Children are taught at the earliest levels to share and play nice with each other. They are taught that everyone should be treated with the same respect even though some people may look different from one another. It is important to instill this tolerance in children from the earliest age, because...
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The Holocaust The title of my book is Number the Stars by Lois Lowry and it is a historical fiction. My book was about a jewish girl named Ellen that stays with her best friend's family the Johansens to avoid being caught by the nazis and relocated along with her family. I selected this book...
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Close reading and response to literature Number The Stars -Lois Lowry 1. What are the major themes of this book ? Difficulty of growing up The author Lois Lowry uses the context of World War II as a way of making the difficulties stand out more clearly. The novel focuses on Annemarie Johansen's...
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Number the Stars Book Critique Vandana Number the Stars is a very touching, interesting, and realistic book. In other words, I liked it very, very, very much. It taught me a lot about the German occupation during World War II, especially in Denmark. I had learned before in school about how the...
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Number the Stars Lois Lowry is the author of Number the stars. She published her book in 1989 by Random House in New York. Her books have a variety of styles and content, but they all have the same general theme, such as, number the stars is set in a different culture and era but all her books...
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exposition: 10-year-old Annemarie Johansen and her best friend Ellen Rosen were normal girls living in Copenhagen, Denmark. When walking home from school one day with Kirsti, Annemarie’s sister, they ran into German soldiers... literally! The soldiers questioned the girls about what they were doing...
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EssayAnna Wall 2/6/13 block 3 *To introduce what I am writing about I will start off by saying I have chosen some interesting facts to compare between the books number the stars and the movie miracle at midnight. They are both about Jews trying to get away from the Nazis. I will compare the Star...
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Iesha Magallanes Annemarie is the bravest girl I’ve ever known of. She is extremely clever for a ten year old. She is compassionate and loving toward others. She is very naive; she needs to prepare herself when she faces the worst. She appeals to me because she reminds me of my niece. All in all...
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“Ellen had said that her mother was afraid of the ocean, that it was too cold and too big. The sky was, too, thought Annemarie. The whole world was: too cold, too big. And too cruel.” — Chapter 12, Page 98 — “She fell asleep, and it was a sleep as thin as the night clouds, dotted with dreams that...
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