Temper Lost

Mary Ingalls On Her Own~Elizabeth Kimmel Willard
I read from page 114 to page 152

A teacher's assistant came into the study room with a letter from home.  Laura had written to Mary the same day that she had left for Iowa.  His name was Ben.  He offered to read the letter to her and she said yes.  If she had not been blind, she would have read it over and over again.  In a new chapter, Mary had free time and she wanted to go on a walk really bad because the weather hadn't been very nice for a while.  Her roommates were doing other things and that meant that Mary couldn't go for a walk.  You needed to have a walking partner to go with.  Mary decided to go to a room to study her braille.  It happened that Ben was in that same room that Mary decided to go to. Somehow in the conversation that followed, Mary's want for a walk came up. He offered to take her to a bench where people who didn't have a walking partner but wanted to go on a walk went and sat until somebody else without a walking partner came along and then they went on a walk together.  She said yes and it just so happened that the person who was sitting on the bench at that time was Mattie.  They ended up going on a walk, but neither of them were very pleased with this.  On the walk Mary and Mattie had an argument and Mattie left Mary to find her own way home.  This was a problem because Mary didn't know which way the building was.  She founded a wooden structure because of the way that the wind was blowing the rain.  She went in there and woke up to find Ben right by her trying to get her to wake up.  She told him what had happened and he said that he knew how difficult Mattie could be because she was his sister.  Mary ended up in the infirmary for a little while.

Question:  I wonder what the wooden "house" that Mary went into was used for.  I also wonder how Ben found her in the "house" thing because the book said that Mary closed the door.

Prediction:  I predict that others at the college will find out about this because Mattie was involved.

Connection:  I am connecting Mary being lost to my own life.  My mom was at Art in the Park one year and I was littler.  I asked her if I could go on the gazebo.  She told me that I could go.  I went farther up the hill than my mom thought that I would go.  I decided that it was time for me to go find my mom again, but she wasn't where she was before.  I had lost her, and she had lost me.  She ended up finding me again and I remember that a police officer was there and the lady who makes a mystery word in the kids bulletin and if you get it right, you get it right, you get a piece of candy.  For some reason, she had her candy bucket along, and she gave me a piece of candy.  So, I got lost just like Mary got lost just in different situations.  :)

Key Question:  For our Key Question this week, we had a choice whether we wanted to write a paragraph comparing two of our characters from our book, a paragraph on a problem that occurred and they had many different solutions for it, or if there was something that happened to the characters that had a lot of effects on them.  We just have to do a different one than we did last week.  I am going to do the one about a problem that occurred that had many effects on the characters.

         Mattie leaving Mary outside alone, was a big problem for both of the characters.  It effected Mary.  Mary got left outside in the rain and she was sent to the infirmary for a little while.  I looked ahead and read ahead and found out an effect that it had on Mattie.  Mattie had had some problems before at the college and they told her that one more problem and she wouldn't be able to stay at the college.  Well, this was one more problem, and so she was asked to leave the college.  That was one problem that occurred and effects on two different characters.