Boy+and+the+Striped+Pyjamas

toc __ **Setting ** __ · When and where is the book set?
 * [[image:Screen shot 2012-10-11 at 5.26.58 PM.png width="800" height="192"]] ||
 * ==Chapter 1 & 2== ||

__ **Bruno ** __ · How old is he? · Where does he live and with whom? · What impression do we get of his character? Copy quotes from the book which illustrate this. · How would you summarise his life in Berlin? · How does he react to the camp and the people there? · Why do you think that the new house makes him feel “empty and cold” **//(p13)//**

__ **Father ** __ · What can you infer about Bruno’s father from the information in Chapter One? media type="custom" key="21093256" ||
 * **Response Activity: ** **Building a case **

media type="custom" key="21091058" Use the Voicethread below to add your response. There are 3 questions to comment on. || __**Gretel **__ · On //**p21**//, Bruno gives her the title of “The Hopeless Case” and “Trouble from Day One.” What does this tell you about Gretel and Bruno’s relationship? · She calls their new home “Out-With” **//(p24)//**. Why do you think it is called this? What does it make you think of?
 * ==**Chapter 3 & 4**== ||

__**The “Out With” house **__ · On **//p26//**, the house is described as “hollow” and feeling like it “might collapse around their ears”. What impression does this give of “Out-With”? Why do you think John Boyne used this description?

__**The People Outside **__ · What impression do we get of the people? · How do Bruno and Gretel’s reactions differ? media type="custom" key="21093338" ||
 * //Read the description of the people on //****p36 – 38**.
 * **Response Activity: **

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">media type="custom" key="21091070" <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">In groups, make notes on the following extract, showing which words and phrases hint at **danger** and how they //achieve this//. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Make a list of **words or phrases** that suggest **danger** in <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">. Snapshot your Wordle and insert this onto your Boy and the Striped Pyjamas Reading Page. || **__<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Mother __** <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">· Why is she afraid when she realises that Maria has overheard her **//(p40)//**? <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">· What sort of person is he? Copy quotes from the book which give you clues. · What sort of relationship does he have with Bruno? Find and copy clues from the book. · What does he do at the camp? Copy quotes from the book which give you clues. · Father describes the people on the other side of the fence as “those people.. well, they’re not people at all…at least not as we understand the term.” **//(p53)//**. How does this statement make you feel? media type="custom" key="21093356" ||
 * ==**Chapter 5**== ||
 * __<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Father __**
 * __<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">“Out-With” __**
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">· **<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">//On **p41**, there is a description of the trains.// What does this tell you?
 * **<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Response Activity: **

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> Describe the settings and characters so far in the story and add your ideas to the Mindmap. || __**<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Maria **__ <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">· What do we learn about her in Chapter 6? Write at least 2 points with quotes to support your answers. · Explain what you think she means when she says on **//p62//** “He has a lot of kindness in his soul, truly he does which makes me wonder… … wonder what he … how he can…”
 * ==Chapter 6 & 7== ||

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">· On **//p75//**, we are introduced to Pavel. Who is he and what is his role in the house? · Why does Lieutenant Kotler speak so horribly to him? · What does Pavel’s response to the accident tell us about him? · On //**p82**//, Pavel says”Just because a man glances up at the sky at night does not make him an astronomer you know.” What does he mean by this? media type="custom" key="21093314" ||
 * __<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Pavel __**
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">· ** <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Why does mother say that she will say that she cleaned Bruno up if Father asks?
 * **<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Response Activity: **



Use Wordle to create a character description on either Bruno or Shmuel. Snapshot your Wordle and imbed in this row below with your name and put it on your Wiki. || **__<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Friendship __** <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">· On **//p108//**, Bruno and Shmuel meet for the first time. Why do you think that they become friends? · On //**p111-112**//, Bruno says that Poland is “not as good as Germany” and that “Germany is the greatest of all <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> countries… we’re superior.” Why do you think that Shmuel says nothing in relation to this? <span style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; border-collapse: separate; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; line-height: 22px;">Do you agree with Bruno when he thinks that what happened to Shmuel “didn’t seem like such a terrible thing to him, and after all, much the same thing had happened to him” p**//130?//** Why? media type="custom" key="21093366" ||
 * ==Chapter 10,11 & 12== ||
 * **<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Response Activity: **

__**<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Comparison between Bruno and Shmuel **__ <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> Complete the Venn Diagram to make comparisons between the 2 characters Bruno and Shmuel. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">__**Scene - Boy in the Striped Pyjamas**__ <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Act out one of the scene and photograph it, take notes describing what's happening and who's saying what? || __**<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Bruno and Shmuel **__ <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">· On //**p138 – 139**//, Bruno becomes irritated with Shmuel because he doesn’t know Pavel. What does this conversation tell you about Bruno? · On //**p140**//, Shmuel says that “there aren’t any good soldiers”. Why does he say this? What does Bruno’s response tell you about his knowledge of father? · On **//p141//**, Shmuel begins to shiver when they talk about Lieutenant Kotler. Why does he do this? What do you think about Bruno’s reaction? __**<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Lieutenant Kotler and Pavel **__ <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">· On **//p142 - 143//**, Bruno notices some changes in Pavel. Describe the changes and explain why they have happened. · On //**p148**//, Lieutenant Kotler becomes “very angry” with Pavel. What is behind his reaction? Why does no one stop him “doing what he did next”? **__<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Bruno __** <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">· On **//p155//** Bruno tells Gretel that Shmuel is an imaginary friend. Why does he do this? What does this tell you about Bruno by this stage of the book? · On **//p158//**, Bruno tells Gretel about Shmuel’s grandfather. What do you think has happened to him? How can you tell this?
 * ==Chapter 13 & 14== ||

media type="custom" key="21093386" || **__<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Lieutenant Kotler and Shmuel __** <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">· Read **//p162 – 166//**. Describe Bruno’s feelings towards Lieutenant Kotler. · Why doesn’t Bruno try to protect Shmuel? Use quotes to back your answer. · What is your view of Kotler? Why? · On **//p174//**, How do you feel towards Bruno? · On //**p174**//, Shmuel forgives Bruno. Why? What is important about how he forgives him? · What has happened to Shmuel in the meantime? How do we know?
 * ==Chapter 15 & 16== ||

**__<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Bruno and Shmuel __** <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">· On **//p178//**, Bruno notes that Shmuel seems happier. Why do you think this is? · What has happened to Lieutenant Kotler? Why? · On **//p184//**, Bruno’s head is shaved. Why is this important?

**__<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Gretel __** <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">· Read **p181- 183.** How has Gretel changed? Who has influenced her? media type="custom" key="21093396" || Write a letter from Mother to a friend in Berlin, telling them of her relief that she will soon be returning home. Type up in Pages/Word, snapshot and input below and on your own Wiki. || || ||
 * ==Chapter 17 & 18== ||
 * **<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Response Activity: **
 * ==Chapter 19 & 20== ||
 * [[image:Screen shot 2012-10-10 at 10.32.04 PM.png align="left"]] ||
 * Create **Book Report** on the Boy in the Striped Pyjamas. Look at the examples of Book Reports and select one to create your own Book Report.
 * Make comparisons between the Novel and the Video using the **Venn Diagram** below. Snapshot your ideas in the Venn Diagram and put in the row below.