Erika F’s Blog

Being a summarizer I have t0 go back and re-read the passages I think are important and summarize anything that is in that passage. The passages that I summarize I will tell my group and they will tell me if it is important or not. So every day that I was the summarizer my group learnerd something from me and I learn something from them. So everday is a learning experiance.

1. Describe Beth Ann’s new behavior. How does Mary Lou feel about it?

By the way Beth Ann is acting I can tell she feels good about her self and she wants people to notice her. I know this because she wants to tell Mary Lou about her date with her new boy friend.But she is so busy trying to figure out what to wear on her next date that she is to distracted to tell Mary Lou bout it. Mary Lou feels jealous about this because she to likes this boy that Beth Ann is going out  with.

2. How does mary lou act when Mr.Furtz dies?

Mary Lou is very sad and disappointed that he had died. and the way that he died.( a heart attack) she was astonished when sh got the news about it. but now that all of it has happened she know that there is nothing she can do about it.

Being a reflector is not an easy task but you can make it a fun one. By being a reflector  i have to go back into the story and find things that i think that my group should go back and reflect on or go back and see what is important in this story. It also allows me to tell my group, my thoughts and opinios on the story so far, and to have them ask me any questions they need to be answered about any of the part of the story they dont understand and for me to ask them questions that i dont understand about the book. This role also allowes me, and my group to make comments on the book such as things they dont like at all or things they like alot.

this week i was a passage master. being a passage master i get to   pick out paragraphs that i think are important or should be shared with my group and, or to be read again. So far into the book i have read that in the beginning of the book she  tells you about each of the charicters in Mary Lou`s famiy. then when the beginning of summer comes around her brother Dennis had gotten a metal spring into his knee from the bed he and his sister were bringing a bed down stairs from the Attic. So Mary Lou called a neighbor from across the street. the woman told her to wrap   up his knee while she went home to get dressed. that way when she got back she could take Dennis to the emergency room. while they are at the hospital Mary Lou stays home with her little sister to make  sure nothing happened to her. when Dennis came home his mom was now with him. the next day Mary Lou is walking with a friend and runs into a boy she likes. (Alex Cheevey). but when she runs into him she notices that he he is being shy and is blushing because i says he is going to a friends house when she could tell that he didnt know where he was going.