City+of+Ember+(MI9)

**__Day 1 Response Questions:__**
Lina and Doon start the novel with "assignment day." Why is important for students to be excited about school? What is the purpose of school? How is your school similar / different to that of Lina & Doon's? How did the kids percieve the mayor? Is this perception of theirs about adults in general or just the mayor? Why do some people put on a "show for others?" Doon does a "Big Favor" for Lina. Describe a time when a friend has done you a big favor or you did one for someone else? What motivation would a person have for doing a big favor for someone else?

B-ball23 1) They have to be excited because they have to draw from a bag to find out what their job is. 2) The purpose of school is to train for your job, and chose your job. 3) our school is the same because they learn things like us, but it is different because the graduate at the age of twelve, and start to work from that age. 5) They just don't like the mayor. 6) To impress them. 7) Ounce my sister had to make 30 bracelets, and she had 3 done, I made the 27 that she needed. 8) Maybe they like the person, or they are realy good friends with the person, or they could be a relative.

flobble 1. It’s important for us to be excited about school so we can get through school with out any problems. 2. School is important because, we need knowledge. 3. Our school is similar to theirs because, we all learn things. It is different, by it’s under ground!!!! 4. They hate him. 5. Just the mayor. 6.So you can impress them. 7.Doon traded Lina his job, witch was runner, for her job ,witch was pipeworks. 8. I was with one my best friends, Jeff, and his electric scooter broke down. So I took it apart, and fixed it. 9. If a person was in need, and you passed them, and didn’t help them. Then the next day you heard that they died. You would definitely want to help others.

1-They have to be excited because this is the day that they are going to get a job that they will have for three years. 2-The reason that they have school is to learn about the jobs that they may end up having when they grow up. 3-Are school is different then theirs because we don't stop school at 12 we keep going. bball4life

Well it is important about kids to be excided about school so that they can learn and want to learn about things. The perpose is that kids will learn at an early age and hopefully be sucessful with school and so when they grow up they will get a job and know what to do other words it is so that kids will be able to learn. well thy learn the same things for the same and the difference is that they start to work and than graduate at the age of 12. They really dont like the mayor. people show off to be a cool person and so that the others kids will like them. My friend was bleeding vary bad and she could not walk sng I ran to get a band aid. Like telling them that they are dping a great job. bball Eeyore- 1) Assignment day is a day where twelve year olds get a job or they can change after three years. To choose their job they just don't choose out of random, like we do, they have to draw out of a hat so some of them won't like their job. 2) Their school is different then ours because after they got their job they go to school and train for their job. 3) Our school is the same because we still learn but the mayor said that they had to graduate from twelve and work from the age of twelve. 4) They don't like the Mayor they think he's a meany 5) To impress themself or because somebody likes another person and wants them to like them. 6) When my Uncle let me go in to M.S.U vet training to see all the animals in need. That was really really cool! 7) Maybe people like to do favors for somebody to make them fee warm and fuzzy inside. By:Totalbiscuit 1-The reason students have to be excited is that some day they will be helping the city in there own way, and if the Mayor finds out or your teacher you are in BIG trouble. 2-The purpose of school is too help them learn about the jobs of Ember. 3-It is similar because you still have to go to school every day and learn. It is different because you only go to school for a couple years but in real life 12 years or more, and that the Mayor does not come to your class room. 3- They respect most of the adults but the Mayor is one that the students just don’t like. They thought that he was fat, not nice, sarcastic, red cheeks, they just did not like him. 4-One time my dad asked me to start a fire in the fire place. It took me a while but I got it going. 5-They would be focused on the job and nothing else, not being a lazy butt on the coach eating chips. 1-They have to be excited because this is the day that they are going to get a job that they will have for three years. 2-The reason that they have school is to learn about the jobs that they may end up having when they grow up. 3-Are school is different then theirs because we don't stop school at 12 we keep going. bball4life ====** Mexico 1.They have to be excited because they are getting there jobs for the next three years. Plus their mayor is really mean so he gets mad if you do not act happy with your job. 2. The purpose of there school is to learn and get ready for there jobs. 3. The thing that is different about there school is they only get assignments when someone has there twelfth birthday. Plus they have to stop school and work at the age of twelve. 4. They really do not like him. 5. So they can impress them or make them think they are better. 6. One time my sister had to go to volley-ball practice and my other sisters were at there practices to and my mom had to go to a teacher meeting! Plus my dad was still at work, so I had to make cookies for my sister to take to school that she needed. 7. Maybe because they like making people feel better or they don’t want them to fail if they are a friend or relative! Dancer3 **==== ==Kids should be excited abuot school becuase you have a chance to learn. The purpose of school is to learn. My school is similar to Doons ,Linas school is that we all have to do some of the stuff as them. My school is different as we don’t have assignment day. That in __The City of ember__ the adults are not very happy. Because some people are shy. A friend has always stood up for me and helping me. Yes I did a huge favor for my sister. ==

