These students have already explored both Maus and Number the Stars in previous classes. I'll look at the Elie Wiesel stuff, and Summer of My German Soldier as well.

A play could definitely work. Does A Man for All Seasons have a major arts-related component?

I looked into "Goodbye to Berlin" already (great minds think alike!) but it looks like in the original, the Sally Bowles cabaret-based story is pretty disconnected from any study of the incoming Nazis. Plus, the language looks pretty difficult.

This is not the new school, it's my old one.

What about "The Hiding Place"?

The Devil's Arithmetic is also a good one. And somewhat crosses cirriculum, so there's that added bonus.

Maybe something based around Brundibar? The history of the opera itself, and/or the kids book that came out a few years ago.

What about The Slave Dancer ?

Also, Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry.

Also the obvious Diary of Anne Frank, and there's also a book of short stories that she wrote called something like "Tales from the Secret Annex."

For a Revolutionary War perspective, there's also My Brother Sam Is Dead.

Dean has a copy of that.

If he doesn't, he certainly should.

Does A Man for All Seasons have a major arts-related component?

Not really. I was more thinking of it as being a good example of how a historical clash with monarchy was used for art that explored acting on personal conscience and which continues to be relevant to any struggle with authority.

(Also, I love it. "Cut a great road through the law to get after the Devil? ... And when the last law was down, and the Devil turned round on you - where would you hide, Roper, the laws all being flat? This country is planted thick with laws from coast to coast, Man's laws, not God's, and if you cut them down -- and you're just the man to do it -- do you really think you could stand upright in the winds that would blow then? Yes, I give the Devil benefit of law, for my own safety's sake!")