Wednesday, April 5, 2017

Number the Stars

This past week, we began our discussion of our new book, Number the Stars by Lois Lowry.
To set the scene of our story, we looked at a map of Denmark and noted how it shared a border with Germany and how close it is to Sweden.  We also learned a bit more about King Christian X of Denmark and the tough choices he had to make during the German occupation.
We saw illustrations of a Nazi soldier's uniform and agreed that it would be intimidating to see in our own neighborhood.  We also reminded ourselves about Adolf Hitler and his crazy ideas about the Master Race and why Jewish families were being relocated.  We all agreed that we would NOT want to have be separated from our families and go live with our friends' family, but that we understood that it was for our own protection from the German soldiers.

(Concentration Camps and Jewish extermination horrors were not discussed- I will leave that discussion up to the families)

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