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Discussion Board: The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds

Current Forum: The Effect of Gamma Rays on man-in-the-Moon Marigolds Date: 13-Nov-2002 14:59:34 Author: Kolopajlo, Karissa <fh_kkolopajl@seovec.org> Subject: connector  I am going to go for being the connector this time. I feel that in all of our lives each one of us deals with the horror of growing up and adolescents. In addition to that, we all deal with the change in our lives, body and emotions when we hit puberty. These changes will play a big role on our own development and how we will eventually decide to raise our own children and participate in the world today. However, some of us do not experieince the pain of growing up without competent and loving parents. But even if we do have loving parents there is always a time that our parents do things that we do not want them to do. All of us as teachers deal with students who come from homes where they are neglected and not loved. What can we do to make a difference in these kids? How can we show them the love that they are lacking? The answer is not an easy one to come by. However, I think that like Tillie we can all give these students a chance to find there love and discover the world through learning. Tillie found her magic and her love. We can each do that for a child also. I feel this book teaches us a lot about our role in the lives of kids as teachers and how we can strive to make a difference and how important our influence is.

Current Forum: The Effect of Gamma Rays on man-in-the-Moon Marigolds Date: 13-Nov-2002 15:03:07 Author: Kolopajlo, Karissa <fh_kkolopajl@seovec.org> Subject: response  I think that this book is a wonderful portrayl into the lives of children with so many issues at home. It is so precise and specific in it's writing that I think it is worth the honor of a Pulitzer Prize.

Current Forum: The Effect of Gamma Rays on man-in-the-Moon Marigolds Date: 03-Dec-2002 17:37:14 Author: Guffey, Melissa <tl_mguffey@seovec.org> Subject: Summarizer  For this book, I will simply be the summarizer. The play is about a family of three. It consists of a mother and her two daughters, Ruth and Tillie. Ruth is a young girl who has problems with seizures. Tillie is older than Ruth and is very interested in Science. They live in a run down home, and the mother takes care of old people to make money for them to live on. Throughout the book, Tillie talks about her fascination with science. Her mother does not like nor appreciate Tillie's interests in school. In fact, she keeps Tillie home from school to do chores around the house. Tillie eventually is entered into a school wide science fair, in which she grows mutated marigolds. She goes up against another girl who has boiled the skin off a cat to make a model for the class. Her mother, who is seen by others to be an outcast is invited to the science fair to see her daughter. After Ruth telling her what people were saying about her, she refuses to go to the fair. In the end, Tillie wins the science fair, and her mom decides to rid the house of the old woman and the pet rabbit. The mother also decides to turn the run down house into her life long dream of owning a little coffee shop.