Monday, May 21, 2012
Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll pg. 165-174
The white rabbit calls out "Silence in the Court!" and everyone quiets down. The rabbit then reads a scroll that says that the queen of hearts baked tarts that someone ate without asking. They call up the first witness, the mad hatter. While the mad hatter is explaining what he witnessed, Alice starts to grow taller again. The queen keeps staring at the hat the hatter has on his head and this makes him nervous. The mad hatter keeps trying to explain what happened to the court but he is so nervous from the queen staring at him that nothing he says makes sense. The king thinks that the mad hatter has nothing else to say so he asks him to sit down.
Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll pg. 155-164
The Gryphon and the Mock Turtle get tired of telling their stories so Alice starts telling them what has happened to her ever since she came to Wonderland. The Mock Turtle starts to sing Alice a song called Turtle Soup. All of a sudden, the Gryphon takes Alice's hand and starts running. Alice very confused again asks where they are going. The Gryphon gives her a vague answer while they can hear the turtle singing behind them. The chapter ends with them running away, and the next chapter begins with the king and queen sitting on their thrones with everyone gathered in the great hall. There was trial going on and the king was the judge and there was a table with a plate with tarts on it. Alice then sees the jury-box filled with various animals and birds.
Sunday, May 20, 2012
Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll pg. 147-154
The Mock Turtle starts talking about a Lobster-Quadrille, and Alice asks what kind of a dance that is. The Gryphon says you line up along the seashore and you dance with a lobster. The turtle and the Gryphon continue to tell Alice the rules of the dance but she gets very confused. They then decide to show Alice the dance, so they dance around her and sing. Alice listens carefully to the song the Mock Turtle is singing along with the dance. Alice says that she has seen lobsters frequently at dinner with crumbs around them. The turtle goes to sleep while Alice and the Gryphon start talking about shoes. The Gryphon explains to Alice way shoes are made of in the ocean.
Saturday, May 12, 2012
Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll pg. 143-148
The Mock Turtles tells Alice and the gryphon that he went to school in the ocean, and everyone called his teacher tortoise. Alice is about to ask another question when the Turtle tells her not to speak. The Turtle says the classes they had at his school were French, Music, and washing. He tells them he couldn't afford to take those classes, so he took the regular course. He then starts to name the classes he did take, but Alice has never heard of the classes he is talking about. The Turtle says that everyday school was let out an hour earlier, and on the first day there was ten hours of school. Then, the Turtle looses it again and starts crying. The gryphon tries to shake him out of it, so the Turtle can continue to tell the story.
Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll pg.138-142
The queen wakes the gryphon and tells it to take Alice to see the Mock Turtle. The gryphon tells Alice that all the people the queen orders to be executed, don't really end up being killed. When he brings her to the Mock Turtle, the Turtle seems upset. Alice asks him what is wrong, but he just looks at her. The Turtle says that no one is allowed to speak until he is finished with his story. The first words of the Mock Turtle's story are "Once, I was a real turtle". The Turtle doesn't say anything for a while, he just cries and the gryphon keeps yelling. The Turtle finally continues to tell his story, and Alice asks questions.
Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll pg.138-
The queen wakes the gryphon and tells it to take Alice to see the Mock Turtle. The gryphon tells Alice that all the people the queen orders to be executed, don't really end up being killed. When he brings her to the Mock Turtle, the Turtle seems upset. Alice asks him what is wrong, but he just looks at her. The Turtle says that no one is allowed to speak until he is finished with his story. The first words of the Mock Turtle's story are "Once, I was a real turtle". The Turtle doesn't say anything for a while, he just cries and the gryphon keeps yelling. The Turtle finally continues to tell his story, and Alice asks questions.
Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll pg.131-138
The duchess doesn't trust Alice's flamingo, so she takes it from her. Throughout their conversation, the duchess keeps telling Alice morals that relate to what they are talking about. All of a sudden, the duchess freezes and Alice doesn't know why, but then she sees the queen standing in front of them. The Queen quickly orders the duchess to be executed, and then she takes Alice back to the croquet game. The game continues with the queen sentencing people to death. They are in the middle of the game when the queen asks Alice, "Have you seen the Mock Turtle yet?" Alice tells her she hasn't, and the queen decides to take her to it. On their way to see the Mock Turtle, they run into a sleeping gryphon.
