ESC Region 17 Social Studies
History Rocks! Volume 4 Issue #7
"Kindness is like snow-It beautifies everything it covers." - Kahlil Gibran
Happenings Around the State, Nation, and World
Martin Luther King, Jr. Day (January 18, 2021) Resources
Ruby Bridges Message of Martin Luther King, Jr. Life Lesson
Resources for Teaching Holocaust Remembrance Week, January 25-29, 2021
In response to the passage of Senate Bill 1828 in 2019, the Governor’s Office designated the week of January 27 as the annual Texas Holocaust Remembrance Week in all Texas public schools. The 2nd annual Texas Holocaust Remembrance Week will take place January 25-29, 2021. During this week, all public schools must provide age-appropriate instruction using materials developed by the Texas Holocaust and Genocide Commission (THGC).
The THGC has created a Holocaust Remembrance Week webpage to help Texas educators use their planning and instructional resources for Texas Holocaust Remembrance Week. Please take a moment to review the best practices, lesson plans, resources, links, and readings that the THGC has approved, including resources from Texas holocaust museums.
THGC Director of Education Dr. J.E. Wolfson is also available to answer any questions, to explain Holocaust Remembrance Week resources, to provide insight, and to make recommendations as you plan your lessons. Contact Dr. Wolfson via e-mail and he will be happy to give you a call if you prefer. All THGC resources and services are free!
-Texas Education Agency, Social Studies
The Texas Holocaust and Genocide Commission 2021 THGC Student Contests in Poetry and Visual Arts!
"Sites of Memory"
For our 2021 Student Contests, the Texas Holocaust and Genocide Commission (THGC) invites Texas students in 6th through 12th grades to learn about places that deserve to be remembered because they were the location of events in Holocaust or genocide history.
Here is what to do:
Choose a place/event in Holocaust or genocide history to research. This means that you should select an event that happened during the Holocaust or during the Armenian genocide, Cambodian genocide, Rwandan/Burundian genocide, Bosnian genocide, Darfur genocide, or Iraqi/Syrian genocide. We have provided a list of suggestions of places/events further down on this page, but you may choose a place/event that is not on the list. Then, create a memorial that you imagine could be placed at the chosen location to commemorate the event that happened there. (Note: be sure to create a memorial to a past event. In other words, your art should depict a memorial to what happened, and not what happened.) Because your memorial is for a contest, it is expected to be more detailed than the sample memorials that are provided above.
The contest results will be announced on this page and featured on social media in April 2021 to commemorate Genocide Awareness and Prevention Month.
https://thgc.texas.gov/grants-contests/student-contests
-per THGC Website
National History Day Participant Teacher Bag
Happenings Around the Region
Weekly Social Studies Support Opportunities
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Historically Speaking Weekly Topics
January 14- STAAR Updates and Brainstorming
January 21- Holocaust Remembrance Week Planning Session
January 28- TEKS Resource System Social Studies Updates
Canvas Self-Paced Social Studies Course are Open!!!
Resource Spotlight
Just in Case You Missed One
2020-2021 School Year
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Sabrina S. Blankenship
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