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Article of the Week #3 Due Date

“Introduction to the Holocaust”

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Student __________________________________________ # ______ Block __________________

Instructions: COMPLETE ALL QUESTIONS AND MARGIN NOTES using the CLOSE reading strategies practiced in class. This requires reading of the article three times.

Step 1: Number the paragraphs. Skim the article using these colors and symbols as you read:

-UNKNOWN WORDS/DEFINITIONS | PENCIL- questions/insights/impressions

(*) important, (!) surprising, (?) wondering [(+) agree, (-) disagree]

Step 2: Define the vocabulary that has been boxed for you. Choose an appropriate synonym that has the same part of speech as the term. Write the synonym above each boxed term to help you better understand the excerpt.

Step 3: Read the article carefully, highlight text, and make associated notes in the margin. Notes should include:

• BLUE -strong connotation/denotation (diction/word choice)

• YELLOW-big ideas (write a summary statement of important ideas for each major section)

• PENCIL- questions/insights/impressions

• GREEN- elements of argumentation (claims/assertions, evidence/grounds)

• PURPLE - literary devices, tropes ( PINK- methods of development/organization

Step 3: A final quick read noting anything you may have missed during the first two reads.

Your margin notes are part of your score for this assessment. Answer the questions carefully in complete sentences unless otherwise instructed.

SCORE: ______________/4 Points

1. Completion

2. Vocabulary/Tone/Margin Notes

3. Correctness

4. Timeliness

What is the author saying?

After reading this text, what would you title it?

Jan. 29, 2016 United State Holocaust Memorial Council

1. The Holocaust was the systematic, bureaucratic, state-sponsored persecution and murder of six million Jews by the Nazi regime and its collaborators. Holocaust is a word of Greek origin meaning "sacrifice by fire." The Nazis, who came to power in Germany in January 1933, believed that Germans were "racially superior" and that the Jews, deemed "inferior," were an alien threat to the so-called German racial community.

2. During the era of the Holocaust, German authorities also targeted other groups because of their perceived "racial inferiority": Roma (Gypsies), the disabled, and some of the Slavic peoples (Poles, Russians, and others). Other groups were persecuted on political, ideological, and behavioral grounds, among them Communists, Socialists, Jehovah's Witnesses, and homosexuals.

WHAT WAS THE HOLOCAUST?

3. In 1933, the Jewish population of Europe stood at over nine million. Most European Jews lived in countries that Nazi Germany would occupy or influence during World War II. By 1945, the Germans and their collaborators killed nearly two out of every three European Jews as part of the "Final Solution," the Nazi policy to murder the Jews of Europe.

4. Although Jews, whom the Nazis deemed a priority danger to Germany, were the primary victims of Nazi racism, other victims included some 200,000 Roma (Gypsies). At least 200,000 mentally or physically disabled patients, mainly Germans, living in institutional settings, were murdered in the so-called Euthanasia Program.

5. As Nazi tyranny spread across Europe, the Germans and their collaborators persecuted and murdered millions of other people. Between two and three million Soviet prisoners of war were murdered or died of starvation, disease, neglect, or maltreatment. The Germans targeted the non-Jewish Polish intelligentsia for killing, and deported millions of Polish and Soviet civilians for forced labor in Germany or in occupied Poland, where these individuals worked and often died under deplorable conditions.

6. From the earliest years of the Nazi regime, German authorities persecuted homosexuals and others whose behavior did not match prescribed social norms. German police officials targeted thousands of political opponents (including Communists, Socialists, and trade unionists) and religious dissidents (such as Jehovah's Witnesses). Many of these individuals died as a result of incarceration and maltreatment.

ADMINISTRATION OF THE "FINAL SOLUTION"

7. In the early years of the Nazi regime, the National Socialist government established concentration camps to detain real and imagined political and ideological opponents. Increasingly in the years before the outbreak of war, SS and police officials incarcerated Jews, Roma, and other victims of ethnic and racial hatred in these camps.

