Grade Level: 6
Objective: Student will continue reading Lois Lowry's Number the Stars, using the text to ponder story structure, history, and the concept of courage.
Today we:
-Read chapters 5-10 aloud in Number the Stars
-Learned more about WWII and the Danish Resistance to Nazi occupation
-Wrote a short reflection about "courage" around a specific memory of an instance of personal bravery
Did you know?
-Danish disdain of antisemitism dates back to at least 1690, when a Danish police officer was fired for suggesting the Danes create ghettos for Jewish citizens like other European countries
-In 1814 the Danish government passed a bill that made an discrimination based on race or religion a crime
-Worried about the country's small standing military and the possible loss of Danish lives, Danish King Christian X surrendered to Germany. The country destroyed their naval fleet so it could not be used by Nazis during the occupation.
-When Germany first occupied Denmark in 1840 the former German ambassador to Denmark warned Nazi leaders that it would be a dangerous to the German occupation to limit the rights of Danish Jews in any way
-Members of the Danish Resistance helped nearly 7,000 people—almost the entire population of Danish Jews—cross the sea to freedom in Sweden during the Nazi occupation.
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