Mrs.+Frisby+And+The+Rats+Of+Nimh

=**.(1.) Reading and Writing Assignment :** = =‍**Read pages 15-26 in Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH.** = =‍**Write a short essay that answers the following question:** = =‍**"Describe the many** dangers/conflicts **that Mrs. Frisby, her family, and others in her community face;** = =‍**explain** how she faces those difficulties **; and name what** positive traits **she has shown so far in the novel."** = =**Mrs. Frisby faces many diffuculties throught pages 15 to 26. One of her difuculties is the cat. Dragon, the cat is a threat to Mrs Frisby because the cat can eat the rats. The tractor is also a threat because because it can plow the rats. This also causes moving day. Therefor there are many dangers that occur in the sumarry od 15 to 26.** = =‍**Be sure to use supporting details from the text. Write one or two paragraphs. Be sure to echo the question.** = = = =‍**II. (2.) Reading and Writing Assignment :** = =‍**Read pages 27-38 in Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH.** = =‍**Write responses to each of the following** factual questions **(be sure to echo the question), and then write a one-paragraph response to the thinking question.** **Be sure to write this response at the foot of your "...frisbyreflection121510" document. SO, you'll need to save it as firstnamelastnamefrisbyreflection121610** = = = =‍**a. On page 26, what does Jeremy the crow mean when he says,** "We all help one another against the cat"? **What** message **does the author seem to want to impart [give] to us about solving conflicts? On page 26 Jeremy the Crow says we all help one another against the cat. He means they can all use eachothers power help to defeat the cat. The message the author is giving me is if you work together, you can achive your goal. ** = = = =‍B**As soon as Timothy has begun to heal, another more serious problem arises that has to do with "Moving Day." The thought of moving day had come to Mrs. Frisbys mind. Moving day is when Mr. Fitzgibbon gets his tractor and moves the gardem. Anyone still there never esacapes. She remembered moving day is only on a nice day. Thats what got her worried. She was enjoying the day but the thought came. ** = =‍ What is "Moving Day"? Why does Moving Day pose a serious dilemma **[hard puzzle with no easy answer] for Mrs. Frisby and Timothy? Moving day is so serious to Mrs. Frisby and Timothy. It is so serious because the tracter come and if they dont get ou theyre dead. It is harder for timothy to get out because he is still ill so they have too move as fast as possible. ** = = = =‍**c. On page 32, what is it that Mrs. Frisby remembers her husband saying about problems and solutions?** What is the meaning of what he says? " = =** Mrs. Frisby remembers her husband saying about problems and solutions. ** ** All doors are hard to unlock untill you have the key. All right. She must try to find the key. But where? Whom to ask?" I think this means it means some soulitions a hard to discover. There is an answer ro every one. ** = = = =‍**Thinking Question: "Mrs. Frisby has gotten help from Mr. Ages, and she has gotten** an offer of help from Jeremy **the crow on page 26.** What do both events have in common as "solutions to problems"? = =<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 95%;">** The soloutions to the problems both have something in common. When you are in need dont be afraid to ask for help from your neighbors and use youre rescources. Mr. Ages offered help and so did Jeremy The Crow, so what both soulitions have in common is when you need hellp and somebody offered dont be afriad to take it. ** = = = =<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 95%;">‍**So, if all "doors are hard to unlock unless you have the key,"** what is the special key that Mrs. Frisby needs to find? **Think about it this way,** what is the general advice that both Mr. Ages and Jeremy would give **to anyone who had a difficulty? When YOU don't know what to do, what SHOULD you do? Mrs. Frisby is looking for a key. Her key is help. When you dont know what to do all you have to do is ask for help and youre problem is solved. Mrs. Frisby diddnt know what to do and she took help and got what she needed. ** = =<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 95%;">‍**III. (3.)** Read Frisby pages 39 to 52. Summarize all of the major events. **Use transitional language (First, Next, Then, After that....) One of the major events was moving day. Moving day was a major event because if they diddnt get out in time they would be dead. Another major event was the crow got caught in the christmas tint. Mrs. Frisby was corageous enogh to save him. Lastly Timoth got sick. Mrs. Frisby was wise enough to get Mr. Ages and get help. ** = =<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 95%;">‍**IV. (4.) Read Frisby pages 53-74. No writing assignment yet.** = =<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 95%;">‍**V. (5) By the end of the day Wednesday...** = =<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 95%;">‍**--Read Frisby pages 75-88.** = =<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 95%;">‍**+** = =<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 95%;">‍**VI. (6.) Read and respond to the following reflection questions:** = =<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 95%;">‍**Read Frisby pages 89-111.