Saturday, November 26, 2011

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

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