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Taylor K. Kathrine. Address Unknown. HarperCollins, 2021.

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Address Unknown by Kathrine Kressman Taylor

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Address Unknown by Kathrine Kressman Taylor

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Uprising is about three girls, Bella, Yetta, and Jane, all of different backgrounds, that were all affected by the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire. In both books, there was something that was affecting them. In Uprising, there was the strike, low wages, etc. that were keeping the girls that worked at the factory down, while in Escape From East Berlin, they have to deal with the Berlin Wall being in the way of their families or friends. Both books have characters who are unhappy about their lives and how they are living. At the end of the books, Escape From East Berlin had a happier ending, while in Uprising, it was more of an unexpected ending.

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"How The Berlin Wall Worked" by Ed Grabianowski

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"How The Berlin Wall Worked" by Ed Grabianowski

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The Berlin Wall stood for nearly 30 years, splitting the city of Berlin into communist East Berlin and democratic West Berlin. Born of the splintering of Germany by the Allies at the end of World War II, the wall was a symbol of communist authoritarianism, the most visible element of the Iron Curtain. It separated families, cut people off from their jobs and left East Germans peering into the vibrant west from their drab communist apartments.

East German guards shot and killed more than 100 people who were so desperate to escape communist control that they tried to climb the wall or tunnel beneath it. More than just a physical barrier, to many the wall was proof that communist governments were so untenable they could only keep their citizens by force. Yet the Berlin Wall may have been exactly what the world needed when it was built. It offered stability at a time when the Cold War was dangerously close to erupting into a full conflict.

When the wall came down in 1989, it was equally symbolic, a sign that the iron grip of communist control was crumbling at last. The Eastern Bloc nations that lived under Soviet-installed dictators for decades threw off their shackles one by one. It wasn't long before the Soviet Union itself collapsed and marked the end of the Cold War. Yet even today, almost 20 years later, a reunified Germany feels the effects of the Berlin Wall and the split between East and West.

We're going to step back in time, first to the end of World War II, then to the Berlin Crisis and the building of the wall. We'll walk along both sides of the wall and examine life in divided Berlin. Then we'll experience the outburst of joy when the wall came down and examine the difficulties of German unification. Through it all, we'll try to untangle the geopolitical web that led both to the Berlin Wall's creation and its collapse.

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The Berlin Wall stood for nearly 30 years, splitting the city of Berlin into communist East Berlin and democratic West Berlin. Born of the splintering of Germany by the Allies at the end of World War II, the wall was a symbol of communist authoritarianism, the most visible element of the Iron Curtain.

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Marino, Andy. Escape from East Berlin. Scholastic, 2022.

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Kyla Jenée Lacey - "family tree" @wanpoetry

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Address Unknown is about two characters named Max and Martin, who own an art gallery. Because Max lives in California and Martin in Germany, they communicate through letters. The year is 1932 and the Great Depression is in full swing. But, Max and Martin are pretty well to do, with Max's Cousin going to visit Martin in Germany. However, at this time Hitler is coming to power, and Max is concerned for his cousin and Jewish friends living in Germany...

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The book Escape from East Berlin is about two characters named Kurt and Marta, they both don't like life on the East side of Berlin. Kurt decides that he wants to escape with his friend, who his grandfather wouldnt let come. His grandfather finds out about his escape and decides to help Kurt over the wall by pretending to be a young pioneer, which fails about halfway through and he makes it across by running the rest of the way. Marta was convinced to join an escape with her cousin, who is taking the whole family. she has to convince her parents, who were hesitant to go after her brother's death, to go with her. After she convinces them, they meet her cousin at an abandoned train station and fight a surprise attack by the trapo's, but they make it across in the end. In the end, Kurt and Marta meet each other while the citizens of Berlin destroy the wall.

