Grade 12

ELA – HIGH SCHOOL – GRADE 12 CURRICULUM RESOURCES

In English IV, there are two text sets available for teachers to choose to utilize in their classrooms to teach about the Holocaust. In each of these documents, teachers will find detailed, standards-based lessons provided that they can choose for their students. Teachers can decide which lessons and culminating activities to use to best fit the needs of their students, so a wide range of lessons and texts are available. Teachers may also choose to use their own materials to teach about the Holocaust.

Each text set has lessons arranged in four categories that follow a loose chronological order of events in the Holocaust: Understanding Identity and Culture, Rise of the Nazis, Life under Nazi Occupation, and Liberation, Survival, Justice, and Legacy. 

The recommended text set for English IV teachers to choose is “Babi Yar” by Yevgeni Yevtushenko, a Russian poet who laments the lack of acknowledgment or memorial for the tens of thousands of murdered Jews at Babi Yar. This void of response by the Soviet government to the dilemma of how to remember what happened during the Holocaust is the focus of the poem, and students will learn how individuals, institutions, and governments chose to respond or ignore the dilemmas faced both during and after the Holocaust. This poem is available on the internet. 

You can access the curriculum resources below by turning the pages in the flipbook or downloading it.