Madison 6B - Director - Phantom Tollbooth

          For this Literacy Circles meeting, I was the Discussion Director. We read chapters 13-16. Here is a summary of what we did.

1. Inger presented her connections.
2. Lena presented her vocabulary words.
3. Dasha presented her locations.
4. Then, I presented my questions and answers, and got replies from the rest of the group

• Why do you think chapter 13 was called "Unfortunate Conclusions"?
• Me: The land of Conclusions is a bad place, and the chapter ended badly with almost no sounds being restored to their proper places.
• Others: The chapter didn't end well, and there were unfortunate resolutions (quote by Inger
• What do you think about the Mathemagician?
• Me: He seemed completely focused on numbers.
• Others: When I first saw his name, I thought of Mr. Daws. 
• Did anything surprise you?
• Me: I was surprised that "This Way to Infinity" actually meant, well, 'this way to infinity'!
• Others: Nope.
• Predict what will happen when Milo goes into Infinity.
• Me: He'll go into infinity, come out five minutes later, and everyone he knows will be dead.
• Inger: I think that he'll start playing with Star Wars and Disney characters!! (Disney Infinity)
• Lena: I think that he'll never come out. (Dasha agrees)

                       Vocabulary Enricher

          Word                     Page                  Definition

        

          hastily                     160                  hurriedly

          fuse                         161                  a device containing a strip of wire that melts

          vaults                      161                   a large room used for storage

         plodding                  163                  slow-moving

         invitingly                 165                  attractive

         tweed                       166                  a rough surfaced cloth

         desolated                  168                 to appear

         bleak                        169                 miserable

         billowy                    170                  something rough

         nimbly                     172                  quick and light in movement

         Dodecahedron          173                  mathematical shape with 12 spaces

         glaring                     175                  shining

         nuisane                     182                  a law

         famine                      186                  a shortage

       

            

Inger 6B - Connector- The Phantom Tollbooth

This meeting I had the role of Connector. My connections were:

1. When Sound-keeper says she hopes she didn't insult the Humbug and I chose this line because I say this a lot. I say dumb stuff a lot and I am always worried if they take offense of what I said.

2. The word Dodecaherdron reminds me so much of the number ten because the geometrical shape with ten sides called a decagon.   

Dasha-Travel tracer

                      I was the travel tracer for the chapters 13-16

the action starts on the road to dictionpolis as they saw the sign which tells them how much longer 

they need to travel

then they go into a mine with a dodecahedron called dodecahedron

the action ends at the magicians office

                                             

Miles-Illustrater

This picture is when the Which was telling Milo and Tock a story of how the land of dictonopolsis was made.
Every one in my group said it was when Milo and Tock arrive at the kings palace.

                        Discussion director

    1. How would you describe the humbug in 3 words?

            My answer: Grumpy, he tries to be the smartest, and he is bossy

            My groups answers: Self centered, and grumpy 

       2. What did you think when you heard the humbugs plan?

              My answer: I thought it will be dangerous.

             My groups answer: They thought that the humbug wanted to kill Milo.

         3. What did you think about the family of Alec?

              

            My answer: I thought they were a bit weird, because they are born flying in the air. 

            My groups answer: They also said its weird, but they thought that that's normal for them in that city.

4. What does the title "The color of symphony" make you think of?

My answer: I though about a rainbow, and i thought about the whole city they are in would be full of color. 

My groups answer: It reminded them of rainbows, and colorful plants and flowers. 

5. If you could rename chapter 9 what would it be? (The title was "Its all in how you look at things.")

My answer: I would name it "The imagination city".

My groups answer: They would name it "Different perspectives."

Inger-Illustrator-The Phantom Tollbooth

Illustrator

I drew a picture of Alec, Milo and the Humbug running through the forest. I drew this because I never got the chance to do this and I love when movies or books have this scene because I imagine it to be beautiful and it always creates tension when something goes wrong. For example: In the book they get lost.

Dasha-connector

 Connector-Dasha

connections:

-on page 58  paragraph 2  it says “for several minutes no one spoke an understandable sentence” because everyone was mixing up the order of the words in the sentences. This made me think of when say you are new in an international school and you do not speak English this is how it feels, everyone spoke to each but there was no sentence you could understand.This also made me think of when say you are on holiday in a new country and you can not understand a single word because of the fact that all of them are peaking in a different language

-on page 80 paragraph 2 it says “long hallway which glittered with crystal chandeliers” which made me think of real castles with ballrooms inside of which  there are gigantic crystal chandlers.It also reminded me of a castle which I visited where all the wall were covered with reflective mosaics as they glittered like diamonds. 

The Phantom Tollbooth - Chapters 7-12 - Madison - Literary Luminary

        For this Literacy Circle meeting, I was the Literary Luminary. I chose five paragraphs, each from a different chapter. The ones I chose were either strange, or had some sort of play on words. I hope that you enjoy these paragraph as much as I did. :)


Milo noticed many of the people he had seen in the market place. The letter man was busy explaining to an interested group the history of the W, and off in a corner the Spelling Bee and the Humbug were arguing fiercely about nothing at all. Officer Shift wandered through the crowd, suspiciously muttering, “Guilty, guilty, they’re all guilty,” and, on noticing Milo, brightened visibly and commented in passing, “Is it six million years already? My, how time flies.”

“Too much too quickly, too much too quickly,” wheezed the uncomfortable bug. “To be sure, too much too quickly, I most certainly should have eaten too little too slowly, or too much too slowly, or too little too quickly, or taken all day to eat nothing, or eaten everything in no time at all, or occasionally eaten something any time, or perhaps I should have---” And he toppled back, exhausted, into his chair and continued to mumble indistinctly.

 “Well,” said the boy. “In my family, everyone is born in the air, with his head at exactly the height it’s going to be when he’s an adult, then we all grow toward the ground. When we’re fully grown up, or as you can say, grown down, our feet finally touch. Of course, there are a few of us whose feet never reach the ground no matter how old we get, but I suppose it’s the same in every family.”

Pg. 104 PG#9

“Do you know where we are?” ask Milo.

“Certainly,” he replied. “We’re right here on this very spot. Besides, being lost is never a matter of not knowing where you are; it’s a matter of not knowing where you aren’t-and I don’t care at all about where I’m not.”

Pg. 110 PG#2-3

All the flowers suddenly appeared black, the gray rocks became a lovely soft chartreuse, and even peacefully sleeping Tock turned from brown to a magnificent ultramarine. Nothing was the color it should have been, and yet, the more he tried to straighten things out, the worse they became.

Pg. 129 PG#7