Sunday, February 22, 2009
Before reading, I predicted that Billie will be tired when he goes to school the next day. The reason I predict that is because he stayed up late playing Chinese checkers with Charlie. Questions that I had before reading the rest of the chapter were what Billie's school was like. I wondered this because they haven't said very much about Billie's school yet. I also wondered why Billie's family didn't want Jeffrey Miller to come home with him. I think it is because they don't want strangers in their camp. I wonder if they will say more about this in the rest of the chapter.
When I read the rest of the chapter, all they said about Jeffrey Miller coming home with Billie was that he didn't say anything about it again. I did find out something about Billie's school. They have a big blackboard that Billie had to clean on Thursdays. They are studying Florida history just like we are. Billie had a big talk with his teacher about the report he was writing on the Seminole war. Mrs. Kelly wondered why he didn't go to the library to research. Billie said that he did research in the library but that he didn't think it was told the Seminole way, so he told it the way Abraham told him. While I was reading, I had a question about what the word defying meant. I asked my mom, and she said it meant standing up against or rebelling against. The Seminoles were defying the white man to take them away.
Monday, February 16, 2009
I am reading a book called To Walk The Sky Path by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor.It is about a Seminole family that lives in the everglades.In the last chapter the pilot and another man came over to Mush Jim's shack to pay him for the parts that he salvaged from the plane crash.Mush Jim didn't accept the money so he gave the money to Billie and Mush Jim said to give the money to Sahoki .This is one of the questions I had before I read on: what will Sahoki do with the money? I predict that the next chapter will mostly be about Billie giving the money to Sahoki and getting ready for bed.
After I read I still had not found the answer to my question but I did prove my prediction wrong.The section that I read was mainly about talking with Abraham and playing Chinese checkers with Charlie.I also came up with some more questions.The first question that I had was why did Billie go to Abraham to talk?maby because Aberham is very smart and knows the right thing to do .My second question was why couldn't Billie fall asleep?I woundered this becauce he stayed up all night. While I was reading I had trouble with the word incredulously. I asked my mom and found out that it means to be very surprised or unbelieving.
Friday, February 13, 2009
Wednesday, February 11, 2009
After I read I found out that there was a crash.There were injuries . Mush Jim helped the man get to the hospital .I wonder why the the man in the crash did not want to be tacken to the hospital by a seminole.