The
End (5/23-6/4): Reflection & Synthesis
This week you will be finishing your books.
As you read I want you to think about how the book ends in relation
to how it started. Imagine if you could create a memorial to honor
something from this book.
1. How did the main character change?
2. What are the important ideas (conflicts,
character traits, people, places) that you would want to include in
your memorial?
3. How would these ideas be represented (what
symbols, colors, materials, etc would you use)?
Posting assignment:
Posting assignment:
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Answer the questions listed above.
Post your idea of the most significant/important
thing to memorialize from your book (consider both the perspective
represented AND the main character). Explain WHY you would want to
memorialize those traits, actions, etc.
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Respond to other posts by asking questions, providing memorial suggestions, or offering your opinion.
1.) I’m choosing to show how Fania has changed throughout the book. In the beginning of the book, Fania lost all of her family. After this tragedy for her, she had said that she needed to fold up her heart to survive. As the book continues on, she starts to become friends with Zlatka and the other girls. Her and Zlatka start to see each other as sisters they had lost. Eventually, the girls give Fania a birthday gift that they put a lot of effort into making. She says that her friends are a reason for living and to take risks. All of these things show that Fania opened up her heart to be able to have her friends help her. She didn’t want to let anything hurt her, but she opened her heart to gain these friendships by fear and love. She changed how she dealt with her problems at the camp and her relationships with the girls in the camp.
ReplyDelete2.) In Paper Hearts, the perspective was from two Jewish girls that were held in Auschwitz forced to do work. They gained friendships with other girls and they all managed to stick through it all together. For this very reason, I think that the most important thing from the book to memorialize would be all of the Jews that had to deal with the pain after they were brought to these camps unwillingly. I think that this is the most important thing to memorialize because all of these Jews were treated like they were less than everybody by the Germans. They were stomped on, beaten, forced to do work, and treated like animals. Even though they were treated this way, they didn’t give in and some of them even made it out alive and became free. After going through a world of pain, some were brave and strong enough to come out of it and they deserve to be memorialized for that.
3.) I would want the memorial to have Jewish people standing hand in hand looking up at the sky, right on top of a faded Nazi symbol. They would be standing on the Nazi symbol because it would represent the fact that eventually the Jews overcame the Nazi power and they had been defeated. The reason they would be standing hand in hand and looking up would be to show that each and every one of them stood together through the camps and pain to get where they are and that they have much more left for them. They are looking up to know that they are looking into the future of better things.
1. I would say that Fania has changed the most. At the beginning of the war Fania was scared and she wasn't quite sure about meeting new people. Her family was gone and she thought she was going to be alone forever. Now Fania has made new friendships and was brave. She ended up making famil at Auschwitz.
ReplyDeleteI was sort of thinking that with my response too. But I added the part about how she mentioned closing up her heart to survive and then opening it up to create those friendships.
Delete2. Fania and Zlatka are two girls that were work prisoners at Auschwitz. The two girls were seperated from the their families. Both girls were very frightful. Throughout the book the girls kept each other strong they kept them together and in line. The two girls bonded over the death of Mushke because Fania felt bad because herself had gone through a situation like Zlatka's. The two girls stay together to the end.
ReplyDeleteWould you like to make this more general and say that you want to memorialize the Jewish people that were held in the camps? Or are you trying to make a specific instance to this book and just memorialize the two fictional characters based on this book?
Delete3. If I was to make a memorial based off Paper Hearts I would make the girls in their bunks playing cards. I would have it set up as the block and then the girls playing cards. I would haveit be a bronze color and have it be relatively big.
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