Lock+and+Key

Week 1: October 1

 * || QUESTIONER 10-1-10

1.What did Ruby's mother do to her when she was a child to get her to go to sleep? 2.What was the logo on Nate's air freshener in his car? 3.In the beginning of chapter 3, what are the names of the classes Ruby's teacher has? What is the teacher's name? 4.What did Ruby think her room would look like in the beginning of chapter 1? 5.On page 17, what was Ruby planning to do after everyone was asleep and why did she want to do it? ||

__Group Leader__: Avra Mendelaw __Question Answers__: 1.) She sang Ruby to sleep when Ruby was little. 2.) The logo on Nate’s air freshener was //REST ASSURED EXECUTIVE SERIVICES: WE WORRY SO YOU DON’T HAVE TO.// //3.)// The teachers name is Mr.Thackray and the names of his classes are English, Geometry, and World History. 4.) Ruby thought her room was going to be pink. 5.) Ruby planed to run away from her sisters place and go live at a friends house.

Ruby is a girl who gets abandoned from her mom so she has to live with her long lost sister. Jamie is Ruby’s sisters husband who shows Ruby her room. Ruby is expecting ruffles and pink like very girly. But instead she saw green. There was a balcony from out of her room. Ruby flashes back to when she lived with her mom and she tells about moving into her new yellow house and getting her own room and meeting the Honeycutt’s. The Honeycutt’s are the landlords. Cora is Ruby’s sister. Ruby starts to go to school. In her old school she was taking basic classes but now they were offering her to take Intro to Calculus, Global cultures, Drawing and all the other basics. Ruby’s English teacher assigns her “Family” which she really didn’t have much other than her mom all her life. She gets to know more about her sister and she realizes she left for college when Ruby was only 8. -Rachel Squiccimarri

Quotation Finder: Avra Mendelaw 10/8 3.) “** Needing was so easy: it came naturally, like breathing. Being needed by someone else, though, that was the hard part.” –__Lock & Key__ ** 5.) “ ** But wasn't that always the way. It's never something huge that changes everything, but instead the tiniest of details, irrevocably tweaking the balance of the universe while you're busy focusing on the big picture.” - __Lock and Key__ **
 * Week Two: October 8**
 * 1.) “But sometimes, we just have to be happy with what people can offer us. Even if it's not what we want, at least it's something. You know?” –__Lock & Key__ **
 * 2.) “Sure, it sucked to be lost, but I'd long ago realized I preferred it to depending on anyone else to get me where I needed to go. That was the thing about being alone, in theory or in principle. Whatever happened-- good, bad, or anywhere in between-it was always, if nothing else, all your own.” - __Lock and Key__ **
 * 4.) “What is family? They were the people who claimed you. In good, in bad, in parts or in whole, they were the ones who showed up, who stayed in there, regardless. We had many families over time. Our family of origin, the family we created, as well as the groups you moved through while all of this was happening: friends, lovers, sometimes even strangers. None of them were perfect, and we couldn't expect them to be. You couldn't make any one person your world. The trick was to take what each could give you and build a world from it.” - __Lock and Key__ **

Group Leader: Rachel Squiccimarri

The language in this book is conversational. They all have conversations throughout the book. They flashback a lot to when Ruby was with her mom and they tell about what happened and all the descriptions about where they lived and about their life before Ruby’s mom left her.

Kim Breitenbach: Questioner
 * Who came to visit ruby?
 * a. Peyton came to visit Ruby.
 * What did cora and ruby talk about while eating in chapter 4?
 * a. They talked about Ruby' home life.
 * Who did ruby visit in chapter 5?
 * a. Ruby went to visit Marshall.
 * Who did ruby meet in chapter 5?
 * a. Ruby met Rogerson.
 * What did they wear for their Christmas card?
 * a. They wore matching blue shirts.
 * Who came to visit ruby?
 * What did cora and ruby talk about while eating in chapter 4?
 * Who did ruby visit in chapter 5?
 * Who did ruby meet in chapter 5?
 * What did they wear for their Christmas card?

