Literary+Analysis

__**Literary Analysis Essay**__ - This overview includes the general essay assignment. Please see the tailored assignment I passed out on Friday, February 20, for information specific to your short story.

- This is Ms. Boswell's How To, explaining how to set up your Word document and add sources for your in-text citations and list of works cited.

- This is the rubric I'll use for assessing essays along with the checklist and self-evaluation students must complete before turning in their essays.

__**Discussion Group**__ Use these instructions - - to guide your work as you prepare for the group discussion on Monday, January 26. You will have time in class to complete your response and reflection, but you will also have the option to take your writing home and polish it further.

Students who missed school on Monday, January 26, or who want to improve their reflections, should complete this assignment -. Return to Ms. Bergman's home page. __**Online Reading Group**__ Use these instructions - - to guide your posts to the [|Holocaust Texts] discussion board. These posts will satisfy the goodreads requirements for the first independent reading book of this semester.
 * You must turn the response and reflection in on Tuesday, January 27. You may use the discussion questions below if you like:**
 * **What happens to the "us"?**
 * **What does the book mean?**
 * **How has the book affected you?**
 * **How has the author used symbolism to get his point across?**
 * **How has the main character changed?**
 * **Why does the author choose to end the book the way he does?**

__**Links for Online Reading Group Research**__ Use these sources to research your posts to the [|Holocaust Texts] discussion board. Cite your sources by pasting a link to the appropriate website into your post. If you find helpful information on a site other than the ones listed here, show it to me or send it to me (nbergman@csdecatur.net), and I may add it.

[|United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (USHMM)] [|The British Library's Voices of the Holocaust] [|Maps, Chronology, and Glossary from the British Library]
 * Sites for General Research**

[|General Article on the Holocaust] from USHMM [|General Article] from PBS (cite as Britannica Holocaust Article)
 * Holocaust Overviews**

[|What is Genocide?] [|Nazi Racial Ideology] [|Ghettos] [|Genocide of European Roma Gypsies] [|Women during the Holocaust] "[|U.S widow deported over Nazi past]" (Thanks, Olivia!) "[|Telling the Holocaust Like it Wasn't]" - "Nothing came out of the camps. Nothing"; myth of redemption in Holocaust texts and movies [|Hitler's Rise to Power] (Thanks, Sam L!) [|American Women during WWII] (Thanks, Summer!)
 * Articles on Specific Topics**

[|From the British Library] (transcripts and audio, organized by topic/time period) [|From the Shoah Foundation] (videos) [|From the USHMM] (transcripts and videos, organized by topic/time period) Return to Ms. Bergman's home page. __**Reading**__
 * Survivor Testimony**

__**Historical Background Activities**__ To deepen your understanding of the Holocaust before reading //Night// or //Maus I,// you will complete one of the following activities, which I will assign to you on Thursday, January 8.

- download this if you're completing Activity 1
 * Holocaust Background - Activity 1**


 * Holocaust Background - Activity A**


 * Holocaust Background - Activity Alpha**

Return to Ms. Bergman's home page.