Water+for+Elephants

The One Night Elephants Book: Water For Elephants by Sara Gruen

Reading Schedule: Week 1 (11/21-11/28) read chapter 1 up to and including chapter 10

__Predictions and Expectations:__
 * 1) August is going to be killed either by the elephant Rosie or by a girl.
 * 2) We believe we are going to learn how our actions can cause problems in the future.
 * 3) We expect to learn about the traveling circus during Jacob's time period.
 * 4) We can compare the setting to other books that we have read that occur during this same time period.
 * 5) We have already learned that during this time period jobs were scarce and people were desperate to get a job. Knowing what we do about this time period, we think it will give us a special insider knowledge as to how the people in this book are really feeling and just how tough their lives have become.

Week 2 (11/28-12/5) read chapter 11 up to and including chapter 15 Week 3 (12/5-12/12) read chapter 16 up to and including end of book
 * 1) Kinko and Jacob develop a friendship
 * 2) Marlena has an accident and bruises her heels during the elephant act.
 * 3) Camel gets jake foot which means that he has been poisoned from bad "jake" or cheap alcohol.