To all the Year 6 and Year 5 students at St Pat's and St James...I must say I have enjoyed reading your comments and the maturity that you have displayed in the way you have analysed the characters. In fact I think word of your blog has inspired other schools to study the book, I was at a school this week and guess which book Year 5 were reading?
Teachers and students are following your blog. Maybe you could make some suggestions as to why students should read a book like this. Maybe some adults would think the subject too distressing? Your comments would be greatly appreciated. Good luck and happy reading!
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People should read a book like this because it is something to learn about something to teach us wrong from right good from bad it is important to learn from mistakes and think before you do. So what Adolf Hitler did is something people should not do and make this world peaceful and be a peacemaker your self like Max Kolbe and Irene McCormack and Martin Luther King Junior. So reading a book like this is great education and is fun. Books are great fun!
ReplyDeleteI can't wait untill we read the hole book. I think that bruno and chmoel would be the best of friend if they wer'nt in this situation with bruno's dad and the consantration camp.
ReplyDeleteI believe that people aged 11 - 14 should read this book. It gives you a great understanding of the Holocaust without going into too much gory details. It makes you realize just hoe cruel people can be. It isn't are bad as you think it is so any parents out there who really really don't want their child to read it why not read it with them so then you know that they understand it
ReplyDeleteI do not think that you can place a set age group on the book. Of course children of a younger age and maturity level will not understand the underlying themes or many aspects of the book. But mature children all the way up to elderly people would be moved by this book and they would enjoy it. I think future generations of year 6 should read this book. As it utterly moves people in a non-graphic manner. It never actually goes into an in depth description of violence. Another reason why I believe that children in year 6 should read this book is because it teaches us that the horrors of the death camps happened to children like you and me. I also believe that parents should read this book as well. So parents can fully understand what went on in those camps. Maybe if parents worked in a workshop with their children and they did the book together. Because it is not only children who need to learn that the genocide that took place can never be repeated by anyone. Consider this how old was Hitler when he made this movement and what was the age group that followed him? It certainly wasn't 12 year olds.
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