Gwendy - Discussion Director - The Cat Ate My Jumpsuit by Paula Danzinger - Pg. 24

Cover of The Cat Ate My Gymsuit

So , we are reading this really good book called the Cat ate my Gymsuit. It is about a rather depressed 13-year old who pretty much hates her life. I mean the first few sentences tell you this : ' I hate my father. I hate school. I hate being fat. I hate the principal because he wanted to fire Ms. Finney, my English teacher.

So I was the discussion director this time so I had to ask and answer 5 questions about the pages we had read (4 chapters, this time.) 

1.  So this one I chose because on the first page of the book, it mentioned that she was 13 and she was in 9th grade. So my questions is 'How come she's 13 years old and in the 9th grade?' I asked this because usually when you are 13 you are in 7th or 8th grade. Maybe she skipped a year because she was smart or maybe the school has a unique system. If it's the first one then it probably isn't good for her as it probably adds to the least of things others can tease her for. 

2. 'Will Marcy and Joel become good friends or anything close to that?' The reason I asked this is because I was really interested in the fact that Joel actually interacted with Marcy. Unfortunately though I think that Joel's friends will be like: Why are you being friends with Marcy, she's weird. So I think the relationship between them won't blossom into anything because of peer pressure on Joel. 

3. 'Will the after-school activity help Marcy?' I asked this because as soon as Ms. Finney declared that there would be an after school activity concerning different people's problems I immediately thought of Marcy. Unfortunately, though, I think that she won't be confident enough to share her problems as she thinks that people will tease her. I think she should share her problems with Ms. Finney as she seems to seem very sorry for Marcy though she has no idea what is wrong.

4. 'How did you feel when Joel and Marcy spoke at the end of chapter 4?' I thought that it was really sweet of Joel to speak to Marcy as he didn't seem to worry about his friends teasing him at that point. Actually, I was really proud of Marcy for (kind of) being able to reply. 

5. 'Do you think Marcy will ever participate in P.E?' Actually I think she probably will as I think as the book goes on I think her confidence will grow with Ms. Finney's help, and just maybe, Joel's.

So that was that for the discussion today. Now we are reading up to page 53 (chapter 10.) and I am the vocab person for this time.

Hi guys, my name is Maksim, my job was literary luminary. The book I read is "The cat ate my gymsuit". I read 4 chapters so I am on the 25th page.

Paragraph and reason for choosing:

1. 1. paragraph, page 1 I think this paragraph is really funny and important because it is an introduction of this book. It is also funny because the main character was expressing her hatred of many things and persons and even her father. I think that it is funny because it is very odd to hate so much things and I would never say that I hate my father.   
2. 2. paragraph, page 2 To me this paragraph was really puzzling because the main character thinks that her life is not easy yet she has everything she needs and nobody beats or teases her. But if you have everything you need sometimes you are sad because you don't have any dreams to accomplish.
3. 4.paragraph, page 3-4 This paragraph had some interesting moments because when there was nobody to look after Mercy and her class in English they didn't organize themselves. They didn't organize any activities, they were relaxed and weren't doing anything yet they liked English classes. 
4. 2. paragraph page, 6 This paragraph had a great significance because they got a new English teacher (Ms.Finney) and they didn't even want to introduce herself until Joel suggested that she should get a chance. The paragraph also described how Ms.Finney looked like and what she wore
5. 1. paragraph, page 12 The theme of this paragraph was how things got better in school especially in English class and how many kids started liking Ms.Finney. It was rally important for readers to know how things have changed.

The Cat Ate My Gymsuit - Summarizer - Cosmo

Cosmo
Summarizer
The Cat Ate My Gymsuit - Paula Danziger
Pg. 1-24
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Haii!
Recently, I was the summarizer for my literature circles group. I had a very fun job indeed, for summarizing the first four chapters of The Cat Ate My Gymsuit.
So in the beginning, Marcy Lewis, (the protagonist) descriptively explains how she hates her life in 9th grade, how she is obese and her issues with shyness. She makes up excuses for not having to compete in her "horrible" high school, especially physical education. Her last excuse was that the cat apparently ate her gymsuit. She finds her own life plainly disastrous, until a new English teacher Ms. Finney came along. Ms. Finney is a very kind and giving teacher, although most the kids don't want to give her a chance, relating to all the previous, terrible teachers. She knows that Ms. Finney is great, and she is getting comforted slowly but surely. She is starting to like school now that Ms. Finney is there. Joel, a nice guy also wants to be friends with her. But he has issues too with his peer pressure. All in all, Marcy's life is slowly increasing with fun, and it is turning more and more positive for all characters really. But Joel is just possibly being friends with Marcy all of a sudden because of peer pressure, or the opposite (nothing might happen, really).


Cosmo
:D Baii
  

Hello fellow friends, I am Bernardo Casal...this week I was "Vocabulary-Enricher".  My literature group is reading the book called the The Cat Ate My Gymsuit.  This book was written by an author called Paula Danziger.  I have read 19/ 147 pages.

This is the list of words that i wrote down:
Hate- To dislike someone/something a lot
Middle-class- To not be poor nor rich
Bummer- Something annoying or unpleasant
Blimp- Small airship
Flunk- To fail an examine or a course
Communicate- To exchange information
Honest- To be truthful or true
Structure- Something built or erected
Album- A book or binder with blank pages
Exams- A test of knowledge
Interpretation- An establishment of meaning
Interrupting- To halt a speaker/speaker's
Ducked- To crouch down
Responsibility- To take care of yourself or someone or something else