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Minooka Junior High
Many schools take this time each year to incorporate stories into
their curriculum--stories like "The Diary of Anne Frank" or the
documentary movie "Paper Clips."
Students in Sarah Massey's literature classes and Cassie Bailey's
social studies classes at Minooka Junior High took the Holocaust unit
to a deeper level last year and began a project that is turning into a
school tradition.
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A Teacher Has A Vision
Borrowing from an idea Massey had seen at the U.S. Holocaust Museum
in Washington, D.C., she and Bailey had the entire eighth grade class
create a tile that expressed their feelings on the Holocaust. More
than 3,000 hand-painted tiles are mounted on the Wall of Remembrance
in the museum.
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25 Ten Year-Olds Go To The Holocaust Camps
Over spring break last year, 25 students from Minooka Junior High
traveled to Germany for 10 days with Massey and Bailey as part of Club
Travel Abroad. They toured Dachau, Germany's first concentration camp
and saw the actual gas chambers.
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The Ashes Of Dead Jews
Massey explained to the students before they entered Dachau that
they were walking on the ashes of the people who died there.
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Teacher Says "This Is A Sacred Place"
"I told them it was a sacred place," said Massey. "The kids didn't
speak the whole time they walked through." "The history was pretty
intense."
One night the teachers and students sat in a hotel room and shared
their journal entries from their tours.
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