Holocaust Visual History Lesson: Responsibility
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Holocaust Visual History Lesson: Responsibility
Categories Holocaust 
grades:  Middle School (6-8) , High School (9-12) 

Lesson Summary:

From University of Southern California s Shoah Foundation:
This lesson is a part of Creating Character,  a series of eight multi-media classroom lessons, each of which explores the importance of positive character development. These lessons are geared towards teachers who teach 8th to 12th grade.  

In this lesson, students identify the people, organizations, or ideals for which they feel responsible. By watching visual history testimony, they identify examples of responsibility taken by individuals during the Holocaust.



Objectives

  • Students will develop an understanding of the concept of responsibility. 
  • Students will identify people, organizations or ideals for which they feel responsible. 
  • Students will identify ways in which they demonstrate responsibility. 
  • Students will work with visual history testimony. 
  • Students will use visual history testimony to identify examples of responsibility taken by individuals during the Holocaust. 
  • Students will relate their own experiences of responsibility to those presented in the visual history testimony accounts.

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