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Unit Plan
CommonLit

Common Lit: Book Pairings: "Night" by Elie Wiesel

For Students 9th - 10th
Selected (10) reading passages (grades 8-11) to pair with the autobiography "Night" by Elie Wiesel. In this autobiographical account, Holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel recounts his horrifying experiences at the Auschwitz and Buchenwald...
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Handout
CommonLit

Common Lit: Text Sets: The Holocaust

For Students 9th - 10th
This is a collection of 26 Grade-Leveled texts (6-11) on the topic The Holocaust. The Holocaust was one of the worst genocides in history, in which Adolph Hitler's Nazi Germany killed over six million Jews and five million others deemed...
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Unit Plan
CommonLit

Common Lit: Book Pairings: "The Boy in the Striped Pajamas" by John Boyne

For Students 5th - 9th
A wire fence stands between Bruno and Shmuel's friendship at Auschwitz, and tragedy beckons when Bruno's naivety and his distance from his family take him beyond the fence. Selected (9) reading passages (grades 5-9) to pair with "The Boy...
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Handout
US Holocaust Memorial Museum

U.s. Holocaust Memorial Museum: Hidden Children: Expressions

For Students 9th - 10th
After the Holocaust, the writings, poetry, songs, and artistic expressions of Jews who experienced it firsthand were collected. These expressions were in some cases ordered by the Nazis, or done secretly in concentration camps,...
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Website
Instituto Latinoamericano de la Comunicacion Educativa

Red Escolar: El Holocausto

For Students 9th - 10th
In Spanish. This site has a brief explanation of the holocaust, different testimonials and fragments of the diary of Ana Frank.
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Handout
American-Israeli Cooperative Enterprise

Jewish Virtual Library: The Holocaust: Jewish Victims

For Students 9th - 10th
The Jewish victimes of the Holocaust.