Week 3- October 15: Kim Breitenbach

Cora’s husband, James, decides that Ruby should have her own fish in the pond. At the pet store Ruby sees one of her classmates. They talk about Ruby’s neighbor, Nate. When Ruby gets home she finds that one of her friends found where she lives, and met Nate. Ruby gives her friend a tour of the house and asks her why she is there. James, being polite, asked Ruby’s friend to stay for dinner, but she declined. Later, James, Cora, and Ruby decide to take their Christmas picture with Roscoe, James’ dog. James got them all matching shirts, even the dog, but Cora and Ruby didn’t want to wear the shirts because their home Christmas celebrations were unpleasant. Cora gives in to James and Ruby is upset about it, but they all end up taking the picture.


 * Week Three: October 15**

=DISCUSSION LEADER: SELENA 10-15-10=
 * || TONE:

The mood is nervous, relaxed, and tense, yet happy at the same time. The overriding emotion is most definitely nervousness because there is so much of it during what we have read so far that it just makes sense that it should be the overriding emotion. In chapter 1, Ruby comes to live with her sister and her sister's new hubby and everything was so tense and filled with suspense because Ruby hadn't seen her sister in so many years it was a little awkward. Also Ruby didn't know her sister's new husband that well. ||

Topic: Mood/Tone (section 3 out of 5 of your text)

Assignment: 1. On your group's wiki page, discuss the mood or tone of your book.What is the overriding emotion of this book? What examples back up your claim? (B) 2. Person B should share and discuss their selected quotations, using Save The Last Word techniques. 3. Person C should post the meeting summary on the group's wiki page after class. 4.Person D should share his/her questions with the group, as well as post the questions on the group's wiki page


 * Week Four: October 22**

Topic: Themes/Images (section 4 out of 5 of your text)

Assignment: 1. On your group's wiki page, discuss the themes and images that your book contains. What are some of the images that are used? What do they seem to represent? Why do you think the author uses these images to convey his or her meaning? 2. Person B should share and discuss their selected quotations, using Save The Last Word techniques. 3. Person C should post the meeting summary on the group's wiki page after class. 4.Person D should share his/her questions with the group, as well as post the questions on the group's wiki page

Kimberly Breitenbach 10/22/10 CP English 1 LAK book group Group Leader In this book there is a connection between Ruby and the fish. Ruby is the odd one out in the beginning but gradually blends in, like her fish, which is the only white one in the pound blends in with the others like its not even different. Also, the fish had to gradually get use to their new environment just like Ruby has to adjust to her new life style and has to try to fit into her new school and eventually she feels like she belongs there and blends in with everyone else. But, as soon as her mom came up in a conversation she went back to her old self or as the fish did, hide until things got better.

