Mila 18 Overview & Chapter Abstracts for Teachers

Chapter Abstracts

Chapter abstracts are short descriptions of events that occur in each chapter. They highlight major plot events and detail the important relationships and characteristics of characters and objects. The Chapter Abstracts can be used to review what the students have read, or to prepare the students for what they will read. Hand the abstracts out in class as a study guide, or use them as a "key" for a class discussion. They are relatively brief, but can serve to be an excellent refresher of the text for either a student or teacher.

Part 1, Twilight, Chapters 1-5 Abstract

* Christopher De Monti is a journalist from Switzerland, living in Warsaw. He reports on the war for his Swiss News Agency with his photographer, Ervin Rosenblum, a Polish Jew.
* It is 1939 and Nazi Germany has already overrun Austria and Czechoslovakia. Poles believe they are...
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