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aCTIvITy 3.12
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Creating a Memorable opening
My Notes
Families are torn apart.
Children coming home from school find that their parents
have disappeared.
Women
return from shopping to find their homes shut up and their families gone.
The Dutch people,
their sons are being sent to Germany.
Everyone is afraid ...
5. The author of the found poem selected particular lines from the text and then transformed them into poetry. How does this transformation change the power of the language?
6. How does the structure of the lines in the found poem transform the text from prose to poetry? Which lines stand out? Why?
7. How would a dramatic interpretation of this found poem successfully open a panel discussion about the Holocaust?
Check Your Understanding
Reread the diary entry again, highlighting words, phrases, and images you think are important. Then, transform the text into a found poem and plan a dramatic interpretation (i.e., oral reading) of the text. Present your oral reading to a partner, and listen and provide feedback to your partner’s oral reading.
Independent Reading Checkpoint
Respond to the first Reflection question in Embedded Assessment 1 as it relates to the independent reading narrative you have read: How was the theme or central idea of “finding light in the darkness” developed in the narrative you read independently?
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