"What are Henry's options?" "What do you think Henry will do?" To better understand the central conflict for the main character in Robert Cormier's Tunes for Bears to Dance to, class members engage in a compare-and-contrast activity that asks them to consider Henry's options and to predict what he will do.

Concepts

the holocaust, reading comprehension strategies, compare and contrast

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Additional Tags

english language arts

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Instructional Ideas

• Flip the lesson and have kids complete the assigned reading and the graphic organizer before class 

Classroom Considerations

• Part of a series of resources designed to accompany a reading of Tunes for Bears to Dance to

Pros

• The strategy enables readers to develop their predictins skills as well as to make text-to-self connections

Cons

• The format of the graphic organizer suggests that the possible consequences are either all good or all bad; therefore, consider substituting a Venn diagram instead