Monday 20 February 2012

ASSIGNMENT #1 - Prediction

Use your mind-map of ideas/questions and write a prediction of what you think this novel will be about.  Don't forget to refer to your 'PREDICTION TIPS' that we reviewed in class today to help you write your response.

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  1. Jacobs Rescue
    I predict that Jacob is a Jewish boy who`s family is sent to a concentration camp, I think his dad is killed in a gas chamber but he and his mother are sent to work for the German`s as slaves, I think his mother later dies of exhaustion, so he is alone in the camp, I think he then tries to escape and helps another boy on his way out.

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    1. Nice prediction! I can tell you thought deep about it. A suggestion I would make is to add more transition words. Also, remember to add periods instead of commas so your sentences don't go on and on.

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    2. Granger, remember that you only use apostrophes for possessive nouns. :)

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  2. I predict that Jacob is hiding from the war and his dad gets killed in the war. Jacob will get sent to the camp and his mother if forced to work. And she will die of starvation and doing to much work. Jacob will try to escape from the camp and he will get cought and will be forced to get killed. This is my prediction for this book. :)

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    1. Oreo, remember to proofread your work prior to posting it to prevent minor errors. Also, try to use more transition words in your paragraphs and try not to start your sentences with 'AND'. :)

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  3. Jacobs Rescue
    (Questions)
    -What is going on?
    -Is he under a desk?
    -Why is there a man with a gun?
    -Is the man a German soldier?
    -Is that boy Jacob?
    -Why is he scared?
    -Is he at a concentration camp?
    -Is he trying to escape?
    -Is he wearing pajamas?
    -Is he alone or does he have a parent at the camp?

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    1. Good questions! Remember when you phrase your questions, try to write the question in a way that could be answered by your audience in different ways! Each person reading your questions should have a different answer to your question. That is when you know you have a deep question. :)

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  4. Jacob's Rescue Prediction
    I think this story will be about a Jewish boy named Jacob. At the begining of the story his family will be sent to concentration camp. Then it will be talking about their life in the concentration camp. Later I think that the family will be sent to death.

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    1. Often times, we use commas after transition words. :)

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  5. Jacob's rescue prediction
    I predict that the story is about a boy named Jacob and that he lives close to a consontration camp and gives this jewish boy something to eat and keep him heathy in those nasty consontration camps.However,his dad finds out that he is helping a jewish person and then his dad a nazi, Jacob runs away to that consontration camp and trys to hide in the consontration camp and then the war is over so the american solders save him.

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    1. Remember that we always capitalize proper nouns. Also, proofread your work prior to posting so you can correct the minor spelling errors.

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  6. I think the story is about a young boy who is hiding from the nazi soulders and he trys to run away and help the pther jewish people but he gets caught and is sentenced to do very harsh labour like the other jewish people. Also i think that while hes in the camp he trys to get all the jewish people to try to fight back and get freedom until some other soulders come and save them like the american souldiers and they all become free because of this young boy

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    1. Proofread your work before you post it to prevent spelling errors. Remember that proper nouns (IE names) are all capitalized.

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  7. My prediction for "Jacob's Rescue" is that it is about a Jewish boy who runs away from one of those concentration camps. He runs away an hides from the Nazi soldiers. I think this book will be very emotional as well.
    I predict that Jacob's family members were executed and he is now an orphan. Also, that a someone will find Jacob and hide him from the Nazi's.

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    1. Interesting prediction! Try to use more transition words in your writing.

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  8. I think the book is going to be about a boy, who's name is Jacob, is persecuted because Nazi invaded his country . The soldiers are being really rude to the people in Jacob's country and they were killing people. So Jacob planned to run away but had no luck. The soldiers saw him and tried to catch Jacob. He ran and ran until he couldn't run anymore. So he planned to hide somewhere and the soldiers were still looking for him. But after a few days, the soldier's gave up and went back to their normal lifestyle's. After that Jacob saw that the soldiers weren't looking for him so he ran away.

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    1. Remember to use commas after transition words. Also, try to keep the tense of your writing the same throughout your paragraph.

