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Glencoe Language Arts: Grammar and Language Workbook, Grade 9

1st Edition

McGraw-Hill

ISBN: 9780028182940

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Section 84: Dashes to Signal Change and to Emphasize

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The slight woman– she smiled shyly and curtsied– was Nelly Sachs.

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Nelly Sachs– the story of her life reads like a modern fairy tale– was awarded the Nobel Prize for literature.

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Born in 1891 in Berlin– the capital and leading city of Germany– Nelly Sachs was the daughter of a well-to-do manufacturer.

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Exercise 5

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The Sachses– like many other middle-class and well-to-do Germans of the early twentieth century– were Jewish.

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As a teenager, Nelly decided to try to develop her talent for writing– abandoning her early interest in dance– and began to compose stories and poems.

Exercise 7

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Her first poems– based on her observations of nature and on her reading– Nelly collected in a book.

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Exercise 9

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The Sachs family– unaware of the violent storm building in their homeland– lived a quiet, respectable life.

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Looking out the windows of her home, Nelly might have seen organizers for a new political party– the National Socialists, or Nazis.

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In 1929 the economy of Germany– and of all the industrialized world– fell apart.

Exercise 12

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This period of economic hardship– it was called the Great Depression– frightened people all over the world.

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In Germany, many people believed that the leader of the Nazi party– he was an Austrian who believed that power and might were Germany’s rightful future– had the answers to Germany’s devastating economic problems.

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The confusion, fear, and economic hardships of the German people led many to become followers of the Nazis– and their leader, Adolf Hitler.

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Hitler had a simple explanation for all of the country’s problems– “The Jews,” he claimed, “are poisoning Germany.”

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Exercise 17

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The Nazis– they now had total control of the country– were prepared to enforce their will by imprisoning or murdering those who opposed them.

Exercise 18

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A series of laws– they were known as the Nuremberg Laws and decreed that Jews were no longer citizens– gradually eliminated the rights of Germans who were Jewish.

Exercise 19

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A brutal secret police force– known as the Gestapo– enforced the laws against Jews.

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Exercise 21

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Exercise 22

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In the meantime, Nelly Sachs’s poetry– because of its rhyme and subject matter– had begun to be published.

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As the Nazis moved closer to the Jews who remained– many of whom were still loyal to their country– Nelly and her mother were forced to move from their home.

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Exercise 25

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In spite of the reduced circumstances she found herself in, Nelly tried to continue with her writing– and other parts of her old life.

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