The Boy in the Painted Cave

Sang Yoon, Seung Jun, Bing and I were assigned to read chapters 3 and 4 from the book The boy in the Painted cave. I was the Discussion Director and I had to make questions for my group and my questions are:

• Why wasn't Tao allowed to paint?

Tao wasn't allowed to paint because he wasn't the chosen one. Only chosen ones are allowed to paint.

• If you were Too how would you survive in the forest?

I would hunt for meat, get water and sleep in caves to survive from the ferocious animals.

• Did Tao ever return to the village?

He returned to the village because he needed food and caught the rabbit.

• What was going through your mind when you read chapter 3?

What got in my mind is that  Tao was fighting with the wolf.

•  Which chapter so far liked you? Why?

Chapter 3 because he goes hunting.

The boy of the painted cave

This week I was the summarizer in the literature circles. We read chapter 3 and 4and I'm going to summarize them right now. 

So first Tao(the main character) went to the slough to see the demons and the bad spirits. Then he finds a wolf dog he met before trying to steel some eggs of a eagle Tao joins the wolf dog and he gets two eggs. After that he hunts some more and goes back to the clan. But then the wolf dog followed Tao in to the clan campsite and the hunters are about to kill the wolf dog. Tao sends them the wrong way and the wolf dog is saved at last.

BOY OF THE PAINTED CAVE

Boy of the Painted Cave by Justin Denzel

we read 2 chapters (chapter 1-2)

Job work - Summarizer: 

For next week we are going to read 2 chapters(chapter 3-4) and my job for next week is connector.

Boy of the Painted Cave (3-4 chapter)

Boy of the Painted Cave by Justin Denzel

we read 2 chapters (chapter 3-4)

Job work - Connector: 'Tao(from the 'boy of the painted cave') likes to draw, like Bing does, but he is not allow to draw because only chosen people can draw, but Tao is not a chosen person, like Bing, student is not allow to draw in class time, but he draw on class time.

For next week we are going to read 2 chapters(chapter 5-6) and my job for next week is illustrator.

The Phantom Tollbooth

Title: The Phantom Tollbooth
Author: Norton Juster
Job: Illustrator

The Egypt Game

Book: The Egypt Game by Zilpha Keally Snyder
number of pages had to read: 25
Job: discussion director

1. Why are April and Melanie so interested in Egypt?
They like learning about it because that history is cool for them they liked the culture, the things that are built. They like learning about also because it is fun to learn different things from know.

2. What grabbed there attention to go antique shop?
They like how the theme was Egyptian and April likes Egypt so she like seeing the different things at the shop.

3. Why was the old man surprised when April said she was from Hollywood? 
Why does not usually see people from this place come from Hollywood  So he thought that so thing was a bit suspicious about her.

4. Why was April trying to make an impression for Melanie?
April was acting like that because she wanted to show of that she was from Hollywood and how she get exclusive things like her long eyelashes.

5. Why was people starting to call April and Melanie the Egypt girls? 
They were being called the Egypt girls because they start spending there days in the library and they check out every single book about Egypt the were so into Egypt people started calling them the Egypt girls.

Connector

I relate to this book because my friends story begins very similar. She is talking/writing about 2 girls, Hope and Hylie, they also don't like this women who puts them in weird families and at the end seporates them. Her story has a sad end, but I hope this one doesn't.

THE PHANTOM TOLLBOOTH

This week is was the connector and i am connecting with my life from when i was in Dubai.

In the book the main character went to a market with letters everywhere and it was really expensive.

What happened to me was when i was in Dubai i went to a market their was random letters everywhere and everything was really expensive but not as expensive as in the book.    

Egypt Game

Egypt Game by Zilpha Keatley Snyder

We read from page 3- 22 pg
My job was to draw a picture of anything in Egypt. I draw picture a pyramid.


For next meeting I need to read four chapters from page 22- 59 and do summary.

|THE EGYPT GAME (Discussion Director)

 The Egypt Game, by Zilpha Keatley Snyder
1. After reading chapter 3. What 3 words popped into your head after reading the description of April when she first meets Melanie?
-Ridiculous, Pompous, Shocking.

