Welcome! Please reply to this post. You don't have to reply to all the posts in one night. Also, remember that you have to earn 50 points a week from the cards on the filing cabinet in the back of the room. DON'T TAKE THOSE CARDS HOME! You can put a card on my desk with a note that you need it photocopied, or you can take the card to your seat and copy it, or you can just read it. By the way, on the cards, the point values are called 'miles.'You can save up and do 100 points in a week and nothing another week, like we discussed in our meeting... or nothing for 3 weeks and 150 points in one week, etc.
Remember, you don't have to do the reading log, so you may find that you're reading less than before, but responding to this post and doing the activities on the yellow cards will be time consuming, so you may find that you are spending as much time analyzing a book as you used to reading it.
You do need to read the stories from the text in class, but you don't need to answer the ?'s at the end of the story. You don't need to read the workbook stories or do those activities. You don't do the reading log.
Please don't read ahead in the Illustrated Man because I may ask you to make predictions. Maybe, if you insist on reading ahead, I can create a different post for every chapter, and you can reply to each chapter at your pace. We'll see if I can keep up. If you MUST read but find yourself ahead, for now, read a different book of your choice, and try to stay with the group with The Illustrated Man until I can get ahead and get questions posted for other stories.
Okay, here we go:
You should have checked out The Illustrated Man by Ray Bradbury.
By Friday, I would like for you to read two of the stories: The Illustrated Man (that's the name of the first "chapter"... each chapter is it's own short story) and The Veldt.
Then, respond to this post - 10 questions per story; if you need help adding a comment to the post, let me know at break or at lunch. If I'm not in my room, see if I'm in Ms. Dunlap's room. Anyway, here's what you need to answer:
1. What is your name (first and last)?
2.How many pages to you typically read a night?
3.What is your favorite book?
4.What genre do you typically read (fantasy, biographies, etc.)?
5. In the first story you read, entitled "The Illustrated Man," give an example of how the author uses ONE of the 5 elements of showing writing... be specific. For example, in the first paragraph, no two sentences begin with the same word.
6. WHOA... I have to finish typing the questions later :) My baby is getting fussy (I'm at home) and it's time for me to give her a bath and put her to bed... I just wanted to start giving you the questions so you're not confused (like Frances was!) ;)
Okay, I'm back...
6. Give an example of a sensory detail in "The Illustrated Man" - something we hear, taste, or smell.
7. What kind of opinions do you have of people who have lots of tattoos? What challenges would the illustrated man face as a member of society in the year 2007? What advantages would he have, if any, by the fact that his tattoos move and tell stories? What are some possible dangers he would face because of that (moving tattoos)? What advantages and disadvantages does he have with that particular spot on his back that can show the future?
8. In the story, Ray Bradbury makes reference to several well known artists (Picasso, for instance). Research one of the artist mentioned and tell me something interesting that you learned.
9. Find two vocabulary words that you did not know before - define them.
10. Find an example of a power verb from the story.
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I don't understand... what are we supposed to read and what are the questions?
OK I get it! But how do we answer question 6?
Question 1: Sha'Mya Williams
Question 2:about 20
Question 3:Farenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury and Inkheart by Cornelia Funke
Question 4: any kind
Bye
Question 1: Dylan Pereira
Question 2: About 20-40 (depends on the book)
Question 3: Eldest/Eragon
Question 4: Fiction/Fantasy
Question 5: The Illustrated Man compared his tattoos to ants crawling on him.
Dear Sha'mya... you can answer all the ?'s in one post. :) Mrs. Prato
omg!!! ugh... i forgot my password, had all the questions done, now i lost them :(!!
Question 1 AGAIN!!! : Frances Vance
Question 2: 40-50 a night
Question 3: Dylan stole mine, Eldest/Eragon
Question 4: Fantasy, mystery
Question 5:sensor detail, grunting, hear
Question 6/ 7: warm afternoon, exhauled, whisky on his breath, humming, prickling fur, panting, dripping.
Question 7: gotta go!!!
1.Allison Wilkinson
2. 10 to 40 depending on the level and size of the text.
3.My favorite book's fluctuate so I can't choose a favorite.
4.I typically read fiction books of fantasy and adventure.
5. In "The Illustrated Man" Ray Bradbury uses Sensory Details in describing the man's tatooed body. My favorite line is when the man who encountered the Illustraed Man is describing the people on the man's body and how the wink and gesture.
6. A sensory deatail in "The Illustrated Man" is when the man himself is describing a carnival tatoo man. He describes them as only having three colors and whisky on his breath.
question: Elizabeth Applegate
2: 20-30 pages
3: Once Opon a Marigold
4: Fantasy
the rest i will answer tomorrow because i haven't read yet.
