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  1. 27 Activities To Teach Your Middle School Students About The Holocaust

    9. 'After The War'. After The War is a book by Tom Palmer about 300 Jewish children who survived the war, this book activity comes with lessons and activities for students to complete to help them understand the Holocaust, and see it from the young survivors' point of view. Learn More: Holocaust Education.

  2. PDF Creative Writing--Holocaust

    Writing Prompt #1: It's 1935 and the Nuremberg Laws have been passed. Jews are no longer considered citizens, so they can no longer vote and many of their rights are taken way. Jews forbidden to marry Germans and must add "Israel" (for men) or "Sarah" (for women) to their names so they won't be mistaken as Germans.

  3. 17 Essential Lessons for Teaching the Holocaust

    1. Getting Started. These ready-to-use resources have been grouped together to help teachers in several ways. First, they will help teachers just beginning to plan a unit on the Holocaust. Additionally, they will help teachers who have a limited amount of time to teach this important subject.

  4. Introducing the Writing Prompt

    In the first four lessons of the unit, students explore questions about identity, stereotyping, and group membership. This assessment step introduces students to a writing prompt that builds on these important themes and connects them to the history students explore later in this unit. The prompt is designed to serve as both a thematic frame ...

  5. Holocaust Literature Guide

    The guide to Holocaust literature places texts in historical context, encouraging students to understand how and why the Holocaust happened. Grade level: Adaptable for grades 7-12 Subject: English/Language Arts Time required: Approximately 60 minutes to introduce Before the Reading. Student work continues while they read the text.

  6. Holocaust Lesson Plans

    Holocaust Lesson Plans. US Holocaust Memorial Museum educators and historians created these lesson plans for use in secondary classrooms. Click on a lesson plan to see its recommended grade level, subjects covered, and time required to complete. To explore lessons organized by theme, visit Teaching Materials by Topic.

  7. Anne Frank: Writer

    Preparation. Lesson 1, Anne Frank: One of Hundreds of Thousands, helps students put Anne Frank in a historical context. It begins with a broad overview of the map of World War II in Europe, continues with a look at what happened to a selection of countries, and ends with a lens on the Netherlands and Anne Frank.

  8. PDF Imagining the Holocaust Writing Contest Middle and High School ...

    A genre of writing that uses elements of creative writing to present factual, true stories about real people and events in a vivid way. Literary techniques that are usually reserved for writing fiction ... materials, supplies, activities, or events to teach the Holocaust to students.

  9. Tips for Teachers

    We also discuss how the survivor's testimony we just heard ties to the Holocaust Art and Writing Contest's annual theme. *The Sala and Aron Samueli Holocaust Memorial Library at Chapman University also provides guided tours for school groups. Contact Ashley Bloomfield at (714) 532-6072 or [email protected] to schedule a tour.

  10. Common Core Writing Prompts and Strategies: Holocaust and Human

    The specific writing prompts and teaching strategies in this guide ask students to use evidence as they craft a formal argumentative essay. This guide also features effective writing strategies for general use in the social studies or English classroom.

  11. Holocaust Memorial Day 2024 resources

    Teaching resources for Holocaust Memorial Day 2024. New resources are now available for you to explore in advance of the commemoration week and our live event. Resources include: A teacher guide outlining the resources and writing outcome, with ideas and sources to support your delivery of the project. A PowerPoint presentation with video from ...

  12. Number the Stars: 5 Writing and Discussion Prompts to Increase Reading

    Number the Stars writing and discussion prompts from Scholastic will help your students think critically on the Holocaust and increase story comprehension. In Number the Stars , young readers learn about the horror of the Holocaust through the eyes of Annemarie Johansen, a 10-year-old from Denmark who is forced to find the bravery and courage ...

  13. Teaching Materials by Topic

    Teaching Materials by Topic. Explore the categories below to find lesson plans and training materials that match your curricular needs. For foundational tools that support any unit on the Holocaust, refer to Fundamentals of Teaching the Holocaust. Are you an educator looking for resources to use in your classroom?

  14. An Overview of the Holocaust: Topics to Teach

    The Path to Nazi Genocide provides general background information on the Holocaust for the instructor and for classroom use. This 38-minute film examines the Nazis' rise and consolidation of power in Germany. Using rare footage, the film explores their ideology, propaganda, and persecution of Jews and other victims.

  15. Year 5 or Year 6 Holocaust Informational Text Writing Unit

    The bundle focuses on key facts about the Holocaust, from the rise of Nazi Germany to the eventual liberation of the camps in 1945. The bundle has four separate lessons and is perfect for students in Year 5 or Year 6. Included in the Informational Writing Unit: * Four fact sheets which students need to cut out and sort into paragraphs * Writing ...

  16. Teaching Night

    Teaching "Night" interweaves a literary analysis of Elie Wiesel's powerful and poignant memoir with an exploration of the relevant historical context surrounding his experience during the Holocaust. The guide draws on videos, historical photographs, and a wide range of primary and secondary sources to help students develop a nuanced understanding of this complex and disturbing period of ...

  17. Teaching Materials on the Holocaust

    Overview of the Holocaust. This Holocaust lesson plan for middle school and high school students is designed as both a two-day and four-day unit. In both versions, students analyze how and why the Nazis and their collaborators persecuted and murdered Jews as well as other people targeted in the era of the Holocaust between 1933 and 1945.

  18. UKS2 Holocaust Informational Text Writing Unit

    pdf, 1.19 MB. This is an informational text writing unit about the Holocaust, which took place during World War II. The remote learning unit has been split into three separate lessons which will take students approximately 40-50 minutes each. The Google Slides activity is ideal for distance learning and perfect for students in Year 5 or Year 6 ...

  19. Holocaust Memorial Day 2025 teaching resources

    This set of five Holocaust Memorial Day activities is designed for use in tutor times. It includes short activities and discussion questions to introduce students to the genocides remembered on Holocaust Memorial Day. ... called Writing in Impossible Circumstances. It features teacher notes, lesson plans, a Powerpoint, resource sheets and ...

  20. Holocaust Memorial Day 2024 resources

    Mark Holocaust Memorial Day 2024 with our collection of resources suitable for use with both primary and secondary school pupils. Each resource is accompanied by teacher notes to aid classroom use.

  21. Holocaust Teaching Guide: Getting Started

    Exploring Holocaust-era diaries (flexible lesson plan with diary excerpts and classroom activities) Holocaust Literature Guide (universal guide designed to support the reading of any Holocaust book) Teach. Classroom Videos. Videos and lessons curated by Museum historians and educators for use in middle and high school classrooms.

  22. UKS2 The Holocaust Reading Comprehension Activity

    A reading comprehension activity, or informational text, with comprehension and grammar questions followed by an extension task about the Holocaust of World War 2. The Google Forms activity is ideal for distance learning and perfect for students in Year 5 or Year 6 learning about World War II. When downloaded this resource includes a printable ...