** = =<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 95%;">‍**Write a short essay that answers and explains the following:** = =<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 95%;">‍**+Describes and explains the meaning of** strange advice that Mrs. Frisby is given by the owl. = =<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 95%;">‍**+What two important pieces of infomation does Mrs. Frisby learn in the chapter "A Powder for Dragon," one about what** "in the lee of the stone" means **, and another about** how Jonathan Frisby had died. = =<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 95%;">‍**+In the chapter "The Marketplace" and "In the Cage," summarize what Mrs. Frisby and we learn about exactly** where the rats come from, what happened there, and how they started to become whom **or what they are--intelligent rats. On pages 89-101 the owl gives Mrs. Frisby some strange advice. The owl told Mrs. Fisby to go to the rose bush and that the sentury at the door was named justin and to tell him that she needed to talk nickodemas about moving her house to the lee of stone. The lee of stone is the place safe of the plow. ** = =<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 95%;">** Jonathan died by trieng to put powder into dragons food. Jonathan was trying to put powder into dragons food but the cat came and ate him. ** = =<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 95%;">** In the chapters "The Marketplace" and "In the cage" it talks about the the rats coming from from NIMH which is the national insitute of mental health. The things that happened ther was the rats would get taged numbers rating there behavior, and they would also get injected with small flashes of pain. The rats becam who they are because they were on a diet at NIMH, but when they got out they started to look and eat anything they could find. ** = = = =<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 95%;">‍**VII. (7.)** **Read through page 141. Answer the following:** = =<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 95%;">‍**�Describe step-by-step** how the rats are taught to read **. Explain how/in what way their** escape from NIMH shows intelligence and responsibility and civilization **. What is the** identity of the rats **of NIMH? In other words, what have they become?�** = =<span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 95%;">**On pages 112 - 141 the rats were not really taught to read. First off they, were** taught to read by the shots. The shots gave them intelligince and power which made start to think and react. They came up with ideas. They had a plan to escape Nimh. They got out by lifting up the latch and climbing through the air vent. As you can see the rats have become like people. They know whats going on and they are aware of whats around them. = =<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 95%;">‍**VIII. (8.)** **Read Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH, pages 142-148** = =<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 95%;">‍**Question/Writing: In the chapter �The Boniface Estate,� what are the** signs that the rats have totally transformed **into different creatures, that they now have a different identity? What are the clues (** reactions) from other rats **that the identity of the rats of NIMH has changed? What** discontent, **or worry, do the rats start to have** about stealing **? What is the greatest** discovery that the rats make at the Boniface Estate **? What does all of this mean about the rats� identity�about** who they are **?** = =<span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 95%;">**In the chapter The Boniface Estate there are many signs that the rats have started to transform. For example, the rats read books and practiced writing throught the wholoe winter. They were also bigger, smarter and stronger than normal rats. While they were searching for food norml rats would be eating out of garbage cans and rotten food of the street. They even learned to recognize signes on buildings. They seemed to be a different kind of rats thean the others. They talked to the other rats once every now and then but not for too long because after a while they'd begin to look at them strangley and walk away.** = = = =<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 95%;">‍**IX. (9.)** = =<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 95%;">‍**Read Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH, pages 149-157** = =<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 95%;">‍**Question/Writing: In the chapter �The Main Hall,� what occurs that shows that the author wants to** remind us of the theme/message of kindness **? Later in this chapter he moves on to the theme of self-sufficiency.** Define �self-sufficiency **.� Look it up in the dictionary.** Why do the rats want to be self-sufficient **? What** preparations, or invention **, have they made to plan to be self-sufficient?** = =<span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 95%;">In the chapter The Main hall the author wants to remind us of the theme of kindness. As proof, Mrs. Frisby shoes unkindness by not telling her kids that there father was conected with other rats and that she voulonteered to put the sleeping powder into dragons bowl. Self sufficient means to be able to take care of yorself. The rats want to be self sufficient because they want to build a plow. They are making a plow to get oats, corn. barely, soybeans, seeds, carrots, melons, and alot more. = =<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 95%;">‍**X. (10.) R****ead Mrs. Frisby pages 158-164.** = =<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 95%;">‍**Answer the following questions in an extended response of at least eight sentences.** Why do the rats admire the monks of the Middle Ages? **In what way were** the monks self-sufficient? Why were/are the rats so hated? **What** mistake was made by the prairie dogs **, according to a book in the Boniface Estate Library? Based on the answers to these questions, what** lesson about the building of a future civilization do the rats make **? In other words, when the rats leave the Fitzgibbon Farm,** how do the rats want to live and what kind of a community do they want to create? = =<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #ff0000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 95%;">Rats admire monks. Rats admired the monks because the monks were self sufficient. Monks were self suffiecient because they built there own houses, they grew food, they read and also wrote. The rats were so hated. They thought they were so hated because the always lived by stealing. The prarie dogs mistake was the prarie dogs grew softer and lazy and made no more progress. When the rats leave Fitzgibbon farm they want to live in a civilized comunity and be able to grow their own food and be self suffiecient like the monks. = = = =<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 95%;">‍**XI. (11.)