Mrs.+Frisby+and+The+Rats+of+NIMH

One danger/conflict that Mrs. Frisby, her family, and others face is that Timothy has a severe sickness called pneumonia. Mrs. Frisby is worried and sad that Timothy might not be one of the strongest rats and could possibly be sick for a very long time. Mrs. Frisby and the other rats are afraid of dragon, the farmer Fitzgibbon’s cat. Dragon was enormous and had a broad head, a large mouth filled with curving fangs which were needle sharp, seven claws on each foot, and a thick furry tail. He was orange and white with glaring eyes. On Mrs. Frisby’s way home she saw a crow stuck in some string. She tried to help the crow out by untangling the strings from the crow, but the crow soon realized that the cat, dragon was coming. Mrs. Frisby tried her best to untangle him quickly and she did so. She told the crow to fly away, but he wouldn’t leave her. He told her to climb on his back and he took her home. Mrs. Frisby is very helpful and caring. She went to Mr. Ages’ house to get medicine and faced the cat on her way home. By doing this she helped her son Timothy by bringing the medicine home and by untangling the crow. These are the dangers/ conflicts that Mrs. Frisby, her family, and others in her community faced.
 * I.(1.) Reading and Writing Assignment : **
 * ‍ **** Read pages 15-26 in Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH. **
 * ‍ **** Write a short essay that answers the following question: **
 * ‍ **** "Describe the many dangers/conflicts that Mrs. Frisby, her family, and others in her community face; **
 * ‍ **** explain how she faces those difficulties; and name what positive traits she has shown so far in the novel." **
 * ‍ **** Be sure to use supporting details from the text. Write one or two paragraphs. Be sure to echo the question. **

** On page 26 in Mrs. Frisby and The rats of NIMH all of the rats and animals that could be harmed by the cat stick together in order to stay safe from the cat. Jeremy the crow tell Mrs. Frisby that “We all help on another again the cat.” This gives me the message that inorder to face a conflict you need to have some support. In Mrs. Frisby’s case, her support is the other animals that fear the cat and need to be cautious in order to stay safe from the cat. This is the message that Jeremy’s statement gave to me. **
 * ‍ **** II. (2.) Reading and Writing Assignment : **
 * ‍ **** Read pages 27-38 in Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH. **
 * ‍ **** Write responses to each of the following factual questions (be sure to echo the question), and then write a one-paragraph response to the thinking question. Be sure to write this response at the foot of your "...frisbyreflection121510" document. SO, you'll need to save it as firstnamelastnamefrisbyreflection121610 **
 * 2. ‍ **** On page 26, what does Jeremy the crow mean when he says, "We all help one another against the cat"? What message does the author seem to want to impart [give] to us about solving conflicts? **
 * 3. ‍ **** As soon as Timothy has begun to heal, another more serious problem arises that has to do with "Moving Day." **

** Mr. Ages has given Mrs. Frisby medicine that will help save her son Timothy and cure him of his illness. Mr. Ages had only one rule to help Timothy, he mustn’t get cold or breathe cold air. Winter is staring to end and spring is beginning. The snow is melting which means that the farmer will start to plow the ground to get ready to plant. By plowing he will be turning over all the soil and ripping up Mrs. Frisby’s home and it is still colds to the field mice. This means that Timothy would have to move with them, but he would have to go outside and that would mean breathing in cold air. On the other hand, if they do not move they will get ripped up with their home or be forced to evacuate at the last minute risking facing the cat. Mrs. Frisby is forced to face this life or death issue for Timothy. This is the dilemma that Mrs. Frisby and Timothy face when moving day comes. **
 * ‍ **** What is "Moving Day"? Why does Moving Day pose a serious dilemma **** [hard puzzle with no easy answer] for Mrs. Frisby and Timothy? **
 * 4. ‍ **** On page 32, what is it that Mrs. Frisby remembers her husband saying about problems and solutions? **** What is the meaning of what he says? **

** On page 32, of Mrs. Frisby and the rats of NIMH, Mrs. Frisby remembers that her husband in hard times would use to say, “All doors are hard to unlock until you have the key.” This means that in hard times when you are struggling, all you need to do is find that one thing that will help to make things better, or as Mr. Frisby’s says in the saying, you need to find the key. For example, Timothy was sick with pneumonia, that was the struggle, so Mrs. Frisby went to see Mr. Ages and he gave Mrs. Frisby medicine to help Timothy, that was the key needed to help fix the struggle. This is what the meaning of what Mr. Frisby said in times of struggle was. **

** Whenever Mrs. Frisby is in trouble she can either go to Mr. Ages for help or ask Jeremy the crow to the return her favor by helping her out. She helped Jeremy the crow get free from tinsel that was keeping him on the ground, and helping him escape the cat just in time. So Jeremy the crow said he would return the favor when ever Mrs. Frisby needed it. Mr. Ages always helps the animals out with what ever they need because he is older and wiser then most of the mice and rats and animals, so he has more knowledge and can there for help all the animals with problems that they don’t know the solution to. Mr. Ages helped Mrs. Frisny to cure Timothy of his pneumonia and other illnesses. ** **The key that Mrs. Frisby needs in her time of difficulty is to ask a friend or ask advice and like I said above, she can either ask Mr. Ages or Jermey the crow. Mr. Ages has the knowledge of what she might need to know. Jeremy the Crow can help her by returning the favor he owes her.**
 * ‍ **** Thinking Question: "Mrs. Frisby has gotten help from Mr. Ages, and she has gotten an offer of help from Jeremy the crow on page 26. What do both events have in common as "solutions to problems"? **
 * ‍ **** So, if all "doors are hard to unlock unless you have the key," what is the special key that Mrs. Frisby needs to find? Think about it this way, what is the general advice that both Mr. Ages and Jeremy would give to anyone who had a difficulty? When YOU don't know what to do, what SHOULD you do? **


 * V. (5) **** Read Frisby pages 75-88. **

‍** + How on pages 63 and 64 Mrs. Frisby and her son Timothy ** switch parent-child roles ** . **
====‍** + What Mrs. Frisby learns about ** the technology and architecture of the rats' sub-rosa world **, and what we know **====

‍** and what we can infer about the rats' "plan." **
**On pages 63 and 64, Mrs. Frisby "swiches roles" with Timothy. Timothy starts to worry about moving day just as Mrs. Frisby was. Timothy satrted to act as if he was Mrs. Frisby, and Mrs. Frisby acted almost as if she had calmed more to realize that if she does get help from the rats as the owl had instructed her then Timothy and the rest of her family would be safe. This is how Mrs. Frisby in a way almost switched personalities with Timothy on pages 63 and 64.**


 * ‍ **** VI. (6.) Read and respond to the following reflection questions: **


 * ‍ **** Read Frisby pages 89-111. **


 * ‍ **** Write a short essay that answers and explains the following: **


 * ‍ **** +Describe and explain the meaning of strange advice that Mrs. Frisby is given by the owl. **


 * ‍ **** +What two important pieces of information does Mrs. Frisby learn in the chapter "A Powder for Dragon," one about what "in the lee of the stone" means, and another about how Jonathan Frisby had died. **