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  9. I belive that this book will be about a little boy who is jewish. I also bielive that the nazi in his house has shot one or both of his parents. I also think that he will be taken to a camp and either killed or forced to work tortured and starved. If he gets killed then well i think it wont be much but i belive that he will live, be forced to work and then escape from the camp.

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  10. my prediction for jacobs Rescue is that he is going to be about a young brave boy and his name is jacob and it looks like he dosent really have a family so I think he got taken away from his family and he runs away and tnan goes to a house to hide from the nazi soldiers and than at first they think of tellying the soldiers that he is a jewish but than they dont and than he keeps on living with this family that he dosent know with out letting the soldiers see him.

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    2. I think you should revise your paragraph. Throw some periods in where they are needed, because it's a run on sentence. Besides that, it is a very well done prediction. :D

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  11. I believe that Jacob's Rescue is about a young Jewish boy, who's trying to escape the Nazis. I think that the boy on the cover is Jacob, and he is staying in a good Germans house. I predict that the person in the background, is a Nazi. I think that the solider is in the house because a neighbour alerted the Nazis that the good German family was harbouring Jewish people. While in the house, the Nazi kills his parents and the good German folk, but sends Jacob to a concentration camp. Maybe, while in the camp, Jacob rebels against the Nazis and tries to save everyone in the camp too.

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    1. how old do you predict the boy is, and you should say, "The Nazi kill Jacobs parents" instead of "his parents" and "send Jacob" not "sends Jacob" but great job.

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  12. Jacob's Rescue Prediction:
    I think that the novel Jacob's Rescue will be about a young boy named Jacob. Jacob is Jewish. I think that the Nazi are invading his house knowing that his family is Jewish. They take the parents but right when they entered Jacob went to go hide. As soon as they had found the parents they took them away. Jacob did not know why but later on he had found out that they had killed them since they were Jewish. Jacob had wanted to make a difference but to do so, he had run away as far as he could go. He couldnt figure out anything he could do, so he went in hiding. After awhile Jacob had lost faith that he could do anything that would change his life. In the end, Jacob was found and was used as a slave for a long time, until he had escaped once again. This time he never came back but he knew that where he left is where he will remain to live a normal and happy lifestyle.

    :) this may seem kind of sad :( but this is my prediction.

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    1. Hey Sandy!
      I think your prediction was great you added great detail so it was really awesome. But something that I thought you could change was, your sentences. They were kind of short for example, "I think that the novel Jacob's Rescue will be about a young boy named Jacob. Jacob is Jewish." Instead you could just say I think that the novel Jacob's Rescue will be about a young Jewish boy, named Jacob. When you put a comma it becomes one sentence not two like a robot talks, hee hee. That was just at the beginning but I think overall you did a fantastic job, and you really have a wild imagination. THUMBS UP! ;)

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  13. I predict that this novel will be about a Jewish boy having to suffer by the treatment of the Nazi's. I think that he has no family around him and that they have all died from the German soldiers. When days go on the young boy must have to find his way for shelter, food, and protection. Later on he is sent to a concentration camp where their he finds a friend who is about his age and has no family either. The two children then run away and help each other to survive by themselves. After a couple days Jacob's friend is found and sent to death. Jacob has no choice or he will die to so he runs away leaving his friend to death but later rescues her.

    This is my prediction for this novel. :D

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    1. I enjoyed reading your prediction. Keep up the good work!

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  14. I predict that this book will be about a Jewish boy named Jacob. Most of his family has died except for him, his brothers, his aunt and one of his grandparents. (His father probably went to war as a soldier) Being a Jewish person in the holocaust, Jacob was probably sent to a ghetto. There, he might have been rescued by a family who helps him hide from the Nazis. There could have been a couple close calls but in the end, he gets through the war alive.

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    1. Add some transition words to make your prediction flow more easily. Also you might want to add a little more detail because your prediction is quite short.

      Great job overall! :D

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  15. I think that this book will be about a young boy , about 11 or 12 yr old and wiill be rescued from the nazi people but in the background...HOW DO YOU KNOW THAT PERSON WITH THE GUN IS NOT THE PERSON THAT IS GONNA RESCUE HIM? thats my top question of the night!

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    1. @Tony Hawk
      I noticed that you just put yr I think that you should put year also, you spelled will like wiill. You may want to add a bit more information to it. I say this because half of your information is your prediction and the other half is a question. You may want to make your question in lowercase letters instead of all capital letters.

