CARPA for "The Lorax"
1. Which parts of the text did you focus on?
2. Why did you pay particular attention to these parts?
3. What questions were you asking as you read?
4. What images were you forming as you read?
5. What were the purposes of these images?
6. What theme do you take away from this poem?
2. Why did you pay particular attention to these parts?
3. What questions were you asking as you read?
4. What images were you forming as you read?
5. What were the purposes of these images?
6. What theme do you take away from this poem?
Happy Posting!
Professor Stanley
Madison Tollett
ReplyDelete1) The thneeds.
2)I understand that this is a children's book but who in their right mind would wear this thing.
3)Did the Onceler feel he had ruined everything and that's why he locked himself away? Where did the little girl get the idea for the painting?
4)Almost similar to when you see the videos on all the different things you can do with scarves while the onceler was explaining the thneeds.
5) It was a multiple use of some fabric stitched together.
6)Everything is beautiful and we must not forget what is a gift and a resource.
Everything in our environment is beautiful we just don't take a moment to realize it. Instead we become blind by our surroundings.
Delete-Cristian Rayas
Jessica Gallardo
ReplyDelete1.Which parts of the text did you focus on?
I’m going to focus on the issue of the Truffula Trees, because from them come two fundamental flaws in this book, flaws which the entire work rests upon the story contains many common components
2.Why did you pay particular attention to these parts?
The Lorax, by Dr. Seuss is a light-hearted but cautionary tale with a viewed from one perspective, the different species in an ecosystem are like parts of a delicate, but cut down a tree that upsets the Lorax, this just draws his attention.
3.What questions were you asking as you read?
Do you think the Lorax and his friends will come back if new Truffula Trees grow? Where do you think they have been?
4.What images were you forming as you read?
Imagine you are a little girl watching The Lorax. What do you learn from it? You discover that even if you are deeply worried about the pressing issues of the world.
5.What were the purposes of these images?
The purpose of the images in the Lorax is educational purposes, and a man whose activities abused the environment and pollution, habitat. This story has a wonderful environmental message for both adults and children.
6.What theme do you take away from this poem?
What I take from the story of The Lorax is that the Once-ler is actually a good person at heart. He just gets carried away and doesn’t understand the impact of his actions.
Cristian Rayas
ReplyDelete1) When the once-lers are cutting down all the Truffula trees.
2) This leads for the Bar-ba-loots have no more Fruits to eat. Then the Lorax sends them away in order for them to search for food in another land while the once-lers watch sadly. It shows depression throughout there's no food and the other workers are forced to bring conflict.
3) Fish can walk? why did the Once-lers cut the trees, the Once-lers can't make Thneeds without trees!
4) The towns environment
5) The natural disaster of beauty. The sky turns from blue to black, water polluted due the factory representing evil
6)Man and the natural world. All this terror is caused by industrial waste.
-Cristian Rayas
really? fish walking was your primary concern?
DeleteChristian Garza
I agree with the them you chose. I see that in the poem we have two opposing forces (nature and humankind), each pushing to survive. Once-ler seeks money and uses the natural resources without thinking that he is destroying the wildlife's habitats. Once-ler has the power and technology to take down the trees, but on the other side, we have the animals and the rest of nature without a voice and no way of being protected. The Lorax's short stature almost represents how small that voice of the nature/wildlife activists is. The Lorax tried to stop Once-ler, but he wasn't strong enough.
DeleteViridiana S.
1. Then he grunts, "I will call you by Whisper-ma-Phone, for the secrets I tell you are for your ears alone." SLUPP! Down slupps the Whisper-ma-Phone to your ear and the old Once-ler's whispers are not very clear, since they have to come down through a snergelly hose, and he sounds as if he had smallish bees up his nose.
ReplyDelete2. Because it was hilariously funny. (Me thinks me fellow students are taking this one too seriously.)
3. Why have I not been reading Dr. Suess my entire adult life? It could provide laughter in times of great strife. (I love Christian Rayas's answer to this one. Very cool.)
