Week of 9/29

Monday, 9/29
The Book Thief

Tuesday, 9/30
The Book Thief

Wednesday, 10/1
"Sarah's Key"

Thursday, 10/2
"Sarah's Key"
Book Thief Projects due

Friday, 10/3
Memorial Planning

Week of 9/22

I still feel like we are playing a little bit of catchup, since we have yet to talk much about Salvaged Pages. I will just work it in whenever I can, so have it read and be ready to talk. As I stated before, make SURE you have read The Book Thief by Friday. You will want to be certain to have read it!

Monday, 9/22
Presentations

Tuesday, 9/23
"Swing Kids"

Wednesday, 9/24
"Swing Kids"

Thursday, 9/25
Maus Discussion

Friday, 9/26
The Book Thief

Book Burnings

In 1821, Heinrich Heine wrote, "Where one burns books, one will, in the end, burn people." Consider what Heine meant by this statement. In your opinion, what is the danger of burning books? How, if at all, does burning books jeopardize human life?
[Note: Somewhat ironically, Heine was a noted German author who converted to Christianity from Judaism in the nineteenth century. According to the Nuremberg Laws, Heine would have been considered a Jew; therefore, his books were also burned and forbidden.]

Here is a link to some of the books/authors as well.

Week of 9/15

This week is kind of a hodgepodge of various topics, so just bear with me. :) It will all come together.

Monday, 9/15
Kristallnacht
Salvaged Pages if time

Tuesday, 9/16
Library/Lab for research

Wedneday, 9/17
Library/Lab for research

Thursday, 9/18
Maus Reading Day

Friday, 9/19
SUB
Maus Reading Day

Week of 9/8

I hope you are beginning to see how propaganda was used by the Nazis to manipulate the views of ordinary German citizens. This week we will start to look at some of the immediate effects of that propaganda.

Monday, 9/8

College Fair

Tuesday, 9/9

Memorial Planning

Watch "I'm Still Here"

Assign Salvaged Pages

Wednesday, 9/10

Weimar Republic

Finish other work

Thursday, 9/11

Nazi Germany's Anti-Jewish policy

Friday, 9/12

Kristallnacht jigsaw