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CHAPTER XII

"Might I Have A Bit Of Earth?"

1. When Mary came back at home, her dinner was waiting on the table and Martha was waiting near it, Martha asked Where was she and Mary told her that she had known Dickon and he was a beautiful boy. 

2. Martha advises Mary about where she can plant the seeds in the garden. Mary doesn’t tell anything about the secret garden. Martha believes that Ben can help her. When Mary finished your dinner faster as she could and she was going to run out again. But Martha said that Mr. Craven came back and he wants to see her. In this moment, Mrs. Medlock came. 

3. When Mrs. Medlock came she said Martha that she help Mary to dress and hair brushed her because Mr. Craven wants to see her. And they walked through corridor until Mr. Craven's study where he was. Mrs. Medlock knocked at a door and Mr. Craven said "Come in". 

4. Mary meets Mr. Medlock, he don't have hunchback rather his face would have been handsome. He spoke with her very friendly and he was worried because she didn’t have a nurse and a governess yet. But Mary said him that she didn't want anybody yet because she wanted to play in the garden and discover different things than India. 

5. Mr. Craven was talking about Martha’s mother as governess of Mary because she has experience about children and she is a lovely woman. Mary was very much happy. 

6. Mr. Craven asked Mary “Do you want toys, books, dolls? And she answered quavered, “Might I have a bit of earth?” because she liked the garden and she don’t do any harm. He said “you can have as much earth as you want”. Mr. Craven was determinate to do everything that Mary wanted. “Take it, child, and make it come alive”, he said her. 

7. Mr. Craven touched the bell to call Mrs. Medlock and say “Good-bye” Mary. He explained to Mrs. Medlock about Martha’s mother, named Mrs. Sowerby and that she should be to care Mary before the governess. Mr. Craven said that Mary should have liberty in the garden. Mrs. Medlock looked pleased with the new instructions. 

8. Mary came back to room where Martha was waiting for her and she told her that she could have her own garden and she may have it where she likes and she is not going to have a governess for a long time and that Martha’s mother was coming to see her and she could go to her cottage. These was promises of Mr. Craven. 

9. Mary thought about Mr. Craven because he seemed unhappy, he also was ill and his face was so miserable, but she thought that he was a good man. 

10. Mary ran as quickly as she could to garden, she knew that Dickon had to go early because he have five-mile walk. But when she arrived he was not there. The gardening tools were laid together under a tree. The secret garden was empty, except for robin that was there. She found the letter that she had printed for Martha to send to Dickon. In the same letter Dickon had printed “I will cum bak”.

CHAPTER XIII

"I Am Colin"

10. Week Reading Blog

Before the World Cup, Brazilians Are Trying to Learn English

Image: Peter Batty

Autor, A.A  Rose Eveleth - Coll Finds, South America (November 12, 2013 2:23pm)

Name of the Article: Before the World Cup, Brazilians Are Trying to Learn English

Name of Magazine: Smithsonian (http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/smartnews/2013/11/before-the-world-cup-brazilians-are-trying-to-learn-english/)

Between two Brazilians in Brazil

9. Week. Reading Book

CHAPTER XI

The Nest Of The Missel Thrush

1. Mary and Dickon found life in the garden, they went from tree to tree and from bush to bush looking for thing green and they found a bit greenish alive. 

2. They found crocuses and snowdrops and narcissuses. They were happily discovery new things in the garden and enjoying the smell of good clean earth and smell fresh earth. 

3. Mary  requested to Dickon if he could come again and help her to work in the garden, and Dickon said that he could help her and teach her how to talk to the robin the same as he do. 

4. They wouldn’t wanted to make it look a tidy garden like a gardener’s garden because it wouldn't seemed like a secret garden so they would work in it by themselves without help anybody. 

5. Mary just remembered about Basil who told her “Mistress Mary Quite Contrary”. Now, she doesn’t felt as before and Dickon helped her for she could feel different. 

6. Dickon always was friendly with Mary and she said him that he was the fifth person that she had liked, because she also liked Martha, Mother’s Marta, Robin and Ben. 

