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Finally! I'm sorry I took so long, Nina. 🙂
1) Describe Aunt Izzie. Is she strict or motherly to the Carr children?
Strict, especially compared to their father, but it's because she doesn't understand them, and has a hard time understanding different kinds of children, her being a model one.
2) What is Katy's personality like? How does she act?
Katy is very rambunctious, obviously. She has no concern for appearance or "outisde" features. So she has no care at all for clothes, or beauty, but she has a very strong conscience, a great imagination, and compassion for others.
3) Describe the games that Katy and the Carr children play (example: "Kikeri" or the water game that Katy plays at school.)
I'm not exactly sure what this means. Do you want us to describe the ways to play them, or describe the affect\nature, etc of them? Katy's games are made a lot without thinking of the consequences, which is why she falls into trouble a lot, but she shows amazing imagination in thinking them up.
5) What do you think the author means when Katy gets in a lot of scrapes?
Katy falls into a lot of trouble, though not because she's a bad kid. She has a very active mind, and she's very smart and hardy, and has a very wild spirit, which often makes her overlook the consequences of her actions, and the affects her rough play have on the people and things around her.
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UPDATE:
This update is very important! Today is Saturday, November 23rd and so far only 3 people have completed assignments: Blonde Heroines Rule, Violet, and Blackberry E. Next Saturday, November 30th or Sunday, December 1st I will change the assignment and post a new one. Please be on the lookout!
I am assuming everyone has a copy, digital or paper, of the book already.
If you still haven't completed Assignment #1, you have to complete that before you do Assignment #2! I would like this book club to go smoothly and finish before holiday break, so please be sure to keep up with me. You still have one week to do the assignment if you haven't done so!
Happy Reading!
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Nina,
I can't do the assignment since I still don't have the book. I'll let you know when I get it, but may I have an extension for the assignment since I literally cannot do it?
Thank you and happy reading!
-Nora
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Nora,
You may have an extension of time to complete Assignment #1. I would like you to complete ASAP and before you complete Assignment #2. Just know that Assignment #2 will be posted this Saturday, November 30th. Please be on the lookout, everybody! Happy reading, and have a wonderful Thanksgiving! 🙂
~Nina
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I got the book! You'll see my responses very soon!
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Teresa: Yay! Thanks for letting me know. Be sure to post your answers in reply to the Assignment #1 note. I'll be on the lookout for your responses. Happy Reading! 🙂
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Assignment 1:
1. Describe Aunt Izzie. Is she strict or motherly to the Carr children?
Aunt Izzie is definitely strict with the Carr children, but I think is mostly like that because she doesn't fully understand them. The Carr children behave differently than she did as a child, so she feels like it is her job to straighten them. I do also think that Aunt Izzie cares about the Carr children, otherwise she wouldn't try to make them 'better' people.
2. What is Katy's personality like? How does she act?
Katy is imaginative and rambunctious. She often acts without thinking of the consequences, though she always feels remorse afterwards.
3. Describe some of the games Katy and the Carr children play.
One of the games Katy and the Carr children play is called Kikieri. Kikeri is a mixture of blindman's bluff and tag, but instead of being blindfolded, they play in the dark. This game was banned by Aunt Izzie about a year ago, but when Aunt Izzie leaves, the kids decide to play it anyways.
The other game they play is a water game. Each child is a river except for Katy. She is Father Ocean. The rivers would weave around desks in the classroom and bump into each other, because sometimes rivers cross each others path. Occasionally, Katy would call out "Now for a meeting of the waters!" and all the rivers would scramble to meet Father Ocean.
4. What you think the author means when Katy gets into a lot of scrapes?
I think that the author means Katy often gets into trouble without meaning to.
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1) Describe Aunt Izzie. Is she strict or motherly to the Carr children?
Aunt Izzie is motherly as she can get towards the children, but she wants what is "good for them" and may be described as stict in that way.
2) What is Katy's personality like? How does she act?
Katy is a person who will act before thinking, a tomboy who is creative. She will do reckless things, which will sometimes lead to . . . misfortune.
3) Describe the games that Katy and the Carr children play (example: "Kikeri" or the water game that Katy plays at school.)
Kikeri is a game much like hide and go seek, but is playyed in the dark, threrefor giving it a much more creepy aspect.
Rivers is a game where she and her schoolmates will each act as a river, and all come to the big ocean when the time is called.
In both of her games, Katy will act before thining, and usually get quite carried away.
4) What do you think the author means when Katy gets in a lot of scrapes?
She gets in trouble quite alot.
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UPDATE:
Sorry for the late notice, but Assignment #2 will be posted Sunday, December 1. Be on the lookout! Thank you and have a happy Thanksgiving!
~Nina 🙂
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UPDATE:
Assignment #2 will be posted later today, probably in the afternoon. Keep on the lookout! Happy reading!
~Nina 🙂
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Please, Nina! I'm just itching to read more of the book! Please post our next assignment!!!
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Um, I just wanted to say, I don't think I'll be able to get the book anytime soon. My library doesn't have it at all, so my parents would have to buy it and I don't thinkt hey are going to do that until Christmas at least. So I guess I can't participate in this 🙁
I'd really like to, but I really can't, so just saying! Sorry.
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Corina, it's ok and I understand! Thank you so much for telling me, instead of keeping it to yourself. I'm sad that you're unable to participate in this book club, but I hope to host another one sometime next year. If I do, I would post the sign up sheet sometime in late December. Then, if anyone signs up, I will require them to have a book. That way there will be no hassle.
Happy reading!
~Nina
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@Corina: I dont' know how you'd feel to read What Katy Did online. If you go to Gutenberg dot org, you can search What Katy Did, and read it online. 🙂
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UPDATE:
Assignment #2 will be posted later today. I just have to get the questions ready. Thanks!