Night/Sadako/White Light Black Rain #1

Background Information.
STARTING WITH THE BASIC FACTS

1) On what day was the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima?
2) How powerful was the atomic bomb?
3) What was the second city that was struck after Hiroshima three days later?
4) What type of plane dropped the atomic bomb?
5) What was the name of the B-29 bomber?
6) What was the name of the pilot who flew the Enola Gay?
7) What did they have to do to the Enola Gay to prepare for the atomic bomb?
8) What was the goal of the two bombers that accompanied the Enola Gay on the Hiroshima mission?
9) What was the nickname of the ten-foot atomic bomb?
10) What was the project called that designed the atomic bomb?
11) What was the name of the Enola Gay’s weaponeer? (Parsons)
12) What was Parson’s attitude when he prepared the bomb to be dropped?
13) How was “Little Boy” created? Using which element?
14) How much did research on an atomic bomb cost?
15) Why did the Target Committee want the bomb to be “sufficiently spectacular?”
16) What time was the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima the morning of August 6, 1945?
17) What was the intended target of the atomic bomb? (Aioi Bridge) Where did the bomb actually land?
18) What did the pilots see as they looked back at the bombing site?
19) What were some of the other effects of the bomb?
20) How many people were killed from the bombing?
21) How did a survivor describe the damage to people after the explosion?

Activities

Focus Activity Ideas.
Schindler’s List CD#1 during walk-in

1) Prepare students for Creative Writing Free Write: Students will write a first person narrative. Use “I”! The scene/story you will write is completely up to your own imagination. There is no right or wrong, but you WILL be asked to share and read your piece aloud at the conclusion of the activity. Go wherever the music takes you!!! Free yourself!! Your scene should be descriptive enough to make your audience, see, hear, feel, smell, taste whatever it is you are describing. Your scene should/may have a beginning, a middle and an end. You might be confronted with a conflict and try to resolve that conflict…or it might be purely descriptive…YOU DECIDE!! LET’S BEGIN!! (3 minutes)

2) Schindler’s List Track #2: Play music while students free write their stories (3 minutes)

3) Revision of Story #1: (2 minutes)

4) Creative Story Read Aloud: Choose 3 people (5 minutes)

Main Lesson Activity Ideas.
Activity #1
1) Creative Free Write #2: Schindler’s List #3 (3 minutes)

2) Revision of Story #2: (2 minutes)

3) Read Aloud: Choose three people (5 minutes)

Activity #2: (Put Quiz at the top of the page)
1) Creative Writing Quiz on Sadako and The Thousand Cranes

2) New Sheet of paper: Name Only!

3) You must choose a character: Sadako, Mom or Dad (Sasaki), or best friend (Chizuko) Masahiro (big brother), Eiji (little brother), Mitsui (little sister)

4) During the music, write a first person narrative that has to do with any scene in the book: Beginning, Middle, End, or a reflection after the book has ended from a character that has remained alive or Sadako from the afterlife. Anything is ok, as long as you prove to have knowledge of the content of the book. (2 minutes)

5) Schindler’s List #4: (3 minutes)

6) Revision (2 minutes)

7) Read Aloud

**HOMEWORK: Choose either Story #1 or Story #2 and develop it so that it is between 2-3 pages typed and double-spaced. You will hand it in tomorrow!

Hand in quizzes on your way out!

Summative Activity Ideas.
1) Listening Comprehension: Hiroshima: The Basic Facts

2) Students Prepare L.C. (NYS Regents TASK #1)

3) Read article

4) Students take notes

5) Follow-up questions