5 Comments
The Portuguese introduced the smoking pipe to the Chinese.
The Spanish brought the smoking pipe to Europe.
The pipe made the people use the opium more often.
Smoking the opium was more popular than drinking it was.
The Dutch followed the Portuguese and began trading the opium.
4 Questions
When did the pipe come about?
Why wasn’t the opium made illegal?
When the opium was made illegal why were people then trying to legalize it?
Did the opium have any good uses?
3 Vocabulary Words
Emancipation
Diacetylmorphine
Laudanum
2 Literary Terms
“Puffing and pouting”- alliteration
No other literary terms were found
1 overview sentence
Smoking pipes were getting more popular and authority figures were realizing how dangerous the affects the opium had on people were.

5 Comments
The Portuguese introduced the smoking pipe to the Chinese.
The Spanish brought the smoking pipe to Europe.
The pipe made the people use the opium more often.
Smoking the opium was more popular than drinking it was.
The Dutch followed the Portuguese and began trading the opium.
4 Questions
When did the pipe come about?
Where did the pipe originally come from?
What is an opium den?
Did the people using the drug realize that it was addictive and giving them a high?
3 Vocabulary
Habitual- done frequently and predictably
Debilitating- reducing somebody's strength or energy
Methodically- systematic or painstaking
2 Literary Terms
No literary terms found
1 Overview Sentence
Opium was rapidly spreading to other places and people were discovering new ways to get high off of the opium.

5 comments
The Sumerians referred to the opium poppy as “plant of joy”
They used the opium poppy for pleasure.
They also used the barely they grew for beer.
The opium was eaten not drunk, swallowed or sniffed.
If they mixed it in a liquid the opium was good for curing things like diarrhea and nausea.
4 questions
Where they using the opium poppy to get high?
What were the purposes of the opium poppy when it was first discovered?
What is insomnia?
Did they know that there was dangers of taking the opium?
3 vocabulary words
Allegory- work in which the characters and events are to be understood as representing other things and symbolically expressing a deeper, often spiritual, moral, or political meaning
Analgesic- describes a type of medication that alleviates pain without loss of consciousness
Estuaries-the wide lower course of a river where the tide flows in, causing fresh and salt water to mix
2 literary terms
Allusion-gives reference to bible verses (pg.9)

1 overview sentence
Not only was the opium used for pleasure it was used to cure sickness.

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5 Comments
They are explaining that there is a flower that has such a strong order it makes people fall asleep.
The poppy flower they are talking about is opium.
Drugs are used: to attain euphoric physical states
for recreational pleasure
to escape the travails of earthly suffering
Farmers in the north did not get as much rain as everyone else.
The Sumerian’s grew opium poppy
4 Questions
What is the description of the flower about in the beginning?
What does the Wizard of Oz have to do with heroin?
Did they know that by trading the opium poppy they were spreading the drug?
What does it mean to oppress widows or orphans?
3 Vocabulary Words
Opium- brownish gummy extract from the unripe seed pods of the opium poppy that contains several highly addictive narcotic alkaloid substances such as morphine and codeine
Larcenous- the unlawful taking and removal of another person's property
Gruel- a thin cereal made by boiling meal, especially oatmeal, in water
2 Literary Terms
Allusion- When they mention the events in the Wizard of Oz
Simile- “The flowers were like little explosions“ (pg.3)
1 Overview Sentence
The poppy flower was an opium. It started to be grown unknowingly of its powers and affect that it could have on people so it was innocently traded.

5 Comments
Brent is going back to school.
Brent will only be in school part-time
Brent goes to a sleepover which goes successfully.
Brent is starting to become more happy with life and is making a lot of progress.
Brent yells at the other kid at Domion because he is suicidal and Brent is aggravated with the other boys attitude.
4 Questions
Is Craig depressed too?
Does Brent like anything he use to like?
What was the picture Brent drew suppose to symbolize?
Is Brent going to open up more with his family?
3 vocabulary
Crude
Nezzle- no dictionary definition
Dorsal- of or on back
Phenomena- Plural of phenomenon
2 literary terms
“It’s like listening in a doctors office.” (pg.357)
A tree that looks like a lollipop”- simile (pg.283)
1 overview sentence
Brent will be going to high school he has finally got over his depression and is ready to move on with his life even though it scares him.

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5 Comments
Brent is becoming more happy.
Brent and his mother have been getting closer.
Christmas time is coming up and Brent doesn’t even want anything
Brent doesn’t feel like he belongs when he goes to the Christmas party at children’s hospital.
Chris is a good friend to Brent…the only good friend Brent really has.
4 Questions
When will Brent leave Domion?
Why was everyone else released from Domion except for Brent?
What is wrong with Craig?
Why do Craig and Brent act that way towards each other?
3 vocab
Verbatim- corresponding word for word with something else
Improvisational - make something up on spot
Contemplating- to think about something as a possible course of action
2 Literary Terms
I am going to hit you so hard that your head will pop off your neck- metaphor (pg.289)
It was so hot inside I felt like I was in an oven. (pg. 302)
1 overview sentence
Brent is doing so much better and is making progress emotionally.

5 Questions
Why does Brent have such trouble with speaking how he feels?
Why is he so concerned with being funny?
How come it’s so hard for Brent to remember why he tried to commit suicide?
Does Brent want to be home schooled or go to school?
When will Brent realize that if he doesn’t speak to his parents then he will always come across as a mean person?
4 Comments
Brent is still terrible at speaking his mind.
Brent is easily influenced.
Brent smoked a cigarette.
Brent has a break down and starts crying about why he tried to commit suicide but he can not remember why he did it.
3 Vocabulary
Umptions- no dictionary definition
Unflinchingly
Arsonist-
2 Literary Terms
“I cried like a baby”- simile (pg.257)
“My tears were a stream flowing down my cheek”- metaphor (pg.257)
1 Overview Sentence
Brent is always thinking about why he tried to kill himself but he still can not figure it out.