MAUS A SURVIVOR’S TALE
Mrs. Heinzer
SELFIE JOURNALThis photo was taken at Auschwitz, the most notorious WWII concentration camp.
Respond in your interactive notebook to her post on twitter. Is her post insensitive to the horrific events that took place here during WWII? Or is her post appropriate and harmless?10-15 sentences: You should include:A Topic Sentence, 3 details to support topic, and concluding sentence.
MAUS VOCABULARY• Genocide: mass murder of a specific group of people in a region• Holocaust: The event of 6 million jews that were murdered during wwII. The
genocide was conducted and lead by Adolf Hitler and nazi Germany.• Propaganda and Persuasion:• Ethos : appeal to ethics• Pathos: appeal to emotions• Logos: appeal to logic
PERSUASIONETHOS
“As a doctor, I am qualified to tell you that this course of treatment will likely generate the
best results.”
PATHOS“If we don’t move
soon, we’re all going to die!”
LOGOSThe data is
perfectly clear: this investment has
consistently turned a profit.
VOCABULARY CONTINUED• Dehumanization: Treating a person below standard: like an animal, or
something that is less than human. • Allegory: an extended metaphor• Metaphor: comparing two unlike things• Symbols: objects that represent ideas• Imagery: word pictures: what you see, hear, taste, smell, and touch.• Humanity: the human race
VOCABULARY CONTINUED• Graphic Novel: a “comic book” style story with novel characteristics.• Frame narrative: a story within a story.• Juxtaposition: the fact of two things being seen or placed close together with
contrasting effect• Diagrams: descriptive pictures
LAST SLIDE FOR VOCABULARY • Survivor’s guilt:
feelings of guilt for having survived a catastrophe in which others died.• Anti-Semitism: discrimination against or prejudice or hostility toward Jews.• Autobiography: a person telling his/her life story.• Biography: someone else telling a person’s life story.
ART SPIEGELMAN •Raised in New York.•His father depicts his tale of survival in his graphic
novel•Frame Narrative : Art is interviewing his father, and his
father begins to tell his story.
ANIMALS• An allegory of animals is a prominent symbol throughout the novel• Mice- Jews• Cats-Germans• Dogs- Americans• Pigs- Polish (prisoners)• Frogs- French• Gypsies- Moths
HOLOCAUST
• WWII Nazi Germany• Adolf Hitler’s Final Solution• dehumanization• Mass genocide, the worst the world has ever seen
HISTORICAL INVESTIGATION• YOU WILL CREATE THE FOLLOWING:• TYPED REPORT (1 PAGE)• ELECTRONIC POSTER (1 POWERPOINT SLIDE: COLLAGE)• SHORT, ORAL PRESENTATION• TWO (2) SOURCES; WORKS CITED
HOLOCAUST INVESTIGATION TOPICSNAZI PROPAGANDA
FINAL SOLUTIONANTI SEMITISM
TUSKEGEE AIRMENANNE FRANKHOLOCAUSTPRIMO LEVI
PEARL HARBORWOMEN IN WWII
LATINO AMERICANS WWIIP.O.W.S OF WWII
DISPLACEMENT OF SURVIVORS
THE MANHATTAN PROJECT
NUREMBERG TRIALS
CONCENTRATION AND LABOR CAMPS
D DAYTIME LINE OF WWIIDECLARATION OF HUMAN RIGHTS
ELIE WIESELHOLOCAUST HOAX
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In spite of everything, I still believe that people are really
good at heart.ANNE FRANK