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Every year the 8th grade Reading department at the middle school where I teach does an 8-9 week unit over the Holocaust. Next school year I will be the leading 8th grade reading teacher. One of the lesson plans I intend on doing within the Holocaust Unit is a Holocaust Poetry Unit that will not only tie in with the main Holocaust unit, but will also be an extension of the poetry unit I also plan on doing prior to the Holocaust Unit. I briefly did this lesson plan with my 8th grade English class last year, but I brought the poems to them. Next year, I intend to have the students research/find their own poems to complete the assignment. With that in mind, I thought that doing this pathfinder assignment would be a perfect way for me to research and discover what kind of sites are available on the WWW for my students. I used Yahoo.com for my primary search engine mainly because I know that Yahoo is one the more popular sites that my students go to.  1. poetry **AND** Holocaust  2. ** “ ** Holocaust Poetry**”** (With quotation marks)  3. Holocaust Poetry  4. World War II Poetry  5. World War II AND Poetry  6. poems about the Holocaust  7. poems **AND** the Holocaust  8. poems **AND** Holocaust  9. poems **AND** World War II // From Yahoo.com // :  §  Poetry **AND** Holocaust: 1,620,000 hits  §  ** “ ** Holocaust Poetry**”:** 13.600 hits  §  Holocaust Poetry: 1,620,000 (same hits as Poetry and Holocaust)  §  World War II Poetry: 5,340,000 hits  §  World War II AND Poetry: 5,310, 000 hits  §  poems about the Holocaust: 745,000 hits  §  poems **AND** the Holocaust: 746,000 hits <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Wingdings; mso-fareast-font-family: Wingdings; mso-bidi-font-family: Wingdings;"> §  poems **AND** Holocaust: 738,000 hits <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Wingdings; mso-fareast-font-family: Wingdings; mso-bidi-font-family: Wingdings;"> §  poems **AND** World War II: 2,730,000 hits //__ YAHOO TOP 10 HITS and ANNOTATIONS USING POETRY AND HOLOCAUST: __// <span style="font-size: 8pt; color: windowtext; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';"> 1. [|**Poetry**] [| of the **Holocaust**] - cghs.dade.k12.fl.us/ib_**holocaust**2001/**...**/**poetry**_of_the_**holocaust**.htm <span style="font-size: 8pt; color: windowtext; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">This site did not offer any actual poetry. Instead it was a personal research review by several individuals about Holocaust Poetry. <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';"> 2. **__ Holocaust __**__ **Poetry**, Prayers, Lamentations.- __ www.kimel.net/**poetry**.html <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">This site offers personal poetry written by and only by Alexander Kimel a Holocaust Survivor. Although the poems are good and personal, this site does not offer a variety of choices. <span style="font-size: 8pt; color: windowtext; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';"> 3. [|Remember.org: A Cybrary of the **Holocaust**] - remember.org  <span style="font-size: 8pt; color: windowtext; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"> This site offers many different poems about the Holocaust, written by many different people. In addition, it offers information about Holocaust art, exhibits, etc. Also, this site offers a virtual tour of Auschwitz and Birkenau camps. <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';"> 4. [|Speech and Silence]  www.ushmm.org/museum/publicprograms/programs/**poetry**00 This site was created in association with the American Poets Society and offers various poems about the Holocaust being read aloud by the authors. <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';"> 5. [|Amazon.com: **Holocaust** **Poetry**: Books: Hilda Schiff] w ww.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0312143575?v=glance This site is selling a book called //Holocaust Poetry// by Hilda Schiff for about $10.00. <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';"> 6. [|Resources for the study of **Holocaust** literature] www.english.tamu.edu/pers/fac/myers/**holocaust**_pages.html This site offers various sources that can aid in a study about the Holocaust. It contains a chronology site, poetry, books, and other useful tools. <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';"> 7. [|Alibris Books: **Holocaust** **Poetry**] www.alibris.com/search/search.cfm?S=R&wtit=**Holocaust**+**Poetry**"&qsort=p  –  This is other site selling the book Holocaust Poetry by Hilda Schiff. <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';"> 8. [|**Holocaust**] [| **Poetry** **and** Art] - www.datasync.com/~davidg59/holo_art.html This site