The Phantom Tollbooth

Title: The Phantom Tollbooth

Author: Norton Juster

Job: Summarizer

• Milo, Tock and the Humbug reach the Castle in the air, but are stopped by a man at the entrance
• To get in the trio have to answer bunch of his questions, but he keeps asking more
• They finally make it in, they meet Rhyme and Reason
• The castle is attacked and starts drifting away into the air, there Tock was able to fly so he and the others abandoned the castle and headed home
• took could not keep in the air for long so he went past the demons and landed
• they are all still moving
• The demons catch up to the five people, but get attacked by the Wisdom army.
• Milo has to leave and leaves in his car
• As he leaves King Azaz and the MAthemagician start fighting again
• Milo returns home and the next day when he comes back from school the tollbooth is gone and says that he is ready to make his own adventures.

We have finished our book and I loved it it was full of adventures and full of new and wierd charecters. I would say my fovorite part was when they were running away from the deamons because it was adventurous. The end was ok, the two brothers start fighting again, so Milo leaves, he reaches his really home. the next day when he comes home joyed he realizes the tollbooth is gone becauyse there is no need adn he can make his own adventures.

The Boy of the Painted cave

This week we read from chapter 14 to 18. I was the discussion director and we finished the book so no more reading.

Did greybeard die?
Yes

How did Tao feel about greybeard?
Very sad

Did Tao become a cave painter?
Yes he did

Did Toa get know about his dad?
Only a bit 

Did you like the story?
 Sy no, Sj no, Bing yes, alex yes

That are the questions and my job for next week is nothing :).


 

Caddie Woodlawn #6 (Literature Circles)

The Book
 
Title: Caddie Woodlawn

Author: Carol Ryrie Brink

Number Of Chapters: 24 chapters

Number Of Pages: 242 pages

Number of Pages We Read All Together: 242 pages (FINISHED)

Last Week's Jobs

My Job: "Travel Tracer"

Sonia's Job: "Connector"

Electra's Job: PASS

What We Read: Seven chapters, from pg. 178-242
(News From the Outside, Two Unexpected Heroes, Alas! Poor Annabelle!, Father Speaks, A letter With a Foreign Stamp, Pigeons or Peacocks?, and Travelers Return)

Thoughts

 Sonia:

Did you like the book? Why?
" I liked the book because it was cool and it was engaging and interesting."
Did you like the ending? 
 "Yes."
What was your favorite part? 
"I liked the part when Obediah Jones became a hero and help stop the fire."

 Electra:

 Did you like the book? Why?
" Yes, I liked it. I liked the book because it had a lot of adventure."
Did you like the ending? 
 "Yes."
What was your favorite part? 
"The ending."

  Me:
 Did you like the book? Why?
" I didn't really like the book because it was mostly about Caddie's life and there wasn't much climax. But as I got to the ending, it became more exciting. "

Did you like the ending? 
 "Well, it was normal."
What was your favorite part? 
"I really agree with Sonia. I also liked the part when Obediah Jones helped stop the fire because Obediah Jones was always naughty and it was maybe the first time he did something good to everyone."


Travel Tracer
Chapter #17
-Caddie went to gather flowers in the woods pg. 181
-She went to the hill of the north of the house. She went to see "little Mary's grave" pg. 182
- She went to see the Circuit Rider pg.184
Chapter #18
-Caddie and her brothers went across the river pg.186
-Ran back home because they saw a brown and yellow snake pg. 188
-Caddie noticed fire at school pg.194
Chapter #22 
-Caddie went to sit under a tree before her father called her to vote pg. 234
-She went to the parlor to vote pg. 235

The Boy in the Painted Cave

This week I was assigned to finish the book and be the Connector and I had a really good connection:

The paragraph that connects to my real life is"Tao moved cautiously, edging his way along hiding behind the clumps of stunted evergreens growing out of the cliff side. Slowly he made his way closer, glad that the clan people were busy celebrating and would not see him". I chose this paragraph because when I was little I went to the farm and I was trying to make my way slowly to the animals and I was trying to escape from the weird noises that were following me but I realized that my ant was trying to scare and to trick me.

This week was the last week and our group finished the book of the Boy in the Painted Cave.

|THE EGYPT GAME (Vocabulary Enricher)

  The Egypt Game, by Zilpha Keatley Snyder.
 This week I have read the last two chapters, Gains and Loses, and Christmas Keys. For this week's assignment, I have to write vocabulary words I found in the book.
1. Soberly, page 47. "Marshall nodded soberly." -- In a serious or grave manner.

2. Ad-libbed, page 86. "Marshall chanted and then ad-libbed." -- To speak without preparation or thinking.

3. Liable, page 94. "You're liable to get hurt." -- Likely to do or be something.i

4. Kooky, page 121. "The whole scene's pretty kooky, if you ask me." -- Something strange and eccentric.

5. Hazy, page 158. "The first things that happened there were always hazy in April's mind." -- Being fuzzy and shadowy, darkened. 

