Prompt: Summarize what you just read.
The book I am reading is in the summer and about a twelve-year-old girl named Catherine. Her brother David has autism and cannot understand things very well. The easiest way to make him do something is to call it a "rule." With his disability David needs to know that something will happen or must happen or he will not listen. Catherine writes down rules for David and herself to help her through her own life. David will always do things that embarrass her and that is why she started writing rules down for him. One of her rules is "Keep your pants on!" She tries to help David but he often embarrasses her.
Every week David goes to therapy. Even though she does not have to go Catherine often goes. She likes drawing the people in the waiting room. One of these people is Jason. Catherine does not know what disability he has but he cannot talk. He needs to touch note cards with words and pictures on them in a book he carries around to talk to people. At the beginning of the book when Catherine goes with David to therapy she decides to draw Jason. Jason's mother sees Catherine looking at Jason and yells at her. Catherine is very upset. But when Jason comes out of the waiting room he tells his mom to tell Catherine he likes her picture of him. Catherine gives her picture to Jason. Jason then asks Catherine to draw him some cards for his speech book. Catherine enjoys making these cards for his book and making them more colorful than the ones he already has.
At the beginning of the book a new family is moving in with a twelve-year-old kid. This makes Catherine very happy because all of her friends are on vacation over the summer. She hopes to make friends with the new girl but she knows that David might embarrass her. When she goes to invite the new family over for a barbecue to meet them David is in the front yard. He sees a bee and starts screaming. The neighbors see all of this. Catherine decides not to invite them to the barbecue. She lies to her mom and says they were busy. A few days later her neighbor comes over. Her name is Kristi. She knows that David has a disability and doesn't really care. Catherine thinks that Kristi will be her friend.
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ReplyDeleteGreat blog post! I liked how you described how it takes place in summer, and the character's connections to each other. I also liked how you said, " With his disability David needs to know that something will happen or must happen or he will not listen." This actually is very interesting and makes me wonder a lot about
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You summarized what you've read so far well. I've read this book and I like how I didn't have a problem reading this because it was very well explained. I can understand each paragraph clearly. Do you have a favorite part of the book specifically out of the three summaries you provided? Very well written blog!
ReplyDeleteYour summarizes seemed well organized because you just included the important events of what you have read so far. Good job Steven!
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