{"id":344,"date":"2020-12-16T19:31:23","date_gmt":"2020-12-17T03:31:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/suttonl\/?p=344"},"modified":"2020-12-16T19:31:23","modified_gmt":"2020-12-17T03:31:23","slug":"number-the-stars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/suttonl\/2020\/12\/16\/number-the-stars\/","title":{"rendered":"Number the Stars"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-345 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/suttonl\/files\/2020\/12\/images-3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"146\" height=\"215\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Students have just finished reading the historical fiction novel, <em>Number the Stars<\/em>. This novel is about two families living in Denmark during the German occupation of WWII. Annemarie&#8217;s best friend, Ellen and her family are Jewish and need to escape Denmark to avoid persecution. Will Annemarie and her family be able to get them to Sweden before it&#8217;s too late?<\/p>\n<p>The guiding questions students considered while reading the novel were:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>What is personal freedom and why is it important in your life? Why is it essential to protect the freedom of others even if your own is not threatened?<\/li>\n<li>How did WWII affect the lives of those who lived through it? What lessons can people today take from that historical event?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Please visit your child&#8217;s blogfolio to see their personal reflection.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Students have just finished reading the historical fiction novel, Number the Stars. This novel is about two families living in Denmark during the German occupation of WWII. Annemarie&#8217;s best friend, Ellen and her family are Jewish and need to escape Denmark to avoid persecution. Will Annemarie and her family be able to get them to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9820,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3,1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/suttonl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/344"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/suttonl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/suttonl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/suttonl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9820"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/suttonl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=344"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/suttonl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/344\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":347,"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/suttonl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/344\/revisions\/347"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/suttonl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=344"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/suttonl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=344"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/suttonl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=344"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}