= = =** When Mrs. Frisby is given advice from the owl, she is confused by some of the things that the owl says to her. She is told to go to the rats and ask them to speak to Nicodemus and he would move her house to the lee of the rock. Mrs. Frisby does not understand how the rats could help, because it would be impossible for them to move such a heavy house. But Mrs. Frisby also did not understand how moving the house in to the lee of the stone would help either, since it would still be plowed over. What Mrs. Frisby did not know was that the rats were injected by NIMH or national institute of mental health, and they would be smart enough to figure out a way to move her house. They also had a way of moving her house to “the lee of the stone” in a place where it would not get turned over by the plow. This is the strange advice that Mrs. Frisby is given to from the owl. **= = = = ** In the chapter “A Powder for Dragon,” Mrs. Frisby learns what the lee of the stone means as well as how her husband Jonathan died. Mrs. Frisby learns from the rat named Arthur that the lee of the stone is behind the rock where Mr. Fitzgibbon’s will avoid plowing and he will not crush there home. This was clear now to Mrs. Frisby what the lee of the stone meant after being shown a sketch of the garden. While discussing a plan to put sleeping powder in Dragon’s, farmer Fitzgibbon’s cat, food bowl they came to a decision to tell Mrs. Frisby how Mr. Frisby had died. While on the subject of sneaking into Mr. Fitzgibbons how’s and putting powder in Dragon’s food bowl, Mrs. Frisby offer’s to do it since Mr. Ages is not able due to a leg injury. They agree that she can do it, but it was a dangerous quest because that I how Mr. Frisby had died, putting sleeping powder in Dragon’s bowl. This is the two pieces of new information that Mrs. Frisby is told about in the chapter “Powder for Dragon.” ** = = = = ** When Mrs. Frisby is taken into Nicodemus’s office, she is told about the past of the rats and how they came to be. This is what she is told. The rats originally lived in a sewage pipe under the place where the farmers market was held. Every night after the market is over, the rats would come out and eat the left over scraps that would eventually end up in the city incinerator, so they were doing no harm. Nicodemus was friends with a rat named Jenner and his older brother Gerald. Gerald was sick one nigh with a cold, so Jenner and Nicodemus went out without him and promised Gerald to find his favorite food, beef liver if they could. As Nicodemus and Jenner reached the market, they saw a great mound of food. They were just reaching for the food, when a bright search light shined on them and they could not see so they could not move. A net tried to swoop down many times until it finally had about sixty three rats, not all in the same net, inside them. Two of those rats were Nicodemus and Jenner. They were put into cages and loaded onto a truck labeled NIMH. When they were at the modern like building that was NIMH, they were taken in by a lady named Julie, a young man named George, and a man named Dr. Schultz. They were given a tag from either A1 through A20, B1 through B20, or C for control 1 through 23. Nicodemus was labeled A10 and injected with a formula labeled A twice a week a long other the other A rats. The B rats were given formula B, and the C rats were given nothing but training. Little did the rats know that this would change their lives forever. This is what happened in the chapters “The Market” and “In the Cage.” ** =
 * ‍ **** +In the chapter "The Marketplace" and "In the Cage," summarize what Mrs. Frisby and we learn about exactly where the rats come from, what happened there, and how they started to become whom or what they are--intelligent rats. **
 * ‍ **** VII. (7.) Read through page 141. Answer the following: **
 * ‍ **** � **** Describe step-by-step how the rats are taught to read. Explain how/in what way their escape from NIMH shows intelligence and responsibility and civilization. What is the identity of the rats of NIMH? In other words, what have they become? **** � **
 * When the rats escaped from NIHM, they showed intelligence, responsibility, and civilization. There were many problems that they to work out, such as what would they do when they got lost or how would they open the steel screen at the end of the duct. Using intelligence, they found solutions to these problems. So they didn’t get lost they made a path of thread that they could follow to get back and forth, and to pry the screen open they stole a screwdriver form the lab and jabbed at the screen to get it open. They showed responsibility by each claiming a part in the escape plan. Each rat would open their own cage, Justin would open the duct to get in, ravel up the thread they used as a path as they went along, and open the cages of the mice before they left to escape. Nicodemus would be the leader in going down the path and making most decisions, with the suggestions of some rats. They showed civilization by making plans of how they would make an environment for civilized, intelligent rats to live in. This is how the rats showed intelligence, responsibility, and civilization while planning and acting on escaping. **

**In the chapter, The Boniface Estate, the rats start to realize what the injections given to them at NIMH have done to their intelligence and outer look. The rats understand that they have completely transformed into a new species of rat by the looks they get while talking to the normal rats they see outside of NIMH. To the rats from NIMH, normal rats look puny and weak and the rats from NIMH also feel a bit bigger and stronger. There Identity has changed from normal rats to stronger and more intelligent rats, due to all of the injections given to them at NIMH. Soon the rats start to realize that every piece of food they eat and every object they obtained are always stolen. They feel it has always been the way of the rats to steel in order to obtain things. When the rats find the Boniface Estate they are very thrilled about all the great food they have found. They learned to use a can opener and live on their own for the whole winter in the Boniface Estate. Although they are thrilled about the tools they have learned to use and the food they have come across, the best thing they find is the study. It has books on shelves from the floor to the ceiling about every subject, and now that they have learned to read they can enjoy all of these books. The rats before they were injected were like any other rat, but now after they have been injected they are stronger and more intelligent. ** **In the chapter, The Main Hall, the author wants to remind us of the theme of kindness. He does this by showing how friendly the rats are. When Mrs. Frisby walks into the Main Hall there are rats everywhere and most of them are kind enough to, even on a bust schedule, turn, smile and wave to Mrs. Frisby. Self-sufficiency is the ability to supply your own objects, food, clothes, etc. without external help. The rats plan to be self-sufficient by go through with their plan to plant their own seeds so that they don’t have to steal from anyone for food any more. They felt that the only way rats ever get anything is through stealing, so they try to prove that statement wrong. To help go through with their plan, the rats are making 3 rats sized plows. This is how they plan to be self-sufficient. **
 * VIII. (8.) Read Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH, pages 142-148 **
 * ‍ ****Question/Writing: In the chapter ****� ****The Boniface Estate, ****� **** what are the signs that the rats have totally transformed into different creatures, that they now have a different identity? What are the clues (reactions) from other rats that the identity of the rats of NIMH has changed? What discontent, or worry, do the rats start to have about stealing? What is the greatest discovery that the rats make at the Boniface Estate? What does all of this mean about the rats ****� **** identity ****� ****about who they are? **
 * ‍ ****IX. (9.) **
 * <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">‍ ****<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 17px;">Read Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH, pages 149-157 **
 * <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">‍ ****<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 17px;">Question/Writing: In the chapter ****<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; font-size: 17px;">� ****<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 17px;">The Main Hall, ****<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; font-size: 17px;">� ****<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 17px;"> what occurs that shows that the author wants to remind us of the theme/message of kindness? Later in this chapter he moves on to the theme of self-sufficiency. Define ** **<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; font-size: 17px;">� ****<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 17px;">self-sufficiency ****<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 17px;">. ****<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; font-size: 17px;">� ****<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 17px;"> Look it up in the dictionary. Why do the rats want to be self-sufficient? What preparations, or invention, have they made to plan to be self-sufficient? **

