https://padlet.com/kalissa_waggoner/bi10ie5cgfuw en-us 2018-04-20 01:04:40 UTC 2026-03-11 21:23:25 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/icons/Apple.png kalissa_waggoner https://padlet.com/kalissa_waggoner/bi10ie5cgfuw/wish/253827483 2018-04-20 13:49:50 UTC https://padlet.com/kalissa_waggoner/bi10ie5cgfuw/wish/253827483 kalissa_waggoner https://padlet.com/kalissa_waggoner/bi10ie5cgfuw/wish/253827649 2018-04-20 13:50:09 UTC https://padlet.com/kalissa_waggoner/bi10ie5cgfuw/wish/253827649 kalissa_waggoner https://padlet.com/kalissa_waggoner/bi10ie5cgfuw/wish/253827732 2018-04-20 13:50:22 UTC https://padlet.com/kalissa_waggoner/bi10ie5cgfuw/wish/253827732 kalissa_waggoner https://padlet.com/kalissa_waggoner/bi10ie5cgfuw/wish/253827859 2018-04-20 13:50:35 UTC https://padlet.com/kalissa_waggoner/bi10ie5cgfuw/wish/253827859 kalissa_waggoner https://padlet.com/kalissa_waggoner/bi10ie5cgfuw/wish/253828232 2018-04-20 13:51:16 UTC https://padlet.com/kalissa_waggoner/bi10ie5cgfuw/wish/253828232 kalissa_waggoner https://padlet.com/kalissa_waggoner/bi10ie5cgfuw/wish/254010860 "My mind freezes on one word - Jews.  Jews.  We are Jews.  I am Jewish."

The word 'Jews'  is repeated because the author is revealing the significance of Syvia being of Jewish heritage.  ]]> 2018-04-21 00:48:40 UTC https://padlet.com/kalissa_waggoner/bi10ie5cgfuw/wish/254010860 kalissa_waggoner https://padlet.com/kalissa_waggoner/bi10ie5cgfuw/wish/254011283 "Life goes on in the ghetto."

This phrase is repeated three times in this section because the author is emphasizing the normal, everyday things that happened in the ghetto despite the terrible situation that the people were in.  ]]> 2018-04-21 00:57:19 UTC https://padlet.com/kalissa_waggoner/bi10ie5cgfuw/wish/254011283 kalissa_waggoner https://padlet.com/kalissa_waggoner/bi10ie5cgfuw/wish/254011497 "I am safe.  I am stiff.  I am sore.  But I am safe."
"Dora's shouting has let them know, too, that it is sage to come out.  Safe.  At least for one more day. 

The word 'safe' is repeated in this section because Syvia is reflecting on her survival through another night of hiding and is realizing the uncertainty of her safety.  ]]> 2018-04-21 01:00:26 UTC https://padlet.com/kalissa_waggoner/bi10ie5cgfuw/wish/254011497 kalissa_waggoner https://padlet.com/kalissa_waggoner/bi10ie5cgfuw/wish/254011833 "What does it matter that we are Jews?"

This question makes me wonder about all the innocent children who died in the Holocaust and did not even understand why they were hated.  ]]> 2018-04-21 01:07:13 UTC https://padlet.com/kalissa_waggoner/bi10ie5cgfuw/wish/254011833 kalissa_waggoner https://padlet.com/kalissa_waggoner/bi10ie5cgfuw/wish/254012154 "Why does everything have to be different now?  Why won't they let us go home?

This question makes me wonder how Syvia's parents explained to her why they had to move and why they were treated the way they were.  ]]> 2018-04-21 01:13:26 UTC https://padlet.com/kalissa_waggoner/bi10ie5cgfuw/wish/254012154 kalissa_waggoner https://padlet.com/kalissa_waggoner/bi10ie5cgfuw/wish/254012354 "What if the soldiers come looking for me and search and search until they find Papa and me?  What if there really are such things as ghosts and dead people that walk around at night?

These questions make me wonder what else Syvia thought about while she was hiding in the cemetery and what her father thought about. ]]> 2018-04-21 01:17:47 UTC https://padlet.com/kalissa_waggoner/bi10ie5cgfuw/wish/254012354 kalissa_waggoner https://padlet.com/kalissa_waggoner/bi10ie5cgfuw/wish/254012853 "There are Russians and British and Americans (and people called 'Stralians) who are coming to rescue the Polish people. 
But what about the Jews?
If even people of our own country did not try to help us when we were put into the ghetto, why would these foreigners want to save us?" 

