educational resources and offerings lesson plan packs |
For more information or to make an appointment to take out materials, contact:
Maureen MacLaughlin, Breman Librarian
678 222-3752
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Each listing below includes the name of the book to be studied (and author), basic concepts or key words included in the lesson plans, and a catalogue number, which may be clicked to view the lesson plan overview.
» Kindergarten & Elementary School
» General Holocaust History Lesson Plans (can be adapted)
Kindergarten & Elementary School
| Angel Child, Dragon Child (Surat) | Confronting Prejudice Cultural Differences Vietnam |
LP 1003 |
| Anna is Still Here (Vos) | Holocaust—General Fiction—Juvenile Hidden Children Holland |
LP 1004 |
| The Feather-Bed Journey (Kurzband) | Holocaust— Poland Holocaust—Rescue Jewish Life— Poland |
LP 1017 |
| Child of the Warsaw Ghetto (Adler) | Holocaust—Children Ghettos Warsaw Ghetto—History Poland Janusz Korszak |
LP 1010 |
| Everybody Cooks Rice (Dolley) | Tolerance Multiculturalism Diversity |
LP 1023 |
| The Hand-Me-Down Horse (Pomeranc) | Immigration— United States Displaced Persons Holocaust—Survivors |
LP 1024 |
| The Hundred Dresses (Estes) | Tolerance Prejudice/Discrimination Bullying |
LP 1025 |
| Jacob's Rescue: A Holocaust Story (Drucker/Halperin) | Holocaust—Rescue Righteous Gentiles Holocaust—Hidden Children |
LP 1026 |
| The Keeping Quilt (Polacco) | Immigration Russia Family History Judaism—Culture and Tradition |
LP 1046 |
| Letters from Rifka (Hesse) | Immigration— United States — Ellis Island Russia —Jewish Experience |
LP 1027 |
| The Lily Cupboard (Oppenheim) | Holocaust—Hidden Children Holocaust— Holland Holocaust—Rescue Righteous Gentiles |
LP 1028 |
| Memories of My Life in a Polish Village (1930-1939) (Fluek) | Jews— Poland Holocaust—Ghettos Holocaust—Camps Immigration— United States Holocaust—General Judaism—Culture and Traditions— Poland Art |
LP 1032 |
| Molly's Pilgrim (Cohen) | Immigration— United States Tolerance Diversity Jews—Russian |
LP 1031 |
| Mrs. Katz and Tush (Polacco) | Judaism—Passover Friendship Pets |
LP 1030 |
| The Night Crossing (Ackerman) | Holocaust—Flight Holocaust— Austria Holocaust—Children |
LP 1033 |
| Number the Stars (Lowry) | Holocaust— Denmark —Rescue Righteous Gentiles Holocaust—Resistance |
LP 1034 |
| One Yellow Daffodil: A Hanukkah Story (Adler) | Judaism—Holidays—Hanukkah Holocaust—Survivors |
LP 1037 |
| Passage to Freedom: The Sugihara Story (Mochizuki) | Holocaust—Rescue Righteous Gentiles—Japanese Chiune Sugihara |
LP 1000 |
| Smoky Night (Bunting) | Tolerance Friendship Pets |
LP 1055 |
| Terrible Things (Bunting) | Holocaust—General | LP 1040 |
| Uncle Willie and the Soup Kitchen (Disalvo-Ryan) | Tolerance Citizenship Community Relations |
LP 1038 |
| Who Belongs Here? An American Story (Knight) | Immigration— United States Tolerance Prejudice Diversity |
LP 1036 |
| The Woman Who Outshone the Sun (Martinez) | Tolerance Multiculturalism Diversity |
LP 1048 |
| The Yellow Star: The Legend of King Christian X of Denmark (Deedy) | Holocaust—Resistance Jews— Denmark Holocaust—Persecution Holocaust— Denmark —Rescue |
LP 1029 |
| After the War (Matas) | Holocaust—General Fiction—Juvenile Poland Palestine/Israel Immigration |
LP 1005 |
| Anna is Still Here (Vos) | Holocaust—General Fiction—Juvenile Hidden Children Holland |
LP 1004 |
Behind the Bedroom Wall/Heil Hitler: Confessions of a Nazi Youth (Williams) |
Holocaust—Rescue Fiction—Juvenile Nazi Youth Groups Germany
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LP 1007 |
| Behind the Secret Window: A Memoir of a Hidden Childhood During World War II (Toll) | Hidden Children Biography Lvov , Poland Holocaust—Rescue |
LP 1006 |
| The Cage (Sender) | Memoirs Fiction—Juvenile Ghettos— Lodz , Poland Holocaust—General Concentration Camps |
LP 1008 |
| Children in the Holocaust and World War II: Their Secret Diaries (Holliday) | Holocaust—Children Diaries—Juvenile Ghettos |
LP 1009 |
