1. Historical Fiction Children’s LiteratureBy
Christy Berry
Christine Brillhart
Jeanne Parkinson

2. Why put up a wall?
Wall Image from Microsoft Clip Art 2010

3. Iron Curtain
The boundary that symbolically, ideologically, and physically divided Europe into two separate areas after World War II.
Sis, P. (2007). The wall: Growing up behind the iron curtain. Frances Foster Books. New York, NY.

4. Behind the Iron Curtain
Scanned image by Christine Brillhart of Inside Cover of The Wall by Peter Sis (2007)

5. Berlin Wall
Guarded concrete wall, 28 miles, with minefields and controlled checkpoints, erected across Berlin by East Germany in 1961 and dismantled in 1989.

6. Berlin Wall
Image of Berlin Wall from Microsoft Clip Art 2010

7. Berlin Wall
“Split from their families on the other side of the wall, West Germans could do little but watch as the wall divided their city.”
Photo of police officer

8. How you would feel if your freedoms where taken away?
Celebrate image from Microsoft Clip Art 2010

9. Where would you want to live?
Atlas Image from Microsoft Clip Art 2010

10. Communism
The ideology of the Soviet Union & other countries; a system of government in which the state controls all social and economic activity.
Sis, P. (2007). The wall: Growing up behind the iron curtain. Frances Foster Books. New York, NY.

11. Communism
“The Soviet regime intervened as necessary to assure the existence of communism in the “fraternal nations,” as in the Prague Spring of 1968.”
Photo of tank

12. Capitalism
Economic system characterized by private or corporate ownership of capital goods determined by competition in a free market.

13. Cold War
The geopolitical, ideological, and economic struggle that emerged between capitalism and communism from 1945 to 1991.
Sis, P. (2007). The wall: Growing up behind the iron curtain. Frances Foster Books. New York, NY.

14. Fall of the Berlin Wall Documentary
This video shows events that lead to the fall of the Berlin Wall.
Screen shot by of video clip by Christy Berry (2011)

15. End of the Cold War

16. The Wall
By Peter Sis
Book Cover Image

17. Peter Sis He born in 1949 in Czechoslovakia
He is an author and Illustrator
He was in a rock band
He defected in 1984
Sis, P. (2007). The wall: Growing up behind the iron curtain. Frances Foster Books. New York, NY.
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18. National Geographic Website:
Professional Sites
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