Process
This is the background part of the process. You and your partner will spend time together parusing these sites. Before you start the webquest, you should become familiar with some of the ways Holocaust surviviors and victims have been honored and remembered.
Concentration Camp Information
Instructions
1. The next step is to learn as much as you can about the area of inquiry based on your role. although each team member has a different role and area of inquiry, you all are a team. As a team you should work together with a beautiful finished product fwith the museum display in mind.
2. Choose which area of the report you will investigate. The group will need:
- a bibliographer
- an editorialist
- a historian ( to report on the Concentration Camp)
- photographic archivists ( all can participate in finding of photos)
3. After purusing through the records, as a group decide which victim you want to investigate and determine in which camp they were imprisoned. Next, break into your responsibilities according to your role.
4. Here are some guidlines to refer to when reading and scanning through primary sources.
Using Primary Source Documents
Biographer
Your primary job is to write objectively about the person your group has chosen. Your biography should be 2-5 paragraphs long. Follow the guidelines in the handy website called, Writing a Biography, if you get stuck.
Editorialist
Your job is to write about the Nazo Activity during this time. Remember that an editorial expresses the opinion of the editor (that's you) or the publisher (that's your group). For examples of editorials written by other fifth graders and some editorial guidelines, check out these sites and ideas:
Editorial Writing in 5th grade
Your job is to write about the concentration camp where your victim stayed. You want to describe vividly from an historian's perspective the camp. Bring the camp to life with your words. Here is a great link to help you with your descriptive writing:
Photographic Archivists
This role will be shared amongst all of the team members. Look through the photographic archives sited in Process 1 (there are plenty of them). Find photographs that support your work. Use the pronters in the room to print out.
This phase of the process is putting it all together. Once you have your drafts completed and your photographs retrieved, you need to think about the final appearance. Everything should be museum quality. All writings should be:
- written in your best cursive
- use only black ink
- use the scrapbook parchment for written documents (I'll provide)
This next and final part will take some creative thinking. There should be one aspect of the victim that you could represent/depict in another way. This will help to make your victim more "real" to your audience. For example, if your victim was a musician, make a model or a drawing of the instument he/she played. Or if your victim was a child who liked a particular type of toy, make it with clay, a painting, and maybe put a child's shoe in the display. The idea is to personalize it.
Once you've finished the last beautiful detail, let me know so we can start displaying them in the auditorium.
