Background information about the assignment:

  1. You will be assigned a topic at random.
  2. Decide which type of topic you have. Read the information below to decide.
    1. Your topic may be a specific “camp,” or a factory, or a group such as Hitler’s Youth.
    2. Your topic may be a general topic such as victims, survivors, liberators, persecutors, etc.  If any of these are the topic you are assigned, you must decide on one person to write about.  You may choose the person, but you must inform the teacher during the first half-hour of the time that you are in the library to do your research.  Failure to do so will result in your being assigned a person.
  3. Due dates for individual sections of your project will be announced.

Research:

  1. Use the Internet to visit web sites to find information on your topic.  (See suggested sites.)
  2. Use other library resources and print media
  3. Use maps, photographs, and other graphics (graphs, charts, political cartoons), and headlines from newspapers written at the time of the event you are researching.

What will my project look like?

            Your project must fit on a poster board or science board.   The science board is the best choice because it can stand on its own for display purposes.

Your project must include the following:

  1. Title and your name as author
  2. Graphics
  3. Symbols (with meanings and explanations or significance)--at least 3
  4. 10-word glossary (dictionary) of significant terms you learned doing your research
  5. Examples of original source material, i.e. text written by the person you are writing about or by people in the camp you are writing about, etc. ***This is not YOUR writing.***
  6. An appropriate timeline with references (newspaper articles, headlines or cartoons)

Your writing:

  1. An introduction
  2. At least one philosophical question you had to think about because of what you learned
  3. A conclusion
  4. A poem (one of the following)
    1. That you write based on an original source document that you use (see details below)
    2. A chinquapin that you write
    3. Haiku that you write

 

How to write the free-verse poem based on original source material:

1.      Select no more than 5 sentences from the original source.

2.      Find the most important words in the five sentences.

3.      Put these words together to make a free-form poem, cinquain, or Haiku.  ***DO NOT change the original author’s words or meaning.  Jus use the author’s words to give the viewer of your project a sense of the original author’s dilemma or dramatic situation.

Documentation:

  1. Bibliography of all sources (must be at least 3) using the MLA style sheet or the APA style sheet
  2. Student journals that tell
    1. What you were thinking about as you did your research and learned about the history of the Holocaust
    2. There must be at least 5 entries of no less than 10 sentences.
    3. Each entry must have a date.

**Note:  The student journal is submitted to your teacher and may or may not be part of your project display.