The+Boy+in+Striped+Pyjamas

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= = BEFORE VIEWS media type="custom" key="21267854" =Response Activities.= || · When and where is the book set?
 * ==Chapter 1 and 2== ||
 * __**Setting **__

__**Bruno **__ · How old is he? · Where does he live and with whom? · What impression do we get of his character? Copy quotes from the book which illustrate this. · How would you summarise his life in Berlin? · How does he react to the camp and the people there? · Why do you think that the new house makes him feel “empty and cold” **(p13)**

__**Father **__ · What can you infer about Bruno’s father from the information in Chapter One?

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__**Response Activity:**__ Building a case Click the voicethread, listen and give your ideas. There are three pages to comment on. || Go to your page and click on the reading response link to post your answers.
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· On p21, Bruno gives her the title of “The Hopeless Case” and “Trouble from Day One.” What does this tell you about Gretel and Bruno’s relationship? · She calls their new home “Out-With” (p24). Why do you think it is called this? What does it make you think of?
 * ==Chapter 3 and 4== ||
 * __**Gretel **__

__**<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">The “Out With” house **__ <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">· On **p26**, the house is described as “hollow” and feeling like it “might collapse around their ears”. What impression does this give of “Out-With”? Why do you think John Boyne used this description?

__**<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">The People Outside **__ <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Read the description of the people on **p36 – 38.** <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">· What impression do we get of the people? <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">· How do Bruno and Gretel’s reactions differ? <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">media type="custom" key="21350922"

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Make a list of **words or phrases** that suggest **danger**. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Complete a wordle for this activity. Snap shot your wordle and put it on your reading response page. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: 0px; overflow: hidden; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">

__**<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Response Activity: **__

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">In groups, make notes on the following extract on the voice thread, showing which words and phrases hint at **danger** and how they //achieve this//. || Go to your page and click on the reading response link to post your answers.
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">· Why is she afraid when she realises that Maria has overheard her **(p40)**?
 * ==Chapter 5== ||  ||   ||
 * __**<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Mother **__

__**<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Father **__ <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">· What sort of person is he? Copy quotes from the book which give you clues. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">· What sort of relationship does he have with Bruno? Find and copy clues from the book. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">· What does he do at the camp? Copy quotes from the book which give you clues. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">· Father describes the people on the other side of the fence as “those people.. well, they’re not people at all…at least not as we understand the term.” **(p53)**. How does this statement make you feel?

__**<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">“Out-With” **__ <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">· On p41, there is a description of the trains. What does this tell you?

__<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">**Response Activity:** __ ||  ||   || media type="custom" key="21447714"
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 19.2px;">Thinking about what you have read so far, add your ideas about the setting of the story and the characters onto a mind42 map.Embed your mind map onto your reading response page. ||  ||   ||
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">· What do we learn about her in Chapter 6? Write at least 2 points with quotes to support your answers. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">· Explain what you think she means when she says on p62 “He has a lot of kindness in his soul, truly he does which makes me wonder… … wonder what he … how he can…”
 * ==Chapter 6, 7 and 8== ||
 * __**<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Maria **__

__**<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Pavel **__ <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">· On **p75**, we are introduced to Pavel. Who is he and what is his role in the house? <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">· Why does Lieutenant Kotler speak so horribly to him? <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">· What does Pavel’s response to the accident tell us about him? <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">· On **p82**, Pavel says”Just because a man glances up at the sky at night does not make him an astronomer you know.” What does he mean by this? <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">· Why does mother say that she will say that she cleaned Bruno up if Father asks? <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">media type="custom" key="21539008"

__**<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Response Activity: **__ || <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 20.8px; line-height: 0px; overflow: hidden;"> ||
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 20.8px;">Use a Wordle to complete a character description on Maria or Pavel. Take a snapshot of your Wordle and place it on your reading response page.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">· On **p108**, Bruno and Shmuel meet for the first time. Why do you think that they become friends? <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">· On **p111-112**, Bruno says that Poland is “not as good as Germany” and that “Germany is the greatest of all countries… we’re superior.” Why do you think that Shmuel says nothing in relation to this?
 * ==Chapters 9, 10, 11 and 12== ||
 * __**<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Friendship **__

