Molly's Bag the web

Holocaust Unit Checklist

Please do the following for our Holocaust Unit:
1. Bag the Web Holocaust Links
2. Holocaust Vocabulary
3. Survivors Document
4. Butterfly Project- Activities 1-5
5. Create 6-10 butterflies for your blog (create only 1/2 the butterfly)
6. Holocaust Projects- do at least three
7. Watch Safe Haven Movie and write a reaction for Globaldreamers website

Please check student blogs for butterflies!

Click on a name and go to a student page to download a butterfly pattern.  Then complete the other half of the butterfly and add to the Globaldreamers Holocaust page.

http://www.globaldreamers.org/11holocaust/index.html

Let's see how many butterflies we can create in remembrance of the children of the Holocaust.

Mr. K

Link to Holocaust Project- Ein Ganim School Petach Tivka, Israel

http://www.globaldreamers.org/11holocaust/reactionseg/index.html

Here is the link to the 2011 Globaldreamers Butterfly Project.

The Butterfly Project with Our Friends from Israel

Our friends from Ein Ganim School in Petach Tivka, Israel with be working with us on the Butterfly Project this year.  We will be creating butterflies using Pixie (please only color half the butterfly) and sending them to our friends in Israel.  They will be doing the same for us and sending us butterflies to finish.  I will create a shared folder called BUTTERFLIES where you will put your work.  You can start by saving the butterfly above and opening it up using Pixie.  When finished, save the new butterfly in the folder using your name and butterfly 1.  When you do the second one, save it as your name and butterfly 2.  I will explain the process more in class on Thursday.

Click here for the Globaldreamers Holocaust Page.

Holocaust Unit 2011

5th Grade Reading Unit on the Holocaust
We will never forget!

“Out of our memory…of the Holocaust we must forge an unshakeable oath with all civilized people that never again will the world… fail to act in time to prevent this terrible crime of genocide… we must harness the outrage of our own memories to stamp out oppression wherever it exists. We
must understand that human rights and human dignity are indivisible.”
Jimmy Carter, 39th President of the United States

This unit will focus on the events of the Holocaust and the everyday people who were heroes to those that survived. The story of ordinary people that did extraordinary things in reaching out to others in need- many times risking their own lives in the process. Our Holocaust Remembrance Projects will be featured on the website Globaldreamers (http://www.globaldreamers.org/holocaust/index.html).

We will start our unit by reading WALLS: Resisting the Third Reich (one woman's story) by Hiltgunt Zassenhaus in your Classics books (pages 106-113).

"By rising above the fear, I might touch the world in its course."
Hiltgunt Zassenhaus


vocabulary to learn- please write out the defintion for each word (you may use the glossary in the back of your book)
Third Reich- page 106
Gestapo- page 106
censored- page 106
obsolete- page 106
meekly- page 107
curtly- page 107
meticulously- page 108
parcels- page 108
objectionable- page 108
defied- page 109
conviction- page 109
preoccupation- page 111
interrogation- page 112

Project: Now select a person who made a difference in the lives of those oppressed by the Third Reich- a survivor of the Holocaust. Study that person's hardships and triumphs- how they battled against the odds to survive and to help others survive.

Go to the Globaldreamers home page and scroll down to the heading: Survivor's Stories.
Read through the list of survivors, click on a link to learn more about them, and read about how they survived and helped others.

Create a list of survivors (please add more to the list from Globaldreamers) and a summary of their story in a WORD document. You may create a table in word to keep the data organized. Please post this to your blog page.


Holocaust PROJECT:

EVERYONE will do the Butterfly Project
that is being sponsored by the Holocaust Museum of Houston.

In an effort to remember them, Holocaust Museum Houston is collecting 1.5 million handmade butterflies.
The butterflies will eventually comprise a breath-taking exhibition, currently scheduled for Spring 2013, for all to remember. The Museum has already collected an estimated 600,000 butterflies.  Please send or bring your butterflies to the Museum by June 30, 2012, with the following information included:

• Your name,
• Your organization or school,
• Your address,
• Your e-mail address, and
• The total number of butterflies sent.

