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Dear Sir/ Madam,
I seek your assistance with an educational endeavour. I teach Grade 8 Social Studies in Halifax, Nova Scotia. The new curriculum in my school offers me the opportunity to teach the Holocaust. I wish to include a unique angle on this unit. For this to happen I will need your help.
When students learn that more than 6 million people lost their lives in mass graves and death camps, it is hard for them to visualize or really comprehend this number. My idea is to use paperclips. Each paperclip represents a soul (an idea borrowed from the Whitwell Middle School Paperclip Project in Tennessee).
Each paperclip will be attached to another forming a large chain. I will create many such paperclip chains. I will suspend these from the ceiling in my classroom. The chains will be separated by about one foot. I will also suspend lights in such a way as to cause twinkling on the chains. I am looking for 100 000 paperclips to accomplish this. With the suspension of many chains, enough to fill my classroom, I will create a Holocaust Museum for a day. Once students see how many chains 100 000 paperclips produce, they will be able to compute how many classrooms of the same size it would take in order to accommodate six
million paperclips. They will then be in a position to understand how many souls were lost in the Holocaust.
The strands of paperclips will form the backbone of a museum that I will create for a day in my school. In addition to the paperclips, I will have students post information on the walls informing visitors of the Holocaust more specifically. I will invite the general public, the parents of the students, the students and
the press to visit this museum for a day.
If you are in a position to offer assistance, I am requesting donations of paperclips.
I appreciate any help you can lend in this project.
Respectfully,
Wayne MacIntyre
VP Herring Cove Junior High School
Herring Cove, NS
Canada B3V 1H9
902 479-4214
waymac@staff.ednet.ns.ca
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