Title: Yuck Soup
Author: Joy Cowley
Publisher: Wright Group Publishing, Inc.
Genre: Books to Begin On
Number of Pages: 8
Location of Book: Found in Leveled Readers
Reading Level: Level 5 in Leveled Readers Series
Summary: Yuck Soup is about two strange looking creatures who are making soup. On each page they put in another disgusting or strange material, making it "Yuck Soup!"
Relation to "What is a holocaust?": Yuck Soup would be an excellent way to introduce the idea of starvation when discussing holocausts. Since the soup the creatures make is disgusting, a discussion about not having food or being forced to eat what you are given could ensue.
Personal Connection: While reading Yuck Soup, I immediately became aware of all of the weird items the two main characters of the story was putting into the soup; such as thistles, toothbrushes, and socks. As the creatures put these items into their stew, I drew a connection to the horrible food that people in Europe, especially the Jewish, were forced to eat during The Holocaust. During this time period, food was scarce and people needed to find whatever they could to satisfy their starving stomachs. In the internment camps that social outcasts were forced to live in, the Nazi's gave them soup, which many describe as tasting like dirty bath water. Looking at the final product in Yuck Soup made me immediately think about what a prisoner during The Holocaust must have been thinking when it came time to eat.
Classroom Use: This easy reader would obviously be most interesting to early emergent readers, who are attempting to learn to read. However, I truly believe that middle schoolers would enjoy the humor and foulness that is created in Yuck Soup. Middle schoolers would love the fact that this would be a quick and relatively painless read, yet its content could easily help the teacher spring board into a rich discussion. For example, after reading Yuck Soup, the educator could pose the following questions to the class, "Describe a time that you had to eat something "yucky." Describe how that made you feel." "Pretend you had not eaten for days, would you have taken a bite of "Yuck Soup?" Why or why not? What else would you attempt to eat if there were little to no options?" These types of questions would lead into a discussion about The Holocaust and how many families were forced to eat despicable items or eat little, to nothing at all. Furthermore, the discussion could be broadened to include a multitude of time periods where humans were mistreated and starved to death.
This beginner reader would certainly be a great way to launch a discussion about the mistreatment of human beings during The Holocaust and other time periods throughout the world. Yuck Soup provides a simplistic look at a serious topic.
Author: Joy Cowley
Publisher: Wright Group Publishing, Inc.
Genre: Books to Begin On
Number of Pages: 8
Location of Book: Found in Leveled Readers
Reading Level: Level 5 in Leveled Readers Series
Summary: Yuck Soup is about two strange looking creatures who are making soup. On each page they put in another disgusting or strange material, making it "Yuck Soup!"
Relation to "What is a holocaust?": Yuck Soup would be an excellent way to introduce the idea of starvation when discussing holocausts. Since the soup the creatures make is disgusting, a discussion about not having food or being forced to eat what you are given could ensue.
Personal Connection: While reading Yuck Soup, I immediately became aware of all of the weird items the two main characters of the story was putting into the soup; such as thistles, toothbrushes, and socks. As the creatures put these items into their stew, I drew a connection to the horrible food that people in Europe, especially the Jewish, were forced to eat during The Holocaust. During this time period, food was scarce and people needed to find whatever they could to satisfy their starving stomachs. In the internment camps that social outcasts were forced to live in, the Nazi's gave them soup, which many describe as tasting like dirty bath water. Looking at the final product in Yuck Soup made me immediately think about what a prisoner during The Holocaust must have been thinking when it came time to eat.
Classroom Use: This easy reader would obviously be most interesting to early emergent readers, who are attempting to learn to read. However, I truly believe that middle schoolers would enjoy the humor and foulness that is created in Yuck Soup. Middle schoolers would love the fact that this would be a quick and relatively painless read, yet its content could easily help the teacher spring board into a rich discussion. For example, after reading Yuck Soup, the educator could pose the following questions to the class, "Describe a time that you had to eat something "yucky." Describe how that made you feel." "Pretend you had not eaten for days, would you have taken a bite of "Yuck Soup?" Why or why not? What else would you attempt to eat if there were little to no options?" These types of questions would lead into a discussion about The Holocaust and how many families were forced to eat despicable items or eat little, to nothing at all. Furthermore, the discussion could be broadened to include a multitude of time periods where humans were mistreated and starved to death.
This beginner reader would certainly be a great way to launch a discussion about the mistreatment of human beings during The Holocaust and other time periods throughout the world. Yuck Soup provides a simplistic look at a serious topic.
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