Illustartor

Hey Guys,

I was the Illustrator last week! Sorry I did not post yesterday, I was having a difficult time with my scanner. I did not have time to do my blog post in class, but when I tried to scan my picture at home it did not work. It worked today, so that is why my blog post is a little late. 

My picture shows the mustard woman (with the mustard stain on her shirt), Jose (when she was holding the knife in her hand), and Hollis Woods. Hollis Woods is looking down because the book said she does not look people in the eyes because she thinks if she does, the other person can look into her soul. I drew the mustard woman so she looked like she just wanted to leave. I drew Josie almost angry looking (by mistake), but picture her not smiling evilly. I drew Hollis Woods like she does not want to be there. I also drew the Jose's house in the background. The house has a front yard with grass and the wooden sticks Jose uses to draw carve faces in (Jose carves faces out of the sticks so that they look like real people). The scene I drew the picture of takes place in the beginning of the book (when Hollis Woods is being dropped off at yet another "home"). That pretty much describes my picture!

-Erika Anne Brotzen-

(AKA Firestar)

Illustrating The Chapter

Sara Glid, Illustrator
"Pictures of Hollis Woods" by Patricia Reilly Giff
Pages read: 48/166
This is the illustration of chapter 2, Third Picture, Fishing in Delaware River.
Illustration of pages 26 - 29

This is my drawing:



The drawing represents the chapter (chapter two, third picture, "The Old Man's Mountain") where Steven and Hollis are fishing in the Delaware River where as explained in the book, on one side there is a rock which Steven and Hollis are sitting on and on the other side, there is "Old Man's Mountain" with lots of tress at the base of it.

Thank you for reading my blog post, I hope you enjoyed!

Hannah

Discussion director
Pictures of Hollis Woods
30/166

1. What would you like to ask the author or a character?
How did the Hollis become

2. What types of images did you see "in your mind" while you were reading this section of the book?
I imaged when the people were playing the board game. When the girl was on the bus. And i imaged many different parts of it.

3. Predict something about what might happen next.
I am actually not sure. There are many different things.

4. What do you like or dislike about the book?
I like the part when she called the old man "the old man".

5. What is one important thing in the book so far?
That the girl is an orphan. And Hollis Woods has lots of memories.

Pictures of Hollis Woods

Cover of Pictures of Hollis Woods

Ana Marija

Vocabulary Enricher

For the Literature Circles I am reading Pictures of Hollis Woods by Patricia Reilly Giff. I have read 30 pages out of the total 166.

Word: foolish

Page (word found on): 2

Paragraph (word found on): 6

Definition: Unwise; lacking good sense or judgment

Word: Sooty

Page (word found on): 4

Paragraph (word found on): 2

Definition: brownish black in color

Word: lump

Page (word found on): 5

Paragraph (word found on): 3

Definition: mass of solid matter without regular or particular shape

Word: puff

Page (word found on): 5

Paragraph (word found on): 7

Definition: a short burst of breath

Word: stain

Page (word found on): 6

Paragraph (word found on): 1

Definition:  a mark or discolor

Word: foster

Page (word found on): 6

Paragraph (word found on): 2

Definition: to promote growth or development

Word: mangy

Page (word found on): 7

Paragraph (word found on): 2

Definition: shabby; poor in condition

Word: irritable

Page (word found on): 8

Paragraph (word found on): 8

Definition: showing or having a tendency to be easily annoyed

Word: filmy

Page (word found on): 9

Paragraph (word found on): 14

Definition: translucent or thin

Word: sherbet

Page (word found on): 12

Paragraph (word found on): 3

Definition: a favored sweet effervescent powder

Word: stucco

Page (word found on): 13

Paragraph (word found on): 1

Definition: cement used for moulding architectural decorations or coating wall surfaces

