Alice- Heather T.
Doormouse- Thomas M.

A: Hey D-man
D: Hey Alice
A: What are you up to?
A: Well tell a story and livin things up a bit.
D: If I tell a story are you going to be able to listen without any interuptions?
A: I don't know...Don't you think your question was a little rude?
D: No, when someone tells a story your suppose to save your questions until after I finish.
A: Oh. Okay I get it now. But wait, what if I don't remember them?
D: Well I guess get a pen and paper and write them down when you think of one.
A: Okay. I guess if you want me to.
D: Alright well then lets get to telling a story.
A: Yay! I'm so excited I can't wait to hear it.
D: This one time I was walking around wonderland and I saw this cat looking thing in a bush. So I went over to the bush and told the furry little thing in a bush. So I went over to the bush and told the furry cat to come out and show himself.
A: Wait! I got to write my question down.
D: That's an interuption Alice. Don't you remember saying you wouldn't interupt?
A: No, when did I ever say that?
D: Just like thirty seconds ago before I started my story. Whatever I'm done telling it. I got to run. Catch you later
A: Fine see you later.

Kal- Have you ever wondered why we actually read Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland?

Ben- Actually i was asking myself that for about 3 weeks and never got an answer to it, what’s your theory?

Kal- We have always wondered that and we want some student opinions and facts on why we read the book.

Ben- well i’ll start this discussion off. I think that the reason that we read it is because some high and mighty literature teacher was so profoundly confused by this work that instead of admitting his or her confusion labeled this book “a must read” so now we “GOTTA READ” it.

Kal- That is a great point Ben. I personally think that we read this because it has unlimited activities and projects that high schoolers world wide can do. Activities and projects include blogging, pod-casting, and even dreaded worksheets.

Ben- you do make a good point kal, but i still think that there are better novels to read and use as a launching pad for many of these activities.

Kal- True, true, true! We can’t forget that this was a top selling novel, that is another reason why the novel was chosen for us to read.

Ben- yes in fact it was a top selling novel, but that was during a time period where the choices of literature to read was was less than what we are exposed to in this day and time. If it was published today i don’t think that it would make it into the top 100 selling book.

Kal- No, definitely not! Especially with all of the other great books that have been published in the last year. Newer books would be fun to do pod-cast on because we would be able to relate to them a lot easier.

Ben- Now that you know our opinions on why we read this book we want to hear yours.

Kal- Yes, just comment us on this blog.

THANKS ALOT

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CC:Thrice upon a time...
Alice: Where did you come from?
CC: A boy died, lived happily ever after.
Alice: What happened?
CC:What happened to whom?
Alice: The boy?
CC:He lived happily ever after.
Alice: How did he die?
CC: I don't know, I've never died before, nor have I ever had a dream.
Alice: Oh.
CC:So have you forgotten your little mad trip into my mad world so fast?
Alice: I guess. I had a mad trip?
CC: Of course, in fact since you don't know that was a mad trip, you must be a mad person, or maybe a sane person. I'm not sure which is which.
Alice: I guess your right. I am a very mad person.
CC: But mad people do mad things, what mad things have you ever done?
Alice: I......
Mary: Alice wake up.Your talking in your sleep.
Alice:Where am I?



Lewis Carroll was a better known name, but his real name was Charles Lutwidge Dodgson. He was born on January 27, 1832 in Daresbury, England. He died on January 14, 1898 in Guilford, England.
Lewis Carroll was known for writing Alice’s Adventures In Wonderland and Through The Looking Glass, but he wasn’t really a writer, he was a mathematician.

Lewis Carroll got his name by translating “Charles Lutwidge” into Latin as “Carolus Lodovicus” Then he reversed their order.
Lewis’s father was born in 1800 and studied at the University of Oxford. His name was Charles also, Charles Senior, while he was at the University he earned a first class degree in mathematics and classics. At Oxford he held a fellowship and was appointed a mathematics lecturer. He had to give up his Oxford fellowship because he married his cousin Frances Jane Lutwidge in 1827. After leaving Oxford he became a curate at All Saints’ Church in Daresbury. It was in Daresbury that 10 of their 11 kids were born.

Lewis was the third child he had two older sisters, Fanny born in 1828 and Elizabeth born in 1830. Lewis was Baptized on July 11, 1832 in his fathers church. Lewis grew up in a really strict Christian household and him and his brothers and sisters were home schooled. Lewis read mostly religious books and to prove his progress he was able to read Pilgrams Progress, he read that at the age of seven. Lewis really looked up to his father, and that’s why he went into mathematics. Lewis wasn’t the only one who wanted him to be like his father, his father also wanted Lewis to be like him so he tried really hard to accomplish that.

While the Dodgson family lived at Daresbury they struggled financially. So their father decided to switch and become a vicar at Croft-on-trees in Yorkshire in 1843 and there he got a better income. At Yorkshire they got to live in a very nice house. On August 1 1843 Lewis entered Richmond school as a boarder. He lived in the headmaster’s house. Since the school was only ten miles from his house his parents got to visit him a week after he arrived, when they arrived they found out that he was adjusting very well to a new place and that he liked it very much. While at this school he received an excellent foundation for his education, while also excelling in mathematics. When Lewis turned 14 he was enrolled at Rugby. He turned 14 on January 27, 1846! He was a very shy boy with a stammer. Being that way he was bullied a lot. Even though he was very unhappy he still got very good grades, also receiving lots of prizes and awards. Mathematics was his favorite and best subject but he did very well in all of his subjects.

In 1843 he suffered a lot of illnesses, the first being the whooping cough. Whooping cough left him with a cough and every now and then it would come back. Then the next was the mumps. The mumps left him half deaf in his right ear.
He left Rugby in December of 1849. That following May he went to the University of Oxford and continued his studies there. Lewis’s father had gone to Christ Church College Oxford and so he had wished that Lewis would attend there just like him, so he did. Although things did not start very well for Lewis, there were a shortage of accommodation and he had to return to his parent’s house and wait. Lewis was able to return to Oxford and live with the Reverend Jacob Ley, a very good friend of his fathers.

Lewis got the idea for Alice’s Adventures In Wonderland from Henry George Liddell’s children. Henry was the dean of Christ Church. Lewis always took real well to children he could really speak to them and understand them.

http://library.thinkquest.org/10977/carroll/