FPT.

That would be Final Project Time, for those of you not up on the acronyms.

Remember that you will need to have chosen and begun research on your topic for part one by the time we return from break.

To help you in the selection process you might want to check out Wikipedia's category page on monuments and memorials. Not that it will make your selection process necessarily faster (there's just so much to look at!, but it will give you some out of the box ideas and, shocking I know, might just make this part of the project fun. There are some pretty wild monuments out there. (Don't believe me? Check out the animals category.)

There are obviously thousands more beyond the net of Wikipedia. The best way to navigate the cavernous opportunities presented you in this project is this: pick a country that you want to know more about, an event you want to study further, or a monument you've seen but never really analyzed. Start from an existing interest and your research will take you to much more interesting new places.

That said, some major monuments that might catch your eye:

• The Memorial to the Battle of Verdun, 1916, Verdun, France
• The War Memorial and Statue of Brothers, Seoul, South Korea
  
• Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe, Berlin, Germany
• Mount Rushmore National Memorial, Black Hills, South Dakota, USA
• Tsitsernakaberd (and the Armenian Genocide Museum), Yerevan, Armenia
• Monument to the Vargas Swamp Lancers (site in Spanish), Boyacá, Columbia

And others, unlinked but alphabetical by country, and all very much worth tossing into Google:

• Buddha of Bamiyan, Bamiyan, Afghanistan
  
• Mother Armenia, Yerevan, Armenia
  
• ANZAC Square, Brisbane, Australia
  
• Judenplatz, Vienna, Austria
  
• Martyred Intellectuals Memorial, Dhaka, Bangladesh
  
• Shabash Bangladesh, Rajshahi, Bangladesh
  
• Ljzertoren, Diksmuide, Belgium
  
• Eternal Flame, Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzergovina
  
• Srebrenica Genocide Memorial, Srebrenica, Bosnia and Herzegovina
• Christ the Redeemer, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
  
• Pantheon of National Revival Heroes, Rousse, Bulgaria
  
• Monument to the People's Heroes, Beijing, China
  
• India Catalina, Cartagena, Columbia
  
• Jasenovac Monument, Jasenovac, Croatia
  
• José Martí Memorial, Havana, Cuba
  
• Memorial to the Victims of Communism, Prague, Czech Republic
• Monument to Stalin, Prague, Czech Republic
• The Louvre, Paris, France
• Center for the History of Immigration, Paris, France
  
• Soviet War Memorial (Treptower Park), Berlin, Germany
• Soviet War Memorial (Tiergarten), Berlin, Germany
• German History Museum, Berlin, Germany
  
• Berlin Wall, Berlin, Germany
• Siegessäule, Berlin, Germany
• Brandenburg Gate, Berlin, Germany
  
• Statue Park, Budapest, Hungary
• Monument to Stalin, Budapest, Hungary
• The Vatican (including the Sistine Chapel and the Pièta), Rome, Italy
  
• Bab-e-Pakistan, Lahore, Pakistan
• Minar-e-Pakistan, Lahore, Pakistan
• National Monument, Islamabad, Pakistan
• The Motherland, Volgograd, Russia
  
• Peter the Great, Moscow, Russia
  
• Victory Park, Moscow, Russia
  
• Worker and Kolkhoz Woman, Moscow, Russia
  
• Rhodes Memorial, Cape Town, South Africa
• Freedom Park, Salvokop, South Africa
• Afrikaans Language Monument, Paarl, South Africa
• 1820s Settlers National Monument, Grahamstown, South Africa
• 228 Peace Memorial Park, Taipei, Taiwan
• Mother Motherland, Kiev, Ukraine
  
• Crazy Horse Memorial, Black Hills, South Dakota, United States
• Statue of Liberty, New York, New York, United States
  
• Tear of Grief, Bayonne Harbor, New Jersey, United States
  
• Livingstone Memorial, Bangweulu Swamps, Zambia
  

Good luck!

Homework due April 14th (post-KS, break, etc, etc)

1. Read Maus, vol. 2: And Here My Troubles Began. (Yes, all of it.) In your notebook, keep a list of all scenes, lines, panels, or images that you think are integral to the understanding of WWII and the Holocaust. Keep a second list of scenes, lines, panels, or images that you see as telling of the way we remember, retell, and translate history. There can (and very well may be) overlap between these two lists.

2. Read and comment on at least five posts on the blog.

3. Read the description of the fourth quarter project (posted above). Choose your subject for pt. 1 and begin research. You should have a solid understanding of what the monument is commemorating (the event or person/people) and know the basic facts of where it sits, when it was built, and what it looks like. Begin to think about what you will choose for pts. 2 and/or 3.

4. Using the Google Calendar set up a meeting with me during the first week back from break (April 14th-17th) to talk about your proposed topic and the preliminary research you’ve done.

5. Extra Credit Ops: Over break you’ll receive extra credit for every (relevant) post you make to the blog. If you come across an article or clip (or image or forum or cartoon or thought) that relates to our studies this year or the conversation already in place on the blog – about fascism and systems of rule, about propaganda, about civilian participation or death in war, about the role and teaching of history – put it on up. We want to know what you’re finding and thinking, even on vacation.