Luray High School

Mrs. Sine's 10th grade English class has spent the last few weeks learning about the Holocaust. They just finished reading "Night" by Elie Weisel, and analyzed a collection of poems written by children who lived in the Terezin Concentration Camp. After they analyzed poems they made paper butterflies out of construction paper and string. After holding their butterflies up proudly, Mrs. Sine cut the strings of the ones who's poems were written by children who did not survive. Most of the students' paper butterflies were on the floor with cut strings by the end of this. 15,000 Children entered the camp at the start of the war. Only 100 children were left when the camp was liberated. Mrs. Sine's students have enjoyed learning about the Holocaust and have expressed how it has changed their outlook on life.