Download GT World History 2015-2016 Summer Assignment Welcome to GT

GT World History 2015-2016 Summer Assignment
Welcome to GT World History! In this course, you will be reading and analyzing a variety
of primary and secondary sources in order to understand what has happened in our past and
how historians understand and interpret the events of the past.
One of our first activities will be a Socratic Seminar discussion of the introduction to Wendy
Lower’s book Hitler’s Furies: German Women in the Nazi Killing Fields. Your job over the
summer is to read the introduction and prepare notes to answer these questions:
1. What sources did Lower use to study her subject? What information did these
sources provide? What are some of the problems or challenges that these sources
present?
2. What process(es) did Lower use as she did her research? What does this show about
the study of history?
3. What previous scholarship/research on women in the Nazi empire did Lower
review? What did these historians argue? What gaps still exist in the scholarship?
4. How have previous historians understood women’s role in Nazi Germany? In other
words, describe how German women of this time period have been portrayed by past
historians.
5. What questions did Lower seek to answer in her research?
6. What are Lower’s primary arguments and/or conclusions about women’s
participation in the Nazi regime’s program of genocide?
7. Who were “Hitler’s Furies”?
You can access the reading in one of several ways:
 Find the file posted on the Dulaney web site under Summer Assignments.
 Scan the QR code below.
 Email me and I will send you the file.
 Go to your local library and check out the book.
You may take notes in whatever format you wish. These questions will form the basis of
our discussion of the introduction when we begin school in August. If you have questions
over the summer, feel free to email me at [email protected]
Happy reading!
Ms Bourassa