Number the Stars, Chapters 1-3

Opening question: 

Would you ever be willing to risk your life for another person? Under what circumstances might you take this risk?

While few people will ever be called to risk their lives for a friend or neighbor, many of us run into situations that require courage (need us to be brave) to stand up for someone else. Try to remember a situation like that in your own life and describe in your notebook what happened.

• Read chapters 1-3 in Number the Stars to find out how and why the members of the Johansen family take a risk for friends

But first, some background information 

Did You Know?

Throughout their long history, followers of the Jewish faith have faced prejudice and persecution. The Romans banned Jews from the holy city of Jerusalem during the days of the Roman Empire. A thousand years later, Crusaders massacred German Jews. In 1492 the Jewish population was driven from Spain.
By the end of the nineteenth century, most of the world’s Jews lived in Russia and Poland. A big number also lived in Germany, and about one million had emigrated to the United States.
In the late 1870s, some people began to think of Jews as belonging to a different “race,” and some writers and politicians of the time began to criticize Jews for their religious beliefs. Adolf Hitler’s ideas about German “racial purity” were an extension of myths about race. He used these myths to create hatred toward the Jews.

Vocabulary preview for chapters 1-3: 

https://quizlet.com/139475139/number-the-stars-chapter-1-flash-cards/ 
https://quizlet.com/93977930/number-the-stars-chapter-2-and-3-flash-cards/