Hiroshima

**//Hiroshima//** Facilitator: Ms. Laurel Koontz Room Assignment: Student Enrollment:

__Themes from the Reading__ 1) Cultural differences 2) Ethics about war and killing 3) Human responses to tragedy

__Possible Discussion Questions__  1) Do you think the Japanese handled the tragedy differently than Americans would? 2) Imagine yourself as one of the people in the story and how do you think you would have handled the day the bomb was dropped? 3) How about the second day, the next week, and the next year? What do you think you would have done to take care of yourself? 4) Do you think it is right for humanity to create and use something so destructive? 5) Do you think it was right for America to drop the Atomic bomb on civilians? 7) What role did religion play in their survival? 8) What do you think was the most shocking part of the book? 9) Do you think we need to read such graphic and disturbing details to understand or appreciate the horror they experienced? Do you think we could ever truly understand the horror?

__Guided Reading Questions / Questions for Understanding__