1. Warming up with a triple Venn diagram for our three narrators
As we diagram...
- What are you learning about our three narrators?
- What are you wondering?
- What's unique about each narrator?
- How do the narratives overlap / relate to each other? What similarities can you find?
2. Enjoying our first ELIC fishbowl discussion (pages 1-85)
Outer circle expectations:
- Make sure you are signed into Google (and don't use Safari).
- Comment consistently from beginning to end; you should always be reading and typing.
- Keep your language and grammar professional.
- Bring in at least one quotation from the reading.
- Hit F5 to refresh, and if you're responding to someone, hit "reply" to thread the comment.
3. Wrapping up with kudos, lingering questions, and epiphanies
HW:
1. Change: FRIDAY, NOV 15: Read through page 141 in EL&IC and complete your second journal entry; leaders need to prepare their syllabus.
2. Click HERE if you'd like a sneak peak of your final exam.
On Page 32 Grandmother says "Please marry me"
ReplyDeleteTo me the reading voice I get is desperation, why do you think she wants to marry Thomas so quickly?
The grandmother mentions that she felt "needed" when Thomas was around her and I think that was important to her. She obviously struggles mentally, she was thinking about jumping off a bridge, so she enjoyed the attention and love that Thomas gave her.
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DeleteI think she has gone through the same or close to the same experiences as Thomas so she can relate. Thomas might also have been the only person she can relate to and she is desperate for someone to relate with.
DeleteShe is probably really insecure about something and she realized that Thomas doesn't care about that insecurity at all so she wants him to be the person for her because she feels like he's the only one immediately.
DeleteWhy do you think the book is called Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close?
ReplyDeleteI think the plot isn't really quite built yet, we are introduced to 3 story's but we haven't really read the script yet you know?
ReplyDeleteWhy do you think Oskar hid his father's messages? Why doesn't he want his mom to hear them?
ReplyDeleteI think he is scared that it would hurt his Mom and he wants to protect her, but I think it would help her or make her happy hearing him for the first time.
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DeleteWill oskar ever figure out what his dads riddle
ReplyDeleteWhy do you think Oskar doesn't like Ron, does Oskar thinks his Mom wants to replace his father?
ReplyDeleteI was think maybe the mom was having an affair with Ron.
DeleteI don't think Oskar likes Ron because he still really misses his father and he doesn't want Ron to replace his father as a new fatherly figure, because it won't ever be the same.
DeleteBut we haven't seen any interactions between Ron and Oskar.
DeleteOskar does believes his mom is trying to replace his dad you can tell this by the quote on page 3 "you're not my dad and you never will be"
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DeleteWhy isn't the grandfather a figure in Oskars life/What happened with the Grandfather?
ReplyDeleteThe grandfather left Oskar. He doesn't want to be a part of his life.
DeleteOn Pg 36, Oskar watches his mom and Ron playing board games and he narrates, "She wasn't missing Dad." Why does he think that?
ReplyDeleteI guess that Oskar thinks his Mom tries to replace his dad.
DeleteI think Oskar says that she wasn't missing dad because he feels like his mom should be more upset and connected to Oskars fathers death
DeleteI'm thinking that the mom was having an affair with Ron before the dad died, that's why she got over his death so quickly in the first place.
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DeleteI think he thinks that because his mom doesn't spent a lot time with him after his dad passed away. The mom doesn't have a strong connection or bond to the family.
DeleteI think he thinks his mom is spending to much time getting over her husbands death instead of mourning him and remembering him.
DeleteHis mom is spending more time having fun and playing board games with Ron than she has been grieving over her husbands death which is making Oskar angry.
DeleteWhat is the purpose of the letter on pages 75-76? How does it move the story?
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DeleteHow does the Oskars dad's missing body effecting him?
ReplyDeleteI think he see's it as another riddle
DeleteI agree that I think he see's it as another riddle, and Oskar doesn't have closure. He will most likely never know what exactly happened to his father.
DeleteJust like a normal person would think, he may think that since there is no evidence of his dads death, that maybe he is still alive. And he has not come to terms with the facts.
DeleteIt seems like the Grandma is just as with the letter as Oskar is with finding what his dad left him. Why do you think that is?
ReplyDeleteWhat was that key used for that oskar found in his dads closet
ReplyDeleteWhat in the story relates to this books title?
ReplyDeleteWhy does Oskar on wheare white? Why does have so much trust in people that he doesn't know very well? Is the grandfather dead? Did they just tell him that he left so that Oskar wouldn't have to deal with another death? Why doesn't Oskar live with his Grandmother if they live so close and he likes her much more?
ReplyDeleteI think Oskar always sees the good in the people and doesn't think anybody is bad.
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DeleteI think Oskar wear white symbolize naive or innocent. It kind of shows how Oskar lives in a wonder world where there are no violence.
DeleteI think oscar has an ablility to see through people and see their real intentions and that decides weather he will put trust in them or not.
DeleteMaybe the Grandmother got sick of the Grandfather because of him becoming mut, maybe the grandfather didn't leave.
ReplyDeleteWhy do you think the Dad wrote Black in a red colored pen? What do you think is black?
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DeleteThere are a lot of "Unknown" authors here--bloggers, please identify yourselves. :)
ReplyDeleteIs Oskar's innocence with trusting stranger going to change throughout the book? Will it get him into a bad situation?
ReplyDeleteAfter being asked why Oskar is so obsessed with the falling man photo, I started to think deeply into my explanation. When watching the clips in class yesterday Ms.Leclaire talked about how so many people find comfort thinking that it was someone they knew and their final moments. And something clicked in my brain after hearing that. Oskar is obsessed with the photo because he thinks it's his dad. He finds comfort thinking that the last moments in his life were peaceful, relaxing, the sense of flying. In such a terrible scenario which no one could have predicted. Oskar could also find comfort in the photo because there wasn't any body to bury at the funeral. "And anyway, it's not like we were actually burying him, anyway." (Foer 4) And that's why he finds comfort in the falling man photo.
ReplyDeleteHow do the different characters in the novel cope with the loss of Thomas, Oskar's dad?
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ReplyDeletehello i am Alex <3
ReplyDeleteWhy do you think Oskar dislikes Ron so much? is it because maybe he thinks his mom is moving on way to quickly?
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