Wednesday, November 14, 2007
This Too Shall Pass
Today we read "This Too Shall Pass," a legend from ancient Israel. In your response please include two Think Alouds. In the first one, describe a point in the story where you summarized or where you made a synthesis. Remember, a synthesis is when you put facts together to achieve a greater understanding. You get that "Aha!" feeling. In the second Think Aloud you can describe any reading strategy you used. Refer to the list if you don't remember the different strategies. Remember, underneath the comment section select "Other" and enter your secret name. Leave the website space blank and make sure you get a message at the top of the page that your post was accepted.
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I had a question on page 71 the old man engraved some words on the ring what words will he engrave into the ring.
Sadienewton says,
I summarized a part in the story. It was on the first page 4th paragraph down. What happened before was that there was this king, King Solomon who had guards and the caption of them was Benaiah. Benaiah was always so full of himself and he thought that he could do anything the king asked him, so King Solomon told him to go find a ring that could make a sad person happy and a happy person sad. He did it to humble Benaiah. That was my summery.
I had a connection on the second page right in the middle of the page. My connection was when Benaiah went to the bazaar to look for the ring. The connection I had was that when I was in downtown New York I was walking on the side of the street and on the side there were people selling things on mats just like in the story. That was my connection.
Good start anonymous. What did you think it said? B
Nice summary Sadie newton--very clear. Also a nice connection. hard to believe how little things change over 2000 years! A
When King Solomon sent Benaiah on the impossible task, I was wondering if Benaiah might actually complete the task and if he didn't, would he storm off in shame? Later in the story my question was answered and I found out that Benaiah did find a ring that made a sad man happy and a happy man sad and the king begged BENAIGH for forgiveness.
I summarized the story from the 1st to 4th paragraph. What happened was there was a king; King Soloman and as every king did he had guards. The caption of the guards was a man named Benaiah. Benaiah thought he could do anything and everything the king would ask him to do, King Soloman heard about this and told Benaiah to go find he a ring, not any ordanairy ring but one that can make a happy person sad and a sad person happy. The kind told Benaiah this so he could humble Benaiah. That is my summery.
I had a connection on the last page where the story told us what the man has inscribed into the ring. The man had incribed Jewish letters, gimmel, zayin, and yud these are three letters that are in my Hebrew name. That is my connection.
One prediction I made was on page 71 where Beniah went to the bazaar and asked the boy if he had a ring that made sad people happy and happy people sad. I had synthesized that the boy would have said yes and Beniah would have given that ring to King Solomon but it would have been the wrong ring and Beniah would have been humbled
The summarize I made was on page 70. What has happened so far is King Solomon has a servant named Beniah and he always boasts about never failing a task. King Solomon came up with a task that was impossible to accomplish. The task was to get a ring that made sad poeple happy and happy people sad.
My summary is from when Beniah was boasting to his fellow solders to when Beniah thought he was never going to find the ring.At first King Solomon heard Beniah boasting to his troops about how he always succeded in King Solomons missions so King Solomon gave him a impossible mission.It was to find a ring that turned happy people sad and sad people happy.Beniah searched in sea ports and trading posts and anywhere a ring could be but he couldn't find it.He was very down-hearted and sad when the due-date came but he didn't give up.King Solomon tried to humble Beniah in giving him such a mission.
I thought that Beniah would never find the ring because all the facts showed no hope of him finding the ring.King Solomon thought that Beniah would never find such a ring either, and nobody had ever heard of a ring that reversed your moods.I was sure he wouldn't find the ring.
I summarized at the end of the 4th paragraph, I summarized that King Solomon overheard his loyal soldier boasing about himself and thought that he should be humble. So he gave the soldier a immposible task ti fufill.
I also synthesized at the end of the story about the ring and how the engravment can make a happy person sad and a happy person sad. I came to a conclusion of that a happy person will look at the ring and see that his happieness will soon be gone. sad person will see that his misfortune will turn with time.
I had a summarize/synthesize mark at the end of the first page. I went back to summarize so I would not forget anything. So far King Solomon had seen Benaiah boasting that he could do anything the king asked. King Solomon had sent him on quest to find amagic ring that made asad person happy, and a happy person sad. Benaiah had heard of no such ring but told the king he would search the world to find it. He has only six months time.
