Inside Hana’s Suitcase

amazing story I’m a 5th grade teacher and absolutely love using this book in my classroom. We read Number the Stars as a class and I use this particular book in a reading group that needs to be challenged. This year we ordered the dvd and the entire grade watched it (we all read Number the Stars, but only a small group of kids read Hana’s Suitcase). So the movie brought everyone together to learn about this incredible story.In 5th grade, we are careful to limit our Holocaust materials to those…

Meaningful and Beautiful! I purchased this DVD to use in my Language Arts classroom. The students read the book as part of our Injustice Unit. I LOVE the documentary itself. The problem is the SECOND time I showed the DVD (to my second class of the day), it went crazy, and scenes from some other movie/video was playing (absolutely NOT related to Hana’s Suitcase). I played it a THIRD time during my plan time, and it was “normal” like the first time I showed it. It makes me very hesitant to use the DVD since I do…