First period began the project we’ll be working on while reading Anne Frank. Students will create a 10-12 entry diary modeled on Anne Frank’s diary. Today, they chose one of the following locations/historical events as their setting:

• Rwanda (Jean Kambanda, 1994)
• Cambodia (Pol Pot, 1975-79)
• Uganda (Idi Amin, 1969-1979)
• Yugoslavia (Slobodan Milosevic, 1992-96)
• Chile (Augusto Pinochet)
• China (Mao Ze-Dong 1958-61 and 1966-69)
• Turkey (Ismail Enver, 1915-20)
• Afghanistan (Mullah Omar and the Taliban, 1986-2001)
• Darfur, Sudan (present day)

Fourth, and sixth periods are finished up the anticipatory lesson today, drawing on students’ prior knowledge of the Holocaust and making it personal through a series of reflective writing exercises. We finished the slide show I created about the Holocaust.

Ruins

Barracks

Gas Chamber Ruins

Second period continued working on To Kill a Mockingbird. We should be finishing up Monday.

Homework

• First period: none (except for research on project).
• Second period: chapters 24-28.
• Fourth and sixth periods: complete the reflection exercise we began in class.