** **Read Frisby pages 165-186.** = =<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 95%;">‍**Answer the following thinking questions in a short essay of no fewer than 8 sentences, and no more than 20 sentences:** = =<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 95%;">‍**A. What does** the allegorical story [story with an intended message] of the vacuum cleaner business **on pages** = =<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 95%;">‍**169-171** mean about the danger of taking the easy way out **, of the danger of �stealing�?** = =<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 95%;">‍**B.** Why does Jenner disagree **with Nicodemus about whether they should move to Thorn Valley?** Why does Nicodemus disagree **with Jenner? Later on, in the next chapter, �Captured,� we learn why Jenner left.** Why did he and his followers leave? = =<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #ff0000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 95%;">If you use the easy way out that would be the vacume cleaner because it was faster and it takes more energy to use. The danger of taking the easy way out is it could be a trap because jenner does not want to move around with vacume cleaner because she wants to be self sufficient. Jenner disagrees with nicodemus about moving to Thorn Valley because there would be a long walk to get there and nicodomjmeus doesnt want to stay at the barn because in thorn valley they can grow there own food and make there own electricity. Jenner left because she was against there plan from the start, he wants to steal and do bad things while nicodemus wants to start a civilised comunity. = =<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 95%;">‍** C. On page 179, what do we learn about ** Jonathan Frisby ** that ** shows his kindness ** towards his wife? ** What did he not tell Mrs. Frisby? ** Why did he not tell her this? ** = =<span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 95%;">On page 179 we learn that jonathan frisby shows kindness toward his wife by Jonathan not telling his wife that she never got the injections which mean she would grow old and eventually die. This was kind not to tell her because she would feel left out but when she did find out she was very upse and left out. = =<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 95%;">‍**D. All of the above responses have to do with doing the right thing.** According to the author, what does it mean to do the right thing? **Refer to your answers above. What does the author want us to see about the** connection between being civilized and �doing the right thing"? = = = =<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 95%;">‍**XII. (12). Read Frisby pages 187-194.** = =<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 95%;">‍**Answer the following fact and thinking questions:** = =<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 95%;">‍**A.** What does Mrs. Frisby learn **when she is captured, inside the birdcage?** = =<span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 95%;">**Mrs. Frisby learns when she is captured that the people are going to bulldoze the rose bush. They are going to do this because thay think the rats have rabies.** = = = =<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 95%;">‍**B.** Why, ironically, is Mrs. Frisby's capture a good thing? = =<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #ff0000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 95%;">It is good thing that she is captured so she will not die of the bulldozer. If she wasnt captured she would be squashed. = =<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 95%;">‍**C.** Describe two other examples of "entrapment" **[being trapped or caught]** that, ironically, led to good things. Explain fully. = =<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #ff0000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 95%;">One example of being entrapped that led to a good thing is that Mr. Frisby was hearing what the people said about the 7 rats that have died at NIMH. The second example that occured was when the people said that the rats have rabies from the rose bush and they were going to cut it down. = =<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 95%;">‍**XIII. (13). Read Frisby pages 195-205** = =<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 95%;">‍In the chapter, �Escape,� (especially on pages 196 and 197) Mrs. Frisby spends quite a bit of time thinking about the rats. Re-read those pages. ** Why does Mrs. Frisby want to escape and do? What does this say about her character? What does she say about the rats and their plan? What message does the author want to give us about goodness and bravery and intelligence and civilizations? ** = =<span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 95%;">Mrs.Frisby wants to escape because shewants o tell other rats the rose bush is going to be destroyed. This says she is a kind person who trying to help others. <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">XIV. (14) Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH, pages 206-215 =

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">‍On page 206, how do we know that an important conflict (Mrs. Frisby�s conflict) has been resolved?
