1. 4/5 16:00~16:45 28~40 pg
4/7 19:00~19:45 41~54 pg
2. Total time of reading : 1hour 30mins
3. Brief summary
In this chapter it is telling about Stanley Yelnats`s camp story & Stanley's great-great grandfather Elya's story.
Elya competed Igor to marry with Myra. Myra's wanted a man with big pig so Elya asked Madame zeroni to help him. She gave Elya a pig and told him carry the pig up the mountain until Myra's fifteenth birthday and Elya promised her to carry her up the mountain after that. Elya carried the pig up the mountain everyday, but he didn't in the lastday. He took a pig to Myra's house and competed with Igor. The two pig's weight was exactly same, and Myra's father let Myra to decide. Myra told them to choose a number through 1~10, but Elya was disappointed because he thought Myra loved him. So told her to marry with Igor and left her house. After he left Myra's house he went to America and soon he realized that he missed a promise with Madame zeroni. At America he fell in love with Sarah miller. Something unlucky happenend to them and Elya thought it is because he missed the promise. Soon they had a child and they named him Stanley Yelnats.
Stanley started to dig his first hole down in the hot sun. And he had blisters on every one of his fingers. Soon Mr. pendanski came with water truck and lunch. After having a poor lunch, Stanley started to dig hole again. Soon zero finished to dig his hole first, and next Armpit finished his hole. One by one each of the boys finished digging. And at last Stanley finished digging holes. He knew it was nothing to be proud of, but he felt proud of it.
After having a shower he had trouble with Lump, but X-ray and Armpit rescued him, and they called Stanley "Caveman" Stanley was glad to have a nickname. Stanley wrote a letter to his mother, but stanley lied to her because Stanley thought she was worried.
A next day Stanley started to dig a second hole. He found a rock which have a shape of fish fossilized in it. He took it to Mr. Pendanski and asked if he can get the rest of the day off since he found something interesting but Mr. Pendanski laughed and told that it is not interesting. After Mr. Pendanski was gone X-ray told Stanley to give him if Stanley find something else because X-ray is the head of the guys. Stanley agreed with it and X-ray told him "good boy" Stanley keeped digging and he thought he became friend with other camp guys. He imagined camp guys beating up Derrick Dunne who bullied Stanley in his school.
4. Your opinion what you read
The story about Stanley and Elya is changing continuously, so it was a bit confusing. And I thought that the camp green lake is just dumb.-nothing to be good
5. Your reflection of your reading experience
As I said, it was a bit confusing. Some of the vocabulary was hard.. but it was a interesting story. I want to know more about Stanley's life in Camp green lake.
6. Vocabulary
-plow(p.29) ; Can she use a plow?
def : a large farming tool with blades that dig into the earth, or a large, curved blade fixed to the front of a vehicle that moves snow or sand.
Ex) Farmer needs plow to do farm work.
- blister(p.32) ; He had blisters on every one of his fingers.
def : a painful swelling on the skin that contains liquid, caused usually by continuous rubbing, especially on your foot, or by burning.
Ex) New shoes always give me blisters.
- preposterous(p.34) ; "That's preposterous!" excalimed Igor, expelling saliva as he spoke.
def : very silly or stupid
Ex) Your suggestion is preposterous!
- grimace(p.39) ; He grimaced as he sliced off a chunk of dirt, then raised it up and flung it onto a pile.
def : to make an expression of pain, strong dislike, etc. in which the face twists in an ugly way
Ex) He tried to stand and grimaced with pain.
- wreck(p.46) ; They wrecked it. The glass on the TV was smashed, as if someone had put his foot through it.
def : to destroy or badly damage something
Ex) My house was wrecked because of a storm.