Unit 2 Independent Texts
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💡 You may choose which text students will read for their independent tasks or allow them to choose their own.
Text Options
Text Options
Saving the Children by Bob Simon
 A Great Adventure in the Shadow of War by Mary Helen Dirkx
 Irena Sendler: Rescuer of the Children of Warsaw by Chana Kroll
 Quiet Resistance from Courageous Teen Resisters by Ann Byers
 Remembering a Devoted Keeper of Anne Frank’s Legacy by Moni Basu
 I’ll Go Fetch Her Tomorrow from Hidden Like Anne Frank by Bloeme Emden with Marcel Prins
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💡 This writing task should be completed as independently as possible as a timed on-demand assessment (1-2 days).Â
Performance-Based Assessment: On-Demand/Timed Informative Essay
Performance-Based Assessment: On-Demand/Timed Informative Essay
Writing Prompt
In this unit, you have read a variety of selections that are related to the historical events known as the Holocaust. These selections are all examples of literature that addresses one of the most terrible periods in human history.
Write an informative essay in which you respond to the following prompt:
How can literature help us remember and honor the victims of the Holocaust?
Use your analysis of the selections in this unit to enumerate the ways in which literature can help us remember and honor victims of the Holocaust. Consider how the various texts in the unit illuminate the experiences of different types of people in a wide variety of places. Support your explanation with relevant details, quotations, and examples from the texts.
Academic Vocabulary
theorize
sustain
declaration
pronouce
enumerate Â
💡It is essential to have students use these words throughout the unit, particularly in their performance tasks/assessments.                                       Â
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