Reminder:
Echoes and Reflections and Elie Wiesel's Night

When:
Wednesday, 22 March 2017
8:00am to 3:30pm
(GMT-07:00) America/Los Angeles

Where:
LACOE Ed Center, Room 202

Description:

Join this special workshop with guest workshop lead, Sherry Bard, to explore:

??? How do we prepare students to read and understand Elie Wiesel’s “Night” within the larger historical framework of the Holocaust??
??? ?What are some of the moral and ethical questions that the memoir helps students examine??
??? ?How can we effectively integrate multimedia resources and projects within our literature instruction?

$25* registration fee provides participants with an Echoes and Reflections teacher guide, a free MediaSnap trial, as well as breakfast and lunch. *Registration is waived if your school is a Multimedia Services member.

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Program Goals?
??? Familiarize participants with the content and pedagogy of Echoes and Reflections through experiential activities.?
??? ?Enhance teacher knowledge about the Holocaust.
??? ?Explore Echoes and Reflections multimedia assets including the correlated visual history testimonies and other primary resources and materials.
??? ?Introduce participants to MediaSnap’s search and IWitness, an online complement to Echoes and Reflections that includes interactive student- centered activities.?
??? ?Hear from and interact with a Holocaust survivor.

This custom program will explore:
??? History of antisemitism and the ghettos for context prior to teaching Night.
??? ?Interdisciplinary materials, including art work, photographs, poetry, and personal narratives, for teaching about the “Final Solution.”
??? ?Significant themes of the memoir and additional resources to support the teaching of the text.

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