individual Curriculum Development

[Anonymous]

In the Growing Up Group thread I have attached the beginnings of an 8 week Unit on Growing up in War Times: Dutch, Japanese, Japanese-American, and American Childhood During WWII. While I currently have just the beginning of the Unit formally documented, I would love suggestions.

After exploring the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki through image and memoir, students will begin writing their own memoirs. This will segue into Farewell to Manzanar, a longer memoir about growing up Japanese American in America during WWII. Students will discuss both the bombing of Pearl Harbor and the dropping of the two atomic bombs and how those events shaped history for individuals growing up at that time (as well as how they affected the world today). Students will also read A Seperate Peace depicting US childhood during WWII, and Song of Survival depicting the life of a young Dutch girl in a Japanese Concentration Camp (Camp Sumatra) during WWII. In 10th grade students read Night and talk about the Holocaust, so they won't read an entire text related to Europe during WWII, but they will read about the Kinder Transport and include that area in their research. I will also inculde excerpts from Snow Falling on Cedars and students may choose to read it for their Lit Circle text.

Aside from studying memoir, this unit will fall into my student's study of expository writing. They will learn research skills and complete a research project that will culminate in a textual analysis of one book from the unit. They will compare the information gathered through research to the story depicted in their literature and determine the historical accuracy and the role of literature in depicting (and impacting) history. This will bridge nicely into our year end unit on literary analysis. Because the beginning of the year is dedicated to persuasion, the unit will also incorporate persuasive writing.

This unit will also come directly after The Perks of Being a Wallflower and The Odyssey, both of which deal with issues of growing up and the importance of "telling the story" of an event, a life, a culture, or history.

I'm uber excited for this unit, for this school year, and for our continued work together!

Peace and Blessings,
Kyle
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[Anonymous]

HI!!!
I'll be sharing more, in depth, this weekend. Can't wait to see everyone again! Yipeee!
-A.
Please read and share your thoughts if can get through this without falling asleep.

[Anonymous]

I am still swimming in and out of the heap of tapes (well minidiscs) that I brought home. My work is going to take more editing...acutally, listening to for the gems that I scooped up, which were many. I want to use sound and images to for various topics, especially Xian.

Also, I have material that will benefit many different topics. So I have a lot to share, though it will be a few months of refining. I feel like I have a block of marble and am finding the soul(s) within it.

[Anonymous]

Here's my tome...I wrote the essay rather than do the lesson plan since I'm still working on my recordings.
The first half of the paper is boring, the second, from about page 4 is better. It tells about our morning at the gates of the Temple of Heaven.
Nicole

[Anonymous]

Here's my reflctive essay.
Linda

[Anonymous]

Here is my reflective essay. I am not sure if this is the place to post it. Happy reading.

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