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Holocaust Education Week Resource Guide
www.fldoe.org/holocausteducation
• Suggested Resources and Guidelines for Holocaust Education Week – developed for all school districts to assist with planning statewide programs.
• You will find a list of free digital and print resources and guidelines to help teachers and students explore Holocaust history and bring those lessons to today. Teachers should choose content that is appropriate for their students based on their age, grade, and how prepared they are for Holocaust studies.
• Holocaust Education week is an enhancement of ongoing Holocaust education as mandated in the state of Florida since 1994.These programs are available to schools and funded by inSIGHT Through Education. For more information, or to schedule these programs, contact Kimberly Coombs
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Kindergarten: All Are Welcome by Alexandra Penfold and Suzanne Kaufman
SS.K.A.1.1 Develop an understanding of how to use and create a timeline.
SS.K.C.2.1 Demonstrate the characteristics of being a good citizen.
SS.K.C.2.2 Demonstrate that conflicts among friends can be resolved in ways that are consistent with being a good citizen.
SS.K.C.2.3 Describe for groups to make decisions.
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Grade 1: Puppet Show based on The Crayon Box that Didn’t Talk and Big Al
SS.1.C.1.2 Give examples of people who have the power and authority to make and enforce rules and laws in the school and community.
SS.1.C.1.3 Give examples of the use of power without authority in the school and community.
SS.1.C.2.1 Explain the rights and responsibilities students have in the school community.
SS.1.C.2.3 Explain the characteristics of responsible citizenship in the school community.
SS.1.C.2.3. Identify ways students can participate in the betterment of their school and community.
SS.1.C.3.1 Explain how decisions can be made or how conflicts might be resolved in fair and just ways.
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Grade 2: The Sneetches by Dr. Seuss
SS.2.C.1.2 Explain the consequences of an absence of rules and laws.
SS.2.C.2.2 Define and apply the characteristics of responsible citizenship.
SS.2.C.2.3 Explain why United States citizens have guaranteed rights and identify rights.
SS.2.C.2.4 Identify ways citizens can make a positive contribution in their community.
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Grade 3: The Whispering Town by Jennifer Elvgren
SS.3.G.1.1 Use thematic maps, tables, charts, graphs, and photos to analyze geographic information.
SS.3.G.4.4 Identify contributions from various ethnic groups to the United States.
SS.3.C.1.1 Explain the purpose and need for government.
SS.3.C.1.2 Describe how government gains its power from the people.
SS.3.C.2.1 Identify group and individual actions of citizens that demonstrate civility, cooperation, volunteerism, and other civic virtues.
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Grade 5: Daniel’s Story by Carol Matas
SS.5. C.1.3 Explain the definition and origin of rights.
SS.5. C.2.4 Evaluate the importance of civic responsibilities in American democracy.
SS.5. C.2.5 Identify ways good citizens go beyond basic civic and political responsibilities to improve government and society.
SS.5. C.3.5 Identify the fundamental rights of all citizens as enumerated in the Bill of Rights.
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Grade 6: The Island on Bird Street by Uri Orlev
SS.6.W.1.3 Interpret primary and secondary sources.
SS.6.W.1.4 Describe the methods of historical inquiry and how history related to the other social sciences.
SS.6.W.1.5 Describe the roles of historians and recognize varying historical interpretations.
SS.6.W.1.6 Describe how history transmits culture and heritage and provides models of human character.
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Grade 7: Zlata’s Diary
The White Rose Film and Study Guide (for all from through grade 12)
SS.7.C.2.10 Examine the impact of media, individuals, and interest groups on monitoring and influencing government.
SS.7C.2.11 Analyze media and political communications (bias, symbolism, propaganda).
SS.7.C.2.5 Distinguish how the Constitution safeguards and limits individual rights.
SS.7.C.3.1 Compare different forms of government (direct democracy, representative democracy, socialism, communism, monarchy, oligarchy, autocracy).
SS.7.C.3.6 Evaluate Constitutional rights and their impact on individuals and society.
