The Boy Who Dared
The Boy Who Dared
By: Susan Campbell Bartoletti
Copyright: 2008
Published by: Scholastic Press
Newbery Honor Book
Genre: Historical Fiction
My rating:
Lexile Measure: 760L
This gripping story about the Nazi Germany and Hitler youth
during the 1841 brings together the emotion and danger the members of society
faced during this time. Helmuth Hubener
gets caught up in his hatred for Hitler power and sees himself to jail. The story told in flashbacks and present
tense toils with the readers emotions and history behind this horrible time
period in Nazi Germany. When Helmuth tries to discover and tell the truth, he
is destroyed and imprisoned for his unlawful act, losing his power, freedom and
the truth.
Suggested Delivery:
Read aloud,
small discussion groups
Words to Describe book:
Emotional
Heart-wrenching
Courageous
Truthful
Thrilling
Useful Electronic Resources:
This resource is
packed with many different lesson plan ideas as well as laying out the entire
book for the teacher. There are
important vocabulary words, an overview of the main characters, plot and
setting. There are also various
activities that the creators use to connect the book together as well as build
the students schema prior to reading the novel.
There are a lot of guiding questions and ideas that you can use to
relate the novel to so the students have a better handle on the challenging
material.
This resource
provides three very interesting and creative activities for students to
participate in if they want to learn more about the subject area or build their
schema before starting the novel. This
resource also provides a few discussion questions that students can answer and
explore while reading the novel. Easy to
follow and creative research-based activities provided.
Great
resource! Provides thirteen days of
lesson plans that divide the book up.
The plans provide a before reading activity where the students will summarize
plots, discuss some pictures, draw on their experiences and study vocabulary
words that are unfamiliar. The students
then read silently in the text and afterwards, the students discuss the story
as a class and talk about a few guiding questions to make sure the students
comprehended. Great lesson plan and
ideas!
Teaching Opportunities:
Key Vocabulary:
Communism- A
system in which goods are owned by government and are given to people according
to ability and need
Executioner (3)-
Someone who kills someone else
Obscure (3)- Block,
make unclear, make uncertain
Mercilessly (7)-
No mercy, cruel
Guillotine (37)-
A machine for beheading people
Inhumane (133)-
Cruel, cold-hearted, vicious
Reading Strategy Suggestions to increase
literal and/ or inferential comprehension:
Pre-Reading
Strategy
Research WWII to
build schema and background knowledge about the setting and time period that
the novel takes place. This research
study will help the students be able to visualize and put themselves in the
same setting that the novel is focused.
During-Reading
Strategy
Concept map-
visual organizer that can help enrich students’ understanding of a new concept
This strategy
would be useful for this text because it allows students to follow the specific
time period and major events that are happening in the book to help them follow
along with the complex plot.
Post-Reading
Strategy
Readers Theatre
ideas presented in the hyperlink above: Helmuth’s silence scenes, Helmuth
begins to speak out scenes, and the scenes when Helmuth acts. This could be a good way for students to
visually see the kinds of events that were happening during this time period,
in order to gain a better understanding.
Writing Activity
At the end of the novel,
Helmuth asks to write a letter to his family to tell them about his
execution. The author never provides us
with the letter that he wrote to his family.
Write a letter from the view point of Helmuth to his family. Be sure to include specific events while in
prison and before he ended up in prison.
Be sure to cite specific examples from the text.
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