VIEW BYSTANDER PIC
POST A COMMENT OR BYSTANDER CHECKLIST
QUESTION: What is a bystander?
MODELED INSTRUCTION:
Give background information about author and poem
How many people were considered bystanders during the Holocaust?
The author used to be a police officer, but knew he was doing wrong. So he started to help the Jews and was thrown in prison, he got out and became a preacher.
READ Poem “First They Came” and annotate or chunk using the symbols
?-questions
!-Surprising parts
*-Main idea
E-Evidence
1ST READ STRAIGHT THROUGH
2ND READ TEACHER MODEL ANNOTATING FIRST STANZA using only the symbols identified
GUIDED PRACTICE:
2nd stanza SW help
-SW then finish annotations independently
REVIEW text dependent questions
SW paraphrase questions in their own words before individually answering ALWAYS REFERRING TO TEXT
Answer first question together w/discussion
1.Who do you think “they” refers to and why?
INDEPENDENT PRACTICE:
Preview novel, The BOY WITH THE STRIPPED PAJAMAS and share their inferences
Read Chapter 1 (whole group)
Ask students to write down the symbols used when reading the poem.
?-questions
!-Surprising parts
*-Main idea
E-Evidence
Use these symbols to focus their reading by identifying a question they have, a surprising fact, what they think the main idea of the chapter is, and a piece of evidence to support
EXIT TICKET:
Review back at your annotations from “First They Came”
Post IT!
What message is the narrator of this poem trying to convey?