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Consider how leaders could sometimes turn out to be destructive forces. Research the role propaganda plays during battles or war time. historical context of text. Draw conclusions based on details within text and personal experiences. Consider the image created by the author/poet and its effectiveness. Investigate author’s purpose by analyzing directions and dialogue. Cite examples from drama to support findings. Identify examples of dramatic irony. Consider purpose: to add humor or build suspense. Analyze what a scene or event suggests about the way people deal with crisis. Describe the scene’s mood and find examples from the an on-demand procedural text prompt utilizing the ABCDs of on-demand writing, i.e. PSSA prompt. Write a letter of request, letter of complaint, and a friendly letter by planning, drafting, revising, editing, and publishing individual work. Choose an unfamiliar detail from a poem/passage and conduct research explaining how findings clarify the text. Compare/contrast how poets use structural elements such as repletion, breaks, line lengths, stanzas, form, and imagery to pay tribute to an elder. tone/mood of the play. Create a bulletin board display about experiences of Jewish individual or communities living under Nazi occupation during WWII. Compare one character’s feelings and ideas with another character’s. Consider how it shows the characters’ perspectives, and how this finding compares with your perspective. Employ performing arts, music, poetry, collage, or other means that student feels best represents the message they want to send others. With a partner, conduct an interview with Anne or Mr. about her/his experience during hiding in the Secret annex. Videotape your interview or Suggested Reading Leveled Complexity: Number the Stars by Lois Lowry/670L The Book by Markus Zusak/730L Bomb: The Race to Build—and World’s Most Dangerous Weapon by Steve Sheinkin/ 920L Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice by Phillip Hoose/1000L The Yellow by Kevin Powers/1010L Diary of Anne Frank by Anne Frank/1080L Holocaust by Angela Wood and Dan Stone/Reading range 10-17 years The Surrender Tree: Poems of Cuba’s Struggle for Freedom, by Margarita Engle/Range 12-17 years Holocaust: Exploring Anne Frank’s hiding place: Moyer, Susan. Teaching the Diary of Anne Frank. 2nd ed. New York: Scholastic, 1998. Print Survivors of Shoal Visual History Foundation: The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum:
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