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Laurie Turner and Rebecca Pyster teach communications and Mary Mlinar-Stephens teaches multimedia and video at Daniel Webster Middle School in Waukegan, Illinois. 

We collaborated to bring this unit of study to students to meet Illinois Social Science* mandate for study of the Holocaust.  We set up the unit this way because:
  1. it involves students in the writing process
  2. it engages them in creating a meaningful product
  3. students practice team work and collaborative skills
  4. students are accountable to their peers as well as to their teachers in this jigsaw group process
*from the Illinois Learning Standards: Social Science Mandates
http://www.isbe.net/ils/social_science/mandates_2.htm#holocaust
Holocaust Study

Paragraph 27-20.3
Every public elementary school and high school shall include in its curriculum a unit of instruction studying the events of the Nazi atrocities of 1933 to 1945. This period in world history is known as the Holocaust, during which 6,000,000 Jews and millions of non-Jews were exterminated. The studying of this material is a reaffirmation of the commitment of free peoples from all nations to never again permit the occurrence of another Holocaust.


For more information about Webster Middle School, please click here.   Please click here for more information about Waukegan Public Schools.


 

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