Discussion Director
Your job is to think of questions that will get your group thinking.  Ask the following types of questions, answer them, and include the page and paragraph numbers where the answer can be found.
1 Characterization
1 Cause and Effect
1 Prediction
1 Opinion
1 MCEOG

Passage Picker
Your job is to complete the role sheet for the following types of passages.
1 Figurative Language (simile)
1 Problem/Solution
1 Thematic
1 Informative

Word Wizard
Your job is to complete the role sheet for four of the following words:
Brusque             p. 110, par. 3
Bleak                 p. 129, par. 5
Tantalize           p. 111, par. 5
Taut                   p. 112, par. 6

Character Sketcher
Your job is to complete the role sheet for the character Annemarie.

Investigator
Your job is to investigate the Danish Resistance.  Look at the following sources to find information:

• “Afterward” in Number the Stars, p. 133-137
• http://www.rongreene.com/dyby.html paragraphs 15-16
• http://members.tripod.com/learnto/holocaust.html

• Look up in the dictionary the meaning of resistance. Write it in your own words.
• What was the Danish Resistance?
• Who was involved?
• What was their purpose?
• How did they protect the Jews?

1.  Look up in the dictionary the meaning of resistance.  Write it in your own words. (Resistance means to oppose something or to struggle against it.)

2. What was the Danish Resistance?
(The Danish Resistance was a group of people from Denmark that opposed the persecution of Jewish people by the Nazis.)

3. Who was involved?
(All kinds of people were involved.  Many young, brave people took a stand against the relocation of Jews.  They knew it was wrong, so they formed alliances between other people who felt the same way.  People from Denmark, Sweden, and other countries helped Jews escape.)

4. What was their purpose?
(Their purpose was to protect the Jews from the Nazis.  The Nazis were going to “relocate” the Jews to concentration camps.  The Danish Resistance knew that the Jews’ lives would be in danger, as well as their own lives, but they desperately wanted to protect them.)

5. How did they protect the Jews?
(They formed an underground, secret organization that helped smuggle Jews out of Denmark and into Sweden.  They did this by hiding them in fishermen’s boats and sailing them across the Kattegat to safety.  Along the way, members of the Danish Resistance hid Jews in their homes and risked their lives to save them.)