Pre-service teachers used blogs to discuss award-winning Newbery books using reading roles creativiely adapted from Harvey Daniel's 'Literature Circles: Voice and Choice in the Student-centered Classroom'. Contact Anne Davis at adavis@gsu.edu if you have questions.
These blogs were moved from Manila blogs to TypePad blogs. The author shows up on each post as Anne Davis as a result of the transfer. The original posts were made by students and the instructors Lynne Jordan & Anne Davis. The initials on the post title signify who did the actual blogging of the post.
Page 70---He Needs A Wife---
What does this mean....
During my life this is something said for men who have no organization in their life....
(From the book) "He needs awife," she said, shaking her head, and attacked the old wooden floors with a broom while the rugs aired.
(New sentence) Jason needs a wife because he cannot seem to get things together in his life.
I found the idiom "it is much easier to be brave if you do not know everything." I think this is a good sentence that Uncle Henry said what Annemarie was questioning the funeral. This would be a good sentence to lead a discussion. Is it much easier to be brave towards something if you don't know everthing that's going on? Uncle Henry said this to Annemarie because he felt that it was better for her if she didn't know about the smuggling of the jews into Sweden and the risk that they were taking.
At the end of chapter 14, on page 105, Annemarie's mother frighteningly realizes that the "package" has been dropped by Mr. Rosen. Annemarie volunteers herself to take the package to Uncle Henrik. Her mother tells her, "Go. Go right now. And run! As fast as you can!"
This reminds me of the idiom that is used in the children's book, "The Gingerbread Man". In the story the main line is "Run, run as fast as you can, you can't catch me I'm the gingerbread man."
This is how it could be used in a sentence-
My father told me on the day of the big track meet, "To win this race,you must run as fast as you can.".
I found an idiom at the very end of chapter 9. It is on page 81 in the fifth chapter. The sentence states...
"There was no playfulness to his affection tonight, just a sense of urgency, of worry."
A "sense of urgency" means that a matter needs to be addressed immediately. I have created a sentence in which this idiom can be correctly used.
It was a sense urgency that the baseball player went to the hospital after he had gotten hit with the ball.
