Number the Stars Teacher Guide

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Guide

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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Topic
  • Holocaust
  • Storytelling
Grades
  • 3 - 5
  • 6 - 7
Setting
  • Congregational Learning
  • Day Schools and Yeshivas

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