**<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 17px;">X. (10.) Read Mrs. Frisby pages 158-164. **
==**<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">‍ ****<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 17px;">Answer the following questions in an extended response of at least eight sentences. ****<span style="color: black; font-family: 'arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 17px;">Why do the rats admire the monks of the Middle Ages? ****<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 17px;">In what way were ****<span style="color: black; font-family: 'arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 17px;">the monks self-sufficient? Why were/are the rats so hated? ****<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 17px;">What ****<span style="color: black; font-family: 'arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 17px;">mistake was made by the prairie dogs ****<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 17px;">, according to a book in the Boniface Estate Library? Based on the answers to these questions, what ****<span style="color: black; font-family: 'arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 17px;">lesson about the building of a future civilization do the rats make ****<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 17px;">? In other words, when the rats leave the Boniface Estate, ****<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">how do the rats want to live and what kind of a community do they want to create? **==

== **<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">In __Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIHM__, the rats admire the Monks of the middle ages for the following reasons. The monks inspired the rats to create their own civilization. The rats were inspired by the monks while reading about them in the Boniface Estate study. They read that the monks had a simple and very self-sufficient life and that they made their own paper, houses, furniture, wrote their own books, studied, and even grew their own food. The rats started to get an idea of how they wanted to live by reading about the monks. The rats tried to look for books that were about rats, but the only thing they found were two entries on rats in encyclopedias. By reading these entries, the rats soon came to learn that they were the most hated creatures in the world. Most people came to hate the rats because they spread diseases, gnawed at people’s homes to get inside and mostly that the rats stole human’s objects and food. This also got the rats thinking about a more self-sufficient life style. When the rats found a book written by a scientist, they learned that there direct decadences were the prairie dogs and when they started to build up there civilization they grew to soft and lazy to take on the job of creating a civilization and eventually the species of monkeys came out form the woods and took over everything. When the rats leave the Boniface Estate they would like to live self-sufficiently and live under ground in a farm area so that they can grow food for themselves. This is what the rats want their future civilization to be like. ** ==

**<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 17px;">On pages 169-171, Mrs. Frisby is told of a story that Nicodemus read. This story has a message behind it. The story’s message is that if you take advantage of something, the outcome maybe bad. In the lady in the stories case, she was taking advantage of the vacuum cleaner and the outcome was that everyone wanted one and they were all using a lot of electricity and the air in the town was polluted causing the ladies to have to clean their floors more often. The lady could have prevented this by sticking to her mop and broom witch cleaned her floor just the same as the vacuum did only it took more effort and work. In the rat’s case, they are taking too many supplies from the people, such as running water, electricity, and food, that the bad outcome sure to happen if they don’t stop will be that they will be found and possibly exterminated or sent back to NIMH. This is what the meaning of the vacuum story is. ** **<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">Jenner and Nicodemus have a fight in the chapter Thorn Valley and Captured. This fight is brought on by the following problem. Nicodemus is worried that if the rats keep living where they live, and taking from the humans all the time, that the rats would soon be found and they would no longer be able to live a free life. Jenner disagrees with this statement and he believes that no harm will be done by living where they are and stealing everything they use to survive from the humans. Nicodemus disagrees with this statement because of his worries about being caught. Jenner, one day, stormed out of a meeting because of all the talk about moving to Thorn Valley and starting a new, self-sufficient life. When all the rats decided that they were going to act on their plan, Jenner and a group of followers left the civilization to start their own. ** **<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">On page 179, Mrs. Frisby finds that Mr. Frisby was not telling her about NIMH not because he didn’t want to, but to save Mrs. Frisby from the truth. Because Mr. Frisby was injected with steroids at NIMH, he was going to live a lot longer than any mouse would. Because of this, he did not tell Mrs. Frisby about NIMH, because Mrs. Frisby would soon grow old and die while MR. Frisby would not. This is how Mr. Frisby showed kindness to Mrs. Frisby by not telling her about NIMH. ** **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">By being civilized you do what you can to survive and live a sometimes good life. By sometimes you have to forget about civilization and just do the right thing. For example, Mr. Frisby, doing the civilized thing, would tell Mrs. Frisby about NIMH and how he would live longer than her. If he would have done this then all of Mrs. Frisby life she would have been worried about what Jonathan would do without her or about dying before Jonathan. Since Jonathan did the right thing and didn’t tell Mrs. Frisby about NIMH, then Mrs. Frisby was able to live a worry free life. This is what the author means by doing the right thing over doing the civilized thing. **
 * <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 17px;">XI. (11.) ****<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 17px;">Read Frisby pages 165-186. **
 * <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">‍ ****<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 17px;">Answer the following thinking questions in a short essay of no fewer than 8 sentences, and no more than 20 sentences: **
 * <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">‍ ****<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 17px;">A. What does ****<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 17px;">the allegorical story [story with an intended message] of the vacuum cleaner business ****<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 17px;">on pages ****<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 17px;">169-171 ****<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 17px;">mean about the danger of taking the easy way out ****<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 17px;">, of the danger of ****<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS','sans-serif'; font-size: 17px;">� ****<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 17px;">stealing ****<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS','sans-serif'; font-size: 17px;">� ****<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 17px;">? **
 * <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">‍ ****<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 17px;">B. ****<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 17px;">Why does Jenner disagree ****<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 17px;">with Nicodemus about whether they should move to Thorn Valley? ****<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 17px;">Why does Nicodemus disagree ****<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 17px;"> with Jenner? Later on, in the next chapter, ****<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS','sans-serif'; font-size: 17px;">� ****<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 17px;">Captured, ****<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS','sans-serif'; font-size: 17px;">� ****<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 17px;"> we learn why Jenner left. ****<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">Why did he and his followers leave? **
 * <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">‍ ****<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 17px;">C. On page 179, what do we learn about ****<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 17px;">Jonathan Frisby ****<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 17px;">that ****<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 17px;">shows his kindness ****<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 17px;">towards his wife? ****<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 17px;">What did he not tell Mrs. Frisby? ****<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 17px;"> Why did he not tell her this? **
 * <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">‍ ****<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 17px;">D. All of the above responses have to do with doing the right thing. ****<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 17px;">According to the author, what does it mean to do the right thing? ****<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 17px;"> Refer to your answers above. What does the author want us to see about the ****<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 17px;">connection between being civilized and ****<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS','sans-serif'; font-size: 17px;">� ****<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 17px;">doing the right thing"? **