Mail or bring your butterflies to:            
Holocaust Museum Houston
Butterfly Project
Education Department
5401 Caroline St.
Houston, TX 77004
USA

You will be doing all 5 activities for the Butterfly Project- start with activity 1.  Record the answers to the questions in Word and add to your blog.  Write it in paragraph form and add the words of the poem at the top.

For activity 2 you will need the book, I Never Saw Another Butterfly- Ms. Conmy has this book in her collection.  Discuss with a partner your feelings and thoughts about what has been read.

Click here to visit a webquest about the Terezin Concentration Camp.  After Nazi Germany invaded and seized control of Czechoslovakia, they converted the town of Terezin (also known as Theresienstadt) into a concentration camp/ghetto for Jewish people.  About 140,000 Jews from many parts of Europe were imprisoned at Terezin, including 15,000 children. From Terezin, most of the people were then sent east to the death camp at Auschwitz. Through this Web Quest, you will learn about the children of Terezin - their thoughts, feelings, hopes and dreams - through their poetry and art.

Activity 3: Select a poem from "I Never Saw Another Butterfly." Find examples of hopes, dreams and/or fears in their child’s poem.  Discuss your poem with another classmate.

Activity 4: Get sheets of colorful paper, glue, scissors and  string. (Any decorative items will do, with the exception of glitter) Create a butterfly that is a representative of the author of your poem. The butterfly cannot be larger than 8 by 10 inches.  Write the name of your child on the butterfly and hang from the ceiling in the classroom.

Activity5: Our last  “I Never Saw Another Butterfly” activity is to create as many handmade arts-and-crafts butterflies as possible. We will work on this project in class, but also encourage your family, friends,and classmates to create butterflies as well.  We will send all the butterflies together as one to the Holocaust Museum of Houston.

• Butterflies should be no larger than 8 inches by 10 inches. 
• Butterflies may be of any medium the artist chooses, but two-dimensional submissions are preferred.
• Glitter and all glitter-related products should not be used.
• Food products (cereal, macaroni, candy, marshmallows or other perishables) also should not be used.
• If possible, e-mail a photograph of your butterflies, to butterflyproject@hmh.org.

Click here to see examples of butterflies.


Other Project Ideas:
Now you are going to create projects that focus on the Holocaust. Please select from the list below or come up with your own project (see me if you have some other ideas- PLEASE NO Powerpoint Presentations!). Please post all of your work on your blog page.

*please visit the Holocaust Remembrance website to get some project ideas*


*go to the website Wordle and create an original word cloud about the Holocaust (it will look something like this)- take a picture of the screen (shift, open apple, 3) and post on your blog page

*create an acrostic using Holocaust words- you can create this in WORD or Photoshop- post on your blog page (sample ACROSTIC below)

*create some orginal poetry about the Holocaust and the survivors- you can borrow a neat book from Ms. Conmy called I Never Saw Another Butterfly


*create an original PODCAST about a Holocaust survivor or Holocaust hero- you may also create an original iMovie with Garageband music

*check the Globaldreamers site for more project ideas

Select a novel that focuses on the Holocaust- I will start a list here for you. You may select one of these books or a book of your choice (see me before you start reading).

List of Children's Books about the Holocaust

Another great list of books about the Holocaust
Create a project that focuses on the events and major parts of your novel- use the list above to come up with a book project.

We will be watching two movies during this unit: Paper Clips- click here to see a preview and the recently released movie Warsaw Zoo- click here to see the movie (our friend Mrs. Marsha Goren from Israel is featured at the end of the movie).

Link to the movie:
Safe Haven: The Warsaw Zoo

Article: The Zoo Director Who Saved Jews

Book: The Zookeeper's Wife

cool websites
Blue Heron International Pictures: Warsaw Zoo

Student reactions to the movie Paper Clips

Student reactions to the movie Warsaw Zoo

Percy Julian Middle School Projects

The Holocaust

The next assignment is to read in your classics book pages 106-113. Then create a bag the web about the holocaust.

