Historical Fiction Display (Module 6)

 

The display was designed for the collaboration project that was done with another ELA teacher and two other history teachers.  The Holocaust was a horrific event and students can read both non-fiction and historical fiction accounts.  The display will be used to showcase the supplemental texts that can be checked out for more information, which will help them build their research skills throughout that project. For example, there are copies of The Boy in the Striped Pajamas, as well as non-fiction books about the children that were displaced during the war.  The stories that don’t get told as often as they could, but ones that would resonate with children.

The different texts are meant to bring both non-fiction and historical fiction texts together.  Books like The Terrible Things and Maus help children understand how an atrocity of this scale could happen without people stopping it.  There are books about the propaganda that was used on children in the Hitler Youth, but there are also digital eBooks about how children were the ones who caused some of the most disturbances to the Nazis and would repeatedly thwart them in occupied territory. 

The display also has pictures of children who either died or survived during the Holocaust and this is a reminder to us all that children, everywhere, are precious and should be saved from such horrific events and this should never happen again.