WHERE NOW? WHERE TO? THE DISPLACED

"The Jews suddenly faced themselves....They saw that they were different from all other inmates of the camp. For them things were not so simple. To go back to Poland? To Hungary? To streets empty of Jews, towns empty of Jews, a world without Jews. To wander in those lands, lonely, homeless, always the tragedy before one's eyes...and to meet again a Gentile neighbor who would open his eyes wide and smile, remarking with double meaning 'What, Yankel! You're still alive.'" Meyer Levin, Author, June 1946
 



Young Survivors of the Holocaust
a sixth grade unit using the
Literature Circles format

Dinah Cuthbertson and Marilyn Swofford

This unit is designed to use many genres of books for 6th grade children to enjoy from picture books such as The Faithful Elephants and Rosa Blanche , to biographies and historical fiction such as  The Diary of Anne Frank, and The Upstairs Room, also poetry such as I Never Saw Another Butterfly.  We chose the book After the War by Carol Matas from this unit to model all the jobs in the teaching of literature circles. Our hope is that others will choose books from our bibliography to use in literature circles and possibly add their questions to our unit.
 
 
 

Launch
Job Descriptions
Lessons from After the War
Closure
NCSCS Goals and Competencies
Bibliography