2. Who is Marshall Ross and what is his toy?
-Marshall Ross is Melanie's younger brother. His toy is an octopus named Security.

3.  How was the Egypt Game started and by whom?
-It started when Melanie found a book about a young pharaoh. Then she found more books, this time about ancient Egypt.

4. How did you feel when you read about what April was saying about the fake eyelashes.
-Shocked that she didn't like them but still wore them.

5. What is April's mum's job?
-April's mum is in the movies, she is a movie star.

Caddie Woodlawn

Title: Caddie Woodlawn
Pages we read: from 32 to 62
Total pages: 242
My job: Vocabulary Enricher

Dictionary:
Pompously: Characterized by an ostentatious display of dignity or importance
Hummock: a hanging bed
Loons: birds
Mirthless: gaiety or jollity especially when accompanied with laughter
Pioneer: a group of people who settled in a place first
Vigor: active strenght or force
Tormentor: a person or thing that torments (hits, kicks, bullies,etc...)

Egypt Game - Week 1

The Egypt Game - Week 1
by Zilpha Keatley Snyder


Week one - 12th of April, 2013

Summary of chapters 3 to 6

The Phantom Tollbooth

This week I was discussion director and the five questions i came up with are:

• What kind of world is the Doldrums? and why is it so bad to waste time there?
• Why does the guard arrest them all?
• Why does the guard find everyone guilty?
• Why does Milo get the packet on his bed?
• Why does Milo want to go to the Dictionopolis?

Answers:

1. I think that the people of Doldrums hate wasting time because there might be a lot of things happening in one day so if your late once you will be late the entire day
2. I think that the guard is crazy
3.  I think that the guard is crazy
4. Milo gets the packet from someone who wants to help Milo to stop wasting time and sends him to a non wasting time town
5. Because he gets curious

Caddie Woodlawn

This week I was the Conector. I conected the time when she and her Uncle Edmund went to the lake and her Uncle took Neo. This is One that I wrote:

My friend had a dog and her uncle had to take her even though she loved her dog like the most in the world. She was really sad because she had no idea how she would do without her dog.

This class we also recorded ourselves answering some questions the DD made up and answering our tasks. :)

Caddie Woodlawn
Literature Circle
Job: Summerizer

My summary was this:

A lot of things happened during these 3 chapters. From getting a silver dollar to going to school. Cool, right? You read that I mentioned a silver dollar and you must think "so?" Well, back then, a silver dollar was worth a lot. She earned it when she made a bet with her Uncle Edmund. He cheated on the boat race so he gave it to her anyway. But she is still upset for cheating and Uncle Edmund is not making it any better by taking Nero away. He thought he would be a good hunter. Caddie misses him so much. And lastly, they went to school. Caddie loves school but it didn't start very well, due to a fight. The Woodlawns are getting prepared for winter. Goodbye sun, hello snow. 

Today we made a recording again of our discussion.

Andrea: Connector
Ellie: Vocabulary
Jihyun: Discussion Director

The Egypt Game

The Egypt Game
by Zelpha Snyder
Number of chapter to read 4

I was the illustrator for this week. I drew a picture of when Apirl meet Meline and April and April was
wearing a boa and a bunch of expensive cloths.
My bad picture that I drew

Pictures of Hollis Woods - Travel Tracer

Mai Ness
Pictures of Hollis Woods
Author: Patricia Reilly Giff
Pages in total: 166 pages
Pages Read: 25 (3 chapters)
Pages to Read: 4 Chapters
22nd April, 2013

Pictures of Hollis Woods - Travel Tracer

                I wrote the setting action for this section of the book and I wrote about the setting in chapter 5, which was my favorite. It was when Josie and Hollis went to the beach near the ocean and when Hollis found a rock and used it for luck. The events in this chapter begin when Josie and Hollis ride the sailboat and spend time at the beach. The key events happened when Hollis found the stone and when the two artists spend time at the beach and Hollis finally forgets the past, but slightly. Later on, the events end when Hollis remembers the drawing box that Steven and the Old Man gave her, and she figures out that if she wants to stay with Josie she has to go to school.