==<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">‍At the meeting with the rats that Mrs. Frisby attends, explain exactly how�and why--the rats intelligently come to the conclusion that they must abandon their �subrosa� [meaning under the rose and meaning a secret] home? What evidence do they have? How do they intelligently evaluate the evidence? What predictions do they make? ==

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">‍Then, after they decide to abandon their underground lair, what strange plan do they hatch? Why do they come up with this plan?
==<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">‍Timothy asks his mother on page 215 why the rats are moving away. She says, �Because they want to.� This is a deep and profound statement. Why do the rats want to move away? What does their wanting to do so reveal about who they are and what their true character is? ==

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">‍Fill-in-the-blank IV.
== The conflict was solved when her house was warm, and it was safe at last. Her children slept beside her peacuffly; Timothys breathing was quiete and easy. <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Mrs. Frisby them what the rats what what the people are going to do at the rose bush and why they are doing it. Mrs. Frisby said that he rose bush will get cut down because the people think the rats will get rabies. ==

=<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 95%;">‍**XV. (15) __Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH__, pages 216-233** = = = =<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 95%;">‍The author ends the novel with a final �statement� about intelligence, courage, and kindness. __In your own view, what is the overall, general message that the author would like to leave us with about being civilized, especially as it relates to intelligence, courage, and responsibility? More specifically, in what way are all three ideas related to the idea of being civilized?__ = = = =<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 95%;">‍__First__, what brave or heroic action does Mrs. Frisby witness? What past action of her own does it �mirror,� or in what way has she, too, been heroic? = =<span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 95%;">Mrs Fisby witnesses the rose bush being cut down. = =<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 95%;">‍Second__,__ on pages 230 and 231, how does Mrs. Frisby show kindness or consideration or responsibility when she speaks with her children? = =<span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 95%;">Mrs Frisby is kind because she tells her kids that they are different from the other rats. she is showing kindness by tellin the the truth. = =<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 95%;">‍Finally, re-read what you wrote. Then, think and write: __What does the author of Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH want us to know about being civilized? What does it mean to be civilized? What__ **__are the character traits of a civilized person? Why is being civilized hard? Is it easier to be �uncivilized�?__** = =<span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 95%;">**If you are civilized you are learning to be intellegent and organized like a comunity. If you are not civilised you will not succeed.** = = = =<span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Dylan Semenza 4/11/12 = =<span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">6-C P. 1-2 = = = =<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #0000ff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The message of __Mrs. Frisby and the rats of NIMH__ by Robert C. O’Brian are to be civilized. Civilized means to have an advanced human culture and be smarter the others. It also means to work successfully together, use evidence to find what you need, and treat others how you want to be treated. This is the main theme because the rats all work together to build a civilized community with electricity and houses and many other things. = =<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #0000ff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">To start, the rats were civilized by working together. For example, the rats had an idea to escape the cage. All the rats worked together to get out by lifting the latch. The rats worked together and accomplished theye goal. If the rats were not civilised they could not do this. = =<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #0000ff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Secondly the rats found evidence. As proof, when the rats overheard the people talking about how they were going to cut down the rose bush because they thought that the rats got rabies from the rose bush. That is some of the rat’s homes so if they cut it down the rats will be dead. Also when Mrs. Frisby got out of the birdcage she told the rats, that the people who held her captive are going to cut the rose bush down. = =<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #0000ff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Lastly, treat others how you want to be treated. Specifically, Mrs. Frisby helped out Jeremy the crow by getting him out of the silver thread. Mrs. Frisby got an offer for help by Jeremy the crow and Mr. Ages to help her find a place to live. Mrs. Frisby got treated how she wanted to be because she treated others how she wanted to be treated. = =<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #0000ff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">As one can see the main lesson of this book is treat others how you want to be treated, be civilized and use evidence to find what you need. Mrs. Frisby and the rats showed theese things throught the story in many different ways. Theese were the thing that stood out to the most to the readers eyes. What do you think about this book? =