Word: lumbered

Page (word found on): 13

Paragraph (word found on): 10

Definition: movement made in a slow, heavy or awkward way

Word: freebie

Page (word found on): 14

Paragraph (word found on): 4

Definition: a thing/item given free of charge

Word: lure

Page (word found on): 27

Paragraph (word found on): 7

Definition: a form bait used in fishing or hunting

Pictures of Hollis Woods by Patricia Reilly Giff

Shelly

Summarizer

Pictures of Hollis Woods by Patricia Reilly Giff

41/166 # of pages

Hollis Woods, the young 12 year old girl is one big lump of heavy trouble. She drew pictures, lots of them. Hollis Woods has just moved in a new foster home to live in with a beautiful, movie-star like lady named Josie Cahill. Josie welcomed Hollis with a knife in her hands. Although she looked scary and dangerous and when Hollis came closer she saw little scar cris crosses on her face, Josie was a true talented artist who carved woods and loved the sea.

Hollis tells throughout these chapters about a young boy names Steven, who she felt so close to, like he was her brother. Old man, the one person who though Hollis was a great kid and Izzy, the tallest woman that Hollis had ever seen, who are these characters from the Regan family.

Hollis Woods had not stayed in the homes who offered her love, warmth and shelter. But with her new foster family lady, Josie she feels like never before. Like she belongs with her and she feels like she is at the right place, finally a place where she can stay.

Vocabulary

Hi guys! This is Tudor! Till now I read 62 pages out of 166, of a book called "Pictures of Hollis Woods" by Patricia Reilly Giff.
This week I worked on the Vocabulary task. These are the words:

pg 4, paragraph 2
sooty - black or brownish black;

pg 5, paragraph 2
stain- discolour or be discoulered by the action of liquid sinking in;

pg 5, paragraph 2
lump- a piece of mass of solid matter without regular shape or no particular shape;

pg 6, paragraph 2
foster- to promote the growth or development of; further; encourage;

pg 13, paragraph 1
stucco- cement used for coating wall surfaces or moulding into architectural decorations;

pg 14, paragraph 4
freebie- a thing provided free of charge;

pg 32, paragraph 1
dim (light)- not bright;

pg 32, paragraph 2
gleamed- to appear suddenly and clearly like a flash of light.
This was it! Hope you enjoyed!

Connector! 17-4-2014

From page 0-41. Or basically chapter 4.

I was connecting to the part when Hollis Woods meets Josie, and Josie leads Hollis into her garden. When Hollis says that the garden is like a whole different world.

This reminds me of the book called "The Secret Garden". The main character in that book, Mary, described the garden as a different world and that it is magical. And in my head, I imagine Josie's garden to look magical. In my head, in both Mary and Josie's garden, to me are cover in fairy or star dust because it is a "whole different world". And I saw in a movie, that was in a different world, the garden was covered in sparkly dust and had birds flying everywhere. And that reminds me of a Japanese garden that I saw when I went to visit a temple. And it the garden was so well taken care of, and the garden was like perfect. And that is how I imagine Josie's garden.

Other people in my groups said= "Cool"-Tudor

That is it... Sorry...

Sky

Summarizer/Literature Circles- Nina

Nina Lazarevic

Summarizer

Pictures of Hollis Woods

30/166 

“Pictures of Hollis Woods” by Patricia Reilly Gif is an emotional story about a little girl searching for a loveable family. The story begins when Hollis is 6 years old and is assigned homework to find a picture of words that begin with letter W. After the teacher marks her picture with an X because she showed a happy family with no words starting with W, Hollis tries to explain that W is for Wish or Want, but the teacher refuses to listen. 

Soon after she is punished by her current foster parent, the lemon lady.  Even then Hollis reminds herself of the Regan’s family on the W picture. Not so after Hollis is taken to another foster home in the care of women named Josie Cahill. When they get to know each other her foster mother asks her if she would like her to curve her picture into a tree, but only if she decides to stay.

The third picture is not just one picture, but 10 because Hollis cannot draw a picture of Steven. She takes a bus to Branches to spend the summer with the family on the picture that wanted to adopt her. Getting out of the bus, she instantly makes a connection with Steven and Mr. Regan, but struggles to draw Steven, maybe because she experienced what having a brother is for the first time.

Welcome!

Dear Readers,

Welcome to our blog. This blog is about our Literature Circles book group, and our current book is Pictures of Hollis Woods. Have fun reading our blog posts!

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