The Book Without Words – Period 4 Discussion Area
PERIOD 4 Discussion Area – In this area you are to discuss all of the Discussion Questions posted.
- Discussion Question #1 is CLOSED.
- Discussion Question #2 is OPEN.
Consider what the discussion question is. Be sure to address the question.
STEP 1 – UNDERSTAND THE QUESTION.
STEP 2 – ADDRESS THE QUESTION (50%). (Question in the answer, your answer, details to support your answer)
- Give us your entire thought process.
- Give us details from the text to prove you know what you’re talking about. Otherwise, who knows what you’re basing your thoughts on?
- Your details do not have to be direct word-for-word quotes (mainly because you do not have the books at home).
- STILL, give us a clear idea of what thing(s)from the book you are basing your answer on. You can paraphrase, in other words.
- Please address the topic of your choice in as much detail as possible. The more detail you give us, the better we will understand your thought process, AND the better we will be able to argue/discuss with you.
- You see, if you give us your entire thought, we can see if there is anything wrong with it – any faulty logic going on there. We are in this discussion to sharpen our wits and gain the ability to think better than we ever have.
STEP 3 – Post a response to classmates (50%).
- Option #1 – If you agree with someone’s answer . . .
. . . Then explain what you agree with – be specific. And extend or expand on the thought you are agreeing with by backing your comment up with details from the text, from your own life, whatever is appropriate. You could agree with someone and support your agreement with other more, unused descriptive details from the book, other books, or your own life. Get it?- Option #2 – If you disagree with someone’s answer . . . . . . Then justify your disagreement by taking a stance backed up by your own details from the text.
Sybil in Chapter 3 Section 9.
The Quote “It is not my death I fear . . . but my life,” means to me that Sybil is not afraid of dying but rather more after of how she is going o live her life and what happens to her while she living. Like in the beginning she isn’t strong and smart like she is in the end of the book. At the end shes lives her life to the fullest and takes risk to make sure she is trying her hardest in life before shes isn’t living any more.
Also in the book Sybil says “But life gives what we take” which means that how much energy you put into life is how much you are going to really enjoy it.
I agree with Liana C because she says that when a sermon is long, it starts to get boring and just becomes repetative. Liana also said sometimes a short sermon is just from the heart. This made me think, what if the the deceased wasn’t exactly the nicest person, and the short sermon merely told the truth, that there was nothing particularly sweet to say about that person.
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-Quote C-
I belive the quote, “The shorter the sermon, the longer the truth” to be very true. This is because when a long sermon is delivered, it is usually filled with sweet, buttered up, uneccesary adjectives that you will probably hear at every funeral service that you attend. But when a sermon is short, and simply wraps up the person and their life, you get the true story, and not just, the typical.
Quote B: “the more one sins the heavier one gets”
To me this quote means that the more you lie the bigger your conscience gets.
Quote C:
Alfric said that his father used to enjoy telling his children, “The shorter the sermon, the longer the truth,”
um the quote, “The shorter the sermon, the longer the truth”, is basically saying although the sermon is clearly short means there is words said but summarized in an easier understanding. from my personal perspective many people don’t like to sit for a long period of time listening to a lengthy speech.
I agree with Jo-Anna when she says that Sybil only means that she does not fear death, from what has all happened. If I chose that quote I would have written the same thing
Quote C:Alfric said that his father used to enjoy telling his children, “The shorter the sermon, the longer the truth,” in Chapter 3 section 11.
