Elie Wiesel's Night: Out of the Darkness - College of Education

Music
Art
DVDs
� This excerpt provides a view of male stereotypes so that the students
can see what judgments look like from both male and female
perspectives.
o Ballad of Birmingham by Dudley Randall
� This short poem provides a glimpse into life during the Civil Rights
movement in the South. It will help the students see that the problems
of slavery were not easily solved and persisted for many generations
before even beginning to get better.
� Nonfiction texts
o “U.N. Human Rights Council Takes Aim at New Target: United States” by
George Russell from foxnews.com on November 5, 2010
� http://www.foxnews.com/world/2010/11/04/united-nations-humanrights-council/?test=latestnews
� A recent news article that questions human rights violations by
the United States. This article shows students that the issues we
will be discussing are not strictly historical but are also relevant
to present day events.
� Songs of Freedom- slave ballads
o The Ballad of the Underground Railroad
o Steal Away
o Wade in the Water
� Each of these slave ballads offer a rich introduction to slave culture
and the values of that culture, which are important for students to
understand in order to attempt to understand the life of an American
slave.
� Josiah Wedgewood Am I Not a Man and a Brother?
o http://www.britishmuseum.org/explore/highlights/highlight_objects/pe_mla/a/
anti-slavery_medallion,_by_jos.aspx
� This image of Josiah Wedgewood’s famous medallion, Am I Not a
Man and a Brother? I would use this in conjunction with the slave
narratives as an example of artwork from the same period.
� Children’s Art about the Holocaust
o http://remember.org/imagine/imagine1.html
� The art offered on this website is done by elementary school children
and would give students an understanding of how other interpret
information about the Holocaust and also how far reaching knowledge
about the Holocaust can be.
� Schindler’s List (1993)
o Popular Steven Spielberg film that chronicles the saving of hundreds of Jews
by one man. Some of the film may not be appropriate for high school classes
12 Spring 2011