About this Assignment In Quarter 3, students study a unit called “Voices from the Past” that is centered on literature about the World War II era. For this creative writing assignment, students were first asked to read actual witness accounts from Ken Burns’ WWII documentary, The War, now made into a PBS Website. The witnesses recount their memories of all different facets of the WWII experience including soldiers in the field, women in the factories, and Japanese Americans forced into internment camps. After reading several of these accounts, the students were asked to choose one witness and use that story as a starting point for a historical fiction creative writing piece. The students tried to put themselves in their witness’s shoes, and using their witness’s perspective, students wrote a letter, poem, short story, or memoir trying to capture the feelings and thoughts of their chosen witness. We want to thank Ken Burns for the years of work spent developing the documentary The War, a collection of stories, pictures, and interviews from a generation of people who sacrificed much for their country. The witnesses’ stories have given Cabin John seventh graders a chance to understand what it meant to be part of “The Greatest Generation.” The Witnesses of WWII (Grade 7 - Spring 2011) Susan, a Red Cross Volunteer During WWII by Carolyn Ann Smith, a Red Cross Volunteer During WWII by Nankee A Japanese Family Who Lived When General MacArthur Occupies Their Country by Yasuo Growing A Victory Garden by Sarah Testing the First Atomic Bomb by Luiz Arguing the Merits of Roosevelt’s Lend-Lease Policy by Corinna The Witnesses of WWII (Grade 7 - Spring 2009) A Memoir from Topaz by Gailyn Series of Letters by Parsa A Marine’s Story by Donovan Excerpts from Katherine Phillips Diary by Aishvarya    My story of courage by Jordy    Aurora of Darkness by Adam Subscribe to CougarCast Click here for subscription directions. Thank you to Beth Richard, Media Specialist, for recording and editing student podcasts. Thank you to Hal Greenwald for creating and recording original music for CougarCast.
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