Syllabus
Nazi Germany: History and Literature
John Zola and Andrew Pfouts
AM Block, 3rd Quarter '99
Blog: http://zola-pfouts.blogspot.com/
Email:
andrew.pfouts@bvsd.org
john.zola@bvsd.org
This team-taught class will focus on learning about both the history and literature of this most important period in world and U.S. history. While the primary emphasis will be the period from 1933-1945, there will also be opportunities for exploring related issues and themes from more recent European history. There will be a great deal of flexibility in how this class is taught—sometimes you will focus on just history, other times you will focus on just literature, and sometimes the two will be closely linked.
Credit Options:
1.0 Language Arts (World literature) OR 1.0 Social Studies (World history)
OR 0.5 Social Studies AND 0.5 Language Arts. You do need to think about how colleges will count this class.
Our Goals:
-to provide students opportunities to work through ideas--their own, those of writers and those of historical figures.
-to increase student proficiency in reading, speaking, writing and thinking.
-to link historical events of Nazi Germany with written, personal records of the same events.
-to show causation in history.
-to show literature as a record of human history.
-to relate history to current events.
-to provide support in understanding events, issues and texts.
Expectations:
Students will complete the following:
-frequent, informal, in-class writings
-in class discussions and seminars.
- 2-3 formal papers
-A Social Studies Research Project
Grading:
A--consistently exceptional work; all assignments turned in on time; exemplary attendance and participation. Student made a presentation on Exhibition Day.
B--consistent quality work coupled with flashes of brilliance; thoughtful participation in nearly all classroom activities
C--student did not use his/her abilities to pursue the objectives of the class.
IP--student frequently lacked a pulse.
Course Outline and Preview:
Here are our “guiding questions” for this year’s version of the course.
•HOW did it happen?
-WWI background
-Nazi ideology
-Inside Nazi Germany
-Mein Kampf
-The “recipe” concept/activity
•WHY did it happen?
-Milgram
-Wave
-Memoirs
•WHAT happened?
The Holocaust itself and to whom
-Borowski
-Night
-Maus
-Other victims/groups
•WHAT ELSE was going on?
-The social studies research project
•WHO resisted and HOW?
-Resistance stories
-Resistance cubes
-The role of the U.S. (resistance and the lack of it)
•WHAT do you do with what you now know?
-Skokie/Holocaust denial
-Current issues like genocides today and recently
-What are the legacies/lessons you carry from this study?
John Zola and Andrew Pfouts
AM Block, 3rd Quarter '99
Blog: http://zola-pfouts.blogspot.com/
Email:
andrew.pfouts@bvsd.org
john.zola@bvsd.org
This team-taught class will focus on learning about both the history and literature of this most important period in world and U.S. history. While the primary emphasis will be the period from 1933-1945, there will also be opportunities for exploring related issues and themes from more recent European history. There will be a great deal of flexibility in how this class is taught—sometimes you will focus on just history, other times you will focus on just literature, and sometimes the two will be closely linked.
Credit Options:
1.0 Language Arts (World literature) OR 1.0 Social Studies (World history)
OR 0.5 Social Studies AND 0.5 Language Arts. You do need to think about how colleges will count this class.
Our Goals:
-to provide students opportunities to work through ideas--their own, those of writers and those of historical figures.
-to increase student proficiency in reading, speaking, writing and thinking.
-to link historical events of Nazi Germany with written, personal records of the same events.
-to show causation in history.
-to show literature as a record of human history.
-to relate history to current events.
-to provide support in understanding events, issues and texts.
Expectations:
Students will complete the following:
-frequent, informal, in-class writings
-in class discussions and seminars.
- 2-3 formal papers
-A Social Studies Research Project
Grading:
A--consistently exceptional work; all assignments turned in on time; exemplary attendance and participation. Student made a presentation on Exhibition Day.
B--consistent quality work coupled with flashes of brilliance; thoughtful participation in nearly all classroom activities
C--student did not use his/her abilities to pursue the objectives of the class.
IP--student frequently lacked a pulse.
Course Outline and Preview:
Here are our “guiding questions” for this year’s version of the course.
•HOW did it happen?
-WWI background
-Nazi ideology
-Inside Nazi Germany
-Mein Kampf
-The “recipe” concept/activity
•WHY did it happen?
-Milgram
-Wave
-Memoirs
•WHAT happened?
The Holocaust itself and to whom
-Borowski
-Night
-Maus
-Other victims/groups
•WHAT ELSE was going on?
-The social studies research project
•WHO resisted and HOW?
-Resistance stories
-Resistance cubes
-The role of the U.S. (resistance and the lack of it)
•WHAT do you do with what you now know?
-Skokie/Holocaust denial
-Current issues like genocides today and recently
-What are the legacies/lessons you carry from this study?
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