I have been teaching MAUS and the Holocaust for the past five years at least. During our unit, we discuss what is important when telling a historical story, when listening to the story of others, and when trying to understand the human experience.

With everything else going on in the world, I wanted to share my unit assessment for this for free and will keep it listed as free for as long as I operate this online store.

In this project, I allow students to research an event or topic that revolves around the human experience. It can be something with which they are familiar (I had one student do a podcast on the misconceptions of trauma) or one in which they are not (I had another student complete a graphic novel on surviving 9/11). I do this assignment in my world literature class, so I also always try to encourage students to look beyond their own communities and to the experiences of others.

They are allowed choice in how they present their projects, in how they think best to relay the information they have researched. The goal is to get them to understand and connect with experiences outside of their own.