https://padlet.com/chaerinw9/fxqgb4zg2uzu en-us 2017-11-06 16:14:35 UTC 2023-04-09 00:50:10 UTC hello@padlet.com chaerinw9 https://padlet.com/chaerinw9/fxqgb4zg2uzu/wish/203967752 2017-11-06 16:21:14 UTC https://padlet.com/chaerinw9/fxqgb4zg2uzu/wish/203967752 chaerinw9 https://padlet.com/chaerinw9/fxqgb4zg2uzu/wish/203971302 This story is based on the author's(Fern Schumer Chapman) mother's experience. This during the time of WW2 and the Holocaust, Edith is coming to the United States by herself.

]]> 2017-11-06 16:26:30 UTC https://padlet.com/chaerinw9/fxqgb4zg2uzu/wish/203971302 https://padlet.com/chaerinw9/fxqgb4zg2uzu/wish/203972338 "It felt like I was going to the moon." (4) 
As the main character in the story is explain to us how her and her family are moving to Chicago. She then compares this move to Chicago as is it were like going to the moon using the word like. ]]> 2017-11-06 16:28:16 UTC https://padlet.com/chaerinw9/fxqgb4zg2uzu/wish/203972338 https://padlet.com/chaerinw9/fxqgb4zg2uzu/wish/203973160 "We were burying my childhood." (1) A young girl is traveling with her father, mother,  and two other girls. The idiom suggest how the young girl is letting/getting rid of her childhood but she's not actually reading it. ]]> 2017-11-06 16:29:42 UTC https://padlet.com/chaerinw9/fxqgb4zg2uzu/wish/203973160 deleenae8 https://padlet.com/chaerinw9/fxqgb4zg2uzu/wish/203976696  ]]> 2017-11-06 16:35:34 UTC https://padlet.com/chaerinw9/fxqgb4zg2uzu/wish/203976696 https://padlet.com/chaerinw9/fxqgb4zg2uzu/wish/203982792 2017-11-06 16:44:35 UTC https://padlet.com/chaerinw9/fxqgb4zg2uzu/wish/203982792 chaerinw9 https://padlet.com/chaerinw9/fxqgb4zg2uzu/wish/205576411 "WHen the lady returned, I couldn't keep my eyes off her. She looked like a doll" (73). This is demonstrating a simile because she is comparing the woman to a doll using the word like/as. ]]> 2017-11-10 05:11:36 UTC https://padlet.com/chaerinw9/fxqgb4zg2uzu/wish/205576411 chaerinw9 https://padlet.com/chaerinw9/fxqgb4zg2uzu/wish/205576524 "At last- faintly, then louder-  I heard a thump-thump”(96). This is a description action word of what the character heard. ]]> 2017-11-10 05:13:39 UTC https://padlet.com/chaerinw9/fxqgb4zg2uzu/wish/205576524 chaerinw9 https://padlet.com/chaerinw9/fxqgb4zg2uzu/wish/205577366 “Outside, crowds of people crept along the sidewalk, together forming what looked like a huge caterpillar.” (91)]]> 2017-11-10 05:28:34 UTC https://padlet.com/chaerinw9/fxqgb4zg2uzu/wish/205577366 chaerinw9 https://padlet.com/chaerinw9/fxqgb4zg2uzu/wish/205577381  “My eyes were glued to the window…”(91). This is exaggerating how Edith was very interested in her surroundings. ]]> 2017-11-10 05:29:02 UTC https://padlet.com/chaerinw9/fxqgb4zg2uzu/wish/205577381 chaerinw9 https://padlet.com/chaerinw9/fxqgb4zg2uzu/wish/205577510 2017-11-10 05:31:24 UTC https://padlet.com/chaerinw9/fxqgb4zg2uzu/wish/205577510 chaerinw9 https://padlet.com/chaerinw9/fxqgb4zg2uzu/wish/205577568 2017-11-10 05:32:50 UTC