The Strength of the Human Spirit

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The Strength of the Human Spirit
By Angie Hillman
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How do life experiences impact your path in life?
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In other wordsdo these life experiences mean
that a person will be

• more successful?
• less successful?
• more happy?
• more unhappy?

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For examplehow would these situations make you
live differently?

• You have a parent with an addiction.
• Your parents are divorced.
• You are adopted.
• Your family has enough money to live.
• Your family does not have enough money to live.
• You are not allowed to go to school.
• You are allowed to go to school.
• You were born during a war in your country.

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KWL Chart on the Holocaust/WWII
KWhat do we already know? WWhat do we want to know? LWhat did we learn?




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Think-Pair-ShareWhat do you think that the
following words mean?

• Holocaust
• Genocide
• Destruction

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What does the word HOLOCAUST mean?

• Holocaust is derived from Greek words meaning
  complete destruction.
• Usually by fire
• During World War II in the 1930s and 1940s the
  Holocaust resulted in the deaths of 6 million
  Jews by Adolf Hitler and the Nazis.

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What does the word GENOCIDE mean?

• The practice of killing all the members of a
  particular race or national group by another race
  or national group.
• Examples of GENOCIDE are
• Jewish Holocaust
• Armenian Genocide
• Rwandan Genocide

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What does the word DESTRUCTION mean?

• An event that completely destroys something

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If you had a life experience like the Holocaust,
would that impact your lifes path?

• Thumbs up if your answer is yes
• Thumbs down if your answer is no
• Thumb to the side if you are in-between

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Walk the Line

• Put your name on the post-it
• Place your post-it on the chart where you stand
  on this question based on your thumb response.
• Remember as you learn more about our unit, you
  may choose to relocate your post-it.

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Ticket Out Note Card Response
What do you still need CLARIFIED? What do you PREDICT will be the most interesting part of this unit?
What QUESTION do you have? SUMMARIZE the most important concept that you learned today.