The Egypt Game Literature Circles-Christoffer

This time we read to page 67. My job during this discussion was being the discussion director. My job was to come up with different questions. Here are my questions:

1. Would you like to take part in the Egypt Game? Why?
I would like to take part in the Egypt Game because I think it would be a fun way to learn about the Egyptians and act like how they behaved during the time of Ancient Egypt.

2. Would you like to be friends with April and Melanie? Why?
I would be friends with them because they are kind and imaginative. They are also mentally strong even when they get teased they don't just get teased they are strong and do somethings about it.

3. How do you feel when you come to a new school?
When I came to ISB I felt nervous and anxious. I felt nervous and scared because I didn't know anyone, but after some time when I get to know more and more people and begin to feel more comfortable.

4. What do you think will happen next?
I think that the children taking part in the Egypt Game will meet or interfere with the professor in some way.

5. Do you think that there will be any friendship problems in this boo? Why?
I think that there won't be any friendship problems between April and Melanie because right now Melanie has only one friend how is April, and April only has one friend who is Melanie. I also think this because right now they are really good friends and really enjoy being together.

The Egypt Game

Zilpha Kealtey Snyder

Nobody knows exactly what the the meaning of  A-Z is. His name was unknown by the inhabitants of a large university town in California. He was nicknamed the ‘professor’ by the community of Orchard Avenue. He owned a small dusty shop on the corner of a road. It was full of various antiques, covering every shelf there was. His black ominous eyes followed you around the shop. He was like a lonely shadow lurking around the cheerful Orchard Avenue.

After working hard and long the old man spotted three young children playing in his storage yard. An African-American young boy, and two girls. They frolicked through the weeds, laughing, moving statues and cleaning the area. The storage yard was speckless. The professor was amazed,but it was reminiscent of something. It reminded him of Egypt.

April Hall (April Dawn) entered the Casa Rosada. She lived with her grandmother because her mother Dorothea was on a worldwide tour. April was a lonely, woeful girl waiting for her parent to come back. She was a skinny eleven year old ,with stone cold blue eyes and almost golden blonde hair.

Entered Melanie, Marshall and his plushie octopus Security. These children are both pleasant individuals. Marshall was a four year old boy. He had black hair and black eyes.

Melanie was an eleven year old girl. She also had black hair and black eyes. Melanie was extremely adventurous and had a slender body.

Marshall was a naughty and incredibly mischievous. He was very curious about the world and was mesmerized by his plushie octopus.

Vocabulary Enricher Matija

Page 75 paragraph 3 word splendors meaning that something is beautiful and impressive.

Page 73 paragraph 3 innocent means that something is not guilty of a crime.

Page 65 paragraph 1 wrinkled means a small furrow in a skin especially at the face.

Page 43 paragraph 1 corrugated   means o wrinkle, as the skin or face.

Page 51paragraph 2 treacherous meaning something is not deceptive, untrustworthy, or unreliable.

Page 62 paragraph 2  word scornfully means to mock with the smile. 

Summarize Ben April 19,2016

       


            I was the summarize and I think that I picked the right time to be summarize since it was very interesting and  engaging. What ha pend in the story was the following: April, Marshall and Melaney went to play the Egypt Game for a second time, while the next day they all went to school and then until 5:30 played the Egypt Game and always influenced Marshall to be part of the Egypt Game as a king. A new girl moved into the Casa Rosata her name was Elizabeth and she moved in with her two sisters and her mom since her dad died days before. April and Melaney where figuring out whether to bring Elizabeth into the Egypt Game,  days  followed so they invited Elizabeth to the Egypt game to make  it  more fun and exiting  for all of them until when one day Mrs.Rose told that a girl was killed on the streets near the Casa Rosata and that all of them must stay inside to be extra safe since this was not the first time that this kind of crime happend and that a boy the year before met the same fate. So all the girls and Marshall played the Egypt Game inside and all o them knew it was not the same thing as outside. 