WAlly I’v been really nice to my friends because I care about other people i have a bunch of freinds to. Their the same because it can fun and it can be lame very lame it’s diffrent because they olny have 12 years we have a lot more. in my mind people act stupid for atention

=Day 3 wiki Response Questions.=

Describe a time when it would not the be best time to tell the truth.
B-ball23

I was playing Basketball and I was dribbling down the court on a fast break when all of a sudden this freakishly tall girl from the other team came and stole the ball right from me. It was a foul but oh well. I would tell Doon not to give up and to always keep trying, because his day will come. I like to make bracelets and collect snow globes from all of the special places that I have went. I have over 25 snow globes. I don’t think that the citizen should have been penalized at that moment. But at other times you should not go up to people and say their ugly, even if they are.

When It was lent an I could not drink any pop and I almost drank some and it was really hrad not to because we were having a party at my grandmas and everyone else was drinking pop. Well i would give him some advice about not quiting now matter what happens even if he thinks it its not going to happen. I have a hobbie of palying basketball. I dont think that the citizens should be penilized then. when I hit my brother really hard and he got a big goose egg on hi head and my mom was wondering who did it and i could tell she was really mad.bball

Flobble I was awake at night, and couldn’t go to sleep. So I went out to sneak around. I saw no one around so I went for the cookie jar. Then I heard a noise on the stairs. Tap, tap, tap. I sprinted towards my room. “Aha, cot you red handed!” said my Dad. Explore everything, when there is nobody. I like to collect leaves, I also like basketball and football. I think that you should be able to have freedom of speech.

Eeyore-   When I was playing soccer I had got the ball and I was going to the goal and no body was stopping me then somebody yelled on to the field thay I was going the wrong way I felt so embaressed. Doon should never give up because someday he will acomplish it. I play soccer,basketball, volleyball and ride horses. I don't think that the people shouldn't be penalized for telling the truth but the time not to tell the truthwhen somebody is fat and you shouldn't tell them because it will make them feel bad.

When It was lent an I could not drink any pop and I almost drank some and it was really hrad not to because we were having a party at my grandmas and everyone else was drinking pop. Well i would give him some advice about not quiting now matter what happens even if he thinks it its not going to happen. I have a hobbie of palying basketball. I dont think that the citizens should be penilized then. when I hit my brother really hard and he got a big goose egg on hi head and my mom was wondering who did it and i could tell she was really mad.bball Mexico ** 1. One time I got chosen at basket-ball camp to be one of the ten people to play a basktet-ball game against fifth and fourth graders but I was a fourth. I was so close to winning but I only got third place! 2.I would just say to Doon try to make the boring work into a game and count the days so soon it will be over. 3.My hobbies are riding my bike swimming in my pool and jumping on the trampoline. 3.No way because really telling the truth is a good thing even tho it’s not always what you want to hear. 4. When you and your thirteen year old brother and infant sister are framed as murderer’s and want to be killed and have there fortune stolen, so they dress up as circus freaks to see there worst enemy’s (that wants to kill them) plan. **

Dancer3 When I just abuot beat my sister in a race and she beat me. Some advice I would give Doon that don’t be so serious and to give people a break. A hobby that I have is dance and basketball. I think the man should be given a break. A time it would be good to tell the truth is when you break something and thuogh it away is so no one got hurt.  By:totalbiscuit

1-One time I came so close to beating this one level in Call of Duty 4 but them this guy comes up from behind and hits me right on the back if the head and I die, it was so unfair for a sneak attack like that. 2-I would say to not give up and to follow your dream, you might get someone that asks you to go to the generator and fix it because you are the only one smart enough. 3-I love to collect Lego Star Wars building kits, I have over a dozen built and collected. It is my thing that I love to do. 4-They should never be penalized for telling the truth, they have the right to speak freely and not having to get in trouble. 5-If someone robs a bank and you see who did it and they threaten you and the police ask who did it, not the best time.