I belive that the quote, “The shorter the sermon, the longer the truth”, means that just because it’s a short sermon does not mean you had nothing to say, but it just means that you said what was on your mind, truthfully. Usually when the speech is long, after a while it seems to veer off because you ran out of things to say. You eventually run out of things to say, beacause you thought that for it to be important you needed to make it a million pages long. Personally, if I died, I would rather want a short sermon that was completly from the heart, rather than something that was totally made up, and 2 hours long. Aeformentioned, I believe that this quote means thata sermon does not have to be a whole lot of pages long to be true, it could be as short as ever, as long as it is completly from the heart.
okay well Avi delivers a crisp clear look at the characters throughout the world in the book by being observant and saying clear details and with this information will give u an image or an idea of what you may think the characters look like such as when he stated that master bashcroft looked more bullish then an actual bull . avi is a very descriptive and that helps us readers understand as well as connect with the book and the characters in it……
I completely agree with Elinor T. Avi does do a good job in describing the scenery of the story. He also describes the weather very well. For example, he would be like “the damp and cool morning” or something similar to that. It gives you a clear picture in your head and you actually feel like you’re there.
QUESTION C
How Avi delivers a crisp, clear look at the issues that characters wrestle with within themselves and between each other is he explains how the issues came to be and how the arguments started. Sybil and Odo usually disagree on many things. For instance, they argued about if they should follow Brother Wilfrid or not. Sybil said to Odo, “you can go back to the house if you want but I’m going with him.” Also, Sybil always doubted herself. For example, she was never sure if she should trust the monk, Odo, Damian or Alfric, she kept most of her thoughts to herself and not share them with anyone. Also, Avi provided lots of details of the emotions that went through the characters’ head.
Question A: Avi delivers a crisp lookto the world around Sybil,Odo,and Alfric by giving a very clear description in most parts of the book. For example, when sybil first met Brother Wilfrid Avi explained how old and ancient brother wilfrid looked and howyou could almost see his skull when the wind blew off his hood.
Qoute A is the qoute that i relate to the most because I don’t fear my death, I fear the way i lived my life, and when it is close to my time i want to make sure i have made my life special.
I agree with Joanna when she says that sybil saying what she said makes her a strong girl.
THE QUOTE I CONNECT WITH THE MOST IS QUOTE B. THE QUOTE SAYS “THE MORE ONE SINS THE HEAVIER ONE GETS” SAYS DAMIAN FIGURATIVELY IN CHAPTER 3 SECTION 11. TO ME THIS MEANS THE MORE ONE PERSON LIES, CHEATS, STEALS, ECT. THE MORE GILT HE WILL HAVE INSIDE WHICH MAKES HIM HEAVY. ALSO, BEING HEAVY BRINGS YOU DOWN AND YOUR NOT AS HAPPY, FRIENDLY OR ENERGATIC AS YOU NOMALLY ARE.
Iagree with Jo-anna M because Sybil basically stated its not death I that concerns her its the road to death that she dreads.
Mr.Moshe i talked to you in class.
Avi delivers a crisp clear look at the world around Sybil, Odo, and Alfric by showing how everything looked around them . For example when they buried Thorston he gave a vived description of what happend and the fear that Sybil, Odo, and Alfric showed.
The quote that I can relate to is the quote by Alfrics father.Its saying that someone may preach to you for a short amount of time but the truth will linger around with you all ofyour life possibly.This happens to me a lot especially after church.
When Sybil said,“It is not my death I fear . . . but my life,” that shows the readers that Sybil is a strong girl who does not not fret death. Basically, now that Thorston is gone Sybil does not know how she will continue in her life, for there is the possibility of her becoming homeless and having no shelter, along with many other possibilties.
I agree with Amand on the weather, because he does describe it as being cool and damp.
i agree with Harshpreet because of the very specific details that she proves in her question.^_^
QUESTION C – How does Avi deliver a crisp clear look at the issues that characters wrestle with within themselves and between each other? Use details and information from the text to support your answer.
Avi delivers a crisp clear look at the issues because in the book it had said that Sybil was not sure to believe the monk or not. After finding out that the monk had reason to take the stones she decides that she needs to do something about her master that is trying to kill her. Its a big issuse to me for it deals with a life or death situation.
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The Book Without Words: Discussion Question #2.
