HEB Trail of Lights Writing Contest (Submission Deadline Nov. 8, 2019) HEB and Austin ISD are working together to provide students in grades 3-5 with an essay writing opportunity. The HEB Trail of Lights organization is now accepting entries for their essay competition. All students are encouraged to participate. Winners will receive the honor of flipping the switch for the Trail of Lights.
Details on the essay contest and submission guidelines can be found here. https://sites.google.com/austinisd.org/aisdtrailoflights/home Vision and Voice Poetry Contest (Submission Deadline Dec. 31, 2019) The annual Vision and Voice Poetry Contest, hosted by Austin Community College, will start accepting submissions on September 1. Students from across Austin ISD in grades K-12 can submit poetry on any topic they choose. Poems do not have to be in English. Winners will be announced before spring break 2020 with a reception in April 2020. Also, winning entries will be paired with art work from ACC students along with a prize package that includes tickets to shows at the Paramount, an anthology of winning Vision and Voice poems, as well as other prizes to be announced. Students can submit their poems here. http://k12.visionandvoice.org/ Instructions: You will be broken into groups.
ALL members of each group will read their assigned readings and watch their assigned clips. You will have ~20 minutes. Write down the BIG ideas for each:
After finishing, if waiting do some silent reading. When all groups are ready you will choose a teacher from your group to share what you learned.
Group 1: Anti-semitism Read: Anti-semitism Definition Read: https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/antisemitism View: Anti-Semitism Group 2 : Versailles Treaty View: Newspaper Announcement of the Signing of the Versailles Treaty ; View: Treaty of Versailles video Read: How did World War I End and What Happened Next? Group 3: What was the Nazi Party? View: Hitler’s Rise to Power Read: Primary Source: Rise of Nazi Ideology Read: The Nazi Party (read until "Militant Foreign Policy) Read: Nazi Party Platform & The 25 Points Group 4: German Economy View: Inflation and Depression Read: The Impact of the Great Depression on Germany Group 5: Weimar Republic: Germany’s Democracy 1918-1933 View: The Creation of the Weimar Republic View: The Desire for a Strong and Proud Germany: Election of 1932 Read: Rise and Fall of the Weimar Republic https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfkrCa__kli53C6X3ksF8oIRob0g7UknO5ZPakBmfL0a8gOrQ/viewform?usp=sf_linkdocs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfkrCa__kli53C6X3ksF8oIRob0g7UknO5ZPakBmfL0a8gOrQ/viewform?usp=sf_link
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