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Friday, November 16, 2007

Weekly Vocab

pilchards



Def: small marine fish related to the herrings






marina



Def: a boat basin offering dock space






glumly



Def: verb. Sadly, down.






fuschia



Def: a color, a deep reddish purple.






golden molar



Def: a golden tooth that is placed in the back of the mouth.

Reading Post


Name: Carly F.
Date: Nov, 16, 2007
Title: Flush
Author: Carl Hiaasen
Time: 2 hours
Pages: 109-263
Total pages: 154 pages

Reflection:
In the second half of Flush Noah and Abbey try to prove that Dusty Muleman is a fake. They devise a very clever plan to show the world that Dusty is dumping his toilet water. They buy 34 tubes of fuchsia food dye and Noah flushed it down the toilet when he secrectly got onto the Coral Queen (the name of the gambling boat). Abbey was waiting in a little boat for Noah to jump off the Coral Queen and swim to their little boat. But, they run into trouble when their boat breaks down and they're stuck in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean. In the morning, they wake up and wave down a rescue boat that was run by Noah and Abbey's father. Someone else was on the Rescue Boat also, it was their grandfather who they thought was dead. Apparently, he had faked his death to get things straitened out. He came back to America and told his family that he was alive. Now, their family can settle down and have a normal life.