reading

This term (term 1) we read a book called The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas. We did a webquest in groups of 3 or 4. We learned alot about the holocaust.

__The__ __Boy__  __In__ __The__ __Striped__ __Pyjamas__  __Webquest__ __Q’s__ __&__ __A’s__ __:__

 Savannah:

SECTION ONE Q’s & A’s FROM SAVANNAH:

1st Question:
 * Have you ever been in a situation where a person was mistreated? What actions did you take?

 A: Yes. I went to a close, trusted parent/adult, who I knew could help me with the problem.

 2nd Question:  Have you ever done something to a friend that made you feel bad or ashamed?

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 11pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> Answer:

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 11pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> 3rd Question:
 * What do you think causes people to treat others in such horrific ways as was done during the Holocaust? Are there people being treated like this anywhere in the world today? What is or can be done to stop it?

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 11pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> A: I think that some people; honestly, are a bit insane. Who would judge people by their looks/belifes? I think that Hitler just had a bad life, he wanted to blame somebody on his mother dying. He had a lot of problems. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 11pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> Yes, I think that people are still treated in someways today like the Holocaust, but not as bad. People still judge ‘Dark Skinned People’. I think Dark skinned people are no different to us, and I think they should fight for their rights.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 11pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> SECTION 4:

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 11pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">
 * Design a detailed billboard like poster advertising the book. Include three or more characters, quotations, scenes or moments that would entice others to read this book.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 11pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> * Pretend you are a character in the book. Write and perform a monologue exploring how you as the character change throughout the play. Your monologue should focus on the theme of friendship or injustice.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 11pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> SAVANNAH ANSWER:

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 11pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> Shumel: Monalogue:

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 11pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> I’ve been in this horrid camp for over a month. I used to be a fat boy, I got teased, I hated being like it. But then I got put here... and Im thin. Thinner than ever. My body is decaying, my hands are bony. My head is shaved, and I smell dreadful. These silly pajamas us prisoners have to wear.. they have never been washed. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 11pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> If we are lucky, we get one piece of bread per day. It’s the best moment when I can eat it. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 11pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> Sometimes I have dreams that I own all the food in the world. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 11pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> I smell. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 11pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> If I were still at home, at school, the kids would laugh at me; make fun of me. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 11pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> I met a boy, called Bruno. A couple of days ago Papa went missing. I am planning to ask Bruno if he could be kind enough to help me find him.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 11pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> It seems all the Jews are here. Why not Germans? What have we done? We have the same rights as Germans do to be here. We have to work hard all day, it hurts me. If we do not participate, we get beaten.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 11pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> I hope this ends soon. I’m only a child. I want to go home :-(

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> Holly’s Questions & Answers:

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> __Reading Activities to Further Student Understanding__ <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 10pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> Fish Bowl – Similar to hot seating, but where a whole group sits in the center of a circle (fish) to express their position and be questioned by the class (bowl). Teacher becomes a quiet observer.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 10pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> Questions for Bruno (Letitia). <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 10pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> ☺What did you think about out with (auschwitz) when you first moved there? <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 10pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> It was horrible and it was too small.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 10pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> ☺What did you think the concentration camp was when you saw it? <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 10pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> I thought that the people there were poor and it was there village

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 10pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> ☺Why did you think shmuel was in the concentration camp? <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 10pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> Because he thought it would be good there but it wasn’t.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 10pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> Tableau- Ask a group of students to create a tableau, or frozen picture, of a scene from the novel, and then have a student read an appropriate passage. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 10pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> Compose a front page of a newspaper that depicts four events in the story using Microsoft publisher or other publishing software. Include headlines, graphics and any other content that one might find on the front page of a newspaper. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> __Social Studies Activities (Cross-Curricular):__ <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 10pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> At age 12, Gretel is the proper age for membership in the League of Young Girls, a branch of Hitler’s Youth Organization. Why do you think she is not a member, especially since her father is a high-ranking officer in Hitler’s army?

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 10pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> I think that Gretel is not a member of the league of young German girls because an adult in the book such as the mother or Grandmother does not want the children to know anything about the war and the holocaust.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> Liam: <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> Make a theme song for three characters in the book

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 11pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> Bruno... <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000099; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; vertical-align: baseline;">[|__http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nkc1hOcMAi4__] <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> I feel this song suits him because it sound a little adventouruos and curious <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 11pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> Dad... <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000099; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; vertical-align: baseline;">[|__http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nkc1hOcMAi4__] <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> I chose this song for the dad because it seems like it suits a leader <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 11pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> The cook... <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000099; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; vertical-align: baseline;">[|__http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Ix2-HV63Ek__] <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> I chose this song for him because he seems like a scary figure and one not to annoy.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> My new chapter names


 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Chapter 1 || <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Bruno’s new adventure ||
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Chapter 2 || <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">New beggining ||
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Chapter 3 || <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">The ignored protest ||
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Chapter 4 || <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">The world next door ||
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Chapter 5 || <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">No entry ||
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Chapter 6 || <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">The expensive aquaintince ||
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Chapter 7 || <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Mum’s mischevious life ||
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Chapter 8 || <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">The reason grandma retrieved ||
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Chapter 9 || <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">gone are the old exploring days ||
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Chapter 10 || <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">From dot to speck to blob to boy ||
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Chapter 11 || <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Hail Hitler ||
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Chapter 12 || <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Bruno’s question shmuel’s answer ||
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Chapter 13 || <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Pop open the wine ||
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Chapter 14 || <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">The nessissary Fib ||
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Chapter 15 || <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">The incorrect move ||
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Chapter 16 || <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">A new hair style ||
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Chapter 17 || <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">mother gets what she wants ||
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Chapter 18 || <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Planning the Final move ||
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Chapter 19 || <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">The next day.... ||
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Chapter 20 || <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">The final move ||

Below are the questions and activities that we answer for reading. All the questions are about a short story we read called Snakes.

28.10.11 This week we have been studying a ballard written by W.H Ogilvy. We had to mak