Wednesday, May 9, 2012
Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll pg.127-131
Alice, confused by this game, goes to look for the hedgehog. She finds the hedgehog fighting and she wants to hit one of them with the flamingo, but she notices that she has lost it. Meanwhile, the king is trying to have the Cheshire cat executed, but the executioner doesn't know how to kill it. The queen doesn't care how they kill it, she just wants it gone, so she threatens to kill everyone if they don't get rid of the cat. But the cat starts to slowly disappear and everyone tries to look for it. The duchess then comes to get her cat and she tells Alice that every story has a moral. Alice doesn't really like the duchess because she is kind of scary looking but Alice continues to listen to her. The duchess tells Alice "Oh 'tis love, 'tis love, that makes the world go round!"
Thursday, April 26, 2012
Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll Pg. 115-125
Alice comes across the Queen and her subjects playing a game of croquet. The Queen is very loud and she likes everything to go her way. The game begins, and every time that another player does something she doesn't like, she threatens to cut off their head. When it is Alice's turn, she is given a flamingo that she has to use to hit a hedgehog through an arch of cards. Alice tries he best to win but the flamingo won't let her because the Queen has to win. Then, the Cheshire Cat appears again and talks with Alice. The King wants to know who the cat is, but he doesn't seem to be too found of him. Things seem to make less and less sense in Wonderland.
Tuesday, March 27, 2012
Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll Pg. 109-114
The Dormouse continues to tell the story about the three sisters living in a well who live on treacle. To pass the time, the sisters draw objects that begin with the letter "m". Unfortunately, the mouse keeps falling asleep in the middle of her story. Then Alice gets tired of the other guests at the Mad Tea Party insulting her so she decides to leave. Alice sees a door which leads to a hallway. Again, Alice walks through another door, but this time she finds herself in a garden. Alice then sees playing cards painting roses and talking about the queen. Alice walks toward them, and they all greet her with a bow.
Monday, March 26, 2012
Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll Pg. 101-108
Alice comes across a mad tea party with the Dormouse, the March Hare, and the Mad Hatter. She looks at the Mad Hatter's watch which tells what month it is and not the time, but this seems normal to the Mad Hatter and the other guests at the tea party. The Hatter asks if Alice has though of answer to his riddle but she gives up and asks him what the answer is. But he doesn't know the answer to the riddle and no one else seems to know. Alice later finds out that another watch is stuck at six o'clock and that’s why they are always have tea parties. They all get tired of talking about the time, so the Hare and the Hatter ask the Dormouse to tell a story. The Dormouse tells a story of three sisters that live in a well, but Alice keeps interrupting him because the story seems ridiculous. Then, in the middle of the story, everyone moves to a different place because they want clean dishes.
Wednesday, February 15, 2012
Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll Pg. 91-100
Alice continues talking to the Cheshire cat about which way she should go. The cat simply asks Alice where she wants to go but she doesn't know. So he tells her where the Mad hatter and the March hare live. She decides to go see the March hare, but she comes across a Mad Tea Party. They tell her there is no room at the large table but she sits down anyway. Sitting at the table are the March hare, the Mad hatter, and a dormouse. The Hatter tells Alice she needs a hair cut and then tells a riddle. Then everyone starts talking frantically about that riddle.
Tuesday, February 14, 2012
Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll Pg. 82-90
Alice decides to ignore the frog and go into the house. There she sees a Duchess holding a baby, a cook, and a Cheshire cat with a big smile on its face. Everyone, except for the cook and the cat, keep sneezing because the cook keeps putting too much pepper in the soup. The cook then goes on a rampage, throwing anything she can find at the baby, the Duchess, and Alice. The Queen decides to leave this chaos and throws the baby at Alice saying that she is going to go play a game of croquet. Alice leaves the house and takes the baby with her fearing that it might be killed in a few days. The baby then starts snorting and turns into a pig and runs into the woods. She starts walking when she comes across the Cheshire cat with the biggest smile she has ever seen.
