Tuesday, March 3rd

Today we completed our daily grammar and we began our lessons on the Holocaust.  We started off with a read-aloud of Benno and the Night of Broken Glass.  We then watched the Holocaust BrainPop  video, and then we began reading "A Final Solution" from A History of US.  

In addition to taking notes, we had meaningful conversations about the origins of anti-semitism, the evolution of religion, the origin of ideas about race, and the use of scapegoats throughout history.  

We concluded our day by reading Son. Students are making some excellent connections between Son and the previous books we've read in the series.