Jamie+Domnick

=__The Island on Bird Street... by Uri Orlev__=


 * Ch. 1 Father's Secret pgs. 1-7 3/18/11 **
 * This boy named Alex wakes up and sees his father cleaning something. It turns out to be a gun, a pistol. His mother had gone to a ghetto to see some friends and she hadn't returned home. They share a home with other people and Alex's father doesn't want them to know about the gun. He plans to use this gun if he needs to. Alex knows everything about his fathers gun. They have been in war now for 3 years. Everyone is worried about camps and nobody knows if they kill people there or not. Alex is being taught to defend himself, to shot, to tie ropes, and much more. **

__**Vocab **__
 * I wonder if Alex will have to use the gun? **
 * What will happen next? **
 * 1. Ghetto- A place that the nazis forced jews to live. **
 * 2. Disassemble- to take apart **
 * 3. Fixtures- things that are apart of bathtubs, showers, and sinks. Used to turn them on. **
 * 4. Hideout- a place to hide. **
 * 5. Madman- a person that is crazy or that is messed up somehow. **

__**Vocab **__ __**Ch. 3 We're caught, old boruch has a plan pgs. 15-25 3/20/11 **__ __**Vocab **__
 * Ch. 2 Snow, and are people like trees? pgs. 8-14 3/19/11 **
 * Alex's mother seems like a very smart women. His Father seems to think he knows everything. Father and mother dont seem to get along very well, always fighting... Alex has a pet mouse. He named the mouse Snow, because he is white. He thinks Snow is very smart because all of his other mice died and he comes when Alex calls him. Alex's mother is still missing. Alex is always hiding and he doesnt know what he will do with out Snow. **
 * Where is his mother? **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">1. Among- to be with **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">2. Immune- can't get sick from a certain thing. **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">3. Forbid- not allowed, cant do something. **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">4. Ashamed- Wish something hadent been done. **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">5.Arguement- a fight. Disagreement **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">They came by surprise. Alex wasnt the only child hiding there. There were more kids. Nobody knew what to do, escape seemed impossible. Shots were fired. Someone told about the secret hiding place. Alex and his father hid in the ropes. They find them. Alex runs and hinds in a spaces only big enough for him. The Nazis chase after him, but they dont know where he is. He has his fathers gun and will use it if he has to. **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">1. Escape- to get away from somewhere you dont want to be. **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">2. Gnaws- to chew. **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">3. Naturally- first thought **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">4. Ridiculous- Crazy, wierd. **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">5. Uniform- a certain thing you have to wear. **

__**<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Ch. 4 The Ruined House p. 26- 32 3/24/11 **__


 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Alex is still in hiding. He remembers going to the old house he is hiding in as a little kid. He remembers playing hide and seek. He would play there even though it was forbidden. Alex wishes he could fly. He thinks that if he could he would go to the 3rd floor because there are no stairs. There is a sink there that drips and he thinks that the water will work. The birds go up there all the time to drink from it. Alex use to go there all the time with other kids. Alex wonders if he is luck. Is he? He always seems to escape everything, and never get hurt. He wonders about snow his mouse. He hopes he will be ok there by himself. **

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">__**Vocab**__

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">**1. collapse- to fall, to brake apart** <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">**2. Ruined- broken, and not together anymore. Once working.** <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">**3. Appreciating- to give thanks. Being grateful.** <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">**4. Privilege- a right. something that you can do, but don't if you disobey it could be taken away.** <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">**5. Generation- each new step in a family. It goes from Parent to there child to the next and next.**

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">**__Ch. 5 My First Venture out, and the Gryns pgs. 33- 44 3/24/11__**

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">**Alex leaves the hideout. He sneaks threw the dark, lonely street to his old house. He gets home and find out that all the food is gone. He goes to a secret place and all the food is gone there too. He goes to his family's shelter and its lock from the inside. His naubors are in there hiding and wont let him take any food even though his dad was the one to take it all. He goes back to his hideout.**

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">**__Vocab__** <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">**Blamed- Acused of doing something.** <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">**Cellar- A basement** <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">**Stripped- Taken from, or left with nothing** <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">**Smugglers- Robbers or Stealers** <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">**Bunker- a hideout, or a secret place**

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">**Ch. 6 Worthless Treasure p. 45-50**

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">**Alex comes out of his hiding spot and goes and looks around. He goes upstairs and finds many apartments. He desides to search though them and he find many things, but no food. He keeps a few thing, but leaves the rest. Alex gas only anough food for a week and is running low. He is worried because his father is still missing and he doesnt know how long he will last without any food.**

__<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">**Vocab** __ <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">**Investigate- To look around or go though things** <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">**Peered- peek or look** <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">**Harm- hurt or do damage** <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">**Passage- a door or secret way** <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">**breadknife- a dull knife normally used to cut bread**

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">**CH. 7 Im hungry but so are they pgs 50-56**

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">**Alex has been searching everywhere for food. He goes from building to building though holes in the walls. He crossed the street and he was lucky nobody saw him. He goes into this building and finds a secret stash of food.. he takes it all but then a different family in hiding take his food and leave him with only anough food for 4 days. He is running low and needs to find some more.**

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">**Vocab** <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">**Manage- just able to do something.. just able to get by** <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">**Squeeze- just able to fit in** <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">**Clever- smart** <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">**Blurt- say without thinking** <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">**Movement- any motion**

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">**Ch. 8 The pistol really shots pgs 57-63**

