Finals

Students took their final.

Nuremberg Trials

Today students discussed these different options for dealing with the Nazi's after the war:

• Jury trail of Nazi Officials. Jury comprised of Germans, British, American, and Jewish civilians.
• Execution without trial of top Nazi Officials
• Life imprisonment without trial for top Nazi officials
• Tribunal of top Nazi officials. Judges from the Allies determine guilt.
• Trials of all Nazis involved: Gestapo, SS, soldiers, etc.
• Investigation and trial of Nazi and Allied generals for war crimes and crimes against humanity.

Students ranked and discussed the pros and cons of the different options. The then began watching a film about the Nuremberg Trials.

HOMEWORK:
Study for Final!!

Art, War, and the Modern World

Agenda:

1. Explanation of final and distribution of study guide
   
2. We finished looking at the paintings from the war period. Students discussed the techniques and interpreted different meanings.
3. Students listened to two songs, Remedy's Never Again, and Neutral Milk Hotel's, Holland 1945. Students discussed how the lyrics reflected WWII.
4. Students began creating their own artistic interpretations of the war and its effects. See powerpoint below.
   

HOMEWORK:
Study for the EXAM!!

Artistic Reactions To War History Alive

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Holocaust: Victim's Stories

Students read about one person affected by the Holocaust. They read about this person and summarized their life. One by one students presented their person to class. As a group we discussed similarities, differences, types of resistance, and justice for the victims.

Students used these profiles from the US Holocaust Memorial Museum.

World War II

Students watched a film on the Allied campaigns in Europe and the Pacific.

Schindler's List Postscript

Agenda:

• Checkpoint 5
• Schindler's List postscript - I informed students about what happened to the people portrayed in the film and began to discuss the liberation of the concentration camps.
  

Schindler's List Reflection

Student completed Schindler's List. Afterwards they wrote a reflection on the film and the Holocaust. Students truned in their reflections at the end of the period.

Schindler's List

Students are watching Schindler's List this week. Please discuss it at home with your students.

The Holocaust

Today students connection their conversation from the previous day regarding intolerance, discrimination, and hatred to the Holocaust and Nazi persecution of Jews and other "sub-human" groups. In pairs students read about different groups of victims and perpetrators. They took notes using a worksheet.

Beginning Monday will be be watching Schindler's List. If you have not had your permission slip signed, do so immediately.

Pyramid of Hate

Students took an survey and discussed questions about stereotyping, discrimination and how prejudiced attitudes can escalate into violence and even genocide, in the case of Nazi Germany.
Students copied the above pyramid into their logbooks.

HOMEWORK:
Modern World History 16.1 and 16.3, Hitler's Lightning War and the Holocaust worksheets

Film: Road to WWII

Students reviewed the homework, discussing Nazi Laws in the 1930s. Students then watched a film about events leading to and the beginning of World War II.

Timeline: Rise of Hitler

Agenda:

1. Review pre-break content
2. Rise of Hitler Timeline. Students took notes in their logbooks. Powerpoint below.
   
   The Nsdap And Totalitarian Rule

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HOMEWORK:
Nazi Laws and Speeches - DUE Tomorrow 1/5. Students need to read each of the 13 items and rewrite them in their own words.