| Children of Willesden Lane : Beyond the Kindertransport: A Memory Of Music, Love, and Survival (Golabek/Cohen) | Holocaust—Rescue Holocaust—Children Kindertransport England Music |
LP 1011 |
| Daniel's Story (Matas) | Holocaust—Children Fiction—Juvenile Germany Ghettos— Lodz , Poland Concentration Camps— Buchenwald Concentration Camps—Auschwitz-Birkenau |
LP 1012 |
| Devil's Arithmetic (Yolen) | Holocaust—General Fiction—Juvenile |
LP 1002 |
| Dragonwings (Yep) | Confronting Prejudice Cultural Differences China Immigration |
LP 1013 |
| The Endless Steppe: Growing Up in Siberia (Hautzig) | Holocaust—Survivors—Memoirs Russia — Siberia |
LP 1015 |
| Flying Against the Wind: The Story of a Young Woman Who Defined the Nazis (Friedman) | Holocaust—Resistance Germany |
LP 1022 |
| Forging Freedom: A True Story of Heroism During the Holocaust (Talbott) | Holocaust—Resistance Holocaust—Rescue Holland — Amsterdam Dutch Jewry Rightous Gentiles |
LP 1016 |
| Four Perfect Pebbles: A Holocaust Story (Perl/Lazan) | Holocaust—General Holocaust—Survivors Holocaust— Holland Westerbork Concentration Camp |
LP 1020 |
| The Führer Gives a City to the Jews (video) | Holocaust—Concentration Camps Theresienstadt (Terezin)— Czechoslovakia Nazi Propaganda |
LP 1021 |
| Grace in the Wilderness: After the Liberation 1945-48 (Siegal) | Liberation— Bergen-Belsen Holocaust—General Displaced Persons— Sweden Holocaust—Survivors |
LP 1018 |
| Hana's Suitcase: A True Story (Levine) | Holocaust—Children Japan |
LP 1050 |
| I Never Saw Another Butterfly: Children's Drawings and Poems from Theresienstadt Concentration Camp | Holocaust—Children Art Poetry Theresienstadt (Terezin) Concentration Camp |
LP 1049 |
| The Island on Bird Street (Orlev) | Holocaust—Hiding Holocaust—Ghettos Holocaust—Children |
LP 1041 |
| The Shadow Children (Schnur) | Holocaust—Children France Fiction—Juvenile |
LP 1044 |
| Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps (Warren) | Holocaust—General Holocaust—Survivors Holocaust— Poland —Children |
LP 1039 |
| Sky: A True Story of Courage During World War II (Ippish) | Holocaust—Resistance Holland Rescue |
LP 1001 |
| Upon the Head of the Goat (Siegal) | Holocaust—General Holocaust— Hungary Holocaust—Survivors |
LP 1019 |
| When the Soldiers Were Gone (Propp) | Holocaust—Hidden Children | LP 1051 |
| Children of Willesden Lane: Beyond the indertransport: A Memory Of Music, Love, and Survival (Golabek/Cohen) | Holocaust—Rescue Holocaust—Children Kindertransport England Music |
LP 1011 |
| Europa, Europa (film) | Holocaust—General Holocaust—Children |
LP 1014 |
| The Führer Gives a City to the Jews (video) | Holocaust—Concentration Camps Theresienstadt (Terezin)— Czechoslovakia Nazi Propaganda |
LP 1021 |
| Holocaust (the TV movie) | Holocaust—Drama Holocaust—General |
LP 1035 |
| Survivors of the Holocaust (video) | Holocaust—General Holocaust—Survivors |
LP 1054 |
| Tak for Alt (Meisel) | Holocaust—Survivors Holocaust— Denmark —Rescue Holocaust—Concentration Camps—Stutthof Holocaust—Ghettos—Vilna |
LP 1042 |
| They Fought Back: The Story of the Jewish Resistance in Europe (Suhl) | Holocaust—Resistance Holocaust—Children |
LP 1047 |
| Weapons of the Spirit | Holocaust—Rescue Le Chambon, France |
LP 1052 |
General Holocaust History Lesson Plans
(Non-Fiction — Can be adapted from 6 th grade up)
| The Holocaust: The World and the Jews, 1933-1945 (Rossel) | Holocaust—General History |
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| Smoke and Ashes: The Story of the Holocaust (Rogasky) | Holocaust—General History | LP 1043 |
| Anne Frank Lesson Plan | Grades 3 and 4 Picture book |
LP 1053B |
| Anne Frank Lesson Plan | Grades 4 to 7 | LP 1053C |
| Anne Frank Lesson Plan | Grades 8 and up | LP 1053A |
| Anne Frank Lesson Plan | Grades 7 and 8 | LP 1053D |
| Anne Frank Lesson Plan | Grades 7 and 8; Based on the Anne Frank House | LP 1053F |
| Anne Frank Lesson Plan | Grades 7 and 8; Definitive Edition Of the Diary | LP 1053E |
| Anne Frank Lesson Plan | Grades 7 and 8; Based on Miep Gies' Book Anne Frank Remembered | LP 1053G |
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