1. Tyler McKay
2. 10 - 20 pages
3. The Chronicles of Narnia
4. Fiction and Fantasy
5. The author uses figurative language when he writes, "The illustrated man's picures glowed like charcols in the half light, like scattered rubies and emeralds."
6. Crickets were stirring gently
7. People who have lots of tatoos think they are tough. He might have a hard time finding a job because people are afraid of people covered in tatoos. It does not look very professional. Maybe the government might want to hire him if his tatoos could really tell about the future. Someone might even want to use him for a research project. He would be able to warn people if something bad was going to happen. Everyone would be bothering you because they would have lots of questions about the future.
8. See you later. I have to do some research. Be right back. Okay, I'm back. El Greco is the artist. He thought that color was the most important element of paintig. He also used light as a tool.
9. immense - huge or enormous
intricate - detailed and complicated
10. An example of a power word is quivered. "The first illustration quivered."
Done for now. I need to read the next chapter.
i'm back with more answers!!!
question 5) "No carnival would touch me with a ten foot pole" is a hyperbole
6) about the last paragragh the narrator said "I heard voices"
7) People with tattoos intimadate some people. I think thats why some can't find jobs. I have an example. When I used to take gymnastics there was one teacher there whose arms were covered in tattoos. None the less, she was a very good gymnast. At first she would wear tank tops and shrot sleeves, but some parents complained. She had to cover her tattoos if she wanted to keep working there. People with one tattoo don't bother me, but if someone is covered in them it does bother me. The illustrated man's tattoos are very interesting, but might scrae people away.
I will answer the rest after I do some research. bye
i'm back again.
8) I learned that Picasso was noticed at a very young age.
9) Is it vocab words from our homework???
10) peered, recall, wandered
Do we have to answer the other 10 questions this week also?
Question 6: smell, "...the smell of meatffrom the panting, dripping mouths." "the hot staw smell of lion grass, the cool green smell of thee hidden water hole,the great rusty smell of animals,the smell of dust like a red paprikain the hot air."
Question 7: what was this one?
question 7: People with tatoos are just like regular people, my brother has ten tatoos and he is still the same. Some challenges would be getting a good job because good jobs want people who look professional and buissness like. An advanage would be if he has kids he would have something to entertain them with. A danger would be that somebody would might want to kill him because of what they see.An advantage and disadvantage would be that he would knows what will happen to the person he is around.
Question 8:Vincent Van Gogh worked at many jobs, such as at an art gallery, a school, a bookstore, as a preacher, and an artist. He didn't have a very happy life. He painted sad paintings with poor people in them. His paintings were always very dark until he saw some colorful Japanese paintings. Then Van Gogh started painting happier paintings.He wanted to find someone to paint with. When he finally found someone, Van Gogh and the other artist did not get along. After this, Van Gogh became so sad that he cut part of his ear off!
9: Veldt: an African grassland, sulphurous: firey or heated
10:"...exquisite French tapestry.." power word: exquisite
ok i am going to the recent blog now, BYE!!
So I answer the name questions on here? O.k. I think I get it but do I answer The Veldt questions on here or on a seperate piece of paper?
1. Rachel Storer
2. 20-30 pages
3. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hollow
4. Fantasy or fairy tales
5.In "The Illustrated Man" Ray Bradbury used figurative launguage to describe the tatoos moving and acting there stpries for the man to see.
6.The illusrations on the illustrated man, when they were moving the other man could here the voices of the people in the pictures talking.
7. I think that people with tatoos are o.k. but at the same time I think it is pointless for people to cover themselves in tatoos that could not be removed. The illustrted man would probally be judged very poorly and people would stare at him and he would probally maybe maybe not be jobless. His advantages that his tatoos could tell story is that if his pictures told the future that he would know what was going to happen and that people would think its cool that they can move and tell stories. People would probally be freaked out and maybe some people would want moving tatoos and pester him about it and some people might not want to see their furture and want to get rid of him. An advantage of having a black spot on his back that tells the future is that he could see anyone's future who is standing next to him for awhile and that is cool. But a disadvantage is that some people don't want their furture to be seen.