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In the middle of the book, when Martin is turning into a Nazi, despite being used to being good friends with him, Max does not know if he can trust Martin anymore. Martin himself is saying ruthless things about Max and Jewish people in general. Max tries to make amends, but Martin's mind is not changing. This can be related to Escape From East Berlin in several places. One place is with Kurt's older brother, Franz. We are told that Franz was not the Stasi Fanboy and border guard he is in the present book. However, when he joined the Stasi, suddenly he became a total fanatic. Martia doesn't seem to really know or like anyone outside of her family and cousins, and everyone else seems to hate her because her family was originally from the West side of Berlin

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(quote 1) -“‘Mom,’ Kurt says slowly. ‘And dad.’  ‘who?’ Franz says again, pounding his fist on the car horn and flashing his lights to urge the driver in front of him out of the way. Kurt sighs. ‘Nobody.’ ‘right,’ Franz says. ‘Nobody at all” (Marino 59)

(quote two) -“His eye catches a little blotch of red on the backsplash tiles- a tiny splatter of tomato sauce, dried and hardened from the last meal his mother cooked in this kitchen, seven months ago now the last lingering bit of their parents that Franz hasn’t scrubbed away” (Marino 65)

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This poem connects to the essential question, how do relationships affect people, because she talks about her relationship with her father. She says that her father is a "superhero and a super storm".  She says that she loves her father but doesn't like some of his traits and that there are some traits from him she doesn't want. Relationships affect people because even though you can love the person they can still cause hurt in your life. Your good and bad traits come from your parents whether you love them or not. Relationships can affect the decisions you make and the way you feel.

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The article explains that when the wall was built, the people who were in East Berlin, living there or not, were stuck there because of the building of the wall. Families were split apart and people could no longer see friends. In some places, apartment buildings were part of the wall but people could just enter in the East and exit out to the West, but then those were paved off, so people began jumping out of windows, and being caught by people holding blankets, eventually those were also blocked off. Any people that tried to cross the wall or tried to escape to West Berlin were allowed to be shot, and many people died from these unfortunate happenings. On one side of the wall, West Berlin was thriving with a good economy and a welcoming atmosphere as the fear of being shot was not a concern. In the East, however, there were many problems because all that were educated had gone to the West. The economy was in shambles and there was also the fear that drove people to leave, the worry that their neighbor may have grown tired of them and get them to be jailed, and they never knew who was a part of the Stasi (secret police agency of the German Democratic Republic, officially: Ministerium für Staatsicherheit).

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The Iliad, the graphic novel by Gareth Hinds

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The Iliad, the graphic novel by Gareth Hinds

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In the Iliad, an ancient Greek myth of the battle for a city with powerful gods, Legendary heroes, and massive battles, the Iliad is a powerful story of what happens when relationships falter and arguments arise. Starting with an argument between Greek generals, it ends with no one happy and many dead. One character (something in Greek I could never say, much less spell), is great friends with the main character, Achilles. During the war, he dies, driving Achilles into sorrow. Achilles then kills the guy who kills his friend, fights a river, (literally) and slaughters half an army, he then lays his friend to rest. This shows what lengths people will go to to get revenge when friends and family are killed, although maybe not as extreme.

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Lacey, K. J. (2022). Kyla Jenee Lacey- “Family tree.” YouTube. YouTube. Retrieved May 19, 2023, from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5HyKDcYlEm0.

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Grabianowski, E. (2008, May 12). How the Berlin Wall worked. HowStuffWorks. https://history.howstuffworks.com/historical-events/berlin-wall.htm

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Haddix P. Margaret. Uprising. Simon & Schuster, 2007.

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Relationships affect the decisions people make and how they feel. Being separated from those who they love was hard. People started jumping out of windows and risking their lives to get across the wall. They didn't care about how big the risk was they just wanted to go across to their family and a better life. This just goes to show how being away from their friends and family affected people.

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Homer, G. H., & Butler, S. (2022). The Iliad. Arcturus Publishing Limited.