Why we should never forget A short story Take out a sheet of paper and title it This Way to the Gas Next you will see sentences that begin this reading For each slide choose a word or a phrase that you feel is important ID: 587051
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Slide1
A Literary Introduction to the Holocaust
Why we should never forget . . . Slide2
A short story
Take out a sheet of paper and title it “This Way to the Gas.”
Next, you will see sentences that begin this reading.
For each slide, choose a word or a phrase that you feel is important.
Write the word or phrase down and explain why you feel it is important.
Be prepared to share your ideas with your classmates. Each person will need to share once to receive credit. Slide3
‘The transport is coming,’ somebody says.
We spring to our feet, all eyes turn in one direction. Slide4
Around the bend, one after another, the cattle cars come rolling in.
The train backs into the station, a conductor leans out, waves his hand, blows a whistle.
The locomotive whistles back with a shrieking noise, puffs, and rolls slowly alongside the ramp.Slide5
In the tiny barred windows appear pale, wilted, exhausted human faces, terror-stricken women with tangled hair, unshaven men.
They gaze at the station in silence. Slide6
And then, suddenly, there is a stir inside the cars and a pounding against the wooden boards.
‘Water! Air!’ – weary, desperate cries. Slide7
Draw a line underneath your ideas.
Answer the following:
1. What is the dominant feeling created here?
2. What are the most important images?
3. Make a prediction: What are these people likely to experience next? Slide8
TADEUSZ BOROWSKI’S “This Way for the Gas, Ladies and Gentlemen”
Borowski’s
story tells the story of a company of Jews from France, who are charged with unloading Jews from trains, separating them from their belongings, and ushering some of them to almost instantaneous death.
Take note: these are Jewish prisoners whose work forces them to act in inhumane ways towards their own Jewish “brothers and sisters.”
What effect do you imagine this might have on these men? Slide9
FOCUS: During Reading
Your job is to annotate at least three times per column
(so 18 times total).
Pay attention to . . .
-- Events
-- Character actions, statements, decisions, reactions
-- Description of setting
-- Symbolism
-- Word choice
-- Imagery
-- Figurative Language
-- Tone / Mood
-- THEMESlide10
During Reading Activities
Read the first three columns of the story
(to the line on page 2). Be sure you are annotating three times per column.
THEN on your paper in complete sentences . . .
Address how these three columns
4. further develop the feeling you identified on your paper
5. contribute important images to the scene
6. either fit or did not fit your predictionSlide11
Activities Continued
Finish reading page 2. You should be four columns into the story. You should also have twelve annotations so far.
7.
Review the first two pages.
Locate
three similes or metaphors,
write
them down,
identity
what two items are being compared, AND
explain
how these similes or metaphors, in general, contribute to the feeling you have identified at the top of the page. Slide12
Activities Continued
Read the final page, page three. You should have eighteen annotations when you finish this document.
As you read page three,
annotate three
striking
images. Then on the top of that page, write down the general feeling that the these three images create in the reader (the mood).
8. On your paper, explain in a response of at least three sentences how
these images, in general, contribute to the feeling you have identified at the top of the page.
9. As you read page three, write down three lists that are used and explain how these lists, in general, contribute to the feeling you have identified at the top of the page. Slide13
Concluding Activities
10.
Review the story and write down three specific
mentionings
of the setting – especially the sky or the temperature and explain how these
mentionings
, in general, contribute to the feeling you have identified at the top of the page.
NOTE: Don’t just simply tell me that these similes, images, lists, or
mentionings
help to show or create the feeling. Instead, explain HOW they help to create this feeling in the story.
11.
Write down, in one sentence,
Borowski’s
theme or central message.
12. Write a SPES paragraph in which you state
Borowski’s
theme and provide proof and explanation to support that statement. Slide14Slide15
“First They Came for the Jews”
by Pastor
Niemoller
First they came for the Jews and I did not speak out because I was not a Jew.
Then they came for the Communists and I did not speak out because I was not a Communist.
Then they came for the trade unionists and I did not speak out because I was not a trade unionist.
Then they came for me and there was no one left to speak out for me.Slide16
The Marginalized . . .
Are groups of people that are singled out, isolated, abused, punished, even assaulted because they are somehow different, somehow strange, somehow not like “the rest of us.”
Create a short, four segment “poem” like
Niemoller’s
that addresses three marginalized groups from our time.
Follow
Niemoller’s
example.