The Lost Boy (pages 240- 300)

Comments:
David shouldn't be near his old school.
David got taken away again, but he went back to his old foster home.
He must have been really happy to go back there.
But leaving again must have made him really sad.
Can't he just stay where he is.

Question:
Will his mother go after him again?
Will he stay with the Cantanzes for good this time?
Does he have to leave again?
Will he make new friends at his new home?

Vocabulary:
Frenzied - wildly excited or enthusiastic
Reverberating - to reecho or resound
Immaculate - free from spot or stain; spotlessly clean

Literary Terms:
Charaterization - "My head swam with a stream of endless thoughts"
Smilie - "As a carpeter, he had a passion for his craft"

Over View Sentence:
David went back to living witht he his old foster family and is going to stay there until he is 18 years old. this is the place where he calls home.

The Lost Boy (180-240)

Comments:
They really took him away.
He doesn't belong in the juvenile hall.
His new mother was really nice in buying him a pet turtle.
Even though he has done so much Mrs. Catanze still loves him.
He will survive in there.

Questions:
When will he get out?
Will he be going back to the Catanze?
What will happen after he gets out?
Why does he have to leave the Catanze house?

Vocabulary:
Curdling - to spoil; turn sour
Radically - rising from or going to a root or source; basic
Anxiety - distress or uneasiness of mind caused by fear of danger or misfortune

Literary Terms:
Metaphor - "Those crocodile tears might work on lil, but they won't do a bit of good with me"
Simile - "I smiled at Rudy, who breathed above mt like a dragon"

Over View Sentence:
David got out but he wasn't going back to his old foster home he went to a new one, then another one, soon he met his younger brother at the same school he was going to.

The Lost Bpy (120-180)

Comments:
i really don't think that David needs to see a doctors.
That doctor didn't even help him he is just sitting there.
David just closed up and he started to make the wrong friends.
He didn't even start the fire.
His parents need to believe him.

Questions:
Why did his parents make him go a see a doctor?
How come David just closed up and drifted away from everyone?
Why are kids at school to mean to him?
Will the police really take him away?

Vocabulary:
Paramecium - any ciliated freshwater protozoan of the genus Paramecium, having an oval body and a long, deep oral groove
Distinguishing - distinctive; characteristic, as a definitive feature of an individual or group
Cooed - to utter or imitate the soft, murmuring sound characteristic of doves

Literary Terms:
Simile - "He doesn't ask questions like you or Ms. Gold, but sick ones"
Characterizations - "Whenever i decided to steal a serious item, I became extremely focused inside"

Over View Sentence:
David began to change while living in his new family, he began to make the wrong friends and was accused of starting a fire in school which he didn't and he might get taken away from his family.

The Lost Boy (60-120)

Comments:
David must have been nervous to meet his new family.
His new foster mother is very nice to him.
His new family is very large.
He wasn't the only foster child there.
Larry Jr. is such s bully.

Questions:
How come he can't go near his old house?
Will David stay with the Catanze for his whole life?
Will him and Larry Jr. ever get along?
Is David going to stick up for himself?

Vocabulary:
Sanctuary - immunity afforded by refuge in such a place
Etched - to fix permanently in or implant firmly on the mind; root in the memory
mesmerized - to spellbind; fascinate

Literary Terms:
Simile - "The lady smiled at me as she bowed her head"
Metaphor - "Larry is the biggest creep on the planet"

Over View Sentence:
Larry is now in a new home, which is hie new family his mother came by to visit but didn't say a word to him.

The Lost Boy (1-60)

Comments:
David must have been in so much pain.
His father should have done something instead of just sitting around.
Hopefully the court would take David away from his mother.
He must be nervous going in to a foster home.
Ms. Gold must felt really happy to help him.

Questions:
Why did his mother treat him like a slave?
Did she have a mental problem?
Where will David end up?
Will his mom get him back?

Vocabulary :
Triumphantly - having achieved victory or success; victorious; successful
Intervened - to come between disputing people, groups, etc.; intercede; mediate
Hyperactivity - the condition of being hyperactive

Literary Terms:
Simile - "I cried with all my heart as I said good-byes to my teachers"
Metaphor - "I had decided long ago that I'd rather live in jail than live one more minute with her"

Over View:
David finally got away from his mother and is know in foster care.

Wide Sargasso Sea (Pages 171 - 189)

Comments:
She finally is in England.
Mr. Rochester doesn't even see her a lot.
She doesn't seem happy that she is in England.
People over there aren't nice to her.
She's all alone over there.

