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 * Peg was chosen to be Mary because Peg was tall for her and age and Mary was young.
 * The commom enemy all the girls have is polio becuase it is a attacking their bodies.
 * Peg had to learn to walk again becuase her muscles were so weak.
 * The nice thing Peg did was when Miss Ballard found out that the girls sang she recomended that Alice sing a solo.
 * The girls didn't know the boy who was playing Joseph because he was always in the men's ward and they never went there so the girls never saw him.

=11/24/10= =In Chapter 9, "Sunday Visitors," Peg gets a visit from her parents. At first, she is annoyed by her roommates involvement in their conversation, and Alice's reaction to her parents. Reread page 83-84. = =Now consider the following quote from page 84: "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." =

=Respond in a paragraph: What does this quote mean? How does Peg use figurative language to get her point across? Also, what does it reveal about Peg's character? = What the quote meant was that when she got annoyed because of her roommates involvement with their conversation, and Alice's reaction. She then understood why they were dong it. Her roommates rarely had anyone visting them so when her parents came, it made them so happy because someone was here. So Peg wasn't annoyed by it anymore because she knew why they were doing it. Peg uses figurative language by saying "A window of understanding opened in my mind, and a breeze of compassion blew in." What "the window of understanding" meant was that it was her undrstanding why her roommates did this, and " the compassion of breeze blew in" meant that she showed compassion for the girls. This reveals that Peg is a compassionate girl. She understood what her roomates were doing, and didn't care to share her parents with them. That is also what hapened to Tommy. She felt compassion for him and let him keep her radio. //Peg has 3 kinds of Polio. Put yourself i her parent's place and respond. //

In the book Small Steps by Peg Kehret. If I was one of Peg's parents. I had would be so concern about her. Having to know that my daughter has three types of polio; spinal, respirtory, and bulbar. I wouldn't know what to say. All I would be thinking is if she is ok, will she die, how is she doing, how bad is it, and alot of other things floating in my head. I would also think of how she is so far from me and if i will ever see her again. So many thoughts, but i would still believe that she will eventually be better.

**In Chapter 3 of //Small Steps//, Peg has a problem with a nurse who refuses to turn her, even though she is in pain. **  · **What reasons does Peg have for being angry with the nurse? **  · **Do you think Peg does the right thing by telling her parents about this incident? **

In chapter 3 of //Small Steps by Peg Kehret.// Peg has a problem with a nurse who refuses to turn her, even though she is in pain and she is angry about it. She is angry because that woman is a nurse and nurses are supposed to help patients in trouble. Especially like Peg because she is in pain and she can’t move herself to another position because she is paralyzed. So the nurse should have helped her but she was too lazy or stubborn to do it. So she let Peg lie down in pain.

Peg did the right thing by telling her parents about this incident. She did the right thing because by telling her parents that the nurse refused to help a patient, they could tell the person who runs the place and tell what the nurse did, and by telling her parents. Peg never had that nurse again. It is kind of like how this kid on my bus used to bully me and my friend, but then after I told on him several times, I never saw him on my bus again.

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1.) Billie Jo still cleans the mud since her mom is gone it and it is up to her to do the things that her mom would

2.) There was family staying in the school because they were migrants. They were traveling across the country trying to leave.

3.) Billie Jo thinks that Fonda Nye died because she couldn’t live without Haydon, her husband. So killed herself

4.) Ashby and Durwin got arrested because they were making moonshine, which is illegal alcohol.

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">5.) Billie Jo was practicing piano because she was practicing piano for the contest.

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">6.) They felt like they had to clean up the mess.

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">7.) Billie Jo couldn’t make the cranberry sauce because only her mom knew the recipe and now her mom is diseased.

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">8.) The town has a dance because they are raising money for infantile paralysis.

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">9.) Billie Jo placed third place in the contest.

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">10.) The sugar that the Sheriff took from Ashby Durwin, was used to bake goods for the kids.

What can you learn about yourself by studying the lives of others?

In the story Out of the Dust by Karen Hesse you can learn about yourself by studying Billie Jo’s life. She’s a hard worker with tons of confidence and a lot of bad luck. When reading about her life and seeing how she fought to survive, it teaches the readers not to give up.

You can learn Billie Jo’s life and learn yourself through that. The mistakes she made in her life can help others learn about themselves. It helps others by teaching them to forgive and forget. People have loved ones that die and blame others or themselves but this book helps talk about the forgiving process.