There are many elements in the book Homeless Bird.Some of the elements include the figures of speech, the setting,the plot, the characters, and the mood/ tone. The figures of speech are mainly bird imagery. Bird imagery is the author writing about birds, and you creeated a mental picture with a bird in it. That is bird imagery. The characters in Homeless Bird are Hari ( Hari passed away), Koly, Sass ( mother in law), Sassur ( father in law), Chandra,. The setting of homless bird is in India. They also travel from place to place in an attempt to cure Hari. The plot of the book is a girl who has to get married very young. Little does she know that her soon-to- be husband is gravely ill with tuberculosis. She goes on this journey in an attempt to cure her husband. Later Hari passes away, leaving Koly a widow. The mood and tone of the book is definitely drama, and sadness, even though it is dramatic and sad, it is not always sad and dramatic at all times. Sometimes it can be really detailed, so there are a lot of descriptive words describing what is going on. Those are some of the elements you will see in the story Homeless Bird.
This is a picture of me with the Good Will card!!
I hope everyone is having a great winter break so far! Recently, we had a values class about the gift of time. We read a book, and brain stormed some ideas. Our teachers gave us the assignment to give the gift of time over our winter break. Here is my gift of time. My family was moving some furniture around, so I decided to donate some of my toys. It took about two hours to get all of the toys packed up, and in the car going to good will. I donated many of my old clothes and toys that I did not need or that another little girl or boy, could enjoy. I really enjoy donating to good will because it goes to people who are in need. Many people need clothes, to keep them warm in the winter. It is a fantastic feeling to donate something to someone who really needs and appreciates it.
This is a picture of me with the good will card!
I love Christmas! It is my favorite holiday! I like it for so many reasons. Here are a few! I just love shopping for people, it’s so fun! It is also, really funny when you see the old ladies get in fights over a child’s present! I really think Chrsitmas is also, a time for giving for making yourself and other people happy. I love when my family gets together! I love Santa. I really like the music and making Christmas cookies. My Mom actually, used to own her own cookie business! She made all different kinds. I also really like the movies for Christmas. Here are my 2 favorites that I highly recommend: Prep and Landing, naughty Vs. Nice that is one. The next one is Charlie Brown Christmas! Those movies, are so funny and cute. Charlie Brown Christmas is about understanding the true meaning of Christmas. Prep and Landing, Naughty Vs. Nice is about elves who have to deliver presents, they run into obstacles! I hope you enjoyed my post!
Ok here we go if any one gets these right, they will get a surprise! Please do not search on google! Thank you!
1.What is Obama’s middle name?
2. What does HTML stand for?
3.How old was the oldest person?
4.What is the definition of this word Palaver?
5.How many cars does the person with the most cars in the world have?
6.How old is Mit Romney?
7. How many T.Vs does the average person have in a home?
8.How old is the oldest living dog?
9. Why are elephants scared of mice?
10.Why do ostriches stick their heads in the sand?
My weekend was so exiting! I had a sleep over with Kaki and had basketball camp! I will tell you the details. First, Kaki came to my house then we ate pot roast ( which we all loved). Then, we went outside and tried to trick her with fake blood ( it did’nt work). We went to this roof that Kaki climbed on and slid on. There was a ladie eating chinese noodles in the window! I do not think she saw us! After we climbed the roof we lolli- popped JD! I know what you are thinking ” What in the world is lolli- popping”? Well, it is when you get lolli – pops and put them in people’s yard, on there birthday, any day, or a special ocassion. We also, made him signs because he hurt his foot and ofcourse it was his birthday. Then, after we lolli- popped him we went back to my house and played manhunt. It was so fun! I was it practically the entire time! After we, played we had take showers. We took showers, and got into PJ’s. We went down stairs and asked my mom to turn a movie on. We love the movie Mrs. Doubtfire! It is the best! When we were watching we asked my mom to make us popcorn. All of us really like the popcorn because it is homemade! We put the kernels in a popcorn machine and “Pop”! they always fly every where! We finished our movie and Kaki and Alden fell asleep. I didn’t I can stay awake forever. We woke up in the morning and went to basketball camp but now since have to go to sleep I will tell you later! Tell me about your weekend when you comment!
Mrs.Eyles I hope you have a fantasic birthday! Thank you so much for letting our class write on your white board! It is definitely not white any more! You are the greatest math teacher, ever! Have a great birthday! We hoped you enjoyed the cards! Happy Birthday!