8.oops got to raserch it bye
I'm back
8. Picasso started to learn the art of clay sculpting in 1948
9. connoisseur:one with expert knowledge esspeacially of the arts
elongation: to make or grow longer
10. He sat down heavily
question 1:Alex vaezazizi
question 2:depnds on book
love it! 40pgs
good! 35pgs
fun. 30pgs
avreage 25pgs
not great... 20 pgs
(grunt)..... minimum
question 3:i like HARRY POTTER 1-7
+ eragon/eldest+arthemis fowl+the white mountains
question: 4 science fiction
question: 5 the tatoos speek and make jestures and wink
question: 6 sweeting, prespiring stiff burned sliced
question: 7 idk y but people with that many tatoos creep me out! :# the illustrated man would be rejected in our society due to his moving, stroy tatoos. but, he could be a great story teller for morals. but if other people that were courious about hows his tatoos work he might become a test subject. with that spot on his back he could see the future but still, this could threaten his life.
ill complete them tommorow morning!!!!
sweet! I HAVE MORE TIME!!!! 1 sec gotta reserch like rachel.
question 8:born oct 25 1881
died apr 8 1973
man that guy lived for a long time!
question 9:vldt- an open and baren country kaleidoscope- a instrument with bits of glass for viewing patterns. (only for fun)
question 10: (finally just kiding)
flickerd
all right well g2g to bed so peace out and good night. :) :) :)
7. Some people with tatoos look slightly shady, I'm not judging them that way though , and most are regular run of the mill people. My dad's a marine and a lot of his marines have many tatoos. Some disadvantages the illustrated man would have would probably be that he has so many tatoos so that's one thing keeping him getting a job unless he wore turtlenecks everyday. I think the only advantage he would have from his tatoo stories is that people would be interested in them. People would also Be scared off becauase one of his tatoos shows how the person will die and it's usually tragic so that could put him in jeporady because people will be out to get him and being as unusual as he is he can't hide. I already listed one disadvantage above so I'll now list an advantage...I don't think I can come up with one. The spot on his back has no advantages.
8.Mr.Pablo Picasso was left handed. I learned this in a book of mine, some other artists were left handed as well. Like Da Vinci.
9.Veldt: an open grassland in southern Africa usually with few shrubs or trees.
flue:a passage for directing a current.
Note:If you guys need to look up any of the words up on the computer check dictionary.com it gives references from dictionaries.:-)
10.An example of a power verb is darted, instead of ran.
1. vanessa Escolero
2. 40-60 depening on the book
3. We'll Meet Again
4. any kind
5. on the 8th paragraph in the first page it has a word ending with "ly" heavily.
6.The illusrations on the illustrated man when the pictures move and the other guy hears people talking inside the tatoos.
7. it does bother if all their body is full tatoos but if they have few it doesnt not bother me.he will have a hard time founding a job. he could get money by telling people their future.
8. Picasso lived in Paris through the war, producing gloomy paintings in semi-abstract styles.
9. -sulphurous-pertaining to the fires of hell; hellish or satanic. fiery or heated.
-elongation-the act of elongating or the state of being elongated. something that is elongated.
10.a powerverb would be quivered because the author didnt just say shake.
1. brandon Milton
2.I typically read 10-20 pages a night
3. my favorite book is...ummm....To Kill a MockingBird
4.I typically read adventure and mystery novels
5.The author uses sensory detail when he says- he had seen her painted sign by the road: Skin Illustration! Illustration instead of tatoo! artistic!
6.An example of sensory detail in the illustrated man was when the narrator saw the Illustrated man sweating, and taking off his shirt to show him his Illustrations.
7.I think that people with lots of tatoos have a hard time in life, they look like they could be tough, strong, and beat me up free at will.In the year 2007 the Illustrated man might face challenges, he might make everybody think that he is going to hurt them, and he might make people think that he was weird. He might have advantages in the year 2007 because he might get a job easier because people want to come to the store he works at to see the stories his illustrations tell, giving his manager more business, making him able to have a job. Some dangers he might face because of his moving tatoos are that he might offend someone and they might get mad at him, fire him, or hurt him. The illustrated man has advantages with the moving spot on his back because people might think it is cool to learn what their future is going to be, however if they see that the future is not one the person expected he/she will get offended and will take it very seriously, making the illustrated man angry and upset.
8.Picasso is very interesting because it is said that he painted pictures showing some polotics.
9.
connoisseur- a person who is especially competent to pass critical judgments in an art, particularly one of the fine arts
intricate- very detailed
10.A power verb in this story is focused, in the sentence Primarily my eyes focused upon a scene...
1. Heather Hermesman
2. I can read up to 130 pages of a book I like a night ad for a book I don't like I'll read about 30 pages.
3. My top three favorite are Inkheart and Inkspell by Cornelia Funke, The entire Harry Potter series by J. K. Rowling, and all of Jenny Nimmos books.sorry i have so many.