These questions make me wonder what the Jews thought about themselves as people and whether they saw themselves as valuable and worthy of love.  These questions also make me wonder if the Jewish people who lived through the Holocaust ever learned to trust other people.  ]]> 2018-04-21 01:24:55 UTC https://padlet.com/kalissa_waggoner/bi10ie5cgfuw/wish/254012853 kalissa_waggoner https://padlet.com/kalissa_waggoner/bi10ie5cgfuw/wish/254013419 "What if the Nazis have caught my papa, my mother, my sister, and taken them to the trains or worse yet, shot them on the spot?"

This question makes me wonder what is going to happen next in the story and whether or not Syvia and her family will be separated or killed.  ]]> 2018-04-21 01:36:12 UTC https://padlet.com/kalissa_waggoner/bi10ie5cgfuw/wish/254013419 kalissa_waggoner https://padlet.com/kalissa_waggoner/bi10ie5cgfuw/wish/254013606 "Before the war, Papa worked as a salesman.  He worked hard and made a good living?

This memory is important because it gives more information about Syvia's family and it shows that her father was hard-working and just as capable as any other person.  ]]> 2018-04-21 01:40:16 UTC https://padlet.com/kalissa_waggoner/bi10ie5cgfuw/wish/254013606 kalissa_waggoner https://padlet.com/kalissa_waggoner/bi10ie5cgfuw/wish/254015751 "I once saw a man being killed out on the streets.  Bang! Bang!  A man in the crowd did a funny jump, then fell on his back, his yellow star facing the sky.  Other people jumped too, away from the man, then kept walking, faster, and Dora tugged me away so I couldn't see anymore."

This memory is important because it shows the terrible things that have happened in the ghetto and that Syvia had seen even at her young age.  ]]> 2018-04-21 02:21:18 UTC https://padlet.com/kalissa_waggoner/bi10ie5cgfuw/wish/254015751 kalissa_waggoner https://padlet.com/kalissa_waggoner/bi10ie5cgfuw/wish/254016365 "When I was littler I saw a soldier on the street.  I did not want to look at his face, so I lowered my gaze to his hand, which was holding a pistol straight out in front of him.  He pulled with his finger and pop, I think someone was killed right then, because I heard a cry and a thud very close to where Dora and I were walking. 

This memory is important because it shows the connection Syvia is making between the girl with the 'nervous hands'  and why her motions make her nervous.  ]]> 2018-04-21 02:31:50 UTC https://padlet.com/kalissa_waggoner/bi10ie5cgfuw/wish/254016365 kalissa_waggoner https://padlet.com/kalissa_waggoner/bi10ie5cgfuw/wish/254056360 "'And they did not want me on the list,' I say.  'They did not want you,' Dora echoes.  'No children on the right side.  I'm sorry, Syvia. That's just the way it is.'"

This moment will change the story because Syvia's entire family is now suppose to get on the trains instead of staying in the Lodz Ghetto.  ]]> 2018-04-21 14:52:04 UTC https://padlet.com/kalissa_waggoner/bi10ie5cgfuw/wish/254056360 kalissa_waggoner https://padlet.com/kalissa_waggoner/bi10ie5cgfuw/wish/254056916 "Suddenly I realize where I am, what I am doing.  I had better get inside. "

This moment might change the story because Syvia is taking a risk and might be caught which would put her whole family in danger.  ]]> 2018-04-21 14:58:38 UTC https://padlet.com/kalissa_waggoner/bi10ie5cgfuw/wish/254056916 kalissa_waggoner https://padlet.com/kalissa_waggoner/bi10ie5cgfuw/wish/254057137 "'Hello!' the Russian says, waving his gloved hand.  And I realize something else.  I understood him.  He said hello in Yiddish.
He is Jewish, too."

This moment may change the story because Syvia realizes that the Russians are there to rescue them and that this man was even Jewish, just like her.   ]]> 2018-04-21 15:01:19 UTC https://padlet.com/kalissa_waggoner/bi10ie5cgfuw/wish/254057137 kalissa_waggoner https://padlet.com/kalissa_waggoner/bi10ie5cgfuw/wish/254057819 "'People have different ways of surviving the days,' Papa say.  'We must honor our differences while we find our own courage and our own strength the best we know how.'" 

