This book club is all about the novel Resist by Alan Gratz. Come along with Mrs. Swanson on a wild ride while reading the engaging story. Each week you will listen to Mrs. Swanson read several chapters of the story. Following the reading, there will be several activities your child can complete. Activities include answering thought provoking questions, creating a comic strip, and other fun activities!

Teaching has been my passion ever since I can remember. I try to make all of my lessons
fun and engaging. Most of all, I love when students are excited to learn. I take great pride in getting to know each of my students individually.

Students will receive a post at the beginning of each week. There will also be a video included in each lesson. Additionally, I absolutely love to interact with my students! Therefore, I will always respond to any post your child shares within 24 hours. Unless the next day is a weekend, then I will respond on the next working day.

What is the book about??
In Alan Gratz’s D-Day novel Allies, Samira Zidane and her mother work for the French resistance during World War II. It’s their job to tell the local Maquis hiding out in the countryside that the invasion of Normandy is imminent. But when her mother is captured by Nazis, Samira must do the job herself.

Resist picks up Samira’s story where Allies left off, following Samira on her journey through the French countryside on a daring rescue mission to find her captured mother. Accompanied by a loyal dog named Cyrano, Samira has to rely on her courage and wits to avoid and outsmart the German forces. But it’s D-Day, and with the Allied forces landing just miles away, fierce battles rage all around her. Can Samira find her mother in time to save her?

Resist is a companion novella to Allies. It can be read before or after reading Allies–or entirely on its own! (Description taken from Scholastic.com)