Curriculum

Belonging curriculum for secondary schools

Welcome to the University of Dallas' UD Reads.  This curriculum has been written by Erin Begle, an English IV teacher at Coppell High School Ninth Grade Center in Coppell, TX and a UD graduate.  Erin and  Education professor Dr. Carmen Newstreet have collaborated to offer a variety of resources that are sure to enhance your students' experience and reading of Nora Krug's Belonging. 

Essential Questions: 

1. What is our responsibility to remember?
2. Can guilt be inherited?
3. What is the relationship between images and text?

Standards associated with the following Resources TEKS (World History, US Government, US History, English I-V)

Activities

• Art Lesson Plan - Collage Project- Claire Schwartz
• Genealogy Project (most beneficial at the middle or end of reading) - student construct personal family trees
• Warm Up/ Exit Ticket Examples- Focusing on EQs and Denotation, Context Clues,  Author’s Purpose, Text Structure
• Book Club/Literature Circles Resources (If reading predominantly during class time)
  • Vocabulary Virtuoso
  • Literary Luminary
  • Discussion Leader
  • Character Correspondent
  • Capable Connector
  • Reading Schedule Example (if using multiple books)
• Socratic Seminar/ Discussion Questions (1 Day Seminar, when reading is complete)
• Author Discussions with Year One College Students at Appalachian State University
• Commonlit “Nazi Summer Camp”- The German POW experience in the US
• The Wanderer Above the Sea of Fog and related artwork Consider the related art

Final Project Idea

• Multigenre Project / Presentation of Book Club

Field Trip Possibilities

• Dallas Holocaust Museum
• National World War II Museum - New Orleans, LA
• Dallas Museum of Art
• Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth
• Amon Carter Museum of American Art
• Virtual Tour of Auschwitz Concentration Camp
• US Holocaust Museum - Washington, D.C.

Free Online Resources

• Belonging Official Publisher Page (Simon & Schuster)
• Nora Krug with Appalachian State University students- lectures and panel discussions about Belonging
• Nora Krug’s Website- interview of the author and time lapse of the creation of a page

All materials created for this project are licensed under a  Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License.  Materials can be used freely to support the curriculum related to UD Reads through the University of Dallas.  Questions regarding content and use should be directed to Erin Begle (English) or Claire Schwartz (Art).