Award for Lewis Hine

Please see Jackson to insert picture on award.  To see what a Lewis Hine award might look like go to Cassie's page.

Lewis Hine...continued!

You should be finished with your Bag the Web, extended response, and Voicethread by the end of class on Monday.  Make sure that you take the time to comment on other students Voicethreads as well.

This week we will be focusing on creating an award for Lewis Hine- for his hard work and determination in bringing child labor issues to the attention of all Americans.  You will be creating an award for Lewis Hine using Word- in word go to file then project gallery then go to the left hand side finally go to events and click on awards. (please post on your blog when you are finished).  See my sample below.  Make sure to explain why the award is being given and why he deserves such an award.


Lewis Hine Project Choices

For the remainder of the week you will be working on finishing up your vocabulary packet and doing a project on Lewis Hine.  You will have several projects to choose from and several products to complete. 

Are you interested in doing a podcast with special guest Lewis Hine himself?

Would you like to do a photo flipbook collection of Lewis Hine's work?

Would you like to research child labor around the globe?  What are the child labor laws in the US and around the globe?  What countries do not have child labor laws?

Would you like to interview some of the children in the photos of Lewis Hine?  What were they thinking as he was taking their pictures?  Did they want the laws on child labor to change?  Did any of them go to school?  get an education?

What do kids your age know about child labor laws?  Create a survey and poll 5th grade students about child labor.  Create graphs of the results and share with the fifth grade classes.

What are your ideas?

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Snappy Words: Free Visual Online Dictionary

Thanks to Miles for the heads up on Snappy Words.  This is an awesome FREE visual online dictionary.  My 5th graders are using it as a part of their vocabulary development lessons.

Here's what it looks like- we used a vocabulary word from this week's list.

Why use Snappy Words visual dictionary?

• Easy to use dictionary and thesaurus.
• Learn how words associate in a visually interactive display.
• Get ideas to help write content for your blog, article, thesis or simply play with words!
• No registration required.
• No limit on number of searches. Look up as many words as you need anytime.
• No software installation needed. All you need is an internet connection and a browser (Firefox, Safari, Internet Explorer and others).
• It’s free and fun!
  
  
  

Lewis Hine...A Man with a Camera that Made a Difference!

Who is this man and what did he do to change American history?  Is he just a man that took pictures or a man that showed the world images they have never seen? 

That will be your first research question:  Who is Lewis Hine and why are we studying his life and works?
Please read Kids at Work (pages 92-105) in your Open Court Classics book, then use the Bag the Web resources below to find out more about Lewis Hine.
  

Now create your own Bag the Web for Lewis Hine go to http://bagtheweb.com/ and type in the username:lincolnreading1 and our usual password.  Then embed the BAG on your blog page.

Please type in Microsoft Word (save in your own folder) and add to your blog page.
Extended Response Question for Lewis Hine: With his box camera and his sympathetic eye, Lewis Hine made a dramatic difference in people's lives. How did he accomplished this and what do you think will be his lasting legacy to the history of America?
Use your own words and the text to support your answer.  Please give at least two specific examples from the text, make connections about your answer to your own life, another story, or the real world.  Explain/infer what you understand about the answer, that isn't directly stated in the story. Lastly, explain your connections and/or inferences clearly and thoroughly.

Here is a sample Voicethread Project about Lewis Hine:
You will now select several photographs that were taken by Lewis Hine and ask your classmates and others to comment on them- stating what they observe in the photo, the dangers the children faced on a daily basis, why they feel Mr. Hine took the picture, and the effects the photograph had on others then and now.

Here is a sample I created below, please add your thoughts to my Voicethread.
Please use this website in selecting your photos- it is awesome!  The History Place- Child Labor in America

Link to Voicethread.