54321 on "Tis Herslf"

5comments
• I could picture the old Romany Gypsy holding Maureen’s hand when she was five years old and telling her future.
• I never knew that the qualities Irish woman were suppose to have were strong and feisty.
• I liked how her nickname was the only one that had to do with an animal.
• I like how she started chapter two talking about someone else when this book is supposed to be about her.
• I could picture Maureen, her mom, and her grandmother at the table and her grandma getting upset because she didn’t accept the invitation to London.

4questions
• Did she ever do any movies, songs, or plays with her family besides one of her brothers?
• When she started her acting career did the teachers that used to treat her bad before try to suck up to her like she suspected?
• Even though her life was in acting/ singing did she ever think she would write a book about her life?
• Did she ever go out with Richard?

3vocabulary
• Crocked- an earthen vessel
• Contralto- the lowest female voice or voice part
• Eccentric- deviating form the usual practice; odd

2literary terms
• Imagery & simile- I can picture when she was describing her teachers. She said they were like an ugly beast joined by the side like Siamese twins.
• Exposition- of how Maureen felt with the little boy Sam who was her brother’s friend, when he buried her doll

1overview statement
• So far it shows how Maureen’s life is, growing up in the acting/singing industry and how she has to handle living as a kid, when being famous