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  16. I predict that this book will be about a young boy named jacob (around age 10) who is Jewish. His parents are sent to a consentration camp, but some how he escapes. He finds a family that hides him, the Germans come looking for him in the house because they have a lead. He runs and hides from the Germans and eventually finds his way out of Germany after a long and painful struggle.

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    1. Remember that we always capitalize proper nouns (IE names).

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  17. I predict that this book will be about a boy named Jacob, who's family is in danger, because they are Jews, so Hitler tries to put them in jail. I think that the parents will be put in jail, but Jacob hides in his house, and they didn't find them, so the Nazi soldiers are on a search for him, and this book will tell us how he survives.

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    1. Make sure you keep all of your writing in the same tense.

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  18. I predict the book will be about a boy named Jacob who is jewish and and gets sent to the concentration camp. Jacob and his parents are trapped there for a year and somewhere in the middle of the story, his parents get hanged. Jacob tries to escape but he gets caught and ends up getting killed.

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  19. I predict that he book will be about a young boy who was Jew who knows that the Jews are bein killed or used as slaves. So one day when he was outside a soldiers saw that Jacob didn't have the features that Hitler wanted so he started chasing that little boy, the boy started running thinking that it was a threat, then he run into a house and went to hide under a table the soldier followed him and finally found the boy and kept him safe until they both got caught and killed.

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    1. In the first paragraph it should be who was jewish.and in the second it should be been.

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  20. I predict the book " Jacobs Rescue " is about a boy who was being treated unfairly just because he was a Jew in Germany, and since he was a Jew he had to hide all day from the police/military or else they will be killed or sent to prison! And Jacobs dad gets caught outside without a badge showing they are a Jew and gets sent to prison. And Jacob didn't like it at all, so when everyone was sleeping he goes to the Jew prison and tries to break in! But he fails and gets caught. And now since he got caught he gets sent to prison too. But Jacob and his dad kept on trying to break free, but one day they succeed and run off to there hideout and see there family! So now all they do is stick together as a family trying to face persecution.
    THE END

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    1. Good prediction. However, you need to use more transition words and try not to begin your sentences with 'AND'. Also, try to keep your writing in the same verb tense.

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  21. My 2ND prediction
    I predict Jacob an eight year old boy, who lives in Warsaw, Poland
    with his family until 1939 when Nazi soldiers invaded Warsaw. since Jacob is Jewish, he was forced to climb through a hole in the Ghetto wall to meet a kind christian man named Alex Roslan, who agrees to be his new uncle. Hunger and hardship bring him closer to the Roslan family, until they began a new chapter a new chapter in which he is found.

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    1. @Granger08

      -For the first sentence, "I predict Jacob WILL BE an eight year old boy, who lives in Warsaw, Poland with his family until 1939 when Nazi soldiers invaded Warsaw." would be much better. :)

      - Capitalize 'Since' for the second sentence.

      *******- I noticed that you COPIED your prediction from the back of the book (Jacob's Rescue)
      So try to write the PREDICTION IN YOUR OWN WORDS! Remember that! ;) ******

      Over all, well done!

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    2. @granger08

      1) you did a great job

      2) you copied your prediction

      3) capitalize for the second sentencen

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    3. I predict an eight year old boy named Jacob lives in Warsaw, Poland with his family until 1939 when Nazi soldiers invaded Warsaw. So because Jacob is Jewish, he was forced to meet a kind christian man named Alex Roslan, who agrees to be his new uncle. Alex helps find him a home and keep safe.

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  22. 2nd prediction

    My prediction is that jacod who lives in warsaw poland and is going to see his friends at school. Then he gets spoted by a Nazi then runs into the woods and finds a house to stay at, the people at the house let him live with there and the person inthe house became his new uncle. Then the uncle is a jewish too and trys to protect Jacob and they get rescued.

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    1. Remember, all proper nouns must be capitalized (IE names).

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  23. Second Prediction
    After getting a deeper understanding of the book by read the back I believe that This book will be about a boy named Jacob that is forced into hidingafter the Nazi soldiers invade Poland. In 1939, Jacob, a Jewish boy, must find a place to hide to attempt to survive. After meeting up with Alex Roslan who agreed to be his new "uncle" the Roslan family will risk everything trying to hide Jacob while he fights to live.

