W3 T1 Weekly Reflection

Literacy

This week for literacy we have started doing novel study about a book called Once. For novel study our teacher reads a book and we have to follow along our copy of the book with our eyes. When we finished the first chapter we stopped reading and we had to my a doc about what we already know and our first impressions of the story. After we did that we had to make a google drawing about facts about world war 2, because the book is about world war 2. We also started working on the type of poem called a Cinquain and I have done 2 of them to share with you. Here is my Drawing, My Doc and My Poems.

Once

Morris Gleitzman

What We Know:

• Felix Is in a Catholic Orphanage
• Felix is Jewish Pretending to be Catholic
• Felix has a best friend called Dodie
• Felix thinks that his parents are giving him signs that they are coming to get him
• Felix’s Parents are Jewish Book Sellers
• Felix’s Best friend Dodie Slurps really loud and Felix sits next to him and Felix listens to hear Dodie slurping to find his seat
• The story is set in Poland
• Felix wears glasses that steam up when he eats his hot soup
• They can’t grow Vegetables at the orphanage because of the frost that they get around the place
• Dodie has really crooked teeth
• Felix has been in the orphanage for 3 years and 8 months and he's sad because he thinks that he is leaving
• There are 63 kids 11 nuns and 1 priest that live in the orphanage
• They sometimes get mouse poop, insects and ceiling plaster in their soup and they have to eat it they aren't aloud to pick it out with their hands because it's rude
• Dodie`s Parents both died of sickness
• Dodie was 3 when his parents died

First Impressions

• Sad Story
• Tough
• Hard Times
• Loud
• Scary for the children
• Sad
• Poor
• It doesn’t look like the best place to live
• Doesn’t sound like a very nice place to live or be around
• Stubben Nuns