4. The truffula trees.
5. Because the Onceler's description was vivid and did please. Rows and rows of beautiful green topped trees.
6. "Sir! You are crazy with greed." "I repeat," cried the Lorax, "I speak for the trees!"
"I'm busy," I told him. "Shut up, if you please."
Selfishness, greed, impudence. The Onceler's audacity reminds me of a line from "A Far Cry from Africa" about man inflicting his will through pain.
Doug Trimmer
1. “Grow a forest. Protect it from axes that hack.”
ReplyDelete2. He is feeling regret now, he’s telling the young boy to plant the truffula seed and take care of it not to let anyone do what he did to the trees.
3. Where did the lorax go?
4. The forest empty with no truffula trees left.
5. I had feeling the truffula trees were limited and had to come to an end sooner or later, and sure enough they did.
6. Don’t be do something that will benefit you but hurt others, because in the end you end up alone full of regret.
Do you really think all of the Truffula trees disappeared, or just in that area?
DeletePerhaps the Lorax left to a place where there were Truffula trees. I mean, where else would everyone go?
- Elephantsicko
I kept paying attention to how Dr. Suess managed to create new words that fit right in place with other words he needed to rhyme with later on in the story. It's as if he planned all of this out before actually writing it.
ReplyDeleteThat's particularly what I'm wondering. Did he create these words before writing the story or as he was writing the story and just happen to fit everything into place, or did he have an outline and plan how everything was going to be written and rhymed?
Other than that, I focused on how the Once-ler was kinda a dick. Everyone was kinda just hanging out, being chill and enjoying life- as one does- and then this Once-ler guy comes out of nowhere and decides he wants to impose capitalism and free enterprise onto this paradise. I mean, I'm no commie in any way shape or form. I've served 5 years for this country, but the way this Once-ler guy makes it seem is kinda apalling.
Man, where did this guy come from?
Who does he think he is?
What made him think he could just go about giving people Thneeds? That's like even the hardest word to pronounce ever. If he was going to market some kind of product, couldn't he come up with a better name?
What a jerk. I hate this Once-ler guy.
And oh man, what really got me goin' was when this guy makes it seem like he's the victim at the end. (shakes head) At least he had the decency to admit his wrongs and to offer for the kid to fix it all. (Stupid jerk can't even right his own wrong though he had the seed that entire time).
It really made me feel like we all have the power to fix or change things you know? all it takes though, is one little push.
- Elephantsicko
1. "There's no cause for alarm. I chopped just one tree."
ReplyDelete2. This part caught my attention because it is how all people are. It's like driving, when you start everyone drives the speed limit, but then you get comfortable and get a speeding ticket. Just like the once-ler he got comfortable and said hey this is easy money but not thinking about others.
3. How is Dr. Seuss able to make a kids book and make it rhyme but he about real world problems?!?!?!
4. The boom in technology in London, the oil spills, cutting forest for businesses.
5. These are real problems happening. We cut miles of trees and birds have to leave and the same with the pollution (Pasadena) in the air, and the spills in the ocean (BP)
6. we need to help the world instead of slowly ruin it.
1) The rhyming, I haven’t heard so much rhyming since” red fish blue fish”.
ReplyDelete2) Because the caught my ears attention in a way it was catchy and I enjoyed listening to it at I read it.
3) Why didn’t the lorax use force to stop the Onceller
4) A Greedy business owner who won’t stop killing the environment for personal gain.
5) To understand the true meaning of this story
6) Unless someone like you cares an awful lot nothing will get better, its not. In order for change to happen someone has to take action and demand for change.
Benjamin Rosales
1. Which parts of the text did you focus on?
ReplyDeleteI focused on the story line of the poem. I also paid attention to the syntax of the poem. The lines where short and to the point and there was a lot of repetition and rhymes.
