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Dulce et Decorum Est
Dulce et Decorum Est
NOTES: Latin phrase is from the Roman poet Horace: “It is sweet and fitting to die for one’s country.”
Source: Poems (Viking Press, 1921)
Todesfuge (Death Fuge)
Todesfuge (Death Fuge)
Black milk of dawn we drink it at dusk
we drink it at noon and at daybreak we drink it at night
we drink and we drink
we are digging a grave in the air there’s room for us all
A man lives in the house he plays with the serpents he writes
he writes when it darkens to Germany your golden hair Margarete
he writes it and steps outside and the stars all agisten he whistles for his hounds
he whistles for his Jews he has them dig a grave in the earth
he commands us to play for the dance
Black milk of dawn we drink you at night
we drink you at daybreak and noon we drink you at dusk
we drink and we drink
A man lives in the house he plays with the serpents he writes
he writes when it darkens to Germany your golden hair Margarete
Your ashen hair Shulamite we are digging a grave in the air there’s room for us all
He shouts cut deeper in the earth to some the rest of you sing and play
he reaches for the iron in his belt he heaves it his eyes are blue
make your spades cut deeper the rest of you play for the dance
Black milk of dawn we drink you at night
we drink you at noon and at daybreak we drink you at dusk
we drink and we drink
a man lives in the house your golden hair Margarete
your ashen hair Shulamite he plays with the serpents
He shouts play death more sweetly death is a master from Germany
he shouts play the violins darker you’ll rise as smoke in the air
then you’ll have a grave in the clouds there’s room for you all
Black milk of dawn we drink you at night
we drink you at noon death is a master from Germany
we drink you at dusk and at daybreak we drink and we drink you
death is a master from Germany his eye is blue
he shoots you with bullets of lead his aim is true
a man lives in the house your golden hair Margarete
he sets his hounds on us he gives us a grave in the air
he plays with the serpents and dreams death is a master from Germany
your golden hair Margarete
your ashen hair Shulamite
anselm kiefer's “your golden hair, margarete”
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The Cage
Critical Questions and Reflections on the Cage.
Guidelines:
- Please include email a short book review after you are finished reading the book
- You may choose one or several questions to answer in a media format.
- Preference is for formal paragraphs or academic essay format.
- Please email Ms. Ruck for alternative format proposals.
1. Discuss the importance of community in Lods, Poland, and what community meant for Riva and her family.
2. Discuss the purpose of the ghettos established by the Third Reich and the conditions suffered by Jews in the ghettos. How does Riva’s narrative help to inform the reader about these ghettos?
3. Examine how Rita was treated in comparison to others and conclude why she was given second chances on many occasions. Discuss how this impacted her emotionally.
4.Analyze the significance of the statement that the bombs were “music”.
5. Examine the role that writing had in Riva’s life.
6. Discuss the types of punishment used in concentration and labour camps during the Holocaust and determine the purpose of the punishment. Analyze whether the punishment fits the “crime”.
7. Examine the meaning of the statement “if we forget the past, it could happen again”.
8. Discuss Sender’s use of foreshadowing and other literary devices in the Cage.
As long as there is life, there is hope
After Mama is taken away by the Nazis, Riva and her younger brothers cling to their mother’s brave words to help them endure life in the Lodz ghetto. Then the family is rounded up, deported to Auschwitz, and separated. Now Riva is alone.
At Auschwitz, and later in the work camps at Mittlesteine and Grafenort, Riva vows to live, and to hope – for Mama, for her brothers, for the millions of other victims of the nightmare of the Holocaust. And through determination and courage, and unexpected small acts of kindness, she does live – to write the unforgettable memoir that is a testament to the strength of the human spirit.
Track Changes: PAR-HEAP
Found: Issues
In writing The Most Important Issue the Government Faces Today, we have
Found: Issues
Cameron H. – We Aren’t Learning
Micheal – Canadian History Timeline
HUM 7 INSTRUCTIONS: Monday Oct 20th
INSTRUCTIONS: Monday Oct 20th
Humanities 7 – Building a Canadian History Timeline
Chapter 2: NEW FRANCE
Step 1:Make a new timeline
Step 2: Rename & Save link (copy file to your Google Drive). Email pruck@newhorizons.ab.ca the link to your timeline AND share your spreadsheet.
Step 3: Update template. Add the following with dates & pictures:
a) Your choice – add something to do with Canada’s first people. You may choose Mi’kmaq myths or seasonal cycle (like the picture on page 14), something from your presentation, a picture or a you tube video. I always like quotes or stories. Cite your source. Page 5 of Voices and Visions has some good ones to use.
b) Your Diary entry of someone coming to Canada on one of Cartier’s voyages (make sure you include the dates of Cartier’s voyages). Include a map or picture of Cartier. Or a youtube video of an old sailor’s sea shanty!
c) Champlain’s letter to the King
d) Couriers du Bois: Note the dates of the Etienne Brule and Savignon exchange and 2-3 sentences about this, or the explorations of Pierre Radisson and Sier des Grosillers (pp 42-43)
e) Your Senior interview (Choose approximate date range of their life)
f) New entry for your colonist paragraph / work on colonist paragraph from worksheet exchange groups. Check text & online for more info.
g) An aerial photo or other photo(s) of the Seigneurial system, and a short summary of how it came to exist. Use pp49-50 in your textbook for info, plus searching.
Email pruck@newhorizons.ab.ca the link to your timeline AND share your spreadsheet.