Hawks Rise 5th Grade Reading and Social Studies   May 4 – May 8

Things to Know:

My scheduled office hours this week for 5th grade are: o Monday from 10:00 AM-12:00 PM, 1:00-2:00 PM o Wednesday from 10:00 AM-12:00 PM and 1:00 PM-2:00 PM o Friday from 12:00 PM-2:00 PM and  (Open to all my students 1st/5th) 

Please note, I will be sending out another Sign-Up Genius to my 5th grade ESE parents/students this weekend that will include these office hours.  Students will have the opportunity to sign up for TWO one-hour office sessions this week. During these sessions, which will take place via Microsoft Teams, I will be teaching, assisting, and providing accommodations as needed to my students as they work on their reading and math assignments.   

ELA: This week we will be focused on the skills of Theme and Using Vocabulary in Context

In addition to these assignments, students are expected to read for 20 minutes each day and complete two 20-minute sessions of reading iReady (40 minutes for the week) at a time of their choosing.

SS: This week we will be focused on the topic of The Holocaust and analyzing primary sources

Tasks to Complete Skill / TopicDay 1 ELA/SS- The Holocaust- ReadWorks, Read passage and 

answer questions. *online or in packet

ELA: Vocabulary, Theme

SS: Holocaust- Primary and Secondary sources, Interpret historical information

Day 2 ELA/SS-Children in the Shadows-ReadWorks, Read passage and answer questions. *online or in packet

ELA: Vocabulary, Theme

SS: Holocaust- Primary and Secondary sources, Interpret historical information

Day 3 SS: Primary Source Analysis- Refugee PhotographComplete the Analyze of a Photograph

SS: Holocaust- Primary and Secondary sources

Day 4 ELA: Personal Journal Response ELA- Clear and Coherent Writing with purpose

Day 5 ELA/SS: Catch up on anything you have not finished this week or from previous weeks.

ELA StandardsLAFS.5.RI.3.9 Integrate information from several texts on the same topic in order to write or speak about the subject knowledgeably.

LAFS.5.RL.1.1 Quote accurately from a text when explaining what the text says explicitly and when drawing inferences from the textLACC.5.RL.1.2 Determine a theme of a story, drama, or poem from details in the text, including how characters in a story or drama respond to challenges or how the speaker in a poem reflects upon a topic; summarize the text.LAFS.5.RL.4.10 By the end of the year, read and comprehend literature, including stories, dramas, and poetry, at the high end of the grades 4–5 text complexity band independently and proficiently.LAFS.5.W.1.3 Write narratives to develop real or imagined experiences or events using effective technique, descriptive details, and clear event sequences.LAFS.5.W.2.4-Produce clear and coherent writing appropriate to task, purpose, and audience

Social Studies StandardsSS.5.A.1.1-Use primary and secondary sources to understand historySS.5.G.1.1- Interpret current and historical information using a variety of geographic tools

The Holocaustby ReadWorks

The Holocaust refers to the horrific time period from 1933 to 1945 when throughout Europe over six million Jewish men, women, and children were systematically killed by the Nazi government of Germany. This period is one of the most tragic chapters in human history. The Nazi government perceived the Jewish people as an inferior race and a threat to humanity. As a result, the Nazi government, led by Adolph Hitler, organized the mass murder of Jewish people. Their ultimate goal was to kill all Jewish people.

Hitler became chancellor of Germany in 1933, representing the Nazi Party. He hated Jewish people. Soon after he became chancellor, the Nazi government made laws to limit the freedoms of Jewish people. The government also distributed anti-Semitic, or anti-Jewish, propaganda to the German people. Hitler believed that some groups of people were superior to other groups. He believed the Jewish people were not only a religious group; he defined them as a race. Hitler claimed that the Jewish people were a disease to humanity.

The phrase, "The Jewish Question" referred to the question of the role of the Jewish people in society. The Nazi government looked to its own anti-Semitic policies as an answer. The Nazis developed a plan for the extermination of all Jewish people. They called it "The Final Solution to the Jewish Question."

