English 10: Holocaust Assignment (Kokubun)
Your task is to work with a partner to create a presentation (PowerPoint, Prezi or other format of your choice) to help us better understand the personal toll the Holocaust took on the Jewish people.
**Please make the presentation more personal by choosing a story of an actual survivor, or a family member of a survivor.
The following are some webpages that will help you get started with your research into personal accounts:
The following are some webpages that will help you get started with your research into personal accounts:
Wikipedia - List of Holocaust Survivors (Hyper linked to their own pages and stories)
The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum "Behind Every Name a Story"
Centropa.Org "Preserving Jewish Memory - Bringing History to Life"
The Urban School "Telling Their Stories" Oral History Archives Project
The Holocaust Survivors' Friendship Association - "Survivor Stories"
The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum "Behind Every Name a Story"
Centropa.Org "Preserving Jewish Memory - Bringing History to Life"
The Urban School "Telling Their Stories" Oral History Archives Project
The Holocaust Survivors' Friendship Association - "Survivor Stories"
Your task is to work with a partner to create a presentation (PowerPoint, Prezi or other format of your choice) to answer the following questions, while researching and telling the personal story of a particular person or family:
What was the Holocaust?
Who was affected?
What are the Ghettos? The Concentration Camps?
What was life like during the Holocaust (in the ghettos and the concentration camps)?
What was the "Final Solution"?
Your presentation should include at least 15 slides including a title page and a works cited page.
What was the Holocaust?
Who was affected?
What are the Ghettos? The Concentration Camps?
What was life like during the Holocaust (in the ghettos and the concentration camps)?
What was the "Final Solution"?
Your presentation should include at least 15 slides including a title page and a works cited page.
Presentation
You may choose to use any format you wish for your presentation.
For some ideas of presentation and sharing tools, check out some ideas HERE.
Tips for making a good presentation slides:
Do Use
- Avoid using
- Medium blue templates
- More than 6 bullets in a list
- More than 25 words per slide
- Sound effects, most transitions, flying text and strange animations
Do Use
- High Contrast colours
- Sans serif fonts (eg. Arial, Arial Black, Futura & Tahoma)
- Single phrases
- Short lists
- Quotes
- Photographs & Video