Mai Ness
22 May, 2014
Milkweed by Jerry Spinelli
Pages Read: 100
Task: Literary Luminary
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Group Members:
-Lana
-SeungJun
-Alice Rose
-Mai
Instructions: Your job is to choose a paragraph or sentences from the book to discuss with your group. Your purpose is to help other students by spotlighting something interesting, powerful, funny, puzzling, or important from the text. Include your reasons for picking the paragraphs or sections you did. Please record page number and paragraph.
Paragraphs:
(from page 18, paragraph 3)
They were magnificent. There were men attached to them, but it was as if the boots were wearing the men. They did not walk like ordinary footwear, the boots. When one stood at tall, stiff attention, the other swung straight out till it was so high I could have walked under it, only then did it return to earth and the other take-off.
Justification:
I like the way Spinelli describes Stopthief's admiration towards the Jackboots using very rich vocabulary and adjectives selection.
(from page 31 paragraphs 5&6)
"Misha Pilsudski..." I kept saying. "Misha Pilsudski... Misha Pilsudski..."
And then it was no longer enough to stare at myself and repeat my name to myself. I needed to tell someone else.
Justification:
The emotional adjectives Spinelli uses to describe Misha's love for knowing who he is has a very strong effect on the continuation of the book.
(from page 37 paragraphs 3&4)
Someone was riding the horse, but not in the usual way. He was tied to the horse stomach-down and backward. His bearded chin bobbed on the rump of the horse and his face went in and out of the horse's tail.
I thought : I am glad I'm not a Jew.
Justification:
Explaining emotionally how the Jew/Nazi situation was bad and to what extent, to be thankful of being one religion and not another, explains how bad the situation was at the time.
(from page 62, paragraphs 5&6)
But I returned the next day, and the next. When the horses were moving, I stayed at a distance, watching, wishing.
Justification:
He is so eager to ride the horses, that he does not care whether he is poor and not allowed to go. It is powerful because it explains that he is so eager for this.
22 May, 2014
Milkweed by Jerry Spinelli
Pages Read: 100
Task: Literary Luminary
--
Group Members:
-Lana
-SeungJun
-Alice Rose
-Mai
Instructions: Your job is to choose a paragraph or sentences from the book to discuss with your group. Your purpose is to help other students by spotlighting something interesting, powerful, funny, puzzling, or important from the text. Include your reasons for picking the paragraphs or sections you did. Please record page number and paragraph.
Paragraphs:
(from page 18, paragraph 3)
They were magnificent. There were men attached to them, but it was as if the boots were wearing the men. They did not walk like ordinary footwear, the boots. When one stood at tall, stiff attention, the other swung straight out till it was so high I could have walked under it, only then did it return to earth and the other take-off.
Justification:
I like the way Spinelli describes Stopthief's admiration towards the Jackboots using very rich vocabulary and adjectives selection.
(from page 31 paragraphs 5&6)
"Misha Pilsudski..." I kept saying. "Misha Pilsudski... Misha Pilsudski..."
And then it was no longer enough to stare at myself and repeat my name to myself. I needed to tell someone else.
Justification:
The emotional adjectives Spinelli uses to describe Misha's love for knowing who he is has a very strong effect on the continuation of the book.
(from page 37 paragraphs 3&4)
Someone was riding the horse, but not in the usual way. He was tied to the horse stomach-down and backward. His bearded chin bobbed on the rump of the horse and his face went in and out of the horse's tail.
I thought : I am glad I'm not a Jew.
Justification:
Explaining emotionally how the Jew/Nazi situation was bad and to what extent, to be thankful of being one religion and not another, explains how bad the situation was at the time.
(from page 62, paragraphs 5&6)
But I returned the next day, and the next. When the horses were moving, I stayed at a distance, watching, wishing.
Justification:
He is so eager to ride the horses, that he does not care whether he is poor and not allowed to go. It is powerful because it explains that he is so eager for this.
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