Chapter two took the readers back to a time way before the holocaust. To a time before Ruth and Walter were married. I thought that it was interesting how the author started the book off in chapter one with the family in one of the interment camps, and then went onto go back to before Hitler took over. I really enjoyed learning about how Ruth and Walter met, and how their lives were before they had the children and after. Never in their wildest dreams would they have thought they would ever have to live through something like the Holocaust. However, this family was very smart, because when Hitler first started showing prejudice against the Jews, Walter thought they should leave. The only thing they were worried about was the grandparents. They had always lived in Germany, were up in age, so it just didn't seem right to uproot them.
In this chapter some things that I might teach or do with the class would be to get out a map and show the kids where the places are on the map of where the Blumenthal's lived. Really I think this could be done through out the book. The kids could track where the Blumenthal's have been and where they are going. There are always vocabulary words the students can learn along with teaching them some of the German words.
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