SEVENTH GRADE THIRD QUARTER 1998
Through
the Lens of Literature: Focusing
on Tolerance
Goals
Literature:
Identity:
Tolerance:
Requirements
Resources
Multitasking
to Take Notes
GOALS:
- To read a lot.
- To write thoughtfully and specifically about
what you read.
- To learn about the Holocaust, and other periods
in history, through literature.
- To consider the issues related to the Holocaust,
especially tolerance.
- To consider the ESSENTIAL QUESTIONS:
Literature:
How do individual stories tell us about history?
How do our connections to stories tell us about
ourselves?
Identity:
What defines a character in literature?
What makes us who we are?
Tolerance:
What is tolerance?
Under what circumstances should we be, or not be,
tolerant?
REQUIREMENTS:
- Read and or write in your notebook for at least
30 minutes each night.
- Read The Cage, by Ruth Minsky Sender.
- Read approximately four to five more books
during the marking period. The
other books that you read should represent:
A variety of voices:
victims, survivors, rescuers, hidden children
A variety of genres:
fiction, biography, autobiography, poetry, essays
Write at least three notebook letters a rotation; 1 to me and 2 to classmates.
(You may certainly write more frequently.) See
the handout on notebook letters.
- Bring a book to class every day. Bring your notebook
to class every day.
- Participate in class discussions, large and small,
thoughtful and productively.
- Visit websites and collect information. Resources
have been furnished for your convenience.
- Write an essay, on a topic that interests you,
using the information you've
collected and learned over the course of the marking period.
- Please hand in your notebook to me ( on top
of the file cabinet) every Day _____
Resources
- Holocaust - Welcome from The Mining Company
- Fashion
Firm Discovers Its Holocaust History
- When survivors from the
Holocaust arrived in Sweden
- The work of Writers in
revising the Holocaust
- The Holocaust Journey
- Museum of Tolerance Table of Contents
- Simon Wiesenthal Center Home Page
- Survivors of the Shoah Visual History Foundation
- Survivors of the Shoah
Visual History Foundation Repositories
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- Holocaust Museum
- Study Guide for the Holocaust Museum
- Holocaust Museum
- American Friends of the Ghetto Fighters' House
- The Anne Frank House
- Simon Wiesenthal Center Home Page
- L'Chaim: A Holocaust Web
Project
- L'Chaim: Survivors
- link
page
- An Auschwitz Alphabet
- Survivors of the Holocaust
- Table of Contents
- Louisiana Holocaust Survivors
- Remembering the Holocaust
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- This project developed by the Sam
Peltz, Kristin Ulshaffer, and
Sara Walker for Germantown
Academy Middle School. Technical assistance furnished by Carol
Siwinski, Curricular
Technology Specialist.
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- Last updated February 6, 1998
Germantown Academy Curricular
Technology
http://www.ga.k12.pa.us/curtech/curtech.htm