Welcome to Trimester II and the Holocaust Page...this page will be updated regularly to reflect your   homework assignments and projects. Please visit it regularly for changes and updates. As always, if you have any questions, please email or see Erin asap! My email is erine@school-one.org.

Here is a link to the PDF version of the blue book:  The Holocaust and Human Behavior:https://www.facinghistory.org/sites/default/files/publications/Holocaust_Human_Behavior.pdf

For Monday December 4, 2023

Please read the following sections from the Smoke and Ashes Book:

-- Some Things you should Know

-- A Few Definitions

-- Chapter I: The Roots

You must also read the Forward and the Editor's Introduction in the Witness: Voices From the Holocaust book.

For Wednesday December 6, 2023

Please read Chapter I from the Witness Book.

If you were not in class on Monday Dec. 4, 2023, please read the following and answer the questions in the Connections section:  Page 154 Overview and reading I: The Dictator and Democracy. Answer questions in paragraphs 1, 3, 4, and 5 in the Connections section.

For Monday December 11

Please read Chapters 2&3 of the Smoke and Ashes book

For Christmas Break - Due Wednesday January 3, 2024

Please read the rest of the Smoke and Ashes book and 

 read through chapter 2 in the Witness book over

Christmas Break.

Due Monday January 8, 2024

Please read chapter 3 in the Witness book.  (Please remember that you should have read Smoke and Ashes and have read Chapters 1 & 2 in the Witness Book by 1/3/24.)

Also Due Monday January 8, 2024: FHAO Holocaust and Human Behavior

Please read pages 263-273 and answered the listed questions

Reading 5: Questions 1, 2, and 3;  Reading 6: Questions 1,2, and 3; Reading 7:  3, 4, and 5; Reading 8: Questions 1, 2.

In class 1/10/24:  

Please read through chapter 4 in the Witness Book.  Choose two of the witnesses you have been reading about and discuss how their lives changed over the course of the start of the war.  Like the readings we did in class, discuss their reactions and actions as the world closed in around them and the choices they had to make as a result of these changes.  Use chapters 1-4 for this assignment and we will discuss this in class on Wednesday 1/17/24

Due Monday 1/22/24

Please read through chapter 5 in the Witness Book

Due Wednesday January 24, 2024:  Reading assignment from the blue book (from the Holocaust and Human Development textbook):

Pages 309-319 - Reading 1, questions 1, 2;  reading 2, questions 1,3;  reading 3, questions1,2, 3;  and reading 4, question 1.

Due Wednesday January 31, 2024: Please read through chapter 6 in the Witness Book.

Due Wednesday February 14, 2024

1. Conspiracy Written Assignment 1: Please use this link to the assignment sheet

https://docs.google.com/document/d/106-CPp9PVHmUJkpBp_E5YXw4D0itxHHDyW1mMDMRwGE/edit?usp=sharing

Here is a link to a copy of the Wannsee Protocol document that survived the war: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1_3y3i4-jhzweGQqk1hLCv2cRwm4p9bMBA3zWd4s2V3Y/edit?usp=sharing

Due Wednesday February 7, 2024: Please read through chapter 7 in the Witness Book.

Due Wednesday February 14, 2024: Please read through chapter 8 in the Witness Book.

Schindler's List materials:

Schindler's List Selected Biographies: Some information of Schindler, Stern and Goeth https://drive.google.com/file/d/1iZ5UdZDPolWnZidUBrvwvbVa0tnW8uh8/view?usp=drive_link

Map of Krakow in Schindler's list: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1yQORlgEnXIzV3_7pYYRT0yEzMo4lokBH/view?usp=drive_link

A Short Description of Krakow during the War from Yad Vashem: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Rl4JwlaFRGerNkKukz3ATBkSxdOY5FyS/view?usp=drive_link

Schindler's List Essay:  Please see the essay prompts below for the essay...it is due Wednesday February 21, 2024.

