A Night Divided handler om situationen for den 12-årige Gerta, som er adskilt fra halvdelen af sin familie i 1965 på grund af Berlinmuren. Det er en tempofyldt, spændende roman, der vil holde eleverne på kanten af sædet, mens de får en dybere forståelse af den kolde krig og en større empati for dem, der gennemlevede den på alle sider.
Der er mange ordforrådsbetegnelser og hentydninger til stede i romanen A Night Divided, der vil være nyttigt for studerende at få vist. Disse vil hjælpe med den overordnede forståelse af bogen og en forståelse af tidsperioden. Dette storyboard indeholder nøgleord sammen med definitioner og illustrationer.
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THE BERLIN WALL
THE COLD WAR
The Berlin Wall was built as a barrier to separate East and West Berlin. At first it was a barbed wire fence erected August 12-13, 1961. It was later built into a solid wall 12 feet high and 4 feet wide guarded by the "Grenzers."
The Cold War was a long period of tension after World War II between the democratic governments of Western countries and the communist governments of Eastern countries. the two main "superpowers" the U.S. and the USSR (Russia) lead the conflict. In Germany, the East was controlled by the USSR and the West by the U.S., Great Britain, and France.
STASI
"If I cannot speak what I think, then it's a crime just to be me!"
A NIGHT DIVIDEDTerms and Allusions
GRENZERS (GRENZTRUPPEN)
The Stasi, or the "Ministry for State Security", was the official state security service of the German Democratic Republic (East Germany, GDR). It was an intelligence and secret police agency that was extremely repressive to its citizens.
Grenztruppen, nicknamed Grenzers, were the border police that stood guard along the Berlin Wall.