Bryan+Marengo


 * Bryan Marengo**


 * Comprehension Questions Chapters 13-15**
 * 1) 6. The doctors in th U.S. acceped Sister Kenny before Australia because polio was a bigger problem in the U.S. than Australia.


 * 1) 9. She celibrated not needing a wheelchair any more by takeing it on her last joy ride.


 * 1) 13. She would lose balance.


 * 1) 19. Her scool at the hospital was defferent because there was only one teacher, no homework, and school was only 2 hours and 30 minutes.


 * 1) 18.She watched her dad pay it.


 * 10/23/10**

In the book Small Steps by Peg Kehret Peg is onnoyed by her roomates listening to her confersation. The text says "A window of understanding opened." To me that quote means that Peg now understands that her roomates are lonley. She probebly knows that her roomates don't get visitors often when Peg gets one every week. Peg is much more fortanate than her roomates. If they listen to her confersation it means that they hadn't had an experience with visitors. If I was Peg I would feel annoyed too just like Peg was.

Peg has 3 kinds of polio put yourself in her parents place.
 * 11/2/10**

If I was one of Peg's parents I would be shocked. What are the chances of having three types of polio? I would also feel sorry for her being paralyzed and having a hard time swallowing. Also, I would be afraid that she would never see her parents again. In __Small Steps__ Peg has to be put in the iron lung, it was probebly very uncomftorable. If I was one of Peg's parents I would make sure that she is fealing ok.


 * 11/10/10**


 * What reasons does Peg have for being mad at the nurse? Does she do the right thing by telling her parents?**

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 * __In__** __Small Steps__ by Peg Kehret, Peg gets angry at the nurse. I think she should be angry with the nurse because she didn't turn Peg. The nurse dosn't know what it is like to have polio and to be the only one in town to get polio that year. She should tell her parents about the fat, lazy nurse who was too lazy to turn someone eventhouh she was right threre. When the text says "I never had the same nurse again" the nurse probebly got in alot of trobble with her boss.

1.) Billie Jo has to place plates and glasses upside down before eating so dust dosn't get in the cup of on the plate.
 * Out of the Dust: Chapters Winter 1934 - Spring 1934**

2.) Arley Wanderdale asked Billie Jo to preform at the president's party.

3.) The best time to ask Ma to do something so she would say yes was when she was washing the dishes.

4.) Billie Jo couldn't go to the rehearsal for Sunny of Sunnyside because Billie Jo would miss school.

5.) When Ma was having a baby Billie Jo wondered if Daddy would get his boy this time.

6.) Mr.Noble and Mr.Romney had a bet on who could kill the most jackrabbits.

7.) Billie Jo felt sad about Livie moving away.

8.) Billie Jo's father fought in World War I.

9.) The rain of June 1934 was wrong becauseit had dust in it.

10.) Ma had billie take the exrta money back to the store after he gave her four extra cents.

11.) The money helped convince Ma to let Billie Jo play in Arley's band.

Out of the Dust Expository Essay last paragraph

I can relate the question “How do we form and shape our identities?” to my life. My little brother who is 4 years old started shaping his identity. He shapes his identity by what I do, what my sister does, and what my other little brother does. He also shapes his identity by what my parents do. Also, he forms and shapes his identities by what happens to him in life. For example, if he almost drowns in a pool he might be scared of water. We all form and shape our identities in different ways.