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This is my favorite book. I feel like Cassie does when she is walking in the trees. I go for walks in the woods with my dog and I feel like the trees sing a song too.I can understand how Cassie feels about the trees being cut down, because I got very upset when the trees in the forest behind my back yard were cut down.
When the book said (p 29) "And if something bad should happen to David..." That made me feel like he was going to do something bad to David.
I felt the same way. So Sad!!!
on page 1 "Cassie!Get up, girl!" I can tell there in a hurry
I feel the same way that Cassie does when she hears the trees whistling in the wind. I think that they are singing a song. I love playing in the trees too. I feel sorry for Cassie because the trees are going to be cut down and she will not hear the "whistling" of the trees anymore because all of the trees are going to be gone. Are they going to cut the trees because they know black people like this forest.
when mama and big ma were talking Cassie was listining and mama saw her and mama didn't want her to listin because it was about food and Cassie would get worried.
I also feel like cassie ,well sort of.I have this tree in my back yard that I can clime on and if that tree was cut down i would be sad to.
I have a connection on my sister Sadie and Little Man.
Little man has to keep his clothes as clean as possible, just like my sister Sadie
I can totaly reallate to Cassie when she is runing through the woods playing tag with her brothers before she picked the berryies for dinner becuse when i was at a vacation in a cabin i also ran throgh the woods with my family and it did sound like the trees were singing to me and it wasn't just the win
is she going to get the $65.00 or save the trees
Does Big Ma sleep in the bed with Cassie?The picture on p3 looks like they do.
I love how Mildred D. Taylor uses a lot of adjectives and verbs in many of the sentences because it helps you picture what is happening in my mind. For example, on page 2, first line, it says "I jumped out of the deep, feathery bed as Big Ma climbed from the other side. I also love that Mildred D. Taylor uses a lot of dialog because it makes it interesting and it shows how the characters are really talking and if the are not using proper grammar.
I think that Mr.Andersen will cut down all the trees and Cassie will be sad b
sorry... so as I was saying cassie will be sad because th trees cant sing any more
I can also connect to cassie because once my favorite tree was cut down. I also think the mood changed ver quickly when the book said "Stacey looked around and then pushed us down."
when I go for walks I talk to the trees just like Cassie does and I fee like they talk back to me.
I think that the scene where Cassie and her brothers overheard the white men planning to force the Logan family into letting them cut down most of their trees was very scary. I felt their fear as they hid behind the trees so that the men couldn't see them. It was suspenseful because I kept thinking that the Logan kids were going to get caught by these men who didn't seem very nice.
I am enjoying this book so far. I can relate to Cassie, because I also love to play outdoors. Cassie had so much fun playing hide-and-go-seek with her brothers in the woods, and I love to play that game, too. In my neighborhood, all the kids get together after dinner for games like hide-and-go-seek. We play until it gets dark out, then it's time to go home.
If you think the trees talk to you, you must read Ida B. over the summer vacation!!!!
I like how Cassie and all her siblings and Mama and Big Mama speak in slang because it makes it feel like the character is actually talking because you can imagine what it would sound like
nhu, I totally agree with you. Another part on page 2 is when she describes the view outside her window and says things like "A cloak of gray mist was settled outside," it might not have been those exact words but i'm sure it's very close. The main thing I like was "A cloak of gray mist" because it sound like it was a cloak/blanket actually covering the sky.
I feel just like cassie.I have lots of trees in my yard
If christopher john keeps eating there food there will not be enough for every body else.
mildred taylor is very good at expressing the charicters feelings
mw, You're right MDT is really good at exressing the carecters feeling.
Nhu and Nha, i think you are right, the way she uses dialog makes me feel like I am there watching evreything happen it is so cool! Mw Ithink you are richt, Christopher-John is probly going to eat most of the food and they have no money to buy more food and flower because the tendollars was stolen from the envalope.
I like how MDT does not tell you exactly what is happening, she lets you infer, and make predictions on what you think is going to happen and then she slowly lets you know what is going on.
It made me so sad when all the trees got cut down and cassie and her mom walked outside into the old forest.
when mama said she was sick and ran out of medicine she said she wasn't bad sick. I was worried that the sickness might get worse.
I was dissapointed to find out that Big Ma agreed to let Mr. Anderson cut down all of their trees! I think Cassie and her brothers will try to prevent them from cutting down the trees
mc, i agree with you how MDT does not always tell you exactly what is happening so you can ifference and make predictions as she slowly lets it out.
nhu and nha, i totally agree with you guys. i loove how MDT describes something to something else, a simile. i think it makes the story WAY more interesting then just describing something normally. like what nha explained, the early morning covered with a cloak/blanket of gray mist!!
ps, what is Ida B.?
I think MDT is good at putting feelings and expressions her books. Like "No, Big Ma!" I cried, leapining onto the porch. "You can't let him cut our trees!" This makes me feel angry at Mr. Andersen that he is going to cut down all of the trees.
I thought the quote about the earth being draped in a cloak of gray mist was a really cool metaphor. It was a much more interesting way to say it was a misty mornning. I really like the descriptive writing in this book.
I agree with MC's comment about something bad happening to David. It certainly sounds like the men are going to hurt David if his family doesn't agree to let the trees be cut down. And later, mama even says that accidents don't happen to black men.
