The cat ate my gym suit

     


                                                                  Five words


1.plaque-an ornamental tablet, typically of metal, porcelain, or wood, that is fixed to a wall or other surface in commemoration of a person or event.

2.Atrocious-of a very poor quality, extremely bad or unpleasant

3.Reforming-make changes in (something, especially an institution or practice) in order to improve it.

4.Doomed-likely to have an unfortunate and inescapable outcome.

5. Picketing-is a form of protest in which people congregate outside a place of work or location where an event is taking place. Often, this is done in an attempt to dissuade others from going in  but it can also be done to draw public attention to a cause.

                                                                      Five Sentence

1. I needed to buy a plaque.

2.It looked atrocious.

3.The sales man reformed an object out of Lego bricks

4. We were driving very fast on a curve I doomed

5. I love picketing.

The Cat Ate My Gymsuit

Why did Ms. Finney  not take back her job
She wanted to get her degree and thinks it that its more important.

Why did the school not let the students take action in getting her back in school.
Because Mr.Stone does not want the teacher in his school and was going to do everything in his power to prevent her from coming back.

Why do you think Ms. Finney got kicked out of the school.
Because she did not say the oath and had a different way of teaching

So this time i was super summarizer and this is my summary: After Nancy's party Marcy gets kissed by Joel. The very next day Joel's father joins their side to fight do they bring Ms Finney back. Two days after this it is the big day that Ms Finney will go to court so they decide if  she is going to stay or be fired. Martin (Marcy's dad) sabotages the car so that they are not able to go to the court to support Ms Finney, but they will go with Joel and his father to the court. There they see Ms Finney sitting with her friends. The judgement started and they said that Ms Finney was unpatriotic and that she did not teach the students the proper way. Ms Finney defended herself by saying that she was patriotic and that the way she teaches the students was the fun way that they enjoy to learn with that way and that her students have been learning a lot of stuff since she came to this school. The decision was made she was not fired and she was still able to teach English to the school. She gave a speech, she said that she wanted to thank everyone that supported her but she was not able to teach to this schoo, anymore because the would watch her closely and if she made a little mistake she would be fired.

Language and Literature-illustrator Task

The cat ate my gym suit:

Language and Literature-illustrator Task:

My task was to choose a scene in the book and illustrate a drawing of that scene (I illustrated what it reminded me of).

The drawing could be a painting, sketch, comic or stick drawing. I decided to illustrate a sketch based on what It reminded me of and it reminded of me sleeping late in Finland because the event was over there for I didn't have to wake up early. To trigger this scene Marcy’s mom from chapter 12 on the first page said ‘Marcy. I let you sleep late today, but it’s time to wake up.

Illustrator sketch:

Caleb-Discussion Director

My job was to come up with four or five questions related to what section or section of the book we read. And then I have to put my own answer and some of my group's answers.

1. When Marcy woke up on the day of the hearing, what type of sickness did she have?
My answer: She had a stomachache and headache
Group answer: Cold, stomachache, headache

2. Does Marcy's dad agree on how much support his wife and daughter are giving to Ms. Finney?
My answer: No, he thinks Ms. Finney is a bad example of how a teacher should behave.
Group answer: No, he thinks Ms. Finney is a bad example of how a teacher should behave and he even broke down the car so Marcy and her mom had to go with their friends to the hearing.

3. What did Joel get his mother as a present?
My answer: A very green ugly pin because he hates her and she is divorced from his father.
Group answer: A very ugly pin.

4.  Why did Ms. Finney resign?
My answer: Because she thought she would cause more problems.
Group answer: Because she thought she would cause more problems.

Connector job by Matija Z.

Connector

I connected the part on page 127 when Marcy reads the papers about Ms. Finney.  I can connect this with a memory from 4^th grade when my mom showed me the papers of the new teachers. I saw the stuff they did and graduated. Unfortunately I don’t remember any specific information about those teachers. Another connection that I made was that Every time when they mention P.T.A it reminds me of our P.T.S.A but just this that one doesn’t include students. I also connected the part where Marcy doesn’t consider him anything more than her close friend. I consider Rin  as a close friend who will help me in time of need and I will be there to do the same when I can. I also thought the part where Marcy says she’s not a blimp but a helium balloon. The last part that I connected was at the very end of the book where she names her pimple it reminds me of my old friend from soccer practice he named everything he owned his bag shoes and called them twins. Bit weird huh well that’s my connector job

Bye guys.  Matija

Super Summarizer

Cat Ate My Gymsuit

In these chapters Marcy experiences sadness because her favorite teacher gets kicked out of school. Marcy and her friends are determent to find out why she was kicked out. He her best friend and two  others find out that the reason for the teacher suspension was because she was different and didn't say the oath. Marcy becomes friends with a Boy named Joel. Her only friend Nancy is having a party and Joel asked her to go with him. She gets very exited

                   

                                                    The cat eat my gym suit



In this part Marcy discovers that Ms Finney  her English teacher is being kicked out of the school. She and her friends don't know why was she fired and they try to discover it. They try to do everything. They were also preparing how will they prank the rest of the teachers. In the meantime Marcie's friend Nancy is making a party and Joel invited Marcy to go with him. She was really happy but she couldn't stop thinking about Ms Finney. Marcy was also in trouble because she stud up to the principal Mr Stone because a new teacher came. She was in detention. The next day Marcy talks to Joel and he tells her that Mr Stone told him to stay away from her because he is a bad influence on Marcy.

