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Guide for Responding-All Summer in a day Reader’s Response I think the kids' action was bad. Margot was just telling the truth and what she remembers of the sun. I think that the kid's shouldn't lock someone up just because they think differently

Thematic Focus I want to tell them that they have to try to understand that different people imagine different things. They should be able to understand the differences.

Check your Comprehension They were excited because it was the day scientists predicted for the sun to come up in 7 years. The rain was finally going to stop. Margot came from Earth 5 years ago, so she has a better memory. The children locked Margot inside a closet and Margot missed the sun. The children took their jackets off and tried to get their skins tanned with the real sun, not with the sun lamps. They also ran around and laughed on the jungle mattress. They enjoyed their time while the sun was up. Margot didn’t get to see the sun coming up and she missed the entire thing. The children remembered about her after it started to rain again. Proud words are dangerous because you can’t take them back once you say them.

Critical Thinking Interpret They are jealous of Margot who got to see the sun everyday for 4 years she lived on Earth. She got to see the sun for 4 years but the other kids could not. The children rejected Margot's descriptions of the sun, because the sun was not coming up like the scientist said. All the kids go along with the prank that is played against Margot because they all hated how Margot knew about the sun.. The children were going to decide what to do after they saw the sun coming, or not coming up. The children feel bad about how they locked Margot. They didn't know what to do, and they were very sorry for her. This story teaches us that we should not be mean to other people just because they are different from us. Sandburg stressed that “proud words” can be proud but they can also be very hard and mean to someone else. Sandburg called the poem as “Primer Lesson” because taking care and thinking before you say anything is like the basic of manners.

Extend I think they will treat Margot will more respect since they now know how it feels like after they mistreat someone. Also even though the person is not Margot, they wouldn't be mean to other kids that are different from them.

Build Vocabulary A feeling of being alive-vitality The major organs of our body-Vital organs The body’s indicators of life-vital signs

Spelling Strategy Constant rains saturated Bradbury’s Venus. In actuality, there is no rain in Venus. The fictional situation makes a good story.

Using the word Bank Yes, water is vital to life. Without water, organisms can't survive. Yes, to savor means to enjoy, and I enjoy the food I like, like steak. A slackening rain means a rainfall that is weakening and decreasing, not increasing. No, a feather is too light to cause a concussion. No because a baseball can't bend and come back to its original shape. If electricity surged through my computer, my computer would explode. The children are not quiet, but loud when they play tumultuously.

Literary Focus The story takes place in the planet, Venus, where it always rains. The sun only comes up once every 7 years. Margot is gloomy and sad, because unlike Ohio, where the sun shined a lot, Venus rained all the time. The other children are not that effected because they didn't see the sun a lot like Margot. Maybe some similar events might happen in other planets.

Practice It had been raining //for// seven __years__. Margot stood apart //from// these __children__. They had read in class //about// the sun. She would play no games with them //in// the __echoing tunnels__ of the underground city. The sky darkened //into// __midnight__ in a flash.

Writing Application It rains heavily in the planet Venus. One boy spoke about his new basketball.

Guide for Responding-Melting Pot

Check Your Comprehension

1.The countries and ethnic groups that the people live in Anna Quindlen’s neighborhood represents Spain, Ecuador, Italy, and America.

2.The role that Quindlen’s children played in helping the family fit into the neighborhood was because they could speak a variety of languages and could communicate well.

3.Quindlen gets along with her neighbors by being friendly.

4.The people in the neighborhood get along “on a micro level” by trying to get use to where they live.

Interpret

1. The Melting Pot is what the most people in the neighborhood believes because the diverse ethnicity of the community can teach others different culture.

2. These beliefs unite the residents, because they get to understand each other and learn from one another. However these beliefs can divide the residents if they can’t understand each other and be suspicious and mean to each other.

3. Quindlen’s choice of neighborhood that reveals about what she finds important is the fact that she lives where different cultured based people live.

4. Some advice she would give would be “Try to understand different people from other cultures, and try to avoid fights led by misunderstanding.”

Evaluate 5.I think it is possible to be one of them and one of us. If we can get along with another culture, then we become one of them. If a person from another culture comes to our culture, they become one of us.

6.This story suggests that people that live in the American street can be from anywhere in the world. These people from all over the world may or may not be able to get along. These people should try to understand each other’s cultures.

Edward Cho's Family History media type="custom" key="5421727" 1. Crispin encounters two dead men shortly after fleeing the village. How does each affect him?

The Death of father quinel makes him really sad and he is very shocked. However he tires to fight his emotions

Literary Analysis

Crispin Vocabulary for Chapter 4, 5, 6,and 7.

Homework for Sept. 7, **due Tues., Sept.8, 2009**. Complete the following journal entry and post it to the wiki. Why did Ulysses' men betray him and open the bag of winds from Aeolus? What happened to those men?

His men thought Aeolus gave Ulysses a lot of gold and didn't share with him. He usually shares it with them, but this time he pulled his sword out while he ate and kept the bag of wind with him all the time. However his men opened the bag and all the winds were released. They were all damaged. Ulysses wen back to Aeolus's island and asked him for wind again, but Aeolus said no.

In class assignment for Mon., Sept.14, 2009. Answer the following journal question. What would it be like to live on Cannibal Beach? What problems would it create to have a quicker cycle of day and night. How do you think this kept Ulysses from discovering what the trees were? Post to the wiki/journal/response to literature. **
 * Homework for Sept. 14

I think it would be very scary to live on the beach. I can't imagine how it would be like if there were giant cannibals with legs taller than trees. We would try to run away from the cannibals all the time. It would be very unusual to have a quicker cycle of day and night, since we are use to be living in a slower cycle. We would be very confused about the time to eat, sleep, etc. You have to do things really quickly. This would make it hard for Ulysses to discover what the trees were since the sky turned black and blue quickly, and it can confuse Ulysses' gang's eyes



Journal Entry #4 Ulysses - In Chap. 9,The Wandering Rocks, Ulysses has to decide what to do for himself. All of the advice that he has been given turns out to be useless. What does he decide to do? Have you ever been in a situation that required you to make an important decision on you own? How did you decide what to do?

Ulysses went to the Underworld but all that advice wasn't useless. Ulysses decides to do his harsh and unfair journey on his own again. The same thing happened to me when I kept asking my friend to buy lunch for me. I kept on begging, but people never bought me. At the end nobody bought me lunch so I was really hungry. I should have just used my ID card in the first place instead of asking people who won't buy lunch for me to buy lunch for me.

Journal Entry #5 Ulysses has gone through much physical and mental hardship. Through all of this he has been determined to return to Itacha. What people and/or places in your life wouyou be willing to ﬁght as hard as Ulysses to get to/see. Explain your answer. If I am in a situation like Ulysses where I am separated from my family, I will try my best to go back to my family. If I didn't have money, I would owe people money in order to go back to my family.