LEARNING FROM THE GERMANS: RACE AND THE MEMORY OF EVIL

ESSENTIAL QUESTION:  HOW MUCH TRUTH SHOULD WE BEAR WITNESS TO?

OBJECTIVES:  SWBAT analyze, evaluate, source and annotate excerpted primary and secondary sources (complex text, video, images) toward skill building for the AP WORLD HISTORY MODERN exam. 

CITATIONS:

BOOK:  Neiman, Susan  (2019) Learning From The Germans:  Race and the Memory of Evil.  NEW YORK:  Picador. (Pre-Prologue, pgs. 109-110, 132, 38)

DAILY ACTIVATOR: 

AP WORLD HISTORY MODERN 2021 STANDARDS:

https://ap-world-history-modern-course-and-exam-description.pdf

BALDWIN ESSAY: 

https://www.tweetsofanativeson.com/pdf/As-Much-Truth-As-One-Can-Bear.pdf

WEHRMACHT PODCAST:

Witness to History – The Wehrmacht Exhibition – May 4, 2020

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/w3cszmjs

SOUTHERN DISCOMFORT VIDEOS:

Mississippi Burning – “It Was a War Long Before We Got Here (2:21 mins) (October 22, 16)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=je-6FtynHyY

James Meredith University of Mississippi 1962 Integration Riot Newsreel Public Domain Footag (3:34 mins)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=89seXCvzdRE&t=5s

The Murder of Emmett Till (15:44 mins) (2004)

www.youtube.com/watch?v=fjr6XLcCXgU

Nina Simone – ‘Mississippi Goddam’ Song (4:40 mins)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LJ25-U3jNWM

SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER HATE MAP:

https://www.splcenter.org/hate-map

REFLECTIONS:

Lands of Reflection – 10 Unique and Creative Reflections Techniques and Lessons

https://www.teachwriting.org/612th/2017/12/28/10-unique-and-creative-reflection-techniques-lessons-for-the-secondary-student

HOMEWORK NEWSPAPER ARTICLE:

Renewing Justice For Atrocities

https://www.cfr.org/article/renewing-justice-atrocities