TPT/ Holocaust Short Story | "The Shawl" by Cynthia Ozick | Holocaust Fiction
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Looking for a powerful addition to your unit on the Holocaust or genocide?
“The Shawl” by Cynthia Ozick is sparse, memorable, and beautifully written. While the story itself is very short, your students will be both frustrated and inspired by the challenging text.
This story pairs well with Night by Elie Wiesel, 1984 by George Orwell, Animal Farm by George Orwell, “The Lottery” by Shirley Jackson, or any other text that deals with themes of war, oppression, trauma, or death.
When you teach this powerful short story with this resource you will:
• quickly and easily engage your students with the freewrite and creative writing prompts
• strengthen your students’ close reading skills by giving them the scaffolding they need to unpack the text
• extend your classes’ understanding of the text with the suggestions for interactive notebook activities
• help your students to better understand the horrific experience of the Holocaust by analyzing and discussing this moving story
• create an eye-opening experience that your students won’t soon forget
Essential Questions
How does an author convey an event as horrific as the Holocaust to a reader?
How are typical roles of children and adults within a family changed by traumatic experiences?
How do people distance themselves from reality as a way of coping with trauma?
What is it like to experience extreme hunger?
How does figurative language help to explain the unexplainable?
The text of the story itself is not included because of copyright.
“The Shawl” by Cynthia Ozick is sparse, memorable, and beautifully written. While the story itself is very short, your students will be both frustrated and inspired by the challenging text.
This story pairs well with Night by Elie Wiesel, 1984 by George Orwell, Animal Farm by George Orwell, “The Lottery” by Shirley Jackson, or any other text that deals with themes of war, oppression, trauma, or death.
When you teach this powerful short story with this resource you will:
• quickly and easily engage your students with the freewrite and creative writing prompts
• strengthen your students’ close reading skills by giving them the scaffolding they need to unpack the text
• extend your classes’ understanding of the text with the suggestions for interactive notebook activities
• help your students to better understand the horrific experience of the Holocaust by analyzing and discussing this moving story
• create an eye-opening experience that your students won’t soon forget
Essential Questions
How does an author convey an event as horrific as the Holocaust to a reader?
How are typical roles of children and adults within a family changed by traumatic experiences?
How do people distance themselves from reality as a way of coping with trauma?
What is it like to experience extreme hunger?
How does figurative language help to explain the unexplainable?
The text of the story itself is not included because of copyright.
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