Monday, February 13, 2012
Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll Pg.71-81
After eating the mushroom, Alice grows taller and taller until her head is above all the trees. She then accidentally runs into a pigeon who keeps worrying about the snakes eating her eggs. The pigeon assumes that Alice is a snake because of her long neck, and starts to attack her. After that, she eats more of the other side of the mushroom to get smaller. From the woods she sees a tiny house where a person is running to with the face of a fish. The fish knocks on the door and a man with the head of a frog comes out to talk to him. The fish gives the frog and over sized letter and the frog reads it. Alice tries to stay quite but she can't help laughing at the both of them.
Wednesday, February 1, 2012
Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll Pg. 52-60
The people of Wonderland try to help Alice get out of the house. A lizard tries to go down the chimney and help Alice, but Alice gets squeamish and accidently kicks him. In addition, she also threatens to bring her cat, Dinah, to eat them all. The others try to help the lizard outside, while Alice spots a little cake inside. It looks like the one she ate before that made her smaller so she eats it. Sure enough she gets smaller and smaller. She runs outside the house to help the lizard but then everyone starts to chase after her, so she runs as fast as she could into the woods. She then meets a dog that is much larger than she is that she plays fetch with.
Tuesday, January 31, 2012
Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll Pg. 42-50
After everyone had scattered, Alice sees the white rabbit again and he seems more frantic than usual. Alice thinks he is searching for the white gloves and fan and figures she should look for them too, but then she noticed that the hall she was in looks nothing like it did before. The rabbit starts to think that Alice is the maid and he keeps yelling at her to get the gloves and the fan. But, then Alice finds a bottle that says "Drink me", so she does. She keeps growing and growing until she barely has enough room to fit in the house. Alice starts to miss her cat and she wonders if she should have ever went down the rabbit hole. She always dreamed of being in a fairtale, but now all she wants to do is go home. All of a sudden the white rabbit comes in and is furious that Alice is about to break his house.
Tuesday, January 24, 2012
Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll Pg. 33-41
Alice runs into a group of birds, who are all wet from the flooding. They then decide the best way to dry off would be to have a Caucus race. The Dodo bird marks the track in a circle then everyone starts running. After the race, they decide that all of them have won so they turn to Alice for a prize. Alice doesn't know what to do, so she just reaches into her pocket and finds a box of comfits, which she then gives one to each bird and the mouse. But one of the birds says that Alice has to have a prize, so she again reaches into her pocket and finds a thimble. Alice begins to miss her cat, Dinah, and starts to talk about him. She starts to describe how he eats mice, but then the mouse walks away from the conversation. She notices this and tries to apologize, but the mouse keeps walking and shakes his head.
Wednesday, January 4, 2012
Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll Pg. 19-32
When the rabbit runs by Alice, he leaves white gloves and a fan. Alice starts talking to herself again, and while she was doing this, she was fanning herself. The fan was making Alice smaller and smaller until she was swimming in her own tears. She then meets a mouse also swimming in her tears, and tries to talk to the mouse but it doesn't seem to understand her. But it turns out that the mouse does understand her, so Alice and the mouse swim ashore and meet other animals that speak English. There is an eaglet, a dodo, a duck, and a Lory. The mouse starts talking about English politics and the other animals seem to understand the mouse and they ask questions. Alice doesn't understand how these animals can be talking English English to each other and how they know so much.
Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll Pg. 1-19
One minute, Alice is bored listening to her sister read a book, and the next she is falling down a never ending rabbit hole. It all started when Alice saw a white rabbit scurry by her and down a rabbit hole. Curious she followed the rabbit and fell down the hole for, what seemed like, forever. But then the rabbit hole suddenly comes to and end, and she finds herself in a hallway full of doors. Alice tries to open all the doors, but they're locked. Out of nowhere, a table appears with a golden key on it. The key seems to small for all the locks on the doors, but then she pulls back a curtain and sees a small door. She opens it but Alice is too big the fit through the door.
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