In, Media we read the Egyptian Cinderella story. But everyone was wondering about the real Cinderella story so here it is:
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Cinderella
Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm
A rich man’s wife became sick, and when she felt that her end was drawing near, she called her only daughter to her bedside and said, “Dear child, remain pious and good, and then our dear God will always protect you, and I will look down on you from heaven and be near you.” With this she closed her eyes and died.
The girl went out to her mother’s grave every day and wept, and she remained pious and good. When winter came the snow spread a white cloth over the grave, and when the spring sun had removed it again, the man took himself another wife.
This wife brought two daughters into the house with her. They were beautiful, with fair faces, but evil and dark hearts. Times soon grew very bad for the poor stepchild.
“Why should that stupid goose sit in the parlor with us?” they said. “If she wants to eat bread, then she will have to earn it. Out with this kitchen maid!”
They took her beautiful clothes away from her, dressed her in an old gray smock, and gave her wooden shoes. “Just look at the proud princess! How decked out she is!” they shouted and laughed as they led her into the kitchen.
There she had to do hard work from morning until evening, get up before daybreak, carry water, make the fires, cook, and wash. Besides this, the sisters did everything imaginable to hurt her. They made fun of her, scattered peas and lentils into the ashes for her, so that she had to sit and pick them out again. In the evening when she had worked herself weary, there was no bed for her. Instead she had to sleep by the hearth in the ashes. And because she always looked dusty and dirty, they called her Cinderella.
One day it happened that the father was going to the fair, and he asked his two stepdaughters what he should bring back for them.
“Beautiful dresses,” said the one.
“Pearls and jewels,” said the other.
“And you, Cinderella,” he said, “what do you want?”
“Father, break off for me the first twig that brushes against your hat on your way home.”
So he bought beautiful dresses, pearls, and jewels for his two stepdaughters. On his way home, as he was riding through a green thicket, a hazel twig brushed against him and knocked off his hat. Then he broke off the twig and took it with him. Arriving home, he gave his stepdaughters the things that they had asked for, and he gave Cinderella the twig from the hazel bush.
Cinderella thanked him, went to her mother’s grave, and planted the branch on it, and she wept so much that her tears fell upon it and watered it. It grew and became a beautiful tree.
Cinderella went to this tree three times every day, and beneath it she wept and prayed. A white bird came to the tree every time, and whenever she expressed a wish, the bird would throw down to her what she had wished for.
Now it happened that the king proclaimed a festival that was to last three days. All the beautiful young girls in the land were invited, so that his son could select a bride for himself. When the two stepsisters heard that they too had been invited, they were in high spirits.
They called Cinderella, saying, “Comb our hair for us. Brush our shoes and fasten our buckles. We are going to the festival at the king’s castle.”
Cinderella obeyed, but wept, because she too would have liked to go to the dance with them. She begged her stepmother to allow her to go.
“You, Cinderella?” she said. “You, all covered with dust and dirt, and you want to go to the festival?. You have neither clothes nor shoes, and yet you want to dance!”
However, because Cinderella kept asking, the stepmother finally said, “I have scattered a bowl of lentils into the ashes for you. If you can pick them out again in two hours, then you may go with us.”
The girl went through the back door into the garden, and called out, “You tame pigeons, you turtledoves, and all you birds beneath the sky, come and help me to gather:
The good ones go into the pot,
The bad ones go into your crop.”
Two white pigeons came in through the kitchen window, and then the turtledoves, and finally all the birds beneath the sky came whirring and swarming in, and lit around the ashes. The pigeons nodded their heads and began to pick, pick, pick, pick. And the others also began to pick, pick, pick, pick. They gathered all the good grains into the bowl. Hardly one hour had passed before they were finished, and they all flew out again.
The girl took the bowl to her stepmother, and was happy, thinking that now she would be allowed to go to the festival with them.
But the stepmother said, “No, Cinderella, you have no clothes, and you don’t know how to dance. Everyone would only laugh at you.”
Cinderella began to cry, and then the stepmother said, “You may go if you are able to pick two bowls of lentils out of the ashes for me in one hour,” thinking to herself, “She will never be able to do that.”
The girl went through the back door into the garden, and called out, “You tame pigeons, you turtledoves, and all you birds beneath the sky, come and help me to gather:
The good ones go into the pot,
The bad ones go into your crop.”
Two white pigeons came in through the kitchen window, and then the turtledoves, and finally all the birds beneath the sky came whirring and swarming in, and lit around the ashes. The pigeons nodded their heads and began to pick, pick, pick, pick. And the others also began to pick, pick, pick, pick. They gathered all the good grains into the bowls. Before a half hour had passed they were finished, and they all flew out again.
The girl took the bowls to her stepmother, and was happy, thinking that now she would be allowed to go to the festival with them.
