The Egypt Game- Zilpha Keatley Snyder

THE EGYPT GAME

Illustrator

The illustration I drew, is of the four children walking to The Great Pyramids, which symbolizes Elizabeth, April, Melanie and Marshall’s journey to The Egypt Game.

In the bottom left corner, the university town in which the children were trick-or-treating is portrayed. These two illustrations are joined into one. Under the veil of darkness the four children were secretly getting away from the group of youngsters, which were being supervised by the two adults, to get to their destination.

The excursion was extremely risky, especially when there was a murderer on the loose.

The illustration covers the text in the chapters.

Vocabulary Enricher Ben

                                            The Egypt Game

I was the Vocabulary Enricher, the words that we had to read for this discussion ten were either having ten definitions or words that everyone knows, but their were a few words that were unknown to me. The words were:

Oracle: An oracle can be two things either a response of a priest/priestess to a god , or a Shrine.

Grottoes:A cavern or a cave formed into the ground with limestone.

Graciously: Pleasantly kind of an act or a luxury material or fabric. 

Wailing: Type of sound or a clear, loud voice said by a person or an animal. 

Gulping: To gasp or choke, out of laughter or any other act. 

Crept: Past tense of creep, meaning moving slowly by the ground or very close to the ground.

Travel Tracer- Alex Nunan

Alex Nunan
Mrs. Pasic
Language and Literature
16th May, 2016

                                                              Travel Tracer

My job was Travel Tracer. For my job I wrote down in the "Where the action begins" that the action began at Melanie's and April's school. The action happens when the students of  April's and Melanie's class learn about Egypt. The topic of Oracles show up and the class is hooked. When learning about Oracles, Toby knew the teacher was also hooked about that topic and asked her to give further explanation on Oracles. He did that so that she would speak a lot and miss a hard test. The plan worked and worked so well that the students were very fascinated about the topic.
     In the next part of my work.... I gave a list about where and what happens.
1. The Egyptians decide to transfer their knowledge of Oracles to Egypt.
2. April organizes an assembly in Egypt for who becomes the Oracle.
3. April becomes the Oracle of Egypt.
4. Egypt becomes better.
My last part of my job... I wrote that the end happens at the end of the chapter. The action is the discovery of Oracles that will stay in the book until the end!

Discussion Director second time

What happened in this chapter?
Did anyone got blackmailed by Tobi or Cray?
That they start to play Egypt game again and is there any new things added to it?
Who is now princess?
What do you think will happen in next chapter?

Answers
They started playing Egypt game.
The new thing they added to game were oracles.
The new princess of the Egypt game is April
I think the Egypt game will be better and they will add a lot of new things to it.

Petar Artful Artist Blog 2

In our second meeting for the Egypt game my job was to be the artful artist. The artful artists job is to find an interesting part from the chapters and make an illustration of it. I drew a picture of Melanie and April preparing for the Egypt game. Unfortunatly the illustration got lost so I wasn't able to upload a picture of it. The reason Why I chose to illustrate this specific action of the story was because it seemed as if it was the rising action. The picture wasn't very detailed but it was clear to see the intention of the drawing. I drew April with her big eyelashes and Melanie as a normal girl with a bit longer hair than an ordinary girl. I used markers to color it and the main colors i used were brown blue and yellow. In conclusion I think that the group members liked the illustration and I think that the discussion went well.

discussion director Petar BLOG 1

The book we are currently reading is an adventure book called the Egypt Game which was written by Zilpha Keatley Snyder. The book has won a Newberry award in the year 1967. My job was the discussion director, Which is when you have to give certain questions that the group would be willing to discuss. The thirty five pages we were supposed to read were mainly focused on describing the main characters and the setting. My first question or demand was if a member of the group could summarize what happened in a specific chapter. For this question everyone briefly summarized what happened which was great because it meant that everyone read what they were supposed to. My second question was related to connections, I asked the group members if they had any connections to the story. Nina told us a very interesting story about a man and women, relatively old people, who called the police for no reason because Nina and her friend were playing in the grass. In my third question I asked the group members to share their thoughts about the book, who their favorite character is and why. The answers for this question were simple and one sided, everyone chose Melanie. My last but not least question was what do you think will happen next? Everyone suspected that it would have to do something with the professor and because of my further reading it was indeed true that the topic of the next several chapters was the professor. Overall the discussion was very good, everyone stayed on topic and the answers to most of the questions were detailed and interesting.

Nina Discussion Director

This week I was discussion director. I had lot's of different questions but I think that my questions should be a bit more detail.

