Please respond to at least two of these prompts by June 2.
1. Why are Calder and the other students fascinated by Ms. Hussey and the way she conducted her class?
2. How did Calder relate his pentomino pieces to Ms. Hussey’s first assignment?
3. Why was Petra upset by her encounters with Calder and Ms. Hussey at Powell’s Used Books?
4. Why was Petra unhappy at home?
5. Why did the author describe both Petra and Calder as “hybrid kids?
6. What is being compared in the following sentence? “Petra’s household was a tornado where life swirled in noisy circles? What is the real meaning of the metaphor?
thanks to Baldwin-Woodville School District for these questions.
1. Calder and his class think that Ms. Hussy is facinating becouse she is very mysterious and fun. Ms. Hussy also took them on a field trip to the art museum and she gives interesting homeworks.
ReplyDelete6. The metephore in the scentence: Petra's household was a tornado where life swirled in noisy circils means that her house was a big messy place.
V.A.
6# Petra's household was a tornado where life swirled in noisy circles is the metaphor. She's comparing her house to a tornado.
ReplyDelete1# Calder and the other students were fascinated of the that Ms. Hussey taught because she was always asking about unusual letters and art. And she took them on a field trip to the Chicago art museum to see if they noticed secret letters in the paintings.
I.A.R.
1. Mrs. Hussy is interesting to the students because she does not teach normal things such as math.
ReplyDelete3. Petra was upset because the book store had been her secret place until she was caught spying on Mrs. Hussy there by Calder.
S.K.H.
IAR - yes, she is comparing her house to a tornado, but what is the real meaning of the metaphor? Is her house truly swirling wind at high velocity? What does the author intend you to "see" by using this figurative language?
ReplyDelete#6 petra's house was explained "her house swriled in noisey circles because her house seemed very busey and noiey. But, the auther didn't mean that her house was really a tornato. It just seemed like one.
ReplyDelete#1 Calder and other students are fascinated by Ms. Hussy because she is not a normal teacher. What ever she is thinking about she gives her students an assinment on it. I think she is one of the people who recived a letter because she has givin many assinments on art and she took her class to an art muesam to look for pictures that have a letter in them.
By T.A.H
1. The students are fascinated by Ms. Hussey because she asks many interesting questions and she loves to find them out. She is also very nice and funny. Ms. Hussey was different and the students admired her for her thoughtful ways.
ReplyDelete2. When Ms. Hussey assigned the first piece of homework, Calder used his L shaped pentomino to represent the letter L in the beginning of the word letter, as a written letter. Ms. Hussey assigned a piece as homework about a special letter that changed someone’s life. Calder was a deep thinker like his dad and tried to think of a special letter.
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All, please remember to proofreader your work.
ReplyDelete"Question 1" The Ms. Hussey's class is fascinated by Ms. Hussey because she sent a assignment to ask "parents if they have ever received a strange letter." She is asking this because she got a letter to solve a mystery. The letter said "that there are 3 people but you will never meet. Ms. Hussey is trying to find the other people she thinks that her classes parents may of have gotten one of the letters.
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"Question 6" The house is being compared to a tornado. The sentence is making the house sound like it was crazy. Can you imagine the children swirling around the house being like monsters destroying the house and one another?
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#5 The author described Petra and Calder as “hybrid kids” because they had different race parents.
ReplyDelete#6 The statement “Petra’s household was a tornado where life swirled in noisy circles” means that Petra’s house was very crowded, messy and everybody was very busy and moving around. All in all a very messy house. S.Z.A
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ReplyDeleteCalder and petra think ms.Hussey is interesting because she is always having random idias and ah-ha moments. She assighns the oddest of homework and takes them on cool field trips to look for things
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What the author meant by "Petra's house was a tornadado where life swirled in noisy circles", was that everyone all wated something and was alaways yelling about int, and just kind of un-organized
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Question #1
ReplyDeleteCalder and the kids in his class think miss Hussy is a little weird but she is fun. She likes adventures and mysteries.
Question #6
the phrase ''Petra's household was a tornado were life swirled in noisy circles,'' means that Petra's house is very messy, has a lot of noise and everything was not normal.
1. The reason why Calder and the other students were fascinated by Mrs. Hussy ways of teaching is because she doesn’t give work sheets. Instead she gives them projects that are fun.
ReplyDelete4. The reason why Petra is unhappy at home is because it is really noisy and she described here home as a “Tornado were life swirls in circles.”
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#1 The kids in Ms.Hussey's class are fascinated by the way she teaches. She makes them think outside the box. Even on the first day of school she admitted she did not know what she was going to teach that year. When the students in Ms. Hussey's class ask a question about something like, an interesting letter, she makes it into an assignment. Ms. Hussey is a fun teacher that thinks outside the box. I think it would be fun to have Ms. Hussey as a teacher one year.
ReplyDelete#6 Petra refers to her house as a tornado where life swirls in noisy circles. This
is a metaphor. A metaphor is a word or phrase to compare to something
different that has the same feature. There is not a tornado inside her house, all it means is in her house it is very noisy and busy.
M.H.
1.The students and Colder are fascinated in Miss.Hussy because she is not a normal teacher. She does not teach normal things, like math but she is fun!
ReplyDelete2.The real meaning of tornadoes swirled in noisy circles means that her house is very busy and loud.
K.M.
5 The author meant that their parents come from multiple cultures they have many cultures that they have.
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She isn't like other teachers she lets the students decide what their assignments were.
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1) Mrs. Hussey's students are fastenated by her because of how she was cool and unlike the other teachers at the students school. She is unlike the other teachers in a good way.
ReplyDelete6) Petra's household was called a "tornado with swirling noises" because there was so many children in the house,completly oposite of Calldar's. It was hard for Petra to think.
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Question #1. Calder and the other students are fascinated by Ms. Hussey and the way she conducts her class because she tells them to do odd assignments such as find an old letter that’s interesting and write about it.
ReplyDeleteQuestion #6 Petra’s house hold was a tornado where life swirled in noisy circles is a metaphor for a noisy loud house that has junk, toys, and other stuff every where.
S.Z.
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ReplyDeleteCalder and the other students think that Miss Hussey is different is because she doesn't teach regular things like math
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#3 Petra was upset because she felt like Powel’s was her secret place to be. She thought that if Calder saw her there it would not be secret.
ReplyDelete#6 When the book said,” Petra’s household was a tornado where life swirled in noisy circles” it meant that the house very noisy and crowded. Petra probably had a headache with all the noise.
1. Calder and other students were fascinated by how Ms. Hussey conducted class because she wasn't always on subject and always thinking about mysteries and fascinating things.
ReplyDelete6.When the author said, " Petra's household was a tornado where life swirled in noisy circles." The author meant to say in this metaphor that her house was very noisy and messy.
I.T.
#1 The kids are fascinated by Ms. Hussey because she doesn't teach regular stuff, she teaches solving mysteries.
ReplyDelete#6 The sentence means that the house is very messy and her brothers and sisters are always noisy so the house is loud.
S.G.P.A
#6, She is comparing the two words household and tornado. The metaphor suppose to mean that her house is very messy.
ReplyDelete#1, The kids are fascinated by how Ms.Hussy teaches because she makes up her own stuff to teach such as thinking about mysteries.
the one just sent with no name on it is Z.S.P
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