February 25, 2006
-- Don't forget to study your prefixes and suffixes for the test at the end of the term.
-- Don't forget to hand in your Portfolio Part 1, if you haven't, and to be preparing your Portfolio, Part 2 if you have.
-- Also, remember to have me put your portfolio book, and other books you've read this term on your Reading Bingo card.
Students in A1 and A3 read a summary for part of
Words By Heart. All classes finished reading the book.
Students received more information on their writing assignment for Thursday. They may choose between two prompts. See the posting below this one. By Thursday each student should have a rough draft to type in computer lab.
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Words By Heart – Summaries for pages 98 -- 111
98-99 -- Lena waits in the mulberry tree for Winslow, but he doesn’t come. She talks with him after school and finds out his dad has forbidden him to talk with her anymore – because of her color.
Pages 100-101 -- When Lena gets home, the little children are in the house, and Claudie has gone to find the cow. Someone had opened the gate to let her wander away. Papa is still not home, though he was expected. Someone is outside in the dark, and it isn’t Claudie.
Someone pounds on the door and starts to open it.
Pages 102-103 – Mr. Haney pushes his way in and stand in the doorway, drunk and raving. He wants to see Lena’s father. He’s angry because Mrs. Chism said she was going to take away his horse to pay for the items he stole. He’s drunk and shouting, when Tater comes and pulls him away.
Claudie comes home with the cow. She has them lock the doors while she milks the cow.
Pages 104- 105 – Lena realizes it could have been Mr. Haney and Tater who came into her house the night of the scripture bee. To take their minds off the fright, Claudie has the children help Lena carve a pumpkin – a scary one they place in the window. They blow out all other lights.
Pages 106-107 -- Claudie tells Lena to stay away from the Haneys, especially Tater because he’s the one who has something to prove –to prove how big he is, how much of a man. Claudie tells about how when she was little the “white-caps” came looking for someone and ended up burning down her house – everything they owned. “It’s like a blight,” she says. She also tells Lena that her father has been wanting to better at showing Lena how much he loves her. Lena thinks about how her father has been spending more time with her, and talking more with her.
Pages 108-109 -- At school, Winslow wouldn’t even look at her. Sammy wasn’t at school. She hopes that means the Haneys are gone. She runs home, but Papa still isn’t there. She checks at the Haneys. They’re still there, and she sees someone in a black hat. She thinks it’s Tater, but it turns out it’s his father, walking instead of on his horse, and he had been out grubbing potatoes. She wonders where Tater is.
Pages 110-111 -- Claudie seems worried that Lena didn’t see Tater at the Haneys’ place. She says, “I don’t like it. I feel. . . strange.” Claudie reassures Lena that Ben must have just had more work to do than he’d expected, but Lena is worried. She realizes that it wasn’t her and Claudie and the children who were in danger, but “it was Papa who was in danger.” Lena says she’s going to find Papa, but Claudie refuses to let her.
