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Reading Synopsis Highlight the previous purple!!!!!!! Number the Stars: Chapters 1-3 pages 1-26 November 8th Chapter 1 synopsis (vocab word haha): Ellen Rosen and Annemarie Johansen are racing each other to the street corner, with Annemarie's little sister, Kirsti, trying to catch up with them. Two German/Nazi soldiers say //**HALTE!**// and ask: • Why are are running? • What is in your backpack? • Are you a good student? • What is your name? The soldier reached down to pet Kirsti hair, but Kirsti swats it away and says DON'T!!!!!!! The soldiers let them go, so they power-walk home. Kirsti runs and tells their parents. Then Annamarie starts talking about how brave the Resistance is, and how they love and miss cupcakes. Chapter 2: Annemarie is telling Kirsti a fairytale about a king, a queen, and their daughter so she will go to sleep. Once Kirsti goes to sleep, Annemarie starts thinking about the real king of Denmark; King Christian X, and the real palace, Amalienborg. He would ride through the streets of Copenhagen on his horse, Jubilee. One day, about three years ago, a German/Nazi soldier asked to some little boy who that man was who was always riding his horse through the streets. The boy replied and said that he is the King of Denmark. The soldier asked where his bodyguards were, and the boy said that all of Denmark is is bodyguard. Annemarie starts thinking about her older sister, Lise, who died a while ago, and the countries that the Nazis have taken over.

Chapter 3: Mrs. Hirsch's button shop is closed down, and Annemarie's family is wondering why. It turns out that the soldiers were ordered to close the shop because the Hirschs were Jewish. Annemarie is told to keep an eye out for Ellen, and protect her, because she is Jewish too.

November 9th Chapters 4 and 5: Pages 27-49

Chapter 4: Ellen and Annemarie are on the floor playing with paper dolls that they cut out of Annemarie's mother's magazines. They are pretending to be characters belonging to the story Gone With The Wind. Kirsti and her mother come home from shopping. Kirsti is in a rage because she doesn't want to wear her new shoes because they are made out of fish skins. Ellen negotiates with Kirsti. If Kirsti wears her new shoes, Ellen will let her use her father's black ink to paint the shoes black. Then Annemarie's mother announces that Ellen will be staying overnight for a few days because her parents have gone on vacation. But Annemarie's parents tell Ellen and Annemarie that the rabbi of the synagogue announced that the Nazi soldiers stole the lists of the Jewish members of the synagogue. The list says who they are, and where they live. Ellen's parents have gone to another place with Peter, Lise's fiance (but Lise is dead...). Ellen is going to pretend to be Lise, Annemarie's and Kirsti's sister, who got hit by a car and died.

Chapter 5: Two Nazi soldiers come knocking at their door, when the Rosens don't answer their door, and the Rosens might be hiding in their house. Annemarie quickly tears off Ellen's necklace of the Star of David, so the soldiers don't know that she is Jewish. The soldiers look around their house, and make Annemarie's parents show them pictures of Lise, Annemarie, and Kirsti. The soldiers are suspicious because Annemarie and Kirsti are blond and Ellen has dark hair. But Lise had dark hair too, so they just showed a picture of Lise. The soldiers leave, only right after they rip up the picture of Lise. :(

November 10th: Chapters 6 and 7!!!!!!!: Pages 50-66

Chapter 6: Annemarie's mother is taking Ellen, Annemarie, and Kirsti to Uncle Henrik's house by train.

Chapter 7: They are describing Uncle Henrik's house, which is right by a meadow. On the other side of the meadow, is the sea. You can get to Sweden by crossing that sea. Ellen asks Annemarie where her Star of David necklace is, and Annemarie tells her that she hid it in a safe place. She will get it back when it is safe to where it again. There is more than a meadow between Uncle Henrik's house and Sweden!

OK HERE IS THE SETTING

This story takes place in Copenhagen, Denmark. The year is 1943, when the Nazi soldiers are invading and have occupying many European countries such as Norway (bloody battle there), Holland, Belgium, and France........ BUT NOT IN SWEDEN!!!!!!! Ha ha ha....... The second setting is Gilleleje, in Uncle Henrik's house, which is right by the sea and Sweden.

November 11th: Chapters 8 and 9!!!!!!! Pages 67-81

Chapter 8: Kirsti wakes up and finds a kitten and names it Thor after the Norse lightning god. Then Annemarie comes to the table for breakfast, which consists of cream and oatmeal. They were talking about how if the Nazis knew that they have this small amount of cream and butter, they could come and 'relocate' it.  Annemarie and Ellen play outside all day, and pick a bunch of dried flowers. Meanwhile, Mama is inside, cleaning. Then once Ellen and Annemarie come back, Mama and Uncle Hendrik say that their Great Aunt Birte. But Annemarie knows that there isn't such person in her family called Great Aunt Birte.

