killing mr griffin D.Q's 3&4

Killing Mr. Griffin DQ's 3&4 &
1. The members of David’s family are introduced. Briefly identify them.
-His Grandma, and Mom.

2. Why does David think he needs a good education?"
-He is his family's hope for the future.

3. Find the metaphor in this chapter that helps illustrate the emptiness of David’s life.
-He (David) sat next to it and considered dialing any number just so he could hear a voice.

4. Support or refute the following statement:David goes along with Mark because he dislikes Mr. Griffin and needs a better English grade to get into law school.Support.



CHAPTER FOUR
1. Why are Saturday’s special for Susan?
-It meant to her that she didn't have to get up and sit through breakfast table crisis with her family in the mornings.

2. Find a quotation in the chapter that illustrates the idea that Susan feels a part of the picnic group.
-"Hi Sue, great day for a picnic right?" "Almost like summer."

3. Who is Lana?
-A girl that Mark used to date.

4. How does Susan feel about Mark before the picnic?She didn't feel very well cause she was nervous.

5. A symbol is an object, person, or place that has a meaning in itself and that also stands for something larger than itself. How may the eyeglasses be a symbol in this chapter?Because she was the one wearing them and they are made to magnify things.

6. Foreshadowing is also used to create interest and build suspense. Since this is a mystery story, there are many examples of foreshadowing. Find an example of foreshadowing inthis chapter that lets the reader know Susan is going to have problems.David was making her thing he likes her, and she really does like him but he was lieing to Sue the whole time.

200 Word Essay
I think that people murder other people is because of the power they think they have. A person killing another person is a crime and is illegal in the United States. Killings can never be justified because the person that got killed will never get redemption or anything. When a person gets killed it is sad because somebody’s life was just taken away. When the eight people got killed in New Hope Plantation they will never be justified because they are all gone because of somebody’s stupid actions. When somebody dies it is different then some body getting killed because it was there time to go and when n you kill somebody you are taking there life for no reason. No killing a person can never be justified because they are dead and not with the people that love them. Society could help murders from not happening by people working together and getting along. People could keep there temper down and keep calm there would be a lot less murders in this world. We could bring down the murder rate by making people register there guns and bullets with the government so they could keep track of them and they would know who has what things.

killing Mr. Griffin D.Q's
Chapter One
1. Briefly identify the children in the McConnell family.

Answer: Susan, Melvin, Francis, Craig

2. What does Susan mean by "someday"?

Answer: she wants everything to be normal and exactly the way she wants her life to be.

3. Who is David Ruggles? How does Susan feel about him?

Answer: The president of the senior class. She has a huge crush, and dreams about him.

4. Several other students of Room 117 are introduced. Briefly identify them.

Answer: Betsy Cline, David Ruggles, Mark Kinney, Jeff Garrett

5. In the classroom scene, what emphasizes Susan's feelings of being an outsider?

Answer: She feels so alone, sickened, alienated, and afraid. She doesn't fit in with her classmates.

6. Two teachers are introduced. Briefly identify them.

Answer: Mr. Griffin, Mrs. Dolly Luna

7. Mr. Griffin is very strict and stern with the students. Do you think these qualities make him a good teacher? Briefly explain your answer.

Answer: Probably not, because he gives no student extra credit, and most of all he gives them so many F's for a late paper. making them fail a lot.

8. An allusion is when a writer refers to a person, place, poem, book, or movie that the reader, is expected to recognize. Find an example of allusion in this chapter.

Answer: Susan's song she wrote.

9. In what ways does Susan think she and the dying female in Hamlet are similar?

Answer: She didn't do her best in her work. Felt so depressed that she cried, and felt so ashamed.

10. A metaphor is a comparison of two things that are basically unlike, in order to create a sharp picture. In this first chapter find the metaphor involving a bird that helps the author define how Susan is feeling about her life.

Answer: She had a sudden, irrational urge to put her head down on the desk and weep for all of them, for the whole world, for the awful day that was staring so badly.

11. Jeff says, "That Griffin's the sort of guy you'd like to kill." Why doesn't Susan think he is serious?

Answer: Because Jeff really hated Mr. Griffin so much that he had a plan to do that, but Susan thought that he was bluffing which he wasn't.

12. Frequently, objects which seem inconsequential when first mentioned become an important part of the plot later. In the last six paragraphs do you noticed any object that might be foreshadowing?

Answer: Yes that Jeff explained to the gang how to kill Mr. Griffin by tying him with some rope, and blindfolding him.

Chapter Two

1. Why does Mark say the following? " Jeff's done a neat job of lining us up for a mass flunk out."

Answer: Because Mr. Griffin keeps on giving Jeff F's all semester.

2. Explain Mark's special dislike of Mr. Griffin.

Answer: He had to take the English course again for the second time, and he wanted to him since he came to Mr. Griffin class.

3. "Jeff had seen that look before, and it always meant something." What look does Jeff see? What does Jeff think it means?

Answer: That killer look that Mark had when he wanted to do something for the pleasure of it. He really wanted to kill Mr. Griffin so badly.

4. Why do Jeff and Betsy go along with the plan?

Answer: They were tired of flunking his class all the time, but they weren't trying to fail. They were trying to pass and get out of his class for good.

5. Why does Mark believe Dave will go with the plan?

Answer: He likes a challenge, also Mark knows too much about David.

6. What does Mark know about Susan that makes him think she will be their decoy?

Answer: Because she's Mr. Griffin's teacher pet, and plus on the mid- semester she made good grades in his class.

7. A flashback is a scene that interrupts the ongoing action to show an event that happens earlier. Briefly describe the flashback in this chapter. Explain why the author chooses to include it.

Answer: It's how Susan and David met each other when they were in middle school. The humiliation that Jeff has been through, it was the first thing that the plan would work.

8. What is implied, but never stated, about Mark's "transformation"?

Answer: He was sort of a psychic when he heard the call roll. He set a cat on fire, and he also had a special beauty, something too strange to explain about him.

daily do now
1. Parents often argue about what is best for their children.
2.People in small towns sometimes worrie about what other people say about them.
3. Johnny Blogger abd Susie Grammar traveles with their mother to Carwheal in Corwall.
4. When his mother told him about moving, Johnny said he wouldn't mind starting at a new school.

Killing Mr Griffin Vocab
1)inference- the act of drawing a conclusion that is not actually stated.
For example, when Jeff recalls the transformation Mark underwent when he set the caton fire- Jeff and the reader infer that Mark enjoys killing.
2)allusion- whenever a writter refers to a person, place, poem, book, or movie that he expects the reader will recognize.
3)flashback- a scene that interupts the ongoing action in a story to show an event that happened earlier.
4)rite of passage- the young adult must undergo some ritual or test to become an adult.
5)foil- a character whos qualities or actions usually serve to emphasize the actions or qualities of the main character, he protagonist, by providing a strong contrast. On occasion the foil is used as a contrast to a character other than the main one.
EXPOSITION:
-the setting of this story is albuquerque, New Mexico, in the 1970's. the characters for the most part, are average highschool students still living at home, playing sports, dating, and going to the local soda shop. However, all of them have flaws in their character that make them vulnerable to the evil influenced of one of their classmates.
GEBRE:
-young Adult literature is literature written for adolescent readers, and in some cases published by adolescent writters. Authors and readers of young adult (YA) novels often define the genre as literature written for adolescents roughly ages 10 to 20.
8)forensics- the study of evidence discovered at a crime scene and used in a court of law. forensic science is a multidisciplinary subject, drawing principally from chemistry and biology, but also from physics, geology, psycology, social science, etc