teacher's guides

Canada and The Holocaust: Social Responsibility and Global Citizenship

Canada and The Holocaust: Social Responsibility and Global Citizenship is a resource guide developed by the VHEC, Canadian Jewish Congress and the BC Ministry of Education for Social Studies 11. It is designed to provide support for approximately seven hours of classroom instruction with resources including: timeline, glossary, handouts, bibliography, instructional procedures and background information on the Holocaust. The guide focuses on the impact of Canada’s immigration policies, which directly affected Jews during the Holocaust. Divided into a three-part examination of the pre-war period, the period during the war and post-war immigration policies, resources include newspaper clippings, letters, diary entries, and speeches. A guide for Social Studies 11 Teachers.

($6)
Available in French for $12.50

Too Close to Home: Anti-Semitism and Fascism
in Canada, 1930s-40s: An Artefact Folio

Too Close to Home: Anti Semitism & Fascism in Canada 1930's & 1940's: A Teacher's Guide draws attention to a shameful part of Canadian history; a time when Nazi ideology and anti-Semitism permeated Canada's cultural and political landscape and was reflected in Canada's restrictive immigration policies.

Too Close to Home , an artefact folio, provides secondary school students and teachers with primary source materials from Canada in the 1930s and 1940s. These materials paint a picture of the times and address the issues of anti-Semitism, Fascism, Nazism and immigration in Canada during the Holocaust.

These artefacts have the power to engage students' interest and understanding. They help students appreciate how Canada's present diversity and multicultural identity evolved out of a more exclusionary past.

($20)

Teacher's Guide

• 5 thematic sections - Anti-Semitism, Fascism and Nazism, the Ku Klux Klan, Canadian Immigration and Propaganda
• Strategy for working with primary source materials
• Student information sheets, discussion - extension questions & glossary

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40 Artefacts

• 20 folio cards - 8.5" X 11"
• Newspaper articles, letters, diary entries, photographs, cartoons and propaganda materials from the 1930s & 1940s

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