Caleb Ockman-Super Summarizer

For my second job, I was the super summarizer and I have to summarize and mention the key points of what I read. We read from chapter 11 to chapter 15.

What happened was that Marcy, her brother Stuart, and her mom went shopping for a party dress ,jewelry for Marcy and shoes for Stuart. But Marcy told her mom that it exposes too much of the obesity she contains. So she chose purple jeans and a shirt. When they got home, Marcy went right to her friend Nancy's house. She told Nancy that she couldn't dance for the party the next night. So Nancy taught her how to dance. 

The next day, Marcy had to babysit Stuart the whole day. They went to the playground and hung out.
When they came back, their parents arrived and the family ate dinner together. Then Marcy went to the party with Joel. They met Nancy's new boyfriend, Phil who was a tenth grader. They then just hung out and drank beer. Then Joel and Marcy talked privately. Joel said that his parents were divorced and that he hated his mother a lot. And he told the whole story about the divorce.
Then they left the party and went home. Joel kissed Nancy on the way home on the head and they went their separate ways.


Key Points

1. Marcy does not like dresses but jeans.

2. Joel likes Marcy.

3. Joel's parents are divorced.

4. Her dad gave Marcy a talk about being good and shook her hand which is an improvement for him.

The connector by Edwin

The Cat ate my gym suit:

Task:

 I was assigned a job in literary circles which was Connector; the connector basically finds connection between the book and real life and writes about them due to experience. I did and here it is.

Connector:

Chapter 12 page 88, In this chapter the author describes how Marcy the protagonist hates shopping but loves clothes, she hate shopping because every time she goes shopping, she never find  her size especially when she spot something she really admires at the corner of her eye. She also hates shopping because of the places she has to shop at, she has to shop at the cubby section because of her weight issues and she has to shop for a dress that she hates because she looks even chubbier.

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  ---Connection to the real life

I can relate to what she’s going through because back when I was chubby and above average, in Africa I had to buy things that were above my age size. I remember this one specific time that me and father went to Shoprite in Lilongwe by the side shops to see if we can get me a pair or two of shoes but we couldn’t, this is because my size wasn't right for me since I was chubby and the size above my age was too big. Instead me and my father decided to go back home which was disappointing and just real sad. 3-4 days after my dad presented me with a basket to shoes to pick from and I picked all of them, this was only because I knew that other moments of getting shoes just like this were rare, and I was right after that I never got another moment just like that one so I believe that the reason I got shoes to pick from at home was because my size was rare and he didn’t like to traveling long distances to shops for things that are pretty most probably aren’t there. ………………………………………………………………………………………………………The End

By Edwin Ny.

Hello this time I was the discussion director and I asked the following 5 questions:
1.What is the drink that Marcy was drinking at Nancy's party without liking it just because everyone was drinking it?
the answer is beer
2.Why does Marcy don't want to buy a dress?
The answer is because  she thinks she looks terrible in it and because she is really ashamed of being in the chubbies section
3.Is the relationship between Marcy and her dad growing better or worse?
The answer is better because they had an actuall calm conversation without him yelling to her and ended up better than before
4.How does Joel see Marcy?
The answer is that he sees her only as a friend and he tells it to her
5.How does Marcy's mom behave to her the last days she is hanging out with Joel?
The answer is that she acts kind of weirdly and make her feel shy

ILLUSTRATOR till chapter 15

I was illustrator 

Matija Z. 

Here on the picture the biggest figure is Marcy. The other two figures are Phil and Nancy. This picture describes how Marcy is going into the party where she sees Phil and Nancy hugging. She is wearing A purple suit because she doesn't want anyone to see she is fat. 

My job is to be the illustrator and to illustrate an image from the book which up there
The picture represents Marcy being sad after the fight with her dad

The cat ate my gymsuit-Connector

To begin this book, as a job to do, I was the connector. My job is to try to relate something from the book I have read to my real life. It can be from my real life or someone elses life.

The part I chose from the book is when Ms. Finney gets fired for not doing the right stuff in class like not saying the Pledge of Allegiance. So she then got fired. Something similar happened in my life. In my french school, a substitute teacher was replacing my normal teacher and she did not know what to do so she let us talk and play board games. Some kid from our class tattle taled on her and she got fired by the director.
This has happened in a lot of my other schools but the kids never told the director.

The cat ate my Gymsuit: Literacy circles By Edwin Ny..................... 5a

The cat ate my Gymsuit: Literacy circles

Task:

My task was to be a summarizer and I had right a summary in high detail of what happened between the chapters we read which is chapter 1 to chapter 11.

Summary:

Marcy the protagonist is going through a tough time in 6 grades. She hates almost everything in her life including her father. Even though she has a rich average time, she is struggling because of her weight issues and she doesn’t go to gym class because her gym suit will be too tight exposing dead weight. Marcy is over think how others feel about her making her even more insecure and not so socially linked. She is in a club named Smelly and its only working out because of her lovely teacher Ms. Finney.  Ms. Finney gets fired from her job due to keeping a secret and not saying anything about it.  

Key points:

¾  She hates her farther, school principal and has weight issues.

¾  She has a supporting teacher named Ms. Finney.

¾  She is in a after school club named Smedley and its only working out because of Ms. Finney.

¾  Ms. Finney got fired from her job by the principal because she was keeping a secret about the pledge.

¾  A boy Macy likes named Joel seems interested in her and he is involved with her because he is in her class, same club(Smedley) pulse she is working with him because they are working together in finding out why  Ms. Finney was fired.