Fatty Legs & A Stranger At Home by Dawn Parsons

Fatty Legs & A Stranger At Home by Dawn Parsons https://padlet.com/parsonsd4/fattylegs en-us 2019-11-13 14:49:40 UTC 2025-12-12 14:38:45 UTC hello@padlet.com Fatty Legs Predictions parsonsd4 https://padlet.com/parsonsd4/fattylegs/wish/410602007 - Margaret thinks that the main subject in school is reading
- Sister MacQuillan will help Margaret
- Margaret may escape (to go home)
- Margaret will continue to do a lot of chores
- the Raven might get fired
- The Swan may fire the Raven
- Margaret may go home with someone else
- The Gwitch'in girls will all get to leave and go home, everyone else will have to stay
- I think the raven will get fired
- parents will hear radio transmission and come and get her
- happy ending ?
- Olemaun may hide stockings, burn them
- put her red stockings into the white laundry and turn everything pink
- Olemaun might burn her stockings
- even though Margaret doesn't want to, she may have to return back to school
- Margaret's parents may sue the school
- The Swan may fire the Raven
- maybe they will kick her out and she won't be allowed back ]]> 2019-11-13 14:54:11 UTC https://padlet.com/parsonsd4/fattylegs/wish/410602007 Fatty Legs Connections parsonsd4 https://padlet.com/parsonsd4/fattylegs/wish/410602346 - Fish in a tree, Ally, Alice in Wonderland

- Orange Shirt Story, reminds us of main character (Phyllis) who also wants to go to residential schools
- Fish In A Tree, gets bullied
- connection to Front Desk, with the different cultures
- Ally really close to Mr Daniels like Olemaun may get close to Du-bi-lak
- Mia was very good friends with the weeklies, like Hank. The Du-bi-lak is black, like Hank.
- Margaret is like Ally, both not sure how to read

]]> 2019-11-13 14:54:32 UTC https://padlet.com/parsonsd4/fattylegs/wish/410602346 Fatty Legs Characters https://padlet.com/parsonsd4/fattylegs/wish/410608791 - Margaret
- Rosie
- Margaret's Mom
- Margaret's Dad
- Raven[evil nun😡]
- Agnes: friend from her town, 10 years old, has already gone to residential school
- Sister MacQuillan
- RCMP offices
- North Star (schooner)
-Katherine: Margaret's classmate
- The Brothers

]]> 2019-11-13 15:01:33 UTC https://padlet.com/parsonsd4/fattylegs/wish/410608791 Margaret[Olemaun] https://padlet.com/parsonsd4/fattylegs/wish/410609257 - Main character
- she wants to go to residential school so that she can learn to read
- Is Traveling on a boat called the
North Star.
- 8 years old and has arrived at school
- 1944. 1945 going to be a short summer, lots of ice, stuck at school for two full years.
- was embarrassed cause she could not read
-Margaret plans to go home after and never come back.
- The more students that come to Margaret's school the more money the nuns get.
- The raven embarrass's Olemaun
- Sister macQiullan Called Her By Her Real Name Olemaun
-Does not want to go back to the school

]]> 2019-11-13 15:02:08 UTC https://padlet.com/parsonsd4/fattylegs/wish/410609257 Fatty Legs Vocabulary https://padlet.com/parsonsd4/fattylegs/wish/410615261 - kamik: boots made and worn By the Inuit
-Delta braid: strips of fabric, used to make a parka
- Schooner: boat
Pingo (little hills made of snow)
- ptarmigan: white bird in the grouse family of birds, official bird of Nunavut, also known as snow chickens.
- refectory: a place where many people eat together
- Muktuk: whale blubber and skin
- Small pox: disease ]]> 2019-11-13 15:09:34 UTC https://padlet.com/parsonsd4/fattylegs/wish/410615261 Fatty Legs Setting parsonsd4 https://padlet.com/parsonsd4/fattylegs/wish/410621190 Winter
Northwest Territories
Aklavik
1944
Tuktoyaktuk
nothern lights
- Radio Station]]> 2019-11-13 15:16:59 UTC https://padlet.com/parsonsd4/fattylegs/wish/410621190 Fatty Legs Ending https://padlet.com/parsonsd4/fattylegs/wish/418504179 Happy that she is out of the school
Happy that she is home
Not so happy, her Mom doesn't recognize her
Not happy that she won't see the swan again
Her mom said that she was an outsider now

]]> 2019-12-02 15:13:55 UTC https://padlet.com/parsonsd4/fattylegs/wish/418504179 A Stranger At Home Characters https://padlet.com/parsonsd4/fattylegs/wish/420249217 -Mabel-7 years old
-Elizabeth (Bessie)-8 years old
-Margaret
-Ernest-2 years old
-Katherine- does not need to go back to school because she is 13 years old
-the sled dogs
- Du-bi-lak - the devil
Clerk - person that works at the store
- Margaret's Mom (Lena)

]]> 2019-12-05 14:57:59 UTC https://padlet.com/parsonsd4/fattylegs/wish/420249217 A Stranger at Home Setting https://padlet.com/parsonsd4/fattylegs/wish/420253753 -Immaculata the boat that she came home on
- Tuktoyaktuk
-Banks island
-eatons
Felix lake

]]> 2019-12-05 15:04:06 UTC https://padlet.com/parsonsd4/fattylegs/wish/420253753 A Stranger At Home Predictions https://padlet.com/parsonsd4/fattylegs/wish/420254994 - Agnes may not be excited to go home because she may miss Margaret
- maybe Agnes parents will also say "Not my girl"
- sisters might want to go to school
- Maybe Agnes will not want to be her Friend because Olemaun did not listen to her about the school
- Margaret will stop running away from the Du-bi-lak and will say something to him
- Margaret will start to like her food again, and start to remember her language
-Find out what the Du-bi-lak is doing there. Maybe he moved there. (Maybe his home was invaded)

]]> 2019-12-05 15:05:43 UTC https://padlet.com/parsonsd4/fattylegs/wish/420254994 A Stranger At Home Vocabulary https://padlet.com/parsonsd4/fattylegs/wish/420262237 -Pipsi- word for fish
- Bannock- bread
- dubilak -the devil
- sik-sik: gopher/ground squirrel
- nomad- always moving

]]> 2019-12-05 15:14:48 UTC https://padlet.com/parsonsd4/fattylegs/wish/420262237 Notes https://padlet.com/parsonsd4/fattylegs/wish/423300724 -Find out what the Du-bi-lak is doing there. Maybe he moved
- maybe he will become friends with Olemaun
- Her mom be mad at her because she is friends with the Du-bi-lak
- Agnes may sneak out and go see Olemaun
- Olemaun's mom wanted Olemaun to teach her how to read
- Margaret and Agnes did not go back to the Residential school.
- The Du-bi-lak left town
-Inuvialuktun

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