Confucius said, “Tell me, and I’ll forget. Show me, and I’ll remember. Let me do it, and I’ll understand.”
Although we certainly hope that our students will never need to resist a tyrannical authority, this lesson attempts to follow Confucius’ wise instructional design. The goal of the lesson is to help students remember and understand–by reading excerpts from memoirs, biographies, and diaries–the resistance efforts of Jews during the Holocaust. Learners will be challenged to analyze the excerpts and identify examples of resistance within them.
Grade Level: 7-12.
Difficulty may be adjusted by changing the number and reading level of the excerpts selected for instruction.
Eight excerpts are provided.
Lexile levels of the texts are provided when available.
Our mission is to teach the history of the Holocaust, applying its lessons to counter indifference, intolerance, and genocide.
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