Holocaust Research/Response Assessment (RI.1, W. 2)

Holocaust Research Assignment

Directions: Number your answers as you type them in the answer box. Be sure that your responses are in your own words.  Say NO to plagiarism!! 

1. Sum up the Holocaust in your own words. Include the "big ideas" about what, how, why, where, and when in a fluid paragraph or two. (Do NOT write as a list.) Use the following source:

What was the Holocaust? Links to an external site.

2. Explain Nazi propaganda (led by Hitler) and how it was used to persuade many people (in one well-developed paragraph). Begin with a central idea, and then include supporting details about types of Nazi propaganda. Use the following source:

Nazi Propaganda:  (Links to an external site.)There are more examples if you look under Web Resources on the right side.

3. Read one Holocaust survivor story from the below website, and summarize his/her experience in one well-developed paragraph.

Holocaust Survivor Stories

and also check out this link about Holocaust Survivors Links to an external site.. 

4. Find your own source using Utah’s Online Library on new information related to the Holocaust.

• Go to FJH Homepage
• Quicklinks and scroll down to More Resources (bottom) - Click Students
• Utah’s Online Library 

Outside of school information:  Login name: online            Password: database

EBSCO (History Reference Center) and Gale are good general collections.

Include the following: 

1. Title 
2. Author (if given)
3. Date posted (if given)
4. Write THREE new things that you learned about the Holocaust from this source.

HONORS DESIGNATION ONLY:
5. Find one more source about the Holocaust on Utah's Online Library. Include the following information:

Include the following: 

1. Title 
2. Author (if given)
3. Date posted (if given)
4. Write THREE new things that you learned about the Holocaust.