For the month of April, CCJH literature classes focused on Holocaust Remembrance and education.
Sixth graders read Number the Stars, a novel by Lowis Lowry, which is a fictional account of a family’s escape from Denmark in 1943. The seventh grade class read Surviving the Angel of Death by Eva Mozes Kor. Eighth graders read selections from the Diary of Anne Frank which is in their literature book in a play format.
There were two field trips associated with this unit. CCJH eighth graders attended The Story of Anne Frank at Cedarhurst in Mt. Vernon on April 14, along with students from Robinson, South Central, and Fairfield. It provided a different perspective than the diary alone. The two man show has travelled from Virginia up and down the Eastern seaboard, through Georgia, and into Missouri, Illinois and Indiana. The theme is tolerance and remembrance. After the play, students participated in an outdoor scavenger hunt of sculptures and ate at Culvers in Mt. Vernon.
On April 22, the entire junior high visited the Candles Museum in Terre Haute. Candles was founded by Holocaust survivor Eva Mozes Kor and is the only Holocaust museum in Indiana. It is dedicated to the twins who underwent medical experimentation under the direction of Dr. Joseph Mengele, just like Eva and her twin Miriam. Sixth grader Josie H. stated, “the computer generated hologram of Eva was very cool” and “I also really liked seeing some artifacts.” Some of those artifacts were accompanied by recordings of Eva’s voice explaining the timeline of events. Fellow sixth grader Delaney M. said she felt the museum was “very interesting and realistic”.
The literature classes are thankful for the Title Grant and those who help organize all these trips from transportation to office staff.
CCJH sixth grade students attended the Evansville Otter's opening game on April 29 at Bosse Field. The field trip was the final piece of a project students worked on earlier in the year. The class read Memories of an All-American Girl in their anthologies and watched the film A League of Their Own. The movie was partially filmed on site at Bosse Field in Evansville where the Racine Belles played. In the mid 1940s, professional softball rose to fill the spot left when GI's left for the war. America's women's leagues continued to provide leisure and entertainment throughout WWII and into the 1950's. Thank you to the Clay City PTA and district for providing the funding.
