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the_fabric_of_words's review
5.0
This book is great for teaching empathy vs. sympathy in 8th grade.
On August 6, 2018, seventy-three years ago, the U.S. dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima. Three days later, on August 9, 1945, a second bomb destroyed the Japanese city of Nagasaki.
Empathy and sympathy are not mentioned in the CC standards, but I took as many opportunities as I could to teach students the difference between the two. Sympathy comes from understanding another's plight or suffering; empathy is when we share in their feelings because those feelings are rooted in our own experiences of the same.
As I've mentioned before, students today have had very few experiences with war on a national, or world-wide, scale. I used this picture book to teach CC Standards in Social Studies for 8th grade, 1SS.C8.PO6, and helping students understand what happened to Japan's population after the US dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima.
As an anticipatory set, I asked students to listen and then write about the feelings and images this piece of music, Threnody to the Victims of Hiroshima, invoked in them as they listened.
Then, they watched an awesome book reading and interview with survivor, illustrator and author Junko Morimoto, by the Australian Red Cross. I bought class copies of the books, and students followed along.
Students then paired reading documents and discussion with a lesson in which students considered both viewpoints - US and Japanese - through graphic organizers and supplemental readings. A Google search will reveal many such lessons available online, so choose the one that works best for your students and classroom.
The music set the tone, and Morimoto's book helped students to build vital background knowledge to be able to read and understand other, short, selected passages about the bombing of Hiroshima.
For the links and teaching materials mentioned in this review, visit my blog: https://amb.mystrikingly.com/blog/teaching-empathy-vs-sympathy
On August 6, 2018, seventy-three years ago, the U.S. dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima. Three days later, on August 9, 1945, a second bomb destroyed the Japanese city of Nagasaki.
Empathy and sympathy are not mentioned in the CC standards, but I took as many opportunities as I could to teach students the difference between the two. Sympathy comes from understanding another's plight or suffering; empathy is when we share in their feelings because those feelings are rooted in our own experiences of the same.
As I've mentioned before, students today have had very few experiences with war on a national, or world-wide, scale. I used this picture book to teach CC Standards in Social Studies for 8th grade, 1SS.C8.PO6, and helping students understand what happened to Japan's population after the US dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima.
As an anticipatory set, I asked students to listen and then write about the feelings and images this piece of music, Threnody to the Victims of Hiroshima, invoked in them as they listened.
Then, they watched an awesome book reading and interview with survivor, illustrator and author Junko Morimoto, by the Australian Red Cross. I bought class copies of the books, and students followed along.
Students then paired reading documents and discussion with a lesson in which students considered both viewpoints - US and Japanese - through graphic organizers and supplemental readings. A Google search will reveal many such lessons available online, so choose the one that works best for your students and classroom.
The music set the tone, and Morimoto's book helped students to build vital background knowledge to be able to read and understand other, short, selected passages about the bombing of Hiroshima.
For the links and teaching materials mentioned in this review, visit my blog: https://amb.mystrikingly.com/blog/teaching-empathy-vs-sympathy
val_halla's review
3.0
Nothing here that is unique to the genre of Hiroshima literature, though it is more age-appropriate than some other books (i.e. Hiroshima no Pika).
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