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From: Susan Weseen <weseen>
Date: Thu, 20 Apr 2006 23:00:12 EST
>To: "Almagor, Lelac" <LAlmagor at cathedral.org>
>From: "Monica Edinger" <monicaedinger at gmail.com>
>Date: Wed, 19 Apr 2006 16:46:48 -0400
>>Lelac, your unit sounds excellent. I think Number the Stars is highly
>appropriate for this age group for the reasons you state. And I'm
>also very happy to know that you begin by using supplementary
>materials to provide historical context. I think such context is
>critical. I hear of kids wondering how Anne got "into that attic"
>because none was provided.
>
>I'm personally very fond of Anne's diary because my grandmother gave
>it to me when I was eleven along with a diary right before we went off
>for a year in Germany (as my father is not only a German Jewish
>refugee, but also a specialist in German politics). It was 1964 and
>we visited the Anne Frank House which had recently opened. Years
>later I went back and realized that the diary my grandmother had given
>me was exactly the same as Anne's. She must have brought it to America
>with her as she left Frankfurt around the same time the Franks moved
>to Amsterdam. (Sadly, my grandfather chose to stay and was killed.)
>If I were teaching 7th graders a Holocaust unit today I would
>definitely want to use it. In addition to my personal feelings about
>it, I like that it is true not fiction and feel that her voice is so
>compelling and easy for an eleven or twelve year old to connect to.
>Still.
>
>I'm very close to Germans as I have family members who were
>assimilated (baptized in earlier generations) and so are still there
>as well as many family friends. Many helped my parents' families (my
>mother was from Berlin) in various ways like some of the characters in
>Markus Zusak's remarkable book, The Book Thief.
>
>There are many beautiful recent picturebooks related to the Holocaust,
>but I sometimes wonder about the audience. That is, they seem to be
>for rather young children whom, I think, are not really ready to know
>so much about the Holocaust.
>
>Monica
>
>Monica Edinger
>The Dalton School
>New York NY
>edinger at dalton.org
>monicaedinger at gmail.com
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Please note that I have a new email address. It is weseen at verizon.net.
Received on Thu 20 Apr 2006 11:00:12 PM CDT
Date: Thu, 20 Apr 2006 23:00:12 EST
>To: "Almagor, Lelac" <LAlmagor at cathedral.org>
>From: "Monica Edinger" <monicaedinger at gmail.com>
>Date: Wed, 19 Apr 2006 16:46:48 -0400
>>Lelac, your unit sounds excellent. I think Number the Stars is highly
>appropriate for this age group for the reasons you state. And I'm
>also very happy to know that you begin by using supplementary
>materials to provide historical context. I think such context is
>critical. I hear of kids wondering how Anne got "into that attic"
>because none was provided.
>
>I'm personally very fond of Anne's diary because my grandmother gave
>it to me when I was eleven along with a diary right before we went off
>for a year in Germany (as my father is not only a German Jewish
>refugee, but also a specialist in German politics). It was 1964 and
>we visited the Anne Frank House which had recently opened. Years
>later I went back and realized that the diary my grandmother had given
>me was exactly the same as Anne's. She must have brought it to America
>with her as she left Frankfurt around the same time the Franks moved
>to Amsterdam. (Sadly, my grandfather chose to stay and was killed.)
>If I were teaching 7th graders a Holocaust unit today I would
>definitely want to use it. In addition to my personal feelings about
>it, I like that it is true not fiction and feel that her voice is so
>compelling and easy for an eleven or twelve year old to connect to.
>Still.
>
>I'm very close to Germans as I have family members who were
>assimilated (baptized in earlier generations) and so are still there
>as well as many family friends. Many helped my parents' families (my
>mother was from Berlin) in various ways like some of the characters in
>Markus Zusak's remarkable book, The Book Thief.
>
>There are many beautiful recent picturebooks related to the Holocaust,
>but I sometimes wonder about the audience. That is, they seem to be
>for rather young children whom, I think, are not really ready to know
>so much about the Holocaust.
>
>Monica
>
>Monica Edinger
>The Dalton School
>New York NY
>edinger at dalton.org
>monicaedinger at gmail.com
>_______________________________________________
>CCBC-Net mailing list
>CCBC-Net at ccbc.education.wisc.edu
>Visit this link to read archives or to unsubscribe...
>http://ccbc.education.wisc.edu/mailman/listinfo/ccbc-net
>
Please note that I have a new email address. It is weseen at verizon.net.
Received on Thu 20 Apr 2006 11:00:12 PM CDT
