Saturday 2/4/12 1 hour Pgs: 1-60 (Literally, I'm not just making this up). P.S. I switched out of this version to the better, more popular version that can be found here. For some background on the series, here's a YouTube video that a girl did on why she loves the Betsy-Tacy series and what they are about.
Betsy and Tacy have a deeper appreciation for certain things that may seem everyday to us because of the society, economy, and time period they live in.
"A horseless carriage! Betsy, Tacy, and Tib were stunned into silence. There had been rumors for some time of a marvelous invention called the horseless carriage, a vehicle that ran without being pushed or pulled...even uphill (Lovelace 19)."
Things such as receving a telephone call, or even having a telephone are considered novels, rare, and wondrous for Betsy, Tacy, and Tib. Other things that excite Betsy, Tacy, and Tib are matinee plays, elevators, having books carried by a boy, going visiting with people late at night, bobsledding, going to the library and restaurant, reading romance dime novels, being given a dime, and more. The story is set in 1904, and society is very polite and Victorian. Things are being invented, thus creating the awe over inventions that did not exist before. The economy is different, so certain denominations of money are worth more than now. The world is different, and social, economic, and world factors affect the story and plot of the characters. This makes the story interesting to see what life was like back then.
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Monday 2/6/12 30 min Pgs: 89-120
matinee (n) an entertainment, especially a dramatic or musical performance, held in the daytime, usually in the afternoon.
" 'See that? Uncle Tom's Cabin or Life Among the Lowly. They're giving a matinee next Saturday. I;m going' (Lovelace 28)."
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"Then Betsy and Tacy told her about the coming of Uncle Tom's Cabin. They told her about Little Eva and Topsy, about the transformation scene and the flogging scene and Eliza crossing the ice. They told her about Winona's tickets to the Saturday matinee. 'Gee whiz!' said Betsy. 'We've just got to be the ones she takes' (Lovelace 31)."
The matinees the girls see with Winona Root are the main pieces of the plot. The girls live for seeing these, because they are a symbol of social status, they enjoy watching them, and they symbolize a coming-of-age experience for the girls. The girls first get to watch one in a box, and later even get to act as fill-ins for other actors! The events with the matinees occur during much of the book, being the main conflict, resulting in why the word matinee is so important to the story.
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