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Anthony DoerrA modern alternative to SparkNotes and CliffsNotes, SuperSummary offers high-quality Study Guides with detailed chapter summaries and analysis of major themes, characters, and more. For select classroom titles, we also provide Teaching Guides with discussion and quiz questions to prompt student engagement.
Use these questions or activities to help gauge students’ familiarity with and spark their interest in the context of the work, giving them an entry point into the text itself.
Short Answer
1. What do you know about World War II?
Teaching Suggestion: Encourage students to think about the Second World War and what they might have learned about the Holocaust or about major battles during the war, such as the D-Day invasion of Normandy. Doerr’s novel focuses on both sides of the war and on individuals not always discussed in history texts.
2. What is a Pulitzer Prize? What does it mean that a book has won a Pulitzer? Can you think of other books that have won this award?
Teaching Suggestion: Encouraging students to think about what awards books have won can give them an understanding of the significance of literary texts.
By Anthony Doerr