We Survived the Holocaust Teacher's Guide

This comprehensive teacher's guide accompanies the graphic novel We Survived the Holocaust: The Bluma and Felix Goldberg Story. It provides educators with lesson plans, vocabulary lists, discussion questions, and strategies to effectively teach about the Holocaust through the personal narratives of Bluma and Felix Goldberg.

About the Author :
Hannah Baker, retired educator, began teaching in 1974 at Springdale Elementary in West Columbia, SC where she taught Kindergarten, First Grade, and Second Grade. In 1983, as a member of the first Midlands Writing Project she received training from the National Writing Project.Hannah worked with other members of the South Carolina Writing Project and the South Carolina legislature in 1988 to establish the Writing Improvement Network (WIN). WIN, housed at the University of South Carolina as a part of the Center for Educational Partnerships, assists districts, schools, and teachers across the state with professional development in all grades with English Language Art, addressing the rigor and intent of state standards, the use of ELA strategies across the content literacies, and to prepare students for all state testing.Hannah left the classroom to work with WIN as a teacher-in-residence in 1990, was promoted to the position of Director of WIN in 1994, and retired in 2021. In addition to providing professional development to schools across the state, Hannah conducted workshops at local, state, and national level conferences.Retirement has not slowed down her professional work -- she continues to serve on the WIN Advisory Committee, develops micro-credentials in the area of writing instruction for the University of South Carolina, and writes teacher guides to accompany the EdOutreach performances of Columbia City Ballet.Hannah has two children, two grandchildren, and one large goofy furbaby. When not pursuing writing tasks, she loves to read, pretends to cook, and continues her hobby as a storyteller. Frank W. Baker has worked in television news, public education and public television. In 2019, Frank was recognized by UNESCO with its GAPMIL (Global Alliance Partnership for Media & Information Literacy) honor. In 1998 he founded the Media Literacy Clearinghouse website and began work helping teachers and students better understand how to think critically about the media. His first book, Coming Distractions: Questioning Movies, was published by Capstone Press. His second book, Political Campaigns & Political Advertising: A Media Literacy Guide was published by Greenwood Press. His third book, Media Literacy in The K-12 Classroom was published by ISTE (2012). In 2017, Routledge published Baker's Close Reading the Media: Literacy Lessons and Activities for Every Month of the Year. www.frankwbaker.com Tim E. Ogline is a Greater Philadelphia based writer and illustrator as well as design professional. Ogline is an alumnus of Temple University's Tyler School of Art and has previously taught there as well as at Moore College of Art & Design. Ogline also holds an MBA from Temple University's Fox School of Business. Ogline's illustrations have appeared in The Wall Street Journal, Institutional Investor, The Philadelphia Inquirer, the Utne Reader, Outdoor Life, Philadelphia Style, Loyola Lawyer, How Magazine, and Mensa Bulletin among others. Ogline's first book Ben Franklin For Beginners has been called "beguiling" by Pulitzer-Prize winner Joseph J. Ellis and "nothing short of totally brilliant" by Geekadelphia. www.timogline.com