Maus I: My Father Bleeds History |
Publication Information
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Author: Spiegelman, Art |
Illustrator: Spiegelman, Art |
Title: Maus I: My Father Bleeds History |
Date: 1986 |
Publisher: Pantheon |
City: New York |
ISBN, paperback: |
ISBN, hardback: 978-0-394-74723-1 |
Recommended audience:
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ABE/ABLE:
Yes |
ESOL:
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Family:
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Young Adult:
Yes |
Picture:
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General Information:
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Book Type(s):
biography and autobiography, graphic novel, memoirs/reminiscences, nonfiction
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HSE Descriptor(s):
social studies
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Summary: |
This is the first of two volumes about the experiences of the author's parents in the Nazi concentration camps during WWII. The author depicts Jews as mice and Nazis as cats in his illustrations. |
Teaching Ideas: |
Before and after comparisons of life in the concentration camps and life in the present may help readers sort out the flashbacks. Readers would also benefit from exploration of the extended metaphor of cat and mouse for the interactions of Jews and Nazis. The book adds a visual dimension to a text set on the Holocaust. Students may want to discuss/write about he relationship between father and son and how it carries much of the emotional burden of the earlier experience of the concentration camps. Students may want to investigate some of the significant historical events mentioned in the book. |
Teaching Strategies: |
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Bleich's Heuristic for Responding to Reading
http://literacy.kent.edu/eureka/strategies/bleichs_heuristic.pdf
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Literature Circles
http://literacy.kent.edu/eureka/strategies/lit_circles.pdf
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Reader's Theater
http://literacy.kent.edu/eureka/strategies/readers_theater.pdf
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Word Sorts
http://literacy.kent.edu/eureka/strategies/word_sorts.pdf
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