https://padlet.com/kroderick2/7m7iobf4vwy9 Take a photo, write, or draw an important quote/moment from your book. Be sure to include your name. en-us 2017-11-28 20:03:51 UTC 2025-05-21 14:51:07 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet.com/kroderick2/7m7iobf4vwy9/wish/211373386 "All these years later I still ask myself if I should have left my mother and sister. I ask myself this question almost every day. At the time it was just a fact like so many others we had faced in the last few weeks" (Bagdassarian 50).

"If there is any trouble, he said, take the poison and it will all be over .No one asked him what kind of trouble could be worse than death. They all seemed to know" (Bagdassarian 21) .

 ]]> 2017-11-29 13:31:40 UTC https://padlet.com/kroderick2/7m7iobf4vwy9/wish/211373386 https://padlet.com/kroderick2/7m7iobf4vwy9/wish/211373399 "If there is any trouble,' he said,'take the poison and it will all be over.' No one asked him what kind of trouble could be worse than death. They all seemed to know"(Bagdassarian 21)

]]> 2017-11-29 13:31:42 UTC https://padlet.com/kroderick2/7m7iobf4vwy9/wish/211373399 https://padlet.com/kroderick2/7m7iobf4vwy9/wish/211373926 The moment when Vahan's mother tells Sisak to take him and runaway under the cover of night.
She says, "When it gets dark... I want you to take Vahan and run away" (Bagdasarian 50); and later, gives her reasoning, "'I cannot watch them kill you,' my mother said. 'Please.' That was all she said" (Bagdasarian 50).]]> 2017-11-29 13:32:58 UTC https://padlet.com/kroderick2/7m7iobf4vwy9/wish/211373926 https://padlet.com/kroderick2/7m7iobf4vwy9/wish/211374033 “For the first time in my life, I actually hated God. All my life I had felt his hand in all the happiness and good fortune that my family and I had enjoyed, and now I felt betrayed. He could have made me follow Siska if He’d wanted to, instead of letting me run the wrong way”( Bagdasarian 75).]]> 2017-11-29 13:33:14 UTC https://padlet.com/kroderick2/7m7iobf4vwy9/wish/211374033 https://padlet.com/kroderick2/7m7iobf4vwy9/wish/211374036 “But when we actually turned onto the lane that led to my home, I felt no relief at all. I had walked to school on this lane, run races against Oskina, climbed trees, picked fruit, and ridden horses. Now the lane was deserted, and all I saw was myself and my family being led out of the city by the soldiers” (Bagdasarian 111).]]> 2017-11-29 13:33:15 UTC https://padlet.com/kroderick2/7m7iobf4vwy9/wish/211374036 https://padlet.com/kroderick2/7m7iobf4vwy9/wish/211374087 "I felt my loneliness on my skin, in my chest and stomach"(Bagdasarian 131).]]> 2017-11-29 13:33:23 UTC https://padlet.com/kroderick2/7m7iobf4vwy9/wish/211374087 https://padlet.com/kroderick2/7m7iobf4vwy9/wish/211374641 “The problem with loneliness is that, unlike other forms of human suffering, it teaches us nothing, leads us nowhere, and generally devalues us in our own eyes and the eyes of others. It lies upon the soul lightly or heavily, depending on one’s age and one’s luck, and swiftly transforms the heartiest of souls into a living ash of spiritual doubt and despair. It is impervious to medicine, common sense, wisdom, humor, hope, or pride. It simple comes, sits in the center of the heart where it cannot be overlooked, and abide” (Bagdasarian 130).]]> 2017-11-29 13:34:32 UTC https://padlet.com/kroderick2/7m7iobf4vwy9/wish/211374641 https://padlet.com/kroderick2/7m7iobf4vwy9/wish/211374668 "I began to count, hoping by that the Sisak would appear before i reached fifty. When I reached fifty, I counted to sixty, to seventy. I knew then that he wasn't coming, that I could count to a thousand and he wouldn't come" (Bagdasarian 65).

