Paula Danzinger - The Cat Ate My Gymsuit - Maksim

Hello Ms. S. This time I was the VOCABULARY ENRICHER. We read 17th and 18th chapter. If you can’t find something the first is the page that the word is in, the second is the actual word, the third is the explanation and the fourth is the sentence. Some of the words are pretty easy because there were no hard ones.  So here are my words

Page 128/ Profound/ Entering deeply into subjects of thought; having deep insight or understanding/ Ms. Tharp is a really profound thinker.

Page 131/ bleeding-heart causes (idiom)/ a person who makes an ostentatious or excessive of pity or concern for others/ Ms. Finney was a bleeding heart cause.

Page 133/ American Civil Liberties Union/ an organization founded in 1920 to defend the civil rights of all U.S. citizens.(ACLU)/ The ACLU organization defended lots of American Communists and Nazis.

Page 134/ picketing/a post that is used in a fence or barrier/ If there were thousands of us picketing maybe we could stop them.

Page 136/ Pledge of Allegiance/a solemn oath of allegiance or fidelity to the U.S./ The accused refused to say the Pledge of Allegiance.

Page 136/ moreover/in addition to what has been said, besides (it often stands behind this sign;) / They were killing lots of animals; moreover they started torturing them.

Page 138/ outburst/ a public disturbance; riot/ They're planning a big outburst by demonstrating.

Page 138/ auditorium/it is the space set apart for the audience in a school or a theater/If there was a fire, the auditorium would be cleared in four minutes.

Page 138/lobby/entrance hall, corridor/ After the attack they had to push hardly to get through the lobby.

Page 140/ carpenter/ a person who builds or repairs wooden structures/ The carpenter came yesterday and fixed the barn.

Page 141/hush/to become silent or quiet/ They all hushed at the same time.

Page 141/clenched/to close (hands, teeth) tightly/ He clenched his teeth as they hit him.

Page 141/precedent/ a legal decision/ He can’t make a precedent as he doesn't have enough evidence.

Page 144/to walk in someone’s shoes (idiom)/ it means that you put yourself in somebody’s position/ You can’t understand her until you've walked in her shoes.   

Cosmo - Illustrator - The Cat Ate My Gymsuit - Paula Danziger - The End Of The Book!

Hello everyone, I'm back with another blog post, sadly the last one actually. I hope I can entertain you with this last post though! So I was the illustrator for this assignment, and those images are located below. Without further ado, lets get started!

So the first picture resembles the hearing in which it is decided whether she (Ms. Finney)  is allowed to stay at school (due to her unimpressive ways of teaching) or not, with purposely drawn  tension around the characters in the room at the moment. The hearing ends in Ms. Finney's favor, but she resigns in fear anyways. You can see Joel and Marcy sitting together very awkwardly, crossing their fingers for Ms. Finney to win the hearing. A couple meters away to the right their parents stand, and to the left a bunch of visitors are standing and listening carefully. Ms. Finney is standing to the side of the judge who is desperately asking for order and attention, here is the picture!

So the second half of my picture shows how Joel is picking up MArcy in order to get ready for the hearing, and this scene is also a little stranger than the rest. It is more of a romance part, and they both start to smile. There's really not any more to explain this, except that the setting is Marcy's house and you see her mom running away, weirdly. Its strange, I know!

So see you guys later, this was my rather short illustrator blog post, and yeah!

Cosmo :D 

HOWDY FOLKS,
For this session I Decided to be the Traveler Tracer.
So basically for the beginning events Mrs. Finney becomes a teacher at Marcy's school.  She says that Mrs. Finney is like a role model to Marcy.  Also there was a little club called SHMED at the school, to get to know other students.  This SHMED group is leaded by Mrs. Finney.

The Key events is basically when Marcy becomes Madly in love with this boy named Joel.  They become "Very good friends".  Later on Mrs. Finney gets fired because of not pledging the allegiance, which I did not really understand.  Marcy, Joel, and friends try to get her back.

At the end Mrs. Finney resigns and decides not to be a teacher at the school anymore.

Cosmo - Vocabulary Enricher - The Cat Ate My Gymsuit - Paula Danziger - Pg 125

Hellooo everyone,
this is the 4th Lit circles meeting and sadly second to last. For this one, I was the Vocabulary Enricher, (in our group known as the Vocab-Man) and marked some interesting words in our reading assignment. Well, there is nothing left to say, here they are!