Questions:
Where is Mr. Rochester?
Did he leave her there by herself?
Why doesn't she believe that they are in England?
Does she miss Jamaica?

Vocabulary:
Smoulders - To burn with little smoke and no flame
Porthole - round, windowlike opening with a hinged, watertight glass cover in the side of a vessel for admitting air and light
Magdalene - a reformed prostitute

Literary Terms:
Metaphor - "A ghost in the grey daylight"
Simile - "he looked at me and spoke to me as though I were a stranger"

Overview Sentence:
Antoinette is finally in England and Mr. Rochester doesn't see her much because he doesn't even try.

Wide Sargasso Sea (Pages 152 - 171)

Comments:
Christophine had left them.
I don't think that Antoinette even notice it.
He is making them leave that place.
She doesn't even want to leave.
I really think that Antoinette should just leave him he is no good for her.

Questions:
What are they going to do about the house?
Does all the money really belong to Mr. Rochester?
Why can't she take anyone with her?
Why does he what to leave her?

Vocabulary:
Forsake - to quit or leave entirely; abandon; desert
Folly - the state or quality of being foolish; lack of understanding or sense
Maliciously - full of, characterized by, or showing malice; malevolent; spiteful

Literary Terms:
Simile - "I spoke aloud as I walked"
Personification - " The hurricane months are not so far away, I thought and saw that tree strike its roots deeper, making ready to fight the wind"

Overview Sentence:
Mr. Rochester is talking to Antoinette about things he is thinking about and other things that she has to let go of.

Wide Sargasso Sea (Pages 133 - 152)

Comments:
Mr. Rochester is treating Antoinette so bad.
She is so hurt that she is closing up.
Christophine is trying to help her but he wants to send her away.
He has no right to do that because if he does then Antoinette will go crazy.
He is so cruel to her and her family.

Questions:
Why is he making Christophine leave?
Does he believe that if he does than that would hurt Antoinette even more?
Does Antoinette even know anything about this?
How come Christophine doesn't say anything to Antoinette?

Vocabulary:
Peculiar - strange; queer; odd: peculiar happenings
Apprehensively - Anxious or fearful about the future; uneasy
Hammocks - A hanging, easily swung length of canvas or heavy netting suspended between two trees or other supports and used as a seat or bed

Literary Terms:
Metaphor - "She was sleeping very soundly and quietly but there was awareness in her eyes when she opened them, and after a moment suppressed laughter"
Simile - "I come as quick as I can"

Overview Sentence:
Mr. Rochester is driving Antoinette insane. He wants to hurt her so he wants to make everyone around her leave her.

Wide Sargasso Sea (pages 114 - 133)

Comments:
In this part of the story it is Antoinette and Mr. Rochester talking.
Antoinette didn't want Christophine to leave her.
Mr. Rochester really wanted to know what happen to Antoinette mother.
There is mostly he say she say.
I think that Mr. Rochester should believe what Antoinette says because it was her mother.

Questions:
Who is Mr. Rochester going to believe?
Is Christophine really going to leave Jamaica?
Is Antoinette going to tell him the truth?
Would be believe her?

Vocabulary:
Counterpane - a quilt or coverlet for a bed; bedspread
Carcass - slang. the body of a human being, whether living or dead
Gilt - to coat with gold, gold leaf, or a gold-colored substance

Literary Terms:
Simile - "Your face like dead women and your eyes red like sourcriant"
Metaphor - "Your mother was a sly-boots if ever there was one"

Overview Sentence:
Mr. Rochester finally asked Antoinette about her past and her mother and she is about to tell him what had happen but the question is will he believe her?

Wide Sargasso Sea (pages 95 - 114)

Comments:
Antoinette was the one talking now.
Antoinette really wants her marriage to work out.
Her husband was the one talking in the beginning.
Christophine won't help her.
Antoinette really wants to leave Jamaica and go to England.

Questions:
What is she going to do?
Will Christophine help her?
What's her husband next moves?
Will her marriage be ruined?

Vocabulary:
Astonishment - Great surprise or amazement
Ornamented - Something that decorates or adorns; an embellishment
Decanter - a vessel, usually an ornamental glass bottle, for holding and serving wine, brandy, or the like

Literary Terms:
Metaphor - "If these mountains challenge me, or Baptiste's face or Antoinette eyes, they are mistaken, melodramatic, unreal"
Simile - "She creeps and crawl like centipede"

Overview Sentence:
Antoinette ask Christophine for help to save her marriage but she wouldn't help so Antoinette doesn't know what to do.

