Tuesday, March 10, 2009

Discussion D

DIRECTIONS:
Your group will be graded on a FOCUSED online seminar that relates to CHAPTER 10 of Shadow Spinner. You may use your novel for help.

Rules:
1. No out loud communicating of any kind. Noises or talking will lose points.
2. Start by re-capping the chapter
3. Discuss what characters do, think, and say
4. Respond to what other say about them
5. stay on topic.
6. stay on topic.
7. stay on topic.

8. Discuss what you like about the novel
9. Ask questions
10. make predictions

Scoring Points:
1. Thoughtful and related comments
2. Thoughtful and related responses
3. Use of quotes and page numbers from the book that create discussion
4. Discussions that involve everyone's ideas
5. No dominators
6. No spectators

114 comments:

  1. okey dokey, I wanna predict whats happenin next, i keep it short and sweet: i think sharazad is gunna die

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  2. and marjan wil hav to take over her place

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  3. I'll start with the recap. Marjan is following this boy to find the storyteller. She's worried he'll leave her since she didn't pay in advance. Eventuall y the boy blindfolds her and leads her to this house. Here she finds the storyteller who tells her the name with two B's. Badar Basim.

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  4. No if Marjan found the story teller she isn't gonna die

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  5. which chapter is this? I'm getting it confused with the other ones...

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  6. lol this goes fast, I think Marjan is not going to get the whole story or it might be wrong

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  7. because it would be unexpected

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  8. Here's something I've wondered about: why does the boy call Marjan "Sister"?

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  9. Oh ok so Marjan is hearing the story from the story teller guy

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  10. sharazad is too big a character in the book to die now i think

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  11. It's out of respect lauren i think

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  12. he might think that marjan IS his sister

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  13. Ok cuz Marjan called dat random merchant "uncle"

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  14. I think that the boy is going to trick her somehow i also think that the story teller is werid how could he be blind and then not

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  15. I think the guy is kinda like arabian mafia
    REVELATION! HES THE GUY WHO SMUGGLES WOMEN OUT OF THE TOWN!!!

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  16. nah I don't think so, her mother isn't that mean to her she wuld tell her if she had a sister

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  17. god jack look what you did now we are talking about if marjan will die and everyone knows she wont because it will be a happy ending

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  18. why don't you think the storyteller quickly grabs the gold dinar like the boy?

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  19. oh and i agree with eric that he is calling marjan sister out of respect

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  20. why are we talking about the chapters and not whats gonna happen in future

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  21. Whoa anton thats suspense!!!!! But wouldn't he know Marjan if he wuz that guy? she sed somthing about it in ch. 9

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  22. i think that he is proably really poor and that he is kinda greedy

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  23. i think marjan will get tricked

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  24. Nah theyr not really siblings, just like friendly, like friars are called brother (brother mat) or nuns sisters (sister mary)

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  25. its not all about predictions, besides we made some already. I think the Marjan wont hear all the story or it may be wrong

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  26. i disagree with anton i think that he is ust a poor boy not a mofia

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  27. if the storyteller is greedy, why wont he quickly grab the gold dinar?

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  28. if Marjan gets the story correctly, she'll go out to get more stories

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  29. why cant they just killl the sultan
    maybe tats wats gonna happen

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  30. yeah mabye she will have half the story or something

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  31. they cant kill the sultan because of the katun

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  32. I think that there is definitly way more to this story teller guy than we already no

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  33. if you look at how much more of the book we have it would not be that much longer if she got the story

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  34. that would be hard Zack, remember how the Khatun protected him from assassins before, she probably wont stop that yet

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  35. they can just kill the kathun too

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  36. I think she may have to come back for more of the story or for dif stories

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  37. The khatuns gonna kill some1 if the sultan dies, like Marjan

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  38. well he didnt grab it means he doesnt need the money
    that leads to why he was begging a bit ago, my answer is:
    He was gathering information
    Therefore:
    The beggar is some kind of spy
    Proof:
    He has disguises (fake blindness) and the boy had to lead Marjan through a whole buncha passages to get to him

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  39. but don't you think the Khatun would be supsciiuos if she is gone a whole day?

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  40. why would sharazad not be able to get past the kutun

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  41. hello can anyone respond to my q

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  42. Zack i dont think ths story is all about killing people

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  43. yes i think she is going to notice if marjan is not there

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  44. sharazad isn't that mean to kill some1

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  45. The beggar guy is hiding from Khatun!

