Vocabulary
A person who speaks or acts in support of an individual or cause, particularly someone who intervenes on behalf of a person being attacked or bullied.
Who is an upstander.
A system of government and social organization forcing obedience to authority and patriotic feelings of superiority.
What is fascism?
Term used by the Nazis to describe their plan to annihilate the entire Jewish population of Europe.
What is the Final Solution
Adding a definition to an informational piece of writing is an example of this.
What is elaboration?
Forbes named this person the youngest “self-made billionaire ever” in 2019?
Who is Kylie Jenner?
Hostility and ill-treatment, especially because of race, political, or religious beliefs.
What is persecution
A person who is present at an event or incident but does not take part.
What is a bystander?
The deliberate killing of a large group of people, especially those of a particular ethnic group or nation.
What is genocide?
Body paragraphs in informational writing should begin with this. This helps to focus the paragraph.
What is a topic sentence?
This is the largest planet in our solar system.
What is Jupiter?
Hatred and persecution of Jewish people.
What is anti-semitism.
The action of distancing and stigmatizing another group. Its goal is to reinforce the idea that one’s own group is normal while there is something wrong with the other group.
What is othering?
Term used by the Nazis to describe their plan to annihilate the entire Jewish population of Europe.
What is the Final Solution?
The sentence to explain the focus, claim, or point of writing; also includes the reasons.
What is a thesis statement.
Adult humans have this many bones.
What is 206?
A section of a city where Jews were forced to live, separated by walls or wire fences.
What is a ghetto.
A community or population made up of people who share a common cultural background or descent.
What is an ethnic group?
The night that Jewish stores, houses, and synagogues were systematically destroyed. Marks the beginning of widespread government-led violence against Jews.
What is Kristallnacht?
This is a way you can elaborate in your informational writing.
What is adding a quote, a description, an example, definition, explaining the importance/relevance, breaking up a sentence, asking and answering a question?
This is the longest river in the world.
What is the Nile River?
A ruler with total power over a country.
What is a dictator.
Racist laws that took rights away from Jews in Germany.
What are Nuremberg Laws?
A person who is blamed for the wrongdoings, mistakes, or faults of others, especially for reasons of convenience.
What is a scapegoat?
A well written introduction includes these three elements.
This actor played the character of Eleven in "Stranger Things"?
Who is Millie Bobby Brown?