The life lesson is that we should treat all people with respect even when they react to situations differently than us.  This lesson might affect the characte by helping her to understand why the other children act the way they do and to respect them equally.  ]]> 2018-04-21 15:10:07 UTC https://padlet.com/kalissa_waggoner/bi10ie5cgfuw/wish/254057819 kalissa_waggoner https://padlet.com/kalissa_waggoner/bi10ie5cgfuw/wish/254191402 2018-04-22 22:01:34 UTC https://padlet.com/kalissa_waggoner/bi10ie5cgfuw/wish/254191402 kalissa_waggoner https://padlet.com/kalissa_waggoner/bi10ie5cgfuw/wish/254197031 "Before the war, Papa was a salesman.  He worked hard and made a good living.  We were not rich.  'Comfortable,' Mother called our family.  My parents dressed up and went out to the theater and to movies.  Now when Papa arrives home from work, he and Mother don't go anywhere.  Papa is very, very tired."

Syvia's father is acting this way because he does not make as much money and is forced to work hard.  Because their family lives in the ghetto they are not able to go out and do the things that they did before.  ]]> 2018-04-22 23:05:59 UTC https://padlet.com/kalissa_waggoner/bi10ie5cgfuw/wish/254197031 kalissa_waggoner https://padlet.com/kalissa_waggoner/bi10ie5cgfuw/wish/254197664 "These are the rules:  No one must see Syvia.  No one must hear Syvia.  No one must know that she is here.  She must stay inside the apartment at all time.  She must not play loudly or shout, and she must stay away from the window unless the curtain is down."

Syvia's parents are acting this way (making these rules for Syvia) because children are not allowed to be in the ghetto anymore, but they want to keep her with them.  Before, they fought over letting Syvia go outside by herself, but now they say that she must always be inside.  ]]> 2018-04-22 23:14:04 UTC https://padlet.com/kalissa_waggoner/bi10ie5cgfuw/wish/254197664 kalissa_waggoner https://padlet.com/kalissa_waggoner/bi10ie5cgfuw/wish/254198075 "One would think a room full of children would be noisy, but it is mostly quiet.  After months and months of very little food or sunlight, we are weak and listless."

The children are acting this way because they are weak from not having food and they have been hiding like this for months or years and have grown accustom to always being quiet. ]]> 2018-04-22 23:18:13 UTC https://padlet.com/kalissa_waggoner/bi10ie5cgfuw/wish/254198075 kalissa_waggoner https://padlet.com/kalissa_waggoner/bi10ie5cgfuw/wish/254198376 "I get up and start walking.  Are these my feet climbing up to the top of the stairs?  Can this be my hand pushing the door open? ... There is another door.  I open it.  One hard push and I am outside."

Syvia is acting this way because she has been hidden in the cellar for so long and is tired of being there, so she takes the risk of going outside which she normally would not.  ]]> 2018-04-22 23:21:26 UTC https://padlet.com/kalissa_waggoner/bi10ie5cgfuw/wish/254198376 kalissa_waggoner https://padlet.com/kalissa_waggoner/bi10ie5cgfuw/wish/254198801 "A hero.  Me.  The mouse." 

Syvia is feeling this way because she has helped to save everyone in the ghetto by her bravery.  Though she has always felt small and insignificant and has been hidden away, now she is realizing that she did a very brave and important act.  ]]> 2018-04-22 23:25:39 UTC https://padlet.com/kalissa_waggoner/bi10ie5cgfuw/wish/254198801 kalissa_waggoner https://padlet.com/kalissa_waggoner/bi10ie5cgfuw/wish/254349807 https://www.memorialmuseums.org/eng/staettens/view/1436/Radegast-Station-%E2%80%93-%C5%81%C3%B3d%C5%BA-Ghetto-Holocaust-Memorial]]> 2018-04-23 12:34:29 UTC https://padlet.com/kalissa_waggoner/bi10ie5cgfuw/wish/254349807 kalissa_waggoner https://padlet.com/kalissa_waggoner/bi10ie5cgfuw/wish/254535412 https://mashable.com/2017/04/02/inside-the-lodz-ghetto/#DAqt0uMUxZq8]]> 2018-04-23 17:53:49 UTC https://padlet.com/kalissa_waggoner/bi10ie5cgfuw/wish/254535412 kalissa_waggoner https://padlet.com/kalissa_waggoner/bi10ie5cgfuw/wish/254538385 https://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/media_nm.php?ModuleId=10005071&MediaId=404]]> 2018-04-23 17:58:45 UTC https://padlet.com/kalissa_waggoner/bi10ie5cgfuw/wish/254538385 kalissa_waggoner https://padlet.com/kalissa_waggoner/bi10ie5cgfuw/wish/254542825 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gWoNckPxBPo]]> 2018-04-23 18:06:30 UTC https://padlet.com/kalissa_waggoner/bi10ie5cgfuw/wish/254542825