The class began with a review of and practice with the current vocabulary words.
family; faith; Romani; Gypsy; Transylvania; Jewish; Holocaust; genocide; antisemitism; discrimination; propaganda; racism; stereotype
The class then spent time looking at the questions that Ellie Wiesel asks in his forward to Night.
7th period received the following homework assignments; periods 2&3 will get these assignments on Friday.
Finnish reading the first chapter of Night (through page 23).
The second assignment, if very well done, and effective allows for extra credit. The assignment is to create a visual representation of one million. In this unit we are studying the murder of twelve million 12,000,000 humans. It is difficult to comprehend such a horror. In order to help understand the scope of the tragedy of the holocaust students are to create a visual project that conveys as specifically and precisely as possible how large a number one million is.
family; faith; Romani; Gypsy; Transylvania; Jewish; Holocaust; genocide; antisemitism; discrimination; propaganda; racism; stereotype
The class then spent time looking at the questions that Ellie Wiesel asks in his forward to Night.
7th period received the following homework assignments; periods 2&3 will get these assignments on Friday.
Finnish reading the first chapter of Night (through page 23).
The second assignment, if very well done, and effective allows for extra credit. The assignment is to create a visual representation of one million. In this unit we are studying the murder of twelve million 12,000,000 humans. It is difficult to comprehend such a horror. In order to help understand the scope of the tragedy of the holocaust students are to create a visual project that conveys as specifically and precisely as possible how large a number one million is.
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