This month-long Holocaust Unit covers major content relating to the Nazi’s “Final Solution” during World War 2, Holocaust survivors and victims, concentration and death camps, and much more. A workbook is included with reading passages and comprehension tasks, as well as two different research activity options to deepen learning and/or address state standards.
You will receive complete Lesson Plans, a 26-page Student ‘Read & Research’ Workbook, an accompanying Flip Book with 6 summarization pages, a PowerPoint for teacher-guided instruction, and an end-of-unit Assessment. The student workbook, PowerPoint, and test are Google 1:1 compatible.
This resource requires NO-PREP and NO textbook.
Use this with independent learners, for whole class-instruction, or as stations; there are many options.
INCLUDED:
– A STUDENT ‘Read & Research’ WORKBOOK
- Vocabulary List
- A Unit Outline (Table of Contents) with lessons and page numbers
- Reading Passages with Guided Notes
- Reading Skills activities
- Study Guide
- Google 1:1 Compatible
- SIX Lessons
LESSON TOPICS:
1- What was the Holocaust?
- Holocaust, Genocide, Antisemitism defined
- A history of Antisemitism: pogroms, assimilation in Europe, German Jews
2- Nazis Rise to Power:
- Stab-in-the-Back Theory, the Great Depression, Hitler is Chancellor, The Reichstag Fire & Enabling Act
3- The Nazi’s Plan:
- “Aryan” Supremacy, Remilitarization
- Nazi Propaganda
- Hitler Youth, the League of German Girls
4- Solution 1: Emigration:
- Nuremburg Race Laws
- Kristallnacht
5- Solution 2: Containment:
- Ghettos, Warsaw Ghetto Uprising
- Concentration Camps, ID badges & tattoos, Arbeit Macht Frei
6- Final Solution: Extermination:
- T4 Program, Einsatzgruppen, Babi Yar Massacre
- Wannsee Conference and Final Solution
- Extermination/Death Camps, Auschwitz, Liberation
- Aftermath: Death toll, Survivors, Resistance Efforts, Nuremburg Trials
Two Research Activity Options:
1- “Holocaust- Victims and Upstanders” activity. Includes a research chart and infographic poster.
2- “Nazi Camps” activity. Includes a research chart for two camps- a concentration and extermination camp.
*Topic options are provided throughout the workbook, but any topic can be used.
– ACTIVITY FLIP BOOK:
- 6 Summarization pages of each lesson
- Cut & stapled book for review or to deepen learning
– POWERPOINT:
- Provides a digital format of the Student Workbook
- Great for teacher-guided instruction and read alouds
- Unit content is not editable, but you can add or delete slides
- Google Slides presentation also included
– TEACHER GUIDE:
- Lesson plans with Student Learning Objectives and Essential Questions
- Answer Keys for all resources
- Video Suggestions for each lesson
- Unit preparation checklist
- Common Core Standards alignment
- Teacher Unit Prep Check List
– TEST:
- Editable Word document and PDF provided
- 5 fill-in-the-blank questions with a word bank
- 5 multiple choice questions
- 2 short response questions
- Google Forms test included
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