Choose a short passage from your novel that made an impact on you as you read it, that made you stop and think maybe even say "Oh wow" to yourself. It may have made you stop and think because you made a personal connection. It may have made you wonder and ask a question. It may have made you react in some emotional way to the words on the paper. In your response, quote the passage and list the page number that it can be found on. Explain, in detail, why you chose this passage, what reason did you have that made you stop and think or had you reacting in some way. Include your feelings and emotions as well as state any connections you made (text to self, text to text, text to world). An example from another novel of how to start is this:
"Big signs were posted at the pool saying"No Jews or Dogs Allowed". pg 14
As I read this passage I couldn't believe that this could happen. How could the Jewish even be compared to dogs?"
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ReplyDeletenumber the stars is a great book
ReplyDeletei am likeing this book so far
ReplyDeleteI love number the stars so far it is very clear and understandable. I especially like what it is about because i know that i like to stick together with my friends and never turn away from them. I think i will be able to connect to this book a lot.
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ReplyDeleteI think I'll enjoy this book and i pretty much have 110 pages left. Nom Nom Nom!!!
ReplyDeletepg 55
ReplyDeletei knew what she was about to say: this is our freind ellen and its her new year. if that happend i would never forgive my sister if she said that.
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ReplyDeletePg.12-13 "Now you are special forever," Lise had told her once,"because you have been greeted by a king." I would feel so special and happy if I was Anne-marie and my big sister had told that.
ReplyDeletePg."The boy looked right at the soldier, and he said,'All of Denmark is his bodyguard.' "
I had shivers and was wondering if all of Denmark would die for the king would he die for all of Denmark? The soldiers are taking over his country and so far is just watching his country being taken away from him and being destroyed. Would the king die for the jews? Is he going to protect them?
I like this book allot and easy to read. PG 7 why is their a line over the O like this Ø. I dont know if thats german.
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Deletei think it is for the name of the street but i might be wrong
and if you want to figuer out you sould search up what it means
spelling error!!!!!
Delete"look at this button, it has broken right in half. Anne marie, take kirsti with you after school to the little shop where mrs. Hirsch sells thred and buttons, see if you can buy one to match the other. after school the girls stopped at the store which has been there for as long as Anne marie could remember and they found it closed"... this paragraph made me go wow, i think that mrs. Hirsch was gone with somthing to do with the solders and the war and thats why i was really amazed with it and i wanted to read more.
ReplyDeleteI was reading my book on sunday and was looking back at all the chapters and the titles that they had, and i noticed that most of the titles were questions and some were statements or facts and references to the questions like telling you what's going to happen or hinting you on something telling you something i thought that this was very cool then wondering if it was trying to tell me something because i haven't seen any books that have questions as titles for the chapters.
ReplyDeletethats cool you noticed that
DeletePg: 13
ReplyDelete"So she turned her again to the king, who was still alive, as Lise was not".
When I read this passage it got me thinking about how did Lise die and how did this happen?
Pg: 53
" The men in his office, he said, making a face, smoked almost anything: sometimes dried weeds rolled in paper, and the smell was terrible".
When I read that sentence, I was like OOH WOW they smoked weed in WW2.
Chapter.9 and 10 I felt confused at the whole part where it was talking about the "Great Aunt Brite" I was wondering why they were lying and why Ellen"s parents were at this "funeral". I felt this way because Anne-marie was confused and Uncle Henrik said "Sometimes it is easier to be brave without knowing all the facts. I started to question the whole story when i read about this fake funeral,I was thinking, if Anne-marie has no Aunt brite then who is in the casket? Why did she not know some of the people ho were sitting in her Uncle's house?
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It wasn't weed the drug it was weeds that you find on the ground that they rolled up in paper after they dried them out.
@epicgamer11 The O is like that because it is a name of a street in denmark so it's just the way that their O's are in Denmark, or possibly German.
@everyone is anybody done the book?
pg 14
ReplyDeleteyes he said at last it is true. any danish citizen would die for a christian king to protect him you to papa yes and mama mama too.
this made me feel envied i couldn't imagine my mom and dad dying to protect a king after that he said "then i would die to" this really made my heart beat. my question is how would this protect the king?
that part you choose to write was a good choice i connected to that part too
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ReplyDeleteYou need to capitalize some of your words.
"My Aunt Gitte lived there, in that house" she pointed "and she's been dead for years".
ReplyDeleteWhen I read this I thought of the previous things that happen such as Lise being dead, grandparents being dead. Then I thought to my self "WOW she has a lot of dead relatives".
@bling bling What they are saying his that instead of the king dying that they would die instead of him. If everyone in the country would die for him that means that he means a lot to his country and that he has kept his country safe and free but does it stay that way, what happens to the Jews, Ellen her mother and father, where do they go how do they get there do they stay alive or no? There are so many ways the story could end, how do you think it will end?
ReplyDelete@grizzly bear fang Her family has lived there for many many years and their families were so big and the country isn't incredibly wealthy so the people only live to around 70 maybe.
@Haley
ReplyDeleteYou have a few spelling errors on your May.7.2012.
I'm on chapter 9 now and I really like the book but saw some words that I also saw at the begining of the book like Copenhagen, Osterbrogade, Hillerod and Norrebro but then I realizes that their in Denmark, Germany and those words are German.
ReplyDeletepg 9 there is no butter or suger for yellow frosted cupcakes. i was wundering why they have no butter and suger. there is a war going on but this confused me a bit.