But the stepmother said, “It’s no use. You are not coming with us, for you have no clothes, and you don’t know how to dance. We would be ashamed of you.” With this she turned her back on Cinderella, and hurried away with her two proud daughters.
Now that no one else was at home, Cinderella went to her mother’s grave beneath the hazel tree, and cried out:
Shake and quiver, little tree,
Throw gold and silver down to me.
Then the bird threw a gold and silver dress down to her, and slippers embroidered with silk and silver. She quickly put on the dress and went to the festival.
Her stepsisters and her stepmother did not recognize her. They thought she must be a foreign princess, for she looked so beautiful in the golden dress. They never once thought it was Cinderella, for they thought that she was sitting at home in the dirt, looking for lentils in the ashes.
The prince approached her, took her by the hand, and danced with her. Furthermore, he would dance with no one else. He never let go of her hand, and whenever anyone else came and asked her to dance, he would say, “She is my dance partner.”
She danced until evening, and then she wanted to go home. But the prince said, “I will go along and escort you,” for he wanted to see to whom the beautiful girl belonged. However, she eluded him and jumped into the pigeon coop. The prince waited until her father came, and then he told him that the unknown girl had jumped into the pigeon coop.
The old man thought, “Could it be Cinderella?”
He had them bring him an ax and a pick so that he could break the pigeon coop apart, but no one was inside. When they got home Cinderella was lying in the ashes, dressed in her dirty clothes. A dim little oil-lamp was burning in the fireplace. Cinderella had quickly jumped down from the back of the pigeon coop and had run to the hazel tree. There she had taken off her beautiful clothes and laid them on the grave, and the bird had taken them away again. Then, dressed in her gray smock, she had returned to the ashes in the kitchen.
The next day when the festival began anew, and her parents and her stepsisters had gone again, Cinderella went to the hazel tree and said:
Shake and quiver, little tree,
Throw gold and silver down to me.
Then the bird threw down an even more magnificent dress than on the preceding day. When Cinderella appeared at the festival in this dress, everyone was astonished at her beauty. The prince had waited until she came, then immediately took her by the hand, and danced only with her. When others came and asked her to dance with them, he said, “She is my dance partner.”
When evening came she wanted to leave, and the prince followed her, wanting to see into which house she went. But she ran away from him and into the garden behind the house. A beautiful tall tree stood there, on which hung the most magnificent pears. She climbed as nimbly as a squirrel into the branches, and the prince did not know where she had gone. He waited until her father came, then said to him, “The unknown girl has eluded me, and I believe she has climbed up the pear tree.
The father thought, “Could it be Cinderella?” He had an ax brought to him and cut down the tree, but no one was in it. When they came to the kitchen, Cinderella was lying there in the ashes as usual, for she had jumped down from the other side of the tree, had taken the beautiful dress back to the bird in the hazel tree, and had put on her gray smock.
On the third day, when her parents and sisters had gone away, Cinderella went again to her mother’s grave and said to the tree:
Shake and quiver, little tree,
Throw gold and silver down to me.
This time the bird threw down to her a dress that was more splendid and magnificent than any she had yet had, and the slippers were of pure gold. When she arrived at the festival in this dress, everyone was so astonished that they did not know what to say. The prince danced only with her, and whenever anyone else asked her to dance, he would say, “She is my dance partner.”
When evening came Cinderella wanted to leave, and the prince tried to escort her, but she ran away from him so quickly that he could not follow her. The prince, however, had set a trap. He had had the entire stairway smeared with pitch. When she ran down the stairs, her left slipper stuck in the pitch. The prince picked it up. It was small and dainty, and of pure gold.
The next morning, he went with it to the man, and said to him, “No one shall be my wife except for the one whose foot fits this golden shoe.”
The two sisters were happy to hear this, for they had pretty feet. With her mother standing by, the older one took the shoe into her bedroom to try it on. She could not get her big toe into it, for the shoe was too small for her. Then her mother gave her a knife and said, “Cut off your toe. When you are queen you will no longer have to go on foot.”
The girl cut off her toe, forced her foot into the shoe, swallowed the pain, and went out to the prince. He took her on his horse as his bride and rode away with her. However, they had to ride past the grave, and there, on the hazel tree, sat the two pigeons, crying out:
Rook di goo, rook di goo!
There’s blood in the shoe.
The shoe is too tight,
This bride is not right!
Then he looked at her foot and saw how the blood was running from it. He turned his horse around and took the false bride home again, saying that she was not the right one, and that the other sister should try on the shoe. She went into her bedroom, and got her toes into the shoe all right, but her heel was too large.
