Name: ______
Date: ______Pd: ______
Directions: As you watch the movie, answer the following questions.
The Paper Clips Project is a project by middle school students from the small southeastern
Tennessee city of ______who created a monument for the Holocaust victims in
Nazi Germany. It started in ______(year) as a simple 8th-grade project and evolved into a
project gaining worldwide attention. At last count, over 30 million paper clips had been
received. Paper Clips, an award-winning documentary film about the project, was released in
2004 by Miramax Films.
In 1998, assistant principal, history teacher, and football coach ______
of Whitwell Middle School suggested to principal ______
that they could use the Holocaust as the basis for teaching tolerance in a voluntary afterschool
program. Having difficulty in comprehending the massive scale of the Holocaust, students
decided to collect ______paper clips to represent the estimated
______Jews killed between 1939 and 1945 under the authority of the Nazi government
of Adolf Hitler.
At first the project went slowly, as it did not gain much publicity. Students created a website and
sent out many letters to friends, family and total strangers. The project started snowballing after
it received attention from ______and ______Schroeder, journalists who
were born in ______during World War II and who cover the White House for
German newspapers. They published some articles, and a book "Das Büroklammer-Projekt"
(The Paper Clip Project) in September 2000, promoting the project in Germany. The big break
in the U.S. came with an article in the ______on April 7, 2001.
After the article, almost every major media outlet seemed to pick up the story. Soon, millions of paper clips started to flood the school.
1. Why did the students choose paperclips to collect? ______
______
2. List two celebrities who sent paperclips: ______& ______
3. As of the summer of 2004, how many paperclips had the school collected? ______
4. Describe the monument that was built in the school yard: ______
______
5. Why did the students decide on building this kind of monument and not something else?
______
______
______
6. Where did they find the railcar? ______
7. How many paperclips fill the railcar? ______