6. Alabaster, page 200. "That's an alabaster, isn't it." -- A solid and smooth gypsum used for carving. It is usually white.

|THE EGYPT GAME (Connector)

The Egypt Game, by Zilpha Keatley Snyder.

 In the book April Hall goes to the A-Z Antiques shop. She looks at the many ancient objects that are on display. April Hall looks at the Professor, who is the shopkeeper. He has a short, thin, gray beard and he is very silent. She asks him questions, and he answers in one or two sentences at a time. 

 I can connect to this because in my old school we had an Antiques Garden Sale, and the teacher who was selling African wooden toys was very silent. Mr. Voudoire  just stood there and whenever you asked him about the prices he would point to the signs that were on the tables. If you asked him about something else he would answer in very short sentences.
 I connected my old school Antiques Garden Sale because Mr. Voudoire was silent and had a short, thin grey beard, just like the Professor. He was very silent and spoke in a few sentences, just like the Professor. This is how I can connect the Professor with Mr. Voudoire.

|THE EGYPT GAME (Summarizer)

 The Egypt Game by Zilpha Keatly Snider.

I had to summarize what happened in the book. My group finished the book.
 April Hall had just moved into her grandmother's apartment from Hollywood. She meets Melanie Ross and Marshall Ross, the children of her grandmother's friend. Melanie is the same age as April, eleven, and they live in the same apartment building. Over the next few weeks after meeting, they visit the library together, and they also play with paper dolls. One day they find a book about Ancient Egypt in the library.  The topic catches their attention and they soon become engrossed in it. 
 Melanie and April find an area behind the A-Z Antiques Shop, which is owned by a mysterious, silent man named the Professor. They use the space and make "Egypt". In Egypt, they make decorations that make it look really like Egypt. The childish game turns into a real live mystery when a young girl is murdered in the neighborhood. Adults don't allow them to play outside, and nobody can do anything without somebody else. Toby and Ken who are their classmates, follow the girls and Marshall into Egypt. Melanie, April, and Marshall let them join. Toby comes up with the idea of the Egyptian Oracle Ceremony. After finding answers to many of the questions, Toby confesses that it was him who answered them. 
 One rainy night, while April is babysitting Marshall, she remembers leaving her maths notebook in Egypt, so April and Marshall go back to Egypt. Instead of finding her notebook, she gets attacked. A hand grabbed her throat, and then a distant "Help! Help!" was heard. April and Marshall go down to the police station, and Marshall tells them everything he knew. The man sometimes worked in the A-Z Antiques shop, and he had a mental illness.
The fence is boarded up and Egypt is closed. However, on the day before Christmas, the Professor comes over and gives each of the children a key for the new door to the fence. He tells them his life story, and makes a number of confessions. In fact he had been part of the Egyptian Oracle Ceremony.

Caddie Woodlawn

For this previous week i was the Illustrator. I drew the picture where she was telling them to stay outside because it was black enough and that it was black enough for a Tornado to come by. Also when she told them that she can feel it that it's not safe to go outside. 

I have a picture but it didnt want to loaf so I will just show it to anyone who is interested!;)   

the phantom tollbooth
by:alex los
job:LITERARY LUMINARY

 aaah yes the end of our journey my job was literatry luminaryi chose some paragraphs from the book and i was chosen to depict a few which i thought would well raise a literary conversation among us something to talk argue and to reasone about if the paragraph was strange creepy or intellectual the main paragraph i chose is when milo and the watch dog were caught for someything they did not do and sent to prison for a million years with a witch and was told that they could have it lowered to 500,000 years and i found that rather..... ironic. alex los we're done here.

the phantom tollbooth
by:alex los
job:travel tracer




this tim my job was to thoroughly analyze the each stage of our characters kourney step by step this was from the begginning we started with milo assembling the tollbooth then with the stage of him driving throught the mesteriouse lands then he ran into the little time wasting rasc;s that abondoned him and got him in trouble and that is up to the limit i recorded.

Pictures of Hollis Woods - Literary Luminary

Mai Ness
Pictures of Hollis Woods
Literary Luminary
Monday, 3rd June, 2013

                    My job as 'literary luminary' was to select paragraphs that represent a powerful, interesting, important, puzzling, funny or explanatory. I chose five sample paragraphs to write about. Some were puzzling to me, some were challenging to understand, and some were powerful and significant towards the reader (me).

Here are a couple of paragraphs I have listed:

1) I chose this powerful paragraph because it emphasizes Hollis' decision to forget about Izzy, the Old Man and Steven. I think we have all experienced this before and that relates to everyone's life in some ways. (p. 149, pp.3)

2) I chose this paragraph because Hollis puts lots of detail in her explanation of the setting, and it is very powerful and it makes you get a positive mind set because of the joyous Christmas cheer. (p. 153, pp.3)

-These were a couple of paragraphs that I emphasized throughout the story.

-Hollis Woods-

phantom tollbooth
by:alex los
job:discussion director

what i do is that i wrote a list f question that my group may gander reflect and think on all these questions are from the book and i found that most of my questions were answered later in the book such as whyis the watchdogs name tock if he only goes tick.

the phantom tollbooth
job:connector
by:alex los

so this time my job was the connector i took situations from the book and and saw how they were relavently connected to real life situations such as when the watch dog caught david wasting time the people making wasting time ran and he got in trouble just like when people make you waste time and when you get caught whopde doop theyy leave.

