Holocaust Awareness Week
I don’t know how many of you realized that is was Holocaust Awareness Week. Our fabulous Language Arts teachers in 8th grade are completing a unit on the Holocaust. They are comparing stories and books. The kids are really getting into it and hopefully, it will make them think about their own behaviors. The students all wore paper clips everyday and made sure to offer them to other students and adults that didn’t have one. You can read about the paper clips here. On top of all that, they decided to make a visual representation of those that lost their lives.
In case you can’t read it, the blue flags represent non-Jews and the yellow flags represent Jews. One flag represents 10,000 individuals that died in the Holocaust.
The kids did a great job and were all so proud! There were a few more posters out there with explanations and several with pictures and stories of victims.
May 3, 2008 at 11:56 am
What a great learning experience! They did a wonderful job!
May 5, 2008 at 6:08 am
What a fantastic project!! Looks like the kids did a great job!
May 7, 2008 at 12:43 pm
What a really great project! It’s hard to tell, but are the flags set up in the shape of the Star of David? I hope the kids learned a valuable lesson from this. I certainly hope mine will.