Reading Extra Credit Opportunity

As we wrap up first quarter, students in Reading class have an opportunity to help further their knowledge and raise their grade.  I am offering an extra credit project opportunity that allows students the chance to dig deeper into the Holocaust and present the information that they find.  Students will complete one of four potential project options listed below and have the opportunity to gain up to an additional 30 points of extra credit.  Students received this information last week, but I wanted to share it with you as well.  Projects are due on Oct 17/18 and no late projects will be accepted for any reason. 

PROJECT 1 – During the Holocaust, Jews weren’t the only people forced into concentration camps. Create a poster that uses at least one graph (bar, line, pie, etc) to explain who was imprisoned, and at least two maps to describe where the camps were located.

The Auschwitz Concentration Camp was created in 1940 and would become one of the largest concentration camps of World War Two. Approximately 400,000 prisoners were sent to Auschwitz. That included: 
200,000 Jews
140,000 Poles (people from Poland)
20,000 Gypsies
10,000 Soviet prisoners of war
10,000 Other prisoners of war from different countries


Over fifty percent of those at Auschwitz died of starvation, disease, overwork, executions, medical experiments, punishment or horrific living conditions.

PROJECT 2 – Learn more about what life was actually like inside the concentration camps. Look at the pictures and imagine yourself facing those conditions. Create a poster that shows your findings – the equivalent of three or four paragraphs written in your own words. You will want to include a few pictures and at least one quote from a survivor.

PROJECT 3 – Write a poem based on your emotions while you read this novel and pictured yourself within the world of concentration camps. It should be at least twenty lines long and accurately reflect the novel. Attach your poem to a poster with pictures or images that represent the tone and/or ideas of your poem.

PROJECT 4 – On a poster, create a collage of quotations (not pictures!) from the novel that reflect Hannah/Chaya and her experience as well as her personality. Collages should be artistic and appealing.

You will be graded on your creativity, enthusiasm, quality of finished product, and the correctness of the information you present.