Holocaust Reader Resources

You can access the resources we have been using in class and The Holocaust Reader online by using links below. Please share these with your parents and discuss what you have been learning in class.

Our Padlet on The Holcaust-click here
password is holocaust

The Holocaust-An video overview produced by the New York Times Upfront Magazine

Slideshow of images of the Holocaust

Bibliography for further reading

Interview with Jacqueline Murekatete

Scope Magazine Articles:
Fighting Hitler 
The Boys Who Fought

February Scope Article

Choose an article to read in the February issue of Scope Magazine. Post a comment below.
Include:

•  the title of article and the author
• six-seven sentence summary of article (please write more if you need to)
• a response or connection--What did you find interesting?  Learn new?
• pose a question to the class (ex:  Do you agree with the main idea?  What did you think of the article? etc)

Trouble with Bears

Seth Burdick

October 13, 2016

Writing class

Alaska Story

It was every accountant’s average day at work, sorting through all of these lazy people’s taxes.  Michael liked his job, no doubt about it.  It paid well, and his boss was nice.  Michael didn’t have a big house, with kids or a wife, he rented out an apartment room on the eleventh floor at the local Marriott.  He lived in Michigan near Lake Superior.  He went bass fishing almost everyday after work.  Fishing was his passion.  He loved bass fishing, the way the ate they bait, the way they fight once you got them hooked, and especially the way they jump out of the water and shake their mouth desperately trying to get the hook out.  A couple years back his best friend took him salmon fishing up in Seattle, Washington.  Michael was hooked.  He caught many salmon, some big, some small, but mostly medium sized.  He didn’t want to leave, he didn’t want to get off the boat, because that meant no more fishing.  Ever since that trip he thinks about the experiences he had, how much fun it was.  How much more fun it was than bass fishing.  But fishing is an expensive sport, all Michael had money for was bass fishing.  His job as an accountant only gave him around sixty six thousand a year.  Half of that went to paying for his apartment, and the rest was spent on food, clothes, and bass fishing.  There was no way he could pay for salmon fishing gear, and a plane ticket.  But he wanted to catch big salmon.  Like the ones you have to go out into Alaska and drive through the wilderness to never fished before rivers or lakes.  Michael began to search through the taxes he had to sort out, when his boss came over and dropped a big orange envelope on his desk.  

“What is this?” Michael asked.

“Open it,” smirked Michael’s boss.  Michael opened the orange envelope and peaked into it with his right eye.

“It’s…” Michael exclaimed.

“4000 dollars, cash,” quietly whispered his boss.

Click here for full story

Nothing but the truth

Nothing But the Truth

“Please all rise and stand for the saying of our national anthem…”  Oh say can you see… “Is that someone humming?”  What so proudly we hailed…  “I don’t know no who that is, but you heard Dr. Doane’s request.”  Through the perilous flight…  “Is that you Phillip?”  And the rockets red glare…  “Just humming” Just humming, this seemingly unimportant dialogue sparks a country wide conflict.  But what actually happened becomes less and less clear.   In Nothing But The Truth by Avi, there is no absolute truth told by any character.  Instead, each character alters the truth to their advantage.

Full essay here

Grammar Rules to Live By!

Using IXL for Skills Reinforcement

You may have already started using IXL in Mr. Szeliga's class in math, we are also going to be using IXL in Language Arts.  You will start with a review of the topics we have already covered this year. 

Click here to log in to IXL. 

 Complete the lessons listed below.

Summer Ball Twitter Project

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