Wonjune+5C

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=Wonjune 5C Poetry=

=Social Studies=

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=Voice=

=Spiced Up Rhymes/Songs=

Three Unseeing Rodents Poem
Three unseeing rodents, three unseeing rodents, Observe how they sprint, observe how they sprint!

They all sprinted after the farmer's spouse, Who sliced off their rears with a carving blade, Did you ever observe such a thing in your lifetime, As three unseeing rodents?

This Petite Hog Rhyme
This petite hog went to shop, This petty hog remained at his house, This petite hog had roast beef, This petty hog had nothing, And this petty hog went... "Wee wee wee" on the road to his house...

Pop Goes the Weasel Rhyme
A cent for a spool of string, A cent for a thorn, That's the way the cash went, Pop! goes the weasel.

Wonjune 5C-Twisted Fairy Tales
=POV Mock Trial=

1.Do you think the trial and the outcome (result) were fair?
Yes, I think the trial and the outcome was very fair because I did my best to lessen out the frustration from both points of view. I think I did well.

2.How did you feel when the opposing party explained his/her point of view?
I was the judge, so I didn't have an actual opposing party, but I felt really stressed when the defendant didn't answer my question directly. I had to ask the question several times before he actually got the question.

3.How did playing your role make you feel?
It made me feel kind of mature because normally, only adults are really good judges, but I think I was a good judge too and I'm happy that my decision satisfied both the defendant and the plaintiff.

4.How would you change the trial if you could?
If I could change the trial, I would try to make my question to the defendant easier to understand (Although I doubt it because I said the question in the most easiest way possible) so he could have said the straight answer right away and hadn't given me any stress.

5.Why is it important to examine and understand all points of view before making a decision?
I think it's important to examine and understand all points of view because if you don't listen to or understand a point of view before making a decision, you may not be able to make a right and fair decision for everyone. Listening to everyone carefully gives you many "clues" to making a correct decision in court.

=POV Songs= Song 1: This song makes me feel like I'm lying on a couch on a country farm because it has a lazy feeling about it. It also makes me sort of mad because it seems like the singer is talking to me directly and taunting me while I can't do anything. Song 2: This song makes me feel excited because it's really rapid and loud. I'm not exactly a fan of rock music, but this song makes me want to rock n' roll! Song 3: This song makes me feel like I'm in the Seoul Arts Center and am sitting down in one of those gigantic chairs. It feels like I'm listening to a opera. Song 4: I hate this song! The singer's voice is so squeaky and the music makes me want to get up and kick the person who's singing on the head-at full power. Song 5: this song makes me feel like I'm at a big party where the person who invited everyone to the party has hired a boombox player to spin the CDs and is yelling at everyone to sing along with him. Song 6: This song makes me feel like I'm in New York Times Square and sitting down in a café with a nice warm cup of tea on a warm summer day. It makes me feel happy!

=Tuck Everlasting Movie and Book Comparison Homework=

Question 1.
Three mafor differences between the Book and the Movie are: 1. Mae doesn't come to the Treegap Woods and finds Winnie trying to drink the spring. It was just Jesse and Miles who found Winnie in the Movie. 2. Miles doesn't take Winnie fishing in the morning the next day. And 3. The plan for breaking Mae out of jail was totally different.

Question 2.
I think the Book and the Movie had these differences because the director of the Movie wanted to make some parts more in his style. For example, for the part where Mae escaped, I think he changed that part because he wanted to make it more exciting and, to some people, funny. I personally thought that some of the changes were kind of wierd.

Question 3.
I liked the Book better because well, the Movie was so much different! I could name about 10 changes that the director made to create the Movie. I'll name 3 right now. 1. Winnie lived from 1899 to 1999. That means she was alive when I was born! (If Winnie Foster really exsists, that is) 2. Tuck was arrested along with Mae. And 3. Chapter 16 didn't exsist in the Movie. There was no conversation with the man in the yellow suit and the constable. See what I mean? The Movie was so much different from the book. There were times when the director skipped entire chapters. If I had it all my way, I would make the whole movie over again.

=Tuck Everlasting Chapter 25 and Epilogue Homework=

Question 1.
I think Babbit meant that the year was slowly starting to end. I also think that Babbit was connecting this chapter to the prologue. In the prologue, it said that the first week of August was the top of the live long year. Since the first week of August was the top of the live long year, all of the days after that have to come down towards the bottom again. Then, at the last day of the year, it would be at the very bottom again and it would slowly go up, starting from January 1.