THINK OF YOURSELF AS A CONNECTION MAKER. WRITE ABOUT A QUOTE YOU CONNECT WITH IN SOME WAY. THIS IS NOT AS MUCH OF A TEST PREPARATION QUESTION AS DQ#1. WRITE WHAT COMES. DISCUSS WHAT COMES TO MIND.
You have three Quotes to consider:
A and/or B and/or C.
You can discuss one, two or all three of the quotes.
* Quote A “It is not my death I fear . . . but my life,” says Sybil in Chapter 3 Section 9.
* Quote B “the more one sins the heavier one gets,” says Damian figuratively in Chapter 3 Section 11.
* Quote C : Alfric said that his father used to enjoy telling his children, “The shorter the sermon, the longer the truth,” in Chapter 3 section 11.
You only have to deal with one of the quotes, but you are more than welcome to deal with more. If you have enough to say, by all means say it all.
i agree with hayley because she is giving examples from the text to prove her thoughts and opinions about the question.
question A
Avi delivers a crisp, clear look at the world around Sybil, Odo, Alfric and others by being very descriptive about the weather . for example he says on page 26 the very first paragraph, “the early morning was cool and damp as a shivering sybil stepped from thorstons house into the muddy, ice-encrusted courtyard.”
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question A
I agree with Jo-Anna and Alex because in the book Avi does describe the house that way and he also like Alex said uses very descriptive adjectives and real-life relationships.
QUESTION B – How does Avi deliver a crisp clear look at the characters throughout the world in the book? I’d suggest you focus on one or two characters to explain how characters are characterized. Use details and information from the text to support your answer.
How Avi delivers a crisp clear look at the characters throughout the world in the book is that he uses similes and states very specific details about them. He also uses a lot of sarcasm. Also how he introduces them. An example of this would be how Avi mentioned that Master Bashcroft looks more bullish than a bull. This automatically gives us a impression about how master bashcroft might be like or look like. Also like he mentioned how the apothecary looks….he said she is tiny and small….this gives us a picture of her in our mind. So basically, Avi uses many similarities and specific details and adjectives to deliver a crisp clear look at the characters throughout the world in the book.
I agree with Kathryn-kay when she says “Avi delivers a crisp clear look at the issues that characters wrestle with within themselves and between each other by, breaking each issue down into many different thoughts and emotions so that the reader can relate to how the character feels in a situation.” because in the book he tells us how they treat each other and what they think of one another. Like when Odo tells Sybil “that she was just a girl Thorston picked up off the street, and nothing more,” it shows that’s hes a little jealous of her. Also when Thorston was about to die he called for Sybil instead of Odo which made Odo very upset.
QUESTION A – How does Avi deliver a crisp clear look at the world around Sybil, Odo, Alfric, and the others. Use details and information from the text to support your answer.
Avi deliver a crisp clear look at the world around Sybil, Odo, Alfric, and the others by giving more detail to help us visualize the setting of the story better. When he’s talking about a place where someone is at, he won’t just say they were at a cemetery. Instead he said “small and bleak cemetery an ancient structure built with gray stones.” He makes you feel like you are right in front of the place and you can actually see it in your mind. Also when he’s talking bout Thorstan’s house he says ” a dilapidated two-story house with a single second-floor window was curtain.” This also helps you better understand the feeling of the story and how the characters lives.
QUESTION C – How does Avi deliver a crisp clear look at the issues that characters wrestle with within themselves and between each other? Use details and information from the text to support your answer.
Avi delivers alot of good issues that the characters are going through. One example is when Sybil thinks Odo does not know any magic spells that Master Throston did. But later on she finds out that Odo does know a few simple magic spells from sping on Master Throston while he does them. So I think that the author does give a clear image of what issues the charaters are going through throughout the story, so far.
i agree with Jo-Anna because Avi did give us a vivid description, we can actually imagine what a setting in the book is like, and that will help us feel the mood of the story
QUESTION C – How does Avi deliver a crisp clear look at the issues that characters wrestle with within themselves and between each other? Use details and information from the text to support your answer.
