This is my lit task .
1. What do you predict the title ‘Buttons’ tells us about the story?
1. What do you predict the title ‘Buttons’ tells us about the story?
Prediction: I think it is about buttons and what they were going to do with theme, like
If they were going to make something with theme, like out of theme .
Statement confirming prediction: I was wrong because they sale them to
raise money for the Jewish community .
raise money for the Jewish community .
2. Make two more predictions based off the pictures or charts in the text
E.g. From looking at the picture on the 4th page of the girl holding the doll I predict this will be
about ……. because …….
about ……. because …….
Prediction: in the picture with the girl holding the doll I think she is going somewhere away
from her home and by the look on her face she looks like she is going very far away and that
she is leaving her family .
from her home and by the look on her face she looks like she is going very far away and that
she is leaving her family .
Statement confirming prediction: I think I was right because she had gone to a orphanage
because her family was living in fear of getting captured, her father was sent to a laper camp
and her mother was getting sent to a concentration camp so her mother had no choice but to
send her to a jewish orphanage .
because her family was living in fear of getting captured, her father was sent to a laper camp
and her mother was getting sent to a concentration camp so her mother had no choice but to
send her to a jewish orphanage .
Prediction: on the picture with the map on it I think it is
something to do with different types of buttons in different places where people can collect
theme, and on the second page with the pile of suitcases I think they have buttons in theme .
something to do with different types of buttons in different places where people can collect
theme, and on the second page with the pile of suitcases I think they have buttons in theme .
Statement confirming prediction:
3. What do you predict ‘The Holocaust’ will be about?
Prediction: they are all going on a train somewhere far away .
Statement confirming prediction:
4. What do you predict Buttons from around the world’ will be about?
Prediction: that there are different buttons from around the world .
Statement confirming prediction: I was wrong because it is about ww2 .
5. What do you predict ‘Kindertransport’ will be about?
Prediction: where there are people picking up the children and taking them somewhere .
Statement confirming prediction: I was right they did take children far away as in evacuating them.
6. What do you predict ‘Bewilderment’ will be about?
Prediction: I think it is a place like a building .
Statement confirming prediction: I was right It was a building it has no windows in it so it is very dark inside .
