Lesson Plan : Understanding the Holocaust
Teacher Name: | S. Gotham-Rodger |
Grade: | Grade 9-10 |
Subject: | Language Arts |
Topic: | The Holocaust, its Importance, and the novel, Milkweed by Jerry Spinelli. |
Content: | A study on the Holocaust with an introductory lesson and unit-long project culminating the experiences and information learned and understood. |
Goals: | The students will have a more complex understanding of the Holocaust and be able to answer, with insight and intelligence, the questions: "What is the Holocaust?" and "Why is it important to study?". |
Objectives: | The students will - identify what they already know and what they want to know about the Holocaust. - read an allegory of the Holocaust, answer questions for comprehension and literary analysis, and relate the theme and ideas to previous knowledge. - see a presentation illuminating many facets of the Holocaust and complete comprehension questions to assess understanding. - be introduced to the unit-long project and its requirements. - read a poem introducing the Ghetto during WWII; a subject of the novel. - discuss and identify literary elements found within the poem. |
Materials: | KWL chart worksheet "Terrible Things" by Eve Bunting "Terrible Things" reading questions worksheet Power Point Presentation: "The Holocaust" projector, computer, web access, and screen "The Butterfly" by Pavel Friedman Copies of (taken from website) Holocaust Presentation Note Cards, Project #2 Holocaust Terms Holocaust Project Assessment Holocaust Project #4 Presentation Outline Holocaust Project #4 Speech Presentation Holocaust Project #4 Speech Presentation Rubric |
Introduction: | 1. Hand out KWL Chart. Fill in the first two columns with the corresponding information: What do you already know? What do you want to know? |
Development: | 2. Discuss together. Share information. |
Practice: | 3. Read the allegory "Terrible Things" by Eve Bunting. 4. Answer the comprehension questions and literary analysis questions, discuss. 5. Hand out Holocaust Presentation Note Cards 6. View Power Point Presentation noting that answers to the note cards are to be answered from the presentation. 7. Discuss the main points of the presentation and elements of each of the note cards: What have you seen and learned? 8. View Holocaust Projects #1-4 http://www.lfcsd.org/education/components/scrapbook/default.php?sectiondetailid=7535&pagecat=60 9. Review Handouts for planning and assessment. 10. Hand out "The Butterfly" by Pavel Friedman (questions included) 11. Discuss comprehension and literary analysis questions for poem. |
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Checking For Understanding: | Discussion Reading and comprehension questions |
Closure: | Discuss how we see Ghettos in our world today. What are the differences between a modern ghetto and the ghetto we see during the Holocaust. |
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