280 likes | 388 Views
Do Now:. What is your favorite aspect of spring? Why? What are you most looking forward to doing? Four sentences. Take out your brainstorm. 7-9 minutes:. Fairy tales Change perspective Tell the story from an object’s point of view. Red/Green Card Survey. Green = YES/I AGREE/ME TOO
E N D
Do Now: • What is your favorite aspect of spring? Why? What are you most looking forward to doing? Four sentences. • Take out your brainstorm
7-9 minutes: • Fairy tales • Change perspective • Tell the story from an object’s point of view
Red/Green Card Survey Green = YES/I AGREE/ME TOO Red = NO/ I DISAGREE/ NOT ME
Yes/No I remember that my independent reading project is due soon.
Yes/No I have finished my independent reading book.
Yes/No I spent more than $50 this week.
Yes/No 9 times out of 10, food tastes better when somebody else makes it.
Yes/No I have tried the new bistro line.
Yes/No • Sticks and stones can break your bones, but words can never hurt you.
Yes/No • Actions are more powerful than words
Yes/No • Words can be used to hurt or help
Yes/No • There are people who will always do the right thing… no matter the consequences
Yes/No • Words can cause war
Yes/No • Those that truly love us would never abandon us.
Yes/No • Guilt and our conscience can lead us to do things we wouldn’t otherwise do
Yes/No • Death is ugly and scary.
Yes/No • War is the way to peace.
Yes/No • It is important to establish your own political beliefs.
Yes/No • It is justifiable to steal something if you are in desperate need of it
Yes/No • Blind obedience is often dangerous
An Introduction to The Book Thief • Written by Markus Zusak • Lives in Sydney, Australia • Wrote his first book at 16 • Grew up hearing stories about Nazi Germany, about the bombing of Munich, and the Jews being marched through his mother’s small German town
Summary • Takes place in Nazi Germany • A young girl whose mother is too poor to care for her and her brother is sent to live with a foster family • Liesel is our main character • She doesn’t know how to read but steals her first book before she gets to the foster family’s home
Key Concepts • Foreshadowing: our narrator is death, so he knows how this story ends. Death constantly gives things away before we get to read about them • Colors: Death tries to focus on colors instead of humans • Stealing: occurs throughout the story (not just books) • Guilt, abandonment, and dehumanization are other key concepts
Historical Events Covered • Kristallnact • Also referred to as Night of the Broken Glass • Series of attacks against Jews in Nazi Germany and Austria on November 9-10, 1938 • Jewish homes were ransacked and destroyed by civilians and stormtroopers.
Kristallnact • 91 Jews killed • 30,000 Jewish men—a quarter of all Jewish men in Germany– were taken to concentration camps where they were tortured for months with over 1,000 of the dying.
Kristallnact • 1,668 synagogues ransacked • 267 of them were set on fire • Trigger of attacks: • The assassination of German dipolomat Ernst vomRath by Herschel Grynzspan, a German-born Polish Jew in Paris, France • Goebbels wanted to turn it into fuel for the persecution of Jews
Homework: • For tomorrow (Thursday) have the prologue and study guide questions done • For Monday: Part One (17-80)