We're reading Art Spiegelman's The Complete Maus in the eleventh grade. These two graphic novels are the non-fiction account of Spiegelman's listening to his father, Vladek Spiegelman, as he bears witness to what he lived through during the Holocaust.
You can read about Maus here.
We are examining Holocaust in a variety of forms: poetry; documentary; historical literature; first-person written testimony; video testimony; theatrical drama; children's literature; art; music; and memorials.
We will be reading psychological theory on bearing witness by Yale professor, survivor and psychologist Dori Laub while we finish Maus and also watch testimony from the Yale Fortunoff Holocaust Video Archive.
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