Back to essayIllinois State Goal Alignment for Holocaust Project
Illinois Learning Standards, Joseph Spagnolo, Superintendent. Illinois State Board of Education, Springfield, Illinois, 1997.
| State Goal: 2.B.5b |
Apply knowledge gained from literature as a means of understanding contemporary and historical economic, social and political issues and prespectives. |
| Application | Students will develop the skills to evaluate and comprehend literature written about the Holocaust. Students will use print and electronic resources to better understand the issues surrounding genocide and the perspectives of survivors. Students will address the socioeconomic political issues, which lead to the Holocaust. |
| State Goal: 5.B.3a |
Choose and analyze information sources for individual, academic, and functional purposes. |
| Application | Performance of website evaluations to become more aware of antisemitsm throughout history. Confront contemporary issues, such as Holocaust denial. |
| State Goal: 5.B.3b |
Identify, evaluate, and cite primary sources. |
| Application | Use of SIRS, GaleNet: Discovery Collection, newspapers, and websites will be used to analyze contemporary primary sources. Students will also read excerpts from primary historical documents. |
| State Goal: 5.B.4a |
Choose and evaluate primary and secondary print sources (print and non-print) for a variety of purposes. |
| Application | Use of books, websites, video testimonials, and databases. |
| State Goal: 14.E.4 |
Analyze historical trends of United States foreign policy (e.g. emergence as a world leader--military, finance, industry.) |
| Application | Students will investigate U.S. foreign and domestic policies and movements. Immigration quotas, the eugenics movement, and isolationism will be examined to show their affects on other nations. Students will comapre and contrast U.S. behavior with regards to contemporary genocides, such as Bosnia and Rwanda. The United Nations and international and U.S. laws and conventions regarding genocides will be examined. |
| State Goal: 14.E.5 |
Analyze relationships and tensions among members of the international community. |
| Application | The United Nationas, Arab-Israeli relations, Zionism, and historic and contemporary genocides will be studied. The examination of intolerance. |
| State Goal: 16.A.3c |
Identify the differences between historic fact and fiction. |
| Application | Holocaust "Revisionism," Holocaust denial, antisemitic literature and propaganda will be examined to demonstrate the nature of racism and the elements of violent and/or genocidal behavior. Developing the skills necessary to evalaute arguments and to differentiate between the truth about the Holocaust and false interpretations. |
| State Goal: 16.A.4a |
Analyze and report historical events to determine cause and effect relationships. |
| Application | Students will investigate historical and political antisemitism, the Weimar Republic, the Depression, the Treaty of Versailles, World War I, and Fascism and the role that different eras and ideologies had in the Holocaust. Antisemitic essays, literaure and history will be covered. |