Teacher's Guide for Grades 9-12 - Maryland Humanities Council

SUGGESTED ENRICHMENT
1 The cover of this book is fairly nondescript. Using the web and resources cited in this guide, have
students work in pairs or a triad to create a new front and back cover, an inside summary, and
a back inside biography about the author Steven Galloway. If possible, the illustrator should use
card stock for the covers. Students can type up their summaries, print them, and then paste the
summaries inside the covers. Display.
2 Students work in groups of four. One person portrays a journalist and the cellist, the other group
members are Arrow, Kenan, and Dragan.
• Have all four create questions a journalist might ask the main characters.
• The cellist introduces himself and the presentation.
• The journalist asks questions of all main characters. (Characters do NOT use notes)
3 Students find three music pieces that would be comparable to the mood in Albinoni’s Adagio in
G Minor. It does not need to be classical music.
4 Students use “The Siege of Sarajevo 1992-1996” (found under Before Reading) to create a
timeline of the siege.
5 Students create dialogue that might take place between two soldiers on the hill. One is a soldier
who believes in what he has been ordered to carry out, the other does not.
OTHER RESOURCES
Steven Galloway Bio:
http://www.straight.com/article-140153/spring-books-2008-writers-profile-steven-galloway
Interview with Steven Galloway:
http://www.threemonkeysonline.com/the-larger-conversation-steven-galloway-talks-aboutthe-cellist-of-sarajevo/
Video: Four cellists playing the Albinoni Adagio:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IWGPNG-Hgdc
Lit Lovers Reading Guide:
http://www.litlovers.com/reading-guides/13-fiction/181-cellist-of-sarajevo-galloway
Looking Back at the Siege of Sarajevo: 20 years after:
http://www.unhcr.org/4f7acfb5c7.html
Bosnia remembers siege of Sarajevo:
http://www.stuff.co.nz/world/europe/6706486/Bosnia-remembers-siege-of-Sarajevo
Bosnian war 20th anniversary: Sarajevo residents remember siege victims:
http://www.csmonitor.com/World/Latest-News-Wires/2012/0406/Bosnian-war-20thanniversary-Sarajevo-residents-remember-siege-victims-Friday
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