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Create Poetry from
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Subject: | Language Arts, World History |
Grade: | 6-8, 9-12 |
Brief Description
Objectives
Keywords
poetry, Holocaust, journal, diary
Materials Needed
Lesson Plan
Students will look for powerful words in the testimony and journal entries of those who witnessed the Holocaust. They will transform those words from prose to poetic form. For example, poet Barbara Helfgot-Hyett found the following journal entry: "Our men cried. We were a combat unit. We'd been to Anzio, to southern France, to Sicily, Salermo, the Battle of the Bulge, and we'd never, ever seen anything like this" She translated that journal entry into a powerful poem that begins this way:
Assessment
Students will post their poems on a bulletin board; fellow students will choose the most moving of the poems.
Lesson Plan Source
Testimony: A Lesson in Creating Poetry is one of many activities that are part of A Teachers Guide to the Holocaust.
Students turn diary and journal entries and the recorded testimony of people who witnessed the Holocaust into eloquent poetry. This is a lesson in the power of words.
"Our men cried.
We were a combat unit.
We'd been to Anzio,
to southern France,
Sicily, Salermo,
the Battle of the Bulge,
and we'd never, ever
seen anything
like this"
The lesson includes links to testimony of Holocaust witnesses, which can be printed if students do not have computer access.
National Standards
Social Studies :
Language Arts:
NSS-WH.5-12.8
NL-ENG.K-12.1
NL-ENG.K-12.2
NL-ENG.K-12.3
NL-ENG.K-12.5
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