Salt to the Sea Lesson Plan

Discuss students’ emotional reactions to the horrific descriptions of suffering and death. Were these hard to read? Were they unexpected?

The scenes of panic and death as the Gustloff sinks are overwhelming and brutal, and should be discussed with consideration and sensitivity, while making room for the different ways students may react to this difficult subject matter. This question should give students a bit of time to process and reflect as a group.

Discuss the following quote from the Shoe Poet: “Just when you think this war has taken everything you loved, you meet someone and realize that somehow you still have more to give.” What do you think this means? What...