Analysis Of Daniel Half Human And The Good Nazi

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Daniel Half Human and the Good Nazi by David Chotjewitz When I initially looked at the title I immediately wondered if this story was being told from the Nazi perspective or a person who had interaction with Nazi. After looking at the front page and reading the title I thought the book was going to be about a a person who was hiding his identity. The front page which contained a black silhouette of person who looks like a kids with the Nazi sign on his shoulder. The shadow of the black silhouette had a star of David on the shoulder. My initial thought was the Nazi was hiding his ancestry. Another thing that caught my eye was the color of the book, which was blood red. Before looking at the back summary or first …show more content…

I live with my sister and I immediately wanted to share with her the details of the book and my thoughts on the ending. Of course my sister did not care, but in order for me to fully grasp the book I had to talk about it. Daniel Half Human and the Good Nazi is about a time period that is hard to understand because it is a time period that shows how awful human beings can be. When teaching this book I think it is important that students share there thoughts and expand on each others thoughts. In the classroom I would focus onto friendship of Daniel and Armin because their friendship was effected by many things that happened such as money, and girls, and war. I would start out the discussion in student-student-interaction, which would lead into a classroom discussion. Personally I think the student-student-interaction or small group work would allow students to process their individual thinking. Also, I think small group work allows each student more time to express themselves and think about different issues that came up in the book. Daniel Half Human and the Good Nazi is a great book, but it is a book that needs a dialogic classroom. The book covers a lot of ethic issues that some students will have a harder time grasping the different issues that occur in the book. This book would be beneficial in the classroom because it covers such an intense topic, but the way the book is written allows the reader to feel the different emotions that Daniel went

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