Jayden Fletcher - NTS Literature Response Journal - 4464258

Number the Stars

Reflection Journal

By: Jayden Fletcher

Building Background
Knowledge

Learning Target: I can compare and contrast two or more
characters, settings, or events in a story, drawing on specific
details in the text.

Background of this Story:
In some countries around the world the government is

called a dictatorship. In a dictatorship, one person or a small
group of people have complete control of the country. In many
cases the military enforces the control. If a person does not
follow the rules, they may be arrested, threatened, scared, or
tortured. The citizens of that country are not allowed to talk or
act against the dictatorship. A person can be rewarded if they
tell the dictatorship about other people who are against the
government.

Interpretive Question: How does the dictatorship
system of government in the story affect Pedro, his
family, and the citizens it governs?

R Restate the Question (green) Mrs. Rodriguez’s Example
- Read the question or prompt In the book, The Composition,
- Underline keywords Pedro, his family, and their entire
- Rewrite the question as a community are negatively affected by
statement using your own words the dictatorship government. One
example from the text of the problems
A Answer the Question (green) that the dictatorship caused can be
- Answer the question found on page 8. Don Daniel was
*If there is more that one part of dragged down the street by two men
the question, make sure to answer who were “pointing machine guns at
ALL parts. him.” This clearly shows that the
dictatorship is treating the people in
C Cite Evidence (yellows) the community poorly by threatening
- Use evidence from the text to them with weapons. Pedro’s parents
support your answer. lived in fear that they would be caught
-Include both paraphrased going against the government. They
evidence and direct quotes had to turn their radio down very low
so that they wouldn’t be caught
Possible evidence starters: listening. Pedro’s mom was so scared
According to the text… that she “cried silently at the table.”
For example… This is further evidence that the
On page ___ it says… government was making the people
Further support can be found... live in fear and even their daily tasks
In the article/ chapter it states... are being impacted. Finally, Pedro
himself was negatively affected by the
E Explain (reds) government. He was put in the
- Explain how each piece of text position of having to lie on his
evidence supports your answer. composition so that his parents
wouldn’t be caught. The dictatorship
Possible explain starters: tried to turn children against their
This clearly shows that… own parents. Obviously, the
This means that… dictatorship created fear and
This further supports the idea that… hardships for everyone that Pedro was
close to in his life.
S Sum it Up (green)
- Conclude your answer
- Link back to the topic sentence
using different words

Possible summary starters:
Clearly Definitely Certainly
To sum up In fact Obviously

Building Background
Knowledge

World War II and
the Holocaust

Learning Target: I can provide a summary of the text that
includes the main ideas and key details, as well as other
important information.

Summary of the article:
The article “World War II and the Holocaust” about

how Adolf Hitler set out to rule the world. He came into power
in 1933 and began to harass Jews. Starting in 1941, Jewish
people were sent to concentration camps. In these camps
over 6 million died. He joined forces with Japan and Italy .
When Japan bombed Pearl harbor on December 7, 1941, the
United States entered the war and fought against the powers
until September 2, 1945 when the war ended.

Building Background
Knowledge

Underground
Movements

Learning Target: I can explain the relationships or interactions
between two or more individuals, events, ideas, or concepts in a
historical, scientific, or technical text based on specific
information in the text.

How have underground movements affected events
Undergrou
throughout history? nd

movement Not all

s to help underground

Underground the JEWS movements

Railroad ESCAPE are “good

guys.”

Underground
Movements

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north for
slaves NOT A
RAILROAD!!!

Building Background
Knowledge

Learning Target: I can compare and contrast two or more
characters, settings, or events in a story, drawing on specific
details in the text.

Background of this Story:
“For centuries, the Star of David was a symbol of Jewish

pride. But during World War II, Nazis used the Star to
segregate and terrorize the Jewish people. Except in
Denmark. When Nazi soldiers occupied his country, King
Christian X of Denmark committed himself to keeping all
Danes safe from harm. The bravery of the Danes and their
king has inspired many legends. The most enduring is the
legend of the yellow star, which symbolizes the loyalty and
fearless spirit of the king and his people.”

Source: Peachtree Publishers

Interpretive Question: How did King Christian X’s
response to the yellow Star order in the story
affect the citizens of Denmark?