I had a prediction on the last page. After the King read the words Gam Zeh Ya'avor i had a prediction it meant "This Too Shall Pass." As I said, in the next sentence it said "This Too Shall Pass." I was right.
in the 4th paragraph , as soloman was telling beniah what the ring was like, i predicted that beniah actually WOULD find the ring and king soloman would be very surprised. my prediction turned ot to be correct. beniah brought back the ring and soloma was suprised and also humbled, even though it was beniah who was supposed to be humble-izing. i did not geuss that king soloman would be humbl-ized, too, but , looking back, i suppose i could(should) have easily infered that too
sometime during the last page (with a bit of prodding from mr.bunting) i synthesized that "this too shall pass" meant that all happy feelings and sad feelings alike, would eventually go away. that all things-feelings events, lives, bad times good times monarchries,days,years, bad crops,- will all come and will all go
when i saw the title, i predicted that "this too shall pass" had something to do with a bridge and a gaurd only letting certain things pass, evenin the first page, i though that MAYBE beniah had to cross a river to get the ring.i was VERY wrong
also............
at the end, when it was describing the hebrew words engraved on the ring, i made a connection with the fact that i go to hebrew school and learned the letters they described.
Pacifiereater: I summarized the last paragraph or so. beniah searched for a very long time until he came to a boy with items on a blanket and he said to himself "I must leave no stone unturned" so he asked the boy if he had the magical ring that he king had requested and the boy said "no". Just as Beniah was about to admit defeat the boy's grandfathe engraved the magical ring which Beniah immediatly brought back to the king. The king was jolly when Beniah camein but the ring changed his mood and he begged forgiveness of sending such a horrible task on Beniah.
In the first paragraph I maid a prediction that when the king was disturbed by Benaiah's boasting that he would send him on a mission that he couldn't succeed in.
I was wrong. Benaiah accutally succeeded.
In the last paragraph I put a star ,because I thought that Benaiah completing his mission ,humbling the king and this ring giving the king wisdom was important
PacifierEater: I could visualize the part after beniah brought the king the simple gold band. I could picture it in my mind the king tugging of his bright polished gold ruby ring with a large ruby sticking staight out on the top, and replacing it with a simple gold band among other rings lush with jewels.
Sorry Mr. Bunting it wouldn't let me sign in Edwardscissorhands
On page 71 I synthesized when the old man gave Benaiah the ring and he became happy. I took a moment to pause and think, this ring wasn't magical in anyway but it still had the power to make sad people happy and happy people sad. Though this wouldn't really work in all situations it certainly worked in this particular one.
On page 70 I could really visualize when King Solomon talked about such
a magical ring a huge golden ring encrusted jewels being elegantly displayed on a satin pillow.
Bobfred says,
Four paragraphs down, I summarized that in the beginning of the book Solomon overheard Benaiah bragging that he could do any task that Solomon set before him. Solomon gave him a task to find a ring that made happy people sad and sad people happy. However, there was no such ring because Solomon was trying to humble Beniah.
I could visualize Benaiah going to all of the ports where the sea captains from distant land anchored their ships and asking all of them, "Have you seen the magical ring that can make a happy person sad and a sad person happy?" That was on page 2, paragraph 3
Purple Green says
I Sinthesized on the last page when King Solomon got the ring Benaiah brought to him. I had to put together how that ring that was not very special at all could make King Soloman be the one who was humbled. I got it because I realized he was wrong and he knew Benaiah was right.
I made an important prediction on the second to last page when Benaiah was sad and could not find the ring. I predicted Benaiah would find the ring and become happy. The king who was happy because he thought Benaiah was being humbled would become sad when he found he was not. My prediction became true.
I am going to summaarize the story what happend in the story was the king Solomon thought that he gave one of his guards an immposible tast but it ended up not being an immposible tast and the guard completed it.
bigphillip says,
Page:#1 the first and the seconed paragraph
Sommorizing
Benaiah was King Solomon's captain of gurds. Benaiah took pride in serving his king, when the king asked him to do something he did it. One day king Solomon overheared Benaiah braging to his soldiers that he can compleat any task that the king sets before him. The king decided to humble Benaiah. King Solomon was going to give Benaiah an imposible task so that he will never brag that he can compleat anything. The king called Benaiah and asked him to find a magical ring.
Page:#3 the third paragraph
Connection
When Benaiah gave the ring to the king it had the letters gimmel, zayen and yud inscribe on it. I have a connection to this because I can read Hebrew.
I summarized on page 3 what's happening: king Solomon is given the ring
Quote: "King Solomon for then on,"
Explanation: So in the end The king begged for for forgiveness when benaiah found the ring.
I summerized a part in the story on the 5th paragraph on the first page. My summery of what happened before is that King Solomon overheard his servent Benaiah braging and saying that he can do anthing that the king tells him to do, and the king decides to punish him by sending him on a task to find a magical ring that doesnt even exist! Of coarse, Benaiah trusts the king and tells him, "I will search the world if I must and bring you the ring you request." That is my summery.
