· Our Original Resources 7. Peter Sís reads from The Wall: Growing Up Behind the Iron Curtain. Created by TeachingBooks. Watch the Video () Share. Audio Name Pronunciation with Peter Sís. Created by TeachingBooks. Listen to the Audio () Share. In-depth Written Interview with Peter Sís. Created by TeachingBooks. We’ve read many memoirs about life behind the Iron Curtain, and this slender, illustrated New York Times best seller packs more emotional wallop than pages of text can. Peter Sís tells his story through illustrations, concise text, and excerpts from his personal diary. The art — mostly black and white illustrations with vibrant splashes of color — appear quite whimsical at first glance, but look closer, Estimated Reading Time: 2 mins. The Wall is an autobiographical graphic novel/kids book about Peter Sis's life in Czechoslovakia during World War II. As a child, Peter loved to draw. As the book states, he drew shapes and people as a kid, and then tanks and wars as he got older, because that's what he was exposed www.doorway.ru by:
A NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER"I was born at the beginning of it all, on the Red side—the Communist side—of the Iron Curtain." Through annotated illustrations, journals, maps, and dreamscapes, Peter Sís shows what life was like for a child who loved to draw, proudly wore the red scarf of a Young Pioneer, stood guard at the giant statue of Stalin, and believed whatever he was told to believe. Compressing history into fable can confuse matters. "On November 9, ," Sis writes, "the wall fell." On that date, the Berlin Wall — a hugely symbolic stretch of the Iron Curtain. The Wall: Growing Up Behind the Iron Curtain By Peter Sis Farr, Straus and Giroux, (56 pages) Non-Fiction Book/Award Winner Caldecott Honor Book Ages 11 and up In this autobiographical story, a young artist is coming of age in Cold War time Czechoslovakia, when Soviet political repression controls all aspects of human life.
File Type PDF The Wall Growing Up Behind The Iron Curtain Peter Sis The Wall Growing Up Behind The Iron Curtain Peter Sis In the bleak, forbidding house of her great-aunts, neglected twelve-year-old orphan Maggie hears ghostly voices and finds magic that awakens in her the capacity to love and be loved. Iron Curtain." Through annotated illustrations, journals, maps, and dreamscapes, Peter Sís shows what life was like for a child who loved to draw, proudly wore the red scarf of a Young Pioneer, stood guard at the giant statue of Stalin, and believed whatever he was told to believe. But adolescence brought questions. Cracks began to appear in. Our Original Resources 7. Peter Sís reads from The Wall: Growing Up Behind the Iron Curtain. Created by TeachingBooks. Watch the Video () Share. Audio Name Pronunciation with Peter Sís. Created by TeachingBooks. Listen to the Audio () Share. In-depth Written Interview with Peter Sís. Created by TeachingBooks.
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