After a deep red dahlia last week, I have chosen to post two pink ones. Unfortunately, the only thing that is left of them are those two photos. Indeed a big storm hit us last Thursday and damaged the biggest flowers in the garden.
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As from the beginning of October, one of my classes will be doing project-based learning. The students spend two hours every week during the first half of the school year working on a particular topic in groups of two or three. Because of our Holocaust project, we have drafted a list of possible topics that include Holocaust-related assignments.
The projects:
– Fleeing Europe: Nazism and Exile
– The United States and the Holocaust
– From Reality to Fiction: the Holocaust in the movies (based on Schindler’s List).
– Being a child in Nazi Europe: Testifying through Literature.
We’ll also be working on the Holocaust in the English class and I plan to give the students a list of books to read on their own as references. It will obviously be easier if the books exist in French.
The reading list:
– Le journal d’Anne Frank / The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank
– Le Journal d’Hélène Berr / The Journal of Helene Berr
– J’ai vécu mille ans / I Have Lived a Thousand Years by Livia Bitton-Jackson
– Four Perfect Pebbles by Lila Perl and Marion Blumenthal Lazan (no French translation here but the text is not very hard)
– Elle s’appelait Sarah / Sarah’s Key by Tatiana de Rosnay
– Compte les étoiles / Number the Stars by Lois Lowry
– Les Disparus / The Lost Daniel Mendelsohn
What do you think? Any other idea for a project or a book is welcome.
The photo at the top of this post was taken in Stockholm next to the Great Synagogue; the 42 meter wall bears inscriptions with the names of about 8,500 relatives of Jews living in Sweden, who perished in the Holocaust.
The Back in the Saddle edition of Haveil Havalm is up at me-ander.Thanks Batya for the great work.
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