1. Topic-
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| Number the Stars - a story about Annemarie Johansen, a ten year
old girl living in Denmark in 1943. Annemarie has a Jewish friend
named Ellen Rosen. The story uses these and other fictitious characters
to explain the real life events and struggles of life in Denmark during
the German occupation. |
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2. Content-
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| Social issues and tolerance addressed in the book. The issues of
human behavior, forming organizations, forms of governments |
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3. Goals: Aims/Outcomes-
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1.Identify a theme or most important message of the book Number
the Stars and explain why that theme was chosen
2.Identify prejudices that occur in our daily lives & that occurred
in Number the Stars
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4. Objectives-
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1.Students will be able to relate to the experiences that the main
character Annemarie went through.
2.Students will be able to write and feel comfortable reading age
appropriate material that might deal with racial and prejudice materials
and then be able to talk in lit circles about the information they
read and identify issues that might be relevant today
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5. Materials and Aids-
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poster paper, one for every group, with a different open ended question
on each paper
a different colored marker for each group |
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6. Procedures/Methods-
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A. Introduction-
1.Explain to the students that there are posters with a question
that needs to be answered. They will be in groups and will decide
as groups the best answers. They can write down as many answers as
they can think of in the time they have. The groups will rotate and
add on to the posters until they have filled out each one. They need
to add something new to each poster. They can't write something another
group has already written. They must work as a team. One person in
each group will be chosen to be the writer. Time them so that they
have written a few good ideas but have not exhausted the possibilities
for other groups. Watch the groups for how much they have written.
After all groups have contributed at each poster, have each group
choose their favorite answers at each poster by putting a star by
them. Each group stops at a poster and reads the favorite things chosen.
2.Divide the class into groups,Have them stand together by one of
the posters. Have one person from each group read the question on
their poster for their group.
3. Poster #1 What are some important messages or things we can learn
from the story Number the Stars?
Poster #2 Number the Stars talks about Germans prejudice's and unfair
treatment of the Jewish people and the Danish people as well. List
as many of these prejudices or unfair treatments as you can. On the
second column, list any unfair treatments or prejudices that you observe
in your daily lives. * If your class size is larger and you need 4
posters, this question can be turned into two questions. Poster #3
can be just to list the unfair treatments of the Jews. Poster #4 would
be to list any unfair treatments the students observe in their lives.
Poster #3 Write the words that best describe these characters from
Number the Stars.
Kirsti Annemarie German Soldiers Uncle Henrik Peter |
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Independent Practice-
1. Each group will be given a different colored marker so the teacher
can measure the level of participation for each group
2.The teacher will watch as they groups work to see which students
are contributing. Those who are not will be recorded and asked specific
questions at the end of the activity to check their understanding. |
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