Lessons in Humanity

11/23/2022

Tihmily Li, Communications Officer

During last week’s Holocaust Education Week, students expanded upon what they learned from listening to Greenwood’s guest speaker, Eva Meisel earlier this month. On Tuesday, November 15 and Thursday, November 17, the Tour for Humanity held sessions for Greenwood classes. This interactive and immersive mobile classroom gave the students an in-depth understanding of the Holocaust and its effects. The Tour for Humanity also showed how anti-Semitic behaviour manifests in the present day in various manners.

For Community Time on November 18, the focus was on building connections. Grade 7 and 8 students established connections between what they learned from Eva Meisel’s presentation and from the Tour for Humanity sessions.Grade 9 and 10 students built connections with the past and present with discussions regarding current events. Finally, for Grade 11 and 12 students looked for local community organizations that support the Jewish community. As the process of learning and empathizing is always ongoing, this work will continue in January 2023 for Holocaust Remembrance Day and throughout the year.

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The Tour for Humanity presenter speaks to the class about the Holocaust.
Students raise their hands to participate in the Tour for Humanity session.
From left to right: Claire Dempsey '28, Natalie Burkett '28, Chloe Heissler '28 and Victoria Mainprize '28 participate in discussion questions during Community Time.
From left to right: Ben Aspden '24, Allister Marshall '24, Gabriel Sims '24 and Jheanell Lumsden review local organizations that support Jewish communities.
Victoria Tokmakjian '28 (left) and Jasmine Chen '28 (right) draw a relationship web to connect what they learned.

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