5D+Tuck+Chapter+2,+3

=__Sentences to help with understanding:__=
 * 1) ===Mae sat up in the bed and looked at him __tolerantly__. //She is looking at her husband in a kind way, despite the fact that he is being grumpy.//===
 * 2) ===Mae Tuck climbed out of bed and began to dress: three __petticoats__, a rusty brown skirt with one enormous pocket, an old cotton jacket, and a knitted shawl which she pinned across her bosom with a tarnished metal brooch. [[image:petticoats.jpg width="196" height="263"]]===
 * 3) ===Tuck rolled over and made a __rueful__ face at her. "What in the world could possibly happen to me?" //He has an expression of sorrow or pity on his face.//===
 * 4) ===At noon of that same day in the first week of August, Winnie Foster sat on the __bristly__ grass just inside the fence and said to the large toad who was squatting a few yards away across the road..." //The grass was short and stiff.//===
 * 5) ===It was the only living thing in sight except for a __stationary__ cloud of __hysterical__ gnats suspended in the heat above the road. //The cloud of gnats isn't moving. Within the cloud, the gnats look hysterical because they are moving around so quickly.//===
 * 6) ===The gnats were too frantic to notice these __intrusions__, however, and since every pebble missed its final mark, the toad continued to __squat__ and grimace without so much as a twitch. [[image:grimacing_toad.jpg width="302" height="227"]]===
 * 7) ==="Look here, toad," she said, thrusting her arms through the bars of the fence and __plucking__ at the weeds on the other side. //She's picking at the weeds.//===
 * 8) ===Why should you have to be __cooped up__ in a cage, too? //Cooped up means confined or trapped.//===
 * 9) ===The toad, as if it saw that their interview was over, __stirred__ again, bunched up, and bounced itself clumsily off toward the wood. //In this sentence, to stir means to move//.===

= = =__Vocabulary:__ melancholy, stationary, frantic, grimace, exasperated=

= = =__Question:__ Take a few minutes to contemplate Winnie's quote at the top of page 15. If you could start fresh, making your own decisions about your life, what are some changes you would make? Please write about at least 2-3 changes. Write a paragraph for each change and explain your reasons or go into detail about the impact that change would have on your life.= = = = = Philip Ethan Edward Daniel Michelle Albert Catherine Elliot Erika Patrick Jasmine Lee Megan Rachel Sabin June Jasmine Lim Cathy Jaiy Justyn Ji-Soo