" 'This is how steel is made,' he said, which is what our father use to say when circumstances tested our character, which wasn't very often. 'Steel,' my father said, 'is made by strong fire.' And this was our fire" (Bagdasarian 55).]]> 2017-11-29 13:34:36 UTC https://padlet.com/kroderick2/7m7iobf4vwy9/wish/211374668 https://padlet.com/kroderick2/7m7iobf4vwy9/wish/211374803 "If I had known what lay ahead that morning, I would have cherished every word my brothers spoke, the sound of their voices, the sight of them sitting across from me. I would have told them that I loved them with all my heart and that I would never forget them as long as I lived (Bagdasarian 23).]]> 2017-11-29 13:34:56 UTC https://padlet.com/kroderick2/7m7iobf4vwy9/wish/211374803 https://padlet.com/kroderick2/7m7iobf4vwy9/wish/211375208 "And when I could no longer walk as myself, I pretended that I was my father, that I had my father's face and my father's will and my father's mind and muscles" (Bagdasarian 56).]]> 2017-11-29 13:35:50 UTC https://padlet.com/kroderick2/7m7iobf4vwy9/wish/211375208 https://padlet.com/kroderick2/7m7iobf4vwy9/wish/211375662 2017-11-29 13:37:01 UTC https://padlet.com/kroderick2/7m7iobf4vwy9/wish/211375662 kroderick2 https://padlet.com/kroderick2/7m7iobf4vwy9/wish/211376008 " My grandmother would have told me that it was man, not God, who made the misery in the world and that it was only God's grace that made that misery bearable. She would have reminded me that God was always speaking , but man was not always listening" (Bagdasarian 76).]]> 2017-11-29 13:37:52 UTC https://padlet.com/kroderick2/7m7iobf4vwy9/wish/211376008 https://padlet.com/kroderick2/7m7iobf4vwy9/wish/211376070 “For the first time in my life, I was hungry and there was no food. I was thirsty and there was no water. I knew then as I had not known before that the room was real and that my home and my room and my bed had been a dream” (Bagdasarian 36).]]> 2017-11-29 13:38:01 UTC https://padlet.com/kroderick2/7m7iobf4vwy9/wish/211376070 https://padlet.com/kroderick2/7m7iobf4vwy9/wish/211376197 "It was time. By now I was so frightened that I hardly realized that I was kissing my mother and my sister for the last time -even when I felt my mother's tears on my lips, even when Oskina embraced me and whispered, "Goodbye." It was not really goodbye, it was only goodnight" (Bagdasarian 52).]]> 2017-11-29 13:38:17 UTC https://padlet.com/kroderick2/7m7iobf4vwy9/wish/211376197 https://padlet.com/kroderick2/7m7iobf4vwy9/wish/211377234 "All I could do was walk, and keep walking, and not faint, and not fall back, and not think about where we were walking or what would happen to us there. "There" did not exist. "There" was the other side of the world, the bottom of the ocean" (Bagdasarian 43-44).]]> 2017-11-29 13:40:40 UTC https://padlet.com/kroderick2/7m7iobf4vwy9/wish/211377234 https://padlet.com/kroderick2/7m7iobf4vwy9/wish/211377676 "I did not want to think at all. I closed my eyes and began to count. I had never counted to more than five hundred before, so I counted to five hundred, then to six hundred. At that moment I would gladly have traded my life to become a number, to be four or five or fifty-two, with no sorrows and nothing to fear" (Bagdasarian 75).]]> 2017-11-29 13:41:42 UTC https://padlet.com/kroderick2/7m7iobf4vwy9/wish/211377676 https://padlet.com/kroderick2/7m7iobf4vwy9/wish/211378224 All these years later I still ask myself if I should have left my mother and sister.I ask myself this question almost every day" (Bagdasarian 50).