7. They was having a good time and they began to work harder than ever in the garden and more joyfully. 

8. Mary heard the big clock in the courtyard the hour of her midday dinner and she asked Dickon if he also had to go.  Dickon had brought your lunch; he brought two thick pieces of bread with a slice of something laid between them. 

9. Mary thought it looked a queer dinner, but he seemed ready to enjoy it, but she should come back home and Mary could scarcely bear to leave him. He seemed too good to be true. 

10. When Mary was going, she stopped, went back and she asked Dickon “Whatever happens, you—you never would tell? And Dickon explained that how the birds showed him where their nests were, that he could keep big secrets. And she was quite sure she was.

9. Week. Reading Blog

What Is Global Warming?

The Planet Is Heating Up—and Fast

Photograph by Paul Nicklen

Autor, A.A National Geographic

Name of the Article: What Is Global Warming?
Name of Magazine: National Geographic (http://environment.nationalgeographic.com/environment/global-warming/gw-overview)

Hello, My name is Minina. What Is Global Warming? The Planet Is Heating Up—and Fast. Humans have caused most warming by releasing heat-trapping as power modern lives. Called "greenhouse gases". Glaciers are melting, sea levels are rising, cloud forests are drying, and wildlife is scrambling to keep pace. Why is this a concern? Because it is changing the climate faster than some living things may be able to adapt. If it is an unpredictable climate poses unique challenges to all life. Earth’s ice sheets, such as Greenland and Antarctica are starting to melt too and potentially raising sea levels.

8. Week. Reading Book

CHAPTER X

Dickon

1. Mary called to the garden "The secret Garden" because she liked the feeling when she was inside and the beautiful old walls hidden her and no one knew where she was.

2. During that week, she become more intimate with Ben Weatherstaff, but she was afraid that he would pick up his tools and go away if he saw her coming, so she always walked towards him and he was flattered by her evident desire for his elderly company. 

3. Mary was more civil than she had been. She spoke with Ben and He very seldom talked much and sometimes did not even answer Mary’s question except by a grunt, but one morning he said more than usual. The Robin was with them. 

4. Ben Weatherstaff gave advice to Mary about the gardens until Ben was got angry with her because he had ever talked a lot and Mary had done a lot of questions. Mary liked Ben in spite of his crossness. 

5. Mary was skipping in the garden and found a boy that was sitting under a tree, playing on a rough wooden pipe and surrounded a brown squirrel, a cock pheasant and two rabbits. 
   

6. Dickon was friendly her and did not speak to her as if they had never seen each other before as he knew her quite well. He had come to give her garden tools to Mary and he showed her the tools and seeds. The robin also was here. 

7. Dickon asked Mary about where was the garden, and she did not know what to answer and she asked Dickon about if he could keep a secret because she had one and Dickon answered “I can keep secrets”. 

8. Mary said him all about the garden, that had stolen a garden because nobody wanted it and nobody cared for it and nobody had ever gone into it for long time. 

9. Dickon asked Mary “Where is the garden?” and Mary answered “Come with me and I’ll show you” and she led him round the laurel path and to the walk where the ivy grew and Dickon followed her. 

10. He was amazed while Mary walked to wall where the ivy grew in it, and there was a door under ivy and Mary pushed it slowly and opened it and they passed in together and she said “It’s a secret garden, and I’m the only one in the world who wants it to be alive” and Dickon looked round and round it and seemed him a queer, pretty place, “It’s like as if a body was in a dream” he said.

8. Week. Reading Blog

Dogs Are People Too

Jane Evelyn Atwood/Contact Press Images

Autor, A.A Gregory Berns (October 5, 2013) - Opinion

Name of the Article: Dogs Are People Too.

