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Name: __________________________________ March 21, 2013Complete this study guide and submit it to the bin at the end of the period.Directions: Part 1 is a study guide on the background information we’ve discussed over the past week. These questions will be on your test next week. Remember to always be specific and give a detailed explanation for your answers. Look up any unfamiliar words; they may appear on your test.Explain the term anti-Semitism and why it is important when talking about the Holocaust.How did the Nazis factorize death?In your own words, what is genocide? 3b. List at least three examples of genocide.3c. How is the Holocaust an example of genocide?Explain the purpose and function of a ghetto.In what ways did the Gestapo use ghettos in the “final solution”?Why did the Nazis put “Arbeit macht frei” over the gates to Auschwitz? Why is this phrase ironic? Irony: the use of words to convey a meaning that is opposite of its literal meaning. How did Nazi propaganda contribute to anti-Semitism?Using the picture below, explain the following:4362450635What’s happening in the picture.What the picture is trying to get people to do or believe.How it is an example of propaganda.Using the picture below, explain the following:3816985156845What’s happening in the picture.What the picture is trying to get people to do or believe.How it is an example of propaganda.Directions: Part 2 is a preview of the books we’ll be reading in class. Although you will only be reading one, we’ll be discussing all three together because they have similar themes. Answer the following questions based on your opinion and justify why you have that opinion. We will be using these themes to begin discussion tomorrow.Night Anticipation GuideDetermine whether the following statements are true or false. Put a check in the appropriate column, and then write at least two sentences explaining your viewpoint for each statement.TrueFalseJustification1. It is never okay to snitch.2. Life is a constant struggle: those not powerful enough to rise to the top deserve whatever they get.3. People find it easier to do evil than to do good. 4. People are likely to conform rather than act on their own individual values. 5. People need something to worship.6. People avoid the truth if it is painful.7. War is the natural outgrowth of human nature.8. People need authority figures to tell them what to do.9. You should stand up for your beliefs, regardless of the consequences.10. The world should operate on the principle of every man for himself.The Boy in the Striped Pajamas Anticipation GuideDetermine whether the following statements are true or false. Put a check in the appropriate column, and then write at least two sentences explaining your viewpoint for each statement.TrueFalseJustification1. Just because I don’t like someone doesn’t mean I’m not nice to them.2. Everyone has fundamental basic rights as a human being.3. If you know something is morally wrong, you should do something about it.4. One country is better than the other one.5. You should do everything your boss tells you to, even if you don’t think it is right.6. You can be friends with someone who is different from you.7. Friends are the most important things.8. The desire for land is a powerful motivator.9. People who try to control other people are good.The Book Thief Anticipation GuideDetermine whether the following statements are true or false. Put a check in the appropriate column, and then write at least two sentences explaining your viewpoint for each statement.TrueFalseJustification1. Friendship runs deeper than simply having fun together.2. The ones of one person can completely move a nation.3. Words are powerful weapons. Use them with care.4. Death is ugly and scary.5. Guilt and our conscience can lead us to do things we wouldn’t otherwise do.6. Those that truly love us would never abandon us.Directions: Part 3 includes a summary of the three books we’ll be reading. Read each summary and rank the novels in the order that you would most like to read them. (1 means I’d most like to read this, 3 means I’d prefer the others.)The Book Thief: Narrated by Death, the book is set in Nazi Germany, a place and time when the narrator notes he was extremely busy. It describes a young girl's relationship with her foster parents, the other residents of their neighborhood, and a Jewish fist-fighter who hides in her home during the escalation of World War II. Published in 2006, it has won numerous awards and has been listed on the New York Times Bestseller List for over 230 weeks.The Boy in the Striped Pajamas: Bruno is a 9-year-old boy growing up during World War II in Berlin. He lives in a huge house with his loving parents, his twelve-year-old sister Gretel (whom he refers to as a Hopeless Case), and maidservants. His father is a high-ranking SS officer who, after a visit from Adolf Hitler (referred to in the novel as "The Fury", Bruno's misrecognition of the word "Führer") and Eva Braun, is promoted to Commandant, and to Bruno's dismay, the family has to move away to a place called "Out-With" (which turns out to be Auschwitz).Night: Night is a work by Elie Wiesel about his experience with his father in the Nazi German concentration camps at Auschwitz and Buchenwald in 1944–1945, at the height of the Holocaust and toward the end of the Second World War. In just over 100 pages of sparse and fragmented narrative, Wiesel writes about the death of God and his own increasing disgust with humanity, reflected in the inversion of the father-child relationship as his father declines to a helpless state and Wiesel becomes his resentful teenage caregiver. "If only I could get rid of this dead weight ... Immediately I felt ashamed of myself, ashamed forever." In Night, everything is inverted, every value destroyed. "Here there are no fathers, no brothers, no friends," a Kapo tells him. "Everyone lives and dies for himself alone."My preference is:________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________Because _________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ ................
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