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Question- While you read, question what's happening. Searching for reasons behind events and characters' actions can help you get more involved in what you read.
Connect- Connect personally with what you're reading. Think of similarities between the descriptions in the selection and what you have personally experienced, heard, or read.
Predict- Try to figure out what will happen next and how the selection might end. Then read on to see if you made good guesses.
Clarify- Stop occasionally to review what you understand so far, and expect to have your understanding change and develop as you read on.
Evaluate- Form opinions about what you read, both while you're reading and after you've finished. Make judgments about the characters and develop your own ideas about events.
Visualize- Make a picture in your mind of what the text says. Imagine you are looking at what is describe.
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Title: Black Horses For The King
Author: Anne McCaffrey
Pages: 1-12
Galwyn went with his uncle on a ship ride, to ship some horses to an island. But on the way he got seasick so two men named Bwlch and Bericus told him to eat beef with salt on it. Luckly Galwyn liked it so he ate more and more.
When they unloaded Galwyn's uncle told him to help with the baggage and lead them to the place they were staying.
Title:Bloody Mary
Author: Carolyn Meyer
Pages:1-6
Anne who was a witch and wanted Mary to die. But before she could get her hands on Mary she got her head cut of. So this is were the story begins. Mary ended up with her fauther King Henry the 8th's temper. So when he makes her mad she jumps on her bed and throughs her pillow on the ground as hard as she posibly can. When she cools it she comes out of her room and talks to her Salisbury. But Salisbury is very colm and it makes her very angry again. Mary finally disides to go to bed. But when she pulled her coverlet up to her chin her feet stuck out, this was the first time that day she felt like laughing.
Title:Bloody Mary
Author:Carolyn Meyer
Character Sketch
In the book Bloody Mary, Mary Tudor is a young girl about 13 and getting married. She absolutly doesn't want to marry King Francis, she doesn't even know what a good husband is. Mary has fair skin, blue eyes, reddish-gold hair, & wore fancy dresses and jewlery. One weakness of hers is to live without her mother. Mary also turned her temper into a strenth instead of a weakness.
Title: Bloody Mary
Author:Carolyn Meyer
Pages:7-25
Mary is betrothed to King Francis which is not to plesant for her at all. When she went to the banquet dinner when ever he would laugh it would sound like a donkey braying he didn't have very good maners either. When the feast started they brought a blind bear and alot of mastifs (big dogs) to atack the poor old bear. After the bear was to weak to do anything Mary's father King Henry VIII leaned over and asked, "Life or Death?" Mary told him out loud, "Death" Mary was trying to hold back tears because she was taught not to cry in public. After the feast was over she felt so bad about what had happend.
Title: Bloody Mary
Author:Carolyn Meyer
Pages:26-33
Mary ends up having to move away from her parents until she gets a letter from the court.
continued!!
When she gets the letter from the court Mary gets to see her mom again. When she gets the letter she gets realy excited. But then she gets another letter that says that the occasion is canceled.
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When is the book thing due?????
PLAESE POST SOON!!!!!!!!
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