Summary and Reading Strategy #2

Summary:
Jacks father sent him and his family to somewhere out of the country. Jacks father settled them into a first class compartment on the train Jack, Mama and his siblings only carried on suitcase. Mamma would carry one full basket of foods, fruits for the 12 hour drive/trip.  Jacks father will send money, clothing and necessary things they might need. Jacks father will see them all in one month he kissed them all on the cheek and then the engine started the train was leaving.

Reading Strategy:
One connection I have with this story is that we went to the Holocaust Museum. We learned it for like 3 weeks we read articles on it, books. One of the books we read was "Number The Stars" it was a really good book. And also with slavery, the whites would make the black pick there cotton and other farming jobs. They would be paid in clothes or food but no money the blacks were not educated and did not know what was happening.

Summary of my book and reading strategy

Summary:

My book is about a boy named Jack and he was a survivor in the holocaust. It took place in Gdynia, Poland a population of 250,000, 90% was Catholic and 10% was Jewish. After the fled Poland they were taken back Germany after that, they rounded Jacks family up. He was only 15 years old and he was torn away from his family and thrown in a concentration camp. Jack plays by the game and trying to survive, all he wants is to see his family one more time. 

Reading Strategy: 

The conflict of this book is that a normal kid named Jack he was torn away from his parents when he was only 14. They took him in a death camp he was in there for over a year he celebrated his birthday in these terrible death camps. But the good thing is that he surrvied for year because, he followed the rules and jobs they gave him. He never disobeyed his leader because he knew what would happened because he saw people go in and get killed. 

Number The Stars Summary/ Field Trip Reflection

Summary:
Annamarie, Kristi, and Ellen were going to uncle Henrick's house in the country. Peter helped the Rosens escape in the middle of the night. They left Ellen with the Johnson's and they talked to Henrick and Papa said "I will be bringing you a pack of cigarets" Henrick responded with "Just one". And then Annamarie found that there were no cigarets in the store. And then she finally realized that they were taking Ellen. They are gonna have a day with there great aunt and she is dead and they are gonna have her in a casket. Henrick is gonna stay int he boat all night until its time to go fishing.

Field Trip Reflection:
What I thought about the holocaust museum was that it was build to look like what the places were in those time periods. I learned that one of the survivors lived through WW2 in a potato cellar with Mom, Dad, and her. It was underground which means no heating, and it was cold. Just for saying yes to there family they saved to peoples life's just by protecting them and putting there life in danger. There was a train cart that they put the Jewish people in almost 150 people in there it was all wooden they had no heating, no windows and it was in the winter that they transported them to the camps.

Number The Stars Part 1

Summary:
The book I'm reading is Number The Stars by: Lois Lodwry and the main character is Ellen and Annmarie. There home town was invaded by Nazi Germany the specially invaded Copenhagen, Denmark. They have a king named Christian X he loved his people and he did not need a bodyguard because the people of Denmark was his bodyguard. He did not do anything to stop them because they were to much powerful and he did not want his people getting hurt. Annmarie had a sister named Lise  but she did and was older than her she died in a accident 2 weeks before he wedding day.

Conflict:
The conflict about Number The Stars is thats Nazi Germany has taken over Copenhagen, Denmark. Annmarie and her little sister and Ellen they take away to school and one other soldiers stops them and he touches the little girl and she says "Don't Touch Me". With the Nazi soldiers taken over Copenhagen, Denmark they have to put soldiers on every corner instead of the street lights. And they shut down Jewish stores or don't let non Jewish shop in those types of stores.

Holocaust Blog

I would be an up stander why? because its not fair to the Jews are gonna die just because of religion. I would parachute out of the helicopter or air plane to give them food. I would male an underground place were the Jews know were to find it. I would dress up as a nazi and get as many people as possible to be safe and not get killed. Then bring them to the safe them were I would keep them there and feed them and stuff make them feel comfortable.

Summary and Note & Notice

Summary:

 So as you know about Ned being a total jerk to Pedro and Pedro running for president so Ned. Ned looses because he gives up and lets Pedro win because he realized how a total jerk he was. So Pedro wins the election and he goes back and plays basketball with Ned again they made the team a whole better, they won 5 out of the 6 games in total. Ned stopped humiliating Pedro in front of the whole school because they were once friends again. 

Note&Notice:

  Aha Moment: When Ned realized that he was being a total jerk to Pedro and how they were best friends he knew he needed to stop doing that. But why in the first place he needed to make fun of Pedro if he knew one day he was going to stop? This is important because it was tearing up there friendship up and they both did not want that to happen because they were best friends. So thats why
Ned gave up the election so Pedro can win and he was happy after that. 

Summary and Plot of My Book (Long Shot Mike Lupica)

Summary

 To recap about my book (Mike Lupica long Shot) there is this kid named Pedro Morales and Ned and his other basketball teammates. When they go to the basketball court Pedro and Ned make the team look better because Ned is an natural athlete. Pedro gets mad at Ned because they put Ned as the starter and Pedro got really angry with the couch and with Ned. They picked Ned because Pedro only thought about him self not the whole team. So Pedro decides to run for class president and then his opposing candidate is Ned. They compete for class president and the battle on the court of basketball as well. 

Plot
 The plot of my book is that Ned one of Pedro's best friends is better at basketball and he is also the most popular kid in Vernon Middle School. He played with Pedro on the basketball team its like they put there heads together to make the team a success. But then Pedro stopped playing basketball because of the class president elections, and then Ned decides to run as well. So then Pedro realize that Ned is not that friendly as he thought he was and then Ned makes Pedro look really bad on the basketball court. Pedro has a choice keep getting humiliated or just stop running for president but, he wants to be president but Ned won't let him.