Historical Framing
Remember that when you are discussing the two different topics, they need to remember that what happens in freedom writers is not the same as what you would read in Anne Frank’s diary. The diaries are just a reflection of their feelings when they were reading about it at the moment. Anne Frank was a young Jewish girl who was hiding with her family during Nazi rule in Europe. She wrote during her time of hiding where she and her family placed possible death while hiding from antisemitic persecution. The Holocaust was specific historical genocide.10
In today’s world, our students face what I guess you could call the same “verbiage”, but the extent is quite different. Today our students face racism on a daily basis, neighborhood violence, poverty, challenges within their own families, and social differences. The point is that we want the students to be able to recognize what other people are going through, or have gone through, to be able to create a connection.
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