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  24. 1st prediction

    My prediction of jacob's rescue is about a boy named jacob who is a jew and the nazi's send him to concentration camp so he becomes a slave. Then he tries to escape to have a better life. But the nazi find him and send him back. Then he escapes again then finds a family that will let hide there for as long as he needs to. After a couple months he goes back for the other jews that are there. Once he gets them out he takes them to the home he stays at. They start a safty home for all jews that are being tracked down by the nazi's. They all live a full and happy life.

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  25. 2nd Prediction

    Jacobs Rescue, the story about a young boy that has to hide from the nazi's just to save himself. Wondering about his family as he sits in the house in Warsaw, Poland. Not knowing when it will end and the time he can stop hiding. Thinking of why they are doing this to all the jews. Not knowing how he will survive in this world and how he can survive even though he always gets food from the family he lives with. Also he forms a special bond with the family he stays with.

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    1. I think that the novel Jacobs Rescue" is going to be about jacob over hearing his mom and dad saying I will sell him for $100 minimum and next thing he new his dad actually said "deal" so jacob got scared and started running out the door but then heard his dad was close so he let go of the door nob and whent to his room and then heard the door bell so got extremly scared because he was jewish and the manat the door sounded german "BANG" then he woke up in a random home inside the attic but he new he had to hide because if a soldier saw him he would be sent to jail.

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  26. Second Prediction: (Revised/edit)

    After looking at the cover and the back of the novel, I think that it will be about a young boy named Jacob. On the cover it says, "a Holocaust story", which makes me think, the boy is Jewish.

    In the beginning, the boy is hiding because of the Nazi Soldiers trying to get him. They have taken the parents already, although Jacob does not know where.

    Next, Jacob will be hiding and when he least expects it, the Nazi Soldiers will find him and take him away.

    In the end, Jacob somehow escapes. Jacob runs away and finds a loving family that is hiding the fact that he is Jewish!

    Q: Where did this story take place?
    A: In Poland.

    Q: How does Jacob escape?
    A: From a Christian man.

    Hoped you liked my second prediction! :)

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  27. Second prediction

    I predict that a boy named Jacob who is Jewish and is around 11 years old. The story took place in Germany and the Nazis are looking for Jacob to kill him because he's Jewish. When do you think the story took place? Well, I'm not sure when it happened but I'm guessing it happened around 1900s in Germany. Why do you think Jacob is hiding from a Nazi soldier in the front cover? Jacob probably was hiding because he didn't want to get tortured or be killed.

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  28. Second Prediction: (Edited and much better version)

    After I read the back of the novel, "Jacob's Rescue", I got a better understanding of what the book will be about. Anyway, I think that while Jacob, a young Jewish boy, is hiding in the christian man'home and has to find different ways to hide. I think in the middle of the novel, he will find out that his family was killed and he will be very devastated. In the back it said that he lived in Poland, so I was wondering if he moved to a different country after he was taken away from his family?
    In the beginning, when I saw the book I thought that Jacob might die at the end of the story, but later on I thought that maybe he will just make a happy family and live a good life. But still suffering.

    This was my second prediction for the novel, Jacob's Rescue.
    :)

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    1. for the second sentence i think it would make more sense if you said "I think that while Jaccob is hidding in the house he will have to find many ways to hide" But overall great

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  29. Second Prediction:

    After I looked at the back of the book and the front of the book of Jacobs Rescue I think It will be about a boy named jacob and he is jewish and he is a normal kid that goes to school but than everything changes the nazi soldiers find out that Jacob is jewish. Than jacob knows that the soldiers are coming for him so he runs away and he goes to a different family and at first the family that Jacob runs to they were going to tell the nazi soldiers that he is a jewish but than they deside to not and than jacob lives with them and the family tries to hide him when the nazi soldiers come by. Some questions I have about the novel is. Does he have a brother or sister? will he survive? Will the nazi soldiers find Jacob?

