Dylan+Stys

Dylan-could you please list page numbers with each entry? Thanks, Mrs. W
//Vocab// Entry 1

dahlias- Plants that are native to the mountains of Mexico, South America, and Columbia. They are very colorful.

Shorthand- A method of writing rapidly employing symbols to represent words.

Zeppelin- A German inventer who invented a rigid air ship.

Pewter Vase- Decorative or collectable vase.

Beach Cart- A folding cat for easy storage.

//Summary//

=School was starting in a village. There was a girl and she talked about her mother. Her mother was very frugal. She liked to buy Dutch antiques. Her dad is a minister. They were in a parade. The girl and her sisters were wearing jeans, and some people disapproved that because her dad is a minister. They finished in first place. They were very happy. She listen to her dad talk to his clients behind the door in the room he was in. The dad and clients talked about stuff like weddings. One day she got caught. Her dad put her into a dark room in tell she climbed out of the small window. After a while she started listening again. Their family had a maid who cleaned and gardened. There were people who delivered coal in the winter and meats and that type of stuff.=


 * //Vocab//** Entry 2 pages 11 to 19 3-21-11

1. Geraniums- a common garden plant that has red, white, or pink flowers.

2. Rotterdam- the second largest city in the Netherlands

3. Occupational Forces- an activity in which a person is being engaged

4. Maas River- an European River that goes through the Netherlands and empties into the North Sea

5. Rhine River - The longest river in Germany


 * //Summary//**

The girl lives in the Netherlands. She has a boy friend, and they go to the same school. She went to a dance with him. In May the Germans attacked Hollend. The girl and her faimily taped their windows because if there was an explosion if something hit the window it wouldn't break. It would soon become scary in the Netherlands.

//**Vocab**// pages 20-29 Entry 3

1.ladle- A long handled spoon with a deep bowl for liquids.

2.Anticipation- The state of being anticipated.

3.stoneware- Ceramic ware that is fired in high heat.

4.confiscated- impound

5.pewter- alloys of tin with small amounts of metals

//**Summary**// Hanneke Ippish,the girl, and her friends were in girl scouts and they were getting blood for Netherland soldiers Some German soldiers took one of the girls bicycles and told them that they can not wear their uniforms. They went straight home after that. Hanneke's faimily's meals became smaller and smaller. When Hanneke went to the store to get some food she stuck her finger into a metal box. It bleed. The box was for cigars to be snipped. A lot of people started to hoard food because there was a short supply. They only had chocolate candy bars on special events like a birthday. Dutchman started to be fomrced to serve in the German Army, and Germany ordered Dutch people to deliver their metal treasures to be melted down into ammunition.


 * Entry //4// Pages 30-39 3-24-11**
 * Vocab**


 * 1. wailed- Loud cries**


 * 2. lamenting- a cry of sorrow and grief**


 * 3. merely- being nothing more specifield**


 * 4. piet- common Dutch name**


 * 5. burden- load, a something heavy**

Hanneke and her family moved to Dordrecht. She is ﻿now sixteen and the war has been going on for two years. There were sirens when planes bombed. Everyone had a curfew. Hanneke and her friends secretly snuck out to Mr. Visser's house. He had no more coal left for his house so it was very cold. He taught them a English and read //Hamlet.// Now the family doesn't have a maid because it is to expensive. There were some strange disappearances of some students in the school. When Hanneke went home there were German soldiers by her house taking a Jewish family away. It was her classmate's Rebecas's family. Hanneke's family moved back to Zaandam. Hanneke enrolled into the Academy for Physical Education. Now many Jews were transported to Germany. Then Hanneke joined a group to work against Germany. Her first thing to do was to give a Jewish family food coupons and identification papers. They said it will change her life. She got a new name, Ellie Van Dyk.
 * Summary**

Entry 5 pages 40-49 4-3-11

Vocab 1. Friesland- A person born or living in Friesland

2. trolley- a device that collects electric current from an underground conductor or a overhead wire.

3. miraculously- the nature of miracales

4. ingeniously- Marked by a skill or imagination

5. hostess- a women host

Summary Hanneke joined a group that helped jew escape safetly. She had to change her name to Ellie Wan Dyk. She stopped going to her classes. She helped some Jewish couple who were musicians to go on a train to some where safer. Than they went onto a boat. When Jewish people took of their star on their clothes there would be a dark spot shaped as a star. The other sides of the star would be faded so it would stand out. Many sewed a pocket over it. Ellie had different ID and so did the couple so when a German asked they wouldn't do anything. Than Ellie had to bring a boy to the countryside and had to leave his parents. After the war there was a newspaper about Ellie.

Entry 6 pages 50-57 Vocab 1. savored- a specific taste or smell 2. Haarlem- a city west of the Netherlands 3. Vendors- Someone who sells or vends2. 4. Alleviate- To make pain more bareable 5. Parsonge- a rectory

Summary Allied planes started to bomb Germany. Ellie had to deliver food to a family of eight that was hiding in Haarlem. Sometimes German soldiers moved into a empty house that Jews are hiding in.

