AAIW

The line "...if Fairies may for a moment lay aside cunning tricks and elfish play..." means basically to "get serious." We discovered this after Mr. N opened our minds to the question. We came to the conclusion that when it is said, "The rest next time--" "It is next time!" that why should you wait for when it is said it is really already next time. There is orange marmalade on the shelf for the simple fact that the rabbit likes it on his toast. To answer the fourth question we decided that if Alice is in a world where weird is normal then for something normal to happen would be weird.

AAIW

These are our answers to AAIW. We Think that "...if fairies may lay aside cunning tricks and elfish play..." means that they are goiung to stop being mischevious and be serious.
The "rest next time..." "it is next time!" is more of a living in the moment kind of thing. Maybe the orange mamelade means nothing the chapter ends by inferring that crazy things are going to happen.

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"...if Faries may for a moment lay aside cunning tricks and elfish play..." means that the faries need to get serious and open up. "The rest next time--" "It is next time!'' means why wait until tomorrow when you can do it today. There is orange marmalade on the shelf because rabbits like orange marmalade. Alice means that she got to much in the way, and expected nothing out of the way to happen. Mainly she shouldn't have went down the hole in the first place.

We think that ....if Fairies may for a moment lay aside cunning tricks and elfish play....means that If they could get serious for a moment and quit playing around maybe something will go right. The line "The rest next time--" "It is next time means that we will do this tomorrow it is tomorrow. Whoever lives in the hole likes orange marmalade thats why its on the shelf. She will be put into danger and she is going out of her way to make sure nothing bad happens to anyone else.

AAIW #1

"If fairies may for a moment lay aside cunning tricks and elfish play," simply means everything would be better if fairies would stop their usual routine of cunning trics and eflish play. "The rest next time--" "It is next time!", means that something will be told to you at a later time, but then right after "the rest next time" is said "it is next time" is also said because it is already a later time. There is orange marmalade on the shelf to excite Alice about finding something but then soon to realize it is there for nothing more than just to get your hopes up. From the statement at the end of the first chapter i can predict that there will be many out-of-the-way things or so called odd things that happen to Alice in the rest of the story.

Go Ask Alice

Ok! I am impressed with how the blog is taking shape. As you know by now, we are diving into Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, now referred to AAIW. I was very impressed how all of you were reading and formulating questions about the two opening poems and Alice's travel through the rabbit hole. What we will be doing now is researching and brainstorming ideas about what the answers to some of your questions might be. We won't be brainstorming as a class or posting individual responses. I will be dividing you up into teams to research, brainstorm, and post. In addition, you will be posting comments to other groups posts.

Here are the questions each group must address:

1. What does "...if Fairies may for a moment lay aside cunning tricks and elfish play..." mean?
2. What does this line mean? "The rest next time--" "It is next time!"
3. Why is there orange marmalade on the shelf?
4. The first chapter ends with "...but Alice had got so much into the way of expecting nothing but out-of-the-way things to happen, that it seemed quite dull and stupid for life to go on in the common way." What can you infer and predict will happen from this statement?

I want each group to post a well organized response to the above prompts. I will be looking for organized paragraphs, grammatical sentence structures, and spelling.

This assignment is worth 30 pts. Each person in the group will receive the same points. If I see one person doing all of the work, I will give the entire group 30 pts. and divide it among all group members. In other words, if a group has 5 members, they would each receive 6 pts. out of a possible 30.

The post is due today! Let's get down to discussing and posting.

I have posted a WIKI link to AAIW.

Lastly, if your group is finished posting, each of you needs to start commenting to other posts.

Alice's Restaurant is filling up

Since the last time I visited the blog, you all have been very busy I see. In fact, it seems that most of you have learned about the original Alice's Restaurant. More importantly, I also see that you are writing coherent sentences and presenting your ideas in a logical way. These are skills that will help you be successful in your future--no matter what you choose to do.

I dropped by today to see what you all were up to, but I also wanted to share a cool link with you. You should challenge Mr. Neuburger, aka Jiffeepop, to find a way to use this in his class lesson plans. Of course, I'm sure there would have to be some writing connected to it.

Hero Machine


Keep up the good work!

Mr. G (aka: whatsnews32)