This is a picture I found in Google Images about Hollis's personality.

The Phantom Tollbooth

Over this week and three days we read up to chapter 5. We read about Milo's journey in Doldrums with the watchdog, about how he needs to concentrate to get to Dictionopolis but that he has many obstacles in his way. My job this week was the Illustrator. I drew how Milo and the watchdog get arrested for no apparent reason by the guard who found everyone guilty for no apparent reason.

The Egypt Game - Week 2

The Egypt Game
by Zilpha Keatley Snyder

Week two - 22nd of April, 2013

Summary of chapters 3 to 6
These four chapters are about a girl called April that has lunch with a girl called Melanie. Melanie and April play the Egyptian Game in the professors back yard. They pretend that Marshall is the king of Egypt. One day Melanie and April read books and talk about the Egypt Game.

Key Points
Some kids at Wilson School treat April very badly because she is a new girl and she comes from Hollywood.
 

Pictures of Hollis Woods-illustrator

Author: Patricia Reilly Giff
pages: 25
by: Marija
My job was to be a illustrator. In this book there was a time that i really liked it was when Josie and Hollis were going to have Chinese but then the woman that brought the food, saw something. She saw one of Hollis's pictures then she asked her to bring her all of the pictures she had drawn.The whole table was soon filled with piles of pictures and the woman was amazed. She was an art teacher and she told Hollis that she had never seen something like this before. The woman was very happy to see wonderful drawings. 

That is why i chose to draw a picture of Hollis's pictures because in my mind i was thinking about a kid that is very creative and reflects on her life.

 

Pictures of Hollis Woods

By: Katarina                                                                                                                                      4/22/2013


Job: Definitions of unknown words, Author: Patricia Reilly Giff, Pages: 166

This week my job was to find new words that i never have heard of before and the ones which i don't know the definition of. The two which were the most unusual words for me were mandered and iridescent. Below are 5 words which were unknown for me.

Mandered: Follow a winding corse of a river or road.

Iridescent: Showing lminous colors that seem to change and which are seen from different angles.

Stubby: Short and thick.

Muskrat: A large North American rodent with a musky smell valued for its fur.

Streaking: Long thin lines of a different color from from their surroundings.

The city of ember
This is a rather interesting book set in a bit of a communistic time  where you had no freedom that you could not even select your own job and sofar in my book this man has been assigned a job that he did not want which was an engineer 

The Egypt Game by Zilpha Keatly Snyder

Book: The Egypt Game by Zilpha Keatly Snyder
Number of pages assigned for the week: 25 pages
My Job: Vocabulary Enricher
Description of my findings in the perspective of my job:
Monolith: an obelisk formed of a single block of stone
Reluctant: unwilling
Omen: something perceived to have prophetic significance
Drastic: acting with force or severity
Integrate: to unite or combine
Corrugated: bent into alternate furrows and ridges
Obliged: required or constrained
Soberly: marked by seriousness and subdued in tone
Triumphant: having achieved victory
Treacherous: characterized by readiness to betray trust

The Egypt Game by Zilpha Keatly Snyder

Book: The Egypt Game by Zilpha Keatly Snyder
Number of pages assigned for the week: 34 pages
My Job: Discussion Director
Description of my findings in the perspective of my job:
Why would the Professor be curious about April, Marshall, and Melanie playing in his storage yard?
 Maybe he is surprised by their creativity and imagination, and their boldness to trespass his property without fear of being discovered by him.
What does "It was a real smile, small and quick, not he gooey kind she usually used on grown-ups" tell you about April?
It shows that April enjoys faking sweetness to adults.
What does the author mean by "she had a notion he wouldn't fool easily"?
Aprils like to seem especially sweet and innocent in front of adults, most are fooled into believing this but something about the mysterious and all knowing nature of the Professor makes April feel as though he will see right through her.
Why was Melanie almost speechless when she met April?
Wearing false lashes and fur, Melanie had never seen anyone let alone a peer dressed so glamorously.
What does the author mean by "Melanie was beginning to understand about April's frozen spells, and how to thaw her out"?
"Frozen spells" mean that April tries to appear as a cool and glamorous Hollywood daughter-of-a-star but Melanie knows that by playing imaginary games and reading she can reveal the true creative, free-spirited April, in other words ,"thaw her out".
For next day two we will read: 25 pages