8. To concentrate and monitor the Jewish population as well as to facilitate later deportation of the Jews, the Germans and their collaborators created ghettos, transit camps, and forced-labor camps for Jews during the war years. The German authorities also established numerous forced-labor camps, both in the so-called Greater German Reich and in German-occupied territory, for non-Jews whose labor the Germans sought to exploit.

9. Following the invasion of the Soviet Union in June 1941, mobile killing units and, later, militarized battalions of Order Police officials, moved behind German lines to carry out mass-murder operations against Jews, Roma, and Soviet state and Communist Party officials. German SS and police units, supported by units of the Wehrmacht and the Waffen SS, murdered more than a million Jewish men, women, and children, and hundreds of thousands of others.

10. Between 1941 and 1944, Nazi German authorities deported millions of Jews from Germany, from occupied territories, and from the countries of many of its Axis allies to ghettos and to killing centers, often called extermination camps, where they were murdered in specially developed gassing facilities.

THE END OF THE HOLOCAUST

11. In the final months of the war, SS guards moved camp inmates by train or on forced marches, often called “death marches,” in an attempt to prevent the Allied liberation of large numbers of prisoners. As Allied forces moved across Europe in a series of offensives against Germany, they began to encounter and liberate concentration camp prisoners, as well as prisoners en route by forced march from one camp to another. The marches continued until May 7, 1945, the day the German armed forces surrendered unconditionally to the Allies.

12. For the western Allies, World War II officially ended in Europe on the next day, May 8 (V-E Day), while Soviet forces announced their “Victory Day” on May 9, 1945.

13. In the aftermath of the Holocaust, many of the survivors found shelter in displaced persons (DP) camps administered by the Allied powers. Between 1948 and 1951, almost 700,000 Jews emigrated to Israel, including 136,000 Jewish displaced persons from Europe. Other Jewish DPs emigrated to the United States and other nations. The last DP camp closed in 1957.

14. The crimes committed during the Holocaust devastated most European Jewish communities and eliminated hundreds of Jewish communities in occupied eastern Europe entirely.

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum:

What is the author doing?

Create a bibliographic entry/MLA citation of this article (use your reference book for help). Don’t forget your HANGING INDENT!

Sample:

Chen, Davis. “Bear Facts.” Our Wildlife 9 July 1988: 120–25.

(Author) (Title of article) (Publication name) (Date of issue) (Pages)

9/10.RL.1-6 *Don’t forget to record your bibliographic entry on your AOW final assignment sheet.*

Answer each question in one or more complete sentences.

Twelve Word Summary: Summarize the entire article in twelve words. (think: who, what, when, where, how)

What is the underlying tone of the article? Use the tone reference sheet located in your handbook. What specific words or phrases develop that tone?

Record 3-5 facts about each of the following topics:

Victims The “Final Solution” Death Marches

Explain what you think is the theme of this article. Create a thematic statement based on the word chosen from the list of abstract thematic ideas (in your reference handbook).

Based on the thematic statement you created, what pieces of evidence in the text support this idea or theme? (use in-text citations)

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Fragments Directions: Change the sentence fragments into complete sentences, adding correct capitalization and punctuation. Do not copy sentences from the text.

1. in the aftermath of the holocaust ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

2. authorities targeted

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Scrambled Sentences Directions: Rearrange the words below into sentences. Add punctuation and capitalization. (Hint: the first word of the sentence is in bold.)

1. and murdered of other tyranny europe the germans collaborators and their as nazi persecuted spread across millions people

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2. forced-labor the german camps established authorities also numerous

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Approximately 6 million Jews were killed during the Holocaust. Do you think an atrocity like this is possible in today’s world? What causes of the Holocaust are still at play in modern society? Consider current events and use textual evidence to support your opinion. (ICE/TAG)

Step 1: Restate the question insert your opinion/argument/answer.

Step 2: According to (the author) in his/her (genre), “(title)” introduce quote “copy quote” (cite page/paragraph).

Step 3: Explain the connection from your opinion/argument/answer.

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