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PromisesHistory, other projects
The broad theme of these lessons is human connection, and a more specific theme is promises: how people keep promises, or don’t, and what happens in either situation. Students are... |
10, 11, 12, 7, 8, 9 | |
Centropa Biography Film/Stolpersteine AssignmentHistory, other projects
In this project, students work in pairs to read Centropa biographies, create a 5 minute video about the interviewee, and design a Stolpersteine (commemorative stone) for them.
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6, 7, 8, 9 | |
Looking back: A child’s recollections of the Holocaust through the eyes of the children of todayHistory
In this cross-cultural project, three Jewish school teachers assigned their students to read the same text using slightly different assignments. Students in all classes produced art in response to the...
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10, 11, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 | |
Why is a civic society important?Civic activism
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10, 11, 12 | |
La Benevolencija: Reaching Out to Welcome In |
11, 12 | |
Journeys - The Kinderstransport |
10, 11, 12, 9 | |
Two person poetry |
8 | |
Film response to a Centropa film |
10, 11, 12, 9 | |
The Power of a PromiseReligion / Ethics
Reflecting about who we are and how we behave are central to the High Holiday experience. Beginning with Elul and running through Simchat Torah, Jews ask forgiveness for our sins...
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10, 11, 12, 6, 7, 8, 9 | |
Hana's SuitcaseEnglish
This Holocaust ELA lesson for 7th or 9th grade students, addresses the following essential questions: What important factors make people leave their homeland? Do people always have a choice or...
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7, 8 | |
American Civil Rights Movement and SarajevoCivic activism
Students build a more complex and deeper understanding about the Civil Rights’ Movement as well as the activists and their non-compliance/non-violence approach to halt the laws and people in positions...
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10, 11, 12 | |
Courageous People ProjectCivic activism
Students work on the questions of “what is an act of moral courage” and “what is required to act courageously”. They explore the past and the present to discover courageous... |
5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11 | |
The Together ProjectCivic activism
Students in Chicago, Berlin, and Skopje explored minorities in each of their cultures, and stereotypes about them. Students first tried to predict what life was like for the students in...
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8 | |
Beyond BoundariesCivic activism
The fourth and final unit I teach each year is entitled “A Nation Divided and Rebuilt.” The content begins with the events leading up to the American Civil War, moves...
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8 | |
Analyzing a Centropa Filmother projects
Students watch films all the time. But do they think about how a good story is told through film? To get your students to think about how filmmakers tell stories... |
10 | |
Personal Choice and Community DynamicsHistory
In this 2015 Milton Wolf Prize winning lesson, students examine the extent to which individual choices shape community dynamics. By watching Survival in Sarajevo, examining images, engaging in group... |
10 | |
Analyzing a Centropa Filmother projects
Teachers use this activity for any project where students are asked to create a story on film or another visual presentation (Prezi, PowerPoint), including the Virtual Walking Tour project (students... |
University | |
Homeland Projectother projects
This project will introduce you to editing in Adobe Premiere Pro, while letting you explore a social/historical issue. This issue affected many Jews in the 20th Century and is... |
University | |
Righteous RemembrancesHistory
This 2015 Milton Wolf Prize winning lesson stresses the importance of individual responsibility and accountability in the face of difficult choices. Students will learn about individuals during the Holocaust who... |
12 | |
Civil Society - Whose Job is it to Guarantee We All Live in One?History
This 2015 Milton Wolf Prize winning lesson is designed to introduce students to the UN Declaration of Human Rights and to help them realize the need for individual civic responsibility... |
8 | |
From "The Other" to Anotherother projects
Too often, individuals or groups are labelled as the Other. The other is someone outside the group, they are considered diffferent; they are not wanted; they are labelled and... |
8 | |
Cross-cultural projects: Holocaust and Civil Rightsother projects
This was an on-going, cross-cultural project consisting of several min- lessons taught over the course of the school year, designed and taught by Ilijan Kuzmanovic (Republika Srbska) and Jeff Renihan (US)... |
11 | |
Sarajevo Project for Jewish Day School CommunitiesHistory
The Bosnian-Serb siege of Sarajevo, from spring 1993 until winter 1996, was the longest in modern history. With electricity, water and food supplies cut off and only sporadically supplied, with... |
9 | |
History of Holocaust Final Exam ProjectHistory
This final exam project culminates a semester of study and storytelling about Jewish life in Central Europe and the Holocaust that started with students presenting their own stories in picture... |
10 | |
Life During World War IIHistory
This is a history project but because we want our students ultimately to teach each other, we started with an introductory video conference during which students asked each other questions... |
11 | |
A Meeting of Minds, Culture, and Penfriends!other projects
In this cross-cultural project with students in North Carolina and Slovakia, our students are paired with a penfriend based on shared interests. The NC students wrote letters, but penfriends will... |
8 | |
Then and Nowother projects
Students bring in a family photograph they like. This can be from a vacation, a holiday celebration, a family life cycle event, any photograph that includes the student. In class... |
10 | |
Telling Jewish Stories using WordleHistory
Students are each given a short, multimedia film from Centropa to watch. As they watch – they may need to watch it more than once – they are to write... |
10 | |
Memory, Food and SensesSociology
In this lesson, which I adapt to different courses, students explore Centropa’s web page with Jewish recipes curated by Jayne Cohen, and read In Memory’s Kitchen, a collection of... |
10 | |
A Survivor's Story: Dr. Richard BugajerHistory
Students in my class and Melanie Shaul’s class in Hadera, Israel, read the autobiography of Dr. Richard Bugajer, My Shadowlife. Melanie and I met his widow in Vienna, on... |
10 |
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