Question 2.
I think Mae and Tuck felt glad that the spring was destroyed because now, no one else would suffer from living forever and everyone would be on the "wheel". I feel the same way as the Tucks. I think the spring should have been destroyed because if anyone else had drank the spring water, they would have had to suffer the same fate as the Tucks. They would have had to move around, never stay in one place for long, and do all of the things the Tucks had done to live on.

Question 3.
I think an epilogue is a part in a novel that concludes the story, or in other words, tells you what happened after the story ended. I think Babbit included an epilogue to __Tuck Everlasting__ because she wanted to tell people who read the book what had happened to the Tucks and to Winnie (Mind you, I was surprised to see an epilogue to this story because I had thought that this story had ended.).

=Tuck Everlasting Chapter 24 Homework=

Question 1.
At the beginning of chapter 24, the air was just heavy and pressed down on Winnie's shoulders, but at the end of chapter 24, there was a full powered storm going on with lightning, thunder, and rain.

Question 2.
When the storm started to brew, the Tucks used the sound from the thunder to cover the sounds of the cell window being pulled out. If you don't believe me, read page 124. It tells you all about how the Tucks pulled the cell window out. The thunderstorm covered up the sounds they made and also gave them cover. If there hadn't been a thunderstorm, the Tucks may not have been able to rescue Mae.

=Tuck Everlasting Chapter 23 Homework=

Question 1.
Two emotions that Winnie is experiencing in chapter 23 are excitement and guilt. For proof, look at page 118. It says clearly in the second paragraph that "Beneath her excitement, she was thick with guilt. She is excited because well, she's excited about saving Mae! And she's guilty because she feels bad about sneaking off in the middle of the night again.

Question 2.
Once, when I was in the middle of __Charlie Bone and the Hidden King__, the book was so exciting that I couldn't stand reading the book under the covers at night. I took a flashlight to my bedroom secretly and read under the covers for about 4 nights or so. I was really excited that I was at the climax of the book, but I was also kind of guilty that I was reading under the covers because my mom had told me not to do it, but I was doing it anyway. I was caught redhanded after a while, and that made me feel better because now, I didn't have any secret hiding against my mom.

=Tuck Everlasting Chapters 21 and 22 Homework=

Question 1.
Dear Winnie,

It's me, Wonjune. do you remember me? We were in the same class in fourth grade (just pretend). I know how you feel and what has happened to you. The Tucks are a good family and did you much good. For example, you got a lot more mature during your short stay with the Tucks. I think you should follow the Tucks' plan, and I have some good reasons for it. One, they're you friends and friends help each other in hard situations, right? Second, I think you should do this as a sort of thank you to them. They didn't do anything to you even though you were kidnapped by them. Don't they seem like pretty nice folks? Last, I think you owe Mae an even bigger thank you than the one I mentioned above. After all, didn't she save you from the man in the yellow suit? Take care Winnie. And don't get into any more trouble, okay?

Sincerely, Wonjune Kang

Question 2.
The plan is that Miles will pull out the windowframe of Mae's cell out, bars and all. Than, Winnie would get into the cell herself and pretend to be Mae. I think this plan isn't so great because the constable will probably hear the cell window creaking and will come investigate. Then, I think they are going to get busted.

=Tuck Everlasting Chapters 19 and 20 Homework=

Question 1.
No, I don't agree because he should have thought about what would happen when people drink the water. Doesn't he know how hard it feels to find that one day, all of your friend and family are dead? Doesn't he know ehat would happen if everyone drank the water? They would feel the same as the Tucks, wandering around and thinking what they should do until the end of time. I personally think it would be even more horrible than an atomic bomb explosion.

Question 2.
I think Tuck was 'looking like a starving man at a banquet' because he knew that the man in the yellow suit was dying (Mae had hit him so hard) and you know that Tuck wants to die, right? He was envious of the man in the yellow suit because he wanted to die, but his wish couldn't come true. He wanted to switch places with the man in the yellow suit and die himself.

=Tuck Everlasting Chapter 18 Homework= I'm not sure, but I think Babbit wrote this way because she wanted everthing to come together roght at the Tucks' house. And by everything, I mean the three events at the beginning of the book. Winnie now likes the Tucks and right when she is getting comfortable with them, the man in the yellow suit comes into the Tucks' door and the peaces is shattered. I think Babbit did this on purpose to create tension in the story and wants to hook the reader so that the reader won't abandon the book until he or she figures out what happens at the end of the story.

