ENGLISH 8

Put book covers on our novels.
Handed in parent signature forms. 
Checked in Book Thief work. Some did not quite finish the reading or the questions, so you have a few extra days to complete. Make sure to do Prologue and Part 1 questions by Monday and stick to the regular Book Thief schedule from thereon. 

A little bit of background on the author.

Australian author Markus Zusak grew up hearing stories about World War II and Nazi Germany, where his parents grew up, about the bombing of Munich, and about Jews being marched through his mother’s small German town.   He always knew there was a story he wanted to tell. “We have these images of the straight-marching lines of boys and the ‘Heil Hitlers” and this idea that everyone in Germany was in it together. But there still were rebellious children and people who didn’t follow the rules and people who hid Jews and other people in their houses. So there’s another side

“I thought of Hitler destroying people with words, and now I had a girl who was stealing  them back, as she read books with the young Jewish man in her basement and calmed people down in the bomb shelters. She writes her own story–and it’s a beautiful story– through the ugliness of the world that surrounds her.’’

He published the book when he was 30 years old. Twenty million copies have been sold in several different languages.

We began discussion on prologue and Part 1 of The Book Thief. We listened to some of it on audio, from a really good reader who helped with understanding a book which, at first may seem a little confusing.

Why do you think Zusak chose Death as the narrator, and a narrator with such a kind, friendly demeanor?

Stay current with the reading. Get going on the next parts of the book!

HW: Mon: It's your extra day for Prologue and Part 1. Worksheet questions checked. Maybe a quiz?
Weds. Read Parts 2 &3.Complete WS
Fri: Read Part 4. Complete WS