Name of Magazine: New York Times (http://www.nytimes.com/2013/10/06/opinion/sunday/dogs-are-people-too.html?_r=3&pagewanted=all&) 

A week later, Pilar and Kathy meet again. They are with their dogs again
Pilar	Good morning, Kathy, How are you?
Kathy	Fine Pilar, Good morning!
Pilar	It’s cold today but it was necessary to walk with Kevin
Kathy	Yes, I know, I am walking to Ralphi also.
Pilar	I was thinking about last our conversation last week about dogs. You told me that we could continue talking about the New York Times article. What is the article’s name?
Kathy	The name is “Dogs Are People Too, by Bern, who I talked you aboutlast week.
Pilar	I would like to know more about this. Can you talk to me about this?
Kathy	Yes, I can. This scientist wrote a controversial article, and he says that the dogs should have the same rights as humans
Pilar	Did he find proofs in his experiments with M.R.I.?
Kathy	Yes, he did.
Pilar	How many dogs did he study to have this big deduction?
Kathy	He worked with dozens and dozens of volunteer dogs for about two years.
Pilar	What does “volunteer dogs” means?
Kathy	It means that the dogs can choose whether they want to do the test, because Bern is conscious that the dogs feel the same as humans.
Pilar	Why does he say that the dogs feel the same as us? Is difficult to say this because you can’t ask a dog why he does something and you can’t ask him how he feels.
Kathy	Yes this is true, all about animal sentience and emotions had been unanswerable until now, thanks the M.R.I s can tell us about dog’s internal states when the dogs are in their  natural state without an anesthetized animal and this is possible because the dogs are trying to keep absolutely still themselves during the procedure. From the beginning, the scientists treated the dogs as people. They had a consent form, which was modeled after a child’s consent form but signed by the dog’s owner. Then they emphasized that participation was voluntary, and that the dog had the right to quit the study. They used only positive training methods. No sedation. No restraints. If the dogs didn’t want to be in the M.R.I scanner, they could leave. Same as any human volunteer.
Pilar	I think that this is correct, because they also feel; I can to see with my dog Kevin. But tell me more about the results of this study.
Kathy	After months of training and some trial-and-error at the real M.R.I. scanner, they had the first maps of brain activity, and determined which parts of her brain distinguished the scents of familiar and unfamiliar dogs and humans. They are just beginning to answer basic questions about the canine brain; they cannot ignore the striking similarity between dogs and humans in both the structure and function of a key brain region: the caudate nucleus.
Pilar	What does “the caudate nucleus” means?
Kathy	Those are rich in dopamine receptors, the caudate sits between the brainstem and the cortex. In humans, the caudate plays a key role in the anticipation of things we enjoy, like food, love and money. In dogs, they found that activity in the caudate increased in response to hand signals indicating food. The caudate also activated the smells familiar humans. And in preliminary tests, it activated to the return of an owner who had momentarily stepped out of view.
Pilar	Do these findings prove that dogs love us?
Kathy	Not quite. But many of the same things that activate the human caudate, which are associated with positive emotions, also activate the dog caudate. The ability to experience positive emotions, like love and attachment, would mean that dogs have a level of sentience comparable to that of a human child. And this ability suggests a rethinking of how we treat dogs.
Pilar	I agree!, because dogs have long been considered property. Thought the Animal Welfare Act of 1966 solidified the view that animals are thing. Now, by using the M.R.I. we can no longer hide from the evidence!
Kathy	It’s true!, Dogs, and probably many other animals (especially our closest primate relatives), seem to have emotions just like us.
Pilar	If we went a step further and granted dogs rights of personhood, they would be afforded additional protection against exploitation. Puppy mills, laboratory dog racing would be banned for violating the basic right of self-determination of a person.
Kathy	They suspect that society is many years away from considering dogs as persons. Perhaps someday we may see a case arguing for a dog’s rights based on brain-imaging findings.
Pilar	Now, we can start caring for our dogs and all animals, because we cannot demonstrate scientifically why they love us, but we can feel their unconditional love for us.
Kathy	That’s right! We can defend their rights how innocent creatures and sensitize to all people that their care and love.
Pilar	Kathy it’s late for me.
Kathy	For me too, see you the next week. And don’t forget to care your dog!
Pilar	Sure! See you the next week

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