Our interdisciplinary team has
developed a unit on Tolerance and the Holocaust entitled "The Beast
Within." The web page that grew from this unit has been on our website for
the past year at http://www.fred.net/nhhs/html/beast.htm.
As the central activity for the unit, our 9th grade students take a field
trip to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. We do our best to
prepare the students using traditional resources such as texts and films,
readings, and discussion-lecture. We also use the poster set provided by
the Holocaust Museum to alert the students as to which artifacts and
concepts to be aware of as they move through the museum's exhibit.
As a follow-up, we have had our students write their reaction to the
museum, and then we post these reactions to our site. We invite you and
your students, whether you are teaching on an elementary, secondary or
post-secondary level, to review our students' reactions as both an
exercise in Holocaust Education but also in pedagogy. It is fascinating to
see how the students learn about the Holocaust, but there is certainly a
process of UNlearning as well, as the students assimilate and accommodate
facts they knew or thought they knew.
The URL for student writings is:
http://www.fred.net/nhhs/html/tripintr.htm (Introduction)
Directly to the writings: http://www.fred.net/nhhs/html/holoreac.htm
The students benefit most when they receive the enlightened wisdom of
other students and scholars. The Internet allows those with personal
and professional experiences to share them with our students. We hope that
you will be moved to communicate your feelings and knowledge on the
historical, personal, and sociological importance of the Holocaust.
>From my own standpoint, the Holocaust has one of the widest-ranging and
most important applications throughout the whole of Social Studies as it is
taught in the secondary schools today. Your input might make those lessons
become a reality for our students, and through the broad-based publishing
that is possible with the World Wide Web, those lessons can be learned by
all who visit our website.
Thanks in advance,
George Cassutto
Teacher of Social Studies
North Hagerstown High School (MD)
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