I opened my eyes. I knew then, hopelessly, that dying on this bench in this auditorium was out of the question. I had to escape" ( Bagdasarian 97).]]> 2017-11-29 13:43:00 UTC https://padlet.com/kroderick2/7m7iobf4vwy9/wish/211378224 https://padlet.com/kroderick2/7m7iobf4vwy9/wish/211378657 "If anyone, boy or girl, tried to push me aside, I pushed harder. If anyone wanted to fight I was ready. I moved and thought and spoke only for food" (Bagdasarian 104)]]> 2017-11-29 13:44:04 UTC https://padlet.com/kroderick2/7m7iobf4vwy9/wish/211378657 https://padlet.com/kroderick2/7m7iobf4vwy9/wish/211378930 “I opened my eyes. I knew then, hopelessly, that dying on this bench in this auditorium was out of the question. I had to escape” (Bagdasarian 97).]]> 2017-11-29 13:44:42 UTC https://padlet.com/kroderick2/7m7iobf4vwy9/wish/211378930 https://padlet.com/kroderick2/7m7iobf4vwy9/wish/211379400 Being a thirteen-year-old, undersized, unarmed Armenian boy who could be shot, stabbed, beaten, or abandoned by the man sitting next to me, I felt that it was in my best interest to act as friendly as possible (Bagdasarian 127).]]> 2017-11-29 13:45:47 UTC https://padlet.com/kroderick2/7m7iobf4vwy9/wish/211379400 kroderick2 https://padlet.com/kroderick2/7m7iobf4vwy9/wish/211379604

]]> 2017-11-29 13:46:16 UTC https://padlet.com/kroderick2/7m7iobf4vwy9/wish/211379604 https://padlet.com/kroderick2/7m7iobf4vwy9/wish/211379653 "Perhaps I knew then that we were going to die, that we had been brought here to die and that before the sun set there would be two hundred more bodies floating in the river" (Bagdasarian 47).]]> 2017-11-29 13:46:23 UTC https://padlet.com/kroderick2/7m7iobf4vwy9/wish/211379653 https://padlet.com/kroderick2/7m7iobf4vwy9/wish/211379746 "And each day, I felt less and less like myself and more and more like a beggar. And as time passed, it did not seem to matter what a beggar did, or whether or not a beggar said "please" or "thank you" or who he pushed aside or where he slept or what he ate. All that mattered was whether or not the beggar survived. And I was surviving" (Bagdasarian 104).]]> 2017-11-29 13:46:36 UTC https://padlet.com/kroderick2/7m7iobf4vwy9/wish/211379746 https://padlet.com/kroderick2/7m7iobf4vwy9/wish/211380025 2017-11-29 13:47:15 UTC https://padlet.com/kroderick2/7m7iobf4vwy9/wish/211380025 https://padlet.com/kroderick2/7m7iobf4vwy9/wish/211380631 "If there is any trouble," he said, "take the poison and it will all be over." No one asked him what kind of trouble could be worse than death. They all seemed to know (Bagdasarian 21). ]]> 2017-11-29 13:48:42 UTC https://padlet.com/kroderick2/7m7iobf4vwy9/wish/211380631 https://padlet.com/kroderick2/7m7iobf4vwy9/wish/211381477 "I did not know when I opened my eyes the next morning that it was the last day of my childhood. The day seemed no more ominous than the one before; my heart was no heavier, my fears no greater. As i walked down the stairs to the kitchen, I had no premonition that my family and I were about to share our last meal together"(Bagdasarian 23).]]> 2017-11-29 13:50:29 UTC https://padlet.com/kroderick2/7m7iobf4vwy9/wish/211381477 https://padlet.com/kroderick2/7m7iobf4vwy9/wish/211382650 "For the first time in my life, I  was hungry and there was no food, I was thirsty and there was no water. I knew then as I had not known before that the room was real and that my home and my room and my bed had been a dream" (Bagdasarian 36).       ]]> 2017-11-29 13:53:06 UTC https://padlet.com/kroderick2/7m7iobf4vwy9/wish/211382650 https://padlet.com/kroderick2/7m7iobf4vwy9/wish/211389632 "I did not know when I opened my eyes the next morning that it was the last day of my childhood. The day seemed no more ominous than the one before; my heart no heavier, my fears no greater. As I walked down the stairs to the kitchen, I had no premonition that my family and I were about to share our last meal together"
