Reflections on Holocaust Lit

Wow, guys, I can't believe the end is here. I told you most of the mushy stuff in your letters, but here are a few of my own reflections. Each of you has contributed so much to the experience of the class. Probably the day that affected me the most personally, and the day I found it hardest to get through, was the day of the lesson on the Lodz Ghetto and the Rumkowski speech. The book I enjoyed most (reading) was The Cage. The seminar I enjoyed most was the last one over The Hangman and Wiesel's speech. The best work I saw from you all was your ecphrastic poems (the first one, based on The Little Polish Boy photo). I was most impressed by the artistic responses and your final projects. The lesson that surprised me most (the one I really created just to give you something to do while I was in DC) and ended up getting SOOOO much out of was the Memorials Research. It was such a great assignment!!! I was most disappointed by your reactions to Farewell to Manzanar. I know it was the end, but I wish you had stayed with it a little more and I think that is an important book. My favorite movie was Europa, Europa. Your responses to The Sunflower surprised me most. I am most proud of the blog idea. It was totally and completely my own and I think it went SOOO well. I know some of you probably didn't like it, but I think I will keep it, in some way, in all of my classes in the future. I feel worst about the Memorial Garden. I feel like the timing was so off and I am sorry I let you down. It will happen, I just wish it were sooner.

You know how much I loved the class and all of you and I will never forget this semester with you!