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= **Remembering the Holocaust** =

xxxxx  xxxxx ﻿We concluded our activities on the Holocaust today, March 31, 2011. Some students were amazed to learn that at least two-thirds of the Jewish nation living before the Holocaust were completely annihilated by Hitler and his Nazi army.

To introduce the lesson, students were given an opportunity to brainstorm and share what they had previously learned about the Holocaust. Some of their key terms included: The Diary of Anne Frank, extermination of the Jews, slavery, gypsies, hatred, Hitler, World War II, concentration camps, geonocide, and more. We were very impressed to see how much they remembered about the Holocaust.

After the brainstorming activity, they were asked to think about this phrase, **//We Could Have Done More//**, and then list what more could have been done. Once the class had shared their key word to explain what more could have been done, they used Google to search for a poem that best express their key word. Next, they copied the poem and author's name to a Word document. They then searched for images related to Holocaust that best illustrates the theme of their selected poem.

[|REVOLT.pdf]

[|Proactive Tactics.pdf]

[|Death by Thomas Hood.pdf]

[|Kill Hitler.pdf]

In the next activity, the class completed an acrostic poem. Holocaust was the subject word for the acrostic poem. It is so easy to create an acrostic poem because it doesn't have to rhyme.

[|Holocaust.docx] [|Holocaust Acrostic Poem.PDF]

As a closing activity, students completed a Holocaust maze race to see who would be the first to guide the Holocaust victim to a safe house. The maze was very complex and only two students survived the maze race.

[|Holocaust maze.pdf]

lesson created by: Laura Howell