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 talesChange perspectiveTell the story from an object’s

point of view

Red/Green Card Survey

Green = YES/I AGREE/ME TOORed = 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 ThiefWritten by Markus ZusakLives in Sydney, AustraliaWrote his first book at 16Grew up hearing stories

about Nazi Germany, about the bombing of Munich, and the Jews being marched through his mother’s small German town

SummaryTakes place in Nazi GermanyA 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 characterShe doesn’t know how to read

but steals her first book before she gets to the foster family’s home

Key ConceptsForeshadowing: 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 CoveredKristallnactAlso referred to as Night of the

Broken GlassSeries of attacks against Jews in

Nazi Germany and Austria on November 9-10, 1938

Jewish homes were ransacked and destroyed by civilians and stormtroopers.

Kristallnact91 Jews killed30,000 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.

Kristallnact1,668 synagogues ransacked267 of them were set on fire

Trigger of attacks:◦The assassination of German

dipolomat Ernst vom Rath by Herschel Grynzspan, a German-born Polish Jew in Paris, France

◦Goebbels wanted to turn it into fuel for the persecution of Jews

Death: Perspective

Homework:For tomorrow (Thursday) have

the prologue and study guide questions done

For Monday: Part One (17-80)