Wide Sargasso Sea (pages 76 - 95)

Comments:
He doesn't seem to like anyone there.
Antoinette doesn't seem happy still.
They seem to be getting along.
He finds out the secrets of the Cosway family.
Antoinette isn't crazy like her mom.

Questions:
Why does everyone still hate them?
Why did they do?
Is this going to change anything?
Will he still stay with her?

Vocabulary:
Dawdles - To take more time than necessary
Bewilder - to confuse or puzzle completely
Chemise - a woman's loose-fitting, shirt like undergarment

Literary Terms:
Simile - "It was cold as ice in the hot sun"
Personification - "It was often raining when I woke during the night, a light capricious shower, dancing playful rain, or hushed muted, growing louder, more persistent, more powerful, an inexorable sound"

Overview Sentence:
Antoinette husband had food out about the secrets of his wife family and this is going to change so many things.

Wide Sargasso Sea (pages 57 - 76)

Comments:
Antoinette must have been sad that her mother had passed away.
So in part two Antoinette wasn't the one talking.
They are leaving Spanish Town.
Antoinette must have really wanted to go to England.
Everything must have been hard for her.

Questions:
Why wouldn't anyone tell Antoinette how her mother died?
How come she didn't ask about it'?
Why was Antoinette husband so nervous?
Does he even know her that well that he would go an marry her?

Vocabulary:
Malignant - disposed to cause harm, suffering, or distress deliberately; feeling or showing ill will or hatred
Veranda - chiefly South Midland and Southern U.S. a large, open porch, usually roofed and partly enclosed, as by a railing, often extending across the front and sides of a house; gallery
Dignified - characterized or marked by dignity of aspect or manner; stately; decorous

Literary Terms:
Simile - "You look like a kin, an emperor
Metaphor - "Shrill and sweet a very long sound"

Overview Sentence:
Antoinette's mother had passed away and he married a man that she did not know that well.

Wide Sargasso Sea (pages 38 - 57)

Comments:
People over there must really hate them.
They did not have to burn down their house.
People are so cruel to Antoinette and her family.
It's sad that no one was able to save her younger brother.
She doe not get to see her mother much anymore since that day.

Questions:
Why did they burn down their house?
why doesn't anyone like them?
Does her mother even care about her?
Where did her mother go?

Vocabulary:
Jostling - to bump, push, shove, brush against, or elbow roughly or rudely
Rheumatism - any disorder of the extremities or back, characterized by pain and stiffness
Presumption - assumption of something as true

Literary Terms:
Simile - "This place is going to burn like tinder and there is nothing we can do about it"
Personification - "The diamond shaped pieces if silk melted one into the other, red, blue, purple, green, yellow all one shimmering color"

Overview Sentence:
Everything was going down hill for now on from that unforgettable day.

Wide Sargasso Sea (pages 19 - 38)

Comments:
There were many people living with them.
Her dad gave Christophine to her mother as a gift.
Later her mother remarried.
The daughter was a brides maid.
But she was not happy soon after.

Questions:
Why does Christophine choose to stay with them?
Why did everyone hate them?
Are they going to leave Jamaica?
Was she afraid of changes?

Vocabulary:
Vexed - irritated or annoyed
Plaits - a braid, especially of hair
Shingle - a thin piece of wood, slate, metal, asbestos, or the like, usually oblong, laid in overlapping rows to cover the roofs and walls of buildings

Literary Terms:
Simile - "They shone like gold in the sun and Tia Stared"
Personification - "All this was long ago, when I was still babyish and sure that everything was alive, not only the river or the rain, but chairs, looking glasses, cups, saucers, everything"

Overview Sentence:
Her mother was getting remarried again and she seemed happy at first.

Wide Sargasso Sea (pages 1-19)

Comments:
So her dad did not live with her.
They did not have many friends.
People noticed everything they did.
Their garden must have been very beautiful.
So there were many different people.

Questions:
Why did Mr. Lutterll kill himself?
Why did they poison her horse?
Where people jealous of them?
Why were people scared to visit them?

Vocabulary:
Martinique - an island in the E West Indies; an overseas department of France
Pensioned - To grant a pension to
Glacis - a gentle slope

Literary Terms:
Simile - " our garden was large and beautiful as that garden in the bible"
Metaphor - "They say when trouble comes close ranks, and so the white people did"

Overview Sentence:
The family was going through so many problems and the locals were making it worse.

The Primal Teen pages 198 - 221

Comments:
Teenagers do get random emotions.
So as the brain grows so does the brain.
Parents need to give them some space.
Teenagers really want some space from their parents.
Teenagers sleep less then most adults.

