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 * 1st setting- Copenhagan, Denmark **When? What were the circumstances in Copenhagen at the time?

===SYNOPSIS 11/8 chp.1-3- ﻿﻿﻿Annemarie and Ellen are racing each other back to their apartment building and they run into a couple soldiers and were afraid. The soldiers asked Annemarie what her name was, what was in her book-bag, and whether Annemarie and Ellen were good students. Then Kirstie, Annemarie's little sister, came and one of the soldiers stroked Kirstie's hair and she slapped his hand away and the soldier laughed. Then he said she was pretty just like his own daughter. Then Annemarie, Ellen, and Kirstie got back their apartments and Ellen and Annemarie said "goodbye" to each other. When Annemarie got into her own apartment Kirstie beat her there and she was already telling their mother when Annemarie wasn't planning on getting in troubled. === ===﻿ ﻿ ﻿ ﻿ SYNOPSIS 11/9 chp. 4&5- Because Ellen was Jewish, it was the Jewish New Year and her and her family went to a synagogue. Later in the afternoon Ellen's mother came to Annemarie's apartment and Ellen's mother said that Ellen would have to stay with them for a few days. During dinner Annemarie's father told her why Ellen would have to stay with them﻿- at the synagogue, the Nazis were collecting the names of the Danish Jews and where they lived. They were planning on taking them away. Annemarie's father told them to act like sisters in case the Nazis came to their home. When the Nazis did come, they looked angry and were questioning Annemarie and her family. When they questioned Ellen about her hair color and name she told them her name was Annemarie's older sister's name, Lise, and the Nazis didn't believe her. They didn't believe her because she had dark hair and Annemarie's family had blond hair. Annemarie's father took a couple pictures of his family and showed them to the Nazi. It worked because their was a picture of Lise when she was a baby and she had dark hair. The Nazi threw the photo on the ground and flew out of the apartment without saying another word. ===
 * CHARACTERS- Annemarie, Ellen, Kirstie, and Annemarie and Kirstie's parents **Describe these characters or compare them.

**2nd setting- Gilleleje, Denmark (Uncle Henrik's house)** What makes this are a good place for Annemarie and Ellen to be?


 * SYNOPSIS 11/10 chp. 6&7- Annemarie,her mother,Ellen,and Kirstie went to go visit their Uncle Henrik because the Nazies were suspicious about Ellen. When they arrive at Uncle Henrik's house Annemarie and Ellen go down to the sea and Ellen tells Annemarie that she has never been to the real sea. Annemarie tells Ellen that if you looked straight across the sea she could see Sweden. She also said that maybe there were two girls just their age in Sweden saying "That's Denmark!". **
 * When they went to bed Ellen feels her neck and asked Annemarie were her necklace was (the night the Nazis came she had to take it off), but Annemarie told Ellen she hid it in a safe place where nobody would find it. **

You have a good understanding of the story to this point, Kaylyn. Mrs. S. **﻿**
 * SYNOPSIS 11/13 chp. 8,9,&10- Annemarie's mother and her Uncle Henrik lie to her, Ellen, and Kirstie about having a Great-aunt Birte and saying that she passed away. They have a bunch of people come and mourn about the death of a fake relative and Annemarie knows the truth but Ellen doesn't.Later, Uncle Henrik and Ellen go outside and Peter comes with Ellen's parents. Ellen is very happy to see her parents again. Then they all come inside again and go to the living room. By this time everyone is feeling tired. Annemarie dozed off and was awakened by headlights pulling into the driveway. Two German officers come pounding on the door and came in. They said that they have observed that a lot of people have met up at the house. Annemarie's mother tells them that there has been a death and it is their custom to join together for mourning. Then the officers ask why the lid is closed so tightly on the casket. Annemarie's mother again answers that Great-aunt Birte died of typhus and the doctor told them to keep the lid shut because the germs might still be lingering in the dead body. Then she says that they should open the lid because it would be silly for the germs to still be lingering in a dead body. The officer then slapped her across the face. Then the officers left. **
 * <span style="color: #00ff00; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">SYNOPSIS 11/15 chp.11,12,&13- When Peter opened the lid to the casket, Annemarie and Ellen peered into it and found that it was filled with a bunch of blankets and old worn out jackets. Peter gave one to all of the people who have come to their home. Uncle Henrik was planning on taking them over the sea to Sweden on his fishing boat. When it was time to head out into the darkness for the boat, Peter took all the visitors except the Rosens (Ellen and her parents) and left. A little while later Annemarie, her mother, and the Rosens headed outside into the darkness also. They walked up to the beginning of the trail and they all said goodbye to Annemarie including Annemarie's mother. After they fled off into the silent darkness Annemarie raced back to the house and she was all alone because Kirstie was upstairs sleeping soundly. Annemarie goes into the living room and sits down in an old chair. She was thinking that her mother should be home in about an hour so she wouldn't have to worry as much. She started feeling tired again and she nodded her head and fell asleep. Then she was awakened by a hint of sunlight. She then looked at the clock and saw that it was around 4 o'clock. Had her mother come home only not wanting to wake Annemarie? Has she made it home safely? She started to feel very worried so she quietly went up the stairs and look into the room she and Ellen slept in. The bed was made. She then peered into the room her mother and Kirstie slept in. She saw Kirstie in the bed holding onto the cat that struggled free and ran to Annemarie. Annemarie's mother was not there. She exited the room and closed the door and went to Uncle Henrik's room. He had some clothes piled on his chair along with a pair of muddy shoes. She went to the window in her uncle's room hoping to see her mother come down the trail she had taken when she left. Annemarie saw a black figure in the night and it started to move. Only then did he realize it was her mother laying on the ground. Annemarie ran down the stairs almost tripping on the loose step and catching herself on the rail. She ran outside and ran straight to her mother. She tells her mother that she was so worried. Her mother then told her that on her way back she tripped and fell and broke her ankle. Annemarie takes her mother over to the steps and they both sit down. Annemarie looked at her mother's swollen, colorless ankle and notices something on the ground. She picks it up and shows it to her mother. Heer mother says that it was the papers that Peter handed to the old man. It was on the ground by the step because the old man tripped and fell when they were leaving the house to meet at the boat to Sweden. It must have fallen out of his pocket. Annemarie's mother told her to get a basket and to put the papers on the bottom of the basket and put bread, cheese, and an apple and if anyone asked she would have to say that she was bringing lunch to a fisherman. **


