Student Question: What, if anything, did you gain by reading this book? Should I use it again some time with another class in the month of March? Why or Why not?
Student Question: How does this chapter remind you of something else?
For example: something you have read before, somewhere you have visited, someone you know? Student Question: If your main character were deserted on a desert island, what 3 personal objects would they want with them and why?
Student Question: What is the setting of your book (time and place)? How would the story change if you changed the setting. Give me at least one specific example.
Student Question: Discuss a funny or ironic part of the story was in your book. (Sixth) Nonfiction: 3 facts you learned 2 nonfiction characteristics that were helpful in your book 1 question you have after reading What would you be willing to die for?
Is learning how to read worth the risk? Would you take the risk? Why or why not?
Student Question: How do you compare to the main character of your book? My Question: What would you die for? Would you die for truth? Would you risk your life so that the truth might be revealed to others? Die for the freedom of speech? The main character in this book, Helmuth Hubener, was an actual 16-year-old German living through the Nazi regime during WWII who is sentenced to death for listening to a British radio station for the unvarnished truth of what was happening in the war. (German radios only reported the government's version of what was occurring.) He would then type up pamphlets to be distributed around Hamburg, Germany with the facts. Either of these acts could be seen as treason.
Student Question: What about this book amazed, interested or stood out to you as you read? As I read this book, I am surprised at the organization of this book...it is a chapter book with no chapters. Literally, you begin this book and it is a continuous story until it ends. It is also unique in that it italicizes the words as the narrator tells his story in the present. Most of the story develops in the other sections that flashback to the narrator's past to explain who he has landed himself in jail waiting for his own execution. I can't wait to see how this story unfolds!
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