Ms. Buchanan’s Social Studies Page

We have been talking about Judaism in class.  If you’re interested in finding out more information about the Holocaust, the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum is an excellent resource.  You can find a history of the Holocaust, read personal histories of people who experienced the Holocaust firsthand, see video clips, view maps and pictures, etc.

Click here to visit the site: http://www.ushmm.org/

Here are a few books you may want to read:

Anne Frank:  The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank

I Have Lived a Thousand Years by Livia Bitton-Jackson

Terrible Things:  An Allegory of the Holocaust by Eve Bunting

See more books for children here: http://www.ushmm.org/research/library/bibliography/index.php?content=childrens_books

You can see pictures of the town in France that I visited at the websites listed below.

http://www.oradour.info/

http://www.secondworldwar.co.uk/ora_tour/oradour.html

The links below show information and pictures of Dachau, the concentration camp in Germany which I visited.

http://www.kz-gedenkstaette-dachau.de/memorial/tour.html

http://www.scrapbookpages.com/DachauScrapbook/KZDachau/barracks01.html

http://www.scrapbookpages.com/DachauScrapbook/KZDachau/barracks02.html

Welcome to the 2009-2010 school year at Carrington Middle School.  Here is your first extra credit assignment for Social Studies.  Go to the “About Ms. Buchanan” page and leave me a comment telling me something about yourself.  Make sure you include your first and last name so that I know who gets the points! 

If you would like to listen to the Islamic Call to Prayer, follow the link below.

http://www.balaams-ass.com/alhaj/calltoprayer.htm

To see a map of Israel and Palestine, click here:  http://unimaps.com/israel/index.html

Dr. Diehl has visited the Bethlehem Peace Center while she’s been in Bethlehem.  You saw a picture of it in class when we viewed the pictures she took.  Here is the center’s website: http://www.peacenter.org/index.php

If you would like more information on the movie, follow this link:

http://www.promisesproject.org/

If you’re interested, don’t forget about The Amazing Race on Sundays at 8:00pm on CBS.

http://www.cbs.com/primetime/amazing_race/