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  46. marjan is also very helpsless without shaharazad

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  47. Anton i think pretty much evry1 is hidng frm da khatun

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  48. no i dont think so she is always arond other people and people would see them killing her and i agree with laren i dont think that the story is abut killing

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  49. maybe he tried to kill the sultan once eric

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  50. wow this is going really fast. every time i post a comment there is a new discussion

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  51. Im gonna talk about a dif ?. Do you think Marjan thinks she's so high and royal now after living in the harem?

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  52. eric he's some kind of rebel guy hoping to end the killing and he knows the khatun has tons of spies and he is some kind of contact with a whole bunch of people to smuggle people out

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  53. what why would the begger hinding from the kutun mabye the sory teller is seeing that he blindfolded them before he took them to his house

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  54. if shararazad plannd da hole thng, she wood find a way to make sure the khatun dosnt find out

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  55. wow aggreeing with jack about the new conversation thing

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  56. All i think is that the storyteller has a bigger part in the story than we think

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  57. um i dont think so i think that marjan want to be back at home not at the palace

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  58. but doesn't she love the royal food and clothes?

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  59. maybe but maybe hes just in the story tto help marjan

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  60. khatun=fat evil overprotective creepy mother

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  61. i wonder how he and the sultan both know the story but sharazad doesn't

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  62. Do we think that the story teller guy was blind and now is cured somehow or that he was faking it before? I think that he was somehow cured. It would go well with the air of mistery around him

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  63. maybe he told it to him!!!!!!

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  64. i dont marjan luvs the ryal stuff all tht much she just wants 2 go home

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  65. anton who ever said she was creepy

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  66. and no eric why would Marjan feel high and Mighty? it's not really privledged to be one of he harem...

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  67. but she's acting kind of prideful and stuff lauren like when she says pg 94 "You don't want to make enemies of my friends."

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  68. true she did say she wanted to go home

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  69. mabye but then how would they have nown each other the kutun was protecting her sons she wouldnot have let him talk to a old begger

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  70. mayb he wasn't a begger back than nicole

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  71. i thnk marjan wuz jst actng proud b-cuz she needs the story badly

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  72. mayb like an old eunuch or some1 close to the sultan

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  73. knows how to get the info outa him

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  74. he mustve been the person that slepped with the sultans first wife and started the whole thing

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  75. when she said you dont wanna make enemies and that he snorted, it didn't make him frightened

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  76. also i wonder why the begger dose not pick up the gold it says on page 95 "i set the coin down on the crpet. still the man did not pick it up. this was a hovel they lived in- i could tell by the carpet and the walls..."

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  77. dood i totally agree with eric. I think the dood who was blind was the person who toled the sultan the story. Perhaps he was one of the people who assinated the sultans older bro and he had to flee the palace and make a new identity (hence the fake blindness). That would explain why the sultan is like the only one who nos the story

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  78. ya i said that also nicole in the bginnnin but no1 answwered, I think he 's secretly rich

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  79. wait im relly lost what exactly r we tlkng bout?

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  80. quote from the green paper: "how is the author setting up the story for later events?" Marjan is gonna need to take more trips to Mr. Arabian Mafia and she'll learn his plans and such

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  81. the beggar not picking up gold, how sultan and beggar know same story

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  82. I think she may just want more stories from him, but I think the Khatun will get suspicious and might try to stop her next time getting out

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  83. i thnk da reesn he & da beggar both no da stry is jst to giv marjan a reesn 2 help shaharazad

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  84. about the blind dude sleepin with the sultans first wife and starting the whole thing

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  85. hoo yeah... so new talking point...

    How will Scheherezade sneak Marjan out?
    I think actually that zaynab will be the key

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  86. i agree with jack i do not think that the person is blind i think that he is somehow realated maybe a preson who came to the palace when the sultan was litle and he told his story like a preormer or something

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  87. you think she'll go by the basket thingy?

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  88. hmm... that would really be a twist nicole

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  89. i dont think that he is secretlly rich, he just is above being desperate for money. I dont think he wants to draw attention to himself with a whole bunch of money. This bacs up my statment of how he is running from the sultan

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  90. wow... how many people here and how long have we been going?

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  91. i dont know wont marjan just get back into the draw thing that she came in

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  92. maybe he was banished from the harem for like disagreeing with him or something

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  93. where the letters are brought down to the street lauren

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  94. perhaps the man once was a close servant for the sultan when he was a child. He made up the story and told only the sultan.

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  95. Great job group! This was a learning experiment. Thanks to all for participating in a positive way.
    Some very good ideas about the chapter.
    Mr. K

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