{"product_id":"the-boy-in-the-striped-pyjamas-novel-study-years-7-8-teacher-student-booklet-twr-aligned","title":"The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas Novel Study | Years 7–8 | Teacher + Student Booklet | TWR-Aligned","description":"\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003eA novel study for The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas by John Boyne. Student workbook + teacher booklet, built on The Writing Revolution. For Year 7 and Year 8 classrooms and homeschool families.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWhy The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003eThis is the book where the reader understands what the narrator can’t.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003eBruno is lonely after his family moves from Berlin to a house beside a strange camp he calls “Out-With”. 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Consistent activities mean students spend their thinking on the book — not on working out what each new worksheet is asking. Built on The Writing Revolution: structured sentence and paragraph writing that proves a point about a novel.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThis is for you if\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eYou teach The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas as a class novel in Year 7 or Year 8\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eYou’re building a WWII or Holocaust unit into your HASS program and want the literacy side covered\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eYou’re a homeschool parent wanting a ready-to-go unit for a quality novel\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eYou’d rather print and teach than write discussion prompts from scratch\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eMade by a teacher librarian, not AI\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003eI read every word of every book personally. I write every question and every model response myself. 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