Experience courage and compassion during World War II with the Number the Stars Student Directed Literature Unit by Epiphany Curriculum, designed for grades 5-7. This engaging worktext accompanies Lois Lowry's Newbery Award-winning novel about friendship, family risks, and the Danish resistance to Nazi occupation and Jewish persecution. Students master vocabulary, grammar, composition, spelling, story elements, and figurative language while learning proofreading symbols and crafting an expository magazine article on Denmark's WWII role. With a student-directed, low teacher-involvement format, multi-sensory activities, varied assignments, occasional tests (answer keys included), and a secular design, it's excellent for standalone use or pairing with World Wars social studies, encouraging deep literary exploration and effective writing skills.
Moving Beyond the Page: Number the Stars Student Directed Literature Unit
Description
In this Newberry Award winning novel, two friends' lives are turned upside down as a result of the Nazi occupation of Denmark. Jewish people all over Europe are facing persecution, and it is only becoming more extreme. Ellen and her family fear for their freedom and their lives. Annemarie's family risks everything by taking Ellen into their home and eventually helping Jewish families as they try to escape being captured by the Nazi army. In this unit learn common proofreading symbols that will help you edit and revise your writing assignments. Then pretend you are a journalist writing and expository piece for a magazine article that highlights Denmark's involvement in World War II
This unit can be used independently, but it is also designed to be used concurrently with the social studies unit World Wars I and II.
A set of Literature Units (LU) is a complete language arts curriculum teaching vocabulary, grammar, composition, spelling, story elements, and figurative language in the context of popular children's books. LUs each explore one facet of a concept that ties three units together. Each unit has a primary book that is studied for 2-3 weeks and may include additional titles. these concept-based studies allow your child to compare/contrast themes and characters across novels.
Lessons are structured and easy to use but extremely varied, often with several options for an assignment. In lower grades each Literature Package contains the LU and the corresponding novel and possibly other components. Student Activity Page Sets are not included in the packages. The LU includes these pages (single-sided and usable but not reproducible).
Beginning with Gr 4-6, the Student Directed Literature Units (SDLU) are Worktexts with instruction written directly to the student. Each package contains the SDLU, the corresponding novel, and sometimes other books. Upper levels provide rigorous and challenging studies with occasional tests (answer keys included).
| Product Format: | Softcover Book |
|---|---|
| Grades: | 5-7 |
| Brand: | Epiphany Curriculum |
| ISBN: | 9781638510840 |
| Length in Inches: | 12 |
| Width in Inches: | 9 |
| Height in Inches: | 0.5 |
| Weight in Pounds: | 1.0625 |