1. Mobbed
Page 103 Paragraph 3
It means to crowd around someone (usually in a corner) in an unruly way, kind of annoying them.
Sentence: I really disliked how yesterday they mobbed around me

2. Radical
Page 105 Paragraph 3
Relating to or affecting the fundamental  of something far reaching, thorough

Sentence: It was a very radical overhaul of the existing regulatory framework

3. Clobbered
Page 114 Paragraph 6
About to hit or slap someone really hard
Sentence: I got extremely scared and closed my eyes when I almost got clobbered by my mom

4. Conduct
Page 122 Paragraph 4
A special manner of which a person behaves, especially in a certain place
Sentence: My father disliked my friend's conduct

5. Atone
Page 123 Paragraph 1
Make amends and reparation
Sentence: My sister had a certain atone with me, and she wanted to fix it

6. Controversial
Page 105 Paragraph 2
Likely to give rise to a public disagreement
Sentence: I want to join the controversial

7. Sentimental
Page 109 Paragraph 5
Prompted by feelings or tenderness
Sentence: His funeral was very sentimental to my brother

8. Snarl
Page 114 Paragraph 8
To aggressively growl with bared teeth
Sentence: The dog snarled so much we almost cried of how scared we were

9. Neurotic (as in, that person)
Page 119 Paragraph 4
A mentally challenged person with some diseases relatively mild
Sentence: I don't want to become Neurotic

10. Stationery
Page 119 Paragraph 4
Writing and other office materials
Sentence: The principal's office was almost covered in all kinds of Stationery

11. Mink
Page 119 Paragraph 5
A thick North American fur
Sentence: That dress was made of mink

12. Shrugged
Page 111 Paragraph 5
To slightly raise your shoulders, as a form of expressing ignorance, doubt or indifference
Sentence: She rudely shrugged her shoulders and rolled her eyes

13. Clearance
Page 119 Paragraph 5
The action of being cleared, erased
Sentence: The machine did the job of hallway clearance for the futuristic lady

14. Atrocious
Page 19 Paragraph 6
Horrifyingly wicked
Sentence: My uncle's old shoes looked atrocious

So everyone, those were my words, see you later alligator(s),
Cosmo :D

Hello all. This time my job was the discussion director. We read from chapter 14 to chapter 17. So here is what were my notes and my classmates' answers were to my questions:
Did it surprise you when Joel said that he is a lousy dancer?                                                                
My answer: It did surprise me because Joel is a cool guy and is friends with everybody so somebody must have asked him to dance with him; therefore somebody must have taught him.
Cosmo's answer: Yes, it did.
Gwendy's answer: No, it didn't.
Bernardo's answer: No, it didn't.
Did you feel sad when Joel said that can talk freely only to a few people and that his parents are divorced? 
My answer: Yes, I was kind of sad because it is hard when you can't share your problems with anybody.
Cosmo's answer: I was okay and I read on.
Gwendy's answer: I wasn't crying but I felt a bit sad
Bernardo's answer: I was okay
Why did Marcy drink beer even though she didn't like it?
My answer: She drank it because she didn't want to be the same as others.
Cosmo's answer: She didn't want to feel left out. (peer pressure)
Gwendy's answer: Peer pressure.
Bernardo's answer: Peer pressure.
What do you think who was right when Marcy's mom got upset because Marcy was wearing normal clothes while going on a party?
My answer: I think that Marcy can wear whatever and whenever she wants to wear.
Cosmo's answer: Marcy should be allowed to wear whatever she wants to wear.
Gwendy's answer: Marcy should be allowed to wear whatever she wants to wear.
Bernardo's answer: Human rights.
How did you feel when Joel bought his mom an awful birthday present?
My answer: I felt that Joel was a bit selfish and I didn't like his feelings about his mother because whatever she did she is still his mother.
Cosmo's answer: I found it funny.
Gwendy's answer: Weird, slightly strange.
Bernardo's answer: I felt sad for his mom.

Gwendy - Illustrator - The Cat Ate My Gymsuit - by Paula Danzinger. Until Chapter 16

I was the illustrator for today's discussion and the above is the drawing I drew. I did it in four different parts as the two chapters that we read for this time were clearly split into four or five parts. In the following I'll explain the different quarters of the drawing.The whole drawing pretty much represents Nancy's party and what happens after it.

1. First Quarter of the drawing
This quarter represents when Marcy and Joel arrive at the doorstep of Nancy's house. With her there is her boyfriend with a six-pack and it's slightly awkward for Marcy because of Nancy having a boyfriend who's a lot older than her. When the six-pack boyfriend says 's'up.' Marcy shyly says 'Ummm... hi.' It kind of shows that she's not a very confident person in general.

2. Second quarter of the drawing
This quarter represents how weirded out Marcy is about Nancy having beer at her party. She feels even stranger when Joel is completely casual about it. She accepts it, because everyone else has it, including Joel, but I think that if Joel hadn't had any neither would she. She awkwardly pretends not to drink it after she receives it from Nancy's boyfriend which indicates that overall, her experience at Nancy's wasn't great.

3. Third Quarter of the drawing
This quarter tells us of the slightly awkward walk that Marcy and Joel have when they go back to Marcy's home. Marcy asks Joel if he felt comfortable drinking the beer and when he's says 'yeh' I think she feels slightly awkward... When the reach Marcy's doorstep Marcy's hoping for Joel to kiss her but only receives a kiss on the forehead which makes her slightly upset.

4. Fourth Quarter of the drawing
This quarter is Marcy crying on her bed, her mum crying next to her and her dad shouting at her. Marcy's dad gets angry at her dad for not letting her read the funny parts of the newspaper as he has the rights to do it first and when she gets angry at her dad and says she hates him and storms to her room, her mum starts crying. Her dad then comes into her room and starts blaming her for causing her mother to cry. The end to the few chapters we read this time really shows how much Marcy hates her dad.

