Examining the Holocaust

Next week in Language Arts the students will be beginning to read The Diary of Anne Frank.  In connections class we are doing some work to give them some background knowledge on the Holocaust so they are better prepared for reading about Anne Frank.  This is a sensitive topic and I approach it that way.  We've only just begun and the students are very interested and have been asking some really great questions.  Here are a few things that we will be working on during this unit:

- Watching a United Streaming video on the Holocaust.
- Reading and analyzing survivor stories.
- Learning about how the Holocaust affected children.
- Reviewing maps of concentration camps and charting numbers of those lost.
- Reading and responding to articles about modern day genocide, righteous gentiles, and overcoming hatred.

This is a unit that you children may want to talk about with you and it's a great opportunity to discuss many of the above items.