Picture of Hollis Woods

By: Katarina Markovic                                                                                                                            5.8.2013

My job for this week was to be the connector. This is a summary of what i wrote:

The part when Hollis runs away from every home she has been, that can also happen in real life. Kids orphans who get new homes and chances often get bored in homes or don't think that they belong there. Hollis ran away from almost every home except for the old mans, Izzy's and Steven's house. She was forced to leave because she made them many problems and that made her life even worse because she had to leave the only place she ever loved. That is the worst part for orphans even in the real world, they always get kicked out of the place they love/ loved the most.

Egypt Game- Vocabulary

Egypt Game by Zilpha Keatley Snyder
Janitor - person who looks after a building (pg 59, p 1)
Ambushed - to be attacked / surprised (pg 60, p 3)
Sympathy - to feel sorry for something / someone (pg 60, p 3)
Exasperated - frustrated / feed up  (pg 60, p 7)
Faded - less colour, more dull (pg 63, p 3)
Ivory - Elephant tusks / very white (pg 63, p 6)
Convincing - persuade, get somebody to do something (pg 64, p 1)
Admiring - to say something nice the way you think it(pg 67, p 2)
Languishing - to lose energy or strength (pg 68, p 4)
Victim - to get hurt or tricked or cheated  (pg 68, p 5)
Clamored - a very loud sound (pg 69, p 5)
Romour - something pass from one person to another (pg 69, p 6)
Innecent -  guilty(pg 73, p 2)
Chaperons - a person who is older (pg 81, p 2) 

Caddie Woodlawn (illustrator)

Title: Caddie Woodlawn
Pages read: Chapter 7 to end of Chapter 11
Job: Illustrator

This is a picture of Caddie in the attic trying to fix The Circuit Rider's clock. When she loosens a screw  the  spring  jumped out and the whole clock fell to peices. Her father was watching her and then he told her that she can be his partner. Father tought Caddie how to fix clocks. When she showed the clock to the rest of the family they all thought that Father repeared the clock but really Caddie fixed the clock.

pictures of Hollis Woods

read: 4 chapters, Author: Patricia Reilly Giff  

1)Why do you think Hollis ran away from all the other peoples houses if they liked her and they needed her?
Because she got bored of people really fast and wants to change her life but her life always stays the same just with different friends and people. 
2)Do you think Hollis will stay with Josie? Why?
Yes, because she is really protective over Josie and Josie is really nice to her and also cares about her and that's why Josie ran away with Hollis. 
3)Why do you think Hollis does not like school?
She feels like she is the only one thats different because everyone other then her has a family that cares about them and she just has foster homes and she believes that nobody understands her. 
4)Why is the mustard lady calling Hollis to come and meet a lot of people?
So that she can interact with other people.And because the mustard woman wants Hollis to move to a different home because she thinks Josie is forgetful. 
5) According to Josie how is Hollis acting toward her?
  She is acting like a normal person toward Josie and its like they are actually family because they care for each other a lot. 

May 8, 2013

My Job

Vocabulary Enricher- Literature Circles

Paragraph, Page         Words             Definition

1, 98                          thaw                 unfreeze, warm

1, 98                          elation              extreme happiness

2, 98                          jell                  clot

3, 98                        indignant           to be determined to do something

4, 101                      roused             wake


Ellie- Illistrator
Her picture showed how Caddie was fixing the clock for the Circuit Rider.

Jihyun- Travel Chaser

The Egypt Game

The Egypt Game
by Zilpha Keattey Snyder
pages 215

This week I was The discussion director. This week I had a lot of questions. One of those questions is How did the little girl die? My group came to a conclusion that the girl died because she was strangled, hanged or died of poison because in the book it did not say that she had any wounds on here body. Another one of my question was Why did April not want to meet Elizabeth? My group came to a conclusion that she might become there friend and follow them around and she might find out about the Egypt game which April and Meline want to keep it a secret.

Pictures of Hollis Woods- from the Summarizer's Perspective

Name of book: Pictures of Hollis Woods
Author: Patricia Reilly Giff
Reviewer: Mai Ness
Job: Summarizer
Chapters Read: 4
Total amount of Chapters: 17 and 14 pictures (separate chapters about paintings of hers.)


My Summary of this section of the book- chapters 6 to 10 was:

Hollis finds out that she has to leave Josie forever, so she runs away from Josie's home, taking Josie with  her- They escape Long Island and drive right into Hollis's old home, where she used to live with Izzy, Steven and the Old Man.

The key points in this section were:

1. Mustard Lady wants Hollis to live in another home.
2. Hollis wants to to stay with Josie.
3. Hollis saves Josie and herself by running away (with Josie)
4. They drive to the Old Man's home, packed with memories from her past.
5. Hollis realizes that they have not forgotten her, but that she still does not belong with them.

For the next Lit. Circles meeting we will read 3 chapters.