Victor

Think about a time when you or someone close to you was very sick. How did the illness affect you? Did it change the way you looked at life?

• When my close one is sick i feel so bad than i go with my mom to the hospita because when you have sick you feel illness.

Do you think the visitors know that Cody hears them?

• Yes because Cody could understand what people say.

What details tell you how sick Cody is?

• Cody was very very sick because he had COMA.

What kind of boy is Cody?

• Cody is boy whose in the hospita, and he is a coma

What bothers Cody about his father? Why?

• It bothers Cody when his father did cry at hospita.
  

What is the "Land Above?" Why do you suppose Cody made up this place?

• It a place when you are lonely and you dont have anything to do than you think about it place.

What is one thing Victor does for Cody?

• The one thing that Victor did for Cody was tell him stories. they were all about a kid name Cody the stories was when cody was thirteen and climbing mountain.

How did Cody's way of thinking about life changed after meeting Victor?

• That Victor made Cody talk that why Cody life changed after meeting Victor.

What is Victor like?

• Victor is a old man who was at the hospita he dont talk he had soft and deep voice.

How does Victor offer Cody hope?

• That Victor told storys about cody and cody never felt that he was not going to die.

How is Cody's dad dealing with Cody's illness?

• Feels lonely and he doesnt want cry because he'll not be a man.

Whom do you think the mysterious gift is from? What makes you think so?

• Victor was the mysterious person who gift cody. when victor say happy birthday cody that makes me think so.

How does Max show he's a good friend?

• when max come ones of week to cody.

How do Cody's family and Max react to the empty box? Why?

Cody wants to live. What phrases tell you this?

What is the turning point, or climax, of the story?

Why did Victor give Cody the gift of an empty box?

What changes are taking place in Cody and his father?

What "miracle" did Victor perform? How did he do it?

• The miracle was tell stories to cody about mountain climbing that was the miracle.
  

Who gave up on Cody? Who didn't? what makes you think so?

• I think his dad gave up on cody because his dad did cry.
  

Do you think Victor was a real person? Find proof to support your opinion.

• I think victor was a real person because the next day a guy die so i think that was victor.
  

The word victor means "a winner of a battle." What battle occurred in this story? Who was a victor?

Let the chips fall

Languages and Language Diversity

1. There are many different writing SYSTEMS language uses the roman alphabet.

2. A dermatologist is a doctor who in problems of the skin.

3. The United States is into fifty states.

4. In the fifty years, the population of the world has increased rapidly.

5. Can i BORROW your pen for just a minute?

6. It's much eaier to wet snow ioto balls than to use dry snow.

7. In some countries, students their professors by their first.

8. Noam chomsky, a professor at MIT, is one of the most famous in the world.

9. A team of workers can build a car at a faster than people working alone.

10. The word diversity has nine

Writing Activityhttp

1. What do you think Madame Loisel's life will be like now that she has paid off her depth and found out the real value of the necklace?

.I think madame loisel's life well be good.and she is not be greedy again.


2. Do you think money can bring happiness?

. No i don't think so money can bring happiness.money is a tool that all.

The necklace essay

Character:

The characters in a story are the people, animals, or imaginary creatures who take part in the action. In most stories, the events center on the main characters. The other characters, called minor characters, interact with the main characters and help move the story along. Characters can be dynamic or static. Dynamic characters change as a result of events, whereas static characters remain unchanged.

CHARACTER ANALYSIS

Madame Loisel (characteristics):

• Mathilde Loisel dreams for a better life. These dreams cause her to halfway leave reality, then come back greedy for more than she has, or can afford. This greed is a sign of her inner weakness, a weakness for wealth and beauty.

Words and actions:

• The actions of story is when she lose her necklace and then she had to work for ten years to return the necklace.
  

Thoughts:

• This story is about a woman named Ms. Loisel. She was petty and charming. She married a common little clerk. Her life was in poverty and depression. One day, she and her husband received an invitation to attend a ball. To conceal her impoverished family situations and show off her charm and beauty, she borrowed a necklace from her friend.

Appearance:
Loisel's excessive desire for goods and preoccupation with is appearance vain.

The necklace

1. What might be Mme. Loisel's thoughts and feelings right after she learns that the diamond necklace was only a paste?

• She feels happy because now she will have jewellry to wear on a occasion or a special event.

2. How does Madame Loise changes as a result of her experiences?

• She wasn't greedy no more. and she was happy.

3. Madame Loisel pays dearly for losing the necklace. Do you think that experience ruins her life or saves her life? Explain your answer.

• I think that saves her life because if mrs. loissel had to husband give the necklace back to her friend she and her husband would have to keep on working and still belong to a poor family. but, if she didn't had to return the necklace she and hern husband wouldn't had to work hard because she they have a very expensive necklace which they can sell and get the money back.

4. The literary critic Edward D. Sullivan declares that "The Necklace" is showing that in people's lives "blind chance rules". Do you agree or disagree? cite evidence to support your opinion.

• I agree because in the story when Mrs. loissel removed her wraps before the glass so as to see herself once more in all her glory.But suddenly she uttered a cry. She no longer had the necklace around her neck! And then she and her husband had to work for ten years to return the necklace but the conclusion was that the necklace was pace.

5. Suppose that Madame Loisel had not lost the necklace. On the basis of her feelings and actions in the story, what do you think her future would have been like?

• She would be poor and her family would had to continue work harder and live at the same dirty house.

6. Do people still chase after wealth and social status today? Explain.

• yes people do chase after social and wealth for an example when you go to atm to withdraw cash if you take out $1,000 people stair at you and they want to rob yo so that is one example.

7. What do you think Madame Loisel's life will be like now that she has paid off her debt and found real value of the necklace?

• She would be rich and she will have everything that she needs.
  

8. Analyze Madame Loisel and Monsieur Loisel' characteristics.

• They both were caring about the stuff they had lost and hard working.
  

9. SYMBOLISM: What does the necklace symbolize in the story?

• That necklace was pace.

10. From which point of view is the story told? Explain.

• That if you work hard and don't be greedy the result will be always positive.
  

11. What is the main conflict in the story?

• To return the necklace.
  

12. What is the theme of the story?

• The theme is that not to be greedy and to be hard working
  

13. What is the moral of this story?

• If yo work hard and don't be greedy and to be hard working.
  

14. Outline the events in "The Necklace" that form:

• exposition