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Hitler And Ww2 Sequence Analysis

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This is the fourth picture in the sequence. This picture is of two Jewish people during Hitler’s reign. Both students were able to place this picture correctly in the sequence and they both thought this was from the 1930’s. They both were able to recognize that the man and woman were Jews and had been marked as such because of Hitler. Both students, because they are currently studying WWII, were able to express what happened to the Jewish people and even what happened to Hitler as the war ended. Joe said this was the most interesting picture out of all of them because they were currently studying about Hitler and WWII. I ended asking Joe how he thought his life would be different if he had been alive during this time. HIs answer was grim. …show more content…

The first main question was about who runs our country and how. Both of the students were able to tell me that our country was not ruled by a King. Jane pointed out that there was a Queen and King in another country who just had a baby girl. She, however, could not remember the country. Both students were able to tell me that Obama was the president. I asked them how they knew and both replied that their parents talk about him all the time. Joe even expressed that his parents usually spoke about Obama negatively but he did not understand what his parents were talking about whenever they talked about the president. They both knew a lot about the this main question, they knew Obama had to be elected and Jane knew that the mayor was another person who was also elected. Joe also knew other people were elected to do certain jobs but he was unable to tell me who. I did find it interesting that when I asked about the judges, both students expressed that judges put away bad people. I found that interesting because they knew one thing a judge could do, but they did not know anymore than …show more content…

Both students come from different backgrounds, and these backgrounds shape their knowledge about all the subjects in school. Jane and her father’s interest in the history channel allows Jane to have more in depth knowledge over certain things in Social Studies. However, with Joe, his social studies knowledge was more limited to what he had and was learning in school. HIs opinions though, were shaped by his parents, whereas Jane did not seem to have much of a opinion on certain topics and was more matter-of-fact about her answers. As a teacher, it is important to realize that some of my students know more than the others because of their parents and communities. Some of my students will have limited knowledge base on what I teach them and I would love to figure out a way to ensure my students can learn more than just what the history books tell them. Perhaps give them extra credit projects about certain people or certain topic in social studies. Even just having more social studies literature available in my class could help them gain more insight than just what I teach them. This experience was very eye-opening and

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