Holocaust Poetry: Part 2

Flowers and a Butterfly -- a painting by Dorit Weiser,
a girl in the Terezin (Theresienstadt) ghetto.
Weiser was born in 1932 and perished in 1944
in the Auschwitz camp.

Aims:
IWBAT describe how Jewish children's experience in concentration camps influenced them, by analyzing poetry written by children living in the Czech concentration camp called Terezin or Thereseinstadt.










Tasks:

1. Do Now: compound sentences - part 3 (review!)

2. Homework Check: simple and compound sentences

3. Quiz 10: compound sentences - part 3

4. Read Night: pp. 66-76

5. Review: What was Terezin? (learn more here)

6. Read Poetry written by children at Terezin:

• "Terezin"
• "Birdsong"
• "At Terezin"
• "The Butterfly"
• "Remembering Home" (on page 2)
• read more poems here

7. Analyze Poetry:

• complete text-dependent questions on this form
• share what you think the theme is:
• "At Terezin"
• "The Butterfly"
• "Remembering Home"

8. Complete Exit Slip

Homework: TFK Activity: "After the Storm"

Do you have an extra few minutes?

Practice your winter holiday vocabulary here!