Number the Stars

An Instructional Guide for Literature

Author: Suzanne Barchers Series: Great Works

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Use the engaging lessons and activities in this guide to help students comprehend the story of a Danish community that helped Jews escape the Nazis.

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Use the engaging lessons and activities in this guide to help students comprehend the story of a Danish community that helped Jews escape the Nazis.

Description

Use this guide to follow the story of ten-year-old Annemarie Johansen and her Jewish best friend Ellen who must move in with the Johansen family and pretend to be their daughter to escape the Nazis. Number the Stars: An Instructional Guide for Literature provides rigorous and appealing cross-curricular lessons and activities that work in conjunction with the text. Readers will learn to connect historical events to this story, analyze story elements in multiple ways, practice close reading and text-based vocabulary, determine meaning through text-dependent questions, and more. Add rigor to your students' explorations of this Newbery Medal-winning novel.

About the Author

An experienced teacher and writer, Suzanne has written more than 50 books for teachers and childrenSuzanne's father was a Reformed Church of America minister. During her childhood, the family helped him establish new churches in California, Iowa, and Illinois.