Today we read about Ruby, the baby elephant arriving at the Big Top Mall.
Reread this chapter:
Guessing (p.58, excerpt from 'The One and Only Ivan' by Katherine Applegate
Bob fears our new neighbour will be a giant cat with slitted eyes and a coiled tail. But Stella says a truck will arrive this afternoon carrying a baby elephant.
"How do you know?" I ask. I sample the air, but all I smell is caramel corn.
I love caramel corn.
"I can hear her," Stella says. "She's crying for her mother."
I listen. I hear the cars charging past. I hear the snore of the sun bears in their wire domain.
But I don't hear any elephants.
"You're just hoping," I say.
Stella closes her eyes. "No," she says softly, "not hoping. Not at all."
Why do you think Ivan thinks Stella might be 'just hoping'? Why do you think Stella says she is not hoping?
maybe he thought she wanted an elephant so she said she knew it was an elephant and i think stella says she's not hoping because she knows that it's an elephant and maybe she does not want a baby elephant
ReplyDeleteMaybe because Stella likes elephants? Just a guess!
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ReplyDeleteIm not shore maby stella dose not want a baby.
ReplyDeleteI think Stella is sad that Ruby was taken from her parents.
ReplyDeletei agree that would be very possible
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