(NAME-MCE) Echoes and Reflections - teach the complex issues of the Holocaust

[Bill Howe]

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*Echoes and Reflections*, developed by the Anti-Defamation League, the USC
Shoah Foundation Institute for Visual History and Education, and Yad Vashem,
includes everything an educator needs to teach the complex issues of the
Holocaust.



*Echoes and Reflections* is the result of an unprecedented partnership among
three leaders in education: the Anti-Defamation League, the USC Shoah
Foundation Institute for Visual History and Education, and Yad
Vashem.Thisresource includes everything teachers need to teach the
complex issues of
the Holocaust and its lessons for today.



Whether teaching a full semester Holocaust Studies course or including
information about the Holocaust in a unit of study on World War II, this
curriculum allows teachers to choose as little or as much material as they
can cover in a specific time period and still cover the subject matter
effectively. Developed primarily for use with high school students, the *Echoes
and Reflections *curriculum has also been adapted successfully to
accommodate both younger and older students.

Ten multi-part lessons are provided with a companion DVD or VHS of over
two-and-a-half hours of visual history testimony from survivors and other
witnesses of the Holocaust. Each of the interdisciplinary lessons is
supported with numerous primary source documents, including poems,
literature excerpts, *maps<http://www.echoesandreflections.org/../pdfs/Map.pdf>
*,* photographs<http://www.echoesandreflections.org/../pdfs/Curriculum_photo1.pdf>
*,* timelines <http://www.echoesandreflections.org/../pdfs/Timeline.pdf>*,* a
glossary <http://www.echoesandreflections.org/../pdfs/Glossary.pdf>*,
and *student
handouts <http://www.echoesandreflections.org/../pdfs/Handout.pdf>*.

Close to forty journal assignments are included in *Echoes and Reflections*.
These journal assignments encourage students to reflect on what they are
learning, to record their feelings and reactions to the information, and to
think about how the material has meaning in their own lives and in society.
Journals also serve as a mechanism by which students create their own
primary source material.

Suggested journal topics from Lesson Seven: Rescuers and Non-Jewish
Resistance

   - Write a letter to someone that you've learned about in this lesson.
   Tell the person what you are thinking and feeling after learning about
   his/her experiences.
   - Reflect on the meaning of the statement from the Talmud, "He who
   saves one life, it is as though he has preserved the existence of the entire
   world."
   - Write about a time when you made a conscious decision to help
   someone in a difficult situation or about a time when someone came forward
   to help you. Describe the event in detail and tell how you felt during the
   situation. What were some of the complications or difficulties that you
   faced? Were there any moral or ethical dilemmas that needed to be addressed?
   What were your feelings after the situation ended?





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