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I am David by Anne Holm Lesson plans and teaching resources

Dive In! I am David Discussion questions, cross-curricular follow-up questions and learning activities. 9 pages; Adobe Reader required.

• Introductory Material Background information, character list, vocabulary words.
• Chapters 1-3 Worksheet Reading for details, understanding connotations of synonyms, making predictions.
• Chapters 4-5 Worksheet Making inferences about character motivation, understanding shades of meaning of synonyms, making predictions.
• Chapters 6-8 Worksheet Practice drawing conclusions (making inferences), identifying degrees of intensity among synonyms, and going beyond the novel.
• Internal and External Conflict Graphic Organizer Given a definition, students will select 4 conflicts and categorize them as internal or external.
• Narrator Graphic Organizer Students trace the development of changes in David and identify causes.
• Setting Graphic Organizer Students describe two locations in the novel and analyze their effect on David.
• Whole-Novel Discussion and Activities 6 discussion questions and 2 post-reading activities.
• Multiple Choice Test 10 questions.

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I am David Lessons/suggestions contained in this unit are designed to assist teachers in generating interest (front loading) in the novel I Am David . Further lessons are supplied to assess student learning at various points in the novel. Opportunities for accommodating various learning styles and the inclusion of technology are also provided.

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I am David Educator's Guide Readings include informational text (historical background, Universal Declaration of Human Rights), map-reading practice, making inferences, comparing novel and film, character analysis. Includes printable student handouts. 20 pages; Adobe Reader Required.

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"I Am David" tells the story of a 12-year-old orphan boy who escapes from a Bulgarian forced labor camp and travels alone through Greece, Italy and Switzerland to his eventual destiny in Denmark. He has awfully good luck: Along the way, he meets mostly nice people who do what they can to help him, and there's an enormous coincidence just when it's most needed. Benji encounters more hazards on his travels than this kid.

I know, I know, I'm supposed to get sentimental about this heart-warming tale. But I couldn't believe a moment of it, and never identified with little David, who is played by young Ben Tibber as if he was lectured to mind his manners. In an era with one effective child performance after another, here is a bad one.

The premise: In the Cold War, enemies of the Bulgarian state are sent to forced labor camps, where they break up rocks into gravel under the merciless prodding of sadistic guards. I am sure the movie explains how David became an enemy of the state at his tender age, but the detail escaped me; maybe he inherited his status from his dead parents. Certainly he's lucky in his choice of friends, starting with Johannes ( James Caviezel ), a fellow inmate who gives him encouragement and dreams before -- well, see for yourself.

A mysterious voice on the sound track advises David to escape. He is supplied with a bar of soap, half a loaf of bread, a compass, and an envelope not to be opened until he gets to Denmark or finds Carmen Sandiego, whichever comes first. Sorry about that. The power is conveniently turned off for 30 seconds on the camp's electrified fences, so that David can run across an open field and begin his long odyssey.

How, you may wonder, will the lad communicate in the many lands he must traverse? "You've picked up many languages from the others in the camp," the voice reminds him, and indeed David apparently speaks Bulgarian, Greek, Italian and English, all with a wee perfect British accent. He lucks into rides on trucks, gets over the border to Greece through an unlikely series of events, stows away on a ship for Italy with astonishing ease, and fesses up in an Italian bakery where, please, sir, may I have a loaf? When the baker calls the cops, the kid is able to escape, although not with any bread.

Then something happens which would seem far-fetched even in a silent melodrama. He comes upon a burning cabin, hears screams, breaks in and rescues a young girl who is tied to a chair. This girl, as it happens, is the victim of a prank by her younger siblings, who didn't mean to set the fire. The girl's rich parents embrace the lad and feed him, but ask too many questions, so he moves on to Switzerland and happens into friendship with a grandmotherly painter ( Joan Plowright ), who brings his story to a happy ending through a spectacularly unlikely coincidence.

As it turns out, the papers in his envelope could probably have been read by anyone in Greece or Italy and solved David's dilemma, and the advice to travel all the way to Denmark was not necessarily sound. But we forget that when we discover the secret of the mysterious voice which advised David -- a secret I found distinctly underwhelming, although the movie makes much of it. The lesson, I guess, is that if you are a 12-year-old orphan in a Bulgarian forced labor camp, you need not despair, because the world is filled with good luck and helpful people and besides, you speak all those languages.

Note: In stark contrast to the fairy-tale events of "I Am David," the 2003 film " In This World ," by Michael Winterbottom , tells the story of a 16-year-old Afghan boy who journeys to London from a refugee camp in Pakistan. The film follows a real boy on a real journey, and includes scenes of documentary reality; it helps underline the unreal storytelling of "David."

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I Am David (2004)

Rated PG for thematic elements and violent content

Ben Tibber as David

James Caviezel as Johannes

Joan Plowright as Sophie

Hristo Shopov as The Man

Silvia De Santis as Elsa

Paco Reconti as Giovanni

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I Am David is a children's novel written originally in Danish, the native tongue of its author Anne Holm . Holm was a journalist before turning her hand to writing a book. She wrote it because she felt that children had the capacity to love a book more passionately than an adult but were given an enormous quantity of harmless, frivolous entertainment and not nearly enough literature of value. This novel enables children to see the historical setting that David finds himself on through his eyes which enables them to connect more personally with history.

The novel is set during World War II when Germany was governed by dictator Adolf Hitler. Hitler had created a series of concentration camps where Jewish people, gypsies, and those who were perceived to be against his regime were sent to work literally to death. Many were tortured. David had arrived at one of these camps as a baby and had grown up there, never having seen the outside world.

Davis seizes an opportunity to escape and runs as fast as he can so that his enemies do not catch up with him. He has been told to flee to safety in Denmark and the book sees the journey through David's eyes as he lives by his wits and travels through Europe to freedom.

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Descriptions of the camp David ran from

The camp was bleak and lifeless. Prisoners merely survived from day to day. Food was little and tasteless.

Roberto certainly had a choice when he discovered David on the ship. He could have turned him in to his superiors, but he chose not to. Instead of protecting himself and any repurcussions he might face if David was discovered, he chose to help him...

That David does in his own favour?

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Chapter 1 Summary

Twelve-year-old David escapes from the concentration camp where he has lived for as long as he can remember. David is shocked and relieved that he is not shot as he climbs over the electric fence (the current has been turned off briefly), leaves the camp, and walks measuredly towards the tree line (he doesn’t want to give the guard the satisfaction of shooting him on the run). The man , an unnamed person who works at the camp, orchestrated David’s escape, arranging for the electricity to be turned off for half a minute and indicating with a lit match when David should leave. He advises David to retrieve a bundle containing a compass and bottle of water that he left for him in a thicket by the road. David also asks the man for a bar of soap before he leaves.

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Take our free I Am David quiz below, with 25 multiple choice questions that help you test your knowledge. Determine which chapters, themes and styles you already know and what you need to study for your upcoming essay, midterm, or final exam. Take the free quiz now!

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Questions 1-5 of 25:

What does David hear that makes him think of how a balloon must feel? (from Chapter 4)

What does david realize about king's actions (from chapter 8), why does david think angelo is stupid (from chapter 3), how many variations of beautiful are there, to david (from chapter 5), who serves the family dinner (from chapter 4).

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