Then her mother gave her a knife, and said, “Cut a piece off your heel. When you are queen you will no longer have to go on foot.”
The girl cut a piece off her heel, forced her foot into the shoe, swallowed the pain, and went out to the prince. He took her on his horse as his bride and rode away with her. When they passed the hazel tree, the two pigeons were sitting in it, and they cried out:
Rook di goo, rook di goo!
There’s blood in the shoe.
The shoe is too tight,
This bride is not right!
He looked down at her foot and saw how the blood was running out of her shoe, and how it had stained her white stocking all red. Then he turned his horse around and took the false bride home again.
“This is not the right one, either,” he said. “Don’t you have another daughter?”
“No,” said the man. “There is only a deformed little Cinderella from my first wife, but she cannot possibly be the bride.”
The prince told him to send her to him, but the mother answered, “Oh, no, she is much too dirty. She cannot be seen.”
But the prince insisted on it, and they had to call Cinderella. She first washed her hands and face clean, and then went and bowed down before the prince, who gave her the golden shoe. She sat down on a stool, pulled her foot out of the heavy wooden shoe, and put it into the slipper, and it fitted her perfectly.
When she stood up the prince looked into her face, and he recognized the beautiful girl who had danced with him. He cried out, “She is my true bride.”
The stepmother and the two sisters were horrified and turned pale with anger. The prince, however, took Cinderella onto his horse and rode away with her. As they passed by the hazel tree, the two white pigeons cried out:
Rook di goo, rook di goo!
No blood’s in the shoe.
The shoe’s not too tight,
This bride is right!
After they had cried this out, they both flew down and lit on Cinderella’s shoulders, one on the right, the other on the left, and remained sitting there.
When the wedding with the prince was to be held, the two false sisters came, wanting to gain favor with Cinderella and to share her good fortune. When the bridal couple walked into the church, the older sister walked on their right side and the younger on their left side, and the pigeons pecked out one eye from each of them. Afterwards, as they came out of the church, the older one was on the left side, and the younger one on the right side, and then the pigeons pecked out the other eye from each of them. And thus, for their wickedness and falsehood, they were punished with blindness as long as they lived.
Source: Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm, “Aschenputtel,” Kinder- und Hausmärchen [Children's and Household Tales -- Grimms' Fairy Tales], 7th edition (Göttingen: Verlag der Dieterichschen Buchhandlung, 1857), no. 21, pp. 119-26.
The Grimms’ source: Dorothea Viehmann (1755-1815), and other sources.
This tale, in a different version, was included in the first edition of Kinder- und Hausmärchen (1812). It was substantially revised for the second edition (1819).
Translated by D. L. Ashliman. © 2001-2006.
Aarne-Thompson-Uther type 510A.
Related links
Cinderella. Additional tales of type 510A, including the well-known version by Charles Perrault, and the Grimms’ 1812 version.
The Father Who Wanted to Marry His Daughter. Folktales of Aarne-Thompson-Uther type 510B. These “persecuted heroine” stories bear a strong resemblence to the Cinderella tales, but here it is the father, not a stepmother or stepsister, who is the source of the heroine’s grief.
The Grimm Brothers’ Children’s and Household Tales (Fairy Tales).
The Grimm Brothers’ Home Page.
D. L. Ashliman’s folktexts, a library of folktales, folklore, fairy tales, and mythology.
Revised June 1, 2011.
Weekly Update 8
This week has been a super busy
week in Mrs. Carter’s fifth grade class. We have been so busy. We are always
doing really exiting classes. Last Friday we had our Halloween party! It was
awesome. We had to pop each others balloons, when the balloons were tied to our
ankles. We also, did a Halloween version of truth or dare, just trick or treat!
We have been working on slice of life all week! We have been working very hard
to publish our final drafts! We have been having math quizzes for the past few
days! We had 1 yesterday, one today, and one tomorrow! They are on vocabulary!
We also, just got our Mesopotamia Tests back to take home! Last week we just
got too peek at them, but this time we actually got to take them home, and get
a parent signature! We also, have a Wordly Wise, and Math test the 8th.
Our next river kids are on the 17th.
Yesterday at lunch something super exiting happened.
We got homemade pizza! The chefs cooked the pizza! They made the sauce, dough,
and cheese! It is so yummy and really thick, and fluffy. You could get the
pizza with salad. But not with normal lunches. In, science we did the coolest
lab ever, it was with ice and boiling water. There were many rules to follow
but it was well worth it! We recorded changes every five minutes on the lab it
was so cool! We put one beaker in ice, and one beaker on a hot plate! There
were so many changes! The water would go through the tube! The ice also,
melted. We also, had a super fun and
exited 5th and 6th grade fun day. We danced, played
games, and ate lunch together! It was so fun, the point of fun day was for
fifth and sixth grades to socialize! I think everyone has an awesome time.
