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Maus: After Reading Strategy Instructional Routine

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Class members create literary mandalas for two characters from Maus, Art Spiegelman’s graphic novel about his father’s experiences with the Holocaust. After finding quotes that reveal three good traits and three bad traits of each...
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Modern Figure Sculpture

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Alberto Giacometti is a renowned sculpture, made popular by his "tall, gaunt" figures. His sculptures have been interpreted in many ways: representing isolation, Holocaust victims, or of one standing against adversity. Giacometti says...
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Until Then I Had Only Read About These Things in Books

For Teachers 5th - 6th
Learners read assigned text about the World War II. In this Holocaust survival lesson, students identify the mass murders associated with Adolf Hitler's Nazi party and read stories of young men who narrowly avoided the death camps....
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News Flash

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students create news headlines for each year from 1933 to 1945 to show how the Nazis tried to hide the Jewish tragedy from outside eyes.