Ronia- Discussion Director

For this Literacy Circle meeting, my job was the discussion director. These are the questions which I came up with:

1.   To who do you think the journal which Ben wrote was meant for?

- I think the journal was written for Salamanca because Ben hangs out with her a lot.

- I think the journal was written for either Salamanca of Phoebe because Ben might like either of them.

- I think it was for Salamanca because Ben loves Salamanca and he kissed her o the ear.

2.   What do you think this message means: We never know the worth of water until the well is dry?

- I think that it means that we never know the qualities of life until they are taken away.

- I think it means to conserve water.

- I think it means that we never know the worth of objects until they are gone.

3.   Did anything surprise you about this section of the book?

- Yes. It surprised me that Phoebe and Salamanca were gathering more and more clues and getting more messages.

- It surprised me that Phoebe and Salamaca found out more about the lunatic including his name.

4.   What do you think is going to happen next?

- I think that it will turn out that the lunatic isn't a lunatic after all.

- I think that it be clear of who wrote the strange messages.

5.   What is your favorite part of the book so far?

- I like the part where the teacher reads the journals because of all of the emotions going on.

- I like the part where the teacher reads the poem because it really is a poem to think about.

Nini - Connector

Connector 

I was Connector for Chapter 27-36, in the book, when Salamanca was helping Phoebe to lug her suitcase and asked her if she has been upset lately. I think that it was a weird conversation. Once, my friends helped me take my suitcases and we had a very weird conversation on our feelings.

Group Mates Connection of this section:

• Sofia: When the teacher was reading the poem to the class, I remembered a time when my English teacher read a poem about the sea.
• Ronia: When the teacher was reading the sea poem, I thought of when I was at the beach and the waves were 1-2 meters high and I almost drowned. 
• Lovisa: I sometimes write my own short journals just like Ben does. 

For June 10th, we are reading till the end of the book. I am the Vocab Enricher.

Artful Artist- Lovisa

Artful Artist- Lovisa

I was the Artful Artist this discussion and the picture that I drew was a question mark that represented that Pheobe did not know where her mom was. So they were going to the police office and found out that the son of the police officer was the lunatic.

Ronia's guess: Ronia guessed the picture correctly.

Nini's guess: Nini thought that the picture represented when Pheobe and Sal was on the phone. But they were not.

Sofia's guess: Sofia thought that it was what Pheobe was thinking or what was going on in her head.  

Sofia-Literary Luminary

For this Literacy Circle meeting, my job was the Literary Luminary. I was supposed to find sentences that I fund funny, interesting, important, etc..

1. The day returns, but nevermore Returns the traveler to the shore. And the tide rises, the tide falls. This is the poem Mr. Birkway read to the class. I chose this because after he reads it, Phoebe says the tide is like a murderer/lunatic, who killed the traveler. This is important because it shows how much Phoebe really misses her mom. 

2. I don't know what came over me. I was going to kiss him. I leaned forward just as he turned around and slammed the door of his locker. My lips ended up pressed against the cold, metal locker. This part is very important in the book. It shows that even though Sal kept denying she liked Ben, she does have a crush on him after all.  

3.  Phoebe said. Leaning against the back of the sofa was an enormous sword. Phoebe examined the blade. 'Careful you don't cut yourself,' Mrs. Partridge said.  

I chose this part because even though Mrs. Partridge is blind, she knows exactly what is going on, who is in the room and how old a stranger is. It is almost as if she has a sixth sense, which is very weird.

4. We never know the worth of water until the well is dry.

I chose this because I found it very deep, because it basically means: "We never appreciate something until it is gone." This is something most people do, which is why I chose to add it in here.

 

  

Discussion Director -Sofia

Discussion Director- Sofia

Discussion #1 How did you feel when Salamanca described her uncles' brutal deaths. 
Me- In the story, Salamanca describes her uncles' deaths. One died when a tractor flipped over him, the other died when he skied into a tree and the last one died from jumping into a freezing cold lake. I found this part very creative. The ways of the uncles' deaths were very weird but original which made the story more interesting.

Nini-  I found it very sad because all her uncles died a a young age, and in brutal ways.

Lovisa- I found it mean because Salamanca was not sad when she described her uncles' deaths which shows she didn't really care about them much.

Ronia-  I found it very weird because it s very unlikely to have a tractor flip on top of you, or to jump in a freezing cold lake.