Egypt Game Literary Luminary- Alex Nunan

Alex Nunan
Mrs.Pasic
Language and Literature
19th April, 2016

                                                            Literary Luminary
     The page that I chose was page fifty three and paragraph three. What happened in this portion of the book was the advanced arrangements of the Egypt Game. The reason I chose that paragraph and page was because of the detail and description of the arrangements, it showed good detail and description when the author wrote about the broken down statues, the dead flower gardens laying around and the decorations on the evil god, Set.
    The other page that I chose was page fifty nine and paragraph one. The reason for choosing this area of the book is due to the emergence of the new family which is moving into the Casa Rosada. This occurrence may put the Egypt Game in jeopardy because the new family's daughter (named Elizabeth)  seems interested in the topic and looks forward to uncovering the secrets held in the professors backyard.
    The page that I chose was page sixty six and paragraph two. I chose that page and paragraph because that area contains the involvement of Elizabeth in the Egypt Game. This action may lead to the ending of the Egypt Game even though Elizabeth makes a really good Nefertiti.
    Another page that I chose was page seventy and paragraph one. The reason for this is because there was a killing involved, there was a little girl who was roaming around the safe neighborhood then the girl was kidnapped and killed. Her body was found in a nearby marshland. This is important because due to this the parents decided to keep the children at home and not let them play their game.
    The paragraph that I chose was paragraph one in page seventy three. What happened in that portion was that the professor was a huge suspect in the case of the murdered girl. The police showed up multiple times at the professors house and then people started making rumors. This is important because now there is a bigger jeopardy because they play the Egypt Game in his backyard.
    

The Egypt Game - Connector - Lola

Connector

Today, I was connector. These are my connections...

1. On page 17 and 18 it said ... "It looked almost Egyptian and April had always been especially interested in Egyptian stuff." I, myself, am also very interested in Egyptian stuff. From items to its history, I am very interested.

2. On page 22 it said... "On that same day in August, just a few minutes before twelve, Melanie Ross arrived at the door of Mrs. Hall's apartment on the third floor." I myself live on the third floor in my building. 

3. On page 22 it said... "Today, Melanie had been sent up to get Mrs. Hall's granddaughter to come down and have lunch with the Rosses." Since Mrs. Hall lives on the third floor and it says Melanie had been sent up to get Mrs. Halls granddaughter, we know that Melanie lives on the second floor. There is a girl who recently moved into the floor underneath me, second floor. I am yet to meet her. 

4. Nina's Connection - There is the creepy, old man, in the book, who works in the A - Z Antiques Shop. Nina's connections is... I was in Zlatibor with my brothers friends and we were playing outside at night. Suddenlly an old man and his wife came out and they started taking videos of us. Then they called the police because we ding dong ditched them. Then the police came but then just left. The next day, the grandparents came out and started taking pictures again, and then left us. 

14/4/16 Christoffer Vocabulary Enricher

This week I was the vocabulary enricher for The Egypt Game. We read until page 34.

Shabby - pg3 - In poor condition or mean and unfair

Vague - pg4 - Of uncertain, indefinite or unclear character or meaning

Bust - pg7 - A sculpture of a person's head, shoulders and chest

Ornate - pg8 - Elaborately or highly decorated

Dingy - pg15 - Gloomy and drab

Ivory - pg17 - A hard creamy substance

Clerks - pg17 - A person employed in an office or bank to keep records, accounts and undertake other routine administrative duties