ReplyDeletepg 67 with her shoving the kittys face in the water bowl. this made me laught a bit because it is pretty funny how she is shoving the cats face in the water bowl.
i liked that part on pg67 too
Delete@motop2000 and @violet
DeleteBoth of you need to focus on what is important in that part of the story? How is it funny that they are shoving the kittens head in the water bowl? Why are they doing that? More things to think about. I thought that that wasn't very nice to force the kitten to drink the water. What is the kitten wasn't thirsty?
the part in the book when anne marie found out that ellen was a jew suprised me
ReplyDelete@violet yes i agree that part suprised me to.
Deletethat suprised me to when i found out as well
DeleteOn pg7 the O for the name of the bridge has a line over it whats it for??????
ReplyDeletethe O is like that because it's german or because their in denmark
Deletethe O is like that because it's german or because their in denmark
Delete@violet The O looks like that because it is accented latin
Deletei have a cennection to when they got put in the box or mini house and to how they got treaed and how they were fed because i have a friend that came from eathiopia and had two choices either go to war or to be put in a cage or box and they did not get food friends and family would sneek them food so this was very scary for me to hear because it was very identical to his story.
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DeleteWhat page is that on because I would like to know.
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ReplyDeleteYou have lots of spelling errors
@Grizzly bear fang
DeleteI know sorry i will fix it.
Pg: 75-80
ReplyDeleteWas there some random people in Henrik's house or not?
Pg: 48
The officer tore the photograph in half and dropped the pieces on the floor.
Why did the officer rip the photograph of Lise?
Was the officer just angry of being wrong?
@epicgamer11
ReplyDeleteI would also like to find out what that word means.
Ch:10,pg,90 what did she put on the baby's tough that put him to sleep that wouldn't harm it or have side effects?
ReplyDelete@Everyone
ReplyDeleteYou all need to check your spelling errors!!!!????
@Grizzly bear fang
ReplyDeleteyou have some spelling errors.
Trolololololo
Delete"Come directly back to the house after you have seen the Rosens safely to Henrik".
ReplyDeleteWhere is the Rosens going with Henrik?
Chapter 1 and 2 I just started reading Number the Stars and already I have been able to follow the story so easily, easy to understand and I think that is so far is an amazing book! Im so happy that I chose to read this book next because I dont regret it!
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ReplyDeletePg 23, 24 I had a text to text connection when Mrs Hirsch got her store taken away. In the book Daniels Story Daniels dad got his store taken away because he is jewish and every jewish person had to go to jewish school.
ReplyDeleteSomewhere in the end of the book they said Peter got captured and then killed.
ReplyDeleteFirst of all how did Peter get captured?
Somewhere in the middle of the book Annemarie had to give the package that had the handkerchief to her Uncle.
How did the Scientists create the handkerchief?
Finally how did the handkerchief mess with the dogs nose?
Page 29
ReplyDeleteI have a question. Is playing dolls the only thing that they can play? Also, why can't she wear green shoes?
Page 29
Delete"Green!" Kristi wailed. "I will never, ever wear green shoes!"
Why cant Kristi wear green shoes? What does she have against them?
Alone in the apartment while Mama was out shopping with Kristi, Annemarie and Ellen were sprawling on the living room floor playing with paper dolls.
Is playing with dolls the only thing that they can play with?
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ReplyDeletePage 34
ReplyDelete"Girls," she said, "We have a nice surprise. Tonight Ellen will be coming to stay with us for a couple days! It isn't often we have a visitor."
I have a connection to self on that part because sometimes my friends parents would go away for a couple days and then my friends will have to stay at my house until they get home.
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DeleteCan anybody know what does leather pack is?
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ReplyDeleteThis chapter has really grabbed my attention with all of its details and that it is so easy to follow.
I have a text to text connection because Ellen had to be Lise (Annemarie's sister) to make it like she is not one of the Rosens.
Because she is being Lise, it's like she is hiding. This is because she is in a disguise. So she is hiding from the soldiers.
In Jacob's rescue, he had to hide in places so he would not be found by the Nazi soldiers.
SMALL SPOILER ALERT!!!
ReplyDelete"How did your sister die, Annemarie?" Ellen asked suddenly. "I remember when it happened. And I remember the funeral-it was the only time I have ever been in a Lutheran church. But I never knew just what happened."
"i don't know exactly," Annemarie confessed. "She and Peter were out somewhere together, and then there was a telephone call, that there had been an accident. Mama and Papa rushed to the hospital-remember, your mother came and stayed with me and Kristi? Kristi was already asleep and she slept right through everything, she was so little then. But I stayed up, and I was with your mother in the living room when my parents came home in the middle of the night. And they told me that Lise had died.
-Page 40-41
If I was in the position that Annemarie was in, I would be crying. Reading this passage almost made my heart skip a beat and I almost cried.
I can not imagine being Annemarie and having to stay with my friends parents and when my parents got home they told me that my sister has died. That would be a very hard position to be in.
Wouldn't this not happen if Lise and Peter were outside together that late at night?
I remember when I heard that something has happened to my cousin. He did not die but I was heart broken because I was told that he has broken a lot of bones.
@Courtney cash
DeleteI had to stop and think as well when I read this because you suddenly get told that your sister had died doesn't that want to make you cry? And you don't really remember what had happened to her...
For me loosing a sibling is just isn't imaginable because they are so close to you and they always will be...
I had a wow moment by thinking like "Annemarie can maake better story than me!"
ReplyDeleteWhoops! Spelling error!!!!
DeleteWhat is snuggled mean?
ReplyDeleteIs Danish is a religion?
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