Avi deliver a crisp clear look at the issues that the characters wrestle with within themsevels and between each other, by writing down what the characters are thinking of themselves and others, and stating clearly why they feel this way. for example during the novel Odo stated many times that Sybil was ignorant, clueless and worthless, those statement made Sybil want to find the secret to prove Odo wrong, and finally make her self fell useful. those few little thoughts that Avi write for the characters made me understand why they were doing such things, and how they truly feel.
Let’s get really honest here.
If you do not get into the habit of giving me details from the text to support your opinion/answer/response/whatever, how do you really think you are going to do on that dreaded test? You will not do the best you could. I guarantee that.
Go back through, check everything you’ve posted.
If you have not given us details for your answer, know that you will not get that 50% of the points.
If you have not given us details for your response to someone else, know that you will not get that 50% of the points.
I agree with Dervere because Avi does describe the character’s situation and also by showing us his world he describes the character’s feelings to us.
Avi gives a crisp clear look at the way the characters wrestle with his or he feelings one another and tthemselves and to one another by really giving each other a peace of their own mind also by having a conflict within their own minds also by giving us a vivid description on what they are thinking.
I agree with Kathryn when she says that Avi delivers a crisp clear look at the issues that characters wrestle with within themselves and between each other. The part of her answer where she stated how Odo woke Sybil up because of Thorston and she quickly assumed she had to do a chore tells me that Sybil does not get called by Thorston to anything else except for chores.
Question A-How does Avi deliver a crisp clear look at the world around Sybil, Odo, Alfric, and the others. Use details and information from the text to support your answer.
Avi delivers a crisp clear look at the world around Sybil, Odo, Alfric, and the others by giving vivid descriptions of each place where the characters are at like when Sybil, Odo and Thorston were first at Thorcton’s house, the book stated that the house was located in the neglected corner of town, there was fog thick as wool, and the builiding is a dilapidated two story house.
I agree with Kathryn because when you said chapter one, section 6, it showed me that you really understood what you were writing about. It also is true, because it shows that Sybil does not have a strong relationship at all really, with Master Thorston.
Question A-How does Avi deliver a crisp clear look at the world around Sybil, Odo, Alfric, and the others. Use details and information from the text to support your answer.
The way that Avi delivers a crisp clear look at the world around Sybil, Odo, Alfric, and the others is that he uses vivid words. He uses imagery for example on page 52 Avi describes the scene as” gray, raw, and blustery winds, narrow streets and alleys, and the wind was spreading the stink.” In that example, you can clearly tell that it must have been a damp and rotten area. Also, Avi uses descriptions like ” a rickety ladder, damp, cold, and horrible smelling air. A dirt floor, and nothing was there except two old chests with rusty locks.” That description was the basement in which, Sybil was planning to bury Thorston. Obviously, Avi has a way of showing us what the scene looks like to us by using his descriptive words. He shows us imagery.
I agree with Hayley R. because Avi gives a very clear description of all the settings and scenary in the book.
Avi delivers a clear understanding about the world around sybil,odo,and Alfric by describing the situation of each character .Also he uses the characters feelings to describe their world,for example Sybil is a orphan who is treated meanly by Odo the gold hungary Raven he tells Sybil that if she does not find the secret to making gold she will die because no one would take her in.
I agree with Alex because “vivid and specific adjectives” really do give a crisp clear look at the world around the characters. Avi describes the setting and the characters in such a way that you can visualize the whole scene in your head. As Alex mentioned, the house that they lived in wasn’t just a house. But the adjectives used to describe the house makes you think of an old, worn house with two stories, laying in the shadow.
I agree with ayo because the way Avi describes Brother Wifred makes you be able to picture this man without having an actual illustration.
