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how Pinteresting
Working on a semester end project for Socials? Ms. Penner has just pinned a handful of Socials related resources!
MEI Secondary Library is on Pinterest … connecting you with things we love and resources you’ll find useful.
A new year = a new look + new web resources
We’re now on PINTEREST … MEI Secondary Library is connecting you with things we love and resources you’ll find useful.
would you dare?
The Newbery Honor author, SUSAN CAMPBELL BARTOLETTI, brings us a compelling page-turner. “Just as the Nazis are rising to power, Helmuth Hübener, a German schoolboy, is caught up in all the swashbuckling bravado of his time. The handsome storm trooper uniforms, the shiny jackboots and armbands, the rousing patriotism — all serve to draw him into this bright new world full of promise and hope. In the beginning, Helmuth’s patriotism is unwavering. But every day the rights of people all over Germany are diminishing. Jews are threatened and their businesses are being destroyed, the truth has been censored, and danger lurks everywhere. Anybody can turn on you. The world has turned upside down: Patriotism means denouncing others, love means to hate, and speaking out means treason. Silence becomes everyone’s guilty secret. How much longer can Helmuth keep silent? Now Helmuth sits in a German prison, awaiting his precarious fate. Told in flashback with breathtaking suspense, this homage to an extraordinary real-life hero magnificently explores one person’s responsibility to humanity, freedom, and truth.” {amazon.ca}
where in the world
do you remember me
“. . . do you remember me
You put me on a boat across the sea, in the name of victory
But much to my surprised when I arrived, there was no welcoming committee
Instead there was a man for me to kill, and now I see all this too real
Then I saw him standing with a bayonet
and as I ran towards him he hardly broke a sweat
When I took his life he fell to his knees
And as his eyes began to fade he whispered softly
Godspeed this letter, away from here
I’ve sealed it with my tears, and stamped it with my fists
And godspeed this letter, away from you
My work down here is through
I’m on my way to better days
And so are you
I’m in his pocket that I saw the picture of his children and his family
And I began to realize this person I despised, in actuality
Was not much different from myself
we porbably could have taught each other many things
And now I know its much too late although I couldn’t hesistate
I checked his gun, and his chamber was empty
Then I saw him standing with a bayonet
and as I ran towards him he hardly broke a sweat
When I took his life he fell to his knees
And as his eyes began to fade he whispered softly
Godspeed this letter, away from here
I’ve sealed it with my tears, and stamped it with my fists
And godspeed this letter, away from you
My work down here is through
I’m on my way to better days
And so are you”
— Godspeed by The Red Jumpsuit Apparatus
social issues
what happened? when? why?
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