And that was it! This chapter was rather dramatic!
Bai 

SOWDY FOLKS
(sowdy means sad in my awesome language)
I am sad because I forgot my packet my packet here.

See yo people next time, and I will do my work now.
I promise.

Cosmo - Connector - The Cat Ate My Gymsuit - Pg. 101

So hello everyone! This week I was the connector and my job was obviously to connect the book with myself and how our lives can interact. So I wrote a large paragraph assigned as being the connector. Here it is! :D

So in the beginning of the eleventh, twelfth, actually all the chapters in the reading assignment, Marcy Lewis hates her life (again) and everything seems to go bad more than ever, she just hates it. In the end though, there is little hope for her goals to succeed, and they keep on enlarging as the story goes on. For clarification, her goals are to "free" Ms. Finney from suspension and get her to teach again because she truly, really enjoyed her English classes even with her sometimes strange and unknown ways of teaching. Now I have a connection to this part of the story, where everything goes bad for me and I start to act pessimistic, as when I am the unluckiest guy in the world, (not really) but when I forget to save a project or something. After this part, slowly but surely good things start t happen to Marcy, such as Joel asking her out which is absolutely un-expected and absurd, as with me as well (example, I get a lot done on a day, got some time on a project, you know, good things :D and enjoy your life again).  It's like the tides have turned from negative to positive. She has a nice and tight relationship with her brother, which I stalkerishly can connect as well with my three siblings that I have. Oh yeah, I've also experienced my dad yelling and shouting to e about the things that I'd done wrong. All in all, our lives can really connect, with both positive and negative events, which enabled me to fill up my lines I had to write :D.

See you guys all later.
Cosmo

Gwendy - Summarizer - The Cat Ate My Gymsuit - by Paula Danziger - Pg. 101

Cover of The Cat Ate My Gymsuit

Hey Everyone (Ms. S)
Today I was the summarizer for the four chapters we read of the Cat Ate My Gymsuit.

So here is my summary of the Cat Ate My Gymsuit, a book about a depressed teenager.

Robert, Joel, Nancy and Marcy get called into the office which is slightly surprising as they thought that their secret meetings to retrieve Ms. Finney were in secret. They believed that no-one would snag. Apparently someone had though, and Marcy and friends find themselves walking into an office full of parents and little brothers. It turned out that Mr. Stone had somehow found out about their secret meetings where they were plotting how to get Ms. Finney back who had been suspended by Mr. Stone, the principal. However much the children and (some) of their parents protest, Mr. Stone still gives them a 10-day suspension, and the trial of Ms. Finney's suspension would be during this time.

Marcy, Robert, Joel and Nancy go back to Marcy's home with all their parents. Robert and his mum leave quickly as his mum is petrified of Robert getting into further trouble. The rest of them sit down and Nancy' family shortly leave. Joel and his dad stay for a while until Marcy's mum asked about Joel's mum. This creates a lot of awkwardness as she had not realized that Joel's parents were divorced.

When Marcy's dad comes home he gets extremely mad that Marcy had been 'ganging up' against the school with her friends to try and get Ms. Finney back. He says that she shouldn't stand up for herself that much, and she should agree with the principal as he is, according to Marcy's dad, 'always right.'

As Marcy was invited by Nancy to her birthday party and actually asked out to go there with Joel, her mum forces her to go shopping for a new dress. Marcy feels exceptionally embarrassed as she has to shop in the 'chubbies' section which is especially awkward when a pretty large shop-assistant comes to Marcia and says, 'Oh, don't worry, dear, I remember myself having the situation that you're in right now!' It made Marcia feel a lot worse. She manage to by a purple dress suit and some jewelry and somehow avoids her mum's wish of buying a dress.

The night of the party, Joel comes to collect Marcy to take her to Nancy's house. While Marcy was envisioning a quick goodbye to her parents her father had different ideas. He sits Joel down and asks him about his plans for the future and whether he wants to start a family or not. They finally get going and Marcy apologizes to Joel for having such curious parents.

Anyway...  That was it for these 4 chapters, see you next time :) I didn't like these four chapters as much as the beginning of the book, but I'm looking forward to reading the next lot for next Day 2 anyway as this book is awesome and I strongly suggest it. 

Hello, all. My job was the "Illustrator". We read until chapter 14. As you can see I drew 2 pictures like a comic, though they are not linked.
I wrote what does each picture represent, but if you can't see I'll write it again here in the blog and I'll write a few words more.

The first picture represents Marcy trying to study and be Stuart's teacher at the same time; and Stuart is practicing his handwriting. You can also see Marcy's TV and a drawing.

The second picture represents Marcy and Joel talking in front of Marcy's house. Behind, Marcy's mom is standing and watching them curiously. In the picture you can also see Marcy's house and her garage. In the garage there is a car as you can see and there is a bicycle hanging behind. There is grass and flowers in her front yard.