During World War II, the Nazis rounded up Jewish people who were still in Germany and Nazi controlled territories. Some had already left or were in hiding, but many had decided to stay or had nowhere to go. Allies of Nazi Germany, including Italy and the unoccupied part of France, also rounded up Jewish people. This was one of the ways they contributed to the Nazi agenda.

The Jewish people rounded up by the Nazis and their allies were sent to concentration camps. Most of the Jewish people were sent immediately to camps known as extermination camps, or death camps. The purpose of extermination camps was to kill all the people sent there. Some of the Jewish people were sent to labor camps. The people sent to the labor camps were treated inhumanely and forced to work hard hours. Many died because of the extremely harsh conditions or because of disease. Jewish people who were first sent to labor camps would often be sent to extermination camps as a final destination.

By the middle of 1942, news about "The Final Solution" reached the Allied governments, including the American and British governments, but they were slow to act in response. Critics say that the governments did too little to save the Jewish people. United States President Franklin D. Roosevelt thought that the best method to stop the killings was to defeat the Nazis as quickly as possible. He focused on creating military strategies that would defeat the Nazis as opposed to establishing plans for directly saving the Jewish people. The American government as well as the European governments that made up the Allied governments have been condemned for not doing enough to protect the Jewish people from the cruelty of the Nazi government.

As more and more people found out about the full scope of the Holocaust, they were shocked and horrified. It is important to remember the Holocaust and to study what happened. Only by understanding this bleak part of history can we hope to prevent such horror from happening again.

1. How many Jewish men, women, and children were killed during World War II?

A. about six hundred

B. over six million

C. over sixty million

D. less than six thousand

2. What does the text describe?

A. the cultural impact of the Jewish people throughout Europe

B. key events that led to World War II

C. Hitler's rise to political power

D. the Nazi government's efforts to exterminate the Jewish people

3. Hitler hated Jewish people. What evidence from the text best supports the conclusion?

A. Hitler believed that the Jewish people were not only a religious group but also a race.

B. Hitler claimed that the Jewish people were a disease to humanity.

C. Hitler became chancellor of Germany in 1933, representing the Nazi party.

D. People were horrified when they found out about the full scope of the Holocaust.

4. "The Jewish Question" referred to the question of the role of the Jewish people in society. What was the Nazi government's answer to this question?

A. increase the role of the Jewish people in society

B. eliminate the Jewish people from society so that they have no role

C. limit the role of the Jewish people in society

D. expand the role of the Jewish people in different areas of society

5. What is this text mostly about?

A. World War II

B. Hitler's political power

C. the Holocaust

D. the Nazi government

6. How did the Nazi government plan to exterminate the Jewish people? Use evidence from the text to support your answer.

7. Why might people have been horrified when they found out about the full scope of the Holocaust? Use evidence from the text to support your answer.

8. Choose the answer that best completes the sentence.

Hitler thought that some groups of people were superior to other groups. ________, he wanted a country of only those people he considered superior.

A. Therefore

B. However

C. On the other hand

D. Initially

Children in the Shadows

Hall of Remembrance in the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

"Quiet, and never tell anyone you are Jewish."

Renee Schwalb heard that a lot as a young girl. She heard it from her mother, who tried to keep Renee safe from the Nazi German soldiers who killed and enslaved European Jews during World War II (1939-1945).

She heard it from Madame DeGelas, who hid Renee's family in a small apartment in Brussels, Belgium. She heard it again from the Catholic nuns who concealed Renee when it became too dangerous for her to live with Madame DeGelas.

Finally, she heard it from the Protestant teachers who took Renee in until the Americans arrived and liberated Belgium.

"[Everybody] told me Jewish was a bad word," Renee Schwalb, now Renee Fritz of Bloomfield, Connecticut, told Senior Edition. "They did it for my protection as well as theirs."

Life on the Run

Renee's story of being a Jewish kid growing up in war-torn Europe was part of an exhibit on display in the early 2000s at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C. The exhibit "Life in Shadows: Hidden Children and the Holocaust" is no longer on display at the museum, but a transcript and photos of some of the exhibit's displays can be found on the museum's website as an online exhibition. The exhibition reveals the stories of Jewish children who escaped the Holocaust. The Holocaust refers to the killing of 6 million Jews and others whom the Nazis, led by Adolf Hitler, thought to be inferior. The Nazis killed about 1.5 million Jewish children.

