GOAL:
To analyze the mood of a chapter
ASSIGNED READING:
Chapter 10
WRITING PROMPT:
What was the mood of this chapter?
Why did Peter read the psalm to the mourners?
Why do you think Lois Lowry called this book Number the Stars?
ONLINE PROMPT:
Use the Student Comment Form to share ideas and questions with your online peers. Check previous Student Comments pages to see if there are any comments you want to respond to.
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Explain to students that mood is the feeling that a story creates in readers. For example, a story might have a cheerful mood, a scary mood, an exciting mood, or a sad mood. In a longer story, such as a chapter book, the mood usually changes many times as different events happen. Ask students to recall the chapters they have read so far in Number the Stars and name some of the different feelings created by those chapters. Then ask them to think about mood as they read Chapter 10.
In community share, return to the topic of mood and ask students for their thoughts. You might create a word web to record students' ideas and feelings about Chapter 10. Ask them if they think Lois Lowry has done a good job of creating moods in this book. Do they feel drawn into the story? Do they care what happens to the characters? Are they eager to find out what will happen next? If they answer yes to these questions, then the author has succeeded in creating strong moods that engage the feelings of her readers.
Ask volunteers to share any ideas they have about the meaning of the book's title. Why would the author have chosen a phrase from a psalm for the title? How does Annemarie feel when she hears the psalm? What do the bigness and coldness of the sky have to do with Annemarie's feelings?
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