Borowski Schedule

Friday 2/9
Meet in John’s room
1st half: Work time on Social Studies project
2nd half: Get started on Borowski Texts
"The People Who Walked On"
"The January Offensive"
“This Way for the Gas Ladies and Gentleman”

Background and first worksheet

Monday 2/12
Meet in John’s room
1st half: Seminar on “This Way for the Gas Ladies and Gentleman”
Get stories for Thursday
"Silence"
"The Death of Schillinger"
"The Man with the Package"
"The Supper"
2nd half: Work Time (project/readings)

Tuesday 2/13
Video in John’s Room—Genocide

Thursday 2/15
Meet in John’s room
1st half: History With John
2nd half: Deal with stories from Monday
Get Maus 1

Friday 2/16
No class (Staff Development)
Work on your project and readings

Monday 2/19
No class (President’s Day)
Work on your project and readings

Tuesday 2/20
Meet in John’s room. Have Social Studies Project
1st half: Clubbin’
2nd half: Talk a llittle about Maus 1
Reading time (Get Maus 2?)

Thursday 2/22
Meet in John’s room.
Video—On U.S. and the Holocaust

Friday 2/23
Meet in John’s room.
1st half: Finish Maus 1 Discussion Get ready for Maus 2
2nd half: Something with JZ? U.S. and Genocide?

Monday 2/ 26
1st half: Something with JZ? Get ready for Jack Adler
2nd half: Maus 2

Borowski Schedule

Friday 2/9
Meet in John’s room
1st half: Work time on Social Studies project
2nd half: Get started on Borowski Texts
"The People Who Walked On"
"The January Offensive"
“This Way for the Gas Ladies and Gentleman”

Background and first worksheet

Monday 2/12
Meet in John’s room
1st half: Seminar on “This Way for the Gas Ladies and Gentleman”
Get stories for Thursday
"Silence"
"The Death of Schillinger"
"The Man with the Package"
"The Supper"
2nd half: History With John

Tuesday 2/13
Video in John’s Room—Genocide

Thursday 2/15
Meet in John’s room
1st half: Work Time (project/readings)
2nd half: Deal with stories from Monday
Get Maus 1

Friday 2/16
No class (Staff Development)
Work on your project and readings

Monday 2/19
No class (President’s Day)
Work on your project and readings

Tuesday 2/20
Meet in John’s room. Have Social Studies Project
1st half: Clubbin’
2nd half: Talk a llittle about Maus 1
Reading time (Get Maus 2?)

Thursday 2/22
Meet in John’s room.
Video—On U.S. and the Holocaust

Friday 2/23
Meet in John’s room.
1st half: Finish Maus 1 Discussion Get ready for Maus 2
2nd half: Something with JZ? U.S. and Genocide?

Monday 2/ 26
1st half: Something with JZ? Get ready for Jack Adler
2nd half: Maus 2

Reading Schedule

Night Bookmark
& Things to watch while you read

Mon 2/5 p. 38

Tues 2/6: Peer Edit
Found poetry
Reading time
(Get to p.70 by the en of class)

Thurs. 2/8: Finish

If you’ve read it, what are you noticing this time?


General things to pay attention to
• Trapped by the law
• Not believing the stories
• Evidence of the systemization
• What questions does Wiesel ask in the book>

• As you read, trace the concepts of
o Silence
o God
o Faith
o His relationship with his father
o Night

Mini-Paper

We want you to look back over the introductory texts and see if you can “say something” about them. For this paper you should consider all we’ve thrown at you thus far and respond to a specific story, a group of writings, a lesson, lecture or the class a whole thus far. This class doesn’t focus on writing exclusively, but we want to coach you through the Writing Process: Pre-writing, Composing/Drafting and finally Editing/Revising.

Consider the writings and thinksheets you’ve already done as Pre-writing. As far as topics, you must find your own—but I’ll help those who need it. As far as I can envision, these papers will either be expository essays or creative writing responses to the literature. You need to type these pieces and save them so that you may complete all necessary revisions.
Here’s the assignment: Consider what we’ve read, talked about and done and write a response; write about what interests you.



Consider what we’ve read:
o Helga’s Delimma
o “The Hidden Children”
o The WWI lectures
o Gallipoli
o “Why Remember” “The Roots” and the two poems
o The Final Solution
o Mein Kampf
o The Hitler Youth Texts
o The texts for school children
o The Poems to Hitler
o The Einsatzgruppen accounts
o Your Pre-writing and Write-ups

Keep these things in mind as you write:
Compare the texts, and make connections; hold them up to each other and see what they say. You can focus on the one(s) that made the biggest impression on you, but “say something” about the texts and class so far.

o Have a real title
o Have an interesting introduction
o Say Something
o Consider your audience—anyone in the class or Pfjzola. We’ve read the texts, write with that in mind.

Peer draft due Tues. 2/6/07
Graded draft due Thurs. 2/8/07

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?