This history unit, called "Bringing History to Life", is a culmination of all the students have learned this year. Their final project involves research and narative writing. Students will pick a topic to learn about in WW2, research it to present to their reader, then using facts taught in their nonfiction introduction, write an educational narrative historical fiction story. We will spend lots of time in class learning all about war as a social issue and how the war affected the world and all the people around it, whether they were directly participating in the war or not. The content of this unit will teach them why there are no winners in war, history is important, and give them first hand examples of different types of sources, primary and secondary.
The WW2 museum in Beijing is an interesting opportunity to see artifacts from a time period in history we are studying. Children must choose a part of WW2 to study that is not directly connected to China, so this field trip offers a different perspective on what happened in Asia. Whatever topic the children chose to learn more about for their studies, it is almost always possible to find something related to their topic in the museum.
About the Museum
This is a nonfiction book that tells all about children during the war. It talks about how children from different countries had totally different lives during the war.
This is a story about a young German boy whose father runs a concentration camp. The boy unknowingly makes friends with a Jewish boy behind the fence.
Number the Stars is about a young Danish girl who takes a big risk to help her Jewish friend escape when the Nazi's are arresting all of the Jews during WW2 in Europe.
world |
Axis |
Allies |
Nazi |
Jews |
Holocaust |
Anne Frank |
autobiography |
historical fiction |
primary source |
secondary source |
fact |
