Lesson Plan: Tuesday, 3/6 45 minutes

This lesson plan will be the same for both the Monday/Wednesday section and the
Tuesday/Thursday section.

ESSENTIAL QUESTIONS
Holocaust
o How and why did the Holocaust happen?
o How can some people resist injustice and others obey authority?
o How can an individual be upstander?
History and today
o How can the past affect the present?
Primary/Secondary Sources
o What is the purpose of using both primary and secondary sources?
o Why do we need to critically evaluate what we read?

ENDURING UNDERSTANDINGS
Content/Enduring Understandings:
o Students will learn how and why the Holocaust happened.
Students will understand the Holocaust was not an accident in historyit
occurred because individuals, organizations, and governments made choices
that not only legalized discrimination but also allowed and promoted
prejudice, hatred, and ultimately mass murder to occur.
Students will learn what it means to be an upstander vs. a bystander.
Students will understand silence and indifference to the suffering of
others, or to the infringement of civil rights in any society, can
however, unintentionallyperpetuate the problem.
Students will learn how to become upstanders in their day-to-day lives.
o History and today
Students will come to understand that the past affects the present on
individual, familial, community, national, and global scales.
Skills/Goals/Objectives:
o Students will develop skills in analysis of primary and secondary sources.
o Students will draw explicit connections between graphic novels and history to
understand deep knowledge of the Holocaust and how it affects today.

STANDARDS
N/A

MATERIALS
I will need my lesson plan.

PROCEDURES

OPENER- 5 minutes
Students will be lined up in 2 quiet lines.
I will explain that today we have a visitor so there is no warm up, but students are to
enter the room quietly, respectfully, and ready to listen and learn.
She will present for half the class, and then leave time at the end of class for your
questions, so be prepared to ask them.
 BODY OF THE LESSON- 35 minutes

Introduce how I know her, small group and talk with classes, she offered to come in and
talk with you all.

Ms. Poncz will present 25 minutes

o Book to show
o Images artefacts
Students can look through it
Primary sources
Not to the nay-sayers, really true, really happened to my mom
That is her goal
Students will ask questions 10 minutes
o Have a conversation

CLOSURE- 5 minutes
Homework:
o Graphic novel- due Friday
o Bring in art supplies- Wednesday or Thursday if you want we will be doing a
project
I will ask students to pack up. Once they are seated and quiet, I will dismiss them.

ACCOMODATIONS
I have made accommodations for students who learn best through interactive learning
experiences.

ASSESSMENT/EVALUATION
To gauge students learning that the Holocaust was not an accident in history, we will
have Ms. Ponczs lesson and space for questions.
To gauge student understanding of the idea that history and today are interconnected
on individual, familial, community, national, and global scales, we will have Ms. Ponczs
lesson and space for questions.

PERSONAL REFLECTIONS / NOTES