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I am so lucky to have an amazing job at the best high school in the world with the most wonderful students (MOST of the time). Here I will share my musings, reflect on literature, and showcase cool assignments.
What I'm Reading...
- Grace for the Good Girl by Emily Freeman
- In the Garden of Beasts by Erik Larson
- Half-Broke Horses by Jeannette Walls
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Week of 9/106 years ago
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Extra Credit Assignment13 years ago
Sonja DuBois
We were honored to have Sonja DuBois, Holocaust survivor, hidden child, spend the day with us on Thursday, April 3. Her story was compelling and moving and we so enjoyed getting to know her. She is pictured here with her husband, Ron.
Survivor of Sobibor
Pictured here are some of my students with Mr. Phillip Bialowitz, one of the ten living survivors of the Nazi extermination camp Sobibor. His son, Joe Bialowitz, is in the picture as well. It was an honor to hear Mr. Bialowitz speak.
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- Dry Tears
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About Me
My Top Ten Books
- The Bible
- The English Patient
- Night
- All is Vanity
- The Things They Carried
- Three Weeks with My Brother
- The Alchemist
- Redeeming Love
- King Lear
- Suzanne's Diary for Nicholas
12 comments:
I enjoy the book so far. I like how the girls are still getting their education though the Nazis tried to take it from them.
the book is little dry at first. as i go further into the book it is getting better. it is hard for me to read all of these books, they always make me sad.
that last comment was brian;s!!!! maybe i'll just make a new one because i'm tired of being anonymous.
It's ironic that Brian said the beginning was dry..because it's in the title...haha ok that was corny.
Anyways...it is very interesting to read that Helka wanted to live in the ghetto with Czuczka instead of in the factory with her family. It would seem safer, which it proved to be.
Sorry if I ruin the story for anyone
I'll admit at first the books beginning was really boring, but it got graphic later in. I feel so sorry for what the Nazis did to her mother, and then killing her uncle Josef, and then that night raid were they killed babies in their strollers and left dead people all over the streets. Your right Brian, these stories can make a person very sad.
- Micah
- Nice joke Walt
I love how strong willed Nechama is! She endures the worst of any situation and comes back stronger. She's also really good at keeping secrets, which has helped her in many tight spots so far. She just wants to be so helpful at such a young age. Which will be important later!
- Micah
Hello.... Is anybody ever going to blog???? Well, I finished the book and I must say I was suprised by the ending. Her whole family survived, and I couldn't believe it. In the past books we have read only one or two members of the entire family survives. In my opinion it was an O.K. book, but it only had my attention every now and then. Hopefully you guys enjoyed it more.
- Micah
- Marta needs to go jump in a hole and DIE!!!!!
I thought that it was really bad how Marta treated Nechama. It was really sad. It was kinda like she demoralized her for things that children do. What if she like emotionally scarred her? I just think it is terrible for yelling at a little girl for missing her family or wanting food. It really upset me.
This conversation is going better than some others, but keep it up. Time is running out!
I have to agree with Micah. I love how Nechama is so strong. Nothing that happens ever gets her down for long and she always springs back with more enthusiasm and zest than she did before hand. You can tell that she has a will to live and overcome her problems and that is one of the things that i think is the most striking about her character.
I just finished the book (I know! On the last day too) and I have to say that at the beginning it was very hard for me to pick it up. I think that the book might go into way too much detail about things that it doesnt need to go into but overall it is a wonderful book. I loved it because all of the characters in this book are very strong and I love that it gives you a different view of the holocaust. All of the accounts that I have read from little children the mostly were either in hiding and they didnt come out at all or they had something of the same quality that made them all the same. This book gives you a different outlook on how life was like back then and I really enjoyed it.
Very true Ashley. The beginning did seem a bit wordy, but I think it definitely needed the introduction and the beginning was done well.
The most powerful thing to me in the whole book was in the last chapter, before the epilogue. She talked about being back home, in her city of Lublin, but it wasn't the same place, and she felt like a stranger. So, she said she just closed her eyes. This stuck out to me more than anything in the book because it showed how the Nazis changed and destroyed EVERYTHING. I thought this book was really good and I would request it to someone who likes to read and has interest in the Holocaust.
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