National Endowment for the Arts
National Endowment for the Arts: The Big Read: Ozick: The Shawl
Readers guide to Cynthia Ozick's The Shawl, including historical context, author biography and discussion questions. Included teachers guide contains a ten-lesson unit with discussion activities, homework assignments, essay topics, and...
![Glencoe Literature: The Chosen Study Guide [Pdf] Unit Plan](https://content.lessonplanet.com/knovation/original/815867-07610e8f5755d4711dbf55abe74616db.jpg?1661267782 "Glencoe Literature: The Chosen Study Guide [Pdf] Unit Plan")
McGraw Hill
Glencoe Literature: The Chosen Study Guide [Pdf]
Refer to this twenty-two page study guide for information on author Chaim Potok and his novel, "The Chosen." Includes detailed background information on Judaism and the novel's setting, as well as activities, discussion questions, and...
EL Education
El Education: Blanca Rosenberg
This memoir-style book was created by a 5th/6th grade student in Shutesbury, Massachusetts, and tells the life story of a Holocaust survivor. Blanca Rosenberg is the biography of Blanca written in first person narrative, as told to the...
National Endowment for the Humanities
Neh: Edsit Ement: Anne Frank
Students will explore Anne Frank in historical context in World War II. Lesson 2 explores Anne Frank as a writer, and students will have the opportunity to practice Anne's writing strategies.
American-Israeli Cooperative Enterprise
Jewish Virtual Library: Adolf Eichmann
A detailed biography of the Nazi Gestapo leader Adolf Eichmann.
Chase Young, PhD
Dr. Chase Young, Ph D: Reader's Theater Script: Joan M. Wolf's Someone Named Eva [Pdf]
A reader's theater adaptation of Joan Wolf's young adult book, Someone Named Eva, is provided on this script. Seven character roles are needed in this performance.
Read Works
Read Works: A Child in Hiding
[Free Registration/Login Required] An elementary student interviews her Jewish grandfather about his experiences fleeing from Paris and hiding from the Nazis. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading...
Read Works
Read Works: Another Missing Person
[Free Registration/Login Required] Historical fiction about a boy named Ulrich living in Amsterdam in 1940 and his Jewish friends who stop coming to school. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading...
Other
The Corrie Ten Boom Museum: The Hiding Place
The resource explores the home of Corrie ten Boom and relates the incredible history of what went on there during the Holocaust and World War II. Information and pictures of the Ten Boom home are included.
Google Cultural Institute
Google Cultural Institute: Anne Frank's Family Home
Discover the house where Anne Frank lived in Merwedeplein, Amsterdam, just before going into hiding.
Other
Lebensraum: Living Space for the German Race
Resource provides a discussion of the concept of "Lebensraum," or "living space" for the German people. This was one of Hitler's main justifications for his military conquests.
American-Israeli Cooperative Enterprise
Jewish Virtual Library: The Situation of the Jews in Warsaw After the Occupation
Essay describing life for the Jewish people living in German occupied Warsaw, Poland.
American-Israeli Cooperative Enterprise
Jewish Virtual Library: Ghettos in Poland (1939 1941)
Map of Jewish ghettos in Poland established by the Nazi's during the German occupation of Poland. Includes a short description.
American-Israeli Cooperative Enterprise
Jewish Virtual Library: Life in the Warsaw Ghetto
Essay describing lives of Jewish people who were sent to live in the Warsaw Ghetto while the Nazis occupied Poland.
The Best Notes
The Best Notes: The Wave by Todd Strasser
This is an online study guide for the novel The Wave by Todd Strasser including author information, literary elements, chapter-by-chapter summaries/notes, study questions, and analysis.
East of England Broadband Network
History's Heroes: Roger Bushell (1910 1944)
This website explores the lives of heroic ordinary people who made their mark on history. Features illustrated story on Roger Bushell, leader of the Great escape. Find out who he was, what he did, his achievements, and his legacy.
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Anne Frank
[Free Registration/Login Required] A flipchart to support a history lesson on Anne Frank's secret Annex; the pupils imagine they are going to hide for two years like Anne and draw a plan of where they would hide and what they would take...
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Anne Frank and Literacy
[Free Registration/Login Required] The main focus of this resource is on the nature of writing a Recount document, but it takes texts from Anne Frank's Diary as an example. This offers a valuable view of the document as a historical...
Ducksters
Ducksters: Biography: Adolf Hitler for Kids
Students can learn about the biography of Adolf Hitler, leader and dictator of Germany during World War II. His Nazi party committed the Holocaust on this webpage.