Homecoming 8th journal entry

211-241
Five things I understand
1. They spent a night on the bay when they finally got to the other side were her grandma lives.
2. Dicey started working on picking tomatoes on a field. The man that hired them seemed strange because he asked for Marybeth’s name.
3. So the man that they were working with seemed like he was going to do something bad to the kids ran away and then came to this circus. The man found them there.
4. The kids spent a few days with the circus. Dicey felt as if it was similar to home.
5. Dicey finally got to Crisfield were her grandma lives.
Four questions I have
1. Was their grandma actually living there?
2. What year did the story take place?
3. Will the kids get a job?
4. Will they end up being separated?
Three Vocabularies
1. Nibbles pg 123: transitive and intransitive verb to take a series of small quick bites at something, or eat something in a series of small quick bites
2. Twittering pg 123: intransitive verb to sing in a succession of light high-pitched chirping sounds
3. Sapling pg220: a young tree with a slender trunk
Two literally elements
1. “The sun was going down, then. It grasped at the land with long yellow fingers and made the mottled trunks of sycamores look like people’s skin.” Pg 213, On this quote you can see personification when were it said to “grasp: at the land. The sun can’t really do that.
2. On this same quote you can also see a simile were it says “like” people’s skin. When the word likes or as is used to compare something it is called a simile.
One summary sentence
1. On this section the kids had to fight for their chance to get to a place called home.