Number the Stars Book Club

Essential Question

How do difficult experiences shape us as human beings?
What privileges do I have that others don’t?
Do all people have the same rights?
Can words about identity hurt people?
What clues help me know when and how people are being treated unfairly?
How is my life easier or more difficult based on who I am and where I was born?

Texts

Informational

Brothers In Hope: The Story of The Lost Boys of Sudan

In this excerpt, Garang tells his story of how he became a lost boy when war destroyed his village. Walking with thousands of other orphaned boys, Garang travels thousands of dangerous miles from southern Sudan to a refugee camp in Ethiopia.

Mary Williams and R. Gregory Christie (illustrator)

Grade Level

K-2 3-5

Subject

History

September 30, 2016

Teaching Strategies

Close and Critical Reading

Text-Dependent Questions

Readers must refer back to the central text to answer text-dependent questions and provide evidence from the reading to support their answers. Students provide accurate, relevant and complete evidence. To do this well, students will often need to re-read the text several times. This approach privileges the text over prior knowledge, personal experience and pre-reading activities.

Grade Level

6-8 9-12

CCSS

RL.6-12.1, RL.6-12.2, RL.6-12.4, RL.6-12.5, RL.6-12.6, RI.6-12.1, RI.6-12.2, RI.6-12.3, RI.6-12.4, RI.6-12.6

July 19, 2014

Student Tasks

Write to the Source

Point of View

Point of View asks students to demonstrate their narrative skills when applying different points of view in writing.

Grade Level

3-5

CCSS

W.3-5.3, W.3-5.4

July 19, 2014

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Number the Stars Book Club

Brothers In Hope: The Story of The Lost Boys of Sudan

Text-Dependent Questions

Point of View

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