offers poetry from various different authors about the Holocaust. It also has a place where you can personally submit your own poetry about the Holocaust. <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';"> 9. [|**Holocaust**] [| **Poetry**] - history1900s.about.com/cs/**poetry** This is an About the Holocaust website. Surfers on this site can view many different resources about the Holocaust including many different poems by many different authors, a Holocaust timeline, art, photographs, a gallery about important people, etc. <span style="font-size: 8pt; color: windowtext; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';"> 10. [|Amazon.com: **Holocaust** Visions: Surrealism and Existentialism in the **Poetry** of Paul Celan (Studies in German] -w  ww.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/187975150X?v=glance      <span style="font-size: 8pt; color: windowtext; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">This site is selling the book  // Holocaust Visions: Surrealism and Existentialism in the Poetry of Paul Celan // by Clarise Samuels. According to the annotation on Amazon.com, this book is an interpretation of Paul Celan’s poetry about the Holocaust. <span style="font-size: 8pt; color: windowtext; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">   //__ Other excellent re sources (non-annotated): __// //__ YAHOO TOP TEN HITS USING “HOLOCAUST POETRY” __// <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';"> 1. [|**Holocaust Poetry**] - www.auschwitz.dk/id6.htm <span style="font-size: 8pt; color: windowtext; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';"> 2. [|Amazon.com: **Holocaust Poetry**: Books: Hilda Schiff] - www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0312143575?v=glanc <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';"> 3. [|**Holocaust Poetry**] [|, Prayers, Lamentations.] - www.kimel.net/**poetry**.html <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';"> 4. [|**Holocaust Poetry**] [| and Art] www.datasync.com/~davidg59/holo_art.html <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';"> 5. [|Introduction: Improving Student Comprehension of NIGHT through Poetry] cte.jhu.edu/techacademy/web/2000/baczkowski/intro.htm  - 12k – <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';"> 6. [|Poetry of the Holocaust] - cghs.dade.k12.fl.us/ib_**holocaust**2001/**...**/**poetry**_of_the_**holocaust**.htm <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';"> 7. [|**Holocaust Poetry**] - history1900s.about.com/cs/**poetry** <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';"> 8. [|**Holocaust Poetry**] [| by Lois Olena] - www.kimel.net/olena.html <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';"> 9. [|Amazon.com: The Last Lullaby : Poetry from the Holocaust: Books: Saul Lishinsky,Aaron Kramer]  www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/081560579X?v=glance <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';"> 10. [|Cary Nelson :: Syllabus: **Holocaust Poetry**] - www.cary-nelson.org/nelson/**holocaust**.html //__ YAHOO TOP TEN HITS USING __////__ poems AND World War II __// <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';"> 1. [|**World**] [| **War** **II** **Poems**: "My Beautiful Sister"] - www.khyghme.com <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';"> 2. [|**World**] [| **War** **II** tankbooks.com **poems** contents] - www.tankbooks.com/**poems**/**poems**.htm  – <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';"> 3. [|**World War II**] [| Oral History] - www.tankbooks.com www.themediadrome.com/content/articles/words_articles/**poems**_ww2.htm <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';"> 5. [|Amazon.com: Poets of **World** **War** **II** (American Poets Project): Books: Various,Harvey Shapiro] www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/1931082332?v=glance <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';"> 6. [|American Poets Project - Poets of **World** **War** **II**] - www.americanpoetsproject.org/volume/1931082332 <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';"> 7. [|**WORLD**] [| **WAR** **II**] - www.eagle.ca/~matink/themes/remember/WWII.html <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';"> 8. [|**World**] [| **War** **II** Prisoner of **War** Poetry] www.merkki.com/poetry.htm <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';"> 9. [|**World**] [| **War** **II**] - cal.jmu.edu/aleysb/wwii.htm <span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';"> 10. [|**World**] [| **War** **II** **Poems**: My Beautiful Sister] www.khyghme.com/html/mybeautifulsister.html  - 2k - [|Cached] - [|More from this site]  - [|Save]
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