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Students were asked what was a highlight (rose), a challenge (a thorn), and something they wanted to know more about or they would use in the future (bud). Here are some of their answers.

They were also asked to illustrate something from the course.

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I want to learn more about concentration camps, what life was like there, and this is really specific, but how women managed their periods in camps.

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I enjoyed listening to Bob Pringle's interviews.

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During my time taking the Facing History and Ourselves course I really enjoyed reading Friedrich. Friedrich gave me a really good description of how hard it was to be a Jew during WWII.

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Something I want to learn more about after taking this course is how so many people were brave enough to go against the Nazis. I specifically want to learn more about what motivated them to do this.

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I enjoyed doing the Treaty of Versailles role play. I love doing assignments like that. I feel it made me understand how hard it was to negotiate a treaty.

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I will try and stand up for people more in the future. I learned from Nazi Germany how it is important to stand up against corrupt governments before they get too powerful.

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I thought it was hard to talk about death camps. The things that happened there were so horrible and were hard to read about.

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I want to learn about the Nuremberg Trials because I heard about them a lot in this class but I still don't really know what they are.

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I think that watching "Etched in Glass" was kind of hard because of how terrible his stories were but in the end it was heartwarming to see how even after the horrors he went through, he still did so much to help the world.

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I liked the mini-research project where I studied Oskar Schindler. I thought that was really fun.

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A rose was getting to make blintzes. Jenn taught me a lot about crepe forming techniques. This is also my bud because I kind of know how to make a blintz that I can eat for a tasty summer lunch.

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I think that my growth with writing my TRIACs will be really helpful in the future. Even though I don't like them, it will do me good in the future.

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I still very much dislike writing TRIACs. I feel like I've improved a decent amount on them.

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I found the primary sources we looked at interesting. I liked the diary entries from the textbook.

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A lesson I may take into the future is to not be a bystander. A lot of people were bystanders in WWII and the Holocaust and that led to some pretty bad stuff.

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I really loved learning about the secret organizations that helped hide and get people out of the country. I have always been enthralled by secret organizations and I love how they help people even if it cost them their lives.

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Something I want to learn more about is the uprising of Warsaw because I found it incredible how a massive German army attack took so long to find a group of resisters.

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I want to learn more about Jewish people in the army (resistance) because I hadn't thought about that before and I haven't learned about it.

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I enjoyed the freedom of the final project; working with clay was fun.

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I found it interesting how none of the Jews being shipped off to concentration camps knew what was happening. It made me look at history differently, remembering that there was less communication.

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During this course I have developed my ability to analyze literature even more with books like Friedrich and Maus. This skill will be helpful for high school and beyond.

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One challenge I faced in FHAO was the final project. I'm not a very creative or artsy person, so it was a challenge for me. Eventually, however, I managed to find something I was inspired to make (a train in a camp) and made it.

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Something that I found interesting during this course was learning about the concentration / death camps. It taught me a lot about how resilient humans are and how Jews tried to resist to the very end.

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A thorn was that the content was hard to learn about because it was very upsetting at some times.

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A bud is that I am going to work on being an upstander.

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A skill I will use in the future is to deepen my understanding of things by looking at art and pictures because when we did that in this course I was able to visualize much more.

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I will definitely use my knowledge of the different types of propaganda in the future. I see all commercials differently now!

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The stories we have heard are very dark and depressing and it can be tough to hear them knowing that they are true stories.

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I didn't like how fast the course was. I wish we had more time to have done each project.

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After this course is done I want to know more about my family's connection to the Holocaust. I know there must be stories there.

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One of m highlights of the course was the final project. I liked how many options we had and how we got to pull together the different things we learned. I also liked listening to Bob Pringle and the stories he told.

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After this course, I plan on reading many more Holocaust books, including some of the recommended ones because I want to learn more about people's experiences.

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Something that I found really horrible and disgusting, but also interesting was learning about the concentration camp medical experiments. I want to continue looking into other experimental groups like "Rabbits" because this is something I had never heard of in the past.

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I really enjoyed reading Friedrich. I thought it was interesting to read and I thought that it was written very well.

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I have learned not to be a bystander.

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A topic I found difficult to learn about was the class on gas chambers / death camps. Learning about people's motives to create these camps specifically to eradicate a certain group was very baffling. Even though I know it's true, it's hard to internalize why someone would do that.

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Some highlights from this course were the drawings that we did after reading poems / short stories. They really helped me to think more about the short stories and to visualize certain snapshots. I also enjoyed the final project for similar reasons.

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It was interesting to learn about uprisings like the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising and people who resisted and rescued during the Holocaust.

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Writing my research paper has been a challenge but I am proud of how it's turning out. I was stressed about not having enough time; but I was able to write for long periods of time which felt good.

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A rose I had for Facing History and Ourselves is the final project. I thought it was a fun assignment because I like art and it was a good ending to this course.

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In the future I want to teach people about the Holocaust and make sure nobody forgets the awful things that happened so that we can make sure they don't happen again.