=﻿Entry 7 pages 58-64= 1. apprehensive- Anxious or fearful that something bad will happen 2. entailed- Something that can have a consequence 3. hampered- To prevent free movement 4. retaliated- Make an attack 5. falsifying- To state untruthfully
 * Vocab**

Summary Ellie would come and see her faimily. Food and coal was getting scarce. There was always people hiding in her parents home. Fuel was getting scarce. The Germans relied on the trains so then the Dutch stopped working for the railroads. They than cut off food supplies and fuel to everyone in Holland. Ellie was still in school. Mr. Buys asked her if she wanted another job and she said yes. She now has a new name Miep. They went to Amsterdam and meet Mr. van Tuyl. Miep will have to do errands for him.

1.couriers- a person or company that basicly ships things or messages 2. altered- to modify something 3. atrocities- appalling condition 4. fluent- someone who can speak many languges 5. amiable- being friendly summary Miep's faimily had two young trained troops from England in their home. They transmit messanges that were top secret. There was a faimily that was shot to death because they were hiding troops that were getting messages. Every Friday morning Meip had to find a meeting place for her secret job. Mr. van Tuyl gave her next job. She has to transport 3million dollars to a person in Zwolle who will help Jews in eastern Holland.]
 * Vocab pages 65-71 entry 8**

Entry 9 pages 72-78 vocab 1.Arnhem- a city in Eastern Holland 2.liberated- freedom from another country 3.loot- buy 4. burlap- fabric made from the ju 5.tedious- too long or dull Summary Miep carried the package with her lunch on her old bike that was hard to pedal. She got to Zwolle and delivered the money that was in her lunch. She hid the money in her lunch right on her handle bars so it didn't look like she was hiding something. Many bikes were damaged because the supplies were caught off and people could not fix them. On freezing roads people rode their bikes to farms to see if they could find food. They arrived at a bridge that was cut off from anyone to prevent Germans getting in the city. The allied forces captured the bridge. Many died because they got no food and had to go back. Miep's faimily ate toothpaste and grain for supper. People in Amsterdam stoled canned food from the German Arny.

1.stately- Having a unhurried apperance 2.invigoratten- Give strength or energy to 3.ceased- Come to an end 4.seemingly- give the impression of having a certain quality 5.despair- Give up hope. Summary =Entry 11 Pages 89-96= Summary For breakfast Miep ate one moldy piece of bread and a cup imitation coffee. For lunch and dinner they ate thin watery soup. There were four people in the cell. Their names are Nel, Tine, and Gerda. All four of them got alone. They all had the same toilet bucket and it overflowed. They sang songs; played games; and did push ups and things like the others. Miep's faimily would get her dirty laundary and put a thing of toothpast in the basket. In the toothpaste there would be a pencil and needle. Miep would put little letters in between the laundary marks and the shirt.
 * Entry 10 pages 79-88**
 * Vocab**
 * Miep's boss was riding his bike on a narrow road one foggy night and drove right into the lake. He came out, but lost his bike. When Miep came into a meeting house there were Germans with machine guns. They than drove her to Amsterdam and put her into a big prison. The cell was small and Miep was than covered with lice. There were rats coming and going from cracks in the walls. They had little to eat.**

Vocab 1. camphor- a waxy, white or transparent solid with a strong, aromatic odor 2. adulterated- impure 3.sterile- something that is clean and sanatized 4. sympathetic-expressing from sympathy 5.ample- large capacity

=﻿Entry 12 pages 97-104= 1. snowdrop- little white flowers 2. corridors- a narrow hallway 3. ushered- to get moved 4.interrogation- being questioned 5.occupants- a holder of position of something summary Miep and her faimily sent letters back and forth in her laundary. Her family gave her a snowdrop. A German guard asked Miep some questions about her secret job. They asked her about some of the people she worked with. They showed her some photos of the people she worked with. She said she doesn't know anything about them, but she does. The German guard had dogs to try to make her answer, but she did not. They took her to her cell.

Entry 13 Pages 105-113 summary Miep was telling people on the floor above her cell about the news that was going on. A German guard came and took Miep because he heard her yelling to the other prisioners. He took her to a dungeon. It had no heat, light, blanket, bed or food. She thought about the times before the war. Her family moved a lot because her dad was a minister. She was thinking about ice skating in the winter when there was no school. Miep was tooken to her cell out of her dungeon and put back into her cell. Hanneke was released from the prison. The war was close to ending, a week. She went home to faimily on a back of a bike withe her girlscout friend that was not in prison. They rode 30 miles to her home. vocab 1. unison- in a rythym 2. majestic- showing impressive beauty 3. beret - a round flat cap 4. toga- one piece garment 5. raving- wild entry 14 pages 114- 121 summary Hanneke's boss had been shot. The war was over. There was a celebration in a plaza when out of the sudden some German soldiers shot the Dutch people clebrating with machine guns. Many people died. The recovery of the war started. Vocab 1. slumped- slow moving 2. steadfast-steadily directed 3.inhabited- move back in 4.oppressors- cruel power 5. burlap- a potato sack

Entry 15 Pages 122-to end 139 Summary Hanneke and her girl scouts helped make homes more like homes. Hanneke was in camps trying to help. The Queen came back to the Netherlands after the war when it was safe. Hanneke and her family moved to Sweden. Then they moved to The United States. In the United states they moved to Montana. During the war people stole a lot.

Vocab 1. parabellum- pistol 2. liberated- stolen one 3. law-abiding- going against the law 4. the Exodus- A group of people that helped transport Jews to Israel 5. unsympathetic- not showing or feeling sympathy

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