__**<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Comparison between Bruno and Shmuel **__ <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">· Read the bottom 2 lines of **p127 – p131**. Copy and complete the following table to show how things are different for the 2 boys:

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Do you agree with Bruno when he thinks that what happened to Shmuel “didn’t seem like such a terrible thing to him, and after all, much the same thing had happened to him” ? **P130** Why? || media type="custom" key="21661396"

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Use the ideas in the table and put into the Venn Diagram. Add more of your own ideas to compare and contrast Shmuel and Bruno. Embed in your Venn Diagram on your reading response page. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">
 * __**<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> SHMUEL **__ || __**<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> BRUNO **__ ||
 * || <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> Never given an armband ||
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> Moved to a part of town with a big wall around ||  ||
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> Lived in a room with 11 people ||  ||
 * || <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> Travelled in a train with doors past buffet ||
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> Walked to “Out-with” from the train ||  ||
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> Mama taken away ||  ||
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> Shmuel, Papa and Josef put into huts ||  ||
 * || <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> No one to play with ||


 * __**Response Activity**__ ||
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 20.8px;">Class activity: Create a freeze frame for the given scene. Take a picture and annotate using fotobabble. Think about angle of body, facial expression, use of props,status etc. Embed your freeze frame on your reading response page.

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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">· On **p 138 – 139**, Bruno becomes irritated with Shmuel because he doesn’t know Pavel. What does this conversation tell you about Bruno? <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">· On **p 140**, Shmuel says that “there aren’t any good soldiers”. Why does he say this? What does Bruno’s response tell you about his knowledge of father? <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">· On **p 141**, Shmuel begins to shiver when they talk about Lieutenant Kotler. Why does he do this? What do you think about Bruno’s reaction?
 * ==Chapters 13 and 14== ||
 * __**<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Bruno and Shmuel **__

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">__**Lieutenant Kotler and Pavel**__ <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">· On **p 142 - 143**, Bruno notices some changes in Pavel. Describe the changes and explain why they have happened. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">· On **p 148,** Lieutenant Kotler becomes “very angry” with Pavel. What is behind his reaction? Why does no one stop him “doing what he did next”?

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">__**Bruno**__ <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">· On **p 155** Bruno tells Gretel that Shmuel is an imaginary friend. Why does he do this? What does this tell you about Bruno by this stage of the book? <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">· On **p 158**, Bruno tells Gretel about Shmuel’s grandfather. What do you think has happened to him? How can you tell this? || media type="custom" key="21685824"

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">· Read **p 162 – 166**. Describe Bruno’s feelings towards Lieutenant Kotler. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">· Why doesn’t Bruno try to protect Shmuel? Use quotes to back your answer. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">· What is your view of Kotler? Why? <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">· On **p 174**, How do you feel towards Bruno? <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">· On **p174**, Shmuel forgives Bruno. Why? What is important about how he forgives him? <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">· What has happened to Shmuel in the meantime? How do we know?
 * ==Chapters 15 and 16== ||
 * __**<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Lieutenant Kotler and Shmuel **__

__**<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Bruno and Shmuel **__ <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">· On **p 178**, Bruno notes that Shmuel seems happier. Why do you think this is? <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">· What has happened to Lieutenant Kotler? Why? <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">· On **p 184**, Bruno’s head is shaved. Why is this important?

__**<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Gretel **__ <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">· Read **p 181- 183**. How has Gretel changed? Who has influenced her? || media type="custom" key="21685832"

Go to your page and click on the reading response link to post your letter. == Make comparisons between the Novel and the Video using the **Venn Diagram**below. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Embed in your Venn Diagram on your reading response page. Create **Book Report** on the Boy in the Striped Pyjamas. Look at the examples of Book Reports and select one to create your own Book Report.
 * ==Chapters 17 and 18== ||
 * <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 20.8px;">Write a letter from Mother to a friend in Berlin, telling them of her relief that she will soon be returning home. ||
 * ==Chapters 19 and 20== ||



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