Chapter 9: Annemarie corners Uncle Hendrik while he is milking the cow, Blossom, and asks him why he is lying to her. He suddenly asked her how she was, and she said not very. Then they go back outside and 'mourn' for Great-Aunt Birte.

Comparing Kirsti and Annemarie:

Kirsti:  • She is 5 years old • She is headstrong • She is brave (for slapping the soldier) • She is careless(she doesn't care that she slapped a soldier

﻿Annemarie: • She is 10 years old (It says so on the back) <span style="color: #00a5ff; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">• She is nervous and uneasy in a lot of parts of the book. <span style="color: #00a5ff; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">• She pays closer attention to people and things. (She pays attention and listens to all the stories about family members, so she knows there is no Great-Aunt Birte) <span style="color: #00a5ff; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">• She is cautious, especially around the soldiers. (she always thinks about what she says around the soldiers, unlike Kirsti) You should give examples from the story to show that these adjectives are true.

<span style="background-color: #00f1ff; color: #830bd5; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">How They Are Alike <span style="color: #830bd5; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">• They are sisters. <span style="color: #830bd5; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">• They are Lutheran. <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">How do you know this? <span style="color: #00ff00; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Mrs. Spitz, it says so in the book, but I forget which page........ <span style="color: #830bd5; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">• They are both blonde.

<span style="color: #830bd5; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;"> November 12th: Chapters 10 and 11!!!!!!! Pages 82-94

Chapter 10: While they are 'mourning' for Great-Aunt Birte, some Nazi soldiers come and ask them why there are all of these people gathering at Uncle Hendrik's house, and Mama tells them there has been a death in the family. The soldiers ask why the casket is closed up so tightly, then Mama starts agreeing with them. So a soldier slaps her. The soldiers leave, so one of the men there starts reading a Bible verse that is praising God, and in one of the lines, it talks about 'numbering the stars.'

Chapter 11: Annemarie finds out that all of the people gathering there - besides her family, Uncle Henrik, and Peter - are Jews who are going to escape the Nazis by crossing the border into Sweden that night. Peter opens the casket, and it is loaded with odd -but warm- clothing. Peter takes all the Jews there, besides the Rosens, to the sea-side, where they board a fishing boat that will take them to Sweden. Before Peter leaves, he gives Mr. Rosen a packet, and he says it is very important.

<span style="color: #0069ff; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">November 13th-14th (the weekend): Chapters 12 and 13!!!!!!! Pages 95-105

<span style="color: #0069ff; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Chapter 12: A while after Peter and his group left, Mama and Uncle Hendrik leave with the Rosens. Kirsti is sleeping, and Annemarie is laying in her bed, looking out of her window, which was facing toward the trail that the Jews, the Rosens, Uncle Hendrik, and Mama took. She she sees something moving on the ground. It is her mother.

<span style="color: #0069ff; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Chapter 13: Annemarie runs outside and helps her mother, who broke her ankle when she tripped over a root. Annemarie helps her get back into the house. Mama sees the important packet that Peter gave Mr. Rosen. Mr. Rosen accidently dropped it on the stairs when he tripped. So Annemarie takes a basket, puts the packet under a napkin, along with an apple, a loaf of bread, and a slice of cheese. She runs through the trail that Mama came back from.

<span style="color: #2306ef; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">November 15th: Chapters 14 and 15!!!!!!! Pages 106-119

<span style="color: #2306ef; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Chapter 14: Annemarie is moving quickly through the trail, thinking about how she is alike to Little Red Riding Hood. She has a flashback about Annemarie telling Kirsti the story about Little Red Riding Hood. She came to the part about the wolf, and that's when she ran into 4 armed Nazi soldiers, and 2 of their dogs.

<span style="color: #2306ef; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Chapter 15: They ask her what she is doing, and she says that she is taking her uncle's lunch to him. They start searching through her basket. They rip apart the bread and give it to the dogs. He picks up the slice of cheese, then gives it back. He pulled out the napkin, and sees the packet. It is a handkerchief. They give her the food back, exept for the bread. She catches up with Uncle Hendrik and gives him is lunch. She tells him that the soldiers took his bread, and he says he hopes they choke on it.......... Ha.......Ha............

<span style="color: #830bd5; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">November 16th: Chapters 16 and 17!!!!!!! Pages 120-132

<span style="color: #830bd5; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Chapter 16: Annemarie had gotten home safely, but Kirsti and Mama had gone to the hospital for Mama's ankle. So Annemarie had to milk Blossom. Uncle Henrik says that he will give Annemarie milking lessons, so she can do it properly. He says that Annemarie was brave. He tells her that most fishermen build a secret compartment in their boats, and he does too. That is were they hid the Jews. He also tells her that Peter was in the Resistance. He tells her that the Nazis were so angry that Jews were escaping, that they started using trained dogs. But scientists found that they powder mixture of rabbit's blood and cocaine shut down the dogs sense of smell, so they wouldn't find the hidden Jews.

