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Question: How are the games we play and the text connected?
Connect the text with our games. Make as many connections as you can, and explain them enough so that we can understand your idea. Remember how it felt to play. What you were thinking about? What were you pretending? And then connect this to the text.
Here are a list of games that we've played so far (please note that some have been played more than one time):
Name Yourself/Name Tag (yellow star, fur coat, clock face)
Gibberish
Kitty Wants A Corner
Black Magic
HERE'S A BIG HINT...THERE ARE A MILLION CORRECT ANSWERS. IT IS LIKE THAT WHEN WE ANALYZE LITERATURE. YOU JUST HAVE TO BE WILLING TO PROVE YOUR POINT.
Student #1 When we played Kitty Corner, a lot of people were shoving or getting hurt while trying to get a spot in the circle; no one wanted to be in the middle. This is just like how the Jewish back then wanted to have a safe place to stay and not get caught by the Nazis. The people who knew the secret of black magic were like the people who protected their Jewish friends and neighbors in their homes. They needed to keep the secret, or they could get into serious trouble. Nazis would force all Jewish people to wear Stars of David on their clothing so they could mark them as "different". That was probably what our star nametags stood for. The fur coat name tag could represent all extra clothes people like the Van Daans wore one they went into hiding. However, the clock face really confuses me; I have no idea what it means! I also don't know why we renamed ourselves. When Mrs.Schick was speaking in Gibberish to Will, he had no idea what she was saying, but he knew that she wasn't happy. This is kind of like how the Jewish couldn't understand German, but they could tell they were somehow doing wrong by not being the same as everyone else.
Responses to Student #1:
1. I thought the way in which this certain student explained his feelings about all three games was great and kind of the way in which I felt.(19)
2. I agree with what you said about the fur coat, I never thought about it that way. Now that you mention it, it makes a lot of sense. Your point about the friends protecting them in Black Magic makes a lot of sense too. (11)
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Student #3 I think that the star name tag was like the Star of David that the Germans made the Jewish people wear at all times. I think the fur coat nametag might represent the fact that the Franks and the Van Daans had to wear as many pieces of clothing as possible when they went into hiding. I can’t figure out how the clock tag fits into to everything. I’m also not sure why we changed our names either. In the game Kitty Corner we had to run around and switch places with other people. The hard part was that we couldn’t let the “it” person know that we were switching because if they knew they’d take our spot. I think that we were like the Jewish people and whoever was “it” was the Germans. The Jewish people had to sneak around and not get caught or else they’d be put into concentration camps by the Germans. When Mrs. Shick was speaking gibberish it was like when the Jewish people couldn’t understand the Germans, but ended up figuring out what they wanted by body language and stuff just like we did. I can only think of one way that the game Black Magic and the text were related. They both had some sort of a secret. In Black Magic the secret was how the guesser knew. In the story the fact that the Van Daans and the Franks are in the building is a secret.
Responses to Student #3:
1. That is a good way to think of black magic. I always thought of it as the feelings, more than the secrets.
2. I agree with you on the name tags and "Kitty Wants a Corner" and "Black Magic." On "Black Magic" though, I think the Jews had to guess on some things and figure out some of the strategies of the Germans along with them both keeping secrets. (17)
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Student #8 -I think the star we wore was the Star of David that the Jews wore. The fur coat nametag we wore represented the layers of clothing they had to wear to the hideout. The clock we wore represents the time they can walk around and talk. Then kitty Wants A Corner is like the way the Jews had to get to places without the Germans knowing. Also in Black Magic, some people knew secrets and some people didn’t just like how the Jews knew secrets and the Germans didn’t and vise versa. Gibberish represents that the Jews and the Germans didn't talk the same language, but they still understood each other.
Responses to Student #8:
1. I think that you connected the three games to the text very well and I completely agree with you. I also like what you said about the clock. I never thought of it that way. (3)
Student #9- The first time that we had to name ourselves, we got stars, and I thought that this was kind of like how the Jewish had to wear stars to show that they were Jewish. I was not sure what the coat or the clock had to do with anything though. I also thought that in "kitty wants a corner" it could have related to how the Jewish had to sneak around the Germans to get away with things and find places to stay so the German couldn’t get them. But I didn’t know what "Black Magic" had to do with the story. And in Gibberish, we could not understand what Mrs. Shick was saying or trying to tell us, and that could have related to how the Jewish probably couldn’t speak German, so they could not understand what they were trying to say.
Responses to Student #9:
1. i agree completely even though i wasnt there for kidy cornner
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Student #11- I think that the yellow star means the Star of David because they had to wear it all the time. I am not sure what the fur coat or the clock had to do with it, or why we had to put a fake name on it. I think Kitty Wants a Corner had to do with all of the Jewish people having to sneak around so the Germans (the “it” person) wouldn’t catch them (take their spot). Black Magic might have to do with the Frank’s, the Van Daan’s, and a few others were the only ones who knew they were staying in the secret annex. If others were to find out they were staying there (the secret in Black Magic) they would be sent to a concentration camp (the game would be over). I think gibberish would be the Germans talking to them, since they didn’t speak German it probably sounded like gibberish.
