Activity #1
Directions:
Read the following paragraphs taken from Welcome Home Jellybean,
written by Marlene Fanta Shyer and summarize it. In your summary use more
than three words in a row from the paragraph and include the words taken from
the paragraph in quotes.
It was
another bad night. I woke up at the inky hour of 2:24 to the sounds
of Gerri's head
blaming against my wall. Going back to sleep was out, so
I lay awake
counting blams, hoping they'd stop of their own accord, and trying
to work out
way we could keep a pillow tied around Gerri's head so we could
all get a
good night's sleep.
Pretty
soon I heard my mother's bed creak and then her footsteps heading
for
Gerri's room
Then I
heard the telephone.
It rang an
ran, an finally I head my father pick up the receiver. I couldn't hear
everything he
said, but I did hear a lot of "sorrys" and "We're doing our
bests."
I heard
him tell my mother that it was Mr. Rasmussen from downstairs and
that he said
he'd lived in this building for twenty years and in all the time he'd
never heard
this kind of commotion and if we were going to practice for the
Olympics up
there, would we do it while he was at work?
Finally I
heard my mother rocking Gerri and humming, and pretty soon the place
quieted down
and I went to sleep thinking how funny it would be if we had to tie
a pillow
around Mr. Rasmussen's head too.
Summarize in the space provided below.