=Tuck Everlasting Chapter 17 Homework=

Question 1A.
Winnie's conversation with Miles was similar to her conversation with Tuck because the subject was similar. Tuck told her about the importance of the spring, and Miles told her about what being able to live forever, what it felt like to have a son and daughter who were older than him.

Question 1B.
Winnie's conversation with Tuck was different with Miles' because Tuck said that he and Mae should be hidden, but Miles said that he wanted to do something important for the world.

Question 2.
Miles didn't have his family drink from the spring because it would be too mixed up to have a wife that was over 40 years of age and a son and daughter who were near his age. Besides, Tuck had been dead-set against the plan, that the fewer people who knew about the spring, the fewer people to tell about it.

=Tuck Everlasting Chapter 16 Homework= I think Babbit is making the Constable talk about the gallows because she wants us to figure out what could happen in the future for the Tucks. I think Babbit is giving us possible hints about what might happen to the Tucks if they are caught. I also think that the possible thing that could happen to the Tucks is that the Tucks might be hanged for kidnapping Winnie.

=Tuck Everlasting Chapter 15 Homework=

Question 1.
We learn that he is actually very evil and does anything his way. Two examples form the book are 1. He says that the Tucks are "rough country people" even though I think he knows the Tucks' true personalities, and 2. He says that he will do this "my way" when he is actually looking for the Fosters' daughter.

Question2.
I think he is doing this deal with the Fosters because he knows about the spring in the woods and somehow wants to get to it. I think that when he gets to the spring, he is going to drink the spring himself or sell it at a very high price.

Question 3.
I think Babbit didn't write any dialogue for the Fosters because she wanted readers to think that the man in the yellow suit was having a one-sided conversation and wasn't allowing the Fosters to protest. I think she was trying to make the man in the yellow suit to sound greedy by saying that he would be doing everything his way.

=Tuck Everlasting Chapter 14 Homework= I think Winnie is confused because she is having inner conflict with herself. I mean, she's confused about the Tucks' actions and whether they are criminals or not. Of course, if you think of it from the law's point of view, they are criminals, but they have treated her so nicely! Because she is only 10 years old, she's confused of she should look at it from the law's point of view, or if she should look at it from her point of view. Because in her own point of view, the Tucks are nice, but in the law's point of view, the Tucks are criminals for kidnapping her. She is confused about which point of view she should look from.

=Tuck Everlasting Chapter 13 Homework= I think the stranger stole the Tucks' horse because he wanted to stop the Tucks from returning Winnie and so that he could show the sheriff or the police with Winnie.With this proof, he could tell the Tucks that they were caught redhanded and that they had to return her. I think he had a plan all thought out that he would make a deal of some sort with the Fosters(e.g.the Fosters get their child back and he gets their woods). Actually, I think he knows about the spring and the Tucks. I think he's trying to find the Tucks so he can pry out information about the spring from the Tucks.

=Tuck Everlasting Chapter 12 Homework= Angus Tuck tries to make Winnie understand how he feels about his life now by telling her that life is like a wheel, or a cycle. He says that everything in this world, like birds and plants and animals, are changed over time. He also says that they aren'tpart of the wheel anymore. Stuck, so they can't grow. He says that he wants to grow again and change. Even though he will have to go on until he dies, he wishes that he could be part of the wheel again.

=Tuck Everlasting Chapter 11 Homework= For my homework, I chose B."I never thought we'd come to the place where we'd be scaring children,". I think that Tuck meant that they had always been kind to children but had never thought that their actions would have scared children-ever.I also think that he wanted to apologize to Winnie for scaring her.

=Tuck Everlasting Chapter 10 Homework= I think that the Tucks are cursed because they will always be the odd one out, won't they? They would have to keep moving before other people found out about the odd family that doesn't grow. And if they live forever, they wouldn't die even until the end of the world and the end of time. They would also suffer terrible happenings on the Earth. What if the Earth freezes? How would the Tucks eat and drink? If that happened to me, I would probably want to die.

=Tuck Everlasting Chapter 9 Homework= I think the Tucks talk like this because I highly suspect that the setting of this book is about a hundred years ago. About a hundred or two hundred years ago, I think people talked liked this and didn't talk with proper grammar. Since the setting is a hundred years back, Babbit probably just tried to match the style of talking in this book with that time. I think this kind of talk shows us more about the Tucks' characters because I think that the slang of the Tucks' way of talking is also because of they talk so fast. For example, //more'n// is actually //more than//. If you say //more than// fast, it actually comes out as //more'n//! I think that this would go into the Tucks' traits as 'Talks fast'.

