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Immersion Reading Units
Imagine being a student and approaching black paper as the door. Mounted on the
your classroom door on a Monday black paper are huge black and white
morning finding it covered in black paper, photographs bordered in red. First section
a large 16x20, black and white photograph says ‘Technology’ in red letters, pictured
of an old European building in the middle are a radio, telephone, telegraph. You
of the door. Having your eyes diverted continue down the wall and see pictures of
by the large red letters above the building people in the streets. You turn your head to
announcing, “GERMANY 1943.” Where catch a glimpse of all the walls and notice
does your imagination go? Your cerebral they are all street scenes. As you turn back
pathways are pulsating, wide open with to your place, you see soldiers standing
interest. You open the door, the classroom by steps in conversation. There are more
is different, somber. The middle section people on sidewalks as you move along,
of three walls are swathed in the same but they look different, sad. You notice that
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