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.