Craggy - pg20 - Rough and uneven

Grudging - pg20 - Given or allowed only reluctantly or resentfully

Kooky - pg21 -Strange

Reincarnations - pg21 - The rebirth of a soul in another body

Apt - pg22 - Appropriate or suitable in the circumstances

Showboating - pg27 - Showoff

Crooks - pg31 - A person who is dishonest or a criminal

Tony Su

Mrs. Pasic

Language and Literature

11, April 2016

Zylpha Snyder

Egypt Game
Everyone is scared of one person, that person is called Professcer. He’s very tall and bent and his beard straggled up his cheeks like dry moss on gray rocks. His eyes were dark and expressionless and set so deep under heavy browse. Professor’s job is a shop keeper. The Egypt game is created by 2 children. One of them is called April and the other child is called Melanie. April’s mom is a movie star or kind of like a movie star. Both April and Melanie loves Egypt that is why they create the “Egypt Game”. Before the “Egypt Game” was played the children loves one place, the place is called “A-Z” shop. In the shop, there is some very old Egypt stuff.

Egypt Game Illustrator-Alex Nunan

Alex Nunan

Mrs. Pasic

Language and Literature

11, April 2016

Zylpha Snyder

Egypt Game

                                                             Egypt Game Illustrator

        I decide to exhibit the surroundings of April's apartment, (Casa Rosada), because the way the Author described the scene was so splendid, he is truly eloquent. I could easily follow the writing and draw from the data I collected. I drew a doughnut store which was on the right of a florist and then I drew a billboard which was tall. To be a little bit original, on the billboard I drew my friend. In the book it says specifically that there is a facade with bad windows and messed up doors, I drew it. On

the far left of my exhibit was the Casa Rosada.  

Connector Ben April 11,2016

                  




                      I was the connector and it was an average job, it was not the most difficult and not the most simple of work to complete.The book that we started was The Egypt Game by Zilpha Keatly Snyder. My first connection was when April thought of Caroline's a person who was neither interesting or noticing at all anything, my connection to that is when I am sad or impressed I think of other people as humans  who do not understand a singe thing or even lived through such stuff, but eventually I change my mind about them. The second and last connection was when Melanie and her sort of friend April spend one entire moth together playing and bonding.My connection is that my best friend Teodoras(from Lithuania) and I play every summer none stop from 9 am too 12 pm football and it is something I still treasure that I still keep up an enormous capacity inside off passion for the beautiful game.  
  

Vocabulary Enricher = Angelos

The Egypt game 

By: Zilpha Snyder

In this Literacy Circles I was the Vocabulary Enricher and some words that I found were:

1. P.4;Para.2=Aging= When someone becomes older or starts growing.
2. P.8;Para.1=Errand= The purpose of a trip
3. P.38;Para.4=Yelp=A quick,sharp bark or cry
4. P.5;Para.4=Gunnysack=A sack made from gunny or burlap
5. P.21;Para.2=Quavered=To shake tremulously; Quiver or tremble.
6.P.30;Para.4=Scornful=To mock by a way
7. P.27;Para.5=Showboating=Show-offing
8. P.7 Para 2=Nefertiti=Egyptian Queen
9. P.10;Para.2=Blossom=The flower of a pant.

Discussion Director

  What do you think about professor and his ?
I think that he is a really strange and weir person and his behaviour is kind of scary.
 In our group everybody agreed on this answer  everybody thinks he is really weird.

   How did they described professor?
 They described that he is tall and he is banded because he is really old. He ignore everybody and he would not talk a lot for example some kids were shouting at him and he just ignored like he can't see them.  Everybody agreed but Tony gave a lot of good examples because he was a summerizer.

   Where did they play the Egypt game and who was watching them playing?
They played Egypt game in professors back yard they sneaked in but they didn't know he was watching them through his window. Everybody answered the same with shows that all of us read carefully but Alex added that they moved some of the things in garden.

  What do you think about this book so far?
 I think this book is really good it is mysterious and i really like how it's explained good so i can understand everything.
All of us like book so far but Ben thought it is boring.
  What do you expect to happen in next chapters?
I expect that something bad will happen to someone and the strange things will happen possibly someone die or get in big trouble.  
All of us think the same that the someone will die in next chapter.

My group agreed with these answers when we were answering everybody tough the same with shoes that we understand this book so far.