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= Today’s Survivor Podcast  =

While in the media center after completing your Web Quest, go to the following website and read different accounts of people who survived the Holocaust. Find one survivor with whom you can identify and take his/her account and write 1-2 minute speech telling the story as if it were you. Do not just copy the account from the internet cite, make it your own. Read the speech and make sure it is at least a minute long and no more than 2 minutes. You will turn this written speech in with the following assignment.

Holocaust Survivor Accounts

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Second Part of the Assignment

We have survivors today—9/11, hurricanes/tornados, addictions, car accidents, drought, sickness, etc. These people have been through difficult situations and have survived. We can learn much from these people. Therefore, complete the following:


 * 1) Talk to family members, friends, and your community members (church, YMCA, teachers, etc.) about surviving and what hardship they may have survived.


 * 1) If you have a specific “topic” in mind, list some ideas of how you might contact a survivor i.e. if you want to talk to a cancer survivor, you could contact the local office of the American Cancer Society.


 * 1) Set up a time to interview a survivor—Get permission to use your survivor’s name and story. Let him/her know about the assignment so she/he knows that you will be using her name and speaking in his/her voice. Your survivor might want approval of your final script.


 * 1) Write at least 15 open-ended questions you can use to interview—open ended questions require explanation and do not have just a yes/no answer. Examples:

· What does that mean to you? · How did you go about solving that problem? · How did you make that choice? · What information do you have about that? · What would you do differently next time? · Why do you feel that way? · How did your experience change you? · What was the most important part of your experience?

Today’s Survivor Podcast Rubric and Timeline
 * 1) During the interview you will need to take enough notes to create a 2 minute podcast in the voice of your survivor. You will turn in your questions and notes as part of the final grade.

__5/17__Webquest completed and Survivor Accounts read in Media Center

__5/18___Written speech as if you are the survivor ( Homework Grade)

__5/19___ Jewish term completed: Written definition with visual

___5/20__Survivor interview scheduled, question written—Survivor name, event survived, and questions submitted to Mrs. Kramer (Homework Grade).

___5/25__Interview completed—notes checked by Mrs. Kramer (Homework Grade)

__5/26___2 minute podcast script written and practiced (written script shown—Homework Grade)

___5/27__Podcast recorded, polished, completed in media center

___5/31__Introduction to contemporary survivor written and shown to Mrs. Kramer save to your Wiki Page (Homework Grade)

___6/1___Presentations of Survivor Podcasts (We may not get to everyone but you will still get credit for the presentation)

Rubric

__/20 Holocaust Survivor Speech (Content, Development, Grammar)__

/20 Interview Notes with answer to at least 15 questions

__/20 Podcast script (content, development, grammar)__

/20 Written introduction to the Podcast (content, development, grammar)

__/20 Present Podcast__

/100 Final Grade (Major Grade)