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Grade Level: 10th
Academic Areas: Language Arts, Social Studies
Duration of service: 1-2 Months
Character Virtues: Justice and Fairness, Respect, Civic Virtue and
Citizenship
Service Areas: Education/Tutoring
Service Learning Project:
After completing tenth grade unit on the Holocaust, students
will research and identify groups that been victims of intolerance
past and present. Students will contact local ethnic, religious,
and cultural groups to identify individuals within their community
that have been victims of intolerance. Students will interview
individuals and present their stories during a memorial program.
Students will participate in a contest to create a memorial to
commemorate victims of intolerance.
Students will organize and plan a Multi-Cultural Festival including
the entertainment, food, decorations, and activities. Students
will compile recipes of food to be served that night and create
a cookbook to be used to generate revenue for permanent memorial.
Students will plan for an annual event around the theme of “Tolerance”
Goals and Objectives
Academic
Learning Goal: To foster an understanding of the Holocaust and
its relationship to other world history events.
Standard: Soc. Studies #2 – Turning points in World History
and broad perspective sweep of the outcome.
Learning Goal: Through literature to bring historical facts to
a personal level to enable students to become proactive “citizens
of the world”.
Standard: English Standards #1 , #2, and #3
Service
Community need: To address recent hate or bias crime events in
the community.
Possible Community Partners: Ethnic and religious organizations,
Survivors of similar intolerance, Human Rights Commissions, Historical
Society
Objective: Acknowledge and commemorate the victims of intolerance
past and present through a memorial program.
Objective: To create a Multi-cultural festival involving food,
music , dance, and art from various cultures within the school
community.
Character
Virtue: Respect
Objective: To foster mutual respect, and acceptance across cultural,
ethnic, religious, socio-economic strata.
Virtue: Justice and Fairness
Objective: Create guidelines to enable students to become proactive
in combating intolerance in school and the greater community.
(ex. Civil Review boards, Petitions, Presentations at School Board
or community forums)
Key Activities
Key Planning Activities
1. Students will research groups and individuals that have been
victims of intolerance past and present throughout the world.
2. Students will initiate a letter to various Ethnic and Religious
organizations to identify victims who would be willing to be guest
speakers at the school.
3. Students will create a list of victims and groups that will
be commemorated in a memorial program.
Key Service Activities
1. Students will create a actual memorial/sculpture depicting
those who have overcome intolerance.
2. Students will plan and implement a memorial program to commemorate
victims of intolerance.
3. Students and faculty will organize, plan, and implement a multi-cultural
night.
Key Reflection Activities
1. (oral) Students will give oral presentations based on interviews
of victims and their experiences of intolerances at the Memorial
Program.
2. (written) Student will compile a cookbook based on recipes
brought to the Multi-cultural night to be used as a fund raiser
to help defer cost for the memorial.
3. (performance) Students will perform traditional dances, song,
and music from various cultures during the memorial performance.
Demonstration Activity
Through readings at the memorial program and the multi-cultural
celebration. Parents and community members will bring food, recipes,
teaching dance, and provide an object unique to their culture
to be displayed during events.
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