Where the Wild Things Are Worksheet

1. Max wears a wolf suit. Do you have a costume you like to wear?
I like to wear my mermaid costume.

2. Max pretends he is in a forest. What is your favorite thing to pretend?
I like to pretend that I am a grown up and that I have a baby.

3. Max pretends that he is in a boat. Do you ever pretend that you are in a boat? If so, what do you like to do?
My grandparents have a waterbed and I play like I’m on a boat with a compass and I’m going to an island to look for treasure.

4. Max pretends he is a king. Do you ever pretend that you are royalty?
When I’m at my grandparents’ house, my sister and I pretend that we are queens and we have maids. We ring my grandmother’s bells to call the maid to us. We put on my grandmother’s pretty robes and jewelry.

5. Max says, “let the wild rumpus start!” What do you think a rumpus is?
A rumpus is when everyone jumps on the bed and on the couch and dances and yells and splashes water until you’re tired.

Ignorant Huck

Huck Finn is a good old boy who just doesn’t know any better. He is quite ignorant and he is ignorant of that fact. This is proven when Jim is sharing his knowledge of superstitions and tells Huck that bees won’t sting idiots. Huck doesn’t believe it because bees won’t sting him. Tom Sawyer is probably Huck’s best friend, although it doesn’t seem that they get to play together very much. Tom is a very educated boy; he reads a lot of books and has a wild imagination because of this. Huck, however, can barely read and doesn’t have very much of an imagination. He doesn’t really know what it is to pretend. Huck gets frustrated with Tom when Tom is pretending and assumes that everyone else knows that he’s pretending. Huck is very gullible and believes everything he hears, so he believes it when Tom says they’re going to be robbers and kill anyone who tells their secret.

Magic Toys 3 (final)

The play dough covered the whole doll house and then started on the Lincoln logs! They went down with a crash that was so loud that it woke Joseph!
“Just what is going on down there?” Joseph thought, “I should go take a look.” Down the stairs he went to find a mess! There was play dough everywhere! “What a mess!” said Joseph. I know Mama won’t like this a bit. So he set to work to clean everything up. He saved Sarah’s doll house and put the Lincoln logs back in order. He even got the play dough off the carpet.
“There we go,” Joseph said. I don’t think I need this play dough anymore. So he went outside and threw it in the dumpster. “What a strange Christmas it has been!”

Peter Rabbit's Clothes

I noticed something in the illustrations that we didn’t really discuss in class. The similarity between Peter and little boys in general is obvious. We discussed that Peter wasn’t listening to his mother when she told them to stay out of Mr. McGregor’s garden, but we didn’t really discuss his clothes. Most little boys don’t really like to wear clothes unless they have to; they just get in the way and they’re uncomfortable. On page 13, Mrs. Rabbit is buttoning the top button of Peter’s blue coat, and the expression on Peter’s face is really funny. He doesn’t want that coat on and it looks like it’s too tight around his neck. On page 22, when Peter has just come into the garden and begun eating vegetables, his coat is already unbuttoned. This is also a good picture of his shoes, which look extremely difficult to walk in. I might would have lost those shoes on purpose if I were Peter!

The Cat in the Hat Worksheet

1. What colors are used in this story? Do you like the colors? Why or why not?
Dr. Suess uses shades of red and blue only. I don’t really like it because I like a lot of color. I

2. Why didn’t the two children play outside that day?
It was raining outside and it was cold.

3. What do you like to do on cold, rainy days?
I like to play with my dolls or my Barbies. If it’s not thundering and lightning, I like to go outside in my rubber boots and umbrella and play in the puddles. I also like to play games inside with my sister.

4. Why doesn’t the fish want the Cat in the Hat to come inside and play?
The Cat in the Hat is making a mess, and you aren’t supposed to let strangers in the house.

5. Thing One and Thing Two fly kites in the house. Why can’t we fly kites inside?
First, it’s impossible to fly kites with no wind. Second, my mother wouldn’t let me if I could because I would knock things down.

6. What would you tell your mother if the Cat in the Hat came to visit you?
I wouldn’t tell her, because she would be mad even though I couldn’t help it.

Magic Toys 2

This was strange, but the other toys were too overwhelmed by their new life that they failed to notice the odd actions of the play dough.
“What shall we do first?!”Barbie excitedly asked.
“I say we add on to the house with these logs!” answered G.I. Joe.
“Then we can decorate it with these beads!” Barbie said.
The play dough, well, the play dough was still in the corner, but it seemed to be moving more. And more, and more!
“Barbie! Do you see that? They play dough is getting bigger and coming for us!”
“Oh, no! What are we going to do?”
It kept coming, getting bigger, until it reached the doll house. It started climbing up the walls and coming through the windows. It was a sight to see!

Tuck Everlasting by Natalie Babbitt

I read this book in one sitting. It is quite captivating. Towards the very end of the book when Tuck, Miles, Jesse, and Winnie are rescuing Mae from the jail, Winnie is reminded of part of a poem:

Stone walls do not a prison make,
Nor iron bars a cage

I don’t know what poem these lines are from, but they summarize the entire story of the Tucks. The Tucks have been either blessed or cursed with eternal life on earth. Most people who are not in the Tucks’ position would think them to be blessed. The Tucks, however, see themselves as cursed. They cannot have friends or families. They are imprisoned and caged by their immortality. I suppose they could have friends and families, but those people would have to drink the water from the spring so that they would live forever. The Tucks are too good to allow others to do that to themselves; they know the hardships that come. They know that immortality is not all that it’s cracked up to be.