Arts and Literature
Art, music, literature, and works about them.
Please note that the resources listed below do not include our library resources available to teachers in our network. Please visit our lending library for this list. Learn more about how to become a part of the network.
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Anne Frank in the World ExhibitThe purpose of this guide is to prepare teachers and students to view the exhibition, Anne Frank in the World, 1929-1945, while incorporating perspectives and themes highlighted in the Facing History and Ourselves program. | Publication | 02/23/2008 - 18:56 |
Confronting September 11: A Vision of the WorldIn the aftermath of the September 11th atrocities many scholars have commented that states and nations have become less important. What do we need to live in a world where, as political scientist Benjamin Barber notes, "it could hardly escape even casual observers that global warming recognizes no sovereign territory, that AIDS carries no passport, that technology renders national borders meaningless, that the internet defies regulation, that oil and cocaine addiction circle the planet like twin plagues. | Facing Today | 02/24/2008 - 12:17 |
Confronting September 11: Introduction from Marc GopinOne of the cornerstones of civil society is the capacity to live with more than one identity. People speak to us so much when we are young about finding our identity, or the search for our identity. | Facing Today | 02/24/2008 - 11:27 |
Dissent in the Weimar Republic: The Art of George Grosz
This outline examines the experiences of German painter George Grosz during the turbulent years of the Weimar Republic, and provides students with opportunities to interpret his paintings as a means to deepen their understanding of the political, economic, and social tensions of the period. | Lesson Plan | 02/23/2008 - 09:35 |
Finding a Voice: Musicians in TerezinSoon after Hitler and his Nazi party took over Germany in 1933, they began to isolate and then eliminate Jews and other "racial enemies." By the late 1930s, Jews could no longer own radios or record players. | Publication | 02/23/2008 - 19:52 |
From Modern Art to Degenerate ArtIn 1937, Germany's National Socialist government seized over 16,000 modernist artworks by over 1,400 artists from German public museums and displayed over 650 of them in the Entartete Kunst, or Degenerate Art exhibition. | Publication | 02/23/2008 - 19:54 |
I Promised I Would TellSonia Weitz tells her story through poetry and testimony during the Holocaust. She gives life to the millions of children, men and women who were murdered in Europe because they were Jews. Her personal memories and poetry give a history to mothers, fathers, sisters, brothers, sons and daughters. | Publication | 03/09/2008 - 13:17 |
I Promised I Would Tell UnitFacing History and Ourselves has released a collection of classroom activities to accompany Sonia Weitz's highly successful Holocaust memoir, I Promised I Would Tell. This series of 12 lessons, all of which focus on literacy, have been tested in both middle and high school classrooms across the Memphis region. | Unit | 03/12/2008 - 17:12 |
Identity and Individuality: Exploring Art & Literature
This lesson outline explores the
work of Glenn Ligon and Zora Neale Hurston in order to examine
complicated questions about their own identity and how they are
perceived by others. Readings and resources from Choosing to Participate are used to help students make the connection between issues of identity and decision making. | Lesson Plan | 03/16/2008 - 00:48 |
Interpreting the Works of Samuel Bak: Interruption
This outline
utilizes Samuel Bak's "Interruption" in order to help students
understand the emotional journeys experienced by Holocaust survivors.
Professor Lawrence L. Langer, Professor of English Emeritus, Simmons
College has contributed several essays to this outline based upon his
extensive research into the life and work of Samuel Bak. | Lesson Plan | 03/16/2008 - 08:17 |