2. Why did you pay particular attention to these parts?
These parts of the poem made it feel like it was very fast paced and made the poem more enjoyable to read. I also think the style of the poem allowed the reader to see how fast things were changing as the other ambitious character kept growing his business and destroying the environment. He was taking resources faster than he could replenish them and he ended up with nothing,
3. What questions were you asking as you read?
why was the other character stuck inside the house?
Why didn’t he plant the seed himself?
If there were no resources left, then how was he able to survive?
4. What images were you forming as you read?
When I was reading this poem I was actually thinking about how much damage we have done to our planet. Just like in the poem, our society is imposed to taking resources and using up more and more land without thinking twice about how we are affecting the wildlife. I could imagine the weakening and destruction of the food chain and the irreversible effects that could cause.
5. What were the purposes of these images?
Purpose: Collectively, we are harming our planet and using up the few resources that we have. Instead of taking what we need and replacing it we are selfish and takes as much as we can until it runs out. The bigger problem here is of human selfishness. We won’t take action until something terrible happens. In this case, the Lorax who represented nature kept warning Once-ler stop, but he didn’t because he wanted to satisfy his own agenda and make more money. He did not see the harm he had caused until he finally realized that there was nothing left to take.
6. What theme do you take away from this poem?
The theme here is that man is working towards his own destruction. We are a consumerist society participating in a capitalist model and sometimes making money is prioritized over taking care of our planet. It seems like we are guided by the false impression that we will never run out of resources and are we are fast to ignore what will happen if we abuse them.
Viridiana S.
Roman Leal
ReplyDeleteI focused on the beginning of the text because it created the setting and the conflict. I also focused the part of the text where he begins to tell the story of the Lorax because that is the rising action.
I asked: What is a Lorax? Does the name “Once-ler” mean anything? Is there such thing as a “truffula” tree? Why did the persona not leave with his family?
The image that I formed was an old house with an old man on the top floor. The purpose of this image was to imagine the setting. I also formed an old, short man as the lorax. The purpose of this image was to put a face to the grumpy fella. I also formed the forest dying and the animals leaving. The purpose of this image was to imagine the climax. Then, I formed the seed given to the boy. The purpose of this image was to imagine the conclusion of the poem.
The theme that I take away from this poem is to take care of the forest and natural life. Don’t let greed make the worst of you because you will end up old and alone.
Tommy
ReplyDeleteWhich parts of the text did you focus on?
The reputation throughout the poem.
The attitudes and concerns of the of the Once-ler and the Lorax.
2. Why did you pay particular attention to these parts?
Often times the repetition in a Dr. Sues poem indicates something important. The repetition underlines important themes or concerns.
The attitude of the Once-ler is led to his demise. The Lorax was the voice of our conciseness, trying to direct the Once-ler away from destroying the environment.
3. What questions were you asking as you read?
Why doesn’t the Lorax fight back, instead of just reasoning with the Once-ler?
4. What images were you forming as you read?
A lush environment filled with life and color being ripped away leaving smoke and blackness.
5. What were the purposes of these images?
These images drive an emotional response, a call to action against the misuse of our environment.
6. What theme do you take away from this poem?
Protect those who can’t protect themselves, specifically the environment. Resources are limited, be careful not to run out.
1. I focused on the part where the boy confronts the Lorax about using all the resources without realizing that he was destroying the city.
ReplyDelete2. I paid attention to this part because it was what changed the story around, and that is what fixed the whole situation.
3. How did the Lorax not notice what he was doing to the environment?
4. I was imagining a curious boy trying to find out what happened to the environment.
5. I imagined this because it showed me that there was someone doing something about what was happening.
6. There is always a way to fix things.
-Salam Zaidan
1. Which parts of the text did you focus on? The part where the Truffula trees are being cut down and the Loxar is trying to tell him not to cut the trees
ReplyDelete2. Why did you pay particular attention to these parts? Because the Lorax was trying to warn him about the effect of cutting the tree will bring.
