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Acts of Courage
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Teachers:
Jennifer Kay-Goodman & Paul Zigman
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Resisters and Rescuers Monologue Project
This project is designed to give students an intimate look at people and groups
who resisted the Nazis during WWII. Students learn through guest speakers, movies,
readings and by conducting individual research projects on a person or group who
resisted the Nazis or rescued others. The information students find is turned into
a standard format research paper and into a monologue that is then performed for
the class. The goals of the project are to:
- Illustrate that even small acts of courage can have huge impacts
- Show students that people were not all helpless victims or evil perpetrators
- Teach research skills
- Challenge students to write a script and perform in front of their peers
- Have students teach one another through peer reviews, editing, and watching each
others' performances
Guiding questions we ask beyond the who, what, when, where, and why are:
- What emotional,mental, intellectual, financial, physical, and social resources did
Jews and others persecuted by Nazis need to survive the Holocaust?
- What were the risks of being discovered as someone who helped or was associated
with someone considered "undesirable" by Nazi policy?
- What would have happened to rescuers/resisters and their families if they had been
caught?
- What did resources and personality traits did rescuers need to help others survive?
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