Avi delivers a crisp clear look at the world around Sybil, Odo, Alfric, and the others. He does this by describing each setting in the book with vivid detail and describing every little bit of each new scenery. He doesn’t leave you bored and doesn’t just describes things as big or scary he is very specific so it paints a picture in your mind. Like when Sybil is opening the front door he desribes the noise it makes and how it creeks. So that is how he makes crisp and clear descriptions
How does Avi deliver a crisp clear look at the issues that characters wrestle with within themselves and between each other? Use details and information from the text to support your answer.
Avi delivers a crisp clear look at the issues that characters wrestle with within themselves and between each other by, breaking each issue down into many different thoughts and emotions so that the reader can relate to how the character feels in a situation. What I mean by that is, when a certain character is faced with a struggle or obstacle, Avi cleary describes the character’s perception of the scene by using feelings, thoughts, questions, worries, actions, etc. to get us (the reader) to understand the significance of why the character is feeling a certain way doing or doing a certain something.
For example, in Chapter one, Section 6, Sybil, woke to the voice of Odo telling her that Master Thorston was calling for her. “‘Is it to cook, fetch . . . or run an errand?’ Sybil said as she rolled away from the bird and pressed down into the thin straw. ‘Is he too lazy to look for something himself?'” This shows me that Sybil knows that she does not get called by Master Thorston often, unless it is to cook, fetch or run an errand. Her action in this scene also gives me a sense that if Thorston is calling her for any other reason than the three that she stated. Then he must be dying. Ironiclly, the next line from Odo is “Sybil, he’s dying.” These thoughts, questions, and actions gave me a “crisp clear look” at how Sybil was “wrestling” with Odo in this scenerio.
I agree completely with Alex T. because he shows a thorough example of how the house looks like. Also the example of the weather is very good way of explaining it because it make a person think of a dead man’s hand. This made me come to a new conclusion that he also describes items as actual people which makes this book a very interesting one.
QUESTION B – How does Avi deliver a crisp clear look at the characters throughout the world in the book? I’d suggest you focus on one or two characters to explain how characters are characterized. Use details and information from the text to support your answer.
Avi delivers a crisp clear look at the characters throughout the world in the book by state very specific details about the characters. According to the book he states that Brother Wilfred looks ike a living skelleton with green eyes. He doesn’t just say he is an old man he states things that really help you make a visual about the character.
Avi delivers a crisp, clear look at the world around the characters in the story mostly by using very vivid and specific adjectives. He doesn’t just say they live in a house. On the first page of the story he describes it as “a dilapidated, 2-story, stone house”. Notice the key adjectives in there. Another way he sends a vivid insight in the reader’s mind is by relating the subject to a real life object or feeling, such as the connector’s job. He described the weather as “dank as a dead man’s hand”. I’m sure we haven’t all actually felt a dead man’s hand, but I’m pretty positive we can all imagine what it would feel like. Avi uses very descriptive adjectives and real-life relationships.
Just saying “I agree” is not going to get you any response credit.
50% – your answer with details for supprot
50% – your response to another with details for support
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Option #1 – If you agree with someone’s answer . . .
. . . Then explain what you agree with – be specific. And extend or expand on the thought you are agreeing with by backing your comment up with details from the text. You could agree with someone’s characterization question and support your agreement with other more, unused descriptive details from the book. Get it?
Option #2 – If you disagree with something someone’s answer . . .
. . . Then justify your disagreement by taking a stance backed up by your own details from the text.
Just to be clear, here are the core questions that you have to choose from:
QUESTION A – How does Avi deliver a crisp clear look at the world around Sybil, Odo, Alfric, and the others. Use details and information from the text to support your answer.
QUESTION B – How does Avi deliver a crisp clear look at the characters throughout the world in the book? I’d suggest you focus on one or two characters to explain how characters are characterized. Use details and information from the text to support your answer.
QUESTION C – How does Avi deliver a crisp clear look at the issues that characters wrestle with within themselves and between each other? Use details and information from the text to support your answer.