Discussion #2 What was going on through your mind when Sal's dad says "catching fish in the air" 

Me, Lovisa, Nini and Ronia all agreed it is an expression for when you want to say something is not going to happen. Sal's dad says this when he explains that her mom is not going to come back.

Discussion #3 How did you feel when it described Sal's sister's death.
Me, Lovisa, Nini and Ronia all thought it unnecessary and disgusting when she described all the of the baby's death.

Predictions for the next chapter

As Phoebe got mysterious clues from an unknown person, Lovisa and Nini think she will be getting more of those mysterious clues, which will help her find her mother.

However, Ronia and I think she will find clues in the house which will indicate where Phoebe's mom is.

Illustrator-Ronia

This is an image of Salamanca's mother, in front of the blackberry bush. She eats blackberries and afterwards kisses the tree. She leaves a mark that Salamanca inspected and admired for a while. This reminded her of her mother.

Answers from group members about what image shows:

This is the blackberry kiss. Salamanca's mother eats a blackberry and leaves a mark on the tree after kissing it. It reminds of her mother and is very important to her. It was happening in Salamanca's old house, and farm. It was obvious because there was livestock and a fence. Also, there was the blackberry bush and a mark on the tree. Salamanca feels very sad when looking at the tree. That is so because she was missing her mother very much, and the tree reminded Salamanca of her.

Walk Two Moons- Travel Tracer - Nini

Travel Tracer - Nini

Where the actions begins :In "Walk Two Moons", there is not yet a part of the story that Salamanca has a action or explore somewhere. The story takes place in the car trip to Lewiston,Idaho, Salamanca telling the story about Phoebe and her life. One of the key events was that Phoebe's mom left their family but she left some notes for Prudence, Phoebe and her dad but all different ones.

Where the key events happened: These notes were at Phoebe's house. During the car trip, Sal and her grandparents stop at Badlands for a picnic and Sal saw a woman pregnant and she thought about her mom being pregnant and her dead sister that died right after birth.

Where the events ended: There is not a really end of all the events that happened because the whole story till now is a flashback of when Salamanca was in a car trip to Lewiston, Idaho and she was telling the story.

Walk two moons - Connector- Lovisa

Connector 

My connection- When sal's dad would close the family book when anyone entered the room because he thought it was embarrassing that he was looking at the pictures of his family. My connection is that whenever my mom or dad are watching TV or on their phone and they would switch the channel or go to the home page on their phone whenever i was around or any of my siblings. 

Nini's connection- Nini was on a picnic and she saw a man that looked like her dad. so she went up to him and wanted to say something to her dad, but when he turned around it was not her dad and she had mistaken him for her dad. 

Ronia's connection- She had eaten blackberries of a blackberry bush and her lips turned black from them. 

Sofia's connection- Her grandparents are really interested in hearing stories from her from her friends in school. The same as salamanca's grandparents.     

Lovisa   

Walk Two Moons- Lovisa Summarizer

Walk Two Moons - Lovisa Summarize

Summary -
Salamanca told the story about Pheobe, and now it was about how she was getting weird letters from some one or something, which she does not know what it is about. Then Salamnca got lost where they had stooped for some rest. Then she kept telling the story about how salmanca and pheobe went to the drug store and they meet this lunatic that they had seen later in the book.  

Walk Two Moons -Nini- Discussion Director

Discussion Director Questions Answers from peers

What do you think about Mary Lou’s parent?

My answer: I think that they are a bit weird from the things they do, like lying in the bathtub with clothes on etc. example

Lovisa: They are very different from normal parents.

Ronia: They think and act in different ways.

Sofia: They are very weird.

What do you think of the book so far?

My answer: I think that this book is a bit confusing because they are two  stories going on in the same time and its hard to see what one is which.

Sofia: In the beginning it was a bit boring and after the creepy stalker part, it became more interesting.

Ronia: Its interesting but weird and there is two stories going on. One part is more interesting than another.

Would you be embarrassed if your parents were like Mary Lou’s?

My answer: I would feel so embarrassed if my parents were going crazy or hyper. 

Lovisa: I would be a lot weirder and embarrassed.

Sofia:  I would be embarrassed and I wouldn’t invite my friends to my house.

Ronia: I would be shocked and would get angry at them.

How would you feel or react if someone sent you messages?

