HW Mr. Padilla 2-1-16

Welcome to Fall Semester 2016.
This month we will be reading the novel Hiroshima by John Hershey and studying Japanese history, culture and current events.

Please assist your child with today's homework:

Hiroshima B-29 Bombers

A Noiseless Flash

*At exactly fifteen minutes past eight in the morning, on August 6, 1945, Japanese time, at the moment when the atomic bomb flashed above Hiroshima, Miss Toshiko Sasaki, … had just sat down …At that same moment, Dr. Masakazu Fujii was settling down …. to read … Mrs. Hatsuyo Nakamura… stood by the window of her kitchen, watching a neighbor…;Father Wilhelm Kleinsorge, a German priest of the Society of Jesus, reclined in his underwear …reading a …magazine…; Dr. Terufumi Sasaki, a young member of the surgical staff of the city’s … modern Red Cross Hospital, walked along one of the hospital corridors…; and the Reverend Mr. Kiyoshi Tanimoto, pastor of the Hiroshima Methodist Church, paused at the door of a rich man’s house in Koi… and prepared to unload a handcart full of things…in fear of the massive B-29 raid which everyone expected Hiroshima to suffer. A hundred thousand people were killed by the atomic bomb, and these six were among the survivors. They still wonder why they lived when so many others died…

**At exactly fifteen minutes past eight in the morning, on August 6, 1945, Japanese time, at the moment when the atomic bomb flashed above Hiroshima, Miss Toshiko Sasaki, … had just sat down …Dr. Masakazu Fujii was settling down …. to read … Mrs. Hatsuyo Nakamura… stood by the window …;Father Wilhelm Kleinsorge, a German priest …reclined in his underwear …reading a …magazine…; Dr. Terufumi Sasaki… walked along … the hospital corridors…; and the Reverend Mr. Kiyoshi Tanimoto, pastor of the Hiroshima … Church… prepared to unload a handcart full of things…in fear of the massive B-29 raid which everyone expected Hiroshima to suffer. A hundred thousand people were killed by the atomic bomb, and these six were among the survivors. They still wonder why they lived when so many others died…

***At exactly fifteen minutes past eight in the morning, on August 6, 1945… when the atomic bomb flashed above Hiroshima, Miss Toshiko Sasaki, … had just sat down …Dr. Masakazu Fujii was settling down …. to read … Mrs. Hatsuyo Nakamura… stood by the window …;Father Wilhelm Kleinsorge, a German priest …reclined in his underwear …reading a …magazine…; Dr. Terufumi Sasaki… walked along … the hospital…; and the Reverend Mr. Kiyoshi Tanimoto, … prepared to unload a handcart full of things…in fear of the massive B-29 raid which everyone expected Hiroshima to suffer. A hundred thousand people were killed by the atomic bomb, and these six … survivors… still wonder why they lived when so many others died…

Option 1: Look closely at the four images above and for each one describe what you see. 

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Bonus Task: Combine all four images to tell the story of what is happening. 

Option 2:

1.   List the names of each of the six survivors and mention what they were doing when the bomb dropped.

2.   How many people were killed when the bomb was dropped?

3.   What did the survivors wonder?

Option 3:

1.   Describe the events in the passage above using your own words.  To help you organize this summary use the five W’s.

2.   Based on what you learned in class what is the historical context of this passage? What was happening in the world?

3.   Who bombed Hiroshima?

4.   Why was Hiroshima bombed?

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