3. Silent Tea Party Take a moment… look at your quotation Jot down a few notes on your worksheet

4. Silent Tea Party Silent activity! Exchange quotations with whomever you would like. Make sure you get yours back. Record guesses on worksheet (be sure to include quotation number) 10 minutes

5. Small Group Conferences Two groups of 6 Three groups of 5 Take ten more minutes 10 minutes

6. 1. What do you know about the narrator?

7. 2. How is the narrator feeling?

8. 3. What did you notice about the way the character speaks?

9. 4. What do you know about the book thief?

10. 5. What do you know about the setting?

11. 6. Does the story take place in the past or present?

12. An Introduction to The Book Thief Written by Markus Zusak Lives in Sydney, Australia Wrote his first book at 16 Grew up hearing stories about Nazi Germany, about the bombing of Munich, and the Jews being marched through his mother’s small German town

13. Summary Takes place in Nazi Germany A young girl whose mother is too poor to care for her and her brother is sent to live with a foster family Liesel is our main character She doesn’t know how to read but steals her first book before she gets to the foster family’s home

14. Key Concepts Foreshadowing: our narrator is death, so he knows how this story ends. Death constantly gives things away before we get to read about them Colors: Death tries to focus on colors instead of humans Stealing: occurs throughout the story (not just books) Guilt, abandonment, and dehumanization are other key concepts

15. Death: Perspective

16. Time to get our books! Please make sure your name, my name, and our room number (117) is in there! Check the person sitting next to you to make sure they wrote those three things in PEN

17. Prologue Describes the THREE times he actually saw the book thief He discovered her story that she had written Fills in the blanks as to what happened to her between these three sightings Beginning, middle, and end of our book