As the title might suggest, today was rather quiet. After a short discussion deciding what to do, we split up. Jesse went to work on our cartoon, which is coming along quite nicely, and, in Dorothy and Isabel's opinions, is quite powerful. Dorothy and Isabel researched away all through today, reading about interesting things including but not exclusively: The White Rose movement, the several attempts to assasinate Hitler, the surprising (and slightly scary) complacency of the German people, the aristocratic resistance, the communist and democratic party resistance, and the largely unorganized non-compliance and small acts of sabotage that encompassed most of Germany's resistance. Tonight will include more independance research, and by tomorrow, we should be able to write our introductory paragraph together, and then break off into small groups to each write a body paragraph (or a series of body paragraphs about one topic).
We have decided to focus our essay specifically on the comparaisons with German resistance to facism and Hitler, since Yertle the Turtle only talks about one pond, it doesn't mention other ponds being conquered, and those turtles 'resisting'. Yes, there were many large and sophisticated resistance operations in other occupied countries, but we can't research everything, and we think that this story does specifically relate to German resistance and complacency, simply because the pond is the homeland of the turtles, and Yertle is their leader, and the only reason they resist is 'moral decency', or to protect themselves, they are not fighting to protect their homeland from invaders. The same is true for the German resistance. The few that resisted resisted because they felt something was wrong, not because they were trying to liberate their country.
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