(Bagdasarian 23).]]> 2017-11-29 14:06:20 UTC https://padlet.com/kroderick2/7m7iobf4vwy9/wish/211389632 https://padlet.com/kroderick2/7m7iobf4vwy9/wish/211395711 “I might have died with Diran and Tavel, or I might be screaming in prison or hanging from Karnigs noose, but I was no longer in our house or even inside myself” (Bagdasarian 28). ]]> 2017-11-29 14:16:04 UTC https://padlet.com/kroderick2/7m7iobf4vwy9/wish/211395711 https://padlet.com/kroderick2/7m7iobf4vwy9/wish/211402318 “In the outside world I thought of myself as a grown man, independent of my family, but In my own name I was merely a twelve-year-old boy who had been frightened by my fathers absence” (Bagdasarian 12). ]]> 2017-11-29 14:26:00 UTC https://padlet.com/kroderick2/7m7iobf4vwy9/wish/211402318 https://padlet.com/kroderick2/7m7iobf4vwy9/wish/211438190 Looking into the room, I saw only darkness at first. Then I heard a sound and a part of the floor moved, and I realized it was a floor of bodies. (6.11)]]> 2017-11-29 15:17:47 UTC https://padlet.com/kroderick2/7m7iobf4vwy9/wish/211438190 https://padlet.com/kroderick2/7m7iobf4vwy9/wish/216035745 2017-12-14 03:51:28 UTC https://padlet.com/kroderick2/7m7iobf4vwy9/wish/216035745 https://padlet.com/kroderick2/7m7iobf4vwy9/wish/326726295 2019-02-01 15:25:59 UTC https://padlet.com/kroderick2/7m7iobf4vwy9/wish/326726295 https://padlet.com/kroderick2/7m7iobf4vwy9/wish/354536511 2019-04-26 17:14:45 UTC https://padlet.com/kroderick2/7m7iobf4vwy9/wish/354536511 https://padlet.com/kroderick2/7m7iobf4vwy9/wish/360793670 2019-05-16 14:01:21 UTC https://padlet.com/kroderick2/7m7iobf4vwy9/wish/360793670 https://padlet.com/kroderick2/7m7iobf4vwy9/wish/433205953 2020-01-18 02:22:35 UTC https://padlet.com/kroderick2/7m7iobf4vwy9/wish/433205953 https://padlet.com/kroderick2/7m7iobf4vwy9/wish/495947283 2020-04-07 02:03:50 UTC https://padlet.com/kroderick2/7m7iobf4vwy9/wish/495947283 https://padlet.com/kroderick2/7m7iobf4vwy9/wish/496049102 2020-04-07 05:20:08 UTC https://padlet.com/kroderick2/7m7iobf4vwy9/wish/496049102 https://padlet.com/kroderick2/7m7iobf4vwy9/wish/723741507 2020-09-06 23:47:34 UTC https://padlet.com/kroderick2/7m7iobf4vwy9/wish/723741507 https://padlet.com/kroderick2/7m7iobf4vwy9/wish/725590853 2020-09-07 23:50:25 UTC https://padlet.com/kroderick2/7m7iobf4vwy9/wish/725590853 orchardc1_2 https://padlet.com/kroderick2/7m7iobf4vwy9/wish/843431246 "I did not know when I opened my eyes the next morning that it was the last day of my childhood. The day seemed no more ominous than the one before; my heart no heavier, my fears no greater. As I walked down the stairs to the kitchen, I had no premonition that my family and I were about to share our last meal together"
(Bagdasarian 23).]]> 2020-10-20 03:16:02 UTC https://padlet.com/kroderick2/7m7iobf4vwy9/wish/843431246 https://padlet.com/kroderick2/7m7iobf4vwy9/wish/1011908493 2020-12-12 04:42:54 UTC https://padlet.com/kroderick2/7m7iobf4vwy9/wish/1011908493 https://padlet.com/kroderick2/7m7iobf4vwy9/wish/1366151894 2021-03-30 00:22:53 UTC https://padlet.com/kroderick2/7m7iobf4vwy9/wish/1366151894 https://padlet.com/kroderick2/7m7iobf4vwy9/wish/1493538822 2021-05-05 12:48:41 UTC https://padlet.com/kroderick2/7m7iobf4vwy9/wish/1493538822 https://padlet.com/kroderick2/7m7iobf4vwy9/wish/1558306758 2021-05-25 16:19:48 UTC https://padlet.com/kroderick2/7m7iobf4vwy9/wish/1558306758 https://padlet.com/kroderick2/7m7iobf4vwy9/wish/1558306768 2021-05-25 16:19:49 UTC https://padlet.com/kroderick2/7m7iobf4vwy9/wish/1558306768 https://padlet.com/kroderick2/7m7iobf4vwy9/wish/2159574231 ilovethebook]]> 2022-04-27 02:16:46 UTC https://padlet.com/kroderick2/7m7iobf4vwy9/wish/2159574231 https://padlet.com/kroderick2/7m7iobf4vwy9/wish/3461439142 2025-05-21 14:42:52 UTC https://padlet.com/kroderick2/7m7iobf4vwy9/wish/3461439142