{"id":11043,"date":"2026-07-05T18:07:51","date_gmt":"2026-07-05T18:07:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/?p=11043"},"modified":"2026-07-05T18:07:51","modified_gmt":"2026-07-05T18:07:51","slug":"teaching-genocide-in-ela-classrooms-with-russias-current-war-on-ukraine-as-the-focus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/teaching-genocide-in-ela-classrooms-with-russias-current-war-on-ukraine-as-the-focus\/","title":{"rendered":"Teaching Genocide in ELA classrooms, with Russia&#8217;s current war on Ukraine as the focus."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">After writing the<em><strong> Kidnapped from Ukraine<\/strong><\/em> trilogy over a frenzied 17 months, I tried to take a break from writing in 2025. I did manage to not write fiction, but ended up writing book contributions and other non-fiction things, including chapter four, &#8220;Crafting Historical Fiction: Rehumanizing Global Crises Through Character Development&#8221; in Sarah J. Donovan&#8217;s upcoming <a href=\"https:\/\/www.routledge.com\/Teaching-Genocide-and-Holocaust-Education-in-ELA-Classrooms-Language-to-Remember-Witness-and-Repair\/Donovan\/p\/book\/9781041274988\">book<\/a>, <strong><em>Teaching Genocide and Holocaust Education in ELA Classrooms<\/em><\/strong>: <strong><em>Language to Remember, Witness, and Repair<\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I selected Russia&#8217;s current war on Ukraine as my genocide focus, and the rehumanizing of the victim exercise uses a scene from <em><strong>Standoff<\/strong><\/em> as a launching point.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/standoffauthorcopy-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-10048\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/standoffauthorcopy-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/standoffauthorcopy-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/standoffauthorcopy-112x150.jpg 112w, https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/standoffauthorcopy.jpg 1152w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After writing the Kidnapped from Ukraine trilogy over a frenzied 17 months, I tried to take a break from writing in 2025. I did manage to not write fiction, but ended up writing book contributions and other non-fiction things, including chapter four, &#8220;Crafting Historical Fiction: Rehumanizing Global Crises Through Character Development&#8221; in Sarah J. Donovan&#8217;s &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/teaching-genocide-in-ela-classrooms-with-russias-current-war-on-ukraine-as-the-focus\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Teaching Genocide in ELA classrooms, with Russia&#8217;s current war on Ukraine as the focus.&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[262],"tags":[1093,1092,13,894,347,932,172,1094,385,7],"class_list":["post-11043","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-stories","tag-chapter","tag-english-language-arts","tag-genocide","tag-kidnapped-from-ukraie","tag-sarah-donovan","tag-standoff","tag-teachers-guide","tag-teaching-genocide","tag-ukraine","tag-ukrainian"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11043","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11043"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11043\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11044,"href":"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11043\/revisions\/11044"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11043"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11043"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11043"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}