Elephant reading comprehension

 

joseph, Isabel and Mahmoud

 Joseph:

Joseph is a refugee boy who lived in Germany, who wanted to leave to go to Cuba. he is jewish born in 1926, who has a friend called Klaus, sisters named Ruth, mom named Rachel and a dad named Auron. His dad was sent to a concentration camp. When his dad got let go from the camp he returned skinny and very spooked,they took a train to berlin to hamburg and shipped to Cuba. while they were in the boat  dad jumped out and got sent to prison(Cuba) and during that ship an old man died at the sea  and made a burial in the ocean. “Flashback” when he was still back in Cuba Joseph had a bar mitzvah which means that he turned 13 and he is a man now that can take care of his sister. When they got to Cuba they had to stay in the boat for weeks because they were not sure if they were allowed in. At the end Joseph sacrificed himself for her 4 year old sister and they were sent to concentration.

Isabel:

Isabel is one of the characters in refuge her dad tried to escape from Cuba and go to Florida because Syria had a civil war so they wanted to get away. They lived in a pink cinder block house, their money is called pesos. Then the dad tried before with him and other people, when they tried to escape the grandma drowned. The neighbour Ivan was Isabel's friend. Ivan’s dad was building a boat so they wanted to join them and help them. Isabel had a trumpet and a cat, Isabel went to buy some gas but she had no money so she traded her trumpet and her cat for some gas. On the boat was Lito, her grandpa, her mum who was pregnant, Ivan, luis he is a cop, luis’s girlfriend and seora castillo. But then he got caught by the police so the police shot at them, when they shot it hit the boat and it made holes so they covered it up with their sock. There were some problems like a hurricane and a cargo ship came and made a big wave and pushed them back. They landed at the wrong place and the tourist saw that the mum was pregnant and threw chips,water and pills. So they went off again on the way there Ivan and Isabel was pedalling and then a shark ate Ivan and Isabel jumped back in the boat and Luis shot the shark then more sharks came because of the blood. But then the sharks just left so they carried on then when they got there a coast guard saw them but if the coast guard catches them they will get sent back but if they make it they got to stay, that is called wet foot and dry foot but the coast guard was going to catch them but then Lito sacrificed himself by jumping out the boat and getting caught by the coast guard so they can make before they got to the land the baby was born and they named it after the grandma that drowned.

Mahmoud:

Mahmoud is a 12 year old boy who lived in a small destroyed city in Aleppo, a small town in Syria. Mamoud was Muslim boy and and prayed five times a day he also lived in a apartment with his family. One day his apartment got hit by a missile and they wanted to move into a new house that was far away from all the war and destruction, so they decided that they wanted to go to Germany. Mamoud’s friend got killed from a falling bomb from the sky, which left Mahmoud sad and it was made clear that Mamoud’s teacher didn’t like him. One day him and his family packed up to go to Germany but during their travels they were arrested. Mamoud and his family were put into jail in Austria for illegally crossing the border but were released roughly after a year. When the family were released then carried on in their travels eventually landing in Germany. Based on the story Mamoud and his family were living with an old elderly lady.

How do animals evolve from being in water to on land

 Life first emerged in the oceans nearly three and a half billion years ago when they got more complexed they started to swim close to land years later they started to go on land for shorts times after a long time they involved to have lungs and stayed on land for longer but there still went back in the water to cool off but they can not breath in the water anymore. When it got dryer the Reptiles ruled the world so some Reptiles did not go in the water anymore.   

Writing Narrative Prompt

These are pictures of boats that have been used by Cubans trying to get to Florida, just like in our story Refugee. 

1. Make a list of what resources (stuff) you can see that they have used to build their boat

•   Metal sheet 

•  Can 

•  Wood 

•  Bark for rope

• Plastic

• Car motor 

• And Motorbike motor 

2. The journey between Havana and Miami is 510km - the same as driving from Auckland to Palmerston North. In this kind of boat, that trip would take almost 2 days. What kind of resources (stuff) do you think the people would take with them in the boat to survive the 2 days?

•  water

•  Fishing rod 

•   Fuel

•  worms

•  Clothes 

•  Blankets 

• and  big long plastic sheet 

3. If they had room, what resources do you think the would take that would help them once they arrived in the United States of America? Explain why they need that thing.

•  Seed to grow

• Clothes to sell  

•  Wood to build a house

Now you are going to write a narrative using one of the pictures above (you choose which one!). 

Think about our story Refugee while you are planning…

Remember the structure for a narrative is 

Paragraph 1	Introduction	Hook the reader in with dialogue, quickly introduce the characters and what is happening. What, who, when, where, how, why.
Paragraph 2	Orientation	Talk about the characters, how the characters know each other, explain through dialogue why they are going on a boat, etc
Paragraph 3	Problem	Something bad that happens
Paragraph 4	Solution	How that bad thing is overcome
Paragraph 5	Conclusion	How they get to Miami (at least ONE character has to get there in the end!).

Remember you can have more than one problem and solution - have as many as you want, as long as they make sense! 

Don’t forget your dialogue (people talking or thinking), similes and metaphors, difficult words, punctuation like ? ! “ “ ; : - / … 

**bonus points if you can put in some Spanish, or a reference to them using pesos**

Use this box to brainstorm your ideas and plan out your story.
Paragraph 1	Introduction	people
Paragraph 2	Orientation	About the people
Paragraph 3	Problem	There is a war
Paragraph 4	Solution	There are going to go to the usa
Paragraph 5	Conclusion	Two died

Character 1:  Name: Agerash Age: 13 Details about them:  good Nice    Like to eat  fat

Character 2:  Name: yum Age: 8 Details about them: Skinny    hungry   sad   Good looking

Character 3:  Name: malo Age: 56 Details about them:  old  dark  tall  happy

Character 4:  Name:  Age:  Details about them:

There is corruption in the Soviet Union the Soviet Union is called Russia people are starving and lots are dieing in Cuba because the Cuba Relied on the Soviet Union for money the cuba sold sugar cane sugar to the of Soviet Union to get money and when the Soviet Union became corrupt. so the Cube  had no money and starved Some people tried to run out of Cuba and some of them got caught and sent to jail.   

‘Wake up Agerash it time to work on the boat,’ said Malo. Malo was an old man. He was in his 50s. He was tall, always happy and had dark skin. Soon after Agerash  woke up and ate some food their family is very poor and can only eat can beans then he went to the shed to help the dad with the boat. The boat looks like it compiles metal and plastic. Then yum came and said good morning then malo told yum to go home. 

On the day 'Let's go’ said Mole the family packed up the go to florida Play set the rust buckets on to the water and sail the way what are bike motors. They sailed to Florida a few days after. They were in Florida and lived ever after.    

pages 20 and 21

Eh Htoo: In 8 September 1916 Tipu was a new recruit walking throw the turk lane with the new recruits then Tuip saw his brother they hugged then Tuip got a shovel and diged lot of people. Comprehension.

Extra sources: https://nzhistory.govt.nz/war/maori-in-first-world-war/on-the-western-front



How long has passed since we last read about Tipu and Rongo? What has happened since then? Where are the two boys now, and how is each one feeling?


3 August 1915 - 8 September 1916 - 14 months had passed.


Tipu - his birthday (20th), went to Egypt for training then was sent to France


Rongo - sent to France.


What is ‘turk lane’? Explain. It was built, provide pictures to help explain.

It's a 8 kilometer trench made in France and made by the pioneers battalion New Zealand soldiers. The trench was finished at midnightc 16 September. Heaps of people had to die, and were prepared because they had to dig while getting shot at.


Who was the Pioneer Battalion? Soldiers from New Zealand. Their job was to go ahead of the army, and make a trench.


Describe how Tipu is feeling (refer to paragraph 3 on page 20).

Shocked because of the smell and the people that had passed.


What does this envision? “strung along the trench like men in a waka.Team work makes the dream work.




”the Pioneers toilet paper with pick and spade,”

Oak island

Ring Ring “Hello” said jake it was juck and may they are brother and sister
“don’t tell me that you forgot about our holiday have you” said may. “On I
have not” said Jake he totally forgot “just give some time to to take a shower”
. “Well hurry” up said may peep peep may turned the phone off. Jake ran
around the house getting then he went to look at the calendar he was going
to Hawaii By America the jake got into his car and took off.

Finally jake got there to the airport he ran inside when juck saw jake he called
him. When jake got to juck and may Juck said ‘we're late let's go’ The three
friends caught the plane just in time before it took off it was a smell plane it
could only carry 7 people. After a few hours there was a big loud explosion
one of the engines was down and the plane was only using one of its engines.
Soon the engines were down and they had to land.

One of the pilots fainted so Juck had to take her seat. It was up to Jack and the
remaining pilot to land the plane down safely. Finally the plane landed on a
Mysterious Island no one has ever known this island before. There was a lot
of oak on that island so they named it Oak Island Jack thought that they
needed to look for things that might help them. So he told the two pilots to look
for things in the forest, Juck and Jake they looked for wood and may look for
food.  

It has been a week and there still on the island then they heard a loud ship sound it was from a very big ship juck and his friends help to make a help sign out of wood then they lit it on fire when the people saw the sign they turned and got them on board and took the home.       

visual dictionary

New words from text

http://instructionalseries.tki.org.nz/content/download/41195/459530/file/SJL4_2018-Pandemic.pdf

what is a virus?

Pandemic page 25

Mutation/Mutant/Mutate 

Viral/virus

Microorganism/Micro

Antibodies - microorganisms in your body that fight back against a virus 

Most viruses you all get once per lifetime 

The hitch was a virus that a change is gradually

Sub type/different type

The anti-virus is a virus that can change into a new virus

New virus cleaner from animals

Viruses are Microorganisms that can come from animals
and human there is three types of virus a b and c when
you catch a virus your body makes antibodies to fight
me from the virus type a viruses can change into new
viruses that is called antigenic change   

RMS niagara

People thought that the flu came from
RMS niagara that docked in auckland
they thought that because the prime
minister was treated. When it came it
spread like a wildfire if one pakeha
died then 5 Maori died. Many people
died because people couldn't have proper
funerals. Maori were more affected by the
1918 flu because there immunity wasn't as
strong as pakeha. 

when it was built Niagara in 1912

where it came from in paris

who was the captain Isaac Chauncey

The ship was built to carry mail between
Australia and Vancouver (in Canada).

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