Quote #1 Elli: "Camp?" I ask, astonished.
Significance: This reminds Elli of how her life was back in her home country. When she was asked to be a counselor at summer camp she thought it meant a concentration camp. It shows how much the concentration camps effected her and her life. Elli doesn't know everything about America, which is why she thought America would actually even have concentration camps.
Personal connection: I can connect because Elli talked about how she felt like an outsider when she went to the summer camp and I felt that way when I first went to summer camp because a lot of other people had been there the summer before and they were all friends.
Question #1: Elli doesn't talk much about what happened in the concentration camps, do you think her experience was bad, or horrifying?
Quote #2, Elli's class: "Open it! Open it!"
Significance: This shows how people treat Elli in America. Her class of 1st graders all love her and gave her a gift at the end of the year. It shows that Elli is well liked by all and she is being welcomed in America. She is adjusting well to her new life.
Personal connection: At the end of 5th grade my class gave our teacher a gift too to show that we'd miss her when we left the school to go on to middle school. We didn't give her bowl
like Elli's class did but we still gave her a gift.
Question: Will Elli see her class again and will they remember her or forget about her?
Wednesday, March 4, 2009
Hello, America #5
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Yeah I chose a similar quote for my 1st quote too, it was about the whole camp thing with her getting scared. I thought that it was really sad that the word camp scared her so much because even though the Holocaust was over it still haunted her memories.
I think that Elli's experience at the camps was a horrifying experience that none of us could ever imagine.
I liked this part because before this part I did not realize how close she was to her first graders, she must be a good teacher.
Yeah Elli will see her class again because next year they will be second graders at the same school, it just won't be the same way it was in first grade.
-SoFiA
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