Sarah Cynthia Sylvia Stout Would Not Take the Garbage Out

Sarah Cynthia Sylvia Stout Would Not Take the Garbage Out

Your response

Do you sympathize more with Sarah or with her father? Why?

I think I sympathize more with her father, because Sarah is kind of spoiled. So I think that her father made a lot of effort to teach her to be a nice kid, so now she just starts doing bad things. I also sympathize her father, because he probably is ashamed of her daughter, now that the neighbors moved away.

Recalling

Name four chores that Sarah Cynthia Sylvia Stout does

The chores that Sarah does are: to scour the pots, to scrap the pans, and to candy the yams and spice. She also should take the garbage out, but she doesn’t want to.

Find the lines that tell the reactions of her neighbors and her friends. What do they do as a result of the situation?

As a reaction to the situation, her neighbors moved out, and her friends wouldn’t come to play. They all did this because there is a lot of garbage.

Interpreting

At what point does the poem become unrealistic? What is the effect of the poet’s use of exaggeration?

The poem is very exaggerate, because all of the things that happened with the garbage are impossible. An example is that “the garbage touched the sky”, that is totally impossible, so the poem gets to a point when you stop believing what is happening, and just start imagining.

What reason might the poet have besides the fact that it is “late” for not telling you what happened?

A fact is that maybe it was because he didn’t find anything

What do you think was Sarah’s “awful fate”?

I think that maybe her “awful fate” was that she was made to pick up the trash. Or even that the poet went to an extreme point, she may have died because of the trash.




Critical Thinking and Reading

Identify the two lines in the poem that do not rhyme

And finally Sarah Cynthia Sylvia Stout said,
OK, I’ll take the garbage out!

What important event in the story occurs at that point?

The important event that happens in that point of the story is that she finally decides to take the garbage out.

What is the effect of the sudden lack of rhyme?

The sudden lack of rhyme, makes the poem stop, because it all flows in a certain way, and suddenly the flowing stops, because it doesn’t rhyme.

Why do you think that the poet used the same rhyme seven times in a row after the break in rhyme?

The poet used the same rhyme seven times in a row, because maybe he was trying to tell us that she was bored of taking the trash out, because it was so much.

The Village Blacksmith Questions

Your Response

1) Do you admire the blacksmith? Explain

I do admire the blacksmith, because I think that he is a hard workingman, because he works hard on his job. I also admire him, because he has a family to take care of, now that his wife died.

Recalling

2) Why is the blacksmith able to look the whole world in the face?

The blacksmith is able to look the whole world in the face, because he is a honest man, so he doesn’t owe anything to anyone.

3) Why does his daughter’s voice make his heart rejoice?

His daughter’s voice makes his heart rejoice, because it sounds like her mother’s voice, and she is now dead, so her voice makes him remember her, and makes his heart rejoice.

Interpreting

4) Which details tell you that the blacksmith is an honest, hard-working man?

With these details you can see that the blacksmith is an honest hard-working man:
• “His brow is wet with honest sweat.”
• Week in, week out, from morning till night, you can hear his bellows blow.”

I think that these are some of the most important details of why you can see the blacksmith is an honest, hard-working man.

5) What does the tear in his eye indicate about him?

A tear in his eye indicates that he is sad about his wife’s death. It also means that even if he is really sad about his wife’s death he doesn’t cry much.

Applying

6) President Theodore Roosevelt once said in a Labor Day address: “Far and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.” Do you think the village blacksmith would agree or disagree with this sentiment? Explain your answer.

I think that the blacksmith would agree. I think this because he works so much and so hard to maintain his family. I think that he enjoys working at this because I know that if you don’t like a job you wouldn’t work so hard. I also think that he enjoys his work because when kids come out from school they see all the sparks, and he can amuse them, and that is a good thing.

Maple Street Questions

Questions

What are the first signs that something strange is happening in Maple Street?

The first sign was when all the power went down, even the battery was down, and also the cars didn’t turn on.


What does Tommy think has happened?

Tommy thinks that Aliens have landed on Earth, and they shut all the power up because they didn’t want them to leave.


Why do people become suspicious of Les Goodman?

People became suspicious of Les Goodman because his car started up and no one else’s car could star up because they didn’t have battery.


Why do they turn against Steve Brand?

They turn against Steve Brand because he had built a radio that supposedly could communicate with the outer space.


Why does Charlie shoot Pete Van Horn?

Charlie shoots Pete Van Horn, because he thinks he is an Alien, and Pete had only went to check something.


What happens after the shooting?

After the shooting the lights in Charlie’s house, and Charlie tells them that someone is just trying to pull a gag on them.

What is the real cause of the strange occurrences on Maple Street?


The real cause was that some Aliens or Monsters are doing a kind of experiment with people by shutting the power of electricity, and watching the pattern that always occurs but always with a few variations.


Why do you think people’s behaviors change when they’re in a group?

I think that people’s behaviors change when they are in a group, because they get scared. I think this because if people in a group are scared I think that it kind of contagies because we all get kind of stressed and we just start following others. When we follow other people we might just think what that person is thinking and not getting our own impression of things. Normally when people is in the kind of situation that happened on Maple Street we just start pointing out people and well maybe that person that has been accused is not the person who did it. I don’t like giving people my thoughts because they might the wrong impression of what I am thinking. All of what I am saying is from my personal experience.

Question Answers of The Monsters Are Due Maple Street

If you were living in Maple Street, what would you do to stop the people from turning into a dangerous mob?

I think that I would tell the people to stop fighting, because fighting never solves anything. Also that we had to look for proof and not start pointing at anyone that we think it may be. Another thing I may tell the people is that in this kind of situation we have to stick together and not fight with each other. An example of what I could tell is that we need to stay calm, because if we panic it turns everything into a mess. I think that that is what I would tell my neighbors of Maple Street.


