Picture Books in the Science Curriculum
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PROTAGONIST: The protagonist would be Milda and all the innocent people that were captured or killed. Milda is the main character, an innocent Czechoslovakian girl which gets captured and taken away during the Holocaust. TEXTUAL EVIDENCE: “I was eight when the Nazis came. A week after their arrival we had visited Mama’s cousin in Prague, and I had seen the victory parade the Nazis held for Hitler. The soldiers had marched by fiercely, wearing tall black boots and black swastikas on their uniforms. We had been require to attend, and everyone had been forced to raise their right arm and say, ‘Heil Hitler!’” (page 13-14)…
World War II was and still is the most deadly war of all time, leaving 60 million people dead and countless others injured. It involved several nations, but left an impression on almost all nations worldwide. One word that often resonates from the thought of World War II is “holocaust.” It is something that, to this day, is taught in schools and is an important, yet tragic part of history. There are multiple famous pieces of literature that capture just how horrendous this war was, and some of the most impactful pieces are the ones written at the time of the war from someone’s perspective. Readers are able to view Paris just as it was during World War II through Irene Nemirovsky’s Suite Francaise. This book depicts what life was like in France in the 1940s, and…
The main topic of my book is the Nazi occupation of Paris, France, and the perplexing decisions made by Nicolette to join the resistance even while her father was working with the Nazis. The story is told from Nicollete's point of view, which has an impact on the story because it helps the readers understand the different assets of WWII and how not all stories are the same and not only Jews were affected by the Nazis.…
In 1998 the students and teachers of Tennessee's Whitwell Middle School started a Holocaust project. The teachers came up with the idea to teach about the Holocaust when the principal Linda Hooper read about the Holocaust. Then they decided to collect paperclips for the Jews, Gyps and Homasexuals. They started by researching the Holocaust and by teaching the students what they learned then the students found out the Norwegians made paperclips.the Norwegians made paperclips because the paperclips represented the Jews, Gyps and Homasexuals that where in the the Holocaust and what was going on in Rome and how the Norwegians knew what was going on but couldn't talk about it because they would get in trouble. They collected paperclips for the Jews, Gyps and Homasexuals who died in a he Holocaust.…
Do you ever think of what life would have been like in a concentration camp during the Holocaust? You have already heard that it was about the Jewish race. You know that Jews weren't treated poorly. But, do you know everything? The author Elie Wiesel can tell you his story in his book, Night. There are multiple themes in the book. One is Father/ son relationships. In Night, Elie Wiesel uses irony, foreshadowing, and tone to illustrate the traumatic event known as the Holocaust.…
The book "Night" shows me the Holocaust from a point of view of a child. This book is not easy to read.…
consideration of what the Holocaust was, what it meant, and what its legacy is and will be.…
Williams, Sandra S. (1993). The impact of the Holocaust on survivors and their children. Florida, University of Central Florida.…
The Holocaust can be / and is a sensitive and passionate topic to many people. Reading “Anne Frank’s Diary” and “The Boy in the Striped Pyjama’s”, can cause many to become intrigued about what could cause such an event to happen and devastated about the terrible things people unfortunately had to go through, if they didn’t die beforehand. What many people haven’t thought about greatly until now is how it has affected society today.…
Do you wonder about things in the Holocaust? Or, why should we study it? If so, my essay will answer your questions.…
There are many novels and films that have be created to portray the stories of Holocaust victims, two examples being the film Life is Beautiful and the graphic novels Maus I and Maus II. Life is Beautiful tells the story of Guido, a Jewish man in Italy before the war. He fell in love with Dora, a beautiful teacher, and eventually married her and had a son, Giosue. As the Nazis took over, Guido, Dora and Giosue were taken to a concentration camp, where Guido does everything he can to keep his family alive. Maus I and II are graphic novels portraying the true story of a survivor written by his son. They tell the story of Vladek and Anja, in Poland before the war when they fell in love and had a son, Richieu. It tells their journey through the ghettos and Auschwitz to their freedom. As they deal with the hardships from the Nazis, Vladek does whatever it takes to protect his…
Here are a few examples of what the Holocaust can help kids with: understand the consequences of prejudice or racism in society, have an acceptance of diversity, basically all lessons that they teach in school about bullying and what/what not to do, how any government can go down the drain with rash decisions at hand. All of these lessons are helpful, especially to 8th graders. That age is when bullying becomes more than just inappropriate jokes and yelling. It turns into racism, and into prejudice. Teaching kids about the Holocaust will show them what the consequences of bullying on a large scale are. It also helps 8th graders be better role models. This may help students, but the real question is, are 8th graders mature enough yet to handle this…
"There's a Wocket in my Pocket!" is an interesting children's book created by Dr. Seuss. At first glance one is given the impression that "There's a Wocket in my Pocket!" is just another fantasyland children's book by Dr. Seuss with a goofy cast of characters and amusing, memorable rhyme scheme. However, when one digs beneath the surface he will come to realize that this expresses a tale of paranoia and insanity that has been unparalleled in modern society.…
When the topic of the Holocaust pops up, what do you think about? Now ask yourself, should 8th graders learn about this? If you don’t know, you’ll be convinced that they should learn about the Holocaust by the end of this essay. The Holocaust was a mass genocide of the jews, committed by Adolf Hitler that lasted about 6 years. Although it’s a gruesome topic, students learn about different cultures, knowing that other people have had it worse then them, and being kind to others. Either way, it’s only fair because we should honour the people that have died in this terrible event.…
As the article Should We Stop Teaching the Holocaust in Schools said, “The National Curriculum is now irredeemably a vehicle for promoting the dumbing down of the nation and its slavish adherence to every daft nostrum of the leftist intelligentsia.” The teaching of the Holocaust is not good for a school environment. Children in middle school are not mature enough to handle the information that would be given. The topic may also offend some children or make them feel uncomfortable. The Holocaust topic has offended children before because of their race. If the child was German or Jewish, they could think that the whole race of Germans or the Jews were bad. Which could lead to the child telling their parents what they learned? The parents would then complain to the school about what the school is teaching. That is how the whole debate on the Holocaust being taught started. The Holocaust is also very gory. It has a lot of killing of Jews in the event and some children will not be able to understand the information about the Holocaust. Kids are impressionable and they could become even more violent from learning about the Holocaust because of all it’s killing. It could very easily scare kids and their parents too. A lot of parents are very protective of their kids and don’t think that the Holocaust is a suitable topic for them. Those kind of parents think that the Holocaust will strike fear in their child’s heart or it will influence the child to be a violent child. A caring parent does not want his or her child being a violent…