**<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 17px;">On pages 169-171, Mrs. Frisby is told of a story that Nicodemus read. This story has a message behind it. The story’s message is that if you take advantage of something, the outcome maybe bad. In the lady in the stories case, she was taking advantage of the vacuum cleaner and the outcome was that everyone wanted one and they were all using a lot of electricity and the air in the town was polluted causing the ladies to have to clean their floors more often. The lady could have prevented this by sticking to her mop and broom witch cleaned her floor just the same as the vacuum did only it took more effort and work. In the rat’s case, they are taking too many supplies from the people, such as running water, electricity, and food, that the bad outcome sure to happen if they don’t stop will be that they will be found and possibly exterminated or sent back to NIMH. This is what the meaning of the vacuum story is. ** **<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">Jenner and Nicodemus have a fight in the chapter Thorn Valley and Captured. This fight is brought on by the following problem. Nicodemus is worried that if the rats keep living where they live, and taking from the humans all the time, that the rats would soon be found and they would no longer be able to live a free life. Jenner disagrees with this statement and he believes that no harm will be done by living where they are and stealing everything they use to survive from the humans. Nicodemus disagrees with this statement because of his worries about being caught. Jenner, one day, stormed out of a meeting because of all the talk about moving to Thorn Valley and starting a new, self-sufficient life. When all the rats decided that they were going to act on their plan, Jenner and a group of followers left the civilization to start their own. ** **<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">On page 179, Mrs. Frisby finds that Mr. Frisby was not telling her about NIMH not because he didn’t want to, but to save Mrs. Frisby from the truth. Because Mr. Frisby was injected with steroids at NIMH, he was going to live a lot longer than any mouse would. Because of this, he did not tell Mrs. Frisby about NIMH, because Mrs. Frisby would soon grow old and die while MR. Frisby would not. This is how Mr. Frisby showed kindness to Mrs. Frisby by not telling her about NIMH. ** **<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 17px;">When Mrs. Frisby is trapped in the birdcage in Mr. Fitzgibbon’s house, she learns some bad news. The Fitzgibbon’s family was talking about how a few days ago seven rats were found dead around an electrical motor, and it almost looked as if they died while trying to steal the motor. Could it have been Jenner and his 6 followers? Well the newspaper that week was running short of stories and when they heard about the rats they decided to do and article on it. When this article got more attention than the any one thought it would get, the federal government got involved. They sent over the Public Health service Unit, and their leader in this rat mission was a doctor someone. Mr. Fitzgibbon’s forgot what the doctor’s name was. Could it have been Dr. Schultz in search of his run away rats? Mr. Fitzgibbon’s had mentioned that he had rats on his farm and the government said they would be coming to exterminate them on Saturday morning. Mrs. Frisby had to tell the rats to escape while they can, but how could she when she is trapped in a cage. This is what Mrs. Frisby learns while trapped in the cage. ** **<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">When Mrs. Frisby is trapped in a cage by Mr. Fitzgibbon’s son, I’m sure she was thinking that it wasn’t a good thing. She was right, indeed it wasn’t a good thing, but ironically in a way it wasn’t all bad. She learned information that could potentially save all of the rats on the farm. This information was that on Saturday morning Public Health Service was coming to exterminate the rats. She also learned that 7 rats, possibly Jenner and his 6 followers, had died while trying to steal a motor. They said the rats must have chewed through the insulated wire and the current went right through all of them killing them all. This was good information to tell the rats, for they would surely be interested. This is why it wasn’t all bad being trapped in a cage in an ironic way. ** **<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">Not only was Mrs. Frisby being trapped a good thing in an ironic way, but there were also some other traps that lead to and ironically good things. For example, when Nicodemus, Jenner, and some of the other rats that lived with them, where trapped at the market it wasn’t all bad. They were sent to NIMH, National Institute of Mental Health, where the partly good thing would take place. Most of the rats that were trapped at the market were injected with a serum that would change their lives forever. It would change their strength level and their intelligence level as well. After being injected they were able to read, write, and learn new things a long their journey. It was the injection that caused them to be able to build machinery, build up their civilization, and allow them to live a lot longer than any rat could. Another trap that lead to a good thing was when the old toy tinkers wheel got stuck in a whole. This was good because when the rats discovered the old man dead, they also found his car. His car was probably the thing that helped start their entire civilization because it was loaded with small rat sized tools that were made for working on toys. This allowed the rats to build thing faster because they now had tools to help. These were two traps that lead to ironic good things. ** **<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">On page 196 and 197, Mrs. Frisby is trying to escape so that she could tell the rats what she had just recently learned. Not thinking about her own safety and what will come if she does not escape by day, she tries to escape only to warn the rats. This shows that she has a positive character and a selfless one. Her character is positive because she only thinks about escaping and not what will happen if she doesn’t escape, and it selfless because she isn’t thinking about herself at all but only the rats and their safety. She knows about the rats plan to move and be self-sufficient, and realizes that if they go through with the plan earlier than planned, they could get away before the government comes to exterminate them. The author here is giving us the message that when you have goodness, bravery, intelligence, and civilization, when someone does a huge favor for you, you will go through anything to return it. In Mrs. Frisby’s case, the rats are saving Timothy by moving her house and she will return the favor by helping them avoid possible death by extermination. This is the message the author gives. ** **<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">When the rats are moving Mrs. Frisby’s house they are using many different tools, but all in their own certain way. To dig out a hole where the new house location will be they used shovels that were the right size to be handled by rats. To lift the house out of its current hole, the rats used pulleys, which are a series of rope aligned on axis’s that can make it easier to lift heavy objects. And the rats used log shaped tools to roll the house to its new location. The rolling process wasn’t as easy as it sounds though; each rat had a specialized labor or assigned work station to help get the house to its new location. First, some rats pulled on ropes to advance the house forward and 2 others reset the logs after they fell out of place. This is how the rats showed specialized labor. To the author, being truly civilized seems to mean that you have all the tools and knowledge to succeed in life. ** **<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 17px;">The rats come to the conclusion that they must leave their secret home because of the information that Mrs. Frisby gave to the rats about what Mr. Fitzgibbon’s said. When Mrs. Frisby was trapped in the Fitzgibbon’s home, she acquired some very useful information that could potentially save the lives of all the rats. She learned that some people from the Public Health Service, possibly people form NIMH, would be coming to exterminate the rats the following morning. Based on this information and a few other details, the rats come to the intelligent conclusion and plan of how they will leave their home to go to thorn valley without leaving a trace that they were rats that were altered in NIMH. The rats cover up their tracts because they believe that if they find all the tools and electronic things down in the rat’s home that they will know they are the rats from NIMH and come looking for them in their new home. This is what the rats plan to do after finding out about the plans for extermination. ** **<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 17px;">The rats would like to move because they want to start a new, more self-sufficient life. One way they plan to do this is by instead of stealing the water and electricity from the Fitzgibbon’s water and electricity lines, they plan to make and find their own sources of water and electricity. They also plan to plant their own food and crops in order to get food. This says about the rats characters, that they are self-sufficient and do not like stealing from humans. ** **<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">Civilization is when you have the knowledge and supplies to live self-sufficiently. The rats have all the knowledge, because of being altered at NIMH, courage, because they complete tasks that can only be done with courage, and responsibility by deciding to provide for themselves and each assigning jobs. This is what it means to be civilized and how the rats are civilized. ** **<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">When the rats find out that they are going to be exterminated, they make a plan to fool the exterminators. First, they know that I they are found to be the rats from NIMH they will be searched for, so they get rid of any evidence that showed they were in fact the rats of NIMH. This included getting rid of the lights, electricity line, water line, and any mechanized objects. Second, they chose only 10 rats to stay behind to eliminate the fact that they all ran away and would be searched for. Lastly, when the time came, the 10 rats left behind took a secret way in and out to make it look like their were many rats fleeing the scene although there were only 10. This is how the rats fooled their exterminators in an intelligent way. ** **<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">Mrs. Frisby witnesses the rats moving her home to a safer place so that her son Timothy would not die. In a way the rats saved Timothy’s life, and Mrs. Frisby saved the rats. Mrs. Frisby saved the rats lives because while she was trapped in the Fitzgibbon’s house she learned some very important information. Mrs. Frisby learned that the rats would be getting exterminated the next morning and she soon knew that she had to free herself and warn the rats in order to save their lives. After being freed, with the help of Justin the rat, she immediately told the rats what was to happen the next morning. She saved their lives and was heroic just as she had witnessed