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For information about courses, please contact
Dr. Lili Baxter at 404-870-1872 or lbaxter@thebreman.org.
Thursday, June 12, 10am - 5pm
Seeking Justice: Teaching the Leo Frank Case
This one-day course will provide teachers with materials and strategies for teaching the Leo Frank case in the context of courses on world history, American history and Georgia history. It will include scholarly lectures, first-person accounts, primary sources from the Breman archives, films, photographs, and a tour of our special exhibition Seeking Justice: The Leo Frank Case Revisited. The course is aligned with state standards for the teaching of language arts and social studies and offers teachers one PLU credit.
Areas to be addressed in the workshop:
- Preparing a timeline of the case and its aftermath
- Determining the significance of the case today
- Developing a working vocabulary
- Understanding the historical context of the case: Reconstruction in Georgia, The Cotton States Exposition and the New South; the 1906 Atlanta race riot
- Learning about the lives of the protagonists in the case
- Examining the lyrics of The Ballad of Mary Phagan
- Evaluating the role of the press in the outcome of the trial and subsequent events
- Understanding the role of scapegoats
- Investigating the conspiracy: the abduction and lynching of Leo Frank
- Reviewing famous quotes about the case
- Learning about the history of lynching and the noose as a symbol of hate today
All teachers will receive a Teacher's Guide to the case and exhibition that includes background and historical information, issues raised by the case today, suggested classroom activities, and discussion questions.
Instructor: Sally Levine, M.S.
Specialist in Curriculum and Teacher Development, The Breman; Regional Educator Corps, U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum, Washington, D.C.
Members: $25 [Add to Cart]
Non-members: $50 [Add to Cart]
If you prefer not to pay on line, contact
Judi Ayal at
404-870-1632 or
jayal@thebreman.org.
The Seventeenth Annual Summer Institute on
Teaching the Holocaust
June 16-20, 2008, 9am - 5pm
5th PLU: June 25, 10am - 3 pm
4 PLUs (optional 5th PLU, see below).
» Read comments from previous Summer Institute participants.
The Summer Institute provides participants with the rare opportunity to learn about the Holocaust by interweaving study of this dark hour in human history with unforgettable eyewitness accounts by Holocaust survivors.
Through scholarly lectures, personal recollections, guided discussions, film documentaries, assigned readings and a range of handout materials, participants will not only gain greater knowledge of the Holocaust, but also develop age-appropriate teaching strategies for imparting this difficult subject to students.
We are committed to assisting teachers in being thoroughly prepared to teach Holocaust history and/or language arts. For an optional 5th PLU, teachers will have the opportunity to develop lesson plans and identify materials to be used in their classrooms.
Texts include The World Must Know, by Michael Berenbaum, and at least one of the following: Number the Stars, by Lois Lowry, The Diary of a Young Girl, by Anne Frank, edited by Otto H. Frank and Mirjam Pressler and Night, by Elie Wiesel. Course registrants receive a 15% discount on these books at the Breman Museum Shop.
The course includes:
| • | thought-provoking guest lectures by college professors & master teachers |
| • | memorable eyewitness accounts by Holocaust survivors |
| • | guided tour of The Breman's signature gallery, Absence of Humanity: The Holocaust Years, 1933—1945 |
| • | teacher-to-teacher sharing and planning of classroom applications |
| • | an introduction to the music and art of the Holocaust |
The Weinberg Center for Holocaust Education includes an extensive Holocaust library, a video lending library, curriculum materials and consultation with Breman Museum staff.
Scholarships for teachers are available from the Atlanta Memorial Fund of Eternal Life-Hemshech, Organization of Survivors of Nazism, Second and Future Generations. When you fill out the registration form, simply indicate that you are interested in receiving a scholarship.
Breman members: $275; non-members: $350. A $25 registration fee is required from those requesting scholarships.
To pay the $25 registration fee only, click here: [Add to Cart].
For more information, contact Dr. Lili Kshensky Baxter, Director of the Weinberg Center for Holocaust Education, at 404-870-1872, or by e-mail at lbaxter@thebreman.org.
The 17th Annual Summer Institute on Teaching the Holocaust is supported in part by a generous contribution from
The Atlanta Memorial Fund of Eternal Life-Hemshech, Inc.
Comments From previous Summer Institute Participants
"I feel blessed to have heard so many survivor stories in person.
Nothing is more valuable."
"Great historical background—run extremely well and on time,
especially considering the sensitivity of the topic."
"Thank you for a remarkable experience—one that I
look
forward to passing on."
"I came for perspective and for some way to organize my thoughts
relating to my research. What I received exceeded any expectations."
"Each instructor gave so much in so little time. I don't feel as if
I wasted one moment during the five days here...This class should be offered more often."
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