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First They Killed My Father
By Loung Ung
Students will be reading the book First They Killed My Father during the second quarter of the school year.  It is a book about a young woman, and her family, and how they survived Pol Pot's  Khmer Rouge and life in Cambodian refugee camps.  Throughout the novel, students will be working on the following:

                                                 ~ Vocabulary
                                        ~ Pen Pal Entires (Summaries)
                                               ~ Section Quizzes
                                        ~ Section Discussion Questions
                                               ~ Section Essay Exams
                                                                  ~ Section Vocabulary Exams
~ Final Exams:
* Vocabulary
* Essay
* AR
~ Create a Scrapbook



 The History Place: Pol Pot in Cambodia 1975-1979 2,000,000 Deaths  
 Online Focus: Continuing Unrest: Killing Fields  
 From Sideshow To Genocide: The Khmer Rouge Years  
 World Socialist Web Site: The Death of Pol Pot