Number the Stars Spelling/Vocabulary on Quizlet

We are about to begin our exploration of WWII through the novel Number the Stars by Lois Lowry.  To prepare for this novel unit, students are researching the setting of Denmark in geography and building background knowledge about the war through video and non-fiction resources.  This background knowledge will provide a scaffold on which to build their understanding of the events and the characters’ feelings and motivations in the story.

In addition to text based spelling and vocabulary activities and assessments, students will create a graphic novel version of the book as their novel based project.  Students will be assigned chapters and tasked with choosing the 8 most important events to depict and convey in the very concise graphic novel format.

Students are also practicing interacting with the text by making predictions before reading each day.  These predictions are on their blogs.  Ask your 6th grader if their predictions panned out!  🙂

In geography, we are finally ready to apply all we have learned about climate, land forms, and the elements of culture to actual places in the world.  We start with Northern and Southern Europe.