Rose Blanche

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What would you have done if you were Rose? (It is important to stress that pupils should be honest about their answers. It is easy to give the answer that they think the teacher wants to hear). Definitely would recommend this one to everyone. However, maybe not the youngest children, I think this may fit older kids better. Fat Mayor; I am a very important person. The people in the town really look up to me. I made a great speech. Our German soldiers will easily beat the Russians. Long live Adolf Hitler!

A child goes out of their depth in a pond or river, crying for help. No one else is around except you.Blue, Martine (Jul 3, 2018). "Ferry frustration for LaPoile residents". The Telegram . Retrieved Nov 15, 2020. Nodelman, Perry. Words about Pictures: The Narrative Art of Children’s Picture Books. The University of Georgia Press. 1988.

Lastly, give out Information sheet N (see attached file below) in the folder and read through the case studies of German rescuers. Hold a discussion about how likely Rose's behaviour was in the light of the stories. This activity is intended to get pupils thinking about the moral dilemmas facing human beings when witnessing someone in trouble. In Holocaust Education, people alive at that time and in the midst of anti-semitic persecution are normally categorised in four ways: I always have an interest in WWII and so when I spotted this book on a list with books that were often challenged/banned I knew I had to try it out. I wanted to meet Rose Blanche, find out about the secret, and see how she would react to it. And of course see why people were banning/challenging it. The illustrations in this book are very powerful and full of color and meaning. The book does not inform the reader about the illustrations use of medium or technique, although most of the pictures look hand drawn and could have been used with colored pencil or acrylics. The artist clearly utilizes the concept of line in almost all of his drawings. In one picture, the girl is crossing a bridge with water underneath her (in which she refers to as a mirror). He grasps this concept by placing a white line across the upper third of the picture to represent where the water starts and how the picture is then a mirror image. The artist also draws the reader’s attention to a particular area by placing the lines or shapes in that direction. Historical research has shown that these categories are not so clear cut as they may appear to be at first sight, for example, individuals were capable of shifting from one category to another over time, just as Rose Blanche does in the story. The little girl arguably moves from being a bystander, where she witnesses an act of persecution - (the little boy escaping from the lorry) towards being a rescuer (she secretly feeds concentration camp victims at grave risk to herself).Rose's mother; Where is Rose? Where is my daughter? Is she dead? I can't leave without her. What has happened? whether they can link an event on the timeline to the picture or not (pupils can place pictures onto that part of the timeline)