SS.7.C.4.3 Describe examples of how the United States has dealt with international conflicts.
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Grade 8: Beautiful Souls by Eyal Press/Various Chapters
The Diary of a Young Girl/Anne Frank
SS.8.A.1.1 Provide supporting details for an answer from , interview for oral history, check of information from research/text, and identify vs. weak arguments.
SS.8.A.1.2 Analyze charts, graphs, maps, photographs timelines; analyze political cartoons; determine cause and effect.
SS.8.A.1.3 Analyze current events relevant to American History topics through a variety of electronic and print media resources.
SS.8.A.1.4 Differentiate fact from opinion, utilize appropriate historical research and fiction/nonfiction support materials
SS.8.A.1.5 Identify, within both primary and secondary sources, the author, audience, format, and purpose of significant historical documents.
SS.8.C.1.1 Identify the constitutional provisions for establishing citizenship.
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Grades 9-12 Various Sources/Textbooks/Syllabi/Curriculum
SS.912.W1.5 Compare conflicting interpretations or schools of thought about world events and individual contributions to history (historiography).Students will evaluate primary source documents to understand the ideology of the time between key players of history.
Additional important standards that will be addressed will be:
SS.912.W.1.6: Evaluate the role of history in shaping identity and character.SS.912.W.7.3 Summarize effects of World War I.
SS.912.W. 7.11 Describe the effects of World War II.
SS.912.W.7.4 Describe the causes and effects of the German economic crisis of the 1920s and the global depression of the and analyze how governments responded to the Great Depression.
SS.912.W.912.7.5 Describe the rise of authoritarian governments in the Soviet Union, Italy, Germany, and Spain, and analyze the policies and main ideas of Vladimir Lenin, Joseph Stalin, Benito Mussolini, Adolf Hitler, and Francisco Franco.
SS.912.W.7.6 Analyze the restriction of individual rights and the use of mass terror against populations in the Soviet Union, Nazi Germany, and occupied territories.
SS.912.W.7.7. Trace the causes and key events related to World War II.
SS.912.W.7.8 Explain the causes, events, and effects of the Holocaust (1933-1945) including its roots in the long tradition of anti-Semitism, ideas about race and nation, and Nazi dehumanization of the Jews and other victims.
SS.912.W.7.9 Identify the wartime strategy and post-war plans of the Allied leaders.
SS.912.W.8.6 Explain the background for the establishment of the modern state of Israel in 1948 and the ongoing military and political conflicts between Israel and the Arab-Muslim world.
Students will further investigate other genocides of the twentieth century including the Armenian Genocide, Cambodian Genocide, the Balkans, Rwanda Darfur. Students will delve deeper into these issues and explore the causes and effects of nationalist conflicts.
SS.912.W.9.3 Explain cultural, historical, and economic factors and governmental policies that created the opportunities for ethnic cleansing or genocide in Cambodia, the Balkans, Rwanda, and Darfur, and describe various governmental and non-governmental responses to them.SS.912.A.6.3 Analyze the impact of the Holocaust during World War II on Jews as well as other groups.
SS.912.A.6.7 Describe the attempts to promote international justice through the Nuremberg Trials.
Additional Standard to align with Honors Holocaust Studies
SS.912.S.1.6 Distinguish fact from opinion in data sources to analyze various points of view about a social issue.SS.912.S.2.10 Identify both rights and responsibilities the individual has to the group.
SS.912.S.7.5 Examine how individual and group responses are often associated with social problems.
SS.912.S.8.7 Define propaganda and discuss the methods of propaganda and discuss the methods of propaganda used to influence social behavior.SS.912.P.10.4 Discuss psychological research examining race and ethnicity.
SS.912.P.10.3 Discuss the relationship between culture and conceptions of self and identity
SS.912.P.10.14 Examine societal treatment of people with disabilities and the effect of treatment by others on individual identity/status.
SS.912.P.10.6 Discuss how privilege and social power structures relate to stereotypes, prejudice, and discrimination.
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