Questions:
Why do teenagers always focus on negatives?
Are they afraid to grow up?
Why isn't there a difference?
Why do teenagers hide everything?

Vocabulary:
Consolidates - To unite into one system or whole; combine
Cerebral - of or pertaining to the cerebrum or the brain
Disdain - to look upon or treat with contempt; despise; scorn

Literary Terms:
Simile - "sometimes it seems like the goal of adolescence is to get out of it, an urgent need to grow up"
Personification - "raising little felons"

Overview Sentence:
The brain of the teenagers is still developing so that means they are too.

The Primal Teen pages 176 - 198

Comments:
Parents must be really concern about their children.
Teenagers must be going through a lot to start to drink and smoke.
3000 American children under the age of 18 begin smoking that is crazy.
Depression can run in the family.
Depressed teenagers are easily angered.

Questions:
Does drinking and smoking really change the brain?
Why do girls at the age 13 get severely depressed more than boys?
Do teenagers even know that drinking hurts them?
Does drinking really effect the memory?

Vocabulary:
Schizophrenia - a state characterized by the coexistence of contradictory or incompatible elements
Magnesium - a light, ductile, silver-white, metallic element that burns with a dazzling white light, used in lightweight alloys, flares, fireworks, in the manufacture of flashbulbs, optical mirrors, and precision instruments, and as a zinc substitute in batteries
Glutamate - a salt or ester of glutamic acid

Literary Terms:
Characterization - "Once adolescence is gone it's gone for good"
Metaphor - "Teenage brain's are different; sometimes that's a good thing"

Overview Sentence:
Scientists are trying to figure out if drinking and smoking change the brain.

The Primal Teen pages 154 - 176

Comments:
Teenagers don't get much sleep.
Some teenagers drink to escape from the world.
It's not always the parents fault.
Sleep is a very big art for teenagers.
Teenagers who don't get enough sleep sleep in class.

Questions:
Why do teenagers get less sleep?
Is it the parents fault most of the time?
Why do teenagers drink so much when they could be doing something else?
What do teenagers do to get more sleep?

Vocabulary:
Insomnia - inability to obtain sufficient sleep, esp. when chronic; difficulty in falling or staying asleep; sleeplessness
Extensive - of great extent; wide; broad
Vivid - strikingly bright or intense, as color, light, etc

Literary Terms:
Metaphor - "Perhaps it has to do with an abundance of food, making it a good time to have a baby, or perhaps there's been a drought and it's not"
Simile - "McClintock is not saying that the average teenager acts like broccoli (although the comparison is tempting)"

Overview Sentence:
Teenagers don't get enough sleep and parents are blaming themselves for it.

The Primal Teen pages 132 - 154

Comments:
Teenagers fall in love just like adults.
Teenagers get peer pressured into things they don't want to do.
Some teenagers fall in love for the wrong reason.
The female and male brain are the same size.
Male and female are both smart.

Questions:
Why do people say teenagers can't really fall in love?
Are boys really smarter then girls?
Do teenagers always give into peer pressure?
Does the brain have an effect on how teenagers fall in love?

Vocabulary:
Spatial - Of, relating to, involving, or having the nature of space
Adherence - the quality of adhering; steady devotion, support, allegiance, or attachment
Requisite - required or necessary for a particular purpose, position, etc.; indispensable

Literary Terms:
Personification - "this is the giddy high, the butterflies in the stomach stage; the time when you can't get the other person out your head"
Characterization - "I was on my bike but believe me, I was dancing"

Overview Sentence:
Teenagers fall in love even at a young age it can't be stop.

The Primal Teen pages 110 - 132

Comments:
Children get really angry and sad out of no where.
Teenagers go through big changes.
Girls have a better memory.
Teenagers have trouble controlling their anger.
They must have been picked on and that what drove them off the edge.

Questions:
Why do children get so angry, sad, depressed out of no where?
Why are teenagers so aggressive?
Why did the students shoot everyone?
What made then do this?

Vocabulary:
Aggregate - formed by the conjunction or collection of particulars into a whole mass or sum; total; combined
Subcomponents - A portion of a component, especially an electronic component; a subassembly
Undeniable - incapable of being denied or disputed


Literary Terms:
Metaphor - "Hormones have gotten a bad rap"
Characterization - "If you have adults with this kind of damage they have already learned the social conventions"

Overview Sentence:
How teenagers feel and why they feel that way.

The Primal Teen pages 88 - 110

Comments:
Some teenagers likes to take risks.
Some teenagers don't like taking risks.
The main problem is drugs.
Teenagers like to try new things.
The environment has an effect on the teenagers.

