1. Warm Up & Reminders:
Go here and vote!
You’ll be having your FIDDS & Shared Inquiry quiz in five minutes. Look over the annotation guide.

2. “Auschwitz Shifts From Memorializing to Teaching”
By Michael Kimmelman of The NY Times

3. NY Times: First Reading*
Use a star for significant information, devices, and strategies you notice. !
Use an exclamation point to indicate what you feel strongly about in the article. ?
Use a question mark next for parts that are confusing or next to any information that you’d like to explore further.

4. NY Times: Second Reading
THESIS Statement E
EVIDENCE to support the thesis statement D
Mark DEVELOPMENT of ideas (expanding on the evidence)

5. Philosophical Chairs: Round Two
The NY Times article implies that your generation, Generation Z (New Millennials), ought to be taught differently than the ones that came before because they need to be guided to feel “responsibility to the present.” Is that true?
Choose where you will sit based on your position:
Our generation is fundamentally different than other generations
Our generation is not that different from other generations

6. Comparing text with a partner
The Book Thief tells the story of the Holocaust in a very different way than the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum, but both seek to engage and educate young people.
How do you think the story of the Holocaust should be told to people your age?
How should it not be told? Why?
FIND EVIDENCE FROM THE SELECTIONS TO SUPPORT YOUR ANSWER. Be prepared to share.

7. Time to Revisit REVISING
Today, we read a persuasive piece, wrote from a particular point of view and supported our thoughts, and we debated.
Let’s look back at our Hero Expository Essay Prompt:
Define the characteristics of what makes a hero.
Consider how you would approach the prompt if it asked you to take a particular position:
Write an essay stating your position on whether helping others is the most important characteristic of being a hero.
Write a THESIS statement for this essay prompt and ONE BODY PARAGRAPH.