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A Year Down Yonder - Richard Peck

What text connections are you making with the beginning of this novel? Given that content of this book is more than 80 years old, how has it been "remixed" for the 21st century? What circumstances is our country going through that is similar to what was happening back then? What is happening so far?** mw37 I have made many connections to In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson. For example,they both take place during the Great Depression. The author has the characters talk somewhat in a "modern" way,which really helps to understand the book. We are going through a crisis,but I don't think things are as bad as they were,yet. Mary is going to her grandma's house,for a while. Her grandma makes her go to school the first day she gets there. She meets two adults at the school. They are Miss Butler,and Mr.Herkimer. There is also a starving looking girl named Ina-Rae. A bully named Marcie,who says she owes her a dollar. At the end of school they go to Mary's house. Her grandma unties Marcie's horse so she has to walk all the way home.
 * Day 1 Response

**Eeyore-**
 * - That I have stayed in Chicago before but I have never lived in Chicago though.**
 * Right now we are kinda in a great depression with the economy, losing houses, and going bankrupted!**
 * Mary is staying with her grandmother because her parents bought a new Apartment but it only holds two people so she gets on a train and goes to visit her grandma and on the first day of her stay her grandma took her to school. THen there is a girl named Margaret and she tells mary to give her a dollar but Mary didn’t have one so Margaret hitched up her horse and rode to Mary’s grandmas house. HEr grandmother let them in and told Margate Mary will give you a dollar and when Mary was about to, Margaret's hors ran away so then Margaret had to chase after it and didn’t get the dollar! But grandma warned her that she still wants it! That is all we read but I wish we could read the whole book in one day! But we can’t... or maybe we can!**

So far one connections is there is a mean girl in school and picks on girls. They still have the old writing but more detail and understand. We also are going to a big preamble is the economy is going down with wall street. She just got her grandmas house and had to go to school. Her grandma tricked a that picks on little kids.
 * Dogman10**

=Bballstate=
 * One of the text connections I had was a text to self. It reminded me of a bully that used to go to this school. She would always ask for money, like Mildred. It sort of described what the old place looked like because fifth graders don’t really know what some things are so they describe the setting. Well, their money is off budget and our country’s economy is breaking down. There is also the Great Depression. Well, A girl named Mary moves from Chicago to the country and has to go to school the very first day. She is forced to sit next to a girl named Mildred. Mildred says Mary owes her a buck. After school Mildred makes Mary take her to her house. There, grandma makes a snack and they talk. Then Mildred’s horse ran off and her boots were gone to. Then, Mary goes and settles in to her new home with her grouchy grandmother.**

bball **-I have made a t-s connection and this is it, I have been to Chicago before.** -Well mary went to live with her grandma and she had to go to school as soon as she got there. She met a new student named Margaret and she is a big bully and so after school she came home with mary because Margret decided that mary needs to give her a dollar and so when they got home they worked it all out. Also Margaret’s horse ran away and so she had to run after it. So that is how she left Mary’s house. That is what has been happening so far in the book and I think it has started out like a good book that I am going to wont to keep on reading and at the end I am making a prediction that it is going to turn out like a good book, and that I would recommend this book to other people who nows things could change and I will not wont to recommend it to anyone.
 * One of my text-text is that has a tornado happen in it but I can’t remember the tittle of the book but it does have a tornado in the book,my second book is called “Island of the Blue Dolphins”, it has a girl that is a main character,the last book I have for a text-text is a book called “In the Year of The Boar and Jackie Robinson” had a bully in the story that would bully Shirley and in this book there is a bully that bullies Mary.**
 * -It has been remixed since back than they would ride horses and now they are driving cars an stuff.**
 * -Well a lot of kids would have to live with other people in their family since their parents would be working.**

The town gathers to celebrate Armistice Day. What is Armistice Day? Why do you think we really don't celebrate it anymore? Grandma makes some bold moves that the reader & her fellow townspeople really don't expect. What did she do that really shows her warm heart and character underneath her gruff exterior?**
 * Day 2


 * Dogman10 **
 * When at the 11 hour of the of the 11 day in the 11 mouth. Because it is an old thing from a long time ago. When she was severing she handed down a cup of soup. **

Eeyore- It is a turkey shooting day and all they do is shot turkeys. Because it is just shooting turkeys and people only hunt turkeys here when it is turkey hunting time. she gave her soup to Mary because she was being nice... for the first time.

**Bballstat****e**
====**I don’t think we celebrate it anymore because it really isn’t that important. There is a turkey shoot on Armistice day. There also wasn’t any school that day. She was selling soup to people. She usually is very mean but she sells soup which is quite weird.**==== mw37 Armistice Day is a day where people remember the soldiers who died in the great war. They have his day on the 11th hour of the 11th day in the 11th month. I think they don’t celebrate it anymore because it has been a long time since the great war.She did “steal” some things. But she sold the soup for a lot of money,which helped a person whose house was where the party was.


 * -I think we do not celebrate Armistice day because it is not that important and it is turkey shooting day.**
 * -Well she is not always a mean grandma she can be sweet and lovable and also vary funny.bball**


 * -I think we do not celebrate Armistice day because it is not that important and it is turkey shooting day.**
 * -Well she is not always a mean grandma she can be sweet and lovable and also vary funny.bball**

__Day 3 Wiki Response Question:__
__mw37__ I made a connection to __In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson,__ it is: both main characters in the books are having it pretty hard in the beginning. I have another connection to __In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson__,it is: both main characters moved to the town where most of the book takes place at. Another connection is to __Raven’s Gate__,it is: both main characters are sent to live with a woman who works them harder than how hard they usually work. ====**//One text to text connection I had was when there was a tornado, a book called//** **//Farmer Joe.//** **//Another text connection that I had was a book called Penny From heaven where it took place back then. Just like Year Down Yonder. Another book I have a connection with is when Mary gets married. In the Book Lights Up, there was somebody who got married in that book.//**==== Eeyore One of my text-text is that has a tornado happen in it but I can’t remember the tittle of the book but it does have a tornado in the book,my second book is called “Island of the Blue Dolphins”, it has a girl that is a main character,the last book I have for a text-text is a book called “In the Year of The Boar and Jackie Robinson” had a bully in the story that would bully Shirley and in this book there is a bully that bullies Mary.
 * In reading, strong readers often make connections to help make their book more interesting, exciting, and desirable to read. One type of connection is a text to text connection. This means that the reader is connecting some aspect of the current book they're reading to another book they've read. List three (3) text to text (t-t) connections you've made so far about your novel.**

I have read a book that has a tornados in it I think it was called tornados I’m not sure though
 * I have read a book that has a girl in it and her parents died so she had to live with her grandma**

- In the year and the boar of jackie robinson has a bully in some of it.bball
 * Dogman10 **
 * 1 one is I read a book about tornotos **
 * 2 one is a madacascar with the grandma **
 * 3 the turkey shoot as well **