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This Anne Frank unit is designed with several
lessons of various lengths. These lessons are usable
in many different disciplines. Using one, several, or
all of the lessons will address the unit's objectives
to some degree. Students will accomplish some or all
of the objectives depending on the number and nature
of the lessons in which they participate.
Anne Frank Exhibit February 7 - March 6, 1997
Historic Utah County Courthouse
Provo, Utah
Warren Shank (801)489-9144
Purpose
To use the story of a young girl, Anne Frank, as
a catalyst in an effort to understand better the four themes
of the Exhibit:
- Discrimination is cruel and irrational.
- It is the ordinary citizen who discriminates.
- Discrimination is a matter of personal choice.
- Discrimination, prejudice, and racism not only existed
in the past, but still exist today.
These four themes are repeated in the Picturing the Themes
worksheet in the folder. While these are the organizing
themes for the Exhibit, they can also be used for lessons
with classes that cannot attend the Exhibit but want to
explore the nature of discrimination in order to intervene
and to promote harmony, peace, and justice in the world
of the future.
Goals
- Students will be exposed to a variety of lessons
on discrimination that will increase their sensitivity
to diversity.
- Students will compare/contrast past and present discrimination
issues.
- Students will examine/identify attitudes toward discrimination.
- Students will identify personal biases and formulate
a plan to "make a difference."
Options
Enrichment activities and challenge activities for
high performance students are suggested for each lesson.
Vocabulary:
- Bias
- Discriminate
- euthanasia
- Gestapo
- Holocaust
- irrational
- Jew/Jude
- National Socialist/Nazi
- prejudice
- propaganda
- racism
- scapegoat
- stereotype
- Westerbork
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