Check Your Sources!

OBJECTIVE:

It is important to have a balance of primary and secondary sources when presenting research on a particular subject. This week you have been gathering information on the Holocaust, and your goal today will be to identify the characteristics of a primary and a secondary source, and then apply that knowledge to your own work. You will need to have gathered AT LEAST 2-3 primary sources and AT LEAST 2-3 secondary sources for your presentations.

PROCEDURE:

1. Using your headphones, view the following presentation:

http://www.wou.edu/provost/library/clip/tutorials/prim_sec.htm

2. Review your collected material and identify your sources and source type on the worksheet.

3. Discuss your findings with your group members.

4. Continue research. :)

** Additional research links have been added below in a post from Tuesday.

Holocaust Resources

Below you will find some links that might be helpful to you as you continue research for the slideshows. Please click on the links or copy and paste them into your browser.
http://www.yadvashem.org.il/
http://www.ushmm.org/
http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/holo.html
http://www.historyplace.com/worldhistory/genocide/holocaust.htm

Identifying Sources

As you progress with your slideshows, we need to discuss PRIMARY and a SECONDARY sources. Below is a helpful link that outlines the basic differences between the two. Please visit the site before you begin work today.
http://www.princeton.edu/~refdesk/primary2.html

NIGHT Group Slideshows

Good morning class!
I say that with an exclamation mark because we are about to embark on one of my favorite literature units of all time. In the next 2-3 weeks we will be reading the stunningly powerful memoir, NIGHT by Elie Wiesel. In order to truly appreciate the struggle of Mr. Wiesel, it is important to understand (or at least become knowledgeable of) the events that lead to the Holocaust, and the atrocities that took place during the Holocaust.

Below you will find a link to our pre-reading project. You will be divided into groups and assigned different roles for the presentaion. We will start presenting on Thursday and finish presentation on Friday. There will be bonus points for those groups that finish in time for Thursday's presentation.

http://www.campbell.k12.ky.us/links/webquest/mckee/mckee'snightwebquest.htm

Et tu, discipulus?

We did it! We finished "Julius Caesar" and survived! (Too bad my computer didn't.) I had planned on showing some clips from an animated version of the play in class, but since the computer exploded, that seems very unlikely. Since the test is TOMORROW, you might want to check out these video clips for minor review. Of course, the study sheet and comprehension questions are MANDATORY, but it doesn't hurt to have a visual too-- even if it is animated and in old British accents!

Theo Huxtable meets Julius Caesar!

This. Is. Awesome.



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5-2NmLTdSq8&feature=fvwrel

Egypt in the News

There appears to be a revolution going on, and you can watch it play out on television and the internet. Be a part of this historical time by educating yourself on what's been going on. Here are a few links to help you along...

CHAOS IN THE SQUARE

REPORTER'S NOTEBOOK

WHEN PEOPLE DEMAND CHANGE: