Readers Response 3

The boy who dared: Helmuth is now starting to doubt the Nazis as they start to blame Jews for Germany's problems. He doesn't know what he can do about it yet. He thinks that this treatment is unfair.

Readers response 2

The boy who dared: Helmuth's mom refuses to let him go to a Nazi rally, claiming he is too young... Helmuth tries his best to go but still cant. The next day at school there are Nazi symbols everywhere. there is a nazi guard with the teacher and all he dose is teach nazi beliefs.

Readers response 1

The Boy Who dared: Helmuth is a patriotic little German during the time when Hitler rises to power. He thinks highly of the Nazis and wants to become one when he gets older. His mom hates the Nazis and thinks Hitler is a very bad leader. I think that I would think good of Hitler during this time too.

Vocabulary words

Verboten- German for Banned
Luftwaffe- German for Air Force
Mutti- German for Mom

Readers Response 3

Rangers Apprentice:

  Will is meeting up with his friends when his old rival/bully walks up and insults his ranger horse. Horace, the bully, then decides to try to ride the ranger horse, which then flips him off his back and makes will laugh. this really helped will get even with horace.

Readers response 2

Ranger's Apprentice:

     Will is now heading over to meet with all the other orphans who were with him. they had all gone their separate ways and he is sort of scared to meet with them. he feels like they wont accept him as he is an apprentice to a lesser craftmaster.

Vocabulary

Largess: gifts of money
truckle: to bend to the will of others
confute: to prove false

Readers response 1

This week I read rangers apprentice. I feel that the character will is really progressing along. He has gone from a lowly orphan child to a ranger (a mideval ninja) who is respected by many others. he killed a massive wild boar that was terrorizing the farms around the castle.