the rats move her home and save Timothy which was also heroic. ** **<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">On pages 230 and 231, Mrs. Frisby shows consideration by telling her children what they rightfully deserve to know, about their father and the rats. The children, since their father was one of the mice altered at NIMH, would too become ageless and have no idea why. Mrs. Frisby told them the reason was because of NIMH and their father. She also tells them about the rats because they were curious about why they would do such a kind thing as to move their house for someone they barely knew, or so the children thought. The children would have been wondering forever, but Mrs. Frisby showed consideration by telling her children about the rats. This is how Mrs. Frisby showed consideration by telling her children about the rats of NIMH and their relation to the mice’s father. ** **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">The author of Mrs. Frisby and the rats of NIMH, wants us to know that in to be civilized you must have all the knowledge and tools it takes to survive. A civilized person must be intelligent in order to know the facts of life and how to survive. They also must be brave because some point in making life possible includes risks, which by reading the book Mrs. Frisby and the rats of NIMH you figure out. The rats take many great risks, but only because they are necessary for survival. Another character trait it takes to be civilized is to be kind. In order to succeed in some of the challenges life makes, you need to have a friend or someone that can help you by your side. If you are not kind to anyone then it would not come easy to find this person or people. It does take a lot to be civilized and it would be easier to be uncivilized because you would not have to worry about all of the requirements it takes, but life comes easier by being civilized. **
 * <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 17px;">XI. (11.) ****<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 17px;">Read Frisby pages 165-186. **
 * <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">‍ ****<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 17px;">Answer the following thinking questions in a short essay of no fewer than 8 sentences, and no more than 20 sentences: **
 * <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">‍ ****<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 17px;">A. What does ****<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 17px;">the allegorical story [story with an intended message] of the vacuum cleaner business ****<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 17px;">on pages ****<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 17px;">169-171 ****<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 17px;">mean about the danger of taking the easy way out ****<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 17px;">, of the danger of ****<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS','sans-serif'; font-size: 17px;">� ****<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 17px;">stealing ****<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS','sans-serif'; font-size: 17px;">� ****<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 17px;">? **
 * <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 17px;">On pages 169-171, Mrs. Frisby is told of a story that Nicodemus read. This story has a message behind it. The story’s message is that if you take advantage of something, the outcome maybe bad. In the lady in the stories case, she was taking advantage of the vacuum cleaner and the outcome was that everyone wanted one and they were all using a lot of electricity and the air in the town was polluted causing the ladies to have to clean their floors more often. The lady could have prevented this by sticking to her mop and broom witch cleaned her floor just the same as the vacuum did only it took more effort and work. In the rat’s case, they are taking too many supplies from the people, such as running water, electricity, and food, that the bad outcome sure to happen if they don’t stop will be that they will be found and possibly exterminated or sent back to NIMH. This is what the meaning of the vacuum story is. **
 * <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">‍ ****<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 17px;">B. ****<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 17px;">Why does Jenner disagree ****<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 17px;">with Nicodemus about whether they should move to Thorn Valley? ****<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 17px;">Why does Nicodemus disagree ****<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 17px;"> with Jenner? Later on, in the next chapter, ****<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS','sans-serif'; font-size: 17px;">� ****<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 17px;">Captured, ****<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS','sans-serif'; font-size: 17px;">� ****<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 17px;"> we learn why Jenner left. ****<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">Why did he and his followers leave? **
 * <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">Jenner and Nicodemus have a fight in the chapter Thorn Valley and Captured. This fight is brought on by the following problem. Nicodemus is worried that if the rats keep living where they live, and taking from the humans all the time, that the rats would soon be found and they would no longer be able to live a free life. Jenner disagrees with this statement and he believes that no harm will be done by living where they are and stealing everything they use to survive from the humans. Nicodemus disagrees with this statement because of his worries about being caught. Jenner, one day, stormed out of a meeting because of all the talk about moving to Thorn Valley and starting a new, self-sufficient life. When all the rats decided that they were going to act on their plan, Jenner and a group of followers left the civilization to start their own. **
 * <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">‍ ****<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 17px;">C. On page 179, what do we learn about ****<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 17px;">Jonathan Frisby ****<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 17px;">that ****<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 17px;">shows his kindness ****<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 17px;">towards his wife? ****<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 17px;">What did he not tell Mrs. Frisby? ****<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 17px;"> Why did he not tell her this? **
 * <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">On page 179, Mrs. Frisby finds that Mr. Frisby was not telling her about NIMH not because he didn’t want to, but to save Mrs. Frisby from the truth. Because Mr. Frisby was injected with steroids at NIMH, he was going to live a lot longer than any mouse would. Because of this, he did not tell Mrs. Frisby about NIMH, because Mrs. Frisby would soon grow old and die while MR. Frisby would not. This is how Mr. Frisby showed kindness to Mrs. Frisby by not telling her about NIMH. **
 * <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">‍ ****<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 17px;">D. All of the above responses have to do with doing the right thing. ****<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 17px;">According to the author, what does it mean to do the right thing? ****<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 17px;"> Refer to your answers above. What does the author want us to see about the ****<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 17px;">connection between being civilized and ****<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS','sans-serif'; font-size: 17px;">� ****<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 17px;">doing the right thing"? **
 * <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 17px;">By being civilized you do what you can to survive and live a sometimes good life. By sometimes you have to forget about civilization and just do the right thing. For example, Mr. Frisby, doing the civilized thing, would tell Mrs. Frisby about NIMH and how he would live longer than her. If he would have done this then all of Mrs. Frisby life she would have been worried about what Jonathan would do without her or about dying before Jonathan. Since Jonathan did the right thing and didn’t tell Mrs. Frisby about NIMH, then Mrs. Frisby was able to live a worry free life. This is what the author means by doing the right thing over doing the civilized thing. **
 * <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">‍ ****<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 17px;">XII. (12). Read Frisby pages 187-194. **
 * <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">‍ ****<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 17px;">Answer the following fact and thinking questions: **
 * 1) **<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">‍ ****<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 17px;">What does Mrs. Frisby learn ****<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 17px;">when she is captured, inside the birdcage? **
 * <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 17px;">When Mrs. Frisby is trapped in the birdcage in Mr. Fitzgibbon’s house, she learns some bad news. The Fitzgibbon’s family was talking about how a few days ago seven rats were found dead around an electrical motor, and it almost looked as if they died while trying to steal the motor. Could it have been Jenner and his 6 followers? Well the newspaper that week was running short of stories and when they heard about the rats they decided to do and article on it. When this article got more attention than the any one thought it would get, the federal government got involved. They sent over the Public Health service Unit, and their leader in this rat mission was a doctor someone. Mr. Fitzgibbon’s forgot what the doctor’s name was. Could it have been Dr. Schultz in search of his run away rats? Mr. Fitzgibbon’s had mentioned that he had rats on his farm and the government said they would be coming to exterminate them on Saturday morning. Mrs. Frisby had to tell the rats to escape while they can, but how could she when she is trapped in a cage. This is what Mrs. Frisby learns while trapped in the cage. **
 * 1) **<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">‍ ****<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 17px;">Why, ironically, is Mrs. Frisby's capture a good thing? **
 * <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">When Mrs. Frisby is trapped in a cage by Mr. Fitzgibbon’s son, I’m sure she was thinking that it wasn’t a good thing. She was right, indeed it wasn’t a good thing, but ironically in a way it wasn’t all bad. She learned information that could potentially save all of the rats on the farm. This information was that on Saturday morning Public Health Service was coming to exterminate the rats. She also learned that 7 rats, possibly Jenner and his 6 followers, had died while trying to steal a motor. They said the rats must have chewed through the insulated wire and the current went right through all of them killing them all. This was good information to tell the rats, for they would surely be interested. This is why it wasn’t all bad being trapped in a cage in an ironic way. **
