Nazis Take Power Due Monday 3/5/12

Worksheets -download and complete if you don't have a copy.

Read the following articles and complete guided reading worksheets

Case Study on Anti-Judaism p. 46-49

Treaty of Versailles p. 119-120

Anger and Humiliation p. 124

Revolt in the Beer Hall p. 137

Nazi Eugenics - Due Monday 3/5

Under The Cover of Law

Read the article and answer the first set of Connections (beginning with "A euphemism...") and last set of Connection paragraphs ( beginning with "Compare Germany’s...") in your notebooks. To be collected 3/5

Eugenics Test Friday 3/2/12

Multiple Choice and Short Answer Questions

Buck v. Bell (1927)

Some points to consider:

• Harry Laughlin, his colleagues at the Eugenics Record Office, and eugenicists in the USA believed that feeble-minded, immoral, criminal, and diseased people should not procreate, or else the American "stock" would decrease in quality.
• The tools used to identify these "inferior traits," such as the I.Q. test, are fundamentally flawed and biased. In addition, most of these "inferior traits" are influenced more by environment than genetics.
• In order to prevent the quality of American "stock" from declining, eugenicists pushed for state sterilization laws. The goal of the sterilization laws was to forcibly perform surgery on men or women deemed inferior, so that they could not procreate and pollute the gene pool.
• The Virginia sterilization law was the test case to go in front of the Supreme Court. The Court's 1927 ruling stated that Virginia's sterilization law was constitutional, and it opened the floodgates. By 1934, 24 states passed similar laws, and more than 60,000 people were forcibly sterilized in the United States through the 1970s.
• Carrie Buck, the woman named in the case, was a victim. Her pregnancy was the result of rape. There is no reliable evidence that she or her child or her mother were "feeble-minded," a word that carries no real scientific meaning, anyway. Furthermore, both the prosecution and the defense in her case supported her sterilization and Virginia's law. The case was deliberately framed by both sides so the Court would approve the law.

Eugenics in America

Eugenics Online Module

Eugenics Worksheet

PowerPoint Origins of Eugenics

TEST ON FRIDAY MARCH 2

Two Towns of Jasper - Due Friday

Part of Shawn Berry’s defense was that he was a bystander, not an instigator. The jury did not believe that claim, but assuming that such a situation could occur, what is the responsibility of an observer to an act of racism. Should bystanders who don’t intervene be held culpable in any ways? How might the responsibility to respond be different for blacks and whites? Racist acts can range from extreme violence to a thoughtless comment or joke. Have you ever witnesses any act of racism? What did you do? If the event happened today, would your response be the same? If not, what has changed? 4-6 sentences and respond to one other post.

Two Towns of Jasper - Due Friday

Part of Shawn Berry’s defense was that he was a bystander, not an instigator. The jury did not believe that claim, but assuming that such a situation could occur, what is the responsibility of an observer to an act of racism. Should bystanders who don’t intervene be held culpable in any ways? How might the responsibility to respond be different for blacks and whites? Racist acts can range from extreme violence to a thoughtless comment or joke. Have you ever witnesses any act of racism? What did you do? If the event happened today, would your response be the same? If not, what has changed?

Two Towns of Jasper

Part of Shawn Berry’s defense was that he was a bystander, not an instigator.The jury did not believe that claim, but assuming that such a situation could occur, what is the responsibility of an observer to an act of racism. Should bystanders who don’t intervene be held culpable in any ways? How might the responsibility to respond be different for blacks and whites? Racist acts can range from extreme violence to a thoughtless comment or joke. Have you ever witnesses any act of racism? What did you do? If the event happened today, would your response be the same? If not, what has changed?

Bad Samaritan

Watch this video: The Bad Samaritan parts 1 & 2 and post comments below.

Eighteen-year-old David Cash chose to walk away as his friend, fellow eighteen-year-old Jeremy Strohmeyer, assaulted and murdered Sherrice Iverson, age 7, in the girls room of a Nevada casino at 3 in the morning. He told the Los Angeles Times when his friend was arrested that he was “not going to lose sleep over someone else’s problems.”

Clearly what Jeremy Strohmeyer did was reprehensible. What David Cash did was to choose to be a bystander, not to be a rescuer or a resister in any way. One can only speculate what might have happened had Cash more actively intervened. But according to Nevada law at the time, he was under no legal obligation to do otherwise.

As awful as the situation was, I’d like to hear your views on the situation. What do you think should have governed Cash’s actions? What obligations does a person who witnesses another wrong have? Are there different rules depending on the nature of the “wrong”?

The Bad Samaritan

Watch this video and comment on the blog. Make sure to comment on your classmates' posts.

For Monday 2/13/12

Read this article from The New York Times and respond on the blog using your secret name and class period. What is the role of the bystander? What would you have done in this situation? Does the situation sound familiar to you? 4-6 sentences minimum. Also respond to at least one other post.

Due Tuesday 2/14/12

Final Identity Reflection This should be typed double spaced 12-font, 1" margins.

Due Block Day 2/8 or 2/9

CRASH REFLECTION - Typed

Choose two characters. What traits did the movie bring out about them? How did the stereotypes turn out to be incorrect? What methods were used to teach us that we cannot judge others by their race or ethnicity? What does the movie suggest about the nature of stereotyping others? Use examples from the movie Crash to back up your opinions. Two paragraphs.

For Tuesday 2/7/12

Read the In Group and answer Connections 1, 2, and 3 in your notebooks.

In your notebooks:

Write a letter to someone you have bullied in the past and apologize for your behavior. Or write a letter to someone who has bullied you and explain how that made you feel.