Chocolate War-Vocabulary Enricher by Luka Dragoljic

Vocabulary Enricher

Lawn (paragraph 1 page 87)- A flat and usually level area of mown and cultivated grass

Rectory (paragraph 1 page 87)- The official house of a rector

Errands (paragraph 1 page 87)- A short trip undertaken to perform a necessary task or commission

Bachelor (paragraph 1 page 87)- An unmarried man

Simonizing (paragraph 2 page 89)- Constantly making jokes that no one but you will ever understand.

Lugging (paragraph 1 page 92)- To carry or drag

Ripe (paragraph 1 page 94)- Something that is mature

Soggy (paragraph 4 page 95)- Soaked with liquid

Tenements (paragraph 7 page 95)- Any form of permanent property, such as land, dwellings, offices, etc

Antics (paragraph 1 page 98)- Absurd or grotesque acts or postures

Discrepancy (paragraph 2 page 98)- A conflict or variation, as between facts, figures, or claims

Perspiration (paragraph 1 page 99)- The salty fluid secreted through the pores of the skin; sweat

Strain (paragraph 3 page 100)- To make an effort

Contention (paragraph 3 page 100)- A struggling between opponents; competition          

Luka Martinovic
Discussion Directer
The Chocolate Wars
Number of Pages Read: 81


For my literature circles I read with a couple of class mates "The Chocolate Wars" by Robert Comier. This week I had the job of the Discussion Directer. What I basically had to do is right down a couple of questions for my group to answer and kind of lead the conversation with the group. Some of my question were the following:

What was your favorite part so far?

For the first question the majority of my group agreed on part when Jerry was elected to the chocolates.

Could you relate this book with any other?

My group mates said that they could not relate this book with any other because it is kind of  a very strange book.

On a scale of 1 to 10 how would you rate this book?

Some of my group mates said that it is too early to decide the ratings. But other ether really liked the book and some didn't like it at all because it is not very good compared to other books.

If you were righting a book what would you do to make it better than"The Chocolate Wars"? 
Some people said that the book was too confusing and that it had too many characters in it and others said that it had way too many events in it.

Summarizer- Literature Circles

Elzbieta Janusauskaite 
Summarizer
The Chocolate War
87 pages read

BLOG:  Summary
The protagonist of the book, a freshman at Trinity, Jerry Renault is confronted by the Vigils. The Vigils, being the school gang, with Archie Costello as their leader.  The Goober, Jeri's friend gets an assignment from the Vigils to sneak into room 19 and unscrew all the hinges from the desks, chairs, and the board. The next, day the whole classroom collapses, to the Vigils satisfaction. Later, on in the book the Goober is described to have looked very depressed about the event. Focusing, more on Jerry, Archie is asked to represent the Vigils, and participate in the annual school chocolate sale.  Jerrie is given an assignment to refuse Brother Leon's command to to participate and sell 50 boxes of chocolates. Refusing to sell the 50 boxes of chocolate, can lead to school revolution.

The Chocolate War : Vocabulary Enricher (Kresten Due)

 For my literature circles I am reading "The Chocolate War" by Robert Cormier, and for this rotation in my literature circles group I was the vocabulary enricher, which meant I had to find odd vocabulary words and discover their definition. So far we have read 87 pages and intend to finish the book over spring break. Here is a table containing the words, their definitions, and where they are found in the book. Many of the words were sometimes known but turned out to have slightly different meanings in different contexts (e.g blitz)

Page and Paragraph	Word	Definition
Page 2 Paragraph 1	Grotesque	Odd or unnatural in either shape, appearance, or character : Bizarre or Absurd
Page 9 Paragraph 2	Uncanny	Mysterious, extraordinary or supernatural
Page 15 Paragraph 1	Catch Basin	The point where a street gutter enters a sewer
Page 33 Paragraph 4	Exulted	To have felt triumphant or or joyful. Past-tense form of exult
Page 35 Paragraph 3	Provincial	Showing various viewpoints. A meeting point where different viewpoints are observed
Page 36 Paragraph 4	Convulsive	Has convulsion in it ; Violent agitation, a disturbance, or involuntary muscle contraction
Page 43 Paragraph 8	Caricature	A distorted copy of something
Page 76 Paragraph 2	Blitz	A full out attack, swift vigorous attack or in football terms a charge at the passer on the ball snapped
Page 78 Paragraph 1	Raucous	Rowdy or disorderly or a harsh and strident thing
Page 84 Paragraph 8	Alteration	The  change of something or the process of being altered
Page 51 Paragraph 3	Siphon	Is part of an animal’s body, but is also a verb when one is draining liquid from a to b using a siphon. It is also a tool to perform the verb.
Page 56 Paragraph 6	Onset	The beginning or start of something
Page 60 Paragraph 2	Intimacy	a familiar loving personal relationship
Page 62 Paragraph 2	Mussed	A synonym for messed up or a state lacking order and tidiness

All these definitions were found on dictionary.com

Discussion Director-Chocolate War by Luka Dragoljic #1

Discussion Director-Chocolate War

Who are The “Vigils”?

The Vigils are a secret organization of students that has a big influence at Trinity school. You can basically say that they are “in charge” of the school. They blackmail and terrorize the other students.  They often force the students to do things which are not allowed.

Who is Archie?

Archie is the leader of The Vigils. He is cool and smooth with words. He is clever but hates sports. Everybody is jealous of him because whenever he wants something to be done, whatever the cost, he gets it done.

What is Archie’s role in The Vigils?

He is the “assigner” which means that he gives assignments to kids. The assignments are pretty hard to accomplish and most of the time they involve things that harm others.

What is Goober’s assignment?

His assignment is to loosen up with a screwdriver all the desks and chairs in room 19.

Summarize briefly Jerry Renault’s family and his tragic life.

Jerry Renault is a freshman in high school. He is shy when a girl comes to talk to him. He also loves football and is aiming to be the best quarterback at school. His father is a pharmacist while his mother unfortunately died of a disease which could not be cured.

Bing Traveltracer

For the first rotation In are literature circles I was the travel tracer I travel traced the first 14 Chapters of our book "The Chocolate War"

First Jerry is at the football field playing football. Then we go to Archie putting down names and assigning goober to loosen all the screws in room 19 of the second floor. Then Jerry talks about hiding the Playboy magazine for his dad.
After that brother Leon gives cheating lessons. Then we turn to goober loosening the screws with which he gets help from masked guys. Then Jerry goes home and talks to his dad about "life". Then brother Leon has a presentation about chocolate selling's at school and Jerry gets a vigil assignment 

Illustrator- Predrag

Name: Predrag Sutanovac

Name of the book: The Chocolate War

Author: Robert Cormier

Job: Illustrator

Date: 4/15/2014

In this illustration I drew the main character, Jerry, who is on the ground having trouble getting up because of the punch that he took during football practice. 

First Few Chapter Of THE CHOCOLATE WAR

Summarize
At the beginning the main character as a loner wants some inappropriate stuff. Looking at *Playboy and other Magazines. He was longing to not die without having some inappropriate stuff. Around the middle of the first chapters that we had to read,  there were around 2000-3000 boxes of chocolate assigned to the school. This means according to the book that 50 boxes are assigned to each student. The book also says that they must sell these and they cannot eat any of them.Going back to the beginning of the book it starts off with Jerry playing in the football team but he quickly gets knocked out.