Students are encouraged to tie in current events, such as school violence, hate crimes and Kosovo. I also work with language and the power of language. Language is even inadequate to describe the Holocaust. After that, the obsession grew and Joyce began reading, reading and reading other Holocaust literature on history, resistance and rescuers. But mostly I love the stories.
Every survivor tells a story that is the same and yet different.
The central issue in the event is the single person. My heart is touched by the people. In the classroom, Joyce has found the same effect on the students. They are absorbed in the topic as they write responses, create poems and draw artwork about their reading. We are lost.