Reading and Writing Assignments for 6th class 8/20/2015

    I picked assignment 2.

    In the book Charlotte's web, Wilbur, the pig's best friend is Charlotte, the spider but not a pig. Why she isn't a pig, too? Spider is not so pretty and it is so small and not special. I think because A pig can not make a web and write words on it. And maybe the author wants to tell people average person can do great thing and tell people different kinds of people can become friends.

Hello, Laraine

     I pick  assignment 3.

     White likes writing, so he writes Charlotte's web and many great books. He just does what he wants to do. He doesn't have any reason. I think Charlotte shares White's attitde. She just helps Wilbur and safes Wilbur's lif, but she doesn't have reason. Just for safe Wilbur, just for help him. She just loves Wilbur. She won't get any bad happen if she not safe Wilbur, but she still did it. I think it's because she has a kind heart. Like White writes those books is not for money and fame. He has a heart that loves writing.

@Mark,

 

I agree with every one of your reasons. Charlotte needed to be a spider for the plot. I can't think of another animal or insect that can be seen as able to write. But I also agree that her being a spider is important to the theme. White wants readers to realize that friendships don't have to be based on similarity. Like Charlotte and Wilbur, people who are very different can become friends.

 

I also think he wants us to realize that ordinary beings can be quite extraordinary if you observe them closely.  So we agree on that score too.

 

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@ Enya,

 

That's a very interesting response. From White's quote about books being like a sneeze, I think it is safe to say he thinks writing books doesn't require a reason. Sometimes people just want to write them.

 

But don't you think that saving Wilbur's life is a reason for helping him? So I'm not sure that she is like White in that respect. 

 

I totally love the last two lines of your paragraph, especially that final sentence, "He has a heart that loves writing." That is a perfectly beautiful thought  expressed in a perfectly lovely sentence. 

 

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I pick the frist one It's hard to imagine a cozier place than the barn in E.B. White's book Charlotte's Web. In Charlotte’s Web, the coziest place is the barn. When you walk beside of the barn, you can smell the warm smell of hay. Then the smell will lend you into the barn. When you walk into the door, the spider that lives on the door will use her web to say hello to you, she is Charlotte. After you say hello to Charlotte, there will come a little pig that name is Wilbur. He will bring you into the barn and show you what in the barn. First you will feel really warm, because all the animals are indoors. But when in summer, the big doors stood wide open to the breeze, you will feel pleasantly cool. Then you will see the barn had stalls on the main floor for the horses, tie-ups on the main floor the cows, a sheepfold down below for the sheep, a pigpen down below for Wilbur, and it was full of all sorts of things that you find in the barn. You can see all the animals live and work in peace and contentment. Maybe the rat Templeton will make some trouble in the barn, but that only make everybody be more happy.

This is  perfectly lovely. It has exactly the kind of specific and concrete detail I was hoping for. You have really grasped what makes E.B. White wonderful to read.Even more important, you have taken his example to heart and used it to create your own voice as a writer. Excellent!

I particularly like the clever ending line and think it is true. Templeton's bad behavior just brings everyone closer together as they unite to tell him how badly he is behaving. 

 

I'll send one or two comments via e-mail. But you definitely nailed (idiom meaning did something exactly right) the assignment.