<span style="color: #830bd5; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Chapter 17: Two years later, the war ended. Annemarie and her family are standing ont heir balcony, watching the celebration. Annemarie talks about how Kirsti is growing up. She said Kirsti looks like Lise when she was 7 years old. Peter had died, because he was caught by the Germans and executed the next day in a public square at Ryvangen, Copenhagen, by the Nazis. The Nazis never returned the bodies tot heir families. They simply buried them i the ground with a number on a little sign they stuck above the ground. The Johansens had gone and laid flowers on the grave. That night, Annemarie's parents told them the truth about how Lise died. She had been in the Resistance with Peter. They would hold secret meetings in a cellar. Somehow, the Nazis found out and raided the place. Some of the people were shot. Peter was shot in the arm. Lise was running away, when some Nazis ran her down in their military car. Annemarie goes into her room, opens Lise's trunk, and sees the yellow dress that Lise wore on the night she was engaged to Peter. It had begun to fade. She reaches into the pocket, and takes out Ellen's Star of David necklace, and asks Papa if he can fix it.

<span style="color: #d50b96; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Afterword: Pages 133-137: Annemarie Johansen (and her family) was a figment of Lois Lowry's imagination. She grew from the stories Annelise Platt (she lived in Copenhagen when all of this was happening) told her. That is why the story is dedicated to her. Lowry put the Johansens int he real events of 1943. <span style="color: #d50b96; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;"> Denmark really did surrender to Germany in 1940, for all the reasons that Mr. Johansen stated. The Germans never controlled King Christian X. The Danish really did sink their own navy fleet, as the Nazis approached, wanting to use the ships to their own uses. And the rabbi really did warn the Jews during the Jewish New Year about how the Nazis were going to 'relocate' them. The rabbi had known of it because a high-ranked German official by the name of G. F. Duckwitz had passed the information to the leaders of the Jewish community. So all the Jews fled to the welcoming Danes, who hid them in their own homes, with food, clothes, alibis, and helped them flee across the sea, into Sweden. A couple weeks after the Jewish New Year, nearly seven-thousand Jews -almost the whole Jewish community of Denmark- had been smuggled across the sea, to the safety of Sweden. The handkerchief was also used as well, so the German dogs wouldn't sniff out the Jews that were crossing the sea. A powdered mixture of rabbit's blood and cocaine were applied to a handkerchief or some sort of cloth. The blood would attract the dogs, but the cocaine would temporarily destroy their sense of smell. These movements to have the Jews evacuate were planned by the brave Danish Resistance. Peter Neilsen, Lise's to-be fiancee represented the young men (Lise represented the brave women) that fought so hard for freedom through the Resistance. Lowry also talked about how she came across a young man named Kim Malthe-Bruun, who was in the Resistance, was captured and killed, at the age of 21. She came across a very sad yet inspirational letter he sent his mother the night before he was executed.

<span style="background-color: #091edc; color: #ff7200; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 26px; line-height: 39px;">Plotline: <span style="background-color: #091edc; color: #ff7200; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: xx-large; line-height: 39px;">Exposition: <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #ff7200; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: xx-large; line-height: 39px;">﻿ Annemarie Johansen is best friends with a Jewish girl named Ellen Rosen. <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: xx-large; line-height: 39px;">Include setting details in the exposition. <span style="background-color: #091edc; color: #ff7200; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: xx-large; line-height: 39px;">Initiating Incident: <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #ff7200; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: xx-large; line-height: 39px;">At the synagogue, the rabbi announces that the list of the Jews and where they live has been stolen by Nazi soldiers, so Peter Neilson takes Mr. and Mrs. Rosen on a 'vacation,' while Ellen pretends to be Lise, Annemarie's dead sister. <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: xx-large; line-height: 39px;">This is not an action that the characters do; it is something that is described by the characters. <span style="background-color: #091edc; color: #ff7200; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: xx-large; line-height: 39px;">Rising Action: <span style="background-color: #091edc; color: #ff7200; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: xx-large; line-height: 39px;">Turning Point: <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #ff7200; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: xx-large; line-height: 39px;">Annemarie and Mama find the very important packet lying on the stairs, and Annemarie is told to deliver it to Uncle Hendrik before he leaves for Sweden. <span style="background-color: #091edc; color: #ff7200; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: xx-large; line-height: 39px;">Climax: <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #ff7200; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: xx-large; line-height: 39px;">Annemarie runs into Nazi soldiers when she is delivering the packet to Uncle Hendrik. <span style="background-color: #091edc; color: #ff7200; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: xx-large; line-height: 39px;">Falling Action (Resolution): ?????

WHERE IS YOUR THEME?

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