Process
Step I: Your teacher will assign you to a group of four. Each member
will choose a different role to play in this WebQuest.
Step II: Take time with your group to analyze the information in the general Holocaust Internet sites located below. Refer back to this information as need be as you construct your group project. If there are vocabulary words that confuse you, please feel free to use the dictionary in the sidebar.
• Auschwitz
and Birkenau
(http://home.swipnet.se/~w-49276/docs/auschwitz/welcome.htm)
PowerPoint form of presentation. Well developed with excellent images, quotes
and information pertinent to the topic.
• History
Place
(http://www.historyplace.com/worldwar2/holocaust/timeline.html)
Provides a detailed Holocaust Timeline.
• Holocaust
Survivors
(http://www.holocaustsurvivors.org/)
Gives a large number of personal narratives and photo galleries that would be
useful to the project.
• IB
Holocaust Project
(http://cghs.dade.k12.fl.us/holocaust/fsolution.htm)
Well rounded Internet site for photos, quotes, statistics on specific and general
aspects of Germany’s Final Solution.
• Internet
Modern History Source Book
(http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/modsbook44.html)
Contains a wealth of internal links to supporting information including many
primary documents. Effective for background in project.
• Jewish
Virtual Library
(http://www.us-israel.org/jsource/Holocaust/final.html)
This site includes a large number of external links that give supporting detail
information.
• United
States Holocaust Memorial Museum
(http://www.ushmm.org/)
Fully inclusive site of any information needed on the subject.
• What
Are Political Cartoons?
(http://xroads.virginia.edu/~MA96/PUCK/part1.html)
All about political cartoons, from their history to essential design elements.
Step
III: Explore the role you will be assuming. Examine the specific resources
that have been provided for you. Take notes as you go along as they will be
important for your final project in this WebQuest.
• Elie
Wiesel
•
Oskar Schindler
• Rudolf
Hoess
Step
IV:
Your assignment, as your role indicated, is to create a newspaper from the perspective
of that person. Your newspaper will include images of the Holocaust with appropriate
captions, political cartoons of your own creation, editorials, and of course,
news stories. The paper should be a minimum of two pages, and not to exceed
three. (Remember, all pages should be full pages.) In putting together your
paper, keep in mind your audience. In other words, remember whom your person
would be writing for.
To assemble you paper, use the various programs necessary such as Photoshop
and web browsers to collect and manipulate images. Your project must be submitted
in either a word processing or desktop publishing software application.
Step
V: After finishing your newspaper, the group should come together to share
their papers. As a group, you will discuss what portions of your individual
publications are the most important aspects of that character. You are looking
for a well-rounded sense of who each individual was – his perspective,
outlook, experiences, and character.
Step VI: Your final
task is to take those aspects of each paper that the group best feels represent
the attitudes and perspective of each of the four roles, and combine them into
one publication. This
publication would be for present day use, so that historians can understand
the variety of views from the time period. This final work should still include
images, a political cartoon, an editorial, and a news story, and should be at
least two pages in length. When you believe you are done use the checklist below
to make sure you have gone through all the steps of the project. If any have
been missed go back and do them now.
Student Process Checklist (PDF File) 