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Lessons from
the Holocaust - New
Florida profiles Holocaust refugee
Dr. Miriam Klein Kassenoff, co-author of the recently published
classroom resource text “Studying the Holocaust Through Film
and Literature”. Viewers will witness how elementary
and high school students react to films about the atrocities,
and learn what burning questions these films provoke for
them.
Related links:
Auschwitz: Inside the
Nazi State
Writing for
Children - Do you have what it
takes to write an award-winning children’s book? Celebrated children’s
author Barbara
Bottner is sharing her storytelling secrets with New
Florida! See what it takes to keep kids glued to the
page, and find out why some stories fly off the shelf while
others flop.
Related links:
ALA
Recommended Reading for Children
At Bat - Bake
sales, car washes, raffles … little league baseball
teams have tried lots of ways to raise funds for road trips,
but here’s a new one: bats as “art.” New
Florida tags along with the Wellington Warriors to find
out if their innovative fundraising scheme will hit a homerun.
Related links:
National Baseball
Hall of Fame
Micanopy - New
Florida travels “Along the Road” to
historic Micanopy.
Purportedly Florida's oldest inland city, this tiny town
south of Gainesville has changed very little over the last
century. We’ll meet an 87-year old resident, get a
glimpse of pioneer life, and attend an impromptu recital
by local folk musicians.
Freedom in the
Family - New Florida revisits
the tumultuous 1960's through the eyes of African-American
civil rights activist and author Patricia Stephens Due, who
spent 49 days in a Leon County jail for an unpardonable offense:
sitting at a whites-only lunch counter.
Related links:
Celebrating
Black History Month
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