Maus - My Father Bleeds History
By Art Spiegelman
Middle School Students will enjoy this graphic novel and learn a lot about the Holocaust while reading it. The novel is written about Art's father, a Polish Jew and Holocaust Survivor. It details his life, his struggles and his experiences. Jews are depicted as mice in the novel, Germans are depicted as cats and the Poles are pigs.
Post/Pre-Reading Activities:
- Click this YouTube movie and watch it - Students can write a short summary about what you learned.
- Holocaust Unit Research Paper Directions: Holocaust Research Paper
- Stop the Hate Essay - Submitting to the contest is optional.
- Local Connection: Schools near Beachwood, Ohio can visit the Maltz Museum of Jewish Heritage and schedule a Holocaust Survivor Talk.
- Stop the Hate Project - Create an event about how you can Stop the Hate in your community. Creativity & Innovation Project Rubric for PBL
- Creating a Found Poem on a Survivor - Length of poem should be at least 15 lines.
- Diary from the Łódź Ghetto
- Jewish Map of Ghettos in Eastern Europe
- Image of the Boy in the Warsaw Ghetto
- Click on the links above - Read the Diary entries and view the images. Reflect. How did people live/survive in the Ghetto?
