Overview and Background: Unit: Non-Fiction Holocaust

Learning Activities, Performance Task

 

Name:  Ann Asbury

 

Cheney High : Grades10

 

Title:

Non-Fiction Holocaust

Topics:

Autobiography & Biography, WWII literature

Time Frame:

3 weeks

Start Date:

January

 

Other Designers:

 

Summary:
Students will look at the literature of World War II and how the literature of a period reveals much about the time.

 

Print Materials Needed: 

Night by Elie Wiesel

Asian American Literature (Prentice Hall, 1999)

Resources:

 

Resource Attachments:

Internet Resource Links:

 

Notes:

 

 

Stage 1: Identify Desired Results

 

State:

KS

Title:

Literature & Reading

Standard(s):

Reading. 1.3—The students comprehend whole pieces of narrative, expository, persuasive, and technical writing.

Literature 3.1—The students use literary concepts to interpret and respond critically to fiction and nonfiction. 

Literature 3.3—The students understand the significance of literature and its contributions to human understanding and culture. 

 

Understandings:

Literature explores enduring themes and reveals recurrent aspects of the human condition from many different cultures.

 

Essential Questions:

From whose viewpoint are we seeing or reading or hearing?

How does that viewpoint affect our interpretation of information we receive?

How does one’s culture help shape one’s viewpoint?

 

Knowledge and Skills:

K

·            how Hitler came to power.

·            how propaganda is used to sway people’s beliefs.

·            what conditions were like in the concentration camps of WWII.

·            why the US placed Japanese Americans into internment camps.

·            conditions of internment camps.

·            immigration laws.

 

S

·            identify reasons why Hitler wanted to exterminate Jews.

 

Stage 2: Determine Acceptable Evidence

 

Assessment Summary:

Student Directions:

 

Rubric:

 

Other assessment evidence to be collected:

Quizzes

Worksheets (QAR questions over readings & discussion topics)

Research Assignment

 

Stage 3: Plan Learning Experiences and Instruction

 

Learning Activities:

 

 

 

 

 

 

Vocabulary over Holocaust

Oral reading of Night

WWII videos—Hitler background, camp life (liberation video)