Humanities assignment 3 - Auschwitz Image Post

Dear readers,

As you know, Elie Wiesel and his family were taken to Auschwitz, the concentration camp. Many photographs were taken documenting the atrocities that occurred at this camp.

1.) Follow the link below to the Auschwitz Album.

2. Review the images and captions

3.) Select an image that you found powerful and repost this image- either in gadgets or on a new post.

4.) Write at least 3 complete sentences explaining why you chose this image.

5.) Comment on at least 3 other classmates' postings.

http://www1.yadvashem.org/yv/en/exhibitions/album_auschwitz/page1.asp

Humanities Assignment 2 - No Escape?

Here is your ELA-related assignment for you to do in Tech today.

The prisoners of the Holocaust were not known to revolt against their captors. Even when they became aware of their probable fate, they did not gather together to start a revolution or try to escape.

What do you believe was their reasoning?
Respond on Your Blog, what you think was behind their non-resistance.

Humanities Assignment - Is History worth Studying?

The first assigned humanities post for 8c2 is to respond to the question above - "Is History worth studying?"

In view of the current topic you are studying, - the Holocaust- many atrocities were committed to a select group of the population - The Jews - under the orders of the German Government and its leader, Adolf Hitler.

Families were separated; men women and children were used as subjects for horrifying scientific experiments, sent to concentration camps, and cruelly treated. Many were put to death in gas ovens.

The Jews were not the first population of humans who were inhumanely treated by another culture; there are many injustices that are still taking place today.

There is a saying:

Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.

George Santayana (1863 - 1952), The Life of Reason, Volume 1, 1905

So, - IS HISTORY WORTH STUDYING?