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FROM THE HISTORY CHANNEL: || //**No Place on Earth: **//** Special offer for teachers and students **

 Sliding through a muddy hole in the ground, five Jewish families escaped into a pitch-black world to hide from the Nazis in 1942. With courage and ingenuity, these 38 men, women and children were determined to keep their families alive and avoid capture in southwestern Ukraine, a region where less than 5 percent of all Jews survived and virtually no families made it out of the Holocaust alive. They endured by creating an underground world of their own.

 **//No Place on Earth //** tells this incredible story of resilience, a story that was uncovered decades after World War II by intrepid American cave explorer Chris Nicola. After stumbling across decaying everyday objects in a Ukrainian cave, Nicola pieced together the remarkable story of these families. In **//No Place on Earth //**, many of these survivors tell their astonishing story for the first time on film. This film, directed by Janet Tobias, offers a gripping educational platform for young people to learn about the strategies of survival these families used, the unique physical and political adversities they faced, and the power of personal testimony in exploring the past.

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 Visit the USC Shoah Foundation IWitness site, which offers outstanding resources for teachers and students, including a special Information Quest developed to complement No Place on Earth.

 **Note: The film opened in theaters in select cities on April 5; HISTORY will air the film later in 2013, date TBD. (We will include air dates in this email newsletter once they are announced.) **

 **Educators: ** If you're interested in bringing a student group to the theater at discounted rates, please email Neal Block at Magnolia Pictures (nblock@magpictures.com) for more information. Groups must be 12 or more, and payment must be made for these ticket buys in advance. View showtimes and locations.

 If you would like to have a screening of the film in your classroom, please contact Swank Motion Pictures at 800-876-5577. Classroom screenings will be available after June 1. Until then, the only way to see the film will be in theaters.

 Watch the trailer and learn more about the film.

|| NEWSPAPER IN THE CLASSROOM

. If you plan to use the newspaper in your classroom (beyond just passing it out—though we certainly appreciate that too), please let me know (we’re trying to keep track). **Please let me know if you’d like Chat Challenge to come to your 4th period class (__the winner will be rewarded__).** <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">We’ve tried to include articles that students are more likely to find interesting, and we cut back on heavy coverage of school events, which you’ll find covered in our “Newsfeed.” <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Lastly, if you’d like to use the paper for the purpose of boosting literacy skills, I’ve included a few ideas below, including one Mrs. Saunders has used in her classes.


 * 1) <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Choose one story from the front page of the newspaper. Find the answers to these questions: Who? What? When? Where? Why? How? Note the organization of details in this story. Which is the most important? Where is it found? Does the headline highlight the most important fact? If not, where did the information for the headline appear in the story?
 * 2) <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Select an editorial from the editorial section in the newspaper and underline each fact and circle each opinion. Identify the argument, and analyze and evaluate the logic of the support and the organization and development of the argument.
 * 3) <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Look at a feature article closely to see what words and sentences evoke certain feelings about the article. Make a list of these words and sentences.
 * 4) <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Select an editorial from the editorial section in the newspaper and write a response to it.
 * 5) <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">See below:

<span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';">On Dec 18, 2012, at 6:15 PM, "Saunders, Kathleen" <ksaunders@asheboro.k12.nc.us> wrote:

<span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif';">I used this with my English II class last time for informational text, main idea and objective summaries. I divided the class into six articles and they reported back through presentations and posters.

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