Questions:
Why do they do test only on rats?
Does every teenager do drugs?
Are teenager rats act the same as teenagers?
Do teenagers regret the things after they are done?

Vocabulary:
Paramecium - any ciliated freshwater protozoan of the genus Paramecium, having an oval body and a long, deep oral groove
Trajectory - the curve described by a projectile, rocket, or the like in its flight
cognitive - of or pertaining to the mental processes of perception, memory, judgment, and reasoning, as contrasted with emotional and volitional processes

Literary Terms:
Metaphor - "It seems like you have to go to Harvard or you will be a druggie and a dropout"
Simile - "With one setback she felt like a complete failure"

Overview Sentence:
Teenagers take risks because of the stress.

The Primal Teen - Page 66 - 88

Comments:
Parts of the brain has to do with emotions.
I really don't think there is a normal teenager.
Teenagers do random things for no reason.
They are young they don't know what they are doing.

Questions:
Was he scared to get a brain scan?
Why do they look for normal?
Does depression really develope more in girls?
Are girls more sensitive then boys?

Vocabulary:
Dopamine - Biochemistry. a catecholamine neurotransmitter in the central nervous system, retina, and sympathetic ganglia, acting within the brain to help regulate movement and emotion: its depletion may cause Parkinson's disease
Nuances - a subtle difference or distinction in expression, meaning, response, etc
Muddle - to mix up in a confused or bungling manner; jumble

Literary Terms:
Metaphor - "Another recent study also detected evidence of what might be called the teenage mental muddle"
Personification - "In many brains studies there's been a nagging problem"

Overview Sentence:
Girls take along time to hit puberty.

The Primal Teen - Page 44 - 66

Comments:
Wow girls are more emotional then boys.
The brain controls the opposites sides.
Teenagers can surprises you sometimes.
Some girls like different things then other girls.
Boys can be stupied sometimes.

Questions:
How come girls get more emotional than boys?
When do boys reach emotional maturity?
Is there a reason for this?
Does the brain altered any of this?

Vocabulary:
Schizophrenia - Also called dementia praecox. a severe mental disorder characterized by some, but not necessarily all, of the following features: emotional blunting, intellectual deterioration, social isolation, disorganized speech and behavior, delusions, and hallucinations
Congnitive - of or pertaining to the mental processes of perception, memory, judgment, and reasoning, as contrasted with emotional and volitional processes
Tangible - capable of being touched; discernible by the touch; material or substantial

Literary Terms:
Simile - "where children who have so many needs, will get an environment early on that is like rats with toys in their cage"
Characterization - " It may be a reason why young girls often seem to attain emotional maturity before boys"

Overview Sentence:
How the brain controls the change that happens when teenagers go through puberty.

The Primal Teen - Page 22 - 44

Comments:
Teenagers do stuff for no reasons.
Teenagers don't even think about the out come of their actions.
Some kids are considered adults at age 12.
Parents must wonder why teenagers act the way they act.
Scientist still believe it has something to do with the brain.

Questions:
Why do teenagers have the urge to do something crazy?
Does the brain control these feelings?
Do teenagers think there is something wrong with them?
Do any of then go get help?

Vocabulary:
Prefrontal - anterior to, situated in, or pertaining to the anterior part of a frontal structure
Sophisticated - altered by education, experience, etc., so as to be worldly-wise; not naive
Exuberance - Also, ex⋅u⋅ber⋅an⋅cy. the state of being exuberant

Literary Terms:
Simile - "I'd like to eat you now"
Personification - "A drawing of a rat brain with its tiny smooth prefrontal cortex"

Overview Sentence:
About brain parts of the teenagers brain.

The Primal Teen - Page 1-22

Comments:
Parents must be scared to see their children grow up.
Children change as they grow older.
The way teenagers act has to do with their brain.
The brain change over time.
Teenagers gets angry at their parents easily as they get older.

Questions:
Why do teenagers change after they hit puberty?
What can parents do to help them?
Does it really have to do with the brain?
Will some teenagers stay the same after puberty?

Vocabulary:
Inexplicably - not explicable; incapable of being accounted for or explained
Ferocious - savagely fierce, as a wild beast, person, action, or aspect; violently cruel
Besmirched - To make dirty; soil

Literary Terms:
Simile - "Whats is a frontal lobe supposed to look like at age 12?"
characterization - "Inside the teenagers brains smart ones, shy ones, silly ones"

Overview Sentence:
Parents are worried about their children's and how they act.