Michael+M

__Elijah of Buxton__

May 4, 2009

Chapters Read: 1-2

Job: Passage Picker

I am the Passage Picker today. My favorite passage is on pages 7-8, and it's paragraph 5. I liked this paragraph because it keeps you "on your toes", or it keeps you interested. It is about when The Preacher discovers hoop snake tracks, and says that if he ever got bitten by a hoop snake, Elijah or Cooter should shoot him with a pistol, and wants them to promise to do it if he gets bitten. Michael M

May 4, 2009 Nikki Albrecht

I love that passage too!!! It really does keep you "on your toes". I still think that the Preacher is a little over dramatic with the hoop snakes.

May 6, 2009

Chapters Read: 3-5

Job: Super Summarizer

Now I am the Super Summarizer. In these three chapters, 'Lijah goes to do his chores, and goes fish chunkin', to get some supper for hisself, his Ma and Pa, and Mr. Segee and Mr. Leroy. He meets the Preacher when he was done fish chunkin', and he said that 'Lijah truly had a gift. Then, he did a bunch of math with 'Lijah and ended up takin' 4 fish!!! In school, the teachers had to postpone the rest of the day, because they had seen some slave catchers. That night, 'Lijah saw a white horse with a saddle. They saw it had a bloody spot on it's leg and gave it to the sherrif, so they didn't think they stealed it or nothin'. After that, he went to deliver fish to Mr. Segee and Leroy, and he delivered some of them fishies to Mrs. Brown and got a pie for his Pa. Michael Mackey

May 6, 2009 Nikki  Michael that was such an amazing paragraph!!! You did such a great job on summarizing all of those long chapters. You did miss one thing that was important. You forgot that Elijah saw that horse about three years ago.

May 6, 2009 Lauren I think that you did a great job, too Michael! It is hard to summarize all of those events!

May 11, 2009 Michael M (P.S. Lauren, sorry for messing up your font)

Today I'm the Word Wizard. A few words I didn't understand were:

broadaxe- I think it's some sort of axe, that is real wide. When I looked it up, the definition was " 1  An axe for hewing timber. 2 An axe with a broad head, such as a battle-ax.

betwixt- This is probably slang for between, but I haven't seen it before.

upbringing- I think, by the way it's used, it means you weren't raised right, and itis used next to ignorant, so it can't be good.

May 11, 2009 Michael those are some great words. Please put the page number for those words though because it would be nice if I could look them up myself. All in All good choice of words. -Nikki

May 13,2009 Michael Today I am the Artful Artist. I drew a picture of MaWee in front of the school talking to Elijah and his friends.

May 22, 2009  Michael I'm the Connection Creator today. My connection is when Elijah and Mr. Leroy made a sign for Mrs. Holton about her husband. I am connecting this to when my granddad's brother died, and at his funeral, we all got bookmark-like things about him.

May 22, 2009 Nikki

I thought that you did really wonderful with what connection you made. I love your connection. I have the same thing that happened to men when my grandpa passed away. We got little momentos too, when I went to his funeral. The only thing that is very sad is that when a slave passed away they did nothing. Except bury them. Now we do special things like have a funeral to celebrate their life that they had on earth. Then we usually have special burrial in the cemetary. Ithink you could have put maybe one or two more connections. Just to tell you, you forgot to put the chapters that you read on this passage and the next two. They were still great.

May 22, 2009 Michael Now I'm the Discussion Director: 1. Why do you think the Preacher even is a "Preacher" if he is so mean? 2. Why did Mr. Leroy want Elijah to come with him, and not an adult? 3. What happened to Mr. Leroy? It sounds like there was some blood or something coming out of his nose. 4. Why did Elijah write a note to Cooter? I don't think it was nessecary.

<span style="font-size: 156%; color: rgb(255,0,0); font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; background-color: rgb(255,255,255);">Michael, you are supposed to answer the DD questions that you pose. We made this pretty clear in class. What are your answers to these questions???? Mr. Leroy had a heart attack. It states in the text that he was holding his arm. A very usual symptom of a heart attack is pain down your arm. He was also sweating and very out of breath. He just plain keeled over from that. Poor Elijah. I think he is the bravest, smartest young man I have ever read about! I love this kid! Mrs. Best <span style="font-size: 130%; color: rgb(73,136,73); font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; background-color: rgb(255,255,255);">

<span style="font-size: 90%; color: rgb(0,255,255); font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">May 23, 2009 Nikki chapters 18-19 Michael, the first question you asked was a little puzzling. <span style="color: rgb(0,255,255); font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">1. I think that he became a preacher so that people would think he was a nice person and gain his trust so that he could take something so valuble like Mr. Leroy's money and make them think he was helping them. Not stealing the money.

2. I know that Mr. Leroy wanted Elijah because it says in the book that Mr. Leroy thought Elijah was a smart and growned man. He also asked Elijah because he could read better than most of the adults. Elijah is so smart.

3. Blood coming out of his nose? He had a heart attack and was holding his arm. It says that in the book. 4. Again, It tells you in the book why he wrote the letter to Cooter. He wrote it to Cooter because if something would happen like he would come home late Elijah would know that his parents would not come looking for him. I thought it was nessesary because if he hadn't written the letter his parents would search forever to find him or they would think that he was killed.

<span style="font-size: 156%; color: rgb(0,255,0); font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; background-color: rgb(255,255,255);">May 27, 2009 Michael Once again, I am the Passage Picker. I chose the passage on page 305, paragraph #3. I liked this paragraph because it is sort of wierd because Elijah is sad and happy. He is sad because he won't be able to live up to his promise. He is happy because he can't shoot him.

<span style="font-size: 130%; color: rgb(73,136,73); font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; background-color: rgb(255,255,255);">May 27, 2009 Nikki chapters 20-22

Number 1 thing is I don't think Elijah was happy and sad. I thought he was relieved not happy because he can't shoot the preacher. I do think you are right about the sad that he couldn't fofill his promise. I do like that passage. I think Elijah is kind of scared at first that he is seeing these slaves up against the wall. THen he gets to know them and becomes a little of a friend to them. I still like the choice of the passage you picked. <span style="font-size: 169%; color: rgb(0,0,128); font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace; background-color: rgb(255,255,255);">Yeah, I guess I should have put relieved. Michael

June 1, 2009 Michael Chapters 23-24

Today I am the SUPER summarizer. In chapter 23, Elijah was going to get Mr. Highgate. When he got there, some of the gambling men told Mr. Highgate not to listen to Elijah. He didn't, and Elijah rode back to Buxton. On the way back, he realized what Mrs. Chloe was talking about and rode back. When he got there, he told her the story about her sister that died of the fever. Then he asked to take the baby back to show his mother.She said yes, then told him her name, which is Hope Too-mah-ee-nee. Elijah rode back, and Hope slept the whole way.

June 2, 2009 chapters 23+24 Nikki Albrecht

Michael, I like your summary. But Elijah was not going to find Mr. Hihgate. He was looking for Mr. Alston or something like that. it was not that themen were not listening, it was because they were scared to go to the barn. THey did not want that bear-dog to rip the to shreads. They didn't want to risk getting killed when they walked through the barn doors. It was probably hard to tell Mrs. Chole about his sister that died. I bet 'Lijah was so 'cited to bring Hope Too-mah-ee-nee home to his mom though. I am going to miss working on the wiki with you.