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Terezin - Voices from the Holocaust
by Ruth Thomas
What World is Left
by Monique Polak
Subjects: Reading
Grade Level: 6th, 7th, 8th, 9th, 10th, 11th, 12th
Posted: 2011
Unit Created by: Beverly Rowls & Heather Patay
CTC YAL Presenter Unit 2011/2012
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Original Workshop Description for YAL 2011
Terezin - A Model Concentration Camp? Blending Fiction (What World is Left) and Non-fiction (Terezin: Voices from the Holocaust) to Learn about the Holocaust
Beverly Rowls and Heather Patay, Presenters
When, where and how did you first learn about the Holocaust? How did it impact you? What questions or concerns did it raise for you? Why teach about events that happened so many years ago? We teach our children to give them the power to prevent events like this from ever happening again. Yet it is often difficult for students to develop a holistic understanding of events and how content material comes together to tell a story that is meaningful to them. In this workshop we will demonstrate ways to have students become THIEVES as they preview non-fiction text then compare and contrast information from it with events in a historical novel. Join us as we explore this and other strategies for using fiction and non-fiction texts together to support students’ comprehension. What World is Left, historical-fiction, will be paired with Terezin: Voices from the Holocaust, non-fiction text.
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