The
End (5/23-6/4): Reflection & Synthesis
This week you will be finishing your books.
As you read I want you to think about how the book ends in relation
to how it started. Imagine if you could create a memorial to honor
something from this book.
1. How did the main character change?
2. What are the important ideas (conflicts,
character traits, people, places) that you would want to include in
your memorial?
3. How would these ideas be represented (what
symbols, colors, materials, etc would you use)?
Posting assignment:
Posting assignment:
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Answer the questions listed above.
Post your idea of the most significant/important
thing to memorialize from your book (consider both the perspective
represented AND the main character). Explain WHY you would want to
memorialize those traits, actions, etc.
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Respond to other posts by asking questions, providing memorial suggestions, or offering your opinion.
1. I think that Irena changed the most because, she was just a normal everyday person, and then she started saving all these children and became a hero but technically also a criminal.
ReplyDelete2. Definitely how she was almost ALWAYS on edge, and how she saved so many children and the specific amount. Also, possibly the ways that she led them out.
3. Lines across the memorial, a number, red, and possibly something that looks dirty because of the condition of escaping, and the camps.
I think that if you are using the reasoning she was a normal person before the Holocaust, and then became a hero, a lot of people changed as well.
DeleteYes, I was using that reasoning.
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ReplyDeleteIn the beginning of the book Irena was afraid to die, but over the course of the book, and especially when she was being brought to get executed, she kind of accepted death. At one point, she even said she felt relief that she was going to get executed because she wouldn’t have to worry about sharing the children's names.
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In my memorial, I would want to make sure that it showed how brave Irena, and all the people who helped the Jews, were. I would want to I would include info about Warsaw, such as the living conditions during the Holocaust, and I would also include the internal conflicts that the people who had families and were also hiding the Jews had.
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I would want to include pictures of the Warsaw Ghetto before and after the Holocaust, I would use the colors red, gold, and black. I would include the stats of how many people died and things like that.
I also thought that Irena changed the most, she went from being scared to die, to saving a ton of children in the holocaust.
DeleteYes I agree, she's brave and she's changed from not being scared to die, she was in the beginning of the book and now it's like she's just ready to die, she's accepting it and that she was a big impact on these kids and peoples lives. She saved soooo many.
Delete#1) I think Irena changed because in the beginning, like Nicole and Hannah said, she was afraid to die and was afraid of getting caught, in the end not so much. She was Ready to die just knowing she saved SO MANY kids, and people, its not that she was excited to die, or that she wanted to, it was that she was ready and knew she was going to, so she accepted the fact that she saved so many people, but now she was just ready to be done, they wouldn't have made her tell all the secrets she and the others had from all the kids ages, names and backgrounds.
ReplyDelete#2) Irena was brave, kind, and helpful. She was brave because, she risked her life everyday to save all of these kids, she spent so much time making plans and figuring out how she could take them to orphanages and which way she could go to make sure no one see's and makes sure that nobody finds out unless they're apart of Irena's team. She is kind because she saved approximately two thousand, five hundred Jewish children. She helped with getting food, giving them medicine, and making sure they stayed warm, and safe. She was helpful because she helped the others put the baby in the toolbox, and transport the kids with some people apart of the team, she helped with getting food, helped the kids and people get somewhere safe. Conflicts---would they get caught? Would The Guards, and Nazi's find the kids? would they die? would all the kids be shipped off somewhere and nobody could save them? Would Irena not have enough stuff for the kids? There were so many problems and questions the team thought about that they couldn't answer, It ended up working out but in the end it came to a stop. Irena would make her dog bark by hitting it or doing something for it to bark to make sure they wouldn't hear the children crying or screaming.
#3) If I were to represent these by symbols i'd use, pictures of the holocaust, pictures of ripped clothing or maybe dirty, to represent the time in the gates and the times at hospitals, maybe pictures of like plumbing parts. Some colors, definitely gold. Pictures of from Warsaw, the gates, the wires, kids clothes. I'd use these for times in the Ghetto and Warsaw, and The Gates, from awhile ago.
In the beginning Irena was defiant but afraid. At the end of the book she was saving people. When she was getting executed she wasn't scared anymore.
ReplyDeleteI would want it to be Irena, I want it to show bravery. I want it to have something with Warsaw.
I would use pictures, and a list of names of all the people that she saved. I would make a gold plaque that says brave. I would also use a doll that she made.
I for sure agree that she was brave, she deserves a ton of fame for giving all these kids a chance to grow up and become people that could do great things for the world.
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