Roman; line-height: 200%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.75in; text-indent: -0.25in;">i) Simon Wiesenthal <span style="font-family: Times New Roman; line-height: 200%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.75in; text-indent: -0.25in;">ii) 761st Divisions <span style="font-family: Times New Roman; line-height: 200%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.75in; text-indent: -0.25in;">iii) Max Eisen and Carson <span style="font-family: Times New Roman; line-height: 200%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.75in; text-indent: -0.25in;">iv) Illustrated book – Flag

<span style="font-family: Times New Roman; line-height: 200%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in; text-indent: -0.25in;">d) Treblinka (Poland) <span style="font-family: Times New Roman; line-height: 200%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.75in; text-indent: -0.25in;">i) Korczak and his orphans <span style="font-family: Times New Roman; line-height: 200%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.75in; text-indent: -0.25in;">ii)

<span style="font-family: Times New Roman; line-height: 200%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.25in; text-indent: -0.25in;">IV) Murder <span style="font-family: Times New Roman; line-height: 200%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in; text-indent: -0.25in;">a) Death camps vs. labor camps <span style="font-family: Times New Roman; line-height: 200%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in; text-indent: -0.25in;">b) Sonderkommandos <span style="font-family: Times New Roman; line-height: 200%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in; text-indent: -0.25in;">// c) // Jewish resistance <span style="font-family: Times New Roman; line-height: 200%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.75in; text-indent: -0.25in;">i) Uprising in Sobibor,  ii) Auschwitz-Rosa Robota []

<span style="font-family: Times New Roman; line-height: 200%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.25in; text-indent: -0.25in;">V) LIBERATION <span style="font-family: Times New Roman; line-height: 200%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in; text-indent: -0.25in;">a) What does this look like? <span style="font-family: Times New Roman; line-height: 200%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in; text-indent: -0.25in;">b) YV has good material “Return to life” <span style="font-family: Times New Roman; line-height: 200%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in; text-indent: -0.25in;">c) Nuremberg Trials?

<span style="font-family: Times New Roman; line-height: 200%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.25in; text-indent: -0.25in;">VI) Gray Zone <span style="font-family: Times New Roman; line-height: 200%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in; text-indent: -0.25in;">a) Kapos <span style="font-family: Times New Roman; line-height: 200%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in; text-indent: -0.25in;">b) Judenrat Rumkowski/Czerniakow <span style="font-family: Times New Roman; line-height: 200%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in; text-indent: -0.25in;">c) //Kurt//

<span style="font-family: Times New Roman; line-height: 200%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.25in; text-indent: -0.25in;">VII) The Righteous Among the Nations <span style="font-family: Times New Roman; line-height: 200%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in; text-indent: -0.25in;">a) Wilhelm Krutzfeld (?) <span style="font-family: Times New Roman; line-height: 200%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in; text-indent: -0.25in;">b) Irena Sendler <span style="font-family: Times New Roman; line-height: 200%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in; text-indent: -0.25in;">c) Oskar Schindler <span style="font-family: Times New Roman; line-height: 200%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in; text-indent: -0.25in;">d) Nicholas Winton <span style="font-family: Times New Roman; line-height: 200%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.75in; text-indent: -0.25in;">i) Winton’s Children <span style="font-family: Times New Roman; line-height: 200%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in; text-indent: -0.25in;">//e)// //PIGEON FILM// <span style="font-family: Times New Roman; line-height: 200%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in; text-indent: -0.25in;">**f)** **Diplomats** <span style="font-family: Times New Roman; line-height: 200%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.75in; text-indent: -0.25in;">i) Raoul Wallenberg <span style="font-family: Times New Roman; line-height: 200%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.75in; text-indent: -0.25in;">ii) Chiune Sugihara <span style="font-family: Times New Roman; line-height: 200%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.75in; text-indent: -0.25in;">iii) Aristedes de Sousa Mendes <span style="font-family: Times New Roman; line-height: 200%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in; text-indent: -0.25in;">g)