Number the Stars by Lois Lowry: Details about the book and teaching notes
Personally I do not think that this book would be suitable for students under Grade 4. My students were blown away with the concepts in this book. It was great that the final reading of the story took place on Remembrance Day – Novemebr 11th. I found an amazing website for teaching ideas to complement this book. The url is:
http://www.cdli.ca/CITE/number_the_stars.htm#Writing
Erika’s story was an excellent short story, picture book that we read to complement our reading of Number the Stars. Students have been motivated enough to search for other children’s books about the war and the Holocaust. One of my reluctant readers ran back from the library with a book about Anne Frank and told me she was going to read it for homework. What a shame the end of the school year approaches. Next time, I teach literature studies with this novel, I shall include report writing and biographies and definitely include some project work on Anne Frank. Today we read Margaret Wild’s “Let the celebrations begin”. It was nice to have a “happy ending”.
Please contact me via this blog’s comments section if you have some great lesson ideas for teaching about the holocaust or WWII
Louisa Guest
November 25th, 2008 at 10:41 am
Hello.
I’ve had a school in China, an international school who are currently doing a project on indigenous people of the Pacific. They’re a year 4/5 class and doing research. We’ve got the Maori side of things covered as well as the Pacific cultures but they’ve also wanting to know some details about Aborigine culture, which is the one our school is short of. The questions are all in the format of comments on our blog and I didnt know if you had students who might be able to help but if you log in and have a look it might be something that your students could help with, and I know mine are excited about the Maori/Pacifika side of it. THanks in advance.
Mr Webb and the Room Six Students
tamakitoday.blogspot.com
November 25th, 2008 at 10:27 pm
The direct link to the school is this:
http://teachers.saschina.org/jtoa/
the students have left questions in the blog in the form of comments in our most recent posts on our blog- they’re about religion and diet mainly.