The following inquiry steps noted by Barbara Stripling (2003) will be used in the reflective journaling process: "connecting, wondering, investigating, constructing, expressing, and reflecting." Students will be given the following steps for their responses:
1. Connect- to the researched child by using observation of the researched background and bio materials while keeping a first person diary that connects the child to the information that is uncovered daily in lit circle and novel readings
2. Wonder--"develop questions" that your child might have about the oppression that is taking place in their country
3. Investigate--on your own, e-mail a local expert (professor, teacher, rabbi) and ask them what they know about the Holocaust
4. Construct--Based on your prior introduction including readings, video, research, and discussion, journal about what you now understand about the Holocaust that you did not at the beginning of the unit
5. Express--Develop a song or poem from the perspective of your child that incorporates both the feelings and new understandings; share this with at least one class mate
6. Reflect--Look back over your journal and determine at least three new things that you are now compelled to learn about this time period (Stripling, 2003)
Wednesday, October 7, 2009
Book Circles
Students will be allowed to peruse the listed book titles and take the survey at Survey Monkey (linked below) to determine the four novels to be used along with the Holocaust unit study. These novels will be read during library class in conjunction with the reading and study of Number the Stars that is being done in the literature class. Each student will keep a reflective journal during the process.
Literature Circle Survey
Please click on the link below to take a survey regarding the best book choices for students in grades 6-8 to use in literature circles during the Holocaust unit study.
Click Here to take survey
Click Here to take survey
Tuesday, October 6, 2009
Book Talk Follow-Up
To access the book talk link, you must have Windows Media player. After clicking the link, you will log into oncourse and listen to the book talk.
Once students have listened to the book talk, they will be asked to view the following pictures from the book and make predictions about the book as well as make connections between the historical overview that has been presented and the content of the book.
Monday, October 5, 2009
A Child of the Holocaust Speaks
Using the video Anne Frank "Speaks," students will be introduced to the life of a child of the Holocaust via video. After watching the video, students will be asked to begin to make connections of all the information that has thus far been presented. Students will be asked to begin a "Child of the Holocaust" journal. In this reflection and journaling piece, students will be asked to journal in response to the novel that they will be reading in literature class as well as the literature circle books they will be reading in library class. These journal responses will be first person responses as students "adopt" a name of the child of the Holocaust and begin to response to all the reading and information through that child's eyes.
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