Summarizer- Avra Mendelaw

We discussed the different chapters of the book. In chapter 8, Olivia and Ruby become better friends while at Olivia’s job at the movie theater. While Ruby and Cora were talking their mother was brought up in the conversation and Ruby got upset. So, Ruby got a ride and met up with her friends from her old school and started drinking like she use to because she was stressed. Nate picks her up and finds her passed out in the woods and takes her home. Jamie started yelling at Ruby and said she wasn’t being fair to him and Cora even though they took her in. Ruby looks in the hall mirror and sees that she has turned into her mom and thinks she deserves the punishment. In chapter 9, Ruby and Cora talked about their mom and why Ruby did what she did. Nate introduced Ruby to his father and Ruby helps Nate with work. Ruby learned that her and Nate are friends and that it isn’t as bad as she thought to owe someone a favor. Ruby also learns other people’s definitions of family for her school project, which kind of helped her in her own family. Ruby also learns how to sell and be good at her job. In the end of the chapter Jamie and Ruby make up and become closer than they were before. In chapter 10, Ruby and Olivia become closer when Ruby accompanies Olivia to work and they talk. Ruby starts to think about college and her grades which Nate tries to help with but Ruby declines the help. Later, Ruby helps Nate round up a couple of cats that Nate was taking to the vet when Ruby gets scratched and Nate and Ruby have a moment where its not weird but its not normal between them, its special. At the same time Ruby is learning more about Nate’s work and how a room can reflect a person, which makes her think about her room. In chapter 11, Olivia claims there is something going on between Ruby and Nate, which Rub denies but Nate is always looking over at her during lunch. Nate comes over and starts talking to Ruby about how Olivia being on the phone is rude but the have one if their not normal but not weird moments. Later, it’s thanksgiving. This thanksgiving is held at Cora’s house and she is having a nervous break down. Ruby found Cora in her closet and is told the story of her and Jamie’s fist thanksgiving together and how Ruby and her never really had a real thanksgiving before. Once Ruby gets Cora out of the closet she helps make food and uses Nate’s kitchen for extra space. As Ruby is doing this she over hears Nate’s dad yelling and threatening him but Nate just brushes it off. Ruby finds out that her and Nate are more alike than she thinks.


 * Week Five: October 29 (LAST MEETING)**

=QUESTIONER: SELENA 11-1-10 = 2. What is the Vista 5K and what is the slogan on its banner? (pg. 395) 3. What is the Power Rule? (pg. 407 italics) 4. What was in the box that Nate gave Ruby for Valentine's Day? (pg. 418-bottom) 5. What was in Ruby's "favorite picture"? (small paragraph-pg. 415) || **Summary: Rachel Squiccimarri** In todays book discussion we talked bout how we talked about the rest of the book which were chapters 16-20. We talked about the final reflections of the book and how we liked it but not loved it. We talked how in chapter 16, Ruby and her friend Olivia decide to try to dig a pond and put fish in it. The theme of this book is the importance of family. This is the theme because if Ruby did not have her sister and her sisters husband she would have been on the streets alone or would of have to be in foster homes. Her and her sister used to not to be close and when Ruby's mom left her, she had no where to go so by the middle to the end of the book Ruby and her sister become close.
 * ~ **1 - 1 of 1** ||
 * =  ||< 1. Where does Roscoe like to take his daily naps? (pg. 386)

Quotation Finder: Kim Breitenbach “Sometimes. It was a good escape. Until, you know, it wasn’t.”-nate “this wasn’t exactly the first word that had come to mind…”- ruby “…or, looking at it another way, walking in the cold-which had returned with a vengeance- and interrupting people from their own family celebrations while scaring the occasional motorist.”- ruby “maybe it was impossible for someone to share everything with you, but I was beginning to think what we had was enough.”- ruby “did I want to be the Honeycutts, stepping in and running everything, even if I thought it was for the best?”-ruby

Assignment: 1. On your group's wiki page, discuss your final reflections on this book. Would you recommend it to peers? Why or why not? Has this topic been discussed more/less effectively in another book or books? Should this book be considered for the school's curriculum? (B) 2. Person B should share and discuss their selected quotations, using Save The Last Word techniques. 3. Person C should post the meeting summary on the group's wiki page after class. 4.Person D should share his/her questions with the group, as well as post the questions on the group's wiki page

__Group Leader__: Avra Mendelaw __Question Answers__: 11-1-10 1.) Roscoe liked to take his daily naps in the laundry room. 2.) The Vista 5K is a running race that Ruby’s friend Olivia was in. The banner said “ VISTA 5K: RUN FOR YOUR LIFE!” 3.) The Power Rule is the derivative of any given variable (x) to the exponent (n) is equal to product of the exponent and the variable to the (n-1) power. 4.) Inside the box that Nate gave to Ruby was a pair of key-shaped earrings that were studded with red stones. 5.) Ruby’s “favorite picture” is of Nate at work posing in front of a life guard stand with the sun behind him.