My first blog is about the film paper clips. In the movie the kids of small town Tennessee have the idea to collect paper clips for each Jew who was killed in the Holocaust. Soon word spreads about what they are doing and they end up with 24 million paper clips. So they collected well over the amount of Jews and all other persecuted people killed in the Holocaust. They make a monument with an old railroad car and the paper clips.
This was a very unique idea that this school came up with. It was really a great way for the kids to get some hands on learning experience while learning some valuable information at the same time. This was a great way for the kids to see what six million looks like and how big of a number that really is. Once the kids built the monument and were the people giving the tours of the place, I feel that really showed what they had learned in this long process of collecting paper clips. They didn't just collect paper clips they learned in a very powerful way what happened in the Holocaust and what a horrible thing it was.
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