Once

**__PLANNING + HISTORY__** 20/10/10 Hi Ms. Lennon we are all up to page 90 except Leo but he was away so it's okay, we are going to read up to 110 :) What has happened in the novel so far is Felix has escaped from the orphanage to find his parents, and he has rescued a girl called Zelda, from a burning house. The next day they were captured by the Nazi's and were made to walk for miles. Zelda was about to be shot by one of the Nazi's but a man called Barney saved her. Felix was also saved and the next morning he woke up delirious surrounded by a number of kids. That is what we are up to so far.

22/10/10 Hi again!!! we are all up to page 110 except for Leo AGAIN. The new things that are Felix tries to persuade Barney to let him find his parents but instead Felix finds out that Barney is a dentist and that he even helps Nazi soldiers. Barney brought Felix along to tell the people stories so the patients wouldn't feel as much pain. We are going to read up to 130 next lesson. Except Leo.:):):):)

25/10/10 Hi again again!!! we are all up to 130 except for Leo again again. The new things that have happened in the novel are that, Barney sends Felix out to get medicine for Zelda because she is getting really sick. When he gets the medicine the Nazi's see him but they do not think he is a Jew because he has Zelda's pendant around her neck, that has her dad and mum in a picture and Felix finds out that her dad was a Nazi soldier. The soldier lets Felix go and when he arrives back at the place where he is staying he sees Nazi soldiers at the door and Felix and the rest of the children get captured. We are going to finish the book. Except Leo:)

9/11/10 Hi again again again we really finished the book on 28/10/10. We finished the book EVEN LEO!!. What happens in the rest of the story is that all the children get put on a train and are on death road. On the train everybody needs to go to the toilet so Felix gives his note book paper to people so they can do there business. Felix sees a hole in the wall and everybody tries to escape, but when they hear gunshots they realise that the Nazi's have machine guns on the train roof some get away but some don't make it out alive. Felix, Zelda and Chaya take a risk and jump out of the train. Sadly Chaya doesn't make it and dies, Zelda and Felix survive and talk for the rest of the novel.

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The setting of the novel is really descriptive and helps the emotion in the book. When it is a bad time for Zelda and Felix it has bad weather, when there is bad weather it is dark and scary. Also the setting of the novel sets the storyline and how the characters react.The setting of the novel is in Poland, the start of the novel is in an orphanage then going deeper into the novel it is set around a farm, after that it is set in a consentration camp. At the end of the novel it is set in a train.

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3-4 Summary of the book Once The book __Once__ is about a story that begins in an orphanage in Poland where Felix has lived for three years and eight months, after his parents could no longer afford to keep him. After fining a whole carrot in his soup, Felix thought that his parents were ready to take him back home. Deciding to go looking for them, Felix goes to the town he lived in when he was younger and finds that no one was in the town. A man then tells him that all the Jews have gone to the city. On his way to the city, Felix sees a burning house and finds two adults dead and a little girl who is unconscious and rescues her. When she awoke, she kept crying for her mother and father, and told him her name was Zelda. Felix carries the girl to the city with many other Jews and sees that they are being killed on the way there. When he reaches the city, the Nazis are shooting adults and putting children into trucks. This was when they met Barney. A man called Barney saved a few of the children and keeps them in the cellar of a printing room. Zelda was about to be shot by one of the Nazis when Barney stopped him. Later on, Zelda gets a bad fever and Barney and Felix look around empty apartments for aspirin. Felix finds a big jar of aspirin, a story book titled //Just William// and a carrot for Zelda. He runs into a Nazi soldier who just looks at the book and Zelda's locket that Felix was given by her. Before Felix reaches the cellar, the Nazis find the cellar and the children in it. Barney and all the children (including Felix) get sent onto a train that will take them to a 'death camp'.