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**Unit 5 - Lasting Impacts of Genocide.**
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1. Comprehend what it is to be prejudice, how it can develop into discrimination, and possibly how discrimination practices can end in or lead to genocide. 2. Identify, explain, and evaluate how the Holocaust and Native American genocide could and did happen. 3. Comprehend that the Holocaust is unique among cases of injustice. It was the first case of a government using the means of industrial production to kill a people. It was also the first genocide which did not originate from and was not justified by a war, riot, or attempted revolution 4. Identify, analyze and describe the evolution of Native American reservations from their original purpose to today. 5. Construct a meaningful response to the essential question with examples from both books, class discussions the field trip, and their research.

**Unit Schedule (15 days)**
Propaganda, burning Jewish books, removing Jews from all schools, confinement to ghettos, “Final Solution”- Annihilation , || Day 2 || Day 3 // Schindler’s List // Finish timeline if time is needed at the beginning of class. || Day 4 // Schindler’s List // || <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 128);"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 128); font-family: Georgia,serif;">Day 5 //Schindler’s List// || Visit the Holocaust museum, students need to write down fifteen to twenty facts they have learned from the tour guide, and the interviewee || <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 128);"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255); font-family: Georgia,serif;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 128);">Day 7 Each person will be given a chapter of __Night__ to read. When everyone has finished, they will “teach” a partner what they have learned and what is taking place in the chapter. || <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 128);"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255); font-family: Georgia,serif;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 128); font-family: Georgia,serif;">Day 8 <span style="font-size: 10pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 128);"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 128); font-family: Georgia,serif;">We are going to discuss the idea of a dominant “culture” and how the majority tends to oppress minor ity living spaces. We will discuss how the dominant ideology tends to undermine that of minority groups. Set the stage to make the transition to Native Americans and reservations. || <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 128);"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255); font-family: Georgia,serif;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 128);">Day 9 __ The Absolute Diary of a Part Time Indian __. Student’s will read one to two chapters of the book allowed or individually as they choose. Each group will be given different chapters of the book. || <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 128);"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255); font-family: Georgia,serif;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 128); font-family: Georgia,serif;">Day 10 Student’s will break off into new groups and engage in a jigsaw activity. Students will work in groups of 4 and will take turn sharing information about their chapter, for other class mates to jot down. Everyone should turn in a completed fact worksheet of at least 3-4 chapters. || Watch the imovie and discuss what message it sends, and what we have learned from it. Why is it important? What are its implications? Does it help us think about the subject in a different way? || <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 128);"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 128); font-family: Georgia,serif;">Day 12 Have students discuss discrimination, oppression, and the intended outcome of reservations for Indians, and Concentration camps for the Jews. || <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 128);"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255); font-family: Georgia,serif;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 128); font-family: Georgia,serif;">Day 13 Students will draw or find an image that relates to Wiesel or Alexie’s books. They will write or type the excerpt below the image. Time permitting, students will discuss what they have done and why. || <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 128);"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255); font-family: Georgia,serif;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 128); font-family: Georgia,serif;">Day 14 Visit the computer lab to find out as much about Reservations as possible. Find out what they are like, what the people are like, and their experiences on and off the reservation. || <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 128);"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255); font-family: Georgia,serif;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 128); font-family: Georgia,serif;">Day 15 Student’s will be given different options to write a paper on. They can compare and contrast the movie to the museum visit, compare and contrast Wiesel and Alexie’s books, or they can compare Wiesel to the museum visit. ||
 * === **<span style="font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(246, 9, 39);">Monday ** === || === **<span style="font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(255, 0, 35);">Tuesday ** === || === **<span style="font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(255, 0, 35);">Wednesday ** === || === **<span style="font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(255, 0, 35);">Thursday ** === || === **<span style="font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(255, 0, 35);">Friday ** === ||
 * <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 128);"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255); font-family: Georgia,serif;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 128);"><span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 128);">Day 1
 * Lecture/Discussion ** <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 128);"> on Adolf Hitler (read a few sentences of translated version of __Mine Comp__), the Enabling Act, forced sterilization, anti-Semitism
 * Lecture/ ** Discussion on Jewish resistance, People who helped the Jews, the end of the War, and the death toll.
 * Timeline ** -Shows the date of important events so students better understand what is happening.
 * Movie:**
 * Movie:**
 * Movie:**
 * <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 128);"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 128); font-family: Georgia,serif;">Day 6
 * Field Trip:**
 * Read Night**:
 * Discussion**:
 * Read:** Sherman Alexie’s
 * Jigsaw:**
 * <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 128);"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 128); font-family: Georgia,serif;">Day 11
 * iMovie**:
 * Fish Bowl**:
 * Gallery Walk**:
 * Technology Day**:
 * Papers:**