R Restate the Question (green) Team Response:
- Read the question or prompt
- Underline keywords In the book, The Yellow Stars, it shows
- Rewrite the question as a that King Christian’s response to the
statement using your own words Yellows Star order was a good thing for
the people of Denmark
A Answer the Question (green) According to the text, the king called
- Answer the question tailor to the palace. He had him sew a
*If there is more that one part of yellow star onto his uniform and said you
the question, make sure to answer do know understands what this means?´
ALL parts. The king was respected and powerful. If
he was willing to wear the star and stand
C Cite Evidence (yellows) by the jews, all the people would know
- Use evidence from the text to they should do the same thing.
support your answer. On the last page of the book, we see that
-Include both paraphrased the people are all wearing yellow stars.
evidence and direct quotes This supports the idea that king
Christian’s idea was good because the
Possible evidence starters: Nazi’s couldn’t tell who was the jews.
According to the text…
For example… Clearly, the king’s response was a
On page ___ it says… positive thing for the people of Denmark.
Further support can be found...
In the article/ chapter it states...

E Explain (reds)
- Explain how each piece of text
evidence supports your answer.

Possible explain starters:
This clearly shows that…
This means that…
This further supports the idea that…

S Sum it Up (green)
- Conclude your answer
- Link back to the topic sentence
using different words

Possible summary starters:
Clearly Definitely Certainly
To sum up In fact Obviously

Number the
Stars

Interpretive
Question
Responses

Learning Target: I can quote accurately from a text when explaining what the text
says explicitly and when drawing inferences from the text.

Chapter 1

How are the characters’ lives
different than ours?

R Restate the Question (green) In the story, Number the Stars,
- Read the question or prompt there are many ways the
- Underline keywords characters lives are different from
- Rewrite the question as a ours. In the text it says, “Halte!”
statement using your own words the soldier ordered in a stern
voice.” In OHIO, we do not have
A Answer the Question (green) soldiers telling kids what to do.
- Answer the question We also do not have soldiers
*If there is more that one part of the around every corner of the street.
question, make sure to answer ALL It also states in the text, “There
parts. hasn't been any butter, or sugar
for cupcakes, for a long time.” It
C Cite Evidence (yellows) also states in the text that they do
- Use evidence from the text to not have coffee. But we always
support your answer. have coffee, sugar for cupcakes,
-Include both paraphrased and butter in OHIO. It says in the
evidence and direct quotes text that some of the Danish
families have secret illegal
Possible evidence starters: newspapers called the De Frie
According to the text… Danske -The Free Danes. In OHIO I
For example… think we do not have secret
On page ___ it says… illegal newspapers. As you can
Further support can be found... see, there are many ways our
In the article/ chapter it states... lives are different from the lives of
the Number the Stars characters.
E Explain (reds)
- Explain how each piece of text
evidence supports your answer.

Possible explain starters:
This clearly shows that…
This means that…
This further supports the idea that…

S Sum it Up (green)
- Conclude your answer
- Link back to the topic sentence
using different words

Possible summary starters:
Clearly Definitely Certainly
To sum up In fact Obviously

Learning Target: I can quote accurately from a text when explaining what the text
says explicitly and when drawing inferences from the text.

Chapter 2

How does this picture relate to the chapter?

My Thoughts:
The picture above relates to the story because in
the story Annemarie was stopped by two guards,
so the king and the queen must be those two
guards and the boy in the red hat and cape must be
Annemarie. So that is how the story relates to this
to the picture.

Learning Target: I can determine a theme of a story from details in the text,
including how characters in a story respond to challenges.