https://padlet.com/chaerinw9/fxqgb4zg2uzu/wish/205577568 https://padlet.com/chaerinw9/fxqgb4zg2uzu/wish/205578260 2017-11-10 05:44:35 UTC https://padlet.com/chaerinw9/fxqgb4zg2uzu/wish/205578260 https://padlet.com/chaerinw9/fxqgb4zg2uzu/wish/205578489 "... the famous Iron Cross, trimmed in white, with the year 1914 engraved on its face. " (5) The character over exaggerates how proud her father was from winning/serving in the Great War. ]]> 2017-11-10 05:48:57 UTC https://padlet.com/chaerinw9/fxqgb4zg2uzu/wish/205578489 https://padlet.com/chaerinw9/fxqgb4zg2uzu/wish/205749071 We huddled together,arms around each other like a woven basket (12)]]> 2017-11-10 16:31:44 UTC https://padlet.com/chaerinw9/fxqgb4zg2uzu/wish/205749071 diamonds17 https://padlet.com/chaerinw9/fxqgb4zg2uzu/wish/205750338 "Frau spoke sharply,sounding just like mother" (58)]]> 2017-11-10 16:35:07 UTC https://padlet.com/chaerinw9/fxqgb4zg2uzu/wish/205750338 diamonds17 https://padlet.com/chaerinw9/fxqgb4zg2uzu/wish/205751922 "My eyes are glued to the window" (91) SHe is using this hyperbole because she is exaggeration of her saying she can't take her eyes off the window.]]> 2017-11-10 16:39:23 UTC https://padlet.com/chaerinw9/fxqgb4zg2uzu/wish/205751922 https://padlet.com/chaerinw9/fxqgb4zg2uzu/wish/205753624 "As the sky lightened, the statue grow before our eyes." This is personification because she is giving the statue a human like characteristic. ]]> 2017-11-10 16:44:14 UTC https://padlet.com/chaerinw9/fxqgb4zg2uzu/wish/205753624 https://padlet.com/chaerinw9/fxqgb4zg2uzu/wish/205761525 "Her face mostly hidden by eyeglasses" Idiom]]> 2017-11-10 17:08:14 UTC https://padlet.com/chaerinw9/fxqgb4zg2uzu/wish/205761525 https://padlet.com/chaerinw9/fxqgb4zg2uzu/wish/205764099 "I fixed my eyes on the floor to avoid her sharp gaze"(97) hyperbole]]> 2017-11-10 17:15:19 UTC https://padlet.com/chaerinw9/fxqgb4zg2uzu/wish/205764099 cristiaz6 https://padlet.com/chaerinw9/fxqgb4zg2uzu/wish/205932284 2017-11-12 00:26:25 UTC https://padlet.com/chaerinw9/fxqgb4zg2uzu/wish/205932284 cristiaz6 https://padlet.com/chaerinw9/fxqgb4zg2uzu/wish/205932413 2017-11-12 00:30:41 UTC https://padlet.com/chaerinw9/fxqgb4zg2uzu/wish/205932413 cristiaz6 https://padlet.com/chaerinw9/fxqgb4zg2uzu/wish/205932448 "That gray look on her parents' face..."  (25)
This is idiom because that parents face wasn't actually gray. ]]> 2017-11-12 00:31:54 UTC https://padlet.com/chaerinw9/fxqgb4zg2uzu/wish/205932448 cristiaz6 https://padlet.com/chaerinw9/fxqgb4zg2uzu/wish/205932994 The Statue of Liberty is one of the first things that people saw as they were arriving to New York, America. (71)]]> 2017-11-12 00:43:32 UTC https://padlet.com/chaerinw9/fxqgb4zg2uzu/wish/205932994 cristiaz6 https://padlet.com/chaerinw9/fxqgb4zg2uzu/wish/205933220 Lots of immigrants including  Edith (main character) came to America and became an American through Ellis Island. ]]> 2017-11-12 00:49:06 UTC https://padlet.com/chaerinw9/fxqgb4zg2uzu/wish/205933220