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    1. i think that your prediction is great and i cant see any mistakes 8) and i could get a clear picture of what the story is gonna be about

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  30. Jacobs rescue-
    I think Jacobs rescue is about the nazis and thus Jewish kid named Jacob. I think in this story jacobs will either be killed or he will be hidden for life. It could possibly be about him trying to escape the coountry. I predicct that it could also have him go to a camp and try to escape. Another thing i thought of was Jacob trying to hide his identity and pretend not to be jewish. I also belive that another thing that could happen was his parents were put into a camp and murded or forced to worked and starved to death.

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  31. Prediction-
    I think that Jacobs Rescue will be about a boy named Jacob who went from his family to a new family named the Roslan's. After a while I think that they have to leave becuase the Nazi soilders are starting to kill more and more people and send Jewish people to the concentration. I think that they get put in a concentration camp to work. After a long time of hardwork I think that They escape and start to live a normal life.

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    1. Your prediction was really good although there are things that you could improve on. One is that you had a few grammar errors while talking about concentration camps. Also check your capitalization because in your last sentence you capitalized they when you didn't need to. Overall it's good although you could make these small edits.

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  32. I think this story will be about a boy named Jacob. and and the natzies solider try to get his so he decides to hide

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  33. second one: i think that the story jacob's rescue will be about a boy named jacob and how he has to spend his days hiding in an attic to save his life but in the beginning they all gets sent to consentration camps and the nazis are looking for jacob to kill him and so jacob has to spend many many many years hiding to save his life and i think that thats all that the family wont"s to spend a normal life instead of getting tourchered!!

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    1. Great job! but some things you might want to work on is to always put a capital at a start of a paragraph and to always put a capital for( i) and to always put a capital for someones name like Jacob and to always put a capital for a title of a book like Jacobs Rescue and you had some grammar and spelling mistakes but overall great job!

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    2. (REVISED): I think that the story jacob's rescue will be about a boy named jacob and how he has to spend his days hiding in an attic to save his life but in the beginning they all gets sent to consentration camps and the nazis are looking for jacob to kill him and so jacob has to spend many many many years hiding to save his life and I think that thats all that the family wont"s to spend a normal life instead of getting tortured!!!

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  34. I think this story is about a jewish boy named Jacob in 1939 but then the Nazis arrive and it is not safe to be Jewish anymore. Eight-year-old boy Jacob went into hiding with the Roslan family who were hiding Jacobs identity as a jew. Every day there will be new dangers for Jacob but over everything his worries for his family. Fear hunger and the danger is all bringing Jacob closer to the Roslan family until finally they can be happy.

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  35. I think 'Jacob's Rescue' is going to be about a boy named Jacob who always runs away from the Nazi soldiers. One day, he finds this kind man and this man helps Jacob by taking care of him. Jacob hides his identity and pretend not to be jewish. At the end of the story, he doesn't get killed and lives happily ever after.

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    1. Overall I think you have a very good prediction! A few things I would suggest that could help you improve your work would be
      -provide detail to why he runs away from the soldiers
      -add more detail about what he does to survive
      -how does he hide his identity?
      - you could add how old you think he is
      -"jewish" needs a capital "J"
      -where do you think he might be?
      Those were just a few things I noticed, other than that keep up the great work :)

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  36. I think the book will be about how the boy jacob is jewish and during well the nazis attacked and he tries to run and hide and eventually some how he escapes the country to live a better life and maybe he finds someone to live with or maybe a guy such as a familly or friend helps him out .

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  37. I predict the book " Jacob's Rescue " is about a poor boy named Jacob, is running and hiding everywhere because he is Jewish! But a nice family lets him stay with them. However, once in a while the Nazi soldiers inspect every single house. The Nazis have never found Jacob, but one day, it was the final inspection of the year and while the soldier is going around the house with a gun, Jacob sneezes! And the family is saying that is their nephew and he came over to visit. And they get away with it, the Nazi soldier leaves!

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  38. (REVISED)
    Prediction-
    I think that Jacobs Rescue will be about a boy named Jacob who went from his family to a new family named the Roslan's. After a while I think that they have to leave becuase the Nazi soilders are starting to kill more and more people and send Jewish people to the concentration. I think that they get put in a concentration camp to work. After a long time of hardwork I think that they eventually escape and start to live a normal life with the Roslan's.

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