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New Year's Resolution

PREWRITING
Do you make New Year's resolutions? What is a resolution? A resolution is a promise. It is a promise that you make to yourself! It is a tradition for people to make resolutions at the beginning of a new year. There are different kinds of resolutions.
One sort of resolution has to do only with oneself. You might decide to lose weight, to stop eating candy, to exercise more, or to watch less TV. Other resolutions might involve family or friends. You could resolve to be more patient with your little brother, to be more helpful to your mom, or not to get into fights with your friends. Some resolutions are about school and the outside world, such as getting to class on time, trying for better grades, or not teasing the neighbor's dog.

If you manage to keep these promises, it will make you feel better about yourself. So, it's important not to make wild resolutions that are too difficult to follow. Your promises to yourself should not be too hard to keep.

DIRECTIONS
The box below is divided into three sections.
1. In the first section, list at least two resolutions for your personal improvement.
2. In the second section, list at least two resolutions that have to do with family and friends.
3. In the third section, list at least two resolutions about school and the outside world.

PERSONAL IMPROVEMENT:

FAMILY AND FRIENDS:

SCHOOL AND THE OUTSIDE WORLD:

Drafting

  Nobody's perfect! The beginning of a new year seems like a good time to think about changing. That's why people make resolutions in January.

In this activity, you are going to write the first draft of an essay about your promises to yourself for the new year. The best resolutions are those that you can be pretty sure of keeping. Choose three of the resolutions you listed above – one about personal improvement, one about family and friends, and one about school and the outside world. Write a five-paragraph essay about these New Year's resolutions.

Write notes for your first paragraph here, introducing the topic.






Write jot notes for your second paragraph here. It should describe your personal improvement promise and tell why you are making it.







Write jot notes for your third paragraph here. It should describe your family and friends resolution and tell why you are making it.








Write jot notes for your fourth paragraph here. It should describe your resolution about school and the outside world, and tell why you are making it.








Write jot notes for your fifth paragraph here. It should restate the topic and sum it up.









REVISING AND WRITING A FINAL COPY

DIRECTIONS
1. Edit and revise the first draft of your essay about New Year's resolutions. Here are some suggestions:

a. Does the first paragraph introduce the topic in an interesting way? Can you make it more exciting by beginning with a question or a startling statement? b. Do the next three paragraphs describe each resolution? Do you clearly explain why you are making these resolutions? c. Do you restate and sum up the topic in the last paragraph? d. Are all sentences complete? Do subjects and verbs agree? e. Is all spelling correct? Consult a dictionary.

2. Write the final copy of your essay. Write a title on the first line. Indent at the beginning of paragraphs. 















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Holocaust Time Line: How Could This Happen?

In order to have the proper context when studying the Holocaust, it is imperative to have a basic understanding of the events that lead to Hitler getting pwer, maintaining power, the treatment of the Jews and other groups, Jewish resistance, and the demise of the Nazis.  The way we will be doing this is through group work, group investigation and group presentation. In your group of 3-5, you will be responsible for learning about and presenting 1 section of the timeline to the rest of the class.  You will also be responsible for the making and the adminstering of a quiz on your section.  

   

The Timeline section focuses on the history of the Holocaust, chronicling the years from 1918 to the present. Hitler's rise to power was the initiation of a period that wrought great fear and destruction. Millions were forced to live in ghettos, only to be deported later to the concentration camps. The tragic details remained obscure until the liberation of the death camps and the further revelations during the Nuremberg War Trials. The subsections below offer a simplified outline for thinking about how the Holocaust unfolded. However, it should be kept in mind that many of the categories overlap.

• Rise of the Nazi Party (1918-1933). During the fourteen years following the end of World War I, the Nazi party grew from a small political group to the most powerful party in Germany.
• Nazification (1933-1939). Once Hitler became Chancellor and later Reichsführer, the Nazi party quickly changed Germany's political, social, and economic structure.
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• The Ghettos (1939-1941). Confining Jews to ghettos was another critical step in Hitler's Final Solution. Link
• The Camps (1941-1942). The concentration camps were Hitler's final step in the annihilation of the Jews. Link
• Resistance (1942-1944). People resisted by any means possible, from stealing a slice of bread to sabotaging Nazi installations. Link
• Rescue and Liberation (1944-1945). Some survived through the heroics of neighbors; others were liberated by the Allies.
• Aftermath (1945-2000). After the war, Nazi perpetrators faced punishment for their war crimes and survivors began rebuilding their lives.

Presentation

After you have spent considerable time making jot notes on your section (make sure you have a good understanding of all the information you present), it is time to present your learning to the class.  Your group can present any way you chose.  Possible options are:

• Presentaions using:
• OneTrueMedia
• Googledocs
• Comic Life
• Animoto
• Movie Maker
• Glogster
• Other
• Visuals
• simular to the Heritage Fair displays
• Oral Presentations
• need to have visuals to go with speech
• Other
• need to meet with teacher

The medium you use is important, but not not as important as the information you are presenting.  Make sure you spend considerable time researching and understanding your section since you will be available for questions after your presentation.

Quiz

Your group will also need to have some sort of assessment at the end of your presentation to check for class understanding.  The quiz may use the  following formats:

• Short answer questions
• multiple choice
• matching
• essay-remember you have to mark it too!!

Holocaust Presentation Grading Sheet

Example of Presentationusing One True Media

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Paragraph Writing-The Wave

The Wave

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Answer the following questions on your blog in paragraph form.  Make sure you use proper paragraph structure, punctuation and grammar.

1. How can movements such as The Wave be defeated?

    2. What does this film say about authority and power?




    3. What does this experiment say about the cause of the Holocaust?

Population Density in Holocaust Ghettos

Ghettos

During the Nazi occupation of Poland, 255,000 Jews were forced to live in a ghetto in Lódz, Poland. By the end of 1941, the 4.3 square kilometer ghetto was occupied by an average of 3.5 people per room.

By October of 1940, Nazis had confined nearly 400,000 Jews in a 9.06 square kilometer area of Warsaw which normally housed about 160,000. The area was surrounded by a wall 10 feet high and was sealed off on November 15, 1940. Jews were forbidden to go outside the area on penalty of being shot on sight. No contact with the outside world was allowed.

Let's compare those numbers to how we live in Saskatchewan and Saskatoon:

 Saskatchewan

• Population:  1 053 960
• Area: 588 276 square kilometres

Saskatoon

• Population: 257 300
• Area: 144 sq. kilometers

Fairhaven School

• Population: 405
• Area: 3688 sq. meters

Complete the following sheet: Population Density: Ghettos in Poland


What problems would arise in the crowded ghettos due to such a high population denisty?

• starvation
• disease
• uprising

Activities

• After reading Smoke and Ashes: The Story of the Holocaust by Barbara Rogasky, write a poem or a journal entry about the life of a young child living in the ghettos.  Think about ideas from the reading like, "The countless children, whose parents had persihed, sitting in the streets.  Their bodies bodies are frightfully thin, the bones stick out of a yellow skin that looks like parchment....They crawl on all fours, groaning..."
• Also, make a chorcoal drawing to represent your poem or journal entry.  Here are some examples of drawings from the ghettos.

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