2.1 BSP

• Engels
• Middelbare school
• vmbo t
• Leerjaar 3

Week 2

What can you remember about chapter 1-3?

Homework: read Chapter 3, 4, 5

Let's answer some questions about Chapter 3

Chapter 3
1. Bruno mentions a monster on page 16.
Who is he referring to?

2.What is meant with Out-With?
What kind of place do you think this is?
Motivate your to answer with arguments.

3. Why does Gretel get angry with Bruno?

4. Write down 3 things we learn about Gretel in Chapter 3

5. The soldiers standing outside the house are described as, 'looking nervously up at the house';
Why do you think they do this?

Strategy Summarizing

Now let's see if you can summarize chapter 4 & 5!!

Chapter 5

Let's watch a film fragment that captures Chapter 5. Does it fit with you summary? Why or why not [1:24:30-1:16:01]

What are they again? Look at your worksheet! Watch this video and write down what each of them are. 

Characters

Listen to part of Chapter 3 again. 

What do we learn about Gretel?

What do we learn about Bruno?

Choose one of them and make a word web on your worksheet as you listen.

Key Word Game

Homework:

Read Chapter 6. Answer the questions for 4, 5 and 6!

Week 2

Lesson 2

TRUE

FALSE

Seeing the sharp spikes on top of the fence makes Gretel feel safe.

Gretel thinks the farm looks like a nice place. 

Gretel thinks the children look filthy.

Gretel wants to play with the children. 

What kind of place do Bruno and Gretel think it is?

1. They think it's a concentration camp. That makes them scared and they want to go back to Berlin
2. Gretel thinks it's the countryside. Bruno doesn't because there aren't animals and the dirt is different than on a farm.
3. They both think it is a farm because they are in the countyside.
4. They think it is a vacation park because there are many people and little houses.

Bruno

Gretel

Both

Feels unexpected pain when looks at fence. 

Surprised by what can see, doesn't know where to look.

Says it is nasty-looking  place. 

Says: "Who are all these people and what are thy doing here?"

Thinks that when the children are shouted at it must be some kind of rehearsal

Walks away because doesn't understand what kind of place it is and what happens there. 

In chapter 4, what is the last thing Bruno notices about the people?

1. They are all skinny.
2. They all have shaved heads.
3. They are all wearing striped pyjamas.
4. They all look sad.

Why do you think Mother said "I didn't mean - " and began shaking her head and started again. "I wasn't trying to suggest - " when Maria overhears her comments about the Fury?

1. She didn't want Maria to know she had critisized the Fuhrer.
2. She didn't want Maria to know she is unhappy about the move.
3. She didn't want Maria to think the Fuhrer doesn't like Father.
4. She doesn't want Maria to think that she doesn't support Father.

Bruno's train

The other train

comfortable with very few people

no soldiers

windows for fresh air

uncomfortable with lots of people

surrounded by soldiers

no windows

What similarities were there between the 2 trains.

1. None.
2. Both had a swastika on the engine.
3. Both were bringing new soldiers to Auschwitz.
4. Both were going in the same direction.

At the end of Chapter 5 Bruno asks Father who those people are outside. Father answers:

1. They are farmers.
2. They are refugees from German cities that are being bombed.
3. They are dangerous. Stay away from them.
4. They are not people.

CLUELESS?!!

There have been other clues to the family's situation that Bruno has missed. What have they been?

CLUES

NOT CLUES

Hitler eats at their house.

Hitler gives Father a new job. 

The people on the 'farm'' are wearing the same uniform.

The soldiers yell and laugh at the people in the camp.

The people in the camp are dirty and Bruno thinks this is because they are too lazy to take bathes. 

Bruno and Gretel think the name of the house is Out-With.

Bruno calls Hitler the Fury.

Bruno and Grete think the camp is a farm. 

How can Maria's story affect the readers view of Father?

1. They might think he has two sides - kind and a tyrant.
2. They see how mucy being a Nazi has changed him.
3. They see how his new job has made him only care about power.
4. They might think he is only pretending to be a Nazi.

Maria says of Father: 'He was very kind to me then.
'He has a lot of kindness in his soul, truly he does, which makes me wonder....what he...how he can'. What is she really saying?

1. That he is difficult to understand.
2. That he is really a kind person.
3. That he has changed.
4. That he is just pretending to be a Nazi.