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Office: Room 316 Office Phone: (207) 779-3531 Office Hours: M & W: 12:00pm-2:00pm, Th: 2:00pm-4:00pm, T & F: By appointment**
 * Teacher: Ms. Shauna Korn
 * E-mail: shauna.korn@maine.edu**


 * =Summary of Unit= ||
 * Students will understand and gain knowledge about the Holocaust through interactive pieces and writing. They will engage themselves in the main components of the Holocaust and then reflect using collages that will create a timeline. Students will be expected to empathize themselves with victims of the Holocaust and to be able to present their story through multiple projects. They will know the main contributing events of the Holocaust and be able to interact with each other when discussing these events. Students will use hands on learning to create their own models and be able to present these models clearly to their peers. In the end students will have gained a better understanding of how the Holocaust began and ended, what the victims had to go through, and important history changing events. ||

E1 Historical Knowledge, concepts, themes and patterns Grade**// 7-12 "The Holocaust" //**Students understand major eras, major enduring themes and historic influences in the United States and World history including the roots of democratic philosophy, ideals and institutions in the World.**// d. Analyze interpretations of historical events that are based on different perspectives and evidence.
 * ** __Established Goals:__ //Maine//** **//Learning Result//**
 * Social Studies** //**- E. History

//Students will understand that…//** • The Holocaust's initial start and all pertaining factors that led into it. • The effect of one idea and the change that it can make, short and long term, by those involved in the Holocaust. • The environment of prisoners and their criteria.
 * __ Understandings: __

• How does an event as horrific as the Holocaust begin? • Why would people join a stereotype as strong as the one Hitler enforced? • How would survivors continue with their lives and get through the Holocaust?
 * __ Essential Questions: __**

• Critical Details: Concentration Camps,what groups were targeted, Hitlers Mein Kampf, survivor and death rates, Hitler's background • Important Events and People: Hitler, Jews, Elie Wiesel, Burning of Books, The Night of Long Knives, Nuremberg Race Laws, The Night of Broken Glass • Sequences and Timelines: World War II events around the Holocaust, Holocaust from 1933-1961, Existence of the Concentration Camps
 * //Students will know…//**

• Describe the turning points and consequences of the Holocaust. • Evaluate the actions of Hitler and his followers. • Exhibit the important factors of the Holocaust that impacted history. • d. Analyze interpretations of historical events that are based on different perspectives and evidence. • Relate to the survivors of the Holocaust (those negatively affected). • Self-assess what their own reactions would have been in that time period and situation as Jewish person. ||
 * //Students will be able to…//**

**Task Description:**
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 * The Holocaust Museum in Washington D.C. is holding a contest to add a new piece to their museum. You will take on the the role of a historian who will collect artifacts such as pictures and music to create a masterpiece to present. With the artifacts that you have collected you are going to put together a film that will depict the sadness of the Holocaust and use it as a remembrance film. Once you are done with the film and it is perfected to your historian liking you will enter your film into the contest. If your film wins the contest you all will be flown down to Washington D.C. to present your product. The film must be music and images only and if the directors like your film it will be shown on the Holocaust Remembrance Day and will remain from then on out in the museum. This is a huge achievement opportunity!!! ||  ||


 * =Expectations= ||
 * **Attendance:** Participation is required and is needed to cover and discuss the tough issues of the Holocaust. Your way of communicating can be through class discussions, blogs, presentations, etc. In order for you to actively participate in class discussions attendance is needed to make a connection between you and the subject. If for some reason you can not make it to class please e-mail me, leave a voicemail, or find another way to contact me BEFORE class to let me know you won't be there. I understand that life happens sometimes and will be more than willing to work with you to get you caught up. At the same time I ask that you take your attendance seriously and that you don't miss class because you just didn't want to come, had some shopping to do, wanted to watch the game, needed to catch up on gossip, or other silly excuses. Please be here on time and ready with an open mind for me to fill.


