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In what ways can we contextualize the refugee crisis and the diverse refugee experience for students?

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Analyze informational text development through determining a central idea of a text and analyzing its development over the course of the text, including how it emerges and is shaped and refined by specific details. (RI.9-10.2)

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Article

Begley, Sarah. “The Forgotten Maritime Tragedy That Was Six Times Deadlier Than The Titanic”. Time, 2016. https://time.com/4198914/wilhelm-gustloff-salt-to-the-sea/

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The Forgotten Maritime Tragedy Deadlier Than the Titanic

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The Wilhelm Gustloff was torpedoed on Jan. 30, 1945, killing thousands of people-many of them refugees

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The Unwanted: Stories of Syrian Refugees

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The Unwanted: Stories of Syrian Refugees

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Graphic Novel

Brown, Don. The Unwanted : Stories of the Syrian Refugees. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2018.

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YA Novel

Gratz, Alan. Refugee. Scholastic, 2017.

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What stories often go untold by media and what systems of power are in place preventing these stories from being told?

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Analyze various accounts of a subject told in different mediums, determining which details are emphasized in which accounts. (RI.9-10.7)

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How can we use multimedia literacies to better understand how the refugee crisis shapes our world as we know it?

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Informational Article

Reid, Kathryn. “What Is a Refugee?” World Vision, June 2023, https://www.worldvision.org/refugees-news-stories/what-is-a-refugee-facts#:~:text=Refugees%20are%20people%20who%20have,in%20need%20of%20international%20protection.

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Graphic Novel

Jamieson, Victoria, Mohamed, Omar. When Stars are Scattered. New York, Dial Books for Young Readers, 2020.

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Hip Hop Song

Porter, Gregory, et al. “Running (Refugee Song).” Www.youtube.com, 2016, www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rhfo3oBYDPA&t=17s. Accessed 10 Oct. 2023.

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YA Novel

Sepetys, Ruta. Salt to the Sea. New York, NY, Penguin Books, 2017.

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Children's Picture Book

Tani Adewumi, et al. Tani’s New Home : A Refugee Finds Hope and Kindness in America. Thomas Nelson, 2020.

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The Displaced: Refugee Writers on Refugee Lives

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The Displaced: Refugee Writers on Refugee Lives

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Essay Collection

Viet Thanh Nguyen, et al. The Displaced : Refugee Writers on Refugee Lives. Abrams Press, 2019.

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Playlist

“14 Songs about the Refugee Experience to Listen to This World Refugee Day.” Misión de Caridad, 17 June 2021, mdcaridad.org/mdc-blog/14-songs-about-the-refugee-experience-to-listen-to-this-world-refugee-day.

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Video

“When Stars Are Scattered | Official Trailer.” Www.youtube.com, Penguin Middle School , 13 Apr. 2020, www.youtube.com/watch?v=111ztD-2QaU.

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Witness the Sinking of the German Cruise Liner MV Wilhelm Gustloff After the Soviet Attack in the Baltic Sea

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Witness the Sinking of the German Cruise Liner MV Wilhelm Gustloff After the Soviet Attack in the Baltic Sea

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Interview Video

“Witness the Sinking of the German Cruise Liner MV Wilhelm Gustloff After the Soviet Attack in the Baltic Sea.” Encyclopedia Britannica, www.britannica.com/video/180244/sinking-Soviet-one-disasters-MV-Wilhelm-Gustloff-January-1945.

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NARRATOR: January 1945 - the German Reich faces defeat in the Second World War. The Soviet army has surrounded East Prussia. Millions of Germans attempt to flee. In the end, the only remaining escape route is the Baltic Sea. Harbored in the Bay of Danzig are ships carrying military equipment, soldiers and civilians. Also at port is the Wilhelm Gustloff, once the legendary cruise liner. According to the passenger list, it is to bring 10,000 refugees to safety.

URSULA SCHULZE-RESAS: "These people were first subjected to a rigorous selection. Party members were preferred. But the people who were in the harbor, who were hungry, who were thirsty, who were about to freeze to death. They rushed the ship."

NARRATOR: Among the passengers of the Wilhelm Gustloff is a young Jürgen Danöhl with his mother and three siblings. They are relieved.

JÜRGEN DANÖHL: "Mother said 'Children, we made it. No trudging through the snow, no frost, no more wet gloves, no wet feet.' It was music to our ears. It was hope."

NARRATOR: But war is also being waged on the Baltic Sea. A Soviet submarine cruises nearby. The crew is alerted by the noise of the great ship's engines.

FJODOR DANILOV: "Our goal was the same as always: Destroy the enemy. We were supposed to seek and destroy transport ships. That was our mission."

NARRATOR: The commander gives the order to attack. Three torpedoes hit the Gustloff.

DANÖHL: "It was just a short boom. And then mother began screaming 'children, out, out out. We've hit a mine.'"

NARRATOR: On board panic breaks out. Only a few find their way to the deck.

SCHULZE-RESAS: "My sister clung to me and kept saying 'Ulla we're going to die. Ulla, we're going to die.' But I had a lot of courage. I said 'No, I don't want to die. I want to live.'"

NARRATOR: But thousands are trapped within the sinking ship. There aren't enough lifeboats. Many jump into the ice-cold Baltic Sea. A German torpedo boat is nearby.

ROBERT HERING: "It was a terrible situation. What happened to the Gustloff could also happen to us. But then I said 'Saving them comes first. We've got to risk it.'"

NARRATOR: Within minutes many drown. But some are saved.

SCHULZE-RESAS: "And then we were saved. I was hoisted up and then I hugged the first sailor and I said, 'Thank God, I'm saved.'"

NARRATOR: More than a thousand castaways are saved. But almost 10,000 passengers of the Gustloff meet their deaths. Was this the killing of innocent civilians or a normal action of war?

HERING: On the Gustloff was a division of U-Boot trainees, who were, indeed, soldiers. C'est la guerre."

NARRATOR: The survivors are brought to Denmark. Never before and never since has the sinking of a ship taken so many lives.

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The sinking of MV Wilhelm Gustloff after the Soviet attack in January 1945

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The Soviet sinking of MV Wilhelm Gustloff in January 1945, one of the greatest maritime disasters in history.

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Pixar Short Film

Alike Short Film. www.youtube.com, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kQjtK32mGJQ. Accessed 14 Nov. 2023.

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Political Cartoon

https://blog.cartoonmovement.com/2017/06/10-of-our-best-unpublished-refugee-cartoons.html

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Poem

https://poets.org/poem/things-we-carry-sea