Welcome to Buchenwald
Buchenwald is the first 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 Buchenwald, you should be prepared by having read The Devil's Arithmetic: chapters 1 - 7.
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)
Week 4
Artifact/Culminating Project
Task I:
Task Essentials:Build your background knowledge:1. Begin your journey by
clicking here.
Then, view the clip on the right.Connect to history through literacy:2. Read
The Devil's Arithmetic: chapters 1 - 7
Process your thoughts through writing:
3. Reflective Blog Response: click here
Formative Assessment:
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.
Checklist for leaving Buchenwald:
- It's the end of week 1
- I've completed ALL tasks in the left side of the column on this page
- Viewed the Oprah Special to build background knowledge
- Watched the above clip on Buchenwald
- Read chapters 1 - 7 in The Devil's Arithmetic
- Constructed a blog post
- Replied to a peer's blog post
- 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 2nd week's journey to Camp 2: AuschwitzStart Week 2: Visit Camp Auschwitz right above or by clicking here!**Once you visit Auschwitz, you will not be able to return to Buchenwald without opening a new tab, re-entering the site's url, and starting over.