Process (Procedimiento; Wāwee)
Collaborative Learning 1:
In order to accomplish (realizer; tokwōj) the research portion of our quest in a timely manner, you will be placed into groups of four. Each of you will become an expert on a specific phase of the Warsaw ghetto in Warsaw, Poland. The four phases (etapa) are:
In order to accomplish (realizer; tokwōj) the research portion of our quest in a timely manner, you will be placed into groups of four. Each of you will become an expert on a specific phase of the Warsaw ghetto in Warsaw, Poland. The four phases (etapa) are:
- Creation
- Everyday Life
- Uprising
- Deportation
- Please decide who in your group will be responsible to research each phase.
- Print a Research Planner to use while completing your research. Fill out your research responsibility now.
K-W-L
Before dividing up to perform your individual research, each group must create an interactive K-W-L chart showing what they already know and want to know about the Nazi ghettos.
Before dividing up to perform your individual research, each group must create an interactive K-W-L chart showing what they already know and want to know about the Nazi ghettos.
- One person in the group needs to follow the link below to get to the chart
- Title the K-W-L "Warsaw Ghetto
- As a group, fill out the K & W sections of the chart
- Email chart to all group members and Mrs. T ([email protected])
- Save chart to your H-drive
Now return to your Research Planner and add any questions from the want to know section that you should look for while researching your topic.
Background Information
As a group, refresh your memory about the Holocaust through these short videos covering Hitler's rise to power, the territory conquered by the Germans, the creation of the ghettos and concentration camps, the Final Solution, and the fall of the Nazi empire.
Holocaust Videos
As a group, refresh your memory about the Holocaust through these short videos covering Hitler's rise to power, the territory conquered by the Germans, the creation of the ghettos and concentration camps, the Final Solution, and the fall of the Nazi empire.
Holocaust Videos
Independent Learning 1:
Four Phases
Each person in your group has selected a phase to research. Links have been established to guide your research and provide you with websites that include articles, videos, and primary documents about the ghetto in Warsaw, Poland. All research should be done independently, using these sites. Record what you find on your Research Planner.
Each person in your group has selected a phase to research. Links have been established to guide your research and provide you with websites that include articles, videos, and primary documents about the ghetto in Warsaw, Poland. All research should be done independently, using these sites. Record what you find on your Research Planner.
Creation of the Ghetto
Report on Establishment of Warsaw Ghetto
Steps in Establishment of the Warsaw Ghetto
Holocaust Museum: Warsaw
Yad Vashem: Warsaw Ghetto
How did the Nazi's establish the Warsaw Ghetto?
Report on Establishment of Warsaw Ghetto
Steps in Establishment of the Warsaw Ghetto
Holocaust Museum: Warsaw
Yad Vashem: Warsaw Ghetto
How did the Nazi's establish the Warsaw Ghetto?
Everyday Life in the Ghetto
Holocaust Museum: Warsaw Ghetto
Report from Commisar of Warsaw Ghetto
Survival in the Warsaw Ghetto
Videos on Everyday Life in the Warsaw Ghetto (Watch all of these short videos.)
Smuggling Food in the Ghetto
Oral Histories about Life in the Ghetto (Scroll down past the ID cards to get to the oral histories. Watch at least three histories of people who lived in the ghetto.)
Holocaust Museum: Warsaw Ghetto
Report from Commisar of Warsaw Ghetto
Survival in the Warsaw Ghetto
Videos on Everyday Life in the Warsaw Ghetto (Watch all of these short videos.)
Smuggling Food in the Ghetto
Oral Histories about Life in the Ghetto (Scroll down past the ID cards to get to the oral histories. Watch at least three histories of people who lived in the ghetto.)
Warsaw Uprising
Ghetto Uprising
Warsaw Uprising
Oral Histories of Survivors (Read histories of people who were involved in the Uprising.)
Offline Resource:
Chapter 16 of the non-fiction novel Never to Forget: the Jews of the Holocaust by Milton Meltzer is all about the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising. The who, the when, and the how are all explained beautifully in this book.
Chapter 16 of the non-fiction novel Never to Forget: the Jews of the Holocaust by Milton Meltzer is all about the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising. The who, the when, and the how are all explained beautifully in this book.
Deportation from the Ghetto
Holocaust Museum: Deportations to and from the Warsaw Ghetto
History Channel: Deportation from Warsaw
Oral Histories of Survivors (Read histories of those who speak on the deportation from the ghetto.)
Collaborative Learning 2:
K-W-L
Now return as a group to your K-W-L chart and finish up the last section. You will have to open it from your H-drive and finish it together. After you finish, please print the chart on SMS-EMINTS-309 and answer the following questions on the back using CSRQ (copy the sentence, restating the question).
K-W-L
Now return as a group to your K-W-L chart and finish up the last section. You will have to open it from your H-drive and finish it together. After you finish, please print the chart on SMS-EMINTS-309 and answer the following questions on the back using CSRQ (copy the sentence, restating the question).
- Did you find the answers to what you wanted to learn? Explain your answer.
- Do you have any new questions? What are they?
Keep this chart until you finish the WebQuest. You will turn it in with other examples of learning.
Group Research & Individual Response
What is ethnic cleansing and genocide? How do they relate to the Nazi ghettos? What can we do to prevent these events from happening again?
Look at the following sites as a group, then break up and individually take the quiz on our Edmodo page.
Genocide
Ethnic Cleansing
10 Stages of Genocide
Rwandan Genocide
Bosnian Genocide
Syrian Genocide Possibility
Who's Next? Genocide Alerts
What is ethnic cleansing and genocide? How do they relate to the Nazi ghettos? What can we do to prevent these events from happening again?
Look at the following sites as a group, then break up and individually take the quiz on our Edmodo page.
Genocide
Ethnic Cleansing
10 Stages of Genocide
Rwandan Genocide
Bosnian Genocide
Syrian Genocide Possibility
Who's Next? Genocide Alerts
Independent Learning 2:
Individual Project
Now you will show your learning and thinking by creating a short presentation. Your finished presentation must be turned in by Friday, April 11th, 2014. You may choose from the following projects:
Steps:
Individual Project
Now you will show your learning and thinking by creating a short presentation. Your finished presentation must be turned in by Friday, April 11th, 2014. You may choose from the following projects:
- PowerPoint
- Speech
- Essay
- Infographic (Piktochart)
- News Report
- Other (talk to me for approval)
Steps:
- Select a presentation method
- Use an interactive graphic organizer to develop your presentation
- Conference with Mrs. T on your ideas
- Print and fill-out the top portion of the presentation rubric
- Create your presentation
- Turn-in presentation and rubric to Mrs. T on Friday, April 11th
- Print and fill-out your collaboration rubric
- Presentations will occur the following week during the first half of class