My answer: I would be very terrified and scared for the rest of my life, I would also suspect and be suspicious.

Sofia: I would feel excited and fun and adventurous.

Ronia: I would be very creeped out and move to a new house.

Lovisa: I would be very scared.

What would you do if you got lost?

My answer: If I got lost somewhere, the first I would is either call the police or an adult that I might know or knows me after being very scared.

LovisA: I Would call someone like the police. Go to the booth.

Vocabulary Enricher -Sofia

 Today we discussed chapters 9- 19 from the book Walk 2 Moons. I was the Vocabulary Enricher. These are the words that I found, the page and the words.

WORD	DEFINITION	PAGE
Cadaver	Dead Body	Pg.102 paragraph 1
Cantankerous	Bad-tempered, argumentative, and uncooperative.	Pg.98 paragraph 2
Knothole	A hole in a piece of timber where a knot has fallen out or in a tree trunk where a branch has decayed.	Pg.94 paragraph 7
Lugged	Carry or drag (a heavy or bulky object) with great effort.	Pg. 86 paragraph 1
Rhododendron	A shrub or small tree of the heather family, with large clusters of bell-shaped flowers and typically with large evergreen leaves, widely grown as an ornamental.	Pg. 86 paragraph 1
Clobbering	hit (someone) hard	Pg. 82 paragraph 3
Deprived	Prevent (a person or place) from having or using something.	Pg. 82 paragraph 3
Gol-Dang	Goddamned Sal’s grandma says this a lot.	Pg. 70 paragraph 1

Connections:

• Nini-We had sports day in old school, and I got lost in a swimming pool. 
• Sofia-In the book, Salamanca goes on a road trip with gram and gramps. I also went to a road trip with my gram and gramps.
• Lovisa- Once I got lost in a shopping mall, and I got lost at home, just like Salamanca got lost in the festival.
• Ronia- In ISB, we have sport's day, a day in which there are races and activities, just like Salamanca goes to the same event. The only difference is that in Salamanca's event, parents can participate. 
• Another connection is that once I got lost in Disney World. Salamanca also got lost in a festival.

Literary Luminary- Lovisa

This week I was Literary Luminary. My passages were:

• Page 5 paragraph 5. I choose this passage because it was very funny and they described what they would do and how they would be so accurate with they were.  
• Page 13 paragraph 2. I choose this because I liked how it went into depth how they introduced Phoebe. 
• Page 16 paragraph 2. I choose this because it really described her mother for how different she was to her mother and father. It was also really funny. 
• Page 24 whole page. I liked this because it was very dramatic and it is different to all the other paragraphs because it is one opinion. 
• Page 32 paragraph 2. I liked it because it was very dramatic and kind of turned the story upside down.   

Walk 2 Moons -Illustrator Sofia

   This week's Day 2 , for our first meeting  of "Walk 2 Moons' I was the Illustrator. We read until chapter 9,pg 46.

I drew the most important part of the book(so far). I drew when Salamanca Tree Hiddle tells Grans and Gramps the story about Phoebe Winter-bottom and Miss Margaret Cadaver. They were on a long trip to go see Sal's mom. Here Sal connects Phoebe's story with hers and the book starts to get interesting. 

Summarizer - Nini

This week's Day 2, for our first meeting of "Walk Two Moons", I am the summarizer. We read till chapter 9.  This is my summary till chapter 9.

• 13 years old Salamanca Tree Hiddle begins the book with a flashback to when she and her father moved to Euclid,Ohio to a red headed lady Margarett Cadaver. 
• Sal and her grandparents Hiddle were in a long car trip to Lewiston, Idaho to get her mother back at her birthday in 7 days. 
• Sal was encouraged by her grandparents to tell a story about her experience in Euclid.
• Sal talked about her friend Phoebe Winterbottom and about her school.
• Salamanca's experience was not very good in Euclid,Ohio.

For the next meeting, I am the Discussion Director.

Vocabulary Enricher- Ronia

In this session, I was Vocabulary Enricher. These are the words that I found from chapters one to nine:

• Caboodle- A name for a group of people or things
• Chickabiddy- A term of endearment
• Filly- A young female horse
• Ornery- Irritable or stubborn
• Patio- Paved recreation area near a house
• Scads- Being abundant (plentiful)
• Divulge- To reveal something
• Primly- Being stiffly formal and proper
• Mussed- An untidy state