How to find a charachters Motive
To find the Charachters motivation
Step numbaaa 1- Read & Annotate the story
Ask lots of questions!!! don't be afraid to ask questions about a passage, its great to ask questions!
it also helps to take notes, quickly write down a word you don't know or something in a passage that you want to know more about. taking notes leads to...
UNDERLINING! Underlining is the best omg I love to underline it helps with, QUESTIONS AND NOTES! underling is the most important, well kinda, but it's my fave!
Step numbaaa 2- find symbols & explain
Symbol: an object that represents an idea
ex:
Goldenrod Tea= longer life
trash= the city
Step numbaaa 3- after step 1 and 2, draw your conclusion!
Chapter 5- Leona
Leona is an African-American woman. Leona's grandmother always drank her Goldenrod tea.
Her Grandmother was stubborn, even though all her doctors told her to avoid the Goldenrod tea, Granny figured the doctors were crazy. So she drank the tea anyway,and it turns out that her grandmother lived to be ninety-nine.
Goldenrod
Young goldenrod leaves are edible.Native Americans used the seeds of some species for food. Herbal teas are sometimes made with goldenrod.
Goldenrods are attractive sources of nectar for bees, flies, wasps, and butterflies. Honey from goldenrods often is dark and strong due to admixtures of other nectars. However, when honey flow is strong, a light (often water clear), spicy-tasting monofloral honey is produced. While the bees are ripening the honey produced from goldenrods, it has a rank odor and taste, but finished honey is much milder.
Goldenrods are, in some places, held as a sign of good luck or good fortune.
They are considered weeds by many in North America, but they are prized as garden plants in Europe, where British gardeners adopted goldenrod long before Americans did as garden subjects. Goldenrod only began to gain some acceptance in American gardening (other than wildflower gardening) during the 1980s.
They have become invasive species in other parts of the world, including China; Solidago canadensis, which was introduced as a garden plant in Central Europe, has become common in the wild, and in Germany is considered an invasive species that displaces native vegetation from its natural habitat.
The doctors were WRONG!!!
Leona's grandmother always outsmarted the doctors.
she just drank her goldenrod tea anyway, she lived till 99.
all of her doctors died a year after they told her not to drink the tea. she put goldenrod on each grave of her doctors.
leona's grandmother
Her Grandmother was stubborn, even though all her doctors told her to avoid the Goldenrod tea, Granny figured the doctors were crazy. So she drank the tea anyway, and it turns out that her grandmother lived to be ninety-nine.