I kind of wanted the photos to increase in their intensity and emotive power as the video progressed, and I also wanted to time it with the music, but there were some photos that I wanted the viewer to pause at and be forced to contemplate (for example, the men in the gas chamber with the somber man in suspenders gazing at the camera with an emptiness that I have never seen rivaled).
I also wanted the photos to progress somewhat chronologically, and ending with the photo of the American soldiers looking on in horror at the bodies of the men in the death train. I wanted the viewer to put themselves in the shoes of those soldiers. And then wrap it up with some sort of summative statement. I settled on a quote from Adolf Hitler that can be found at http://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/holocaust-quotations.html.
| UEN Standards: | Standard 7 from the US History II Core Curriculum |
| Purpose of the activity: | To get students to understand and analyze the terror and gravity of the Jewish Holocaust |
| Objective: | Students will watch the video and participate in a journal activity where they can record their thoughts on the subject at hand, for analysis and review in a discussion in pairs, then as a class. |
| Script, narration, or text | text is captions accompanying photos and contextual information to give the photograph more meaning and intensity. |
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