PRE-Reading Activity: Students will go to the page and after locating the word, read in context.
POST-Reading Activity: Students must attempt to use the word in a sentence which they will later modify as needed after reading the word in context.
POST-Reading Activity: Students must attempt to use the word in a sentence which they will later modify as needed after reading the word in context.
Word and Definition:
Yids (25): A deragatory name for Jews. It is the word Yiddish, shortened. Yiddish is a a language used by Jews in central and eastern Europe before the Holocaust. It was originally a German dialect with words from Hebrew and several modern languages.
Sentence :
The German officers called the ___________ "Yids" to show how little they respected them as human beings. On page 25, you see the Jews _________________ when the officer ___________________________________________________________________________________________________ .
Yids is a derogatory name for a Jewish person often used in concentration camps to dehumanize the detainees.
Visual Cue: Any image related to the word that will remind you of the definition.