4. FANTASY !, adventure, and school stories.
5. The author uses a lot of details.ex."he wasa riot of rockets and fountains of people..."
6. "a cheap carnival tatoo man with only 3 colors and the smell of whisky n his breath"
sorry i put the first 6 questions under anonymous it should say heather said not anonymous said.
7. Most people consider them suspicious and rather spooky.A lot of people would think he was some sort of wacko and try to stay away from him. The illustrated man would know about the future. Some people might try to kill him if they see violence in his tatoos. The illustrated man could help from bad things happenings, but it would be sad if he saw some one he knew die in his tatoos before it happened.
8. Pablo Picasso first entered an art exhibition at age 13.
9.Uh oh my puppys barking. be right back.
OK i'm back.
9. picturesque:resembling a picture, suggesting a painted scene.
connoisseur: person qualified to act as a judge in matters involving taste and appreciation.
10. twinkled, flickered.
TTYL :>)
Mrs. Prato,
do you know when it's OK to read the next chapter?
1. Andrew Cerda
2. About 20-30 depending on text size
3. Everyone took mine, Eldest and Eragon.
4. Mostly all books except math.
Ill answer the rest tomorrow, I have to go now.
Mrs. Prato when are you putting more questions on?
K I'm back to answer the rest of the questions:
5: Ray Bradbury says that the illustated man's picture's glowed like charcoals in the half light.
6: The narrator said he could hear voices.
7: idk why but people that have a lot of tattoos kind of freak me out. The illustrated man probably wouldn't be able to find a job that easily because of the violent stories the tattoos show. The advantages he has of his tattoos is that he could be a storyteller and fortune teller.The dangers are that if he shows a person their future and it is violent that person might not like it and try to kill the illustrated man.
Some other fortune tellers might not like him because he steals their bussiness and they might try to kill him.
8: I found out Picasso's full name was Pablo Diego José Francisco de Paula Juan Nepomuceno María de los Remedios Cipriano de la Santísima Trinidad Clito Ruiz y Picasso.
9: Veldt-Elevated open grassland in Sourthern Africa. Prospects-The possibility of future success.
10: Streaming
Question 7: lots of tattoes, well... a biker guy or a biker chick. People might laugh at the Illustrated man because of his tatts and people would tottaly expirement on him because the pics. moved.An advantage might be he could get a good job 'cause I'd pay to see him! People would be afraid and might want to get rid of him. He wouldn't be able to go swimming because people would laugh.
Question 8: Leonardo Da Vinci was born in 1452, in an Italian town called Vinci.He was a sculpter, a scientist, an inventor, an architect, a musican, and a mathmatican. He is famous for painting the Mona Lisa, the Madona and Child, and The Virgin of the Rocks.
Question 9: one is quivered:to shake with a slight rappid movement another is verdict: an expressed conclusion
Question 10: stumbling, spilling back, leaned,trudged
Question 7: in the book it says "...whisky on his breath..."
Question 8:Rouault, I learned that his art was mainly focused on his religion, Christianity
Question 9:SULPHUROUS-related to, or containing sulphur, fiery or hellish
ELONGATION-long and slender, having more length than width
Question 10:exhaled
The Veldt questions now...
Question one: The illustrated man's tattoos really do come to life and tell stories about people, I can tell the book will be many different stories that are happening taht night on the illustrated man's body.
Question 2: A veldt is an African grassland.
Question 3: He is telling us that technology will be bad and will sort of take over our lives.
Question 4: My stove is very important to me and my family, and it was available in the year 1951. Our world is HUGELY different than that of the year 1951, we have so muc hmore technology such as computers, portable drives, credit cards, cell phones, and many other examples of modern technology. I believe that our lives are SO much easier than lives of people who lived in 1951.
Question 5: OOPS, i got to go, got to finish the newpsaper article due tomorrow. :P
oOPS iLL rEPOST tHE aNSWERS oNTO tHE vELDT qUESTIONS tHAT i pOSTED oNTO hERE
LIZZIE: The vocab words are from the chapter "The Illustrated Man" and no, you don't have to answer all the ?'s in one night!
RACHEL: Looks like you figured it out, but you can do either (answer the questions as a post or on a separate piece of paper). And yes, you answer the same questions.
Rachel: I'm putting questions up every Friday.
HEATHER: You have a puppy? :) What do you mean, do I know when it's ok to read a chapter? You can check on Fridays and it will tell you the next two chapters, is that what you meant?
BRANDON: My favorite book of all time is "To Kill a Mockingbird." Did you know that and you're trying to butter me up? Just kidding. Not about that being my favorite book, though.
ALEX: Thanks for the sarcasm (finally) :)
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