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**World War II and the Holocaust: From a Child's Point of View**
 * Summative Assessment**

“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


 * 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. Students are encouraged to use refer to their journals entries from the Journal Writing Project.


 * Specific requirements for essay:**

• 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.

**Summative Assessment** **World War II and the Holocaust: From a Child's Point of View** **Grading Rubric**

Content: Essay contains a clear and focused thesis statement _/10 Support for thesis is supported through examples from unit’s readings and personal examples from //Journal Writing Project//___ /30 Meets length requirements ___/10 Bibliography and title page _/10

Spelling and Grammar: Essay contains no spelling errors ___/10 Sentences are structurally sound ____/10 Transitional statements illustrate how each of the unit/personal examples connect to one another __/10 All quotes are properly cited within essay ___/10

Revision Process: Student participated in the writing workshop ___/10 Student participated in the peer editing process ____/20 Student made revisions and took into account partner's revisions from peer response ___/10

Total Points: __________/140