I had Atticus watch a short video on how storyboarding works and how we would be using it for his project. Atticus was given a set of story board sheets and instructed to write a sentence in each panel to convey the action that would be transpiring.
Assignment
Atticus is to complete pages 3 and 4 of the boards.
After discussing the key events from chapter 2, Atticus read chapters 3 and 4 of ‘The Book Thief.’ Our comprehension conversation centered around character development as we watch Leisel adapt to her new home with Rosa and Hans.
We concluded our study of the novel in today's session by discussing and completing the study guide questions on the final chapters. We noted how each major character reacts to Bruno's disappearance and explored how Bruno's father at last is able to discover how his own son has become a victim of the gas chamber. After defining the term " verbal irony," we discussed the irony of the novel's conclusion given the Nazi dogma that members of the Jewish faith were blatantly different and distinguishable from gentiles . Atticus did well in recognizing the use of verbal irony in the novel's final comment that something like the Holocaust "could never happen again in modern times." After completing the questions, I reviewed Atticus' work and repeated instruction on the use of "their and there" and addressed how to correct run-on sentences.