Egypt Game - 2nd June

Egypt Game Zilpha Keatley Snyder



I read four chapters very good and exiting .  While Marshall, Melanie, April and Elizabeth play the Egypt Game somebody goes after them. The group  talk about not to get Toby and Ken join the Egypt Game.  Elizabeth has a idea how to make them  join in.The members of the put down their names in Hieroglyphics on a sheet of paper in the professor's backyard. The girls and boys do that because so they know who is in the Egypt game.


I like the book very much. 

The phantom tollbooth literature circles
book by:norton juster
by: alex los



this time my job was the vocabulary enricher i took some of the words that were unknown to our common knowledge of literature and gave them a definition so they were known to the common knowledge of most people one of my words were some such as turnpike which claimed the definition of which is a sort of tollbooth.

The Egypt Game

Book: The Egypt Game
Job: Travel Tracer
Name: Predrag

This time our group and I read 4 chapters. My job was to be the travel-tracer, which means that I am supposed to record where the setting is. The action takes place in the main character's school, their homes and the backyard of the A-Z store.

Caddie Woodlawn connector

Title: Caddie Woodlawn
Aurthor: Carol Ryrie Brink
Pages read: 158-185
Chapters 16-18
Pages total: 242
Job: Connector

Connections:
Chapter 16 (Warren Preforms)... In my old school we also had a kind of speaking day were we recited poems.
Chapter 17 (Pee-Wee)... Somepeople are good at making uo stories like Tom.
Chapter 18 (News from the outside)... I like the spring and fall like Caddie because it is not too cold and not to hot.

Pictures of Hollis Woods.

By: Patricia Reilly Giff
Chapters: two and finnished the book
My job: Summarize

These chapters told me about Hollis's Christmas with Josie and that old man. Hollis woke Josie up to ask her  questions about Santa clause but Josie slept through all the questions. Then she talked about her Christmases with other families and how she celebrated it differently. Then when Hollis woke up and found candy in her stalking she was so exited. They all started talking about how happy they were to have Hollis and how lucky they were to have her. They all decided to take Hollis in as a part of there family it was the time they started treating her like a daughter.     

Caddie Woodlawn (Literature group) First meeting

Jobs:

Celine: Discussion Director

Ellie: Summerizer

Jihyun: Literary Luminary

Discussion questions:

1. Why do you think Caddie likes being a tomboy, not a girly-girl?
2. Why does Caddie, Warren and Tom like to spend time with the Indians?
3. What does Caddie think of her mother?
4. Who is Caddie most like (simalar to), out of her family? Why? Example: Mother

Andrea was absent so she did not do any jobs

The Egypt Game

Book: The Egypt Game
Name: Predrag
Job: Connector

My connection to the story is that I also loved to play imaginary things. My friends and I had costumes and played like we were Egyptians, pharaohs, Gods and lots of other mythical creatures. This book reminds me of some moments of my childhood and I love reading it.

The Egypt Games

The Egypt Games
by Zilpha Keattey Snyder
pages 215
Post by Nicky Palmer
This week I was the literary luminary. I chose a passage on page 101 paragraph 5. I chose that paragraph because it was dramatic but funny. First April was talking to a god and then she wanted to sacrifice security to that god. I also chose a passage if page 102 paragraph 3. I chose it because funny because Marshal wanted to sacrifice April to the gods. It also shows that Marshal dislikes April. 

Caddie Woodlawn (Literature Groups) FINAL!

Jobs:

Celine: Travel Chaser

Ellie: Connector

Jihyun: Summarizer

Andrea: Illustrator

Where action begins:

The air started to be warmer and the sun started to shine. Caddie, Tom and Warren decided to go out to the river, while they were hunting for artubus.

Where key events happened:

When they were at the river, they could not hear themselves over the sound of the ice crashing. At the train station, they waited for the Little Steamer to come and get the letter to Cousin Annabelle for she was coming soon.

Where the events ended:

They ended at the house because at the end of the chapter, they had gone back to the house.

The End

Literary Circles - Caddie Woodlawn (#3)

Caddie Woodlawn

By Carol Ryrie Brink

Last Task : Finish reading Chapter 16 

Last Roles:

Andrea- ?

Ellie- Discussion Director

Celine- Illustrator

Jihyun- Illustrator
(We had a mistake)

New Task : Finish reading Chapter 
New Roles:
Andrea- Illustrator
Ellie- Connector
Celine- Travel Tracer
Jihyun- Summarizer

Illustrator

Chapter 12 (Ambassador to the Enemy)

Caddie went to the Indian camp on Betsy (horse) to warn John and his friends that some men are planning to attack them. But the camp was calm. There was old woman cooking and nobody looked like they were planning for a massacre. One lady gave her a warm buffalo skin and another gave her a hot cup. Kids came to touch Caddie's hair and John squatted down, trying to calm her down and understand her.