Selecting Your Fate
Welcome to Auschwitz
Auschwitz is the second stop on your tour of camps. Ideally, you will spend one week at each camp. Your exploration will take approximately one month to complete. Each task (3 total) = one week each and you will be allotted one week for the completion of your team's final artifact (project).
During your stay at Auschwitz, you should be prepared by having read The Devil's Arithmetic: chapters 8 - 14.
For each task, you will be held accountable for two items:
a. Task Essentials (items to build background knowledge/ front-load imperative concepts, allow for discussion & clarify meaning, share reflections, and to make connections)
b. Formative Assessment (assigned task to exhibit your understand of the learned material and to share your perspective on your journey thus far)
Task II:
Task Essentials:
Build your background knowledge:
1. Visit the National Archives Experience
by clicking here to dig through history
Connect to history through literacy:
2. Read The Devil's Arithmetic: chapters 8-14
Enrich your perspective through interaction:
3. Explore the BBC's page by clicking here
to navigate an Interactive Map of Auschwitz
Compare, Contrast, and Synthesize your Perspective:
4. Reflective Blog Response: click here
Build your background knowledge:
1. Visit the National Archives Experience
by clicking here to dig through history
Connect to history through literacy:
2. Read The Devil's Arithmetic: chapters 8-14
Enrich your perspective through interaction:
3. Explore the BBC's page by clicking here
to navigate an Interactive Map of Auschwitz
Compare, Contrast, and Synthesize your Perspective:
4. Reflective Blog Response: click here
Formative Assessment:
| task_ii.doc |
1. Open the document above.
2. Read the directions completely.
3. Work through the assignment in a quality manner.
4. Save your work.
5. Post your completed assignment to your personal Schoology page.
2. Read the directions completely.
3. Work through the assignment in a quality manner.
4. Save your work.
5. Post your completed assignment to your personal Schoology page.
Checklist for leaving Auschwitz:
- It's the end of week 2
- I've completed ALL tasks in the left side of the column on this page
- Viewed the film clip above about Auschwitz
- Dug through The Digital Vaults at the National Archive
- Read chapters 8 - 14 in The Devil's Arithmetic
- Explored the Interactive Map of Auschwitz on the BBC page
- Completed the Formative Assessment
- Uploaded the Formative Assessment to my Schoology Wall
Only AFTER completing the above tasks (which you've had 1 week to do)
Click here for your 3rd week's journey to Camp 3: Dachau
Start Week 3: Visit Camp Dachau right above or by clicking here!
**Once you visit Dachau, you will not be able to return to Buchenwald or Auschwitz without opening a new tab, re-entering the site's url, and starting over.