The Holocaust: Researching a Topic in Two Sources
1) Log in to the GCPS portal and open Google Workspace and go to Mr. Proffitt's Google Classroom.
2) Choose your topic from these options from the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (USHMM). 3) Click open the Document in Google Clasroom called Research Tables (2 sources) to get your own copy that is already gradeable. 4) As indicated on the Google Doc, you will generate and edit an MLA citation using the embedded citation tool before pasting it into the colored box for each source 5) After you've cited your research article, you will use skimming and reading to choose and paste in three short sections or sentences containing important or interesting facts. 6) You will read the source's information from what you've borrowed until you can write your own sentence explaining what it says--paraphrasing it--as well as adding a parenthetical citation. 7) Before you finish with source one, you will choose one specific short section to quote directly, setting it up with a personally written introductory lead or "bridge sentence." 8) Complete all the same steps with a second source on the same or a very closely related topic from one of the recommended Holocaust research sites here: For your 2nd source: Jewish Virtual Library,
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Topic Options
linked to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. You can choose for your research from to its "Overview of the Holocaust:Topics to Teach" page or the list here: Dachau Kristallnacht Schutzstaffel, the SS Adolf Hitler Children during Holocaust Jewish Ghettos: Warsaw and/or Lodz Anti-Semitism in Germany Life in a concentration camp Additional Victims of Nazi Persecution Warsaw Ghetto Uprising Auschwitz Liberation of the Concentration Camps Nuremberg Race Laws Death Marches Adolf Eichmann |