R Restate the Question (green) Chapter 3
- Read the question or prompt
- Underline keywords “Now I think all of Denmark
- Rewrite the question as a must be the bodyguard for
statement using your own words the Jews as well.” What does

A Answer the Question (green) this mean?
- Answer the question
*If there is more that one part of Response:
the question, make sure to answer
ALL parts. In the story Number the Stars,
Annemarie says, ¨Now I think
C Cite Evidence (yellows) all of Denmark must be the
- Use evidence from the text to bodyguard for the Jews as well.¨
support your answer. What does this mean? I think it
-Include both paraphrased means the People of Denmark
evidence and direct quotes will protect the Jews because in
hie text it says, ¨All of Denmark
Possible evidence starters: is his bodyguard.¨ ¨His¨ is tie
According to the text… King of Denmark, king
For example… Christian. It means they would
On page ___ it says… protect king Christian. So I
Further support can be found... think that when it means by
In the article/ chapter it states... ¨Now I think all of Denmark
must be the bodyguard for the
E Explain (reds) Jews as well¨, it means the
- Explain how each piece of text people of Denmark will protect
evidence supports your answer. the Jews from the Germans. So
I think it means the people of
Possible explain starters: Denmark will protect the Jews.
This clearly shows that…
This means that…
This further supports the idea that…

S Sum it Up (green)
- Conclude your answer
- Link back to the topic sentence
using different words

Possible summary starters:
Clearly Definitely Certainly
To sum up In fact Obviously

Learning Target: I can quote accurately from a text when explaining what the text
says explicitly and when drawing inferences from the text.

Chapter 4

How does this picture relate to the chapter?

I think the picture relates to the story
because in chapter 4, There was booming
outside and the mom said it was fireworks
but it was atcherley the sound of bombs.

Learning Target: I can compare and contrast two or more characters, settings, or
events in a story, drawing on specific details in the text.

Chapter 5

Compare and contrast the Danish Citizens and Nazis.
The first attribute has been chosen for you. Choose at

least two additional attributes to compare.

Danish Attributes Nazi Soldiers
Citizens Being
The Nazi soldiers
The Danish citizens Compared want to take the Jew.
want to protect the
Feelings about the
Jews. Jewish people.

The Danish citizens Both speak a The Nazi soldiers
speak Danish. different language. speak German.

The Danish citizens Both have different The Nazi soldiers
where normal clothes. were Nazi uniforms.
clothes.

Learning Target: I can quote accurately from a text when explaining what the text
says explicitly and whendrawing inferences from the text.

Chapter 6

How does this picture relate to the chapter?

My Thoughts:

The picture above relates to chapter 6 because it says in the text that
Annemarie's father liked cigarettes and that cigarettes were not aloud in
denmark.

Learning Target: I can quote accurately from a text when explaining what the text
says explicitly and when drawing inferences from the text.

Chapter 7-8
How does war change people?
R Why?

Restate the Question (green)
- Read the question or prompt
- Underline keywords
- Rewrite the question as a
statement using your own words

A Answer the Question (green) War changes people in many ways. It says
- Answer the question in the text that the Jews were taken from
*If there is more that one part of the Germans. This proves that the Jews'
the question, make sure to answer lives were different because before the
ALL parts. war, the Jews were not taken from the
Germans. It also stated in the text, There
C Cite Evidence (yellows) aren't any soldiers here, too?¨ This also
- Use evidence from the text to proves that war can change people
support your answer. because there weren't soldiers looking for
-Include both paraphrased people before the war. Lastly, it states in
evidence and direct quotes the text that Anmareis when mother and
her mother's brother talked they always
Possible evidence starters: laughed but now they did not laugh. This
According to the text… also proves that war can change people in
For example… many ways because it makes them sad. As
On page ___ it says… you can see, war can change people in
Further support can be found... many ways.
In the article/ chapter it states...

E Explain (reds)
- Explain how each piece of text
evidence supports your answer.

Possible explain starters:
This clearly shows that…
This means that…
This further supports the idea that…

S Sum it Up (green)
- Conclude your answer
- Link back to the topic sentence
using different words

Possible summary starters:
Clearly Definitely Certainly
To sum up In fact Obviously

Learning Target: I can determine a theme of a story, from details in the text,
including how characters in a story respond to challenges.

Chapter 9-10

Compare and contrast Mama and
Annemarie and how they faced the
challenges when the German soldiers

came to the “funeral.”

Mama Attributes Annemarie
Being

Compared

Spoke to the soldiers. How they reacted Did nothing.
when the soldiers

came.

Stayed calm. What they did after Panicked.
the germans left.

Spoke to the soldiers What they said. Said mostly nothing.

Learning Target: I can quote accurately from a text when explaining what the text
says explicitly and when drawing inferences from the text.

