A feelings chart is what we are going to do for the exercise. I can see how this can be used for younger students, but I think it is good for middle school students as well. Students at this point in their lives are going through many changes and are having many different feelings. I think it would be great to use Number the Stars to pull out different feelings, and who knows it could help the students with their own lives too.
The book says to make a chart with the events going down and the characters going across. Where they intersect is where you put the feelings. Instead of a chart, we will just list it. I would like to see 2 characters chosen. For each character, find two events throughout the book and think of how that character feels during the event. To make this a bit of a higher level activity, I would like to have one quote from the book that made you think the character was feeling that particular feeling and explain why.
For example:
Mrs. Rosen: The Jewish New Year
Feeling: frightened
Quote: "That afternoon, Mrs. Rosen knocked at their door but didn't come inside. Instead, she spoke for a long time in a hurried, tense voice to Annemarie's mother in the hall"
I think Mrs. Rosen was afraid because she was speaking in a "hurried, tense voice" and usually she stays longer and comes inside. It is a sure sign something is going on and there is something that is frightening her.
Event 2:...............
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Ellen
ReplyDeleteFeeling: Insecure
Quote: "I'm sorry I have dark hair" (50).
The Nazi soldiers have an incredible power over the Jewish people. While an adult would see the prejudices as wrong, a child like Ellen may not view it this way. The soldiers make her feel insecure and ugly because of her hair color. It is almost as if her hair color defines her "race."
Annemarie
Feeling: Skeptical
Quote: "It was all imaginary anyway - not real" (26).
At 10 years old, Annemarie can't possibly imagine the horrors that the Jewish people will endure at the hands of the Nazi's. She is skeptical because to her these types of things only happen in dreams or in fairy tales. While she is feeling skeptical of whether or not the Danes will have to protect the Jews, part of her realizes that the horrors around her are really happening.
Annemarie
ReplyDeleteAngry.
She is angry with her mother and uncle for lying to her about the death of their aunt whom she has never heard of before. There is talk about preparing the living room to have her body rest overnight in preparation for burial for the next day.The events are confusing and their explanations confuse her further. “And Annemarie was quite, quiet certain, though she said nothing. There was no Great-aunt Birte. She didn’t exist.”(pg73)
“Uncle Henrik…you are lying to me. You and mama both.” (pg75)
“You are angry…Yes. Mama has never lied to me before.”(pg 75)
Ellen
Sad/Afraid
Although she was glad to see her parents again Ellen now knew that their lives were in danger. She knew she would have to leave her friends and move to a place she was not even sure of.She stays close to her parents for fear of losing them again and maybe having to deal with the unfriendly soilders.
“On the sofa Ellen sat between her parents, one hand clasped tightly in her mothers. She looked up at Annemarie but didn’t smile. Annemarie felt a surge of sadness: the bond of their relationship had broken, but it was as if Ellen had moved now into a different world …” (pg82)
Annemarie: Breakfast at Uncle Henrik's
ReplyDeleteFeeling: Happy
Annemarie is elated at the fact that they have cream and butter for breakfast, something they have lived without for so long because of the Nazis. At this moment her life feels normal, almost like it used to be.
"Suddenly the specter of guns and grim-faced soldiers seemed nothing more than a ghost story, a joke with which to frighten children in the dark." (p. 69)
Annemarie: Playing with Ellen
Feeling: Sad
When Annemarie plays with Ellen she thinks about how her mother told Kirsti that there were fireworks for her birthday, however it was the naval fleet being blown up. Annemarie is sad that the king had to sacrifice his own naval fleet to save his people.
"It had made Annemarie feel sad and proud, too, to picture the tall, aging king, perhaps with tears in his blue eyes, as he looked at the remains of his small navy, which now lay submerged and broken in the harbor." (p. 32)
Mrs. Johansen: After Annemarie goes to the button shop
Feeling: Concerned
Mrs. Johansen is concerned because the Hirsch's store is closed due to their being Jewish. This makes Mrs. Johansen worry about the Rosens, but she tries to calm her daughters' fears.
"Mama was troubled when she heard the news...But it didn't seem to be the jacket that worried Mama." (p. 21)
Mrs. Johansen: After the War is over
Feeling: Happy
Mrs. Johansen has been taking care of the Rosens' apartment in preparation of them returning home since the war has ended. She shares in her excitement with her daughter and husband.
"For nearly two years, now, neighbors had tended the plants and dusted the furniture and polished the candlesticks for the Jews who had fled. Her mother had done so for the Rosens/" (p. 128).
Character: Mrs. Rosen
ReplyDeleteEvent: Annemarie and Kirsti have returned to the Johansen’s home after a Nazi has stopped the two and Ellen for running in the street
Feeling: Nervous, anxious, secretly terrified
Quote: “‘Where’s Ellen?’ Mrs. Rosen had a frightened look. ‘Ellen’s in your apartment. She didn’t realize you were here,’ Annemarie explained. … ‘I must go speak to Ellen,’ Mrs. Rosen said, moving toward the door. ‘You girls walk a different way to school tomorrow. Promise me, Annemarie. And Ellen will promise, too.’ ‘We will, Mrs. Rosen, but what does it matter? There are German soldiers on every corner.’ ‘They will remember your faces,’ Mrs. Rosen said, turning in the doorway to the call. ‘It is important to be one of the crowd, always. Be one of many. Be sure that they never have reason to remember your face.,’” (7-9).
Character: Annemarie
Event: At the pretend funeral for aunt Birdie, after the Nazis have left
Feeling: Scared, anxious, overwhelmed, numb
Quote: Peter picks up a Bible and begins to read a psalm to calm everyone down after the Nazis have interrogated them about why the casket was closed. Although the rest of the room relaxed, Annemarie’s head is full of a slew of emotions: “Gradually they each began to relax. Annemarie could see the old man across the room, moving his lips as Peter read; he knew the ancient psalm by heart. Annemarie didn’t. The words were unfamiliar to her, and she tried to listen, tried to understand, tried to forget the war and the Nazis, tried not to cry, tried to be brave,” (87).