Why does the group of friendly neighbors turn into a dangerous mob?

The friendly group of neighbors turned into a dangerous mob, because they were scared and they didn't know what was happening. Because they are scared they started saying nasty things about each other, and pointing out people. At first they just try to be together and stay together but at the end they just get really scared and they end up shooting someone. It all started with a big noise and after that all the power went down, even the batery power, so everyone started freaking out. It was actually a kind of experiment some monsters were doing, they were testing how humans could fight themselves and also the community.

What Will Happen Next...

I think that the monsters are going to visit them, because of the title. I think this because when it says that the “monsters are due” I think that it means that the monsters had to arrive to Maple Street, because they had to do a kind of mission, or just investigate, or maybe teach a lesson to the humans in the story. Maybe the monsters are going to attack the people and well make a kind of invasion. Another thing that may happen is that the monsters are just coming in peace and are not going to attack us.

My Independet Reading Book

Sofia Terife
Ms. Thomas
6th Grade
February 19, 2009


Judy Moody And Stink The Holly Joliday

Judy Moody and Stink are brothers. In this book Stink is obsessed with snow, and Judy is always telling him that in Virginia, there has always never been snow. One day Stink was getting the mail, and there was a new mailman called Jack Frost and Stink asked him, if he could bring snow to town. Stink told Judy, and she obviously didn’t believe him about all of the things he was saying about the mailman. Five days before Christmas, Judy was double-checking her Christmas list; she made the list on toilet paper, because it was the longest paper that she could find to write all the things she wanted. The list was so long that it went over the S encyclopedia Stink was reading. Judy told him that he had to write his letter for Christmas, so he took a paper out and wrote a single word: SNOW. The night before Christmas, the school that Judy and Stink attended, was having a show, and Judy’s class was singing the twelve days of Christmas in Hawaii, and Stink’s class were going to act the poem of The Night Before Christmas, he was going to be a mouse again, but he decided that this year he would not be a mouse again. When it was Stink’s class turn, Judy had gone to the audience to see his show, when it was his turn, he did not come out as a mouse, he came out like a snowflake. The show was over, and the Moody family had gone home, and ordered pizza. Stink made a bet to Judy, that they had to say awake to see the snow at midnight, Judy agreed. Stink at about 10:12 pm had fallen asleep. Judy was happy that she had won the bet, but she did not want her little brother to really feel bad, because of the snow. She made snowflakes out of paper, and glued them all over the walls. The next morning she was waken up by Stink that told her that real snow had came, she did not believe him, but she went to the window and saw all the snow. At the end they went out to play with the snow. I chose this book because last year the first book in English that I could read was one of the collection. I had seen this book in Internet, and I really wanted to read it. So I checked it out of the library and read it. I really liked it because well this is a book about a little boy, who believed that the snow would come to town, and it was the only thing he wished, and it all happened. This book leaves us a moral, that is, to be persistent, with things you want. I really loved this book and I found it really funny.

Final Draft For Essay

Are holes only the ones you dig, or are there more types of holes. The book called Holes has three main reasons of why it is called Holes. First, the boys at Camp Green Lake had to dig holes every day. Second is that when Stanley was sent to Camp Green Lake, he thought it was unfair. Third is that there were some little stories that connected with Stanley’s story. This book is not only called Holes because of the holes the boys have to dig, the other two reasons above were the other type of wholes that exist.

The first reason is that the boys at Camp Green Lake had to dig holes every day out in the hot sun. Supposedly it would “build” their character, so that when they went out of the camp they would not do anything bad again. The Warden had built the camp, because many generations of her family had been digging holes, and when she was little she saw them. The Warden was looking for something that once Kissing Kate Barlow had buried. Also if any of the boys found something that could be interesting for the Warden, had to report it to Mr. Pendanski, or Mr. Sir, so they show it to the Warden, and the boy who found the “interesting” thing could get the day free. This is one of the three main reasons of why the book is called holes.

The second reason is that when Stanley was sent to Camp Green Lake he really thought that it was unfair. He thought it was unfair, because he didn’t do anything; the shoes had just fallen from the sky. Authorities did not investigate enough, and that is why we call this reason a hole. Investigation is a hole, because after all, he was sent to Camp Green Lake unfairly. This is one of the most three important reasons of why the book is called holes.

The third reason is that the book has short stories in between Stanley’s story. At the beginning you think that there are a lot of gaps, but in the end you discover that everything makes sense. The first story was the on Stanley’s great-great-grandfather Elya Yelnats, made a treaty with Madam Zeroni, but he did not complete the whole thing, so the “curse” started there, and continued till Stanley’s generation. There was Madame Zeroni; she obviously was related to Zero who is actually called Hector Zeroni. The example of this reason is that Katherine Barlow was once a good woman, who was a teacher, and lived a normal quiet life. She fell in love with Sam the Onion man, that was black, but at that time people were racist, so they could not be together. Mr. Walker was the “rich” boy of the little town. He wanted to kill Sam because he was in love of Katherine. When they killed Sam Katherine had a whole in her heart, and she changed her life, and was no longer a teacher, she was Kissing Kate Barlow, a bank robber. She kissed the man she killed. These is the third reason of why is the book called holes.

In this book I think that these reasons where the main holes of the story. I think this because when you read the book you may find other ones, but these ones are the ones that called more my attention. The first one is the most obvious of all, because of the hole digging. The second one it hard to tell, but if you think a bit you can discover the hole in it. The third one it is also kind of hard to think about it, but it is actually a good one, because they are holes in the past, that had to be discovered. So these are the three main reasons of why the book is called holes.