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ANNE FRANK
Due Oct 23
Imagining the Holocaust- Creative Writing Contest Piece
1- Your Short Story must be MAXIMUM 750 words and double-spaced. You must have a title and have your name centered at the top.
2- Your Poem must fit on one page and can be any form-- free verse is probably best for this contest. You must have a title and have your name centered at the top.
3- You will be entering this in a contest so keep in mind you will get a final grade AND be entered into a contest. There are cash prizes for winning.
4- Your poem does not have to be double-spaced.
5- Your story does not have to be 750 words, BUT it should at least be one page double-spaced.
6- Use paragraph indents and proper grammar in your short story.
7- Use proper grammar in your poem.
8- I will not accept pieces that have basic typos, improper capitalization, and other "easy" grammar fixes. You will have your pieces returned to you and not graded until all that is fixed.
Sample poem "On The Ledge" A poem about Maria Nemeth, born December 14, 1932, in Szentes, Hungary. Murdered in 1945 at a labor camp in the small farming village of Goestling an der Ybbs, Austria, by retreating SS soldiers just days before U.S. forces reached the area.
The Diary of Anne Frank: PDF copy - when you are absent so you can keep up with the reading.
PBS Movie- Anne Frank- The Whole Story
Who was Anne Frank? slide show
Discover the Secret Annex
Station work for Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl
All work for the stations should be completed on this sheet- you all have your own copy, so just open your document and type directly into it. This should be turned into google classroom when complete.
1- In your Journal, find the question you wrote about the Holocaust. Remember your question can be anything about the Holocaust that you want to know, are curious about and can find research to support an answer.
2- Finish your research and write your notes in your journal. Keep looking at different websites for other options to answer your question.
3- When you are done with your research- open the question sheet in Google Classroom and complete it.
Newsela assignments: (All are assigned to you in your Binder)
1- Syrian refugees' story mimics struggles by Anne Frank's family 75 years ago
2- St. Paul police force puts Somali woman on the community beat
3- Author: Anne Frank
4- Japanese-American Relocation in the U.S. During World War II.
CommonLit.org assignments: (All are assigned to you in CommonLit)
1- "First they came"
2- "Who Was Anne Frank?"
3- "Danish Resistance During the Holocaust"
AUSCHWITZ
Watch the Auschwitz Conversation with Elie Wiesel and Oprah Videos:
Part Five → Stop this video at 4:00
Take a tour around Auschwitz and Auschwitz-Birkenau using the link below:
http://panorama.auschwitz.org/
- Information about Terezin/Theresienstadt Concentration Camp from the US Holocaust Memorial Museum.
- Background info on "I Never Saw Another Butterfly" from the US Holocaust Memorial Museum.
More than 12,000 children under the age of 15 passed through the Terezin Concentration Camp (also known by its German name of Theresienstadt) between the years 1942 and 1944. Of these, more than 90 percent perished during the Holocaust. During the completion of this project, students will learn about the experience of young children during the Holocaust through a study of the poems and pictures drawn by those imprisoned in Theresienstadt. They will create handmade butterflies to represent the children who were imprisoned.
Directions: We will begin by reading the “The Butterfly”. Read this quietly to yourself and then write a short reflection in your journal about what you think about the poem. 5-8 sentences.
“The Butterfly”
The last, the very last,
So richly, brightly, dazzlingly yellow.
Perhaps if the sun's tears would sing
against a white stone…
Such, such a yellow
Is carried lightly ‘way up high.
It went away I'm sure because it wished to
kiss the world goodbye.
For seven weeks I've lived in here,
Penned up inside this ghetto
But I have found my people here.
The dandelions call to me
And the white chestnut candles in the court.
Only I never saw another butterfly.
That butterfly was the last one.
Butterflies don't live in here,
In the ghetto.
Pavel Friedmann 4.6.1942
After reading this poem and writing about it-- choose another poem from “I Never Saw Another Butterfly: Children’s Drawings and Poems from Terezin Concentration Camp 1942–1944”. Once you read your poem take notes in your journal about the CHILD who wrote it. What you learned or what images from the poem sticks out to you. After taking your notes, your job is to create a butterfly that is representative of the young author that you chose. We'll be creating the Butterflies during our Team Time on Wednesday 4/12. Make sure to write the child’s name and important information about them IN YOUR JOURNAL. You will need it for Wednesday's art session. You might want to sketch out what you need to draw onto the butterfly for Wednesday. You want to have ideas to decorate your butterflies in order to HONOR YOUR CHILD. You will not be able to access the poem on your Chromebook during the art session, so make sure you have what you need in your journals.
Understanding the history and culture that is the setting for the literature we read is very important if we are to understand what we read. I want you to ask yourself the following questions:
1. How does learning about the historical period help you understand what you read?
2. Can you decide your own destiny?
3. Can one person really make a difference?
The time period when Hitler was in power in Germany was a time filled with heartache and many terrible events. There were many reasons why things happened the way they did, and why Hitler and the Nazi party was not stopped sooner. I want you to discover some of the historical setting of the play we are going to read together about Anne Frank.
Visit the following sites, (click on the question- it will take you to a website) and answer each question in complete sentences beneath each question. Do not just cut and paste into your document. Summarize and define correctly. Be prepared to share certain segments as an oral presentation or be ready to discuss it in class.
THIS IS AN INDIVIDUAL ASSIGNMENT but you can ask your group for help if you cannot find the answer to the questions. But you may not copy or share your answers-- believe me, I will KNOW if you are using each other's answers. Use your own words to answer the questions. Remember: Your friends cannot take tests for you-- do your own learning.
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