Wally The fist time I went down to swim 14 feet down I ran out of breath I say you should just keep trying thats what I did and now I can touch bottom at 18 feet so just keep trying. People in our class show a good way of that we do not give up well most of us any way. Also I was scared to jump off 15 feet high then I did it I loved it and now I do it every time I go there we don’t go there much but it is fun when we do it is out door so we cant do it much

**__Day 4 Wiki Response Questions:__**

 * Connecting prior knowledge and experience to reading deepens comprehension. I would like you to explain one type of connection that you've made with the book you've been reading.** __List__ and __explain__ the __type of connection made__ & __answer how this helped you to understand the story better__.

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It also reminds me of The Mystery at Walt Disney World because there were four kids and they had to try to solve a mystery like how Lina has to decode the letter. =====

It also reminds me of The Thirty-Nine Clues because it is mysterous and it has many cliff hangers
bball4life 1- The book The Thirty-Nine Clues becase it is a mystery with lots of detail. 2- Flobble One: In the book, Harry Potter, there is a mysterious person named Professor Quirrel. He actually is Lord Voldemort’s helper. The Mayor in “City of Ember” is kind of mysterious. Then you find out he has been stealing goods.

Two: In the book, Journey to the center of the earth, three people have to live underground for a long time. In the City of Ember, they live underground.

Three: In the book, Twilight, a girl has a best friend who is a boy. In the city of ember, Lina, has a best friend who is a boy named Doon. I have made a connection with Lina because, I think she is that kind of girl who will practically do anything that is not to dangorous but safe. I like that type of personality the way she has it cause she will also do a favor for anyone, I just think she is a kind person an I like the way she is. I think that helped me understand it more because I now that type of persoality and so I understood more about what they were talking about.bball Eeyore-  In the __Little House in the Woods__ because there is a little girl and she lives in a house with no light just like Lina's town. The book called __The Tale of Emily Windsnap__ because there is a girl that is very adventurous just like Lina. The last text-text book is called __Nancy Drew__ because Nancy has to crack some puzzles just like Lina had to.

Dancer3

With Lina had trubles with friends and I have problems with friends sometimes to. A book I read was Tale Of Despereaux that had a lot to do with the city of ember. 1-In the book the two kids must save the city. In my report book part of it is that superheroes must stop a giant machine from destroying New York City. **
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 * 2-In Ember the city is under ground, in Gregor books the city called Regalea is under ground. **
 * 3-In Gregor he has a little sister. I Ember Lina has a little sister **

One book is a called __Summer camp secret Acting Out.__ And in that story there is a mean counselor named Alex and no one likes her because she is so mean and bossy. That is like the mayor.

Another connetion is in the __BFG (Big Friendly Giant)__ because there is a girl and she really does not have friends and she is lonely she is also does not have any parents. long story short she found this giant and became really good friends with him. that is like lina short of since she does not have ny parents and stuff.

The last connection is a book called __No dogs allowed__ and this gril does not wont to get a dog but her dad got her one she is really mad and dosent like it. I think that Lina did bot really wont to go in the room that she found. Also that she thought led out of ember. bball

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1. In the book in the library Doon can’t find his topic because it could be under different words since it is in alphabetical order. In a book The Series of Unfortunate Events, The Hostile Hospital they look in the Library of Records and have to look under a lot of different letters because it could be under a different word. ======

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2. In a book The Series of Unfortunate Events there is a little baby that likes to chew on things, and Lina has a little sister that also chews on things like the instructions. ======

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3. In a different book I read the Supernaturalists they practically live in a hole other world just like Lina and everybody else lives in Ember. ======

WAlly

The fist time I went down to swim 14 feet down I ran out of breath I say you should just keep trying thats what I did and now I can touch bottom at 18 feet so just keep trying.

