By: Rebecca Dalton
Blue Valley North High School
Overland Park, Kansas
Introduction
This unit was designed for teachers to use as much or as little of it as they need. Teachers should feel free to implement whatever aspects of the unit that they feel comfortable teaching and/or presenting.
The introduction to the Holocaust is in the PowerPoint presentation. Students should have a copy of the Notes Worksheet on which they will take notes over the presentation throughout the unit. I do not start Night until the students have background information through the third Core Concept: the Weimar Republic, which generally takes approximately two 50-minute sessions. I do not state this in the lesson plans, but throughout the lessons, obviously there is teacher-led discussion on the readings and activities. Lesson Plans follow.
This teaching unit was designed by a member of the Isak Federman Holocaust Teaching Cadre through MCHE's Masters and Mentors Program.
The Masters and Mentors Program is funded by the H&R Block Foundation, Bertha S. and Ida E. Adelson Memorial Fund, the Legacy Fund, and the Flo Harris Supporting Foundation of the Jewish Community Foundation of Greater Kansas City, the Jewish Heritage Foundation of Greater Kansas City, and the Oppenstein Brothers Foundation.
