Holocaust Visual History Lesson: Citizenship
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Holocaust Visual History Lesson: Citizenship

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Lesson Summary:

From University of Southern California s Shoah Foundation:
This lesson is a part of Creating Character,  a series of eight multi-media classroom lessons, each of which explores the importance of positive character development. These lessons are geared towards teachers who teach 8th to 12th grade.  

In this lesson, students evaluate the concept of citizenship. In whole classroom discussion and smaller groups, students draw distinctions between the benefits and responsibilities associated with citizenship. Visual history testimonies of Holocaust survivors enhance the discussion by adding the perspective of those who grappled with disenfranchisement under Nazi rule. Through facilitated exercises, students are provided with the opportunity to consider the consequences of institutionalized discrimination.



Objectives

  • Students will explore and develop an understanding of the concept of citizenship. • Students will identify the benefits and responsibilities of citizenship. 
  • Students will evaluate how a group of citizens becomes the target of discrimination. • Students will identify the effects that a loss of citizenship has on individuals and society. 
  • Students will evaluate their personal responsibility toward others who are being discriminated against. 
  • Students will identify actions they can take to prevent citizens from losing their rights. 
  • Students will work with visual history testimony. 
  • Students will use visual history testimony to examine the impact the loss of citizenship had on survivors of the Holocaust.

Be Inspired:The ideas included are offered as starting points as you and your students explore, discover and live the lessons. Be sure to elicit and encourage student and parent participation, consistently reinforcing the value being addressed. Allow lessons to authentically develop and change based on engagement and interests.


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University of Southern California's Shoah Foundation Institute for Visual History and Education

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