Seating arrangement
Joel
Madison
Gabrielle
Daniel
Robyn
Bailie
Quentin
Zan
Miranda
Sam
Dylan
Courtney
Liam
Kailey
Sidney
Austin
Door
Chalkboard
O Canada!
Our home and native land!
True patriot love in all thy sons command.
With glowing hearts we see thee rise,
The True North strong and free!
From far and wide,
O Canada, we stand on guard for thee.
God keep our land glorious and free!
O Canada, we stand on guard for thee.
O Canada, we stand on guard for thee.
Today’s Checklist
SMGS Quick quiz
 Intro note
 Patty’s growth chart
 Chapter 1 summary
 Chapter 3 reading
 Chapter
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Quick quiz check
Key word
Arkansas
POW (prisoner of war)
Allies
Nazis
Discrimination
Prejudice
Letter
Definition
F
A.
Treating someone differently because they belond to a certain group
or category
D
A.
The forces of the British Commonwealth, French, Polish, and U.S.A.
united in WWII
B
A.
Began as a political party, led by German Adolf Hitler
C
A.
A person who is held by an enemy power during or after a conflict,
such as a war
A
A.
Making a judgment about someone or something before having
enough knowledge to be able to do so
E
A.
State in the U.S.A.
Before reading
Examine the cover of the
novel
 What do you recognize?
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What do these images tell
you?
What is unfamiliar to you?
Spoiler alert!
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Without giving too much away, the novel
Summer of My German Soldier is about a young
girl growing up in Arkansas during WWII
She goes through many “growing pains”, both
physically and emotionally
We will chart her growth as we follow her
journey
Growth chart
How much have you changed over the
years?
 Complete the “growth chart”
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We will chart our main character’s
(Patty’s) growth throughout the novel
Key words
Key word
Definition
Arkansas
oState in the U.S.A.
POW (prisoner
of war)
oA person (civilian or
soldier) who is held by an
enemy power during or
after a conflict, such as a
war
Allies
oThe forces of the British
Commonwealth, French,
Polish, and U.S.A. united in
WWII
Quotation
Nazis
o Began as a political
party, led by German
Adolf Hitler
o Believes in antiSemitism
Discrimination
o Treating someone
differently because
they belong to a certain
group or category
Prejudice
o Making a judgment
about someone or
something before
having enough
knowledge to be able
to do so
o Judging a book by its
cover
Background information
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What do you know about the following people?
Symbols? Events?
Pearl Harbour, Hawaii
Adolf Hitler,
leader of the Nazi
party during
WWII
Swastika
– symbol
of the
Nazi party
Attacked by the Japanese,
Bringing the U.S.A. into WWII
Summer of My German Soldier
The novel takes its inspiration in part from the
author's own childhood.
 Like her heroine, Greene grew up in a small
Arkansas town at the end of World War II.
 Her parents owned a country store, and they
were the only Jewish family in a Protestant
community.
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The story explores the tensions created by these
kinds of ethnic and religious differences.
Published the year that the Vietnam conflict
ended, her book also acts as an allegory about the
prejudices and fears of late 1960s and early
1970s America.
Chapter One
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Patty's life changes when a group of German POWs arrives
by train to be taken to the new prison camp just outside of
town.
She is struck by the fact that they look no different from
anyone else. When the soldiers are brought into town to
purchase hats to shield them from the "formidable
Arkansas sun," Patty hurries to her parents' store to help
out.
There is one prisoner who speaks English, and he is singled
out to make their purchases. After procuring hats for the
men to wear while working in the fields, he approaches the
stationery counter to buy writing supplies. Patty is at the
counter, and he introduces himself to her. His name is
Frederick Anton Reiker. Besides the stationery, he also
buys a piece of costume jewelry, seemingly on a whim.
Chapter One Summary Table
Description
What is the setting of the novel?
Who are the main characters
that have been introduced?
What conflicts are already
established?
What prediction can you make
about events that will take
place in the following
chapter?
Quotation (with page #)
Journal Entry
Imagine that everyone you knew was telling you
not to follow your heart, not to do the right
thing…what would you do?