 Oil painting 'Thor' by John Hagan © 1995 |
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Activities for Chapters 7 - 8 |
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Oil painting 'Thor' by John Hagan © 1995 |
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Activities for Chapters 7 - 8 |
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Vocabulary Word of the Day - ruefully
rueful (r
f
l)
rue
ful·ly adv.
From Pages 68-69 - "Don't tell the soldiers try to --- what's the word? --- relocate butter, too? She laughed at her own joke.
But it wasn't a joke at all, though Mama laughed ruefully. "They do," she said. "They relocate all the farmers' butter, right into the stomach of their army!
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Learn about the ways the Jewish were treated during the Holocaust.
The Holocaust - From a 5th Grade Perspective http://home.att.net/~RWfreebird/holocaust.htm
(site created by 5th graders to honor those who demonstrated courage while living through
discrimination, prejudice, and the Holocaust.)
Daring to Resisit http://www.pbs.org/daringtoresist/
(Read the stories of three women who escaped the holocaust as teenagers. From PBS.
Includes an interactive timeline and videos.)
The Struma Project http://www.struma.org/main.html
(See a photo and read the story of this ship carrying 778 Jewish refugees in 1942. Find
out how it was tragically sunk, leaving one survivor, and learn of an expedition to this
site in the Black Sea.)
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In Chapter 8 Kirsti names the kitten Thor for the God of Thunder.
Learn about Nordic Mythology. |