Pictures of Hollis Woods

Pictures of Hollis Woods

written by Patricia Reilly Giff

On literature circle I am in a group with Andrea and Tara. We are reading a book called Pictures of Hollis Woods. We made a deal to read five chapters each week. Which really means that every day two we read 5 chapters of the book. Since our group member Tara has a lot of activities to do each week she committed to read 4 chapters every day two. This means that everything she does not get to read she will on the break that is coming up. Last week my job was to be a connector. I connected the book to one movie that has a very similar topic, and that really reminded me on that. This week my job is to be a discussion director. This means that i will ask questions, have some opinions, and many other things to keep our communication good, and with the topic.

I'm reading the boy of the painted cave with Sang yoon, Seung jun and Alexandre. Next week we will read up to chapter four.After we read up to chapter four I will need to summarize the two chapters we read.

boy of the painted cave

Our group read boy of the painted cave. we read 2 chapters (34 pages). My job was connector to connect book to real life.we are going to read 2 chapter. For the next week my job is illustrator to draw what we read for next two chapter

The Phantom Tollbooth

The Phantom Tollbooth by Norton Juster
All of us read two chapters. My job was to track where Milo went, here is what I got:
From school he went home where he buit the tollbooth, entered it and entered Expectations. There he met a guy named "Whether Man". From there Milo went to Doldrums a place of strict rules. The watchdog helped Milo get back on the highway.

Caddie Woodlawn #2 (Literature Circles)

The Book

Title: Caddie Woodlawn

Author: Carol Ryrie Brink

Number Of Pages: 242 pages

Number Of Chapters: 24 chapters


Literature Circles

Group: Sonia, Electra, Nurin (me)

My Job: "Illustrator"

Sonia's Job: "Travel Tracer" 

Electra's Job: "Vocabulary Enricher"

Chapters to Read by Next Class: two chapters, from pg.24-41
(Pigeons in the Sky and A Silver Dollar)


Illustrator

This week, my job was to draw. I drew the scene when Caddie meets Uncle Edmund. Uncle Edmund was good with jokes and other funny things so he gave a gift (that looked like a snake) to Caddie. Uncle Edmund thought that Caddie would freak out but because Caddie loved clocks so much, she realised that it was not a snake because she saw a clock spring in it. 

Caddie Woodlawn #2

Book
Title: Caddie Woodlawn
Author:  Carol Ryrie Brink 
Number of Pages: 242

Group
Nurin, Sonia, Electra (me)

Literature Circles 
Sonia's job: "Travel Tracer"
Nurin's job: "Illustrator" 
My job:  "Vocabulary"

By next class- Read chapter 3-4

Vocabulary for the Week
Pg 8 Paragraph 2
Word: Buckskin
Definition: Horse of a light yellowish dun color with dark mane and tail.
Pg 10/11 Paragraph 4
Word: Unpardonable
Definition: Not admitting of pardon
Pg 14 Paragraph 2
Word: Escapade
Definition: An act or incident involving excitement, daring, or adventure. 
Pg 18 Paragraph 3
Word: Pendulum
Definition: A weight hung from a fixed point so that it can swing freely backward and forward.
Pg 19 Paragraph 4
Word: Genial
Definition: Friendly and Cheerful

Caddie Woodlawn #1

Book: Caddie Woodlawn
Author: Carol Ryrie Brink

Name: Sonia
Pages read: 2 Chapters (24 pages)
Pages for next time: 2 Chapters
Job: Summarizer

     The book is about Caddie Woodlawn and her two brothers Tom and Warren that always go on adventures. Caddie is a tomboy and loves hanging out with her brothers. In the first two chapters,  Caddie, Tom, and Warren decide to go to the Indians.