We did so many games like the “It” game. It is so fun,
everyone in your group spreads out in a circle. There is one person in the
middle closing their eyes, and there is one person in the circle doing dance
moves. That person that is doing the dance moves is the one who the person in
the middle is trying to guess. Today, it is a trinity TV day! Trinity TV is our
awesome school channel! We have so many segments! The segments include, fitness
for fun, people dancing for no reason, “I bet you didn’t know that”?, “world
news update”,” what is that?”, and so many more. We have a Worldly Wise test on Tuesday. Our
projects are due the day before that, Monday. On Tuesday we had a grade level
volley ball games! It was so fun! Everyone split up into groups and we played!
I hope everyone has an awesome rest of the week!
By: Maddie
I hope everyone has a wonderful Halloween! Here is a very scary story:
Yellow Taxi
The Yellow Taxi is a creepy tale from Korea about a young man and two girls who are on their way home one night, when they encounter something horrible.
A few years ago, I travelled to South Korea to teach English. I was living in an apartment which I shared with two Korean girls named Mi Sun and Hwa Young. One night, we went to a nightclub. The two girls and I had some drinks and danced for hours. At the end of the night, we decided to get a taxi home.
Outside the nightclub, I waved at a yellow taxi that was passing by. It stopped and we got inside. I was sitting in the front seat and my two friends were sitting in the back seat.
The taxi driver was an odd fellow. He spoke very good English and began telling us some jokes. He was actually quite funny and I found myself laughing at everything he said. When I glanced behind me, I noticed that Mi Sun and Hwa Young were not laughing at all. In fact, they were sitting there, stone-faced, with a really odd expression on their faces.
“What’s wrong”, I asked. “Why aren’t you laughing?”
They wouldn’t answer me. Instead, they sat there in the back seat, staring straight ahead.
Suddenly, Hwa Young leaned forward and said something to the taxi driver in Korean.
He pulled over to the side of the road and the two girls got out of the yellow taxi and started walking away quickly.
I was puzzled. This wasn’t our stop. In fact, we were nowhere near our apartment. I paid the driver and ran after the two girls.
“What’s the matter?” I asked when I caught up with them.
They turned to me, their faces white with fear.
“We have to call the police!” said Hwa young.
“Didn’t you hear it?” said Mi Sun. “Coming from the trunk of the taxi. A woman’s voice saying “Please help me. Please help me.”
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This week in Fifth grade has been fun but busy. We are getting our Mesopotamia Tests back right now…. This week we had pumpkin decorating with our pre-k buddies .They are so cute! We have Miss Coney’s class, they love to paint pumpkins. Mrs. Carter has also decorated our room…. Halloween! We just took our Mesopotamia tests yesterday. The material was concepts, vocabulary, and a map of Mesopotamia! That does not seem like a lot of material but on the test it sure did feel like a lot. Today, was so exiting we had media! Not just normal media but an extra special media we got to try foods from the Mesopotamian times. We have been working a lot on Mesopotamia a few days a go starting Monday we had to comment on other peoples blogs. We first got a worksheet and went out in the hall and looked at the projects. There were very cool projects, so we went on their blogs and commented.
This week our Sixth Grade Leadership Class went to Jekyll, so Mrs. Edwards is not here to teach us science. But that is o.k because we have Mrs. Harrison, Virginia’s mom teaching us. Mr. Parrish is also gone to, and so is Coach Brien our P.E teacher. In science we have been doing an experiment we poured three fourths of a cup of water, and we are seeing how long it will take to evaporate. We also, made drawings of the water cycle. In our drawings we had to include all of the elements of the water cycle. This morning Mr. Val put on an awesome show. He carved a bird out of an apple. He said that he learned how to do it in chef school. I would love to learn how to do that!
Tomorrow, we have a math test. It is on dividing decimals, mean, median, mode, and range, some questions about remainders.Ms. Eyles showed us how to divide with decimals on this awesome website.The website is khanacademy.org there you can learn how to do many things go at your own rate, and do exercises. In World Languages, we have been doing a lot of Rosetta stone. We also have been cutting our language learning into chunks we have been doing, vocabulary, sentences, and more.We also have a field trip on Friday! We are going to the world congress center! Mrs. Garcia let us tally what lunch we want sun butter, cheese, or turkey. I hope everyone has a great rest of the week.
By:Maddie
