This project is part of the Black History Month celebration because it supports a Black teacher or a school where the majority of the students are Black.
My Students
Being a high school English teacher, I feel it is my responsibility to prepare young ladies and gentlemen for college and career readiness by having them read challenging and engaging literary texts that are thought-provoking, as well as culturally relevant to their shared experiences. My students are about to take a state exam in which must demonstrate that they can analyze and interpret mostly non-fiction writing through literary analysis and essay writing.
The students that I teach are are precocious and intelligent young ladies and gentlemen who wish to succeed in every way possible.
They are often hungry to read books that are challenging and enjoyable, and in reading texts that they can relate to from prior knowledge. My students are often funny, with the strong determination in using education as a way for future success.
This spring semester, my 10th grade English class is about to start teaching a unit on the Holocaust and Genocide that are terrible atrocities that have happened in history, but in order to learn how to prevent atrocities and injustice in the future, students must look to the past through reading copies of Mona Golabek's memoir, "The Children of Willesden Lane".
My Project
In this project, my students will read a classic Holocaust memoir pertaining to the Kindertransport, written by the daughter of a Holocaust survivor who writes about the story of her mother, Lisa Jura. Lisa overcame all the dangerous perils and discrimination that the Jewish community experienced during World War 2 under the regime of Adolf Hitler. In our school, we have an objective to teach students the atrocities and genocides of the past so that they make connections to the modern forms of genocides and mass killings that still occur today. A lesson plan would consist of us reading Mona Golabek's text, and tying its themes for today's modern atrocities. Students will then be assigned to write their own memoir and experiences in the style of Ms. Golabek's. The lesson plan structure is to read and discuss the memoir, learn about the perils of genocide and memoir writing.
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