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Fuller Middle School: "Night" Research Paper

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Assignment

8th Grade Research Assignment for Night 

  • Length: 1–2 pages (not including Works Cited Page)
  • Format: MLA, which includes in-text citations and a Works Cited Page
  • Sources: 3. All web sources must be found through the Fuller Middle School LibGuide. Use at least one book as a source.
  • Process: Make "notecards," create a Works Cited Page, create an outline, write a rough draft, revise your essay into a final draft.

 

CITATION RESOURCES

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TOPIC 1

What commonalities are there between certain events before, during, and after the Holocaust to events we see today?

Below are suggested links to get you started. Feel free to use the databases at the bottom of this box to explore other events.

What factors lead to genocide? from Choices Program on Vimeo.

Background Information

The Holocaust: Origins through Final Days and Aftermath (Encyclopedia Britannica)

Path to Genocide
(U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum)

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

The Holocaust - Jewish Virtual Library

Remember.org - A People's History of the Holocaust and Genocide 

Yad Vashem - The World Holocaust Rememberance Center

TOPIC 2

Someone (or a group) who has faced real difficulties and has created something positive from that negative situation.

Below are suggestions to get you started. Feel free to use the databases at the bottom of this box to explore other public figures.

Nelson Mandela 

President of South Africa who spent
almost 30 years in prison for fighting
against apartheid
Helen Keller
Lost hearing and eyesight at 19 months
Mahatma Gandhi
Leader of Indian Independence
movement who was jailed and then
assassinated for resisting British rule
Olaudah Equiano
Abolitionist who was enslaved during
childhood
Harriet Tubman
Abolitionist, nurse, and spy who was
born into slavery

Stephen Hawking
Theoretical physicist, cosmologist and
author who was diagnosed with ALS in
his twenties
Malala Yousafzai
Nobel Prize winner and activist who
survived an assassination attempt when
she was 15 years old

Ida B. Wells
Journalist and activist who spoke out
against lynching and was the 
target of violence
 

Freedom Now: The Civil Rights Movement in Mississippi from Choices Program on Vimeo.

 

Holocaust Web Resources

TOPIC 3

The positive acts of Oskar Schindler

Below are suggested resources to get you started. Feel free to use the databases at the bottom of this box to further explore the positive acts of Oskar Schindler.

Oskar Schindler with some of the people he rescued

U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum