The Author's Guide to Surviving Hitler
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Andrea Warren shares with readers how she wrote her award-winning book, Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps, and how the book aligns with the Common Core State Standards for critical thinking, reading, speaking, and writing. She includes information not found in the book as to how she conducted research; interviewed her central character, Holocaust survivor Jack Mandelbaum; selected the photos for the book; structured the book, and created the story's narrative voice. This guide includes suggested exercises and reflective questions.
Andrea Warren
Andrea Warren says, "I'm always looking behind facts and dates in search of how extraordinary times impact ordinary people. I think the most engaging way to study history is by seeing it through the eyes of participants. Each of us wants to know, If that had been me at that time, in that place, what would I have done? What would have happened to me?" Among Warren's honors are the prestigious Boston Globe-Horn Book Award for Orphan Train Rider: One Boy's True Story, which was also selected as an ALA Notable Book. She won the Midland Authors Award for Pioneer Girl. Growing Up on the Prairie. A former teacher and journalist, Warren writes from her home in the Kansas City suburb of Prairie Village, Kansas.
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The Author's Guide to Surviving Hitler - Andrea Warren
The Author's Guide to
Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps
and Its Alignment with the Common Core State Standards
By
Andrea Warren
Copyright © 2013 Andrea Warren
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Andrea@AndreaWarren.com
ISBN 13 978-1311658166
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A Word from Andrea Warren
When I was a middle and high school English teacher, I struggled to find nonfiction books my students would enjoy. As an author, my goal is to write books that young readers embrace, history lesson and all, regardless of the subject matter.
Because I wrote Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps before the development of the Common Core State Standards, I was not trying to craft a story that met them. And yet this and all my other books do. I think there is much of value in the Standards. I appreciate that students will be taking a hard look at how my books are constructed, whether I have a specific point of view toward my subject matter, and how the approaches taken by other writers to the same subject matter compare to mine.
I've seen various study guides written by others to help you teach my books. The problem is, the creators of those guides had no knowledge of the choices I made, how I conducted research, why I picked a certain photo to be in a book, or how I selected and interviewed the people in my books.
So I'm writing the guides for my books. This one, on Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps, lays out for you what I did, why I did it, how my book meets the Common Core State Standards, and suggested exercises. I hope you'll find it valuable.
All best to you and your students,
Andrea Warren
Andrea@AndreaWarren.com
Why I Wrote about the Holocaust
The Holocaust wasn't a subject I had wanted to write about. I didn't read Anne Frank until high school and my American history textbook offered up only a paragraph about Hitler's Final Solution. Next to it was a horrifying photo of emaciated survivors that made me look away.
Today I have Jewish friends who talk about growing up under the black cloud of the Holocaust, hearing the stories of the camps and of extended family members lost to Hitler's madness. But in my little Nebraska hometown, there were no Jews and my friends and I were blissfully ignorant of all this.
My father, a World War II Navy veteran who served in the South Pacific, rarely talked about the war. My mother spoke only of troop trains and of moving from place to place while my father was in training. Her stories were lighthearted. Not long ago I asked her why she had never mentioned the Nazis or the Holocaust when the subject of World War II came up. She was thoughtful in her response. She said she and my father, and my friends' mothers and fathers, had experienced the deprivation of the Great Depression and knew all about the horrors of World War II. But we just wanted to forget. We thought it could never happen again and we didn't want to burden our children with it. You were born after the war and you were our hope for the future. You were our fresh start.
We know now that there is no fresh start. We are never free of the past. It shapes each of us just as surely as it shapes society. Genocide continues in our world today in part because we have not learned the lessons that history has to teach us. The past is prologue.
Which still didn't mean I wanted to write about the Holocaust. That came about in part because of Sam Sander. The spring of 1999 I was a guest at a luncheon to thank community members who had been convocation speakers in Kansas City's Shawnee Mission School District, where I live. Our nametags listed our speaking