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Learning about and listening to voices of resistance can be a great guide in helping us determine ways of social action. Listening to just one voice doesn't give us all the information we need.
- For this lesson, we really focused on the importance of providing multiple texts in order for students to learn about the Holocaust or the Syrian Civil War, deepening their thinking on how to take action.
While exploring the texts, students will think of the focus question:
How can learning about victims of war help promote social action for students in today’s society?
- After exploring each text, students will begin to answer the question.
- When we read more than one text on a topic, keeping an important question in mind can help us determine what is important for us to remember or think about as we read.
- Students will begin to grow on their answers as they create a graphic organizer.
- Below is an example of what it may look like.
- Color coding the different texts is one way that students can show how their ideas about social action progressed as they continued to explore more voices of resistance.
Students will be able to choose which war they want to focus on:
The Holocaust or Syrian Civil War.
Provided below are all the resources connected to voices of resistance related to each topic.
Holocaust texts:
Holocaust texts:
SIMCHA
SIMCHA
Summary of a speech from Simcha Rotem in 1997.
Paragraph 2, 3, and 5.
Martin
Martin
Quote is found in Holocaust muesum in Washington, D.C.
Hetty
Hetty
Biography of a girl impacted by the Holocaust
Voices of the warsaw ghetto
Voices of the warsaw ghetto
Extra resource on Voices of Holocaust
In the Warsaw ghetto, from 1940 to 1943, a group called Oyneg Shabes (meaning “joy of the Sabbath” in Yiddish, a reference to the group’s practice of meeting on Saturdays) conducted research and secretly assembled an archive that documented both Nazi crimes and also residents’ brave efforts to maintain life in the face of death.
Gustawa Jarecka, a member of Oyneg Shabes, wrote:
“The record must be hurled like a stone under history’s wheel in order to stop it. . . . One can lose all hopes except the one—that the suffering and destruction of this war will make sense when they are looked at from a distant, historical perspective.”
Under the leadership of historian Emanuel Ringelblum, the group gathered writings, assembled statistics, and collected artwork, photographs, and objects of daily life, over 35,000 pages in all.
Identification Cards
Identification Cards
These identification cards are from both victims and survivors of the Holocaust, provided from the US Holocaust Memorial Museum. They are easily printable and share the stories of 600 people who were affected by the Holocaust.
See the cards here
SYRIAN CIVIL WAR TEXTS:
SYRIAN CIVIL WAR TEXTS:
Muhammad
Muhammad
Malak
Malak
Article about many Syrian's affected by war. Malak is just one of the many voices included in this article.
Bana
Bana
A 10 year old Syrian activist's twitter account
abdul
abdul
Article about a Syrian refugee who is now bullied.
*Inspired by Nurturing Informed Thinking: Reading, Talking, and Writing Across Content-Area Sources by Sunday Cummins
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