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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
Blogroll...
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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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April
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- These Great United States of Ours
- Haunting...
- Do Not Mourn Me
- Love and Anguish
- Raining Death
- Memorials
- Blended Poetry Based on The Cage
- Lest Innocent Blood Be Shed
- Survival in Auschwitz
- Dry Tears
- Milkweed
- In My Hands
- I Have Lived a Thousand Years
- Holocaust Lit: Your Input Needed
- Their Stories
- "Escape from Sobibor"
- The Passionate AP Students to...
- What Cause will You Commit to?
- Your Responsibility
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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
8 comments:
I'm really enjoying this book so far. It's very interesting. The only thing is it's taking me forever to read it because of the font size.
What are your thoughts about the book?
my thoughts on the book so far (i've only read the first 25 pages)
are that the prelude was really boring and almost made me want to give up on the book and read the cliff notes, but as the story actually unfolded in the first 25 pages it caught my attention and i have a feeling that this book will be a very good read.
I just posted that comment. :]
-Brooke
You all need to pick up the pace on this blog a little. First comments were great, hard to have a conversation with only two people...
well yesterday I read the part about where the two pastors decide they can't sign the form to let them out of the camp that says they'll obey the Vichy no matter what and are pretty much condemned to the camp for life.. I've been thinking on what I would choose and whether it would become a personal conflict for me and I'm not sure. What are your opinions.. Katie or Josh?
-Brooke
I honestly don't know what I would do. I mean just think about it for a second. If you signed the paper you are agreeing with the Vichy government, which was the Nazi part of France. I mean, I would NEVER want to agree to something where the source comes from evil.
I hope that made sense. haha.
-Josh
I finally finished the book earlier today. It took forever but it was an excellent book. I loved the last chapter where it was talking about how the goodness came from Le Chambon.
What did you think about Pastor Trocme and the students not saluting to the French flag? (Saluting "Nazi" style) I'm with Pastor Trocme on this one. I would NEVER salute to the American flag like that. If I'm not mistaken, people in the United States, used to salute to our flag like that. As Pastor Trocme said it's like giving up one's own conscience and one's own power to judge human actions as good or evil, by saluting to the French flag. (In that time)
i really liked this book but it kind of freaked me out. about what brooke said and stuff.. it was a really hard read and really confusing. i really loved reading about how there were people that actually cared instead of just bystanderds...
-katie
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