Ida B is a book I listened to on CD this past fall. It is so good. Ida B is so stubborn and she talks to the trees on her family's apple farm. Then her parents have to sell part of the farm to a family because they need money real bad. And that is all I will say. Down below is the editor's blurb. You should listen to it on CD or tape because the woman does the voices perfectly. I would sit in my car when I got somewhere just to listen to more of the story. It's like MDT's books, so exciting when she just dumps feeling onto you that you just can believe what just happened in the story and you just don't want the story to end.
oops! forgot to press paste....Who is Ida B. Applewood? She is a fourth grader like no other, living a life like no other, with a voice like no other, and a family like no other, and her story will resonate long after this audiobook has ended. How does Ida B. cope when outside forces--life, really--attempt to derail her and her family and her future? She enters her Black Period, and it is not pretty. But then, with the help of a patient teacher, a loyal cat and dog, her beloved apple trees, and parents who believe in the same things she does (even if they sometimes act as though they don't), the resilience that is the very essence of Ida B. triumphs . . . and Ida B. Applewood takes the hand that is extended and starts to grow up.This first novel is both very funny and extraordinarily moving, and it introduces two shining stars, author Katherine Hanningan and Ida B. Applewood.
I feel the same way as Cassie because when I lived in Acton we had a forest with lots of trees behind my house and I loved to play in them. When we moved I missed playing in the trees. I can see how she would be sad if the trees were cut down.
I don't think that Big Ma will take the money for the trees and they will try to save the forest.
Nhu, and nha. I agree with you. I love how Mildred Taylor uses so many good verbs and adjectives adjectives. It makes you really imagine, and know the place and how the characters really feel. It also helps describes the inner and outer story, but sometimes you have be careful not to mix up whether the character is really talking to another character or just thinking it. I also love that Mildred D. Taylor uses a lot of dialog because it makes it interesting and it shows how the characters are really talking and if the are not using proper grammar because they are in the South where there was once slavery there isn't any more but in this time era they still talked with a African-American accent. This makes the story really interesting. I also love how Mildred Taylor writes with so many details and how she will have a two word sentence then a ten-word sentence. It makes you be very worried about what will happen next.
JM, I think you are right, I loved that part it made me feel like she was realy there it was so cool!
Dc, I was also dissapointed, I thought that big Ma was going to wait until David got home and say no.
I like how Mildred D. Taylor shows the lives blacks have to live and their culture and what they deal with in everyday life because you get a feel of what they went through in the past and now a days. Also how whites treated blacks in the past and how some whites still do treat blacks. I noticed that in The Song of the Trees that Mildred D. Taylor did not use that many short and long sentences or I have not noticed the difference between the short and long sentences than In The Gold Cadillac. I like that every once in awhile MIldred D. Taylor used a simile because it kept the book more interesting than it already is. I also like how the picture in the book captured the feeling in details an d really showed it off. On page 35, paragraph 4, I have a connection because When Lola, one of my families dog, died, my other dog, Opus was like a defeated warrior mourning and waiting to die because Lola died because they were brother and sister just like the trees.
I think Big Ma should tell the kids that she is sick because they might leave more food for her, like when Christopher-John ate all of the corn bread in the middle of the night. I think they should leave more food for her.
I think big ma will not tell her kids about her medicine but she will get sick.
DC and MC, I agree. I was also disappointed, I thought Big Ma was going to wait until David got home and say no.
To cwk I too feel Big Ma should tell the kids she is sick. The reason I think this is so they can help earn money for the medicine, not so they can share food.
P 5 Don't you know folks all around Mississippi are struggling? Mildred Taylor was born in Mississippi
DL I do not think anyone was spared any hardship during The Great Depression. It was different everywhere. The Bread Basket states were in the "Dust Bowl" The Northeast was hurting because business all over was slow and people did not trust the banks. In the South, plantation owners were still recovering from the end of slavery and trying to develop a more profitable business. Yes, Mississippi was very bad, but everywhere was very bad.
I wonder if children could have done any jobs to help make money for the family? During this time, there were many adults that could not get any work, not even odd jobs here and there.
mabeye because they were african american it would be hard to get jobs even though the logans are pretty free
why do the white men think they are better?
I hab to wait until this morning to say this. I love how MDT puts kind of a double ending. When the dad asked the trees if they will sing again
I love how on page 34 she writes "The quiet surrounded us as we entered the forest." I love how she acts like "The quiet" is a group of people surrounding them.
chu, I remember Ms. Sidell saying that white people think there better because they thought colored people were wild and more like animals, or something like that. Why would they think that?
wait! WAIT! nha, that is not quite what I said. Think about our whole conversation not just one part (or one sentence). We talked about Native Americans, African Americans, when the Americans kicked the Japanese off of Guam in WWII, even when Spain went to Mexico. Western Europe during the 1700s and 1800s thought people that did not live life like them were not civilized. Some people thought that they could not think the same way if their culture was so different from theirs.
Og, me too, I looove that ending I think it is great and I lover how she kind of makes you think there is more!
David reminds me of the people like Dr. King and Rosa Parks, and all the people whose names we never hear, that fought for civil rights in the 1950's and 1960's. Even though that was not very long ago, terrible things were still happening to people because of their skin color. So much has changed because people acted like David and stood up even though they were risking their lives. People of all cultures and ethnicities stood up. I hope there are still David Logans around to stick up for people who are facing discrimination, for children who are being bullied or left out, and to stand up when they see something happening that is wrong. We can all be like David in some ways. We don't have to risk our lives to help people and support each other. Too bad David did not have more help. There were so many people around who could have helped him. Still, I love this book.
Mr. Craft I agree totally. David was really risking a life he had....
Cassie and David both like nature and hearing the trees sing so in a way they are kind of simmalar.
I DO NOT HAVE NEARLY AS MUCH COURAGE AS DAVID. HE WAS WILLING TO RISK HIS LIFE FOR THE TREES AND HIS FAMILY.
Mr Craft you are right, David is alot like MLK Jr. and Rosa Parks. I wonder if he will be the same in the friendship.
On page 35, paragraph 4, it is like in the book, Where the Red Fern Grows, after Little Anne dies, Ole Dan is like a defeated warrior mourning and waiting to die because Little Anne died like the trees did.
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