R Restate the Question (green) Chapter 11
- Read the question or prompt
- Underline keywords When is telling the truth
- Rewrite the question as a important? When is not
statement using your own words
telling the truth important?
A Answer the Question (green)
- Answer the question In some chapters of Number the
*If there is more that one part of Stars there are some ways that
the question, make sure to answer telling the is important and not
ALL parts. telling the truth is important. In
chapter 5 Mama said that Ellen
C Cite Evidence (yellows) was her daughter but it was not
- Use evidence from the text to true. Not telling the was
support your answer. important because if Mama did
-Include both paraphrased tell the truth, they wuold have
evidence and direct quotes taken Ellen away. Not telling truth
was important because in chapter
Possible evidence starters: 10, the officer asked who died and
According to the text… if Annmarie did tell the truth, the
For example… officer would have arrested
On page ___ it says… everybody. As nobody could see,
Further support can be found... there are many ways that telling
In the article/ chapter it states... the is important and not telling
the truth is important.
E Explain (reds)
- Explain how each piece of text
evidence supports your answer.

Possible explain starters:
This clearly shows that…
This means that…
This further supports the idea that…

S Sum it Up (green)
- Conclude your answer
- Link back to the topic sentence
using different words

Possible summary starters:
Clearly Definitely Certainly
To sum up In fact Obviously

Learning Target: I can determine a theme of a story, from details in the text,
including how characters in a story respond to challenges.

Chapter 12-13

How does this text relate to Number the stars and
particularly Annemarie in chapter 13?

My Thoughts:

How anmarie saved mama because she fell to the ground from tripping on a
root and breaking here leg.

Learning Target: I can quote accurately from a text when explaining what the text
says explicitly and when drawing inferences from the text.

R Restate the Question (green) Chapter 14-15
- Read the question or prompt
- Underline keywords What is the author’s purpose of
- Rewrite the question as a including the story of Little
statement using your own words Red Riding Hood during
Annemarie’s run through the
forest?

A Answer the Question (green) I think the reason the author put the
- Answer the question story, the little Red Riding Hood during
*If there is more that one part of Annemarie’s run through the forest
the question, make sure to answer because anmarie was wearing a red cloak
ALL parts. and she called herself little Red Riding
Hood. I also think this because the author
C Cite Evidence (yellows) probably did this to pass the time. That is
- Use evidence from the text to why I think the author put the story, the
support your answer. little Red Riding Hood during
-Include both paraphrased Annemarie’s run through the forest.
evidence and direct quotes

Possible evidence starters:
According to the text…
For example…
On page ___ it says…
Further support can be found...
In the article/ chapter it states...

E Explain (reds)
- Explain how each piece of text
evidence supports your answer.

Possible explain starters:
This clearly shows that…
This means that…
This further supports the idea that…

S Sum it Up (green)
- Conclude your answer
- Link back to the topic sentence
using different words

Possible summary starters:
Clearly Definitely Certainly
To sum up In fact Obviously

Chapter 16-17 and
Afterword
Why does the author include the
“Afterword?” Why is it important
to read the afterword, especially
in historical fiction books?
R Restate the Question (green)
- Read the question or prompt
- Underline keywords
- Rewrite the question as a

statement using your own words

A Answer the Question (green) There are many reasons why the author
- Answer the question would put the afterword in the book. My
*If there is more that one part of first reason is because people would like
the question, make sure to answer to hear how the ending of the story
ALL parts. turned out. My second reason is because
people would like to hear what happened
C Cite Evidence (yellows) to Annmarie. That is why the author of
- Use evidence from the text to Number the Stars put in afterword in the
support your answer. story.
-Include both paraphrased
evidence and direct quotes

Possible evidence starters:
According to the text…
For example…
On page ___ it says…
Further support can be found...
In the article/ chapter it states...

E Explain (reds)
- Explain how each piece of text
evidence supports your answer.

Possible explain starters:
This clearly shows that…
This means that…
This further supports the idea that…

S Sum it Up (green)
- Conclude your answer
- Link back to the topic sentence
using different words

Possible summary starters:
Clearly Definitely Certainly
To sum up In fact Obviously