 * <span style="color: #f52ef5; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">SYNOPSIS 11/17 chp.14&15- Annemarie is running in the woods trying to get to her Uncle Henrik's boat to bring him the packet in the basket. She is starting to feel alone and starts thinking about a story about Little Red Riding-hood that she would tell Kirstie. She then started to say the story to herself. She remembered how Kirstie would interrupt her every minute to ask questions. A little while later she hears something in the bushes. At first she thinks it is a wolf because she was telling herself the story. But she was wrong. Three soldiers came out of the bushes. Two with dogs. Annemarie freezes and thinks what Kirstie would so if she was approached by soldiers. Kirstie would probably get mad. Annemarie's mother told her if this happened she should act like a idiot little girl bringing lunch to her uncle. The soldier without a dog approached her. He asked her where she was going and what was in the basket. The soldier opened her basket and took out the bread she had packed. He broke the bread in half and through the two halves to the dogs. Annemarie acted mad and she said her uncle would be very mad at her because he didn't get his bread. The soldier took the cheese and the apple and finally got to the napkin that was covering the packet. He took the napkin and found the packet, took the packet out, and opened it. Annemarie realized that he had just pulled out a handkerchief. At last the soldiers left and Annemarie pocked up the apple and the cheese. She ran as fast as she could until she saw her uncle on his boat. **


 * <span style="color: #00ffff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">SYNOPSIS 11/18 chp 16&17- It was morning and Blossom, Uncle Henrik's cow, was mooing because she hadn't been milked that morning. Annemarie got the milking pail and went out to the barn to milk the cow while her uncle was still at sea. Blossom didn't like it when Annemarie milked her. She was used to Uncle Henrik's way of doing it. When Uncle Henrik came home he asked if Annemarie wanted a milking lesson. She agreed and they went to the barn. She watched him milk the cow and she wasn't really paying attention. She asked Uncle Henrik a question that has been wondering in her head. Why was the handkerchief so important. Her uncle explained how brave she was and that he would only tell a little of what was going on. The handkerchief was so important because scientists worked night and day on making a handkerchief like that. This was not any ordinary handkerchief. The scent of it would attract a dogs nose and the dog would sniff it and loose its sense of smell. Uncle Henrik and other people would use it to keep the Jews hidden and safe. That's how the .Rosens made it to Sweden safely. **
 * <span style="color: #00ffff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Two years later the war finally ended. The town of Copenhagen was celebrating their freedom and there were no more soldiers. The only sad things about this was Peter died and Ellen and her family haven't come back. Annemarie's parents told her how Peter died. He died because the Nazis shot him. Then they told her how her sister died. She was also killed by the Nazis but ran over puposley by one of thier cars. **
 * <span style="color: #ff3838; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">THEME- The theme is friendship and bravery. Friendship is one of the themes because Annemarie and Ellen cared for each other. Annemarie risks her life for Ellen and her family trying to get them to safety in Sweaden. An example of bravery in this book is when Annemarie went down the path with the basket filled with bread, cheese, an apple, and the handkerchief knowing she could run into some soldiers and could be killed. **<span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">What does this story say about bravery? What does it say about friendship? You should write a sentence that state what the story says about these topics,