My Reading Circles Journal - Number the Stars by GEB https://padlet.com/moegebr/NTS_RCJournal This padlet is view-only. Facilitators should make a padlet for their own use. en-us 2022-05-06 10:13:48 UTC 2025-12-11 04:53:47 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet-uploads.storage.googleapis.com/916003235/bf1277e96036269b178415bbfa4a117c/illustration1.png Facilitators, please read this moe_gebr https://padlet.com/moegebr/NTS_RCJournal/wish/2172678210 This is an example of how Padlet could be used as a journalling tool. There are many other tools, such as edublogs or even features within SLS. The important consideration is access and ease of use for facilitators and pupils to provide feedback and track their progress.

Important notes on setting up Padlet for journaling:
  • Please do not reveal all the journaling prompts to participants -- these should be updated session by session.
  • Include instructions for your pupil participants, such as:
    • Creating a padlet and creating new posts
      • Login using Student ICON Google accounts and create a new linked account to Padlet
      • Should your school have a subscription plan, you can create unlimited padlets for your pupils and add them as contributors. Otherwise, note that free accounts are limited to 3 free padlets, and pupil participants are expected to share the links with you.
    • Managing padlets
      • Privacy settings: Password (free); Org wide (subscription); viewers can write
      • Archive the padlet after RC has concluded (padlet will still be accessible, but will not count toward quota of free padlets.)
    • Submission guidelines
      • Include instructions on deadlines and where they can find the journaling prompts (e.g. check SLS)
]]> 2022-05-06 10:13:48 UTC https://padlet.com/moegebr/NTS_RCJournal/wish/2172678210 Session 1 - Activity 1.4: Food for Thought moe_gebr https://padlet.com/moegebr/NTS_RCJournal/wish/2172678211 You can choose to respond to any of the following prompts in a new post:
  • What are some of the comforts of everyday life that you take for granted? Which ones do you think you would miss the most if you had to live during a time of war?
  • How does your visit to the world of the book help you to appreciate what you currently have in your life?
  • What do you think of the characters' response to their circumstances? How would you respond if you were in their shoes?
  • Have I changed my appreciation of the wartime stories I have read?

]]> 2022-05-06 10:13:48 UTC https://padlet.com/moegebr/NTS_RCJournal/wish/2172678211 Session 2 - Activity 2.5: Response Task 1 moe_gebr https://padlet.com/moegebr/NTS_RCJournal/wish/2172678213 To capture changes in your understanding over time, participants are to write three response tasks over the eight sessions.

Write a diary entry from the perspective of one of the characters:
  • Annemarie
  • Ellen
  • [Advanced] Mrs Johansen
  • [Advanced] Mrs Rosen

Your diary entry should be on a day in the period of the Hirsch family's disappearance and before the Thursday that was the eve of the Jewish New Year. (Chapter 3, p.19 to Chapter 5, p.33)

Note the changes you noticed in that period, how you feel, what you think the changes mean, and the challenges you think you will face.
]]> 2022-05-06 10:13:48 UTC https://padlet.com/moegebr/NTS_RCJournal/wish/2172678213 Session 3 - Activity 3.5: Food for thought moe_gebr https://padlet.com/moegebr/NTS_RCJournal/wish/2172678214 Participants may wish to think about any of the following: 
  • After today's discussion, do you agree with Mrs Rosen's statement that it is important to be 'part of a crowd, always'?
  • What (principle/value/cause) do you think is worth standing up for in your case, or in our society?
  • Do you think that one person is enough to make a difference to the world? Give examples to support your view.
]]> 2022-05-06 10:13:48 UTC https://padlet.com/moegebr/NTS_RCJournal/wish/2172678214 Session 4 - Activity 4.4: Response Task 2 moe_gebr https://padlet.com/moegebr/NTS_RCJournal/wish/2172678215 To capture changes in their understanding over time, participants are to write three response tasks over the eight sessions.

Based on the discussions in the sessions, write a piece based on one of these prompts:

  1. Define bravery.
    - How have the discussions helped to change your understanding of Number the Stars? How has your idea of bravery changed? Explain what you learnt, with evidence from the text, your experiences, and the world.
    - Give an example where you or someone else did something you consider brave and explain your opinion.

    OR

  2. As a reader, explain how you now think and feel about the Danes who helped the Jews. Explain changes in your views, if any. You may refer to one or more characters from the book, and examine their motivations and actions.
]]> 2022-05-06 10:13:48 UTC https://padlet.com/moegebr/NTS_RCJournal/wish/2172678215 Session 5A - Activity 5A.5: Food for thought moe_gebr https://padlet.com/moegebr/NTS_RCJournal/wish/2172678217 Participants may wish to think about the following: 
  • In Number the Stars, what fact did you think was fictional? What fiction did you think was fact? What does this tell you about historical fiction?
  • Do you share Lowry's response to the sources and artefacts that inspired her to write Number the Stars?
  • From what Lowry has shared about her inspiration and intention for writing Number the Stars, do you think she has achieved her aim? As a reader, did you have/get the responses or understandings she wanted to communicate?
  • Do you think that your knowledge of the historical period that the book is set in changed your response to the book?
]]> 2022-05-06 10:13:48 UTC https://padlet.com/moegebr/NTS_RCJournal/wish/2172678217 Session 6A - Activity 6A.3: Response Task 3 moe_gebr https://padlet.com/moegebr/NTS_RCJournal/wish/2172678219 To capture changes in your understanding over time, participants are to write three response tasks over the eight sessions.

Based on the discussions in the sessions, write a response to either Prompt (1) or Prompt (2).

Either
  1.  On historical fiction
    - How have the discussions helped to change your understanding of Number the Stars?
    - What can you learn from reading fiction that is set in the past?

    OR

  2. On the story structure
    - How does your understanding of the way the story is told help you appreciate Number the Stars?
    - From the session discussion, what have you learnt about how authors engage their readers?

]]> 2022-05-06 10:13:48 UTC https://padlet.com/moegebr/NTS_RCJournal/wish/2172678219 Session 5B - Activity 5B.4: Food for thought moe_gebr https://padlet.com/moegebr/NTS_RCJournal/wish/2172678221 Participants may wish to think about the following: 
  • What did you learn today about how the story is told?
  • What do you think of the technique(s) as used in the novel? How did it influence your response to the novel?
  • Can you find another example/text where the same technique is used? How well was that technique used in that text?

]]> 2022-05-06 10:13:48 UTC https://padlet.com/moegebr/NTS_RCJournal/wish/2172678221 Session 6B - Activity 6B.5: Response Task moe_gebr https://padlet.com/moegebr/NTS_RCJournal/wish/2172678223 To capture changes in your understanding over time, participants are to write three response tasks over the eight sessions.

Based on the discussions in the sessions, write a response to either Prompt (1) or Prompt (2).

Either
  1.  On historical fiction
    - How have the discussions helped to change your understanding of Number the Stars?
    - What can you learn from reading fiction that is set in the past?

    OR

  2. On the story structure
    - How does your understanding of the way the story is told help you appreciate Number the Stars?
    - From the session discussion, what have you learnt about how authors engage their readers?
]]> 2022-05-06 10:13:48 UTC https://padlet.com/moegebr/NTS_RCJournal/wish/2172678223