Boy of the Painted cave

The book Boy of the painted Cave by Justin denzel is a book that a group has to read in class and do assigned jobs, we came up with reading 34 pages (two chapters). My job for the literature circle is to be a discussion director, I have to come up/discuss with realistic questions about my book that my group will be able to answer. In my group I have come with these questions about the book "The Boy in the Painted Cave": 

1. Who is Tao?
2. Will Tao get caught by writing in the sand?
3. Will Tao find/get attacked by the evil spirits?
4. Will the wolf that Tao found help him in a difficult mission?
5. Will the people from the village start worrying about him and set of to look for him?
6. How many days will Tao stay in the forest?
7. Will Tao survive all alone?
8. Why Tao forgot the rabbit at the first place? 
9. What do you think will happen next in the story?
10. Will the story be adventurous, majestic, sad or risky? Why?
11. Do you like the story so far?Why?
12. Will Tao ever find a rabbit and go back to his camp?  

Pictures of Hollis Woods - Discussion Director

Name: Mai

Subject: English

Book: Pictures of Hollis Woods

No. of Pages: 2 Chapters

Job: Discussion Director

From the perspective of the Discussion Director:

What I wrote about the book Pictures of Hollis Woods is that Hollis is a twelve year old girl that gets different foster homes from time to time. Some of the questions that I had about Hollis and her life are:

1. Predict whether Hollis's personality will/ will not change throughout the time when she stays with Josie.

-- I think Hollis will get a softer personality when she stays with Josie.

2. How did you feel when you read that Josie was an artist that looked like a moviestar? Did you think that Josie would be this way?

-- What I felt when I read this is that Josie is not a normal painter, maybe she used to have a career and gave up.

3. Have you ever been connected to a body of water like Hollis was to the Delaware or like Josie was to the Atlantic Ocean?

-- I have never been connected to a body of water in this manner, so I do not know how it feels. If you "had" a river, what would you feel like.


These were examples of my questions for this week, look out for my post next week!

THE EGYPT GAME

The Egypt game

Author:Zilpha Keatley Snyder 

number of pages:215

number of pages assigned: 30

job: conecter

The old Antic shop with old ancient things and the hut behind it reminds me of my dad's old bakery .The bakery  was abandoned for 10 years ago. My brother and I where playing in there and hide in the old ovens and junk. in the begging we where scared but one day we just went in.

for next 5 days i will read 30 pages 

 

The boy of the painted cave

Right now in English class in groups of three to four students, we need to read a book. After we read about two chapters we need to get together and work on our literature circles. I need to illustrate and Seung jun summarizes the chapters. The book is about Tao who wants to become a cave painter but only chosen people can become one. When the people of his clan find out about him making cave paintings, they send him away on his own with an injured wolf cub.

Caddie Woodlawn #1 (Literature Circles)

The Book

Title: Caddie Woodlawn

Author: Carol Ryrie Brink

Number Of Pages: 242 pages

Number Of Chapters: 24 chapters


Literature Circles

Group: Sonia, Electra, Nurin (me)

My Job: "Discussion Director"

Sonia's Job: "Summarizer" 

Electra's Job: UNKNOWN (she wasn't here)

Chapters to Read by Next Class: two chapters, from pg.1-23
(Three Adventurers and The Circuit Rider)

Discussion Director

1. What are the names of Caddie Woodlawn's brothers that went to the river with her?

Answer: Warren Woodlawn and Tom Woodlawn.

2. How old is Caddie Woodlawn?

Answer: She is 11 years old.

3. Who is Nero?

Answer: Nero is a pet dog of the Woodlawn family.

4. Who is Indian John?

Answer: He is a very nice Indian, friends of Caddie, Warren, and Tom. Caddie and Indian John became friends when one day, Indian John picks her up in a store, and she was scared but the store keeper said that he was a nice person so they became friends.

5. What did the Circuit Rider (Mr. Tanner) asked Mr. Woodlawn to fix?

Answer: His watch.

6. Describe Hetty Woodlawn.

Answer: Hetty is Caddie Woodlawn's younger sister. She is 7 years old and she likes to tell on people. She is basically a "tattle taler."