 * 1) **<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">‍ ****<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 17px;">Describe two other examples of "entrapment" ****<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 17px;"> [being trapped or caught] ****<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 17px;">that, ironically, led to good things. Explain fully. **
 * <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">Not only was Mrs. Frisby being trapped a good thing in an ironic way, but there were also some other traps that lead to and ironically good things. For example, when Nicodemus, Jenner, and some of the other rats that lived with them, where trapped at the market it wasn’t all bad. They were sent to NIMH, National Institute of Mental Health, where the partly good thing would take place. Most of the rats that were trapped at the market were injected with a serum that would change their lives forever. It would change their strength level and their intelligence level as well. After being injected they were able to read, write, and learn new things a long their journey. It was the injection that caused them to be able to build machinery, build up their civilization, and allow them to live a lot longer than any rat could. Another trap that lead to a good thing was when the old toy tinkers wheel got stuck in a whole. This was good because when the rats discovered the old man dead, they also found his car. His car was probably the thing that helped start their entire civilization because it was loaded with small rat sized tools that were made for working on toys. This allowed the rats to build thing faster because they now had tools to help. These were two traps that lead to ironic good things. **
 * <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">‍ ****<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">XIII. (13). Read Frisby pages 195-205 **
 * <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">‍ ****<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">In the chapter, ****<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">� ****<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Escape, ****<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">� ****<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;"> (especially on pages 196 and 197) Mrs. Frisby spends quite a bit of time thinking about the rats. Re-read those pages. ****<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">Why does Mrs. Frisby want to escape and do? What does this say about her character? What does she say about the rats and their plan? What message does the author want to give us about goodness and bravery and intelligence and civilizations? **
 * <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">On page 196 and 197, Mrs. Frisby is trying to escape so that she could tell the rats what she had just recently learned. Not thinking about her own safety and what will come if she does not escape by day, she tries to escape only to warn the rats. This shows that she has a positive character and a selfless one. Her character is positive because she only thinks about escaping and not what will happen if she doesn’t escape, and it selfless because she isn’t thinking about herself at all but only the rats and their safety. She knows about the rats plan to move and be self-sufficient, and realizes that if they go through with the plan earlier than planned, they could get away before the government comes to exterminate them. The author here is giving us the message that when you have goodness, bravery, intelligence, and civilization, when someone does a huge favor for you, you will go through anything to return it. In Mrs. Frisby’s case, the rats are saving Timothy by moving her house and she will return the favor by helping them avoid possible death by extermination. This is the message the author gives. **
 * <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">‍ ****<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">During the last five pages of the chapter, ****<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">we see the rats actually moving Mrs. Frisby ****<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">� ****<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">s house. What do they do? How do they do it? In what ways do they show specialization of labor? In what ways do they show intelligence? Resourcefulness? Cooperation? According to the author, what does it mean to be truly civilized? **
 * <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">When the rats are moving Mrs. Frisby’s house they are using many different tools, but all in their own certain way. To dig out a hole where the new house location will be they used shovels that were the right size to be handled by rats. To lift the house out of its current hole, the rats used pulleys, which are a series of rope aligned on axis’s that can make it easier to lift heavy objects. And the rats used log shaped tools to roll the house to its new location. The rolling process wasn’t as easy as it sounds though; each rat had a specialized labor or assigned work station to help get the house to its new location. First, some rats pulled on ropes to advance the house forward and 2 others reset the logs after they fell out of place. This is how the rats showed specialized labor. To the author, being truly civilized seems to mean that you have all the tools and knowledge to succeed in life. **
 * <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">‍ ****<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 17px;">XIV. (14) Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH, pages 206-215 **
 * <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">‍ ****<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 17px;">On page 206, how do we know that an important conflict (Mrs. Frisby ****<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS','sans-serif'; font-size: 17px;">� ****<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 17px;">s conflict) has been resolved? **
 * <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 17px;">On page 206, we know that Mrs. Frisby’s conflict is truly solved because Mrs. Frisby’s house was safe and sound from harm’s way of the tractor. Mrs. Frisby the next morning felt very confident and proud of the rats and herself because of the moving of the house. This is how I know that an important problem was solved. **
 * <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">‍ ****<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">At the meeting with the rats that Mrs. Frisby attends, explain exactly how ****<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">� ****<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">and why--the rats intelligently come to the conclusion that they must abandon their ****<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">� ****<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">subrosa ****<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">� ****<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;"> [meaning under the rose and meaning a secret] home? What evidence do they have? ****<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 17px;">How do they intelligently evaluate the evidence? What predictions do they make? **
 * <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">‍ ****<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 17px;">Then, after they decide to abandon their underground lair, what strange plan do they hatch? Why do they come up with this plan? **
 * <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 17px;">The rats come to the conclusion that they must leave their secret home because of the information that Mrs. Frisby gave to the rats about what Mr. Fitzgibbon’s said. When Mrs. Frisby was trapped in the Fitzgibbon’s home, she acquired some very useful information that could potentially save the lives of all the rats. She learned that some people from the Public Health Service, possibly people form NIMH, would be coming to exterminate the rats the following morning. Based on this information and a few other details, the rats come to the intelligent conclusion and plan of how they will leave their home to go to thorn valley without leaving a trace that they were rats that were altered in NIMH. The rats cover up their tracts because they believe that if they find all the tools and electronic things down in the rat’s home that they will know they are the rats from NIMH and come looking for them in their new home. This is what the rats plan to do after finding out about the plans for extermination. **
 * <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">‍ ****<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 17px;">Timothy asks his mother on page 215 why the rats are moving away. She says, ****<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS','sans-serif'; font-size: 17px;">� ****<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 17px;">Because they want to. ****<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS','sans-serif'; font-size: 17px;">� ****<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 17px;"> This is a deep and profound statement. ****<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 17px;">Why do the rats want to move away? What does their wanting to do so reveal about who they are and what their true character is? **
 * <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 17px;">The rats would like to move because they want to start a new, more self-sufficient life. One way they plan to do this is by instead of stealing the water and electricity from the Fitzgibbon’s water and electricity lines, they plan to make and find their own sources of water and electricity. They also plan to plant their own food and crops in order to get food. This says about the rats characters, that they are self-sufficient and do not like stealing from humans. **
 * <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">‍ ****<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">XV. (15) __Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH__, pages 216-233 **
 * <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">‍ ****<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">The author ends the novel with a final ****<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">� ****<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">statement ****<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">� ****<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;"> about intelligence, courage, and kindness. __In your own view, what is the overall, general message that the author would like to leave us with about being civilized, especially as it relates to intelligence, courage, and responsibility? More specifically, in what way are all three ideas related to the idea of being civilized?__ **
 * <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">Civilization is when you have the knowledge and supplies to live self-sufficiently. The rats have all the knowledge, because of being altered at NIMH, courage, because they complete tasks that can only be done with courage, and responsibility by deciding to provide for themselves and each assigning jobs. This is what it means to be civilized and how the rats are civilized. **
 * <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">‍ ****__<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">First __****<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">, in what way does the rats ****<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">� ****<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;"> method of trying to fool their would-be executioners show intelligence? What do the rats do that is clever? **
 * <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">When the rats find out that they are going to be exterminated, they make a plan to fool the exterminators. First, they know that I they are found to be the rats from NIMH they will be searched for, so they get rid of any evidence that showed they were in fact the rats of NIMH. This included getting rid of the lights, electricity line, water line, and any mechanized objects. Second, they chose only 10 rats to stay behind to eliminate the fact that they all ran away and would be searched for. Lastly, when the time came, the 10 rats left behind took a secret way in and out to make it look like their were many rats fleeing the scene although there were only 10. This is how the rats fooled their exterminators in an intelligent way. **
 * <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">‍ ****__<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">Second __****<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">, what brave or heroic action does Mrs. Frisby witness? What past action of her own does it ****<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">� ****<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">mirror, ****<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">� ****<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;"> or in what way has she, too, been heroic? **
 * <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">Mrs. Frisby witnesses the rats moving her home to a safer place so that her son Timothy would not die. In a way the rats saved Timothy’s life, and Mrs. Frisby saved the rats. Mrs. Frisby saved the rats lives because while she was trapped in the Fitzgibbon’s house she learned some very important information. Mrs. Frisby learned that the rats would be getting exterminated the next morning and she soon knew that she had to free herself and warn the rats in order to save their lives. After being freed, with the help of Justin the rat, she immediately told the rats what was to happen the next morning. She saved their lives and was heroic just as she had witnessed the rats move her home and save Timothy which was also heroic. **
 * <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">‍ ****<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">T__hirdly,__ on pages 230 and 231, how does Mrs. Frisby show kindness or consideration or responsibility when she speaks with her children? **
 * <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">On pages 230 and 231, Mrs. Frisby shows consideration by telling her children what they rightfully deserve to know, about their father and the rats. The children, since their father was one of the mice altered at NIMH, would too become ageless and have no idea why. Mrs. Frisby told them the reason was because of NIMH and their father. She also tells them about the rats because they were curious about why they would do such a kind thing as to move their house for someone they barely knew, or so the children thought. The children would have been wondering forever, but Mrs. Frisby showed consideration by telling her children about the rats. This is how Mrs. Frisby showed consideration by telling her children about the rats of NIMH and their relation to the mice’s father. **
 * <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">‍ ****<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">Finally, re-read what you wrote. Then, think and write: __What does the author of Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH want us to know about being civilized? What does it mean to be civilized? What__ __are the character traits of a civilized person? Why is being civilized hard? Is it easier to be__ ****__<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">� __****__<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">uncivilized __****__<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">� __****__<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">? Why? __**
 * <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">The author of Mrs. Frisby and the rats of NIMH, wants us to know that in to be civilized you must have all the knowledge and tools it takes to survive. A civilized person must be intelligent in order to know the facts of life and how to survive. They also must be brave because some point in making life possible includes risks, which by reading the book Mrs. Frisby and the rats of NIMH you figure out. The rats take many great risks, but only because they are necessary for survival. Another character trait it takes to be civilized is to be kind. In order to succeed in some of the challenges life makes, you need to have a friend or someone that can help you by your side. If you are not kind to anyone then it would not come easy to find this person or people. It does take a lot to be civilized and it would be easier to be uncivilized because you would not have to worry about all of the requirements it takes, but life comes easier by being civilized **
 * <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 17px;">XI. (11.) ****<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 17px;">Read Frisby pages 165-186. **
 * <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">‍ ****<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 17px;">Answer the following thinking questions in a short essay of no fewer than 8 sentences, and no more than 20 sentences: **
 * <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">‍ ****<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 17px;">A. What does ****<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 17px;">the allegorical story [story with an intended message] of the vacuum cleaner business ****<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 17px;">on pages ****<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 17px;">169-171 ****<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 17px;">mean about the danger of taking the easy way out ****<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 17px;">, of the danger of ****<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS','sans-serif'; font-size: 17px;">� ****<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 17px;">stealing ****<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS','sans-serif'; font-size: 17px;">� ****<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 17px;">? **
 * <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">‍ ****<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 17px;">B. ****<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 17px;">Why does Jenner disagree ****<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 17px;">with Nicodemus about whether they should move to Thorn Valley? ****<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 17px;">Why does Nicodemus disagree ****<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 17px;"> with Jenner? Later on, in the next chapter, ****<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS','sans-serif'; font-size: 17px;">� ****<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 17px;">Captured, ****<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS','sans-serif'; font-size: 17px;">� ****<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 17px;"> we learn why Jenner left. ****<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">Why did he and his followers leave? **
 * <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">‍ ****<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 17px;">C. On page 179, what do we learn about ****<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 17px;">Jonathan Frisby ****<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 17px;">that ****<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 17px;">shows his kindness ****<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 17px;">towards his wife? ****<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 17px;">What did he not tell Mrs. Frisby? ****<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 17px;"> Why did he not tell her this? **
 * <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">‍ ****<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 17px;">D. All of the above responses have to do with doing the right thing. ****<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 17px;">According to the author, what does it mean to do the right thing? ****<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 17px;"> Refer to your answers above. What does the author want us to see about the ****<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 17px;">connection between being civilized and ****<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS','sans-serif'; font-size: 17px;">� ****<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 17px;">doing the right thing"? **
 * <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 17px;"> By being civilized you do what you can to survive and live a sometimes good life. By sometimes you have to forget about civilization and just do the right thing. For example, Mr. Frisby, doing the civilized thing, would tell Mrs. Frisby about NIMH and how he would live longer than her. If he would have done this then all of Mrs. Frisby life she would have been worried about what Jonathan would do without her or about dying before Jonathan. Since Jonathan did the right thing and didn’t tell Mrs. Frisby about NIMH, then Mrs. Frisby was able to live a worry free life. This is what the author means by doing the right thing over doing the civilized thing . **
 * <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">‍ ****<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 17px;">XII. (12). Read Frisby pages 187-194. **
 * <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">‍ ****<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 17px;">Answer the following fact and thinking questions: **
 * 1) **<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">‍ ****<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 17px;">What does Mrs. Frisby learn ****<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 17px;">when she is captured, inside the birdcage? **
 * 1) **<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">‍ ****<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 17px;">Why, ironically, is Mrs. Frisby's capture a good thing? **
 * 1) **<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">‍ ****<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 17px;">Describe two other examples of "entrapment" ****<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 17px;"> [being trapped or caught] ****<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 17px;">that, ironically, led to good things. Explain fully. **
 * <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">‍ ****<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">XIII. (13). Read Frisby pages 195-205 **
 * <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">‍ ****<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">In the chapter, ****<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">� ****<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Escape, ****<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">� ****<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;"> (especially on pages 196 and 197) Mrs. Frisby spends quite a bit of time thinking about the rats. Re-read those pages. ****<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">Why does Mrs. Frisby want to escape and do? What does this say about her character? What does she say about the rats and their plan? What message does the author want to give us about goodness and bravery and intelligence and civilizations? **
 * <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">‍ ****<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">During the last five pages of the chapter, ****<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">we see the rats actually moving Mrs. Frisby ****<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">� ****<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">s house. What do they do? How do they do it? In what ways do they show specialization of labor? In what ways do they show intelligence? Resourcefulness? Cooperation? According to the author, what does it mean to be truly civilized? **
 * <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">‍ ****<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 17px;">XIV. (14) Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH, pages 206-215 **
 * <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">‍ ****<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 17px;">On page 206, how do we know that an important conflict (Mrs. Frisby ****<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS','sans-serif'; font-size: 17px;">� ****<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 17px;">s conflict) has been resolved? **
 * <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 17px;">On page 206, we know that Mrs. Frisby’s conflict is truly solved because Mrs. Frisby’s house was safe and sound from harm’s way of the tractor. Mrs. Frisby the next morning felt very confident and proud of the rats and herself because of the moving of the house. This is how I know that an important problem was solved. **
 * <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">‍ ****<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">At the meeting with the rats that Mrs. Frisby attends, explain exactly how ****<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">� ****<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">and why--the rats intelligently come to the conclusion that they must abandon their ****<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">� ****<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">subrosa ****<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">� ****<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;"> [meaning under the rose and meaning a secret] home? What evidence do they have? ****<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 17px;">How do they intelligently evaluate the evidence? What predictions do they make? **
 * <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">‍ ****<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 17px;">Then, after they decide to abandon their underground lair, what strange plan do they hatch? Why do they come up with this plan? **
 * <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">‍ ****<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 17px;">Timothy asks his mother on page 215 why the rats are moving away. She says, ****<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS','sans-serif'; font-size: 17px;">� ****<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 17px;">Because they want to. ****<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS','sans-serif'; font-size: 17px;">� ****<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 17px;"> This is a deep and profound statement. ****<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 17px;">Why do the rats want to move away? What does their wanting to do so reveal about who they are and what their true character is? **
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 * <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">XV. (15) __Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH__, pages 216-233 **
 * <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">‍ ****<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">The author ends the novel with a final ****<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">� ****<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">statement ****<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">� ****<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;"> about intelligence, courage, and kindness. __In your own view, what is the overall, general message that the author would like to leave us with about being civilized, especially as it relates to intelligence, courage, and responsibility? More specifically, in what way are all three ideas related to the idea of being civilized?__ **
 * <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">‍ ****__<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">First __****<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">, in what way does the rats ****<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">� ****<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;"> method of trying to fool their would-be executioners show intelligence? What do the rats do that is clever? **
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**<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 17px;">On pages 169-171, Mrs. Frisby is told of a story that Nicodemus read. This story has a message behind it. The story’s message is that if you take advantage of something, the outcome maybe bad. In the lady in the stories case, she was taking advantage of the vacuum cleaner and the outcome was that everyone wanted one and they were all using a lot of electricity and the air in the town was polluted causing the ladies to have to clean their floors more often. The lady could have prevented this by sticking to her mop and broom witch cleaned her floor just the same as the vacuum did only it took more effort and work. In the rat’s case, they are taking too many supplies from the people, such as running water, electricity, and food, that the bad outcome sure to happen if they don’t stop will be that they will be found and possibly exterminated or sent back to NIMH. This is what the meaning of the vacuum story is. ** **<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">Jenner and Nicodemus have a fight in the chapter Thorn Valley and Captured. This fight is brought on by the following problem. Nicodemus is worried that if the rats keep living where they live, and taking from the humans all the time, that the rats would soon be found and they would no longer be able to live a free life. Jenner disagrees with this statement and he believes that no harm will be done by living where they are and stealing everything they use to survive from the humans. Nicodemus disagrees with this statement because of his worries about being caught. Jenner, one day, stormed out of a meeting because of all the talk about moving to Thorn Valley and starting a new, self-sufficient life. When all the rats decided that they were going to act on their plan, Jenner and a group of followers left the civilization to start their own. ** **<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">On page 179, Mrs. Frisby finds that Mr. Frisby was not telling her about NIMH not because he didn’t want to, but to save Mrs. Frisby from the truth. Because Mr. Frisby was injected with steroids at NIMH, he was going to live a lot longer than any mouse would. Because of this, he did not tell Mrs. Frisby about NIMH, because Mrs. Frisby would soon grow old and die while MR. Frisby would not. This is how Mr. Frisby showed kindness to Mrs. Frisby by not telling her about NIMH. ** **<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 17px;">When Mrs. Frisby is trapped in the birdcage in Mr. Fitzgibbon’s house, she learns some bad news. The Fitzgibbon’s family was talking about how a few days ago seven rats were found dead around an electrical motor, and it almost looked as if they died while trying to steal the motor. Could it have been Jenner and his 6 followers? Well the newspaper that week was running short of stories and when they heard about the rats they decided to do and article on it. When this article got more attention than the any one thought it would get, the federal government got involved. They sent over the Public Health service Unit, and their leader in this rat mission was a doctor someone. Mr. Fitzgibbon’s forgot what the doctor’s name was. Could it have been Dr. Schultz in search of his run away rats? Mr. Fitzgibbon’s had mentioned that he had rats on his farm and the government said they would be coming to exterminate them on Saturday morning. Mrs. Frisby had to tell the rats to escape while they can, but how could she when she is trapped in a cage. This is what Mrs. Frisby learns while trapped in the cage. ** **<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">When Mrs. Frisby is trapped in a cage by Mr. Fitzgibbon’s son, I’m sure she was thinking that it wasn’t a good thing. She was right, indeed it wasn’t a good thing, but ironically in a way it wasn’t all bad. She learned information that could potentially save all of the rats on the farm. This information was that on Saturday morning Public Health Service was coming to exterminate the rats. She also learned that 7 rats, possibly Jenner and his 6 followers, had died while trying to steal a motor. They said the rats must have chewed through the insulated wire and the current went right through all of them killing them all. This was good information to tell the rats, for they would surely be interested. This is why it wasn’t all bad being trapped in a cage in an ironic way. ** **<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">Not only was Mrs. Frisby being trapped a good thing in an ironic way, but there were also some other traps that lead to and ironically good things. For example, when Nicodemus, Jenner, and some of the other rats that lived with them, where trapped at the market it wasn’t all bad. They were sent to NIMH, National Institute of Mental Health, where the partly good thing would take place. Most of the rats that were trapped at the market were injected with a serum that would change their lives forever. It would change their strength level and their intelligence level as well. After being injected they were able to read, write, and learn new things a long their journey. It was the injection that caused them to be able to build machinery, build up their civilization, and allow them to live a lot longer than any rat could. Another trap that lead to a good thing was when the old toy tinkers wheel got stuck in a whole. This was good because when the rats discovered the old man dead, they also found his car. His car was probably the thing that helped start their entire civilization because it was loaded with small rat sized tools that were made for working on toys. