MAUS | Teacher notes, activities, tests, answers, Google Slides, Forms, Creative

MAUS | Teacher notes, activities, tests, answers, Google Slides, Forms, Creative Ideas for the High School Classroom

200 PAGES and 63 SLIDES!

When it comes to Holocaust literature, there are few books that can compare to Maus. Written and illustrated by Art Spiegelman, Maus tells the story of Spiegelman's parents and their experiences during the Holocaust. The book is unique which helps to bring the story to life in a way that few other books can.

Maus is an excellent choice for high school students, as it provides a detailed and personal account of the Holocaust. It also raises important questions about human nature and morality, making it perfect for classroom discussion. Furthermore, the book's unique format will engage even the most reluctant readers.

SUPPLEMENT YOUR OWN LECTURES WITH THESE TEACHER NOTES AND CREATIVE ASSIGNMENT IDEAS!!

This bundle contains EIGHT MAUS products. See the previews for more information.

❤️❤️❤️❤️THIS BUNDLE IS DISCOUNTED BY 40% and includes the following items:

☞MAUS I (test; essay questions; detailed answer key; teacher notes) *** GOOGLE SLIDES ADDED ***

☞MAUS II(test; essay questions; detailed answer key; teacher notes)***GOOGLE SLIDES ***

☞ MAUS VISUAL ESSAY
☞Analytical Question MAUS I & II *** GOOGLE SLIDES ***

☞INFOGRAPHICS: MAUS I & II (INTERACTIVE OR PRINT) *** GOOGLE SLIDES ***

☞MAUS I & II SUPPLEMENTAL ACTIVITIES
☞MAUS I & II CREATE, EVALUATE, ANALYZE

☞MAUS CROSSWORD

THIS PRODUCT IS PRINT AND INTERACTIVE!

❤️❤️ I teach Maus every year!!

INCLUDED IN MAUS I & II ARE THE FOLLOWING:

✡ 22 pages of teacher notes – some of these notes are my own but others are from the Jewish Virtual Library, The Holocaust Encyclopedia, and from the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum.

✡ Two multiple-choice tests with 20 questions each (one test for each volume) for a total of 40 questions, answers, and page numbers. NOW IN GOOGLE FORMS!

✡ 21 LONG ANSWER questions with several sub-questions. IN BOTH PRINT AND DIGITAL.

✡ 42 GOOGLE SLIDES! THE QUESTIONS ARE THE SAME IN THE PRINT AND DIGITAL VERSIONS

✡ Also in GOOGLE SLIDES and Print are four graphic novel templates with movable items and some questions regarding German propaganda.

❤️❤️ MAUS Visual Essay

Are you looking for an innovative and creative way to teach MAUS?

Visual Essays are the perfect instructional approach to help students understand challenging texts. It is a different assignment and encourages visual and data literacy skills in readers by providing them with various visuals that illustrate key points from the text. It also allows students to express their interpretations of what they have read through visual media.

With VISUAL ESSAYS, those tedious essays could be replaced by engaging assignments. Students explore new perspectives about complex texts seen through visuals – making learning fun!

They also are more interesting to mark and make it more difficult for students to cheat using ChatGPT.

Included in this product are the following:

⚫ TEACHER AND STUDENT NOTES AND INSTRUCTIONS. THE STUDENT NOTES ARE EDITABLE IN SLIDES.

⚫ INFORMATION ON CHATGPT AND AI ESSAY GENERATION AS THE NEW REALITY.

⚫ An explanation of the elements used in the VISUAL ESSAY.  

⚫ A VISUAL ESSAY RUBRIC IN PRINT AND SLIDES. The one in slides is editable. Make any changes you want in the slides version, change the background color to white, and print for the print version.

⚫ A student example for MAUS I. In both print and slides.

⚫ A student example for a Socratic Seminar.

⚫ A fantastic student example for NIETZSCHE’S THUS SPAKE ZARATHUSTRA.

⚫ Visual essays displayed in my office.

⚫ Student examples of the write up part of the essay. One for Maus and the other from one of my classes.

❤️❤️ Analytical Question MAUS I & II ON GOOGLE SLIDES:
200 WORD QUESTION ON MAUS I & II

✅FOR REVIEW

✅FOR EXAM PREP

✅FOR A SUBSTITUTE TEACHER

✅FOR FUN

➢ Instructions for teachers and students on writing the Analytical Question.

➢ Two examples of Analytical Questions on other texts. One of the examples is Brown v. Board of Education and Plato’s Apology and the other is Plato’s Theaetetus and The Island of Doctor Moreau.

➢ One page handout where students write their own Analytical Question.

➢ Online version of student assignment. Instructions for students. If your instructions are different simply create a new slide.

❤️❤️ INFOGRAPHICS: MAUS I & II (INTERACTIVE OR PRINT) ON GOOGLE SLIDES

NO PREP - PRINT AND GO OR GO INTERACTIVE WITH THE GOOGLE LINK

Included in this product are the following:

✡ ONE SHEET INFOGRAPHIC on MAUS I & II as a PDF document to be printed or uploaded.

✡ Grayscale and color version - 11 x 17 inches is the recommended printing size.

✡ Link to my ONE SHEET INFOGRAPHIC on MAUS I & II for students to use interactively through Classroom or other online programs.

✡ Instructions for students when using the interactive version.

✡ Information on Google Slides for teachers and students.

❤️❤️ SUPPLEMENTAL MATERIAL FOR MAUS I & II INCLUDES THE FOLLOWING:

✍ TWO crossword puzzles with answers.

✍ 10 pages of generic template questions including timelines, postcards, novel summaries, and more.

✍ 12 pages of graphic organizers, compare and contrast, and more. These were created for Maus I & II.

✍ An activity that I have found to be very successful with my students using Bloom’s Taxonomy.

✍ FOUR student examples for the Bloom’s Taxonomy assignment.

✍Some of these activities may be adapted to use online using the new TpT Digital Activity online tool. 

✍ One page with information about my products and teacher instructions.

❤️❤️MAUS I & II GOOGLE SLIDES ASSIGNMENT | CREATE, EVALUATE, ANALYZE
Are you looking for an interesting project to wrap up your book study? I assign this at the end of the semester instead of a final essay. This assignment will test your students’ writing and editing skills, but also reveal their ability to analyze the more nuanced and symbolic passages from MAUS I & II.

This assignment is perfect as an engaging and creative, culminating activity! Students participate in the top three levels of Bloom’s Taxonomy: create, evaluate, and analyze.

This project requires students to think about the imagery and symbolism that are present in the graphic novel. Images from the book are not allowed. Students are attempting to demonstrate the validity of their interpretation of the text on the slides. 

Students choose quotations from the graphic novel that they want to create, evaluate, and analyze. CREATE: they create an image that represents the quotation. EVALUATE and ANALYZE: students explain the quotation and ask a follow-up question that is not easily answerable with a yes or no. 

INCLUDED IN THIS PRODUCT ARE THE FOLLOWING:

☑ TWO MAUS I & II TEMPLATES in Google Slides. 

☑ FIVE PAGES OF INSTRUCTIONS for teachers.

☑ THREE PAGES OF INSTRUCTIONS for students.

☑ A VIDEO INSTRUCTIONAL GUIDE for students. This video shows how to create an assignment with the novel Life of Pi. I use this video to review the assignment even if I am using another novel as the ideas are the same.

☑ NINE GOOGLE SLIDES to share with your students.  THIS IS THE FILE STUDENTS WORK IN. I ask my students to do three slides for 12 images and 12 textboxes without philosophy and eight images and eight text boxes with philosophy. So the template is copied and pasted twice so you can decide how many slides to send to your students. See the next page for more details. The instructions are editable. Remove any slides you do not wish to use before you assign the project to your students.

☑ AN EXAMPLE OF A TEXT BOX AND IMAGE WITHOUT PHILOSOPHY. (LIFE OF PI)

☑ TWO EXAMPLES OF A TEXT BOX AND IMAGE WITH PHILOSOPHY. (MAUS I & II and THE CRUCIBLE)

☑ One page with information about my products. 

☑ There is a link that you share with your students to use interactively through Classroom™ or other online programs.

☑ Information on Google Slides™ for teachers and students.

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