FPP - chp. 1

After finishing chapter one I feel that some, or most children in a sixth grade class would be awestruck. The descriptions of what life was like in the camp are very vivid, and one could only imagine what it could have been like. In the first discussion about this book with a sixth grade class, I would start off by asking what they thought of the first chapter. Then I would ask them how they would feel if they had to endure everything that Marion's family and the rest of the camp members had to. How would they feel is they had to wear the same clothes all of the time, with no change? How would they feel if they were never allowed to bathe? How would they feel if they only received one meal a day? How would they feel about the communal bathrooms? How would they feel about going to the bathroom in the same cup or bowl they had to use for their food? How would they feel about living in the barracks with six hundred others, which are only meant to hold one hundred. Etc.