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February 13, 2006
Do Now
History - ____
Do Now #5
Objective:
4. I will be able to analyze the changes in the Nazi’s treatment of Jews and other minorities that came with
World War II.
Essential Question: “When can it be easier to blame someone else for your own problems?”
Earn your class the points they deserve by …
 Being sharp in line
 Keeping hands down during the Do Now
 Stacking your binders neatly
 Clipping away all of today’s materials.
Remember to copy today’s objective onto your unit tracking sheet.
Read the selection below, and then complete the sentences below by writing the correct words in the
blanks.
Remember that our BIG GOAL for the year is to write a DBQ so that we are ready for AP history
at Pride High. In the United States _______________ of African American high school students take a
single AP class. 100% of GCP seventh graders will be ready for AP history by writing a DBQ this year.
Writing a DBQ is hard. How will you show that you are ready? In addition to primary source
skills, you must possess a deep knowledge of history. Mr. Lindy will know that you have this deep
understanding once you have earned all of your stickers on your unit tracking sheets for the year.
Keep two things in mind this week. First, you are earning those stickers everyday. Everyday that
we work hard, we say that ____________________________ is unjust. 100% of GCP seventh graders
will be ready for AP history. Second, as we study genocide, remember that murders like the ones we
study are going on TODAY. We must understand the lessons of history so that we can put a stop to them
NOW.
1. stats question.
2. By the end of seventh grade, ___________ percent of GCP seventh graders will be ready for AP
history.
3. To show that we are ready, every one of us will write a ___________ this year.
4. Writing this kind of essay requires a _________________________________________________.
5. I can show Mr. Lindy that I have this by earning _______________________________________.
6. We are also studying genocide because ______________________________________________
________________________________________________________________________________.
Vocab Review:
Eugenics
Genocide
Charismatic
Above and Beyond: On the back of this page, explain why so many Germans voted for Hitler.
Name: __________________________________
February 13, 2006
Classwork #5:
Classwork
History - ____
World War II and Nazi Death Camps
World War II:
Remember from last week that Hitler believed in the science of eugenics. He believed that it was
the job of the Aryan race to overpower the weaker races. During the late 1930s, Hitler created a powerful
army in Germany (even though Germany was technically not supposed to do so). In 1939 he invaded Poland,
and he quickly invaded France and Russia as well. Hitler’s goals was to create more space for the Aryan race
by taking away the land of other countries. As Hitler’s Germany grew, however, it picked up the Jews and
other minorities that lived in these countries. Hitler wanted a plan for how to deal with these
“undesirables.”
Changes in German Policy toward the Jews and other Minorities:
Hitler wanted to eliminate genes that he considered to be inferior. For this reason he ordered the
execution of the handicapped and of the extremely sick. As the German army swept across Europe, special
“mobile killing squads” called Einsatzgruppen (eye -- n -- sots -- group -- in) followed behind it. The mobile
killing squads collected opponents of the Nazis, Jews, and other minorities and shot all of them, burying
their bodies in mass graves.
The Einsatzgruppen stuck mostly to the rural parts of Europe. In urban
areas, Germans created ghettoes. A ghetto is a closed off section of city that
becomes especially poor. The Jews of Germany’s major cities had to live in these
Ghettoes. There was rarely enough food, and often there was no electricity or
running water. Thousands of Jews had to leave their very nice homes and move
into the poorest sections of the city. Jews were not allowed to leave the
ghettoes.
Death Camps:
By around 1942, Hitler’s policy toward the Jews got even worse. Hitler ordered the creation of a
series of extermination camps (or death camps). He ordered his army to remove Jews from the ghettoes
and send them to the death camps. The Nazis loaded Jews into crowded box-cars on trains (usually used for
shipping cattle). When the trains arrived at the camps, Jews were split into
groups of men and groups of women. The soldiers led them to a room where
Jews had to take off all of their clothes and leave any valuables (which the
Nazis later sold). The Jews then walked into a large group shower. Out of the
shower head came not water but poisonous gas. The bodies of the dead Jews
were then taken to large furnaces that burnt up their remains into ashes. At
Auschwitz (ow--shwitz) nearly 1 million people were gassed, 90% of them
Jewish.
The Holocaust:
The slaughter of people in the Nazi death camps is known as the Holocaust.
Hitler murdered 11 million people in the Holocaust, 6 million of which were Jewish.
The numbers themselves are terrifying. What is perhaps more terrifying, however, is
the number of Europeans (in many countries) who either helped t he Nazis or did
nothing to stop them. What would you have done?
Above and Beyond: Predict with your partner what skeleton fits best.
Part II: Complete the missing sections of today’s skeleton with your partner.
Part III: One of the most challenging aspects of studying the Holocaust is figuring out why so many people
went along with Hitler’s plans. Sometimes we all tell ourselves things to make something bad seem ok.
For example, if you weren’t looking forward to getting up early on Sunday to go to church, you might say,
“It’s ok if I sleep through church because then I’ll be more rested to do my homework this afternoon!”
This kind of excuse is called a rationalization (rash -- uh -- null -- eye -- zay -- shun). Germans tended to use
three different kinds. Think of it as “what you tell yourself to make something ok.”
Hope:
Neutral:
Job #1: 1. Select a rationalization from the chart
2. Write word bubble as German:
Ex: “I won’t speak out b/c …”
“I support the Nazis b/c …”
“Hitler’s right b/c …”
3. Shade / outline (off the board)
4. Check for gr., sp., and punct.
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Fear:
Job #2: 1.
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4.
Select an event (off the board)
Illustrate the event in the box (w/ date)
Write a one or two sentence description.
Check for grammar, spelling, and
punctuation.
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Name: ___________________________
February 13, 2006
Classwork
History -
Homework: 2/7 - 2/9
Directions: Each night, create flashcards for the day’s vocabulary words.
Front:
- Your name
- the word
- the word’s number (1, 2, etc…)
Back
- the definition
- an illustration
Monday:
9. Boxcar - a type of train car usually used for transporting farm animals that the Nazis used to
take Jews to the death camps.
10. Auschwitz - the largest of the Nazi death camps where nearly 1 million people were sent to
the gas chambers.
11. Einsatzgruppen (eye -- n -- sots -- group -- un) - the mobile killing squads that followed the
Nazi army