=Tuck Everlasting Chapter 8 Homework= At the end of this chapter, we find out that the man in the yellow suit had overheard the whole story of the Tucks. The man in the yellow suit's actions have created tension because whenever he comes out, the scene is almost always in an exiting part of the story and he is doing things that he shouldn't do. For example, he shouldn't have snooped around and overheard the Tucks' story in Chapter 8. The man in the yellow suit's actions also sort of hook the reader so that he/she wants to find out what he is up to.

=Tuck Everlasting Chapter 7 Homework= I think Jesse means that the spring was supposed to be something that was a plan for humans all around the world but the plan didn't go as it was supposed to. I think that the plan is a something that God made specially for humans-something that could change our lives easily and in a big way.

=Tuck Everlasting Chapter 6 Homework=

Part 1:
The type of figurative language that Babbit uses is a simile. The reason why is because Winnie's backbone and a pipe full of cold running water are being compared while using the word 'like' in the sentence. No, cold water was not actually running down Winnie's back, it just describes how Winnie felt. Winnie felt cold, which is why Babbit used that kind of simile-"like a pipe full of cold running water". Two other examples of similes that Babbit used are "But at the same time he had a kind of grace, "like a well handled marionette." on page 18, and "her throat closed and her mouth went dry as paper." on page 34. I think that the first simile means that the man in the yellow suit moved a bit jerkily, but with a special kind of grace, like a marionette. And I think that the second simile means that Winnie's throat felt extremely dry, just like paper.

Part 2:
I think that Winnie didn't do anything when she saw the man in the yellow suit because she couldn't. She was riding too fast and was lost in her thoughts to notice the man. If I were Winnie, I wouldn't have done anything. I would have just rode on with the Tucks until they stopped. Besides, I was running away, wasn't I? I was finally getting my wish. Maybe my thoughts will change if that happens in real life. I don't know yet. But if in a more realistic situation, I would scream and yell for help-unless there was something to keep me from doing that.

=Tuck Everlasting Chapter 5 Homework= Sight-On page 24, Babbit says that the little flowers that Winnie couldn't recognize had colors of white and pale blue. Touch-On page 24, Babbit says that the moss that coated the half rotten log was velvety and soft. Hear-On page 24, Babbit says that the air in the wood fairly hummed with the activity of the wood's animals.

=Tuck Everlasting Chapters 2, 3, and 4 Homework= The Prologue is connected to Chapters 2, 3, and 4 because it introduces what will happen in those chapters. For example, in the Prologue, it says that "At dawn, Mae Tuck set out on her horse for the wood at the edge of the village of Treegap. She was going there, as she did once every ten years, to meet her two sons, Miles and Jesse.". That's a sort of introduction to Chapter 2, where all of the details about the information in the Prologue are shown. It's the same with the stranger appearing at the Fosters' gate at sunset and Winnie Foster's idea of running away. They're both given more details in Chapters 3 and 4. I think the author connected the Prologue to Chapters 2, 3, and 4 because she wanted the reader to read the Prologue and get hooked. And by getting hooked, I mean wanting to know how the three things (or events) come together. When I first read the book myself, I was really hooked! I really wanted to know how the three events come together like a puzzle. Anyway, I think that my explanation up there is pretty good, so I'll leave it there.

=Tuck Everlasting Chapter 1 Homework= In Chapter 1, Babbit expresses land ownership that it is an odd thing when you think of it. She asks how much deep the ownership goes, if the owner just owns the thin crust outside or does the owner own the piece of land all the way down to the crust. I think that once an owner buys a piece of land, he owns it all the way down to the crust. Why? Because he or she //bought// that land and //owns// it. Therefore, I think that he or she has every right to use every square centimeter of that land. (Even though that person probably will only use a miniscule amount)

=Tuck Everlasting Prologue Homework= If I had the chance to live forever, I wouldn't choose right now. I am too young to stay in this state forever and if I lived forever, I would have to face the ultimate sadness later in my life-losing my family and friends. If I could live forever-if I //had// to live forever-I would choose the age 25. I would want to be 25 forever because you would have had finished college by then so you wouldn't have to go to any school of sorts. But I would prefer to be normal than to be able to live forever.

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