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exploring the Museum
LearNING STraTeGIeS:
Oral Reading, Note-taking, Discussion Groups, Graphic Organizer, Summarizing
My Group’s Topic:
Topic 1:
Topic 2:
Notes for Talking Points:
Notes for Talking Points:
Summaries and Dates of Key Events:
Summaries and Dates of Key Events:
My Notes
learning Targets
• Summarize information from a Holocaust website and contribute events to a historical timeline.
• Create and organize talking points and deliver an effective collaborative presentation.
Researching the Holocaust
1. Setting (time and place) is important in any story, but why is it especially important in a Holocaust narrative?
2. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C., has a large collection of artifacts and educational displays about the events and people
of the Holocaust. Work collaboratively to research and take notes on your assigned topics by exploring the museum’s website, starting with the page “The Holocaust: A Learning Site for Students.”
3. Each of the topics on the Learning Site links to a different webpage. Visit the website to explore your topics. Take notes on a graphic organizer like the
one below in order to prepare your talking points for a presentation on the Holocaust. Your talking points should contain interesting information that leads to an exploration of the theme, or central idea.
On the next page is a list of topics about the Holocaust. Your teacher will assign each group a topic (column) and individual subjects within that topic to research. As you research, neatly copy your key dates and events onto individual index cards to add to the collaborative timeline after your presentation.
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