**__Day 4 Wiki Response Questions:__**

 * Connecting prior knowledge and experience to reading deepens comprehension. I would like you to explain one type of connection that you've made with the book you've been reading.** __List__ and __explain__ the __type of connection made__ & __answer how this helped you to understand the story better__.

B-ball23 **
 * 1) The connection that I have is a T-W connection. We watched the movie, City of Ember, and it helped me picture how some of the characters looked, and how the generator looked. **
 * 2) When I read ** __** Darkside **__ ** It reminded me of ** __** City of Ember **__ ** because it was different and you knew that it wasn’t reel but you still believed. T-T **
 * 3) I can relate to Lina because I have lost someone that is very important to me. **
 * 4) I think that poppy can relate to Lina because she also lost someone who was very very very important to her.

eeyore- I watched a movie called The City of Ember and (it was a t-w connection)the movie helped me picture what was happening to them. I really like the book. Poppy really relates to Lina because she lost somebody she loved.

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bball4life-

Watching the movie really helps me picture the scenes. Like what the grandma looked like,or what the generador looked like! T-W

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 * Flobble**
 * Text to Text: This helped me to picture what was happening and how it was happening.**

Dancer3 The connection I would have is T-W. When my grandpa tuoght me more about generators it helped me understand the pipeworks more and what was down there. ** By:totalbiscuit **
 * 1- One connection I made is from the book is from the entire city to the city underground in the Gregor books. In our book __The City of Ember__ the city is under ground, in the Gregor books the underland city is also under ground. This helped me get a better picture of __both__ books. It showed how both of the cities were not in the best condition. But it also showed that the cities could deal with different problems.

** Day 5 Response wiki questions: 

WALLY ☠ I think the mayor is a jerk and only cares for himself I think that because he looks like he doesn't care at all and now cares less about other people. Also I think Doon has anger problems because he could not climb the whole pole and people laughed at him then he yelled at them all. And he lost a friend like that so Doon and Lina aren’t friends any more but then they sort of get along at were I’m reading now.
 * List some of your predictions you made while reading this novel.
 * What would you predict would happen if there was a sequel to this novel?
 * What direction might the author take with the characters?
 * **Would you recommend the novel to others? Why or why not? Explain.**


 * <span style="color: #3a21e4; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">~ I think that they will all make it to a different city. **
 * <span style="color: #3a21e4; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">~ I think that they would find another box, and another mystery. **
 * <span style="color: #3a21e4; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">~ I think that Lina and Doon will fall in love. B-ball23 **

by: eeyore <span style="color: #01da01; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">-I think that they will go to the new world and live there. -I think that Lina will leave poppy at Ember. -I think that Lina likes Doon and Doon likes Lina. by: eeyore

bball4life

-I think that they will make it out of the city in to a better city. -I think that it would discribe the wonderful city and they would have another mystery to solve. -I think Doon and Lina will start dating. **I have made a prediction in the beging of the story that they would be able to get out of ember.** <span style="font-family: Arial; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 24px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: normal;">**YES** **I would defently recommend this book cause you cant stop reading. Also it is so exciting in every part.bball**
 * I have also made one that he mayor would get caught.**
 * I would predict that they would have somthing bad happen.**
 * They would take them to a higher leavel like get mo re serious and stuff.**

Flobble One: I predicted that in the chapter “The box in the closet” that Lina was going to find the box, but Poppy did.

Two: I would predict that they get all the way to another city that is above ground.

Three: The author might have Doon put together a builder force to make a new city. Lina might get a traveling team to bring messages all around the world.

Four: Yes! This book is one of the best I have ever read, because it has great turns like when they were down in the pipe works by the locked door when the person walked by. I thought it was going to be one of her friends like Carry.

By:totalbiscuit One of the predictions I made is was when they found the hidden door I thought that their would be a GIANT ship and that they would all get out by the river. That they all got out and they found out that there was a second city and that Doon, and Lina had to help them get out, and that they had to go back to old city. That at the end they find the way out and Doon, and Lina fall in love with each other and live happly ever after. I would total recommend this book because it is packed with adventure and betrayers. It is an awesome book period.