 * Assignments:** Here is comes, the big part of this class, take a deep breath, say it with me......assignments. You will receive assignments (See benchmarks) that will allow you to take what we have been discussing and learning about and apply it. Please give your all on your work, I know that you have other classes, but I expect that you will be responsible and keep on track in my class. Assignments are due on the day that I assign for a due date unless we as a class have decided otherwise (Yes you have some say here). If you miss an assignment because you were not in class it is your responsibility to get this work from me or another classmate. I prefer that if you miss a big assignment that is not something simple please come see me so we can go over it. If for some reason you do not do an assignment 10 points a day will be taken off for each day that it is late. Please keep in mind that it is each day and not each class period so points for late work can be lost quickly. If you have trouble getting an assignment done please see me or e-mail me BEFORE the class period that it is due.


 * Plagiarism and Cheating:** You all have amazing minds, everyone one of you believe it or not and your ideas are your ideas. If someone were to steal your ideas and call them your own it would most likely make you upset. The same goes for others and their ideas. That said, cheating and plagiarism will not be tolerated in my classroom. If you are found to be cheating or plagiarising, you will receive a zero for that assignment and will meet with the Principal for further action. I want to see your creative side and what you are thinking, not someone else's. These two things are taken seriously, so please eyes on your own paper and your own words at all times. ||


 * =Benchmarks= ||
 * Over this course you will have several assignments. Below you will find each benchmark that plays a significant role in your grade for the semester. Each benchmark is shown with a certain percentage of what it is worth total in points. You have a chance to earn a total of 250 points, do your best and watch the points build!!

After having a guest speaker come and talk to you about the Holocaust and the impact that it had on their life you will be required to do an ebook. In this ebook you will empathize with those who were affected by the Holocaust and use it as your journal for your thoughts if you were in their position. In order to understand the Holocaust completely you had to really experience it. Luckily this is something you or anyone else will hopefully never go through again. In this assignment you will become someone from the Holocaust and create a documentary responding to what you feel would have been your experience if you had lived through this horrible time. Many groups were targeted during the Holocaust other than Jews. Your job is to research one of these groups in teams and then collaboratively bring all the information that you have found to make an online newspaper explaining what each group had to go through. The Holocaust was an extremely sad period in history. You will be creating a song that reflects this sadness and pain that was felt by those who have experienced its horrors. There is a ton of information on the Holocaust out there and most is very depressing. Your job with this assignment will be to create a PG information pamphlet on the Holocaust that could be given to a younger grade, but is still informational. Concentration Camps were where many of the horrors of the Holocaust took place and are very well known to be the places where thousands died. After doing research you will create a virtual 3-D model of how one of these camps would look like. This is your big project where you will use only pictures and music to get the point of how impacting and sad the Holocaust was. This video will be your last project and will require the most effort. Participation is a must in order for you to learn anything in this class. You will work on your own, in groups, and with myself. Please keep yourself involved in class discussion and in peer activities. ||
 * //Student ebook: (20 points)//**
 * //iMovie Documentary: (30 points)//**
 * //Online Newspaper: (20 points)//**
 * //Song for the Holocaust: (20 points)//**
 * //Comic Life Information Guide: (20 points)//**
 * //3-D Virtual Model: (20 points)//**
 * //Performance Task: Video and Presentation (100 points)//**
 * //Participation (20 points)//**

A+ (98-100) *** C+(77-79)** A (95-97) * C (74-76) A- (90-94) *** C- (70-73)** B+ (87-89) * D+ (67-69) B (84-86) * **D (64-66)** B- (80-83) * D- (60-63) ***F (59 and below) ||
 * =Grading Scale= ||
 * The basis for the academic achievement mark is the teacher’s evaluation of the quality of the student’s performance in a subject. A student must achieve a rank of at least 60 (D-) in order to receive credit for that subject.
 * Grade Scale:**