Holocaust Project - Due 11/29/11

Holocaust Multigenre Project

Victim Rough Draft - Due Friday 11/4/11

Milgrim Experiment - Due Tuesday 11/1

Blog: So what do you conclude from this experiment? Does it give you any insight into human behavior? What will humans be willing to do, why they’ll do it, what they are capable of doing and not doing? Putting aside Hitler for the moment, what kinds of behavior does this experiment help to explain, not only in history but in our own times? Due Tuesday.

Watch the video.

Hitler Youth Due Block Day (11/3 or 11/4)

Complete readings and worksheet about the Hitler Youth

Worksheet

QUIZ ON READINGS!

Due for Tuesday 10/25

Complete Worksheet #4

p. 183 Breeding German Race

p. 193 Eliminating Opposition

p. 195 Isolating Gays

p. 201 Defining a Jew

Homework for Monday 10/24

Based on the information on your chart on your German citizen, do you think this citizen is very likely, likely, or not likely at all to vote for the Nazi Party in the 1932 election? EXPLAIN
Put this in your notebook!!!!!

Quiz on Readings (pages 1,2,3 only) , Video, Packet, Power Point
Hitler Video Part One
Hitler Video Part Two

Weimar Presentation

Due Block Day

Read Holocaust and Human Behavior resource book and complete worksheet:

p. 165 Targeting the Jews

p. 172 Taking Over Universities

p. 179 Killing Ideas

Nazi Reading Worksheet

Nazi Readings due Tuesday 10/18

In Holocaust and Human History resource book, readings:

p. 137 Revolt in the Beer Hall

p. 151 Hitler in Power

p. 162 Targeting the Communists

Nazi Readings due Monday 10/17

In Holocaust and Human History resource book, readings:

page 46 - Case Study on Anti-Judaism

page 119 - Treaty of Versailles

page 124 - Anger and Humiliation

complete worksheet

Eugenics Test Block Day

After the test, read pages 256-261 in Race and Membership (blue book).

Answer Connections paragraphs #1, 2, 4 in your notebooks.

In addition, write a detailed answer to this prompt:

To what degree should Americans and American institutions today acknowledge the connection to the Nazi’s eugenic policies? How does this connection affect one’s feelings about the USA and our involvement in WWII?

Eugenics Today? DUE MONDAY 10/10

The history of eugenics presents many moral and ethical questions. Genetics study today looks at reproductive technologies that will allow parents to create "designer babies". This will be predominantly motivated by individual competitiveness and the desire to create the best opportunities for children, rather than an urge to improve the species as a whole, which characterized the early 20th-century forms of eugenics.

An another example of such individual motivations includes parents attempting to prevent homosexuality in their children, despite lack of evidence of a single genetic cause of homosexuality.

Some scientists argue that eugenics and the conservation of natural resources are similar propositions. Both can be practiced foolishly so as to abuse individual rights, but both can be practiced wisely.

WHAT DO YOU THINK?? SHOULD SCIENTISTS USE CURRENT KNOWLEDGE TO CREATE "PURER, SMARTER, BETTER" BABIES TODAY? IS THERE A PLACE FOR GENETICS (EUGENICS) IN TODAY'S WORLD? AND IF SO, WHERE DOES IT END? HOW FAR DO WE GO? IN ADDTION, COMMENT ON AT LEAST ONE OTHER STUDENT'S BLOG.

USE YOUR SECRET NAME AND CLASS PERIOD. 4-6 sentences

Loving v. Virginia 1967 Blog - Due Monday 10/10

Loving v. Virginia (1967) declared anti-miscegenation laws unconstitutional. The Supreme Court unanimously held that prohibiting and punishing marriage based on racial qualifications violated the equal protection and the due process clauses of the Fourteenth Amendment.

WHAT RELEVANCE (IF ANY) MIGHT Loving v. Virginia HAVE TO THE CURRENT DEBATE ABOUT GAY MARRIAGE?

Write 3-4 sentences on this subject and comment on at least one other student's blog. If you don't know a lot on this subject, do some research (credible sources) to include some facts.

Use your secret name and class period. Ex: 4/5 secret name

CNN Article

Time Magazine Article

Eugenics

Eugenics Module

If you are having trouble viewing the pictures in the Persuasion and Propaganda section, use this link in Firefox.

Module Worksheet

Origins of Eugenics Powerpoint