Thousands of Jewish children, however, survived by concealing their identities or hiding out in attics, cellars, barns, and sewers. Like Renee, many children found refuge with

Christian families. Others sought safety in churches and orphanages. Some played a dangerous game of hide-and-seek with the Nazis, moving from place to place to avoid capture.

The exhibition includes photos of many pieces of everyday life that tell extraordinary stories. For example, there is a photo of a sweater worn by 8-year-old Krystyna Chiger, who hid in the sewers for

more than a year. Visitors to the site can also view a photo of a light-blue dress worn by Sabina Kagan when she hid from the Nazi death squads.

Also in the exhibition is a photo of tiny "toy soldiers" Jurek Orlowski and his brother fashioned out of wood scraps. The brothers played with the soldiers in a flea-infested basement because they were afraid to go outside.

Church of Hope

To make sure that others know his story of survival, Leon Chameides, of West Hartford, Connecticut, donated several photos and an oral history to the museum.

Just before the war, the Russian army forced Leon and his Jewish family to move from Poland to the Ukraine in the Soviet Union.

When the Germans invaded the Soviet Union in 1941, Leon's father asked a priest to take care of Leon and his older brother. The priest separated the brothers, hoping that at least one would survive the war. Each went to a different monastery.

At the monastery, Leon had to pretend to be a Christian. He changed his name and learned a new language.

"I had to pretend I was someone else," Leon told Senior Edition. "That was an enormous burden to place on a 7-year-old."

His brother also survived the Holocaust.

Lost Childhood

Before the exhibit opened at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Leon was looking forward to seeing it. As for Renee, she said people should visit the museum to learn about the Holocaust.

Renee donated photographs and her mother's trunk to the exhibit. Madame DeGelas had kept the trunk and all its belongings, hoping to return it to Renee's family.

"[Now] I get to do something for humanity," Renee said.

1. Leon was forced to move from Poland to the Ukraine before he

A. played hide and seek with the Nazis.

B. was separated from his family and put in a monastery.

C. lived with Madame DeGelas.

D. played toy soldiers with his brother in a basement.

2. Renee Schwalb heard the advice to "never tell anyone you're Jewish" from people in this order:

A. Madame DeGelas, Catholic nuns, Protestand teachers, her mother

B. her mother, Catholic nuns, Madame DeGelas,

Protestant teachers

C. C. her mother, Madame DeGelas, Catholic nuns,

Protestant teachers

D. her mother, Madame DeGelas, Protestant teachers, Catholic nuns

3. Based on the text, the Jewish children who survived the Holocaust did so mostly because of the kindness of

A. Christian families.

B. nuns and monks.

C. Protestant teachers.

D. all of the above.

4. The exhibit "Life in Shadows: Hidden Children and the Holocaust" is no longer on display. But there is now an online exhibition featuring certain content from the exhibit "Life in Shadows: Hidden Children and the Holocaust." What does this content include?

A. a transcript

B. photo of a sweater worn by Krystyna Chiger

C. photo of tiny "toy soldiers" made by Jurek Orlowski and his brother

D. all of the above

5. What became of both Renee and Leon after the Holocaust was over?

Primary Source Analysis

After the Nazis came to power in Germany in 1933, German and Austrian Jews tried in growing numbers to flee persecution. While about 250,000 would eventually come to the United States between 1933 and 1945, immigration officials applied regulations so rigidly, especially after the outbreak of World War II in 1939, that quotas for Germany and Austria were rarely filled.

In 1944, about 1,000 refugees were picked to come to America to live in the newly established Fort Ontario Emergency Refugee Shelter in Oswego, New York. The camp had been established by President Roosevelt to respond to political pressures to do more to help Jews in Europe and to sidestep immigration regulations. Initially, refugees had to promise to return to Europe when the war was over, but President Truman permitted the refugees to stay in the United States.

cPersonal Journal Response

What is the most exciting thing that’s ever happened to you? Write about your experience and be sure to describe how you felt during and after the event. Remember

to use complete sentences and punctuation.

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