Day 1: Course Requirements & Additional Resources

[Berlin's Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe. Photo: Toppler, 2009)

Description: This course will explore innovative approaches to curricular design on origins, path, and consequences of racism, anti-Semitism and collective violence. Resistance and the importance of memory will be explored.

Outcome: Understand and apply the US Holocaust Memorial Museum's guidelines. Gain deeper understanding of key lessons learned from the Holocaust and resources for effectively teaching these lessons. Share unit plan with other teachers.

Evaluation: Participate in discussion and activities using USHMM materials and information. Create a lesson plan for teaching a Holocaust topic appropriate for a particular grade level using USHMM guidelines. Provide a copy of a Holocaust lesson plan for the Leibovitz's website.

Sat., Dec. 2 - Additional Resources:
Books:
Antisemitism: The Longest Hatred by Robert S. Wistrich
Drizzle of Honey by David M.Gitlitz
No Way Out: Readers' Theatre by Susan Prinz Shear
Race and Membership in American History: The Eugenics Movement (Facing History)

Videos:
Camera of My Family: Four Generations of in Germany 1845-1945 (18 min.)
http://www.facinghistory.org/resources/library/camera-my-family-four-generation

Holocaust by Bullets by Father Patrick DesBois
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G1df0D5nI5E

Websites:
The Chitling Intelligence Test http://wilderdom.com/personality/intelligenceChitlingTestShort.html
Dr. Pitz' website http://professorshouse.net
Quad City WWII Liberators http://www.qcliberators.com

Survivor Memoirs

Tom Lantos interview: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NUVflx1qIr4

Facing History and Ourselves: http://www.facinghistory.org/resources/collections/holocaust

Yad Vashem: http://www1.yadvashem.org/yv/en/remembrance/multimedia.asp

US Holocaust Memorial Museum: http://www.ushmm.org/research/collections/recourcecenter/testimony

Visual Ranking: What is Race?

Visual Ranking is 1 of 3 online teaching tools available for classroom use from Intel: http://educate.intel.com/en/ThinkingTools/VisualRanking

Click on above link and go to Student Log-in. Use ID and password provided by instructor. Select Visual Ranking Project: What is Race? and rank the 10 given statements according to directions. How do your rankings compare to other teams?

RACE: the power of an illusion

What does race mean? How easy is it to group people into "races" based on appearance? Go to the feature interactive "Sorting People" and complete the activity: http://www.pbs.org/race/001_WhatIsRace/001_00-home.htm

Did you know that in 1960 census enumerators classified people into the races the same way you did - by looking at them. Comment on this quote from the video RACE: the power of an illusion. "To get beyond racism, we must first take account of race" - Supreme Court Justice Harry Blackmun.

Illinois Holocaust Museum

The Illinois Holocaust Museum & Education Center, opened in 2009, is located in Skokie, IL. The IHMEC has permanent and special exhibits as well as a host of teacher resources, such as a speakers' bureau, teaching trunk program, teacher workshops, summer institutes, and more. Explore the website at: http://www.ilholocaustmuseum.org/

Which teacher resources would you find most useful in your classroom and why?

Leibovitz Special Collection

The Jeff Leibovitz Special Collection of Holocaust Education Materials is located at WIU's Regional Center Library in Moline. This special collection includes over 1000 books, videos, curriculum guides and posters related to the Holocaust. It also includes 2 sets of Holocaust curriculum cases that may be borrowed for classroom use.

After browsing the curriculum cases, which resource materials would you find most useful in your classroom and why? Are there materials that you would like to see included in future cases?

http://www.wiu.edu/users/mfblw1/index.htm

Places of Remembrance

In the Bavarian Quarter of Berlin, the memorial "Places of Remembrance," created by Renata Stih and Frieder Schnock, consists of 80 street signs presenting anti-Jewish laws and regulations under Nazi rule. One side of sign shows a picture, the other a piece of anti-Jewish legislation between 1933-1945.

How can individuals and society remember and commemorate difficult histories? What is the purpose of remembering? What does justice look like after genocide?

http://www.chgs.umn.edu/museum/memorials/remembrance/
http://www.stih-schnock.de/cat_moafl.pdf
http://www.thejewishmuseum.org/exhibitions/SignsfromBerlin/gallery

Obedience to Authority

If a person of authority ordered you to deliver a 400-volt electrical shock to another person, would you follow orders? The Milgram Experiment on obedience to authority was conducted in 1961. "The social psychology of this century reveals a major lesson: often it is not so much the kind of person a man is as the kind of situation in which he finds himself that determines how he will act." Stanley Milgram, 1974.

After viewing ABC Primetime's re-creation of the Milgram Experiment, did you find the results surprising? Why or why not.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HwqNP9HRy7Y
http://abcnews.go.com/Primetime/story?id=2765416&page=1