I had a prediction on the 4th paragraph on the first page where it said that the ring the king wanted didnt exist, I predicted that somehow Benaiah will find a ring like that and I was right.
I summerized from the the begining to the end. There was a king who was named King Solomon. At the begining of the story he over heard one of his servants named Benaiah saying that he could accomplish every task that the king set for him. So, the king trying to humble Benaiah asked to get him a ring (thinking that he would not be able to accomplish the tast) that could make a happy person sad and a sad person happy. Benaiah traveled all around the world to find the ring but he couldn't seem to get it. Finally, the day before he was to return to the king, the Benaiah, who was very sad, went to a street market. He asked a boy at a jewlery stand if he had ever heard of this. The boy said he had not but his grandfather said that he had just the ring Benaiah was looking for. After he gave the ring to Benaiah who had been very sad became happy at once. When he returned to the very happy king (because he thought that Benaiah wouldn't be able to do the task)the king became very sad because he had been proven that he could not humble Benaiah.
I also made a prediction on the second page. After Benaiah became happy about getting the ring, I predicted that King SOlomon would become sad when Benaiah came back with the ring. My prediction ended up being right in the end.
I could realy visualize the king begging forgivness but I mean he's a king king's don't get on their knees and beg fogivness
To summerize this story
benaiah was boasting about how he always compleats them king's task so the king gave him what he thought was a impossible task which was to find a ring that made a happy person sad and otherway arond to humble Benaiah and so Benaiah asks everybody if they have heard of the ring until he got to a boy who had alot of rings spread out for sale he said he hadn't heard of it so Benaiah cried The boys grandfater over heard and present the ring to him he became happy then he presented the ring to the king(hey that rymes) and he asked forgivness
THE END!!!
When the old man gave Benaiah the ring and Benaiah got happy when he was sad it seemed to all ad together. I seemed to know that that was the particular ring because it had made a sad man happy and in the end it made a happy man sad. (King Solomon)
Good job Shira Simone! Interesting synthesis and good question. A
Otto Roxy--Good question/synthesis and summary A
Clear summary and interesting connection Elvis Happy. A
Nice visualization fabulous! Good summary. A
Great job Doglover. Did you make the prediction because you speak Hebrew or did you just guess. A
Great job Baseball 77. Cjeck that spelling! A-
Clear summary, caterpillar astronaut. Good job predicting, even if turned out to be wrong. A
Great job sushi9871. A.
Clear summary Pacifier Eater A
Velociraptor--you forgot to summarize/synthesize but the Tink Alouds you did were good. A
Nice summary, Edward Scissorhands!, Interesting visualization. A
You too Bob Fred! A
Good start with synthesis and a good prediction, Purple green. A
Nice summary Softball Girl. A
Big Phillip-- You did a nice job, but you should be a bit more careful with spelling. A-
King Solomon gave Benaiah the impossible task of finding a ring that can turn a sad person happy and a happy person sad. The King was happy thinking Benaiah would not be able to find the ring. On the last day Benaiah was sad thinking he had failed. Then he met a man who engraved some words on a gold band. Benaiah was happy to find the ring. I synthesized that the words on the ring made people think that if they were happy it would soon pass and if they were sad it would soon pass as well. Since Benaiah was now happy at finding the ring and King Soloman was sad that he could not humble Benaiah, the ring worked.
The reading strategy that I used was synthesizing.
I predicted that Benaiah would complete the impossible task that King Solomon gave him. I felt that this was a good prediction because Benaiah said that he never failed a task that the King gave him. I was rigth in my prediction, even though Benaiah found the ring at the laat minute, he still found it. I used the prediction reading strategy.
Great job, Glamor Girl! A
Page 1 First two paragraphs
Summarizing
The king overheard Benaiah bragging to his soldiers about how he can do anything that the king requests. When the king heard this he decided that Benaiah must be humble.He gave him a task to find a magical ring.
Page 3
Question
Third paragraph
My question was:What does "Gam Zeh Ya'avor" means?I thought that it meant "This too shall pass" because that is the tital of the artical.
nipmipookook I still think you could reflect with greater depth and seriousness B
I had a visualization on the first page, after Benaiah was bragging, I could visualize Benaiah standing up in front of the other soldiers with a huge grin on his face, bragging about himself, and the soldiers having perturbed faces as though they are so tired of his bragging.
At the end I summarized:
There was a king who had a captain named Benaiah whom the king caught bragging in front of the other soldiers, so the king gave him an impossible task so that he'd fail and be humbled. He instructed Benaiah to find a ring that could make a happy person sad and a sad person happy. Benaiah searched for months, and finally got it from an old man and brought it back to the king, who kept it for the rest of his life for wisdom and balance.
Great job Crabcake A
Good jon orange air. A
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