Cultural Norms & Extremes
Why do certain people accept and even embrace cultural beliefs yet others want to change them?
1. Read the selected articles for your topic.
2. Select 5 important points from your articles. Pick 5 pictures that illustrate these points. Save your pictures to your H drive or flash drive. Write a paragraph (4-6 sentences each) to help explain each picture (5 total). If someone knew nothing about your topic, they should gain a much better understanding after looking at your pictures and paragraphs (think mini-lesson).
Using VoiceThread
You will now finish your project in VoiceThread-- https://voicethread.com
Group 1--The treatment of Jews under the Nazi regime
Read the following articles found in World Book. World Book Online--Choose Advanced--type in World War II click on this article to read--scroll down to "Causes of the War"--skim through this section focusing only on those parts that talk about Germany
Type in Holocaust--read the article until the end of "The camps" section
Other helpful sources
Holocaust Museum Encyclopedia
Jewish Virtual Library
Profound moral questions result from the Holocaust. How could such highly educated and cultured people as Austrians and Germans do such a thing? Why did ordinary people participate or allow it to happen? Where was God? Where was humanity? Why did some people and nations refuse to be involved? People inside and outside Germany knew what was happening but took very little action. More than a million Germans were implicated in the Holocaust. Even when some Jews escaped, they risked being handed back to the authorities or simply shot by civilians. Had all involved taken the moral high ground and refused to carry out orders, could even the terror-machine that was the Nazi regime have continued with its evil policy? Few doubt, except for Holocaust deniers, that pure evil stalked the killing camps. The world is still trying to make sense of the Holocaust and the lessons that can be drawn from it.
New World Encyclopedia
Group 2--Stalin Purges
Read the following articles from these 3 websites:
Of Russian origin: Stalin's Purges
Washington Post Article from 2007
Gulag For more information click on "Living in the Camp: and "What Were Their Crimes"
Abstract from New York Times Article 2009
Russia's president, Dmitri A. Medvedev, warned Friday that Russians had lost their sense of horror over Stalin's purges, and called for the construction of museums and memorial centers devoted to the atrocities, as well as further efforts to unearth and identify the dead. Mr. Medvedev made the comments on his video blog, on the occasion of a holiday devoted to the memory of victims of repression. He warned that revisionist historians risked glossing over the darker passages of the Soviet past, citing a poll that showed that 90 percent of young people could not name victims of the purges.
Group 3--Jim Crow Laws/Civil Rights
Smithsonian--Separate is Not Equal
Read this page. Read the next 2 pages (White only 2 and Separate but Equal). Skip the Supreme Court page. Click to the next page to read The Battleground. On the left hand side click on Pursuit of Equality to finish your reading.
Other sources
List of laws
PBS
American RadioWorks
Group 4--Islamic Society--treatment of women
Read the next 3 articles.
Summary by Laura Ellen Shulman, community college instructor
Women's Rights in Saudi Arabia
just read this section
Honor Killings
Other Sources
Abused Muslim Women in U.S. Gain Advocates
Do Muslim Women Have Rights? (skim through this if you need more info)
2. Select 5 important points from your articles. Pick 5 pictures that illustrate these points. Save your pictures to your H drive or flash drive. Write a paragraph (4-6 sentences each) to help explain each picture (5 total). If someone knew nothing about your topic, they should gain a much better understanding after looking at your pictures and paragraphs (think mini-lesson).
Using VoiceThread
You will now finish your project in VoiceThread-- https://voicethread.com
Group 1--The treatment of Jews under the Nazi regime
Read the following articles found in World Book. World Book Online--Choose Advanced--type in World War II click on this article to read--scroll down to "Causes of the War"--skim through this section focusing only on those parts that talk about Germany
Type in Holocaust--read the article until the end of "The camps" section
Other helpful sources
Holocaust Museum Encyclopedia
Jewish Virtual Library
Profound moral questions result from the Holocaust. How could such highly educated and cultured people as Austrians and Germans do such a thing? Why did ordinary people participate or allow it to happen? Where was God? Where was humanity? Why did some people and nations refuse to be involved? People inside and outside Germany knew what was happening but took very little action. More than a million Germans were implicated in the Holocaust. Even when some Jews escaped, they risked being handed back to the authorities or simply shot by civilians. Had all involved taken the moral high ground and refused to carry out orders, could even the terror-machine that was the Nazi regime have continued with its evil policy? Few doubt, except for Holocaust deniers, that pure evil stalked the killing camps. The world is still trying to make sense of the Holocaust and the lessons that can be drawn from it.
New World Encyclopedia
Group 2--Stalin Purges
Read the following articles from these 3 websites:
Of Russian origin: Stalin's Purges
Washington Post Article from 2007
Gulag For more information click on "Living in the Camp: and "What Were Their Crimes"
Abstract from New York Times Article 2009
Russia's president, Dmitri A. Medvedev, warned Friday that Russians had lost their sense of horror over Stalin's purges, and called for the construction of museums and memorial centers devoted to the atrocities, as well as further efforts to unearth and identify the dead. Mr. Medvedev made the comments on his video blog, on the occasion of a holiday devoted to the memory of victims of repression. He warned that revisionist historians risked glossing over the darker passages of the Soviet past, citing a poll that showed that 90 percent of young people could not name victims of the purges.
Group 3--Jim Crow Laws/Civil Rights
Smithsonian--Separate is Not Equal
Read this page. Read the next 2 pages (White only 2 and Separate but Equal). Skip the Supreme Court page. Click to the next page to read The Battleground. On the left hand side click on Pursuit of Equality to finish your reading.
Other sources
List of laws
PBS
American RadioWorks
Group 4--Islamic Society--treatment of women
Read the next 3 articles.
Summary by Laura Ellen Shulman, community college instructor
Women's Rights in Saudi Arabia
just read this section
Honor Killings
Other Sources
Abused Muslim Women in U.S. Gain Advocates
Do Muslim Women Have Rights? (skim through this if you need more info)