My Question:
1. Do you think that the professor is the killer? I think that he is not the killer but that he has something to do with the killer, like that he knows what happened or that he knows who the killer is.

2. How did you feel when you found out that the girl was killed? I was very shocked and I didn't know why that happened, I thought that the book would be about Egypt and that no one would die.

3. Do you like halloween? I really like halloween because you get to dress up as anything and you get lot's of candy. I also like that you get to hang out with your friends and do creepy and scary stuff (like scaring other people).

4. What would you do if you found out that a child was killed in your town (street)? I would be pretty shocked and I would ask my parents if we could go out of town until they found the killer. But it would be fun to feel a bit scared :).

5. What do you think will happen next? I think that the kids will meet the professor in his backyard and that they will ask him questions. I also think that the kids will be in trouble because they left the group and went to the professors backyard. 

Literacy Circles- Christoffer

This discussion we read to page 98. This time I was Illustrator.

I drew the part where April, Melanie, Elizabeth and Marshall are playing or participating in the Egypt Game. I drew this scene because the Egypt Game is the main thing/setting in the book.

The Egypt Game - Vocabulary Enricher - Lola

Vocabulary Enricher

Today I was Word Wizard and we read from page 67 till 98...

Page 68, Paragraph 2 - Languishing - Lose or lack of vitality (energy)

Page 69, Paragraph 17 - Remedial - Cure

Page 75, Paragraph 3 - Tenpins - Bowling pins

Page 85, Paragraph 1 - Raptly - Deeply absorbed / concentrated

Page 85, Paragraph 1 - Monolith - Large block of stone

Page 86, Paragraph 4 - Ad-libbed - To speak without preparing your speech

Page 89, Paragraph 1 - Unwieldy - An object that is difficult to move

Page 94, Paragraph 8 - Liable - Responsible by law

Page 95, Paragraph 2 - Convulsions - A sudden, irregular movement of the body

Page 96, Paragraph 4 - Incense - A gum, spic or other substance that is burnt for the sweet smell

Page 97, Paragraph 1 - Prostrated - A gland surrounding the neck

The Egypt Game blog- Vocabulary Enricher

This week I was Vocabulary Enricher. The words that I found were:
Monoliths: A large stone.
Sheerest: "Nothing".
Pails: A bucket.
Scornfully: Something done with respect. 

The Egypt Game - Summarizer - Lola

Summarizer

Today I was summarizer and we read the book from page 35 to page 67...

At the beginning, since Melanie and April became friends, the continued hanging out together everyday. Then one day in August, in the library, the Egypt game began. Then in September, April and Melanie took the Egypt game to the Professors backyard. They found a statue of Nefertiti in the Professors backyard. Melanie and April pulled all the weeds and cleaned the backyard. They turned an old shed into a temple. They wanted and succeeded to create an Egyptian atmosphere. They started making some games. They had one when Melanie's little brother, Marshal, was known as Pharaoh Marshamosis. They even created an evil god called Set. While Marshal, Melanie and April were building their game, the Professor started watching them. They don't notice him. Melanie doesn't want April to wear her fake eyelashes to school so she hid them. Dorothea, April's mom, isn't writing to April and April is getting worried. At school April, at first, was such a diva. But later, all of the boys started liking her because of her daring attitude. All of the boys in school gave April a nickname. It was February. The girls and Marshal tidied up the backyard and continued making an Egyptian atmosphere. They also made more games. Then one day, a new girl moved into the Casa Rosada. She was a Chinese girl called Elizabeth Chung. She became friends with Melanie and April. After a lot of thinking, Melania and April told Elizabeth about the Egypt Game!

Vocabulary Enricher-Alex Nunan

Alex Nunan
Mrs.Pasic
Language and Literature
6th May, 2016

                                                        Vocabulary Enricher

          For the first word I wrote down was the word realty. The word is used in page eighty one and in paragraph two, the word in context is Mr. Kamata was from Kamata's realty. It turns out that the definition of the word, realty, means someones property. The second word was in paragraph three and in page eighty five. The word in context: with a last lingering dismay she realized. The definition of this word is to alarm to something or someone. For another word, I chose convulsions. The word in context is... the Egyptians got over their convulsions. The location of the word is on page ninety five and on paragraph two. The definition of convulsion is a fast movement. My second to last word is on page ninety six and on paragraph two. The word is unison. The definition of this word is to perform or a performance. The word in context: Everybody repeated it in whispered unison. My last word is coaxed. It is in page one hundred and two and in paragraph two. The definition of the word coaxed is to persuade. The context is, Melanie coaxed.