3. What questions were you asking as you read? Why didn’t he plant more trees when he started cutting them?
4. What images were you forming as you read? Trees being cut and the animals being sad
5. What were the purposes of these images? To understand what is going on in the poem.
6. What theme do you take away from this poem? Don’t take nature for granted, because one day we will miss it.
I too thought of trees being cut down.
Delete- Austin Duenes
1. "Where will they go?… I don’t hopefully know. They may have to fly for a month…or a year… To escape from the smog you've smogged-up around here."
ReplyDelete2. I paid attention to this part because even after all the animals were leaving their habitat the once-ler still did not care.
3. Why was the once-ler so ignorant.
4. The images that formed in my head were a forest being chopped down and animals loosing their home.
5.I focused on these images because it gives me a better understanding of the setting.
6. we must look past the greed for profit and take better care of our forest and the animals that live in them because they have no voice or a lorax to defend them.
-Sarai Garcia
Austin Duenes
ReplyDelete1. I focused on the part of the destruction of the trees.
2. I focused on this part because the author is trying to symbol something that could be happening in real life.
3. Why doesn't he think of a better way to protect the environment from the start?
4. I could see homeless animals in an open field wondering the flats.
5. I thought of this image because that's what happens when there is no coverage for the local animals.
6. Nature only gives life one chance at life.
I agree with number 6
Delete-Haakam Sherwani
1) I focused on the greed of the people in power.
ReplyDelete2) I focused on this because the Once-ler destroyed all of the truffla trees in the land, all so they could make some clothes temporarily.
3) Why Once-ler so greedy? Will the truffla trees become extinct? Will the Lorax save the environment?
4) I was thinking about the animated version of the poem throughout the story. I also thought about environmental preservation, and how similar this is to current events.
5) I think this was the purpose, to use this story as a representation of environmental destruction taking place currently.
6) The theme was to preserve the environment, because people like "Once-ler" are going to tear it up if we don't stop them.
- Haakam Sherwani
1. I focused mostly to the rhyming, there was so much!
ReplyDelete2. I focused on this part because it's catchy, it would be mentioned in every other verse.
3. It must of taken Mr. Seuss a lot of practice to rhyme words and still make a good story.
4. I pictured the truffula trees with skinny black and yellow trunks and are topped with fluffy flower balls that come in many colors.
5. To have an understanding of where the thneeds came from.
6. The theme of The Lorax is not to waste our resources and to care about nature and the plants and animals around us so that we don't ruin our environment.
-Karla Menchaca
1. Which parts of the text did you focus on?
ReplyDeleteI speak for the trees / for the trees have no tongues
2. Why did you pay particular attention to these parts?
I feel still someone capable can speak on someone else incapable
3. What questions were you asking as you read?
Is the Lorax represent a real person? if yes who?
4. What images were you forming as you read?
As if we look it to our nature as before, how beauty is going to be.
5. What were the purposes of these images?
because a lot of people don`t care anymore about our nature, especially when he said "thanks to your hacking my trees to the ground / there`s not enought truffula fruit to go round"
6. What theme do you take away from this poem?
We should find a way to keep our natural resources and our nature not to demolish it
Khaldun
1. I focused on the story. It is a way to warn of greed, and the disregard that a lot of humans have for the environment. Even though the Once-ler saw what happened before, he still wants the boy to plant a forest so he can repeat his actions.
ReplyDelete2. This seems to be the theme, and main reasons for the poem. It shows that greed and excess are bad.
3. I was wondering if the Lorax would make a return at the end, and if the once-ler learned anything from his actions, apparently he did not.
4. I was actually thinking of the Amazon Rain Forest in South America. This story plays out every day, and has for many years. Lately there is at least talk about not damaging the environment as much as society used too, but it still happens daily.
5. To help me understand what the Lorax was going through with his fight to open the once-ler’s eyes. Activist today have just as hard of a time trying to convince large companies that they shouldn’t damage the environment.
6. That greed and excess is bad. There are people who can see that, and others are completely blind to it. The once-ler wanted the boy to start another field of trees just so he could repeat his damaging actions.
Marc Moody