Unit 2: Beyond Belief

October 3 Read “Twelve Ways to Deny Website Design

Genocide” and “There’s Nothing
Virtuous About Finding Common
Ground”

Have 2-3 major questions and

topic for project

Be prepared to informally
introduce topic to class
Trap with a Green Fence
8 October 8 Trap with a Green Fence 3-58 Mapping and research

October 10 Trap with a Green Fence 59-82 Mapping and research

9 October 15 Fall Break! No Class

October 17 Trap with a Green Fence 83-135 Mapping and research

10 October 22 Dr. Polak Out of Town—Class Submit Mapping Project

held online

October 24 Finish Trap with a Green Fence

11 October 29 Wrap up Trap with a Green Fence Download Audacity

discussion

October 31 Podcasting Basics

Listen:
https://www.npr.org/tags/1322358
22/holocaust

12 November 5 https://www.thisamericanlife.org/
197/before-it-had-a-name/act-one
https://www.thisamericanlife.org/
82/haunted/act-two-0
https://www.thisamericanlife.org/
644/random-acts-of-history/act-
one-10
 And one from the Holocaust
Educational Trust:
https://www.het.org.uk/media/do
wnloads/70voices_12.mp3

November 7 Listen again to "The Miseducation

of Castlemont High"
https://www.thisamericanlife.org/
644/random-acts-of-history/act-
one-10
and two others:
https://www.npr.org/2017/03/06/5
18786831/tribes-traitors-what-
happens-when-you-empathize-
with-the-enemy (note that the
play button is beneath the image
to the right of the text)
and
https://www.missedinhistory.com
/podcasts/improbably-effective-
holocaust-rescuers.htm

13 November 12 On
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/pod
cast/first-person-
podcast/id299747104 , listen to
Estelle Laughlin, Henry
Greenbaum, Helen Goldkind
Read:
http://transom.org/2013/edit-send-
it-to-the-basement/
Select two short passages from one of
our books, and record yourself
reading them aloud. After each
passage, spend 3 minutes explaining
what drew you to the passage and
how you interpret it at this point in
the text. Save your recordings.
Begin writing script

November 14 Class held online: introduce 2-3 Work on Podcast Research

major questions guiding your
research, and discuss possible
topics in forum.

14 November 19 Develop an 8-10 page script, including

cues for various components

November 21 Work on Podcast

 Listening TBA

15 November 26 Work on Podcast Submit 5 minute draft

November 28 Thanksgiving: No Class!

16 December 3 Assemble portfolio

December 5 Final Portfolio Due