The over all topic is researching and learning about the Holocaust. Students will read and understand a time line of the events during the Holocaust.

1. What is going on?

Topic: Students will look at the time line of the Holocaust and map out different time lines for different sides of the war. They will all read and do research for their side of the war and make a presentation to share with the class ( a time line). At the end of the presentations the class will come together to make a complete outline of the war.

Grade Level: Eighth

Tasks: The war has ended but the chaos has left many questions for the surrounding governments. You are a historian and need to find out were your armies were and when. If there was a battle you need to document where it was and who was involved. Follow the armies and movement and map them.

Roles: US army historian, German historian, Rebel army historian.

2. What can the children do? (might use)

Topic: Research how children have impacted the war before and after. Find out what American children did, and what children who were part of the holocaust had to do to survive.

Grade Level: Eighth

Tasks: You are a child in . . .America, Germany, Poland, France, England. . . . and you have to contribute to the war somehow. If you are a Nazis in German how are you contributing to the war. If you are in Poland and you are a Jewish, how are you surviving, or helping the rebel cause against the Nazis.

Roles: Many roles, representing different areas of the world during the war.

3. Being a family during the war in Europe.

Topic: Students will research where many families went during the war and that children were separated from parents. Students will be broken up into families Mom, dad, children, and they will have to act out a skit that is a narration of what there family went through during the war.

Grade Level: Eighth

Tasks: You are part of a family. The war is over and a writer, me, wants to make a book containing the stories of families journeys through the war, and after the war. What is your families story? What did you go through in your individual role.

Roles: Mother, Father, Son, Father

4. The artist’s perspective.

Topic: Through research the students will reproduce or make photos that represent many of the things that are going on during the war. In groups they will make a portfolio of picture that they create in many creative ways that tell a time line.

Grade Level: Eighth

Tasks: You want to tell the story of what happened during the Holocaust. The artist in you wants the world to know the truth and you are going to show them through your creative eyes.

Roles: Artist: the painter, color, and creator

The historian: helps get things in the time line

The information provider: lived through the Holocaust and tells their story