Vocabulary Enricher-Literature Circles Jana Petrovic "Walk Two Moons"

My job for this meeting was to be the Vocabulary Enricher. As the vocabulary enricher, job was to find unknown words and find their definitions.
The pages we read up to our meeting today was 45 pages. Our book in total has 280 pages.
My words today were:

Page and Paragraph	Word	Definition
Page 1. Paragraph 1.	caboodle	The whole number of people or things in a question.
Page 1. Paragraph 1.	hayloft	A loft over a stable used for storing hay.
Page 2. Paragraph 7.	peculiar	Different to what is normal.
Page 3. Paragraph 3.	pounded	A strike or hit heavily.
Page 4. Paragraph 1.	eager	Strongly wanting to do.
Page 5. Paragraph 6.	tottery	Shaky.
Page 6. Paragraph 2.	peculiarity	A trait, manner, characteristic.
Page 6. Paragraph 3.	walloping	A thorough defeat.
Page 6. Paragraph 4.	ornery	Ugly and unpleasant.

Illustrator

Ashley Kim

Illustrator

Walk Two Moons by Sharon Creech

Page 45 out of 280

So as the illustrator, my job was to do a drawing of a picture, sketch, or cartoon connecting with what I read. It could be anything such as the setting or characters or the idea behind it all.

This colorless bland drawing is of the first chapter when Sal moves to Euclid, Ohio and meets Mrs. Cadaver, a red-headed widow it seems. This is also when she see's Phoebe's pressed up face by the window for the first time with the worried expression on her face that she would be seeing much more often. This idea seemed different as a drawing for Salamanca (Sal) is seeing two different people in the same image, both with different personalities and expressions. Everybody was able to guess what it was.

Travel Tracer

Walk Two Moons (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Anka Grujic 6B

(I am the travel tracer) Travel Tracer 

Walk Two Moons by Sharon Creech

45/280 pages read

The travel tracer has to write three paragraphs, one is were the action begins the other one is where the key events happen and the last paragraph is were the events ended. So know I am going to write on this post what I wrote in my packet: 

Where the action begins: 

Kentucky-Bybanks, there was there many houses scattered on the green fields along side the Ohio river. There is allot of farm and wildlife there. They had a farm and lived in a old house. Now they moved to Euclid-Ohio to a very civilized neighborhood with no trees and all the houses are all the same, a tall grey house with a white porch with a square of grass in front of the houses and a square of grass behind the house which is supposed to be a garden.

Where the key events happen: 

First her mom moves so her dad and Sal move to Ohio. There her dad falls in love with Margret who has red hair and Sal does not particularly like her. Margrets mom lives in Margrets house she is blind but she can by touching your face tell what someones age is. 

 

Where the key events end: 

Her grand parents came and she is going to go with them on a drive to Lewiston and leave her dad behind. She went because her told her that she has to take care of her grand parents. Also she wants to get to Lewiston by her moms birthday because she is convinced that if she gets there on time she will be able to persuade her mom to come back home. During the ride she is telling her grand parents, story's about her and her new friend ( who lives close by). 

And that is what I wrote. Hope you liked it!! 

Discussion Director - Literature Circles CF

Cody Fritz
Discussion Director
Walk Two Moons
45 pages/ 280 pages

For our first meeting I was assigned to be the Discussion Director.  The Discussion Directors job is to write down five questions about the part that the group has read and answer them.  When you are discussing you can ask what would the other group members would answer and then write it down.  That is why there will be a name after some of the answers.

1. Why did Sal's mom leave Sal and her dad?

Maybe it was because she thought that she wasn't giving enough like when her dad, Mr. Hittle,  got flowers for her. (Cody)

She left because she thought she was useless and doesn't know who she is. (Ashley)

2. Is Margret going to become Sal's step mother?

Most likely yes because 1) Sal's dad is spending a lot of ALONE time with Margret and 2) there is a chapter called wedding-bed.  (Cody)

3. How many chickens and cows did Sal have?

A normal far has around 30 all together but at Sal's farm there were a lot of trees so maybe a little less than 30. (Cody)

26 (Anka)

4. What was Sal's grandparents perspective about the last story that was read from the section we have read?

Probably they thought she was stupid to answer the door with no adults inside with an 18 year old right outside and his hands in his pockets. (Cody)

5. Why do people from Kentucky pronounce Illinois ILL-AH-NO-WAY?

Maybe its because of their ascent or because there might have been an offensive thing that a person in Illinois said about Kentucky, that why there is NO-WAY.  (Cody)