**Mexico** **1.** <span style="color: #3cceec; font-family: Arial; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 9px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: normal;">**1.** **I predict that the people in Ember won’t believe to young kids (Lina & Doon) when they tell them they find away out.** <span style="color: #3cceec; font-family: Arial; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 9px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: normal;">**2.** **I also predict that the mayor will believe them and sneak out but they find out but bad thing start to happen and go wrong while the mayor is getting away!**
 * 2. They would have to save the real world if they get to it because Ember might blow up and kill the real world!**
 * 3. Lina and Doon will like each other and Doon might save her.**
 * 4. I would recommend this book because even tho to me at the very beginning it is confusing just because you don’t know who is who or the plot but when they find boats it is exciting! Plus it is funny because they don’t know what candles are!**

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<span style="color: #fb9b23; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 17px; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 25px;">** ave made a prediction that they would leave or escaspe city of ember. ** <span style="color: #fb9b23; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 17px; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 25px;">** I have predicted that linas granny would not die till the next book but that did not happen. **

<span style="color: #fb9b23; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 17px; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 25px;">** I I think that lina or one of the main charecters are going to get hurt or die. ** <span style="color: #fb9b23; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 17px; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 25px;">** the the author will maybe take them to a dark side of there lives. **

<span style="color: #fb9b23; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 17px; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 25px;">** YES i would recommend this book because there is never a boring part in it a all ** ~ That the people of ember go to a new world. ~ That the author made each character with his/her own thing. ~ I thought when Lina got cought by the guards she was going to jail. Dancer3

**__Day 6__**
==**As the novel is coming to a close, it is reaching it's climax. The climax is the most exciting part of the novel. What is happening in the book to lead you to think you are at the climax? Describe the action, how does it keep the reader's interest? What //predictions would you make at this point?//**== =flobble=

I would think that they make it out of the City of Ember safe and into the other place they are heading.
<span style="color: #4a1cc4; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> Yes the novel is coming to a close climax. **<span style="color: #4a1cc4; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> ~ Doon and Lina and poppy go down the river. ** <span style="color: #4a1cc4; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; letter-spacing: 0px;"> **<span style="color: #4a1cc4; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">~ They have figured out where to go. But they don’t know where it leads to. ** <span style="color: #4a1cc4; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; letter-spacing: 0px;"> **<span style="color: #4a1cc4; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> ~ I think that they will make it to the other city and be happy. :) B-Ball23 **

<span style="color: #01da01; font-family: 'Lucida Console'; font-size: 12px; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 18px;">**//:o eeyore//** <span style="color: #01da01; font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace; letter-spacing: 0px;">//**-Yes it is! Doon and Lina go down the river. They figured out which way to go,but have know idea where it goes but they're taking a chance. -I think they will be happy in the new world if they make it hat far. :o eeyore**//

<span style="color: #fb9b23; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> bball4life -When Poppy finds the box. <span style="color: #fb9b23; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 17px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 25px;">-poppy found a bow with a letter in it and began to chew on the paper. -I think that Lina will put the paper back together and make it to another city.

**Dancer3**
 * One of the predictions is that Doon, Lina, and Poppy make it out of ember. What keeps a readers interest is that this book leaves you at a whole bunch of cliffhangers and you never want to put it down. That when Doon, Lina, and Poppy are amazed to see the new world.**

By:totalbiscuit


 * __ 1- I know that i is coming to a climax because Lina, Doon, and Poppy, have left the city and are now on there way down the river to somewhere else.Out side to a new world. But the challenge is to get there with the city. __**
 * __ 2-Lina has escaped the guards and has gotten Poppy from and now Doon, Lina, and Poppy are now on the river down he stream. The candles keep getting splashed out and are having a rough ride down the river. __**
 * __3- That they might find out that there is another city somwhere under ground, and that they have to rescue them.__

** **1. It is defiantly the climax because they found the way out and that is so cool to me! Mostly because they are going and they don’t know what is going to happen!** **2. That when they get to the new world the people will think they are crazy!** **Mexico**
 * 3. Also I predict that they will try to save Ember and get them to the new world.**

** They tell us the very ending and try to have the charectors end. It is telling you action that is trying to make you wont to read the next book. By telling you a lot of actioin and stuff. I would predict that lina, doon, or poppy is going to get hurt or somthing like that. But i am sure that poppy wont get hurt or eneything but you never now.bball **