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"What Does It Mean?"

Writer: Beth AndersonBeth Anderson

Choose three quotes that you feel are important from the pages you read in your book today. You will first write the quote, in quotation marks, then write 3-4 sentences for each quote, explaining what each one meant and why it was important. What are your thoughts, comments, ideas, and understandings about the significance of the chosen parts of the text?


You know I will be grading on the quality of your work, so please take your time and include plenty of rich details.

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ahalpin3050
Dec 05, 2020

"We need something that moves." We are lying our bellies shooting Augie's pallet gun at some tin cans we had lined up on a fallen log.

Well i guess we could get Herkimer Augie said. I sat up This was interesting. Augie knew someone named herrkimer? And this herkimer guy would let us shoot at him?

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hwhiles2262
Oct 30, 2020

"I dont want anyone to know who I am." Tom was scared of what they would find out if they knew who he was. "I must change my name, look, identity, everything." Tom doesn't want anyone know what he did in his past. "I can't start to like her, I must do everything I can to stay away from her." Tom doesn't want to like Amy because he is afraid that he will acidently tell her what he did in his past.

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asantel3062
Oct 27, 2020

The first quote is “The waves are growing wild again, and the Jornty Spark is being tossed about like a stick in a game of Pooh sticks gone horribly wrong.”This quote is used quite a few time.

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ethrower3038
Oct 26, 2020

"He's a floater" is one of the quotes I chose because it shows what stag in composing the body was in. This shows what Camryn and her father would have to do to figure out how the person died.


"The Christopher killer" is a quote that I chose because it shows the person who died was killed by a certain person. It also shows how they died because all the girls who died were strangled.


"The killer is a organised killer" I chose this one because it shows what age the killer was and who it could or couldn't be because of their personality. It also shows why things could have happened like usually organised killers don't kill people because…

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cmccutchan2329
Oct 25, 2020

"I'd felt like I'd been scraped clean from the inside and left with someone who only resembled me on the surface." I feel like this quote is important because it shows that you can look like yourself on the outside and be a completely unlike yourself on the inside. It also makes you think that you should check in on people, because they could be the happiest person ever and still not feel like themselves. Sometimes you think about what you used to be like and it feels like you are a completely different person.


"Hope bubbled amid the acid churning in my stomach." Although this sounds gross there is a message in that sentence. This sentence reminds me that…


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