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">**A ghetto search. The Nazis are seaching the ghetto for hiding Jews. They are searching every building. They are so close to fiing Alex but then they leave. He relizes that his hideout isnt good enough and that he needs to find a different one in order to not be found. He decides that he has to get up to the 4th floor of the building. It would be the perfect spot. There isnt any stairs to get up there and you wouldnt be able to see or get up there. There is only one problem.. how does he get up there? Alex decides that he is going to the rope factory to get some rope so that he can make a ladder out of rope. On the way he finds a little girl being attacked by a man. He recongizes the girl as the daughter of the man who took all of his food in chapter 7. He scares off the man by pretending to shot the gun and they talk. She give him a hair pin.**

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">**Vocab** <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">**Investigate- To search or look for something** <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">**Dozed off- to fall asleep** <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">**Hoist- to pull up** <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">**Bandage- used to help heal** <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">**Suddenly- quickly do something**

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">**Ch. 9 Looters Pgs 64- 70**

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">**He makes it to the rope factory. He gets a bag of rope and decides to go back. On the way he goes back to his old house and finds out that it has been looted. It is a wreck and there are things everywhere and somethings are missing. He goes to the bunker under the toilet and he sees that the toilet has been ripped off the floor. He goes down and the people under there that were hiding are gone and the food is gone too.**

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">**Vocab**

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">**Strange- weird** <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">**Route- a road or passage** <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">**Eager- excited to do something** <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">**Consider- think about** <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">**Watchman- a guard**

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">**Ch. 10 The larder and the Bird Floor pgs. 71-78**

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">**Alexs startes to make the rope ladder. He finishs it and waits until it gets dark enough to get up there. He makes it up and decides it is the perfect place. Nobody can see him up there and nobody would even think he could get up there. Nobody could with out a ladder. He has water now and is almost completely safe and hidin from the evil Nazis.**

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">**Vocab**

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">**Experiment- a new thing somebody is trying to try to get a reaction or conclusion.** <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">**Strained- weaker** <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">**Target- a certain place somebody wishs to get or hit** <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">**Dangled- to hang from** <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">**Rubble- debris or garbage**

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">**Ch. 11 The bunker pgs. 79-84**

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">**The Nazis come back to search the building. Alex was so afraid that they had come for him, but they didnt even know about him. They are widening the entrance to the cellar where Alex was before. He was afraid thinking that he still might have been down there. They found more people down there in a secret bunker alex didnt even know about. Everything was taken except the food. Alex went down there and took most of it before the Nazis came back to take it. The Nazis came back the next morning at distroied the entrace to get in, so alex couldnt gey back.**

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">**Vocab** <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">**Temptation- a urge to do something** <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">**Helpless- unable to accomplish** <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">**Curse- unpleasent words, used when angry or hurt or if ur just a potty mouth.** <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">**Raid- helping ones self to something greatly** <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">**Guarentee- certain in something. A promise.**

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">**Ch. 12 The Girl who does her homework pgs. 85-95**

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">**Alex goes and finds a ladder so now he can get up to the 5th floor too. He looks over on the polish side all the time and watches the people. Alex likes a girl who sits down every night and does her homework. He hates the boy who bullies all the young children and walks the girl to school. He gets Jealous.**

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">**Vocab**

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">**Prefection- feeling like you did everything right and that everything is ok** <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">**Occured- something that has happened** <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">**Crook- theif** <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">**Scolded- to yell at for something done wrong.** <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">**"Sweet on her"- having a crush on somebody**

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">**Ch. 13 The uprising pgs. 96-105**

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">**Alex is going to join a jewish uprising and is going to figh back against the Nazis. He saves two men being chased by a Nazi police man. He shoots him when the cop is about to shoot them. Alex killed him and feels sick. they hide the man and alex takes the 2 back to his hideout.. One of the men is cut and alex has to get a doctor.**

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">**vocab**

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">**Purpose- the belonging or a feeling of having to do something** <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">**Burst- to explode** <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">**Slip- to stumble or fall** <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">**Wounded- hurt** <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">**Frantic- very tense**

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">**ch. 14 To the Doctor pgs. 106-113**

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">**Alex sneaks over to the polish side to get a secret Jewish doctor. He is pretending to be a Polish boy going to school. He gets to the doctor and says the password to get in. The doctors wife opens the door and he goes inside. The doctor agrees to go back with him. He is afraid that somebody will tell the Nazis about the secret hideout. Now 4 people know about the hideout.**

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">**Vocab**

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">**Groan- a noise that anybody can make** <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">**Innocent- believing that you did now do anything** <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">**Scold- yelling at for something wrong** <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">**errand- a chore, something that has to be done** <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">**disappointed- not approving, upset**

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">**Ch. 15 pgs. 114-121 The Operation**

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">**Alex take the doctor back to the hideout and the doctor cleaned out the mans wounds. He removed the bullets easily and proudly. Alex gave Alex some meds and bandages just in case. Alex and the doctor sneak back to the polish wall and the doctor leaves. He kisses Alex and promises to be back in 2 days to check on the man. The doctor said that the man's wound could get infected.. and that would be bad. The doctor was taken by the nazis the next day...**

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">**Vocab**

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">**Pretend- to be something that you are not** <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">**Ashamed- feeling guilty of a wrong doing** <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">**Admit- to let go of something** <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">**instraments- tools for a certain purpose** <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">**Murder- killing another**

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