Content Focus: Adapted Narrative, Poetry

Language Focus: Speaking, Reading, Writing

Vocabulary Focus: Holocaust, Victim, Survivor, Symbolism, Balance, Color

Standards:

• W.7.1
• W.7.2c
• W.7.3a
• W.7.3c
• W.7.4
• W.7.6
• W.7.8
• A.A.Cr.7.m
• A.A.Cr.9.m
• A.A.Pr.7.m
• A.A.Pr.8.m
• A.A.Cn.9.m

Arts Integration: Balance, Color, Thumbnail Sketches, Collage

Lesson Objectives:

• I am learning to research.
• I am learning to write an adapted narrative.
• I am learning to create a mixed-media art piece.
• I can analyze a source to pull out important information.
• I can synthesize notes to write a paragraph.
• I can write a lead to hook my reader.
• I can analyze a historical figure.
• I can use design elements to represent the life of a historical figure.

Activities:

• Students will research a victim/survivor from the Holocaust using ID cards from the Holocaust Encyclopedia.
• Students will write an adapted narrative about their chosen person.
• Students will practice poetry written by children living in concentration camps.
• Students will analyze their person to pull out symbols, colors, textures, etc. to represent their person.
• Students will sketch three ideas they have for a butterfly.
• Students will create a butterfly.
• Students will present their butterfly.

Engagement/Introduction: Introduce the poem, The Butterfly, written in a concentration camp.

Assessment Procedure: Students will present their butterfly at the end to other classes.

Materials: Thumbnail sketch sheets. Coloring supplies. Final butterfly sheets. Things to decorate the final butterfly such as ribbons, buttons, paint, glue, paper scraps, markers, colored pencils, beads, sequins, glitter, patches, googly eyes, etc..

Supporting Documents: Lesson Plan, Presentation

Contact: Leah Rubsam