Number the Stars

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• Number the Stars

  by: Lois Lowry

• ELAR 4.3B

  Developing and sustaining foundational language skills: listening, speaking, reading, writing, and thinking--vocabulary. The student uses newly acquired vocabulary expressively. The student is expected to:

  use context within and beyond a sentence to determine the relevant meaning of unfamiliar words or multiple-meaning words

Tags

CCSS.RL.3.9

CCSS.RL.4.2

CCSS.RL.4.9

CCSS.RL.5.2

CCSS.RL.5.9

What is the definition of impassive?

She glanced through the window, down to the street corner where the soldiers stood, their faces impassive beneath the metal helmets.

(Lowry & Brown, 2004)

• the act or process of moving through, under, over, or past something on the way from one place to another

• not feeling or showing emotion

• going past

• an official document issued by a government, certifying the holder's identity and citizenship

Tags

CCSS.RI.3.4

CCSS.RI.4.4

CCSS.RI.5.4

CCSS.RL.4.4

CCSS.RL.5.4

What does obstinate mean?

"Stand still, Kirsti, Anne-marie ordered silently, praying that somehow the obstinate five-year old would receive the message.

(Lowry & Brown, 2004)

• to block or close up by an obstacle

• annoyingly insensitive or slow to understand

• causing someone to feel deeply hurt, upset, or angry

• not willing to change one's ideas; stubborn

Tags

CCSS.RI.3.4

CCSS.RI.4.4

CCSS.RI.5.4

CCSS.RL.4.4

CCSS.RL.5.1

What does contempt mean?

Three years, Annemarie thought with contempt. Three years they've been in our country, and still they can't speak our language. (Lowry & Brown, 2004)

• a deliberate action aimed at weakening, obstructing, disrupting, or destructing something

• mentally deranged, especially as manifested in a wild or aggressive way

• a feeling of disrespect or disapproval of something or someone

• scared or afraid

Tags

CCSS.RI.4.4

CCSS.RL.3.4

CCSS.RL.4.4

CCSS.RL.5.1

CCSS.RL.5.4

Define sabotage

But Annemarie heard Mama and Papa talk, sometimes at night, about the news they received that way: news of sabotage against the Nazis, bombs hidden and exploded in the factories that produced war materials, and industrial railroad lines damaged so that the goods couldn't be transported. (Lowry & Brown, 2004)

• feel intense or passionate dislike

• make (someone) appear guilty of a crime or wrongdoing

• the act of destroying or damaging something deliberately so that it does not work correctly

• a large extinct carnivorous mammal

Tags

CCSS.RI.3.4

CCSS.RI.5.4

CCSS.RL.3.4

CCSS.RL.4.4

CCSS.RL.5.4

What is the definition of occupation?

There had been no real coffee in Copenhagen since the beginning of the Nazi occupation. (Lowry & Brown, 2004)

• the action, state, or period of occupying or being occupied by military force

• severe physical or mental suffering

• happen; take place

• a person who teaches, especially in a school

Tags

CCSS.RI.3.4

CCSS.RI.5.4

CCSS.RL.3.4

CCSS.RL.5.1

CCSS.RL.5.4