Number the Stars Teacher Guide

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This guide is intended to engage your students as young as 4th grade and uses Lois Lowry’s novel Number the Stars, primary sources, first-hand survivor accounts, as well as images and stories from Judy Glickman Lauder’s Beyond the Shadows to showcase the story of the Danish rescue and resistance during the Holocaust. It encourages students to analyze various primary sources such as survivor testimony, artifacts, and photography, helping them develop tools to understanding this difficult history and the important, relevant lessons for today.

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Learning Outcomes • Contextualize Number the Stars with nonfiction stories, education materials, and testimony from Beyond the Shadows • Understand how and why the majority of Danish Jews survived the Holocaust • Develop critical thinking and problem-solving skills by introducing an inquiry-based learning method to students • Learn how to analyze primary sources along with Holocaust survivor testimony • Reinforce the importance of using Holocaust education to inspire a more dignified and humane world Essential Questions How does teaching Number the Stars support Holocaust education for younger audiences? How can pairing primary sources

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