Kayla+DuBois

Kayla DuBois

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12/3/10

Prompt: Comprehension questions Ch 13 - 15


 * 4.** Peg worked so hard in school because she didn't want to fall behind her friends in public school.
 * 5.**Peg learned to play the accordian to stregthen her arm muscles.
 * 6.**Doctors in the United States accepted Sister Kenny's treatment before the doctors in australia faster because American doctors decided to give her a try. After seeing how well her demonstration worked on a child.
 * 13.**Peg wasn't allowed to have a pillow or walk barefoot. Otherwise if she did it would make her fall and be unbalanced.
 * 20**.Sister Kenny was having trouble with doctors to recognize her treatments because they though it was unorthdiox snd unessary.

11/22/10 Prompt: Find meaning to the quote, how Peg uses figurtive langue to get her point across. Plus What does it show about Peg's character?

Quote: //**"A window of understanding opened in my mind,**// **and the breeze of compassion blew in. From that moment on, I was glad to share my visiting family with my roommates."**

The quote means that Peg understood why her new rooomates, Shirley, Alice, Dororthy and Renee were budding into to her conversation. They got no visitors so they really wanted to talk to someone and get attention. This shows that Peg is understanding and that she can figure out why the bud into conversations.Plus that she's outgoing because she forgave her roommates for what they did. She also changed her attitude after that showing even more she outgoing. In conclusion the qoute meant that she understood how roommates felt and forgave them for that. 11/10/10 Prompt: Peg has a nurse that refuses to turn her, what reasons does she have for being angry at the nurse? Do you think she did the right thing by tellling her parents?

In the book **__Small Steps__** by **Peg Kehret** the girl Peg is in the iron lung with three diffrent kinds of polio. The nurse in the book refuses to turn her when Peg requests this causes peg to become angry at the nurse.Peg has a right to be angry at the nurse because she refused to turn over a paralized child in pain. Peg couldn't do anything like this on her own so this made Peg even more furious at the nurse. After this nurse contuined to say " I am too busy to run in here just to turn you in that bed." Peg should be allowed to be angry at the nurse because they are supposed to help a patient unless it's an emergency like a guy just came in half dicapitated. In conclusion Pegs reasons for being frurious at the nurse are she refused to turn Peg and then complained about how busy she is.

Peg did the correct thing by telling her parents about the nurse who refused to turn her. Peg did the correct thing because a nurse who refuses to turn a sick patient, would make other people wonder what else will she refuse. Peg did the thing by that and got a diffrent nurse who told her parents that shouldn't give Peg a choclate milkshake but she didn't stop them from doing it. If it weren't for that nurse backing down Peg could be dead from Polio like all the other children who are in the ground from that terrible diease. If it weren't for that choclate milkshake and the diffrent nurse that her parents had fought for Peg she probaly be in the iron lungor worse. This renminds me of when I was just out of my surgery for getting my tonsils removed. I had three ice pops in a row and the nurse told me no more. Even though my throat icthched increabaliy. So my parents asked for me to have another ice pop before I left to make my throat feel better and I got one beacuse of them like how Peg got a milk shake. Therefore Peg did the right thing by telling her parents.

11/2/10

Prompt: Put your self in Pegs parents place while she's in the hospital with three diffrent kinds of Polio.

If I were Peg's mother and I was in this situation I would everything I could to see my daughter. Since Polio could cause a sudden silent death. I would be trying to stay in with my daughter to every last moment of her days. Peg had three dangerous kinds of Polio. Which would make me think "You can't go yet, NO! I want you to be alive to have children of your own and to get married." Then I would be sobbing for at least a day and having anxeity over if she has the respriator or in the iron lung at Universty of Minneosota. Even if she was in the hospital I would be concocuting ideas or ways on how to see my daught er's face every day even for a minute. In conclusion if I were Peg's parents I would be trying everything I could to see my duaghter everyday even if I get contaminated with Polio.