For this large scale project, students transformed City Arts and Technology HS into a multi-media museum dedicated to the memory and lessons of the Holocaust. Our museum features digital design, theatrical performance, sculpture, graphic art, radio commentary, scrap-booking, memorials and more. Each group was responsible for creating and implementing a thematic, historical and relevant exhibit that explores some aspect of genocide and the notion of human choice and responsibility in the face of unimaginable circumstances. In order to create their piece, students synthesized and applied content from Social Studies, English Language Arts, Integrated Science, Academic Literacy, Art, Digital Media and Spanish.

All students in the school selected one of the following 6 projects to work on as Installation Curators:
-The Radio Project: Does History Repeat Itself?
-Portraits and Comics
-Teatro en Espanol
-The Holocaust Filmmaking Project
-A Correspondence Between History and My-Story
-How Do We Remember?

(please see the individual project descriptions for detailed explainations of the projects)

To accomplish this large scale Exhibition, students worked in small groups on their installations for 2 weeks in their project workshop groups for most of every school day.

 

Subject Area(s): Digital Design, Language Arts, Social Studies, Visual and Performing Arts, World Language

 

Teaching Days to Complete: 2 weeks

 

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21st Century Leadership Skills  What's this?

Communicate Effectively and Persuasively, Manage Projects Effectively, Think Critically, Solve Problems Resourcefully , Express Creatively, Collaborate Productively

 

Graduation Portfolio Tasks  What's this?

History/Social Science Investigation, Creative Expression, Research Paper, Multimedia Project, Public Speaking

Student Accountability Sign-Off Sheet
Students were required to get 'signed off' for having presented and defended their project work. This 'sign off' sheet ...
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Sample Weekly Schedule
The weekly schedule for the school was changed in order to accomodate project work time and math class (which was not pa...
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