Here is the link: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1gQVWokygg0t0AaeCpARnGeRGU0yXaEMHWdrwX2ZJ-AA/edit?usp=drive_link

After Schindler's List is done:  Please read the following reading section and answer the questions noted:

Page 328: The Jewish Councils - question 1

Page 331: Emptying the Ghettos - questions 1 & 2

Page 333: Deception, Terror, and Resistance - questions 1 & 2, consider #3 for discussion

Page 335: The Uprising in the Warsaw Ghetto - questions 1 & 2

Final In-Class Essay:  To be completed in class 3/4/24

In the book, The Sunflower, Simon Wiesenthal, a Holocaust survivor, asks the reader to consider the following scenario and question.  He is brought into the presence of a dying nazi soldier who confesses to committing atrocities against jewish people...as he is dying, he asks Simon to listen to his story and at the end of the story, asks Simon for his forgiveness.  The question that Simon asks of the reader is "Would you have forgiven the dying soldier?"  Considering all that you have learned this trimester, and the accounts from the Witness book, how do you think one of the witnesses you read about would answer?  How would you answer this question? You must write a standard Humanities department essay and can include quotes from the Witness book.  You may also paraphrase information and use "I" statements in this essay.

Do not refer to anything below this line - it is from a previous class

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The Holocaust and Human Development: Pages 165-169  Reading 4, Questions 1, 2,6,7.  Reading 5, Questions 1,2, 4, 5

Due Monday 1/17/22

Please read through chapter 4 in the Witness Book

Week of January 24, 2022:  In class assignments for the blue book from the Holocaust and Human Development textbook:

Pages 309-319 - Reading 1, questions 1, 2;  reading 2, questions 1,3;  reading 3, questions1,2, 3;  and reading 4, question 1.

Due Monday 1/24/22

Please read through chapter 5 in the Witness Book

Due Wednesday February 2, 2022

2. Conspiracy Written Assignment 1: Please use this link to the assignment sheet

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1wpNz8PDd-K-5D5TWT8LfWMb48jxH2YGnnTongeEr6tQ/edit?usp=sharing

Here is a link to a copy of the Wannsee Protocol document that survived the war: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1_3y3i4-jhzweGQqk1hLCv2cRwm4p9bMBA3zWd4s2V3Y/edit?usp=sharing

3.  Please read through chapter 7 in the Witness Book

Due Friday 2/9/22

Please finish reading the Witness Book

In class reading assignment for Monday 2/7/22:  You should read the following readings from chapter 8 in the book:

Reading 1, answer questions 1 and 2

Reading 2, answer questions 1 and 2

Reading 3, answer questions 1 and 3 and 

Reading 5, answer questions 1, 2, and 3

There are enough books for every student, and there is a link to the book on the homework page.

Sunflower Assignment:  Due Wednesday 2/23/22

Please read the following section of the book first:  pgs. 14-15 (pay attention to the Sunflower imagery), pgs. 20-59, and pgs. 83-98.   After reading those sections of the story, chose 3-4 people in the second section of the book and read their responses to Simon Wiesenthal's question.  Bios on each of the respondents start on page 275.  You are then to choose one person you have read about in the Witness book and write a response based on how you think they would answer Wiesenthal's question.  After your have done that I want you to write your own response to Simon's question.  All I ask is that you be honest with your reaction and response.   This is your final homework assignment for this class, so please hand it in on time!

Due 1/22/18 --Facing History and Ourselves

Read Please read pages 309-317 (readings 1-3).

For reading 1, answer questions 1, 2.

For reading 2, answer questions 1, 2.

For reading 3, answer questions1, 2, 3

Due 2/16/18 -- Facing History and Ourselves

Please read the following reading section and answer the questions noted:

Page 328: The Jewish Councils - question 1

Page 331: Emptying the Ghettos - questions 1 & 2

Page 333: Deception, Terror, and Resistance - questions 1 & 2, consider #3 for discussion

Page 335: The Uprising in the Warsaw Ghetto - questions 1 & 2