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Summative Assessment // World War II and the Holocaust: From a Child's Point of View // “To those who lost their lives we remember you. To those who survived, we hear you. To the next generation, we must never forget.”-Closing statements of //Oprah & Elie Weisel at Auschwitz// Specific requirements for essay:**
 * Objective: ** Students will submit a final, cumulative essay as their summative assessment for this unit. The topic of this essay will focus on the students’ experience with discrimination at school and in their personal lives. Throughout the essay, students will aim to answer the following questions:
 * How is the Holocaust relevant to our lives?
 * Generally speaking, kids in high school always feel as if they have to be better than others. Why is this? How does this mind set create social injustice?
 * What discrimination exists in the high school environment?
 * What can we do about changing stereotypes today?
 * Why do we make victims of certain groups of people?
 * Why people are treated the way that they are?
 * How are people mistreated in contemporary books and poems?
 * What similarities and differences do the victims from our everyday lives share with the ones that we encountered during our unit on the Holocaust?
 * These are simply guideline questions for students. The purpose of this assignment is for students to apply the unit’s themes to their personal experiences.**
 * Essays should be double spaced, 12 point Times New Roman font
 * Completed essays will be 4 pages long
 * Proper citations for direct quotes and paraphrasing are also required. Bibliography and title page will also be incorporated into final essay.

Grading Rubric Content readings and personal examples /30 Spelling and Grammar examples connect to one another __/10
 * Essay contains a clear and focused thesis statement _/10
 * Support for thesis is supported through examples from unit’s
 * Meets length requirements /10
 * Bibliography and title page _/10
 * Essay contains no spelling errors ___/10__
 * __Sentences are structurally sound__ /10
 * Transitional statements illustrate how each of the unit/personal
 * All quotes are properly cited within essay ___/10__

__Total Points:__ __/100