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Characters in Number the Stars
In this reading worksheet, learners learn that authors often use the first two chapters to introduce characters. While reading Number the Starsby Lois Lowry, students fill out a chart with characters and their relationships to one another.
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Number the Stars Ode to Peter and Lise
For this literature response worksheet, students learn that an ode is a poem written to honor someone. Students create an ode to honor the sacrifices of Peter and Lise in Lois Lowry's Number the Stars.
Penguin Books
An Educator’s Guide to the Works of John Green
The novels of John Green cover the gamut of teenager emotions. A guide to his works provides classroom lesson plans for the novels Looking for Alaska, An Abundance of Katherines, The Fault in Our Stars, and Paper Towns. Each lesson...
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Number The Stars Chapter 1
In this language arts worksheet, students write a summary of Chapter one and answer the related questions for Number The Stars.
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Number The Stars: Chapter 7
In this language arts worksheet, middle schoolers use the sheet in order to answer inferential questions and focus upon the details of Chapter 7 of Number The stars.
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Creating Interesting Characters
What makes a story interesting? Complex characters! As part of a series of worksheets that prepares middle schoolers to write their own novel, the exercises included explain the role of the protagonist, the antagonist, and the supporting...
Indiana University
World Literature: "One Evening in the Rainy Season" Shi Zhecun
Did you know that modern Chinese literature “grew from the psychoanalytical theory of Sigmund Freud”? Designed for a world literature class, seniors are introduced to “One Evening in the Rainy Season,” Shi Zhecun’s stream of...
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Comparing Number the Stars with Little Red Riding Hood Venn Diagram
In this reading worksheet, young scholars use a Venn diagram to compare and contrast Number the Stars and Little Red Riding Hood. Students talk about how Lois Lowry uses the tale in her novel.
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An Educator's Guide to The Green Glass Sea by Ellen Klages
A lot of secrecy shrouded the creation of the atomic bomb. Readers uncover some of that secrecy using an educator's guide for the novel The Green Glass Sea. Three weeks of lesson plans feature discussion questions and reading...
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Same Setting, Different Moods: Voice and Word Choice Using Lord of the Flies
Whether it's dark, delightful, or somber, set the mood with William Golding's Lord of the Flies. High-schoolers practice descriptive writing by creating the appropriate mood for an original scene, starring one of the book's main characters.
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Number The Stars: Characters and Emotions
In this language arts learning exercise, students correlate events of a story with an emotion and then write a description of the story details.
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Fate of Captured Resistance Fighters
In this Language Arts activity, students read about captured resistance fighters during World War II. The article connects to a character represented in the novel Number the Stars.
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During Reading Strategies
"How important is freedom to you and your family?" The guiding question becomes much more powerful after your class reads and responds to a passage from a historical novel. While reading the passage, they complete a graphic organizer...
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Prereading a Novel
In this language arts worksheet, student preread a novel and spend the time to gather information about the plot and characters of the story Number The Stars.
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Swinging on a Star
Students explore the issues that might arise if humans were to go on an interstellar space mission. They synthesize their understanding of interstellar travel by writing scenes from a science fiction novel that would depict such a mission.
Harper Collins
Parrot in the Oven: Response Journal
After completing Chapter 5 of Parrot in the Oven: Mi Vida, readers make text-to-self, text-to-text, and text-to-world connections to Victor Martinez's novel by crafting journal entries addressing comments and questions to characters in...
MENSA Education & Research Foundation
I Need a Superhero
Once the class learns about the hero's journey, they'll find it in every story and movie they see! Take characters from their humble beginnings to their atonement and apotheosis with a set of lessons about the hero's journey focusing...
Penguin Books
An Educator's Guide to Matched by Ally Condie
Even supposed Utopian societies have their flaws. Using an educator's guide, individuals explore the society Ally Condie creates in Matched. Reflective writing prompts double as discussion questions and cover key themes in the novel, as...
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The Village and the Stars
Eighth graders discuss early school memories. They assess hopes and aspirations in greater detail and discover the importance of education as one of the shapes of our 'selves'. They observe parents' reactions to children growing up...
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Number The Stars Geography
In this social studies activity, students look for the location of Denmark and then color the continents of Europe and North America.
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Number The Stars Book Report
In this language arts worksheet, students look for the facts to complete the sheet for a short book report. This includes a short summary.
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Graphic Novel/Comics with Josh Elder
Students read about graphic novels and complete related activities. In this graphic novels lesson, students read about the genre and author Josh Elder. Students complete novel analysis activities for the lesson.
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Jewish Stars of David
Students examine the history of the Holocaust and complete a KWL chart. Using the Internet, they research an aspect of the Holocaust they are interested in and watch a documentary. They read testimonies of survivors and identify other...
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The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe: Anticipation Guide
Before reading The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis, take part in this thought-provoking, pre-reading activity that invites discussion about the story's theme using universal adages.