Hang A Thousand Trees With Ribbons--Part 3

Hang A Thousand trees With Ribbons~~~Ann Rinaldi
I read from page 98 to page 125 or from chapter 13 to chapter 15

Chapter 13:  In this chapter, it starts off with the Wheatleys arguing about the small pox.  Phillis then hears the doctor knock on the door to inoculate the Wheatley family.  She decides to go out to the barn to hide.  Phillis falls asleep, and dreamed of her mother pouring out water before the sun.  Nathaniel wakes her up and is mad at her because she hid.  She tells him why she is hiding, and the reason is because she didn't follow the instructions that her mother gave her when she was home.  It was her fault that her mother was dead and she thinks that the small pox is a curse on her for doing so.  Nathaniel says that it isn't and carries her into the house to get inoculated.

Chapter 14:  The next morning Phillis woke up with her head throbbing.  Sulie came in and gave her some nice hot broth.  She said that her name was Old Bettie because she didn't want Phillis knowing it was her.  Phillis asks how Aunt Cumsee is, and she says that she is doing fine.  The second day, Phillis felt feverish.  "Old Bettie" talks Phillis into writing a letter to her friend Obour.  Later, when she was sleeping, she had another dream only this time Obour was involved.  She sees Obour chasing away the birds from the fields and then her mother appeared and told was pouring water out before the sun.  Her mother told her what to do about Aunt Cumsee and then she said, 'Find Obour.'  The next day, Phillis goes out and pours water out before the sun.  Nathaniel finds her out there and gives her a speech about not doing it.  She tells him about "Old Bettie" and he is shocked.  He says that Sulie took care of Phillis while she was sick.  Phillis asks Nathaniel to write a letter to Obour, and he says that she can do it by herself.

Chapter 15:  Phillis gets the letter done, but Nathaniel tells her to do it again and leave out some of the parts.  Phillis does it after a little protesting involved.  At supper another night, Nathaniel brings up what Phillis has been doing.  Pouring water out before the sun.  His mother gasped when she heard this.  They were trying to make her into a Christian, and they expected her to act like one too.  Nathaniel decides to take out the fountain that is in their yard.  That is where Phillis has been pouring her water out.  She started to write down her feelings on paper.  She writes the bad ones first, and then the good ones.  It makes her feel like she is free in her own way.  :)


Questions:  What does jurisdiction mean?  I got my answer from Mrs. Koster.   It means that you are in charge of a piece of something.  What do the words inherent and inalienable mean?  For inherent, I got my answer from my desktop dictionary and it means existing in something as a permanent.  Inalienable means that no one can take it away.  I got my answer from Mrs. Koster.

Prediction:  I had two predictions this week.  The first one was that I thought Phillis was going to do something bad when she went out of the house in chapter 13.  The second one was that I had the feeling that Phillis' letter was going to turn out gorgeous.

Connection:  My connection this week is that I know how hard it is to write a perfect letter.  I tried writing one to President Obama, and it was definitely not perfect.

Key Question:  One conflict is that Phillis wants to continue her old religion.  Well she is a Christian, but she wants to be able to pour water out before the sun just like her mother did.  It reminds her of her and helps her feel like she is back at home with everything all right.  With her mother living and Phillis begin able to go to the fields to chase away the birds with Obour.  The conflict is person to person because the Wheatley family doesn't want her to do that because that is not Christian like.