Responses to Student #11:
1. I basically agree with everything you say! Your connection between the text and Black Magic was a really good one. I don't know why we had to write a fake name on our nametages either. Before, I thought that it could have been related to the Nazis calling the Jewish rude names for being different, but then why would we get to choose our own names?(1)
(16) I also agree with what your saying. I've read a lot about the Holocaust and for all I remember, the yellow star connects with The yellow Star of David.
Student #12
They are connected because we had to be quit because they did want the people to now that they were hiding in the room. the fist game we played is like when the other people we took to the war off the strees.
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Student #13
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1. In every game, everyone used the same traits as the normal person would. In black magic, everybody watched very carefully what Mrs. Schick was doing with her hand. In kitty wants a corner, everyone switched spots when the “kitty” had its back turned. In the text, people ran somewhere else when the Germans weren’t looking.
Student #14- During the black magic game, the frustration we felt had to do with the frustration of the Jewish people during the Holocaust. I think that the yellow star was the star of David that all of the Jews had to wear before termination. The fur coat has to do with the belongings that the Frank's had to bring with them when they went into hiding. Also, I think that the clock had to do with the time being spent in the annex. I think that Kitty wants a Corner has to do with how the Jews struggled to find shelter when the Nazi's rejected them; both shelter mentally and physically. The gibberish game probably had to do with how the Jews couldn't understand what the Nazi's were saying and commanding. They did know, however the basic idea of what they demanded only from their motions.
Responses to Student #14:
1. I agree with every thing you say but, I have other opinions on the same stuff. The way you said they were frustrated in black magic I agree with but I also think it has to do with that the Jews and the Germans had secrets from each other.(8)
Student #15 A few of the games, such as name your self tag and gibberish, you don’t get until you start to play it more. Or until you read more of the story. Kitty wants a corner is based on your character, and Black Magic is so you know, if you didn’t get the point of the game, how frustrated you got as you learned others were right, but you still didn’t get it
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Student #16 Like most people, I think that the symbols that we wore on our shirts, mark us as different from the other people. Like the yellow star, it could represent the Star of David that the Jews had to sew onto all of their clothes. Gibberish refers to when the Jewish people tried to talk to the people in Holland when they moved their during Hitler's rule, the people of Amsterdam could only understand them through hand motions. Just like I could understand what Mrs. Schick was saying.
Responses to Student #16:
1. I agree that the star nametag represents the Star of David.I said that Gibberish refers to the fact that the Jews couldn't understand the Germans in concentration camps, but I think that your idea may be right. (3)
Student #17 When we played “Kitty Wants a Corner,” I didn’t want to be “it” and I didn’t really want to move far away from my spot. I think this game related to “The Diary of Anne Frank” because in the story, the Jews just wanted to stay safe, like they weren’t even there, and not bother anyone but the Germans were taking the Jews away. When Mrs. Schick was talking in gibberish, I think it related to the story because the Jews couldn’t understand what the Germans were saying when they were in the concentration camps, so they had to watch their hand motions and jesters just like we did. In the “Black Magic” game, I think it related to the story because the Germans had secrets from the Jews so they could capture them and the Jews had secrets from the Germans so that they could stay safe and not have to go to concentration camps, just like we kept secrets from the guesser and they kept secrets from us. Last but not least, I think the name tags related to the story because the Jews had to wear name tags to show that they were in deed Jews. The name tags showed some things that might happen in that chapter.
Responses to Student #17:
1. *~15~* I agree, most didn’t want to be ‘it’. Just like the Jews, they wanted to feel safe. And that when we don’t understand some one, they repeat it over and over, some times using hand motions. Making us able to understand even if we don’t speak the same language.
Student #18 The stars that we wore on our shirts definetely represented the David's Stars that were put on all of the Jews clothes to make them stand out. I don't know what the fur coats or the clock faces meant but I do know that I wouldn't want to walk around the school like that and be treated that way. Kitty wants a corner went with the Jews sneaking around Germany, not being caught by the Nazi's (the person that was it.) The gibberish Mrs. Schick was saying to Will was the Nazi's speaking German that the Jews didn't understand. The frustration the Jews had to the Nazi's was black magic.
Responses to Student #18: I also believe that the star nametag represents the star of David that was sewed onto all of the Jew's clothes, but I'm still not sure if what I said about the jibberish was right after all.
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Student #19
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1.From my point of view the text was not really connected to any of the games we played in class. Except for the game Black Magic because us being the Jews were very mad at what the Germans or Mrs.Schick was doing to us in class. In a way it is sort of torture to both the Jews and to all of the language arts sections.
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Student #23 I only played black magic and i had no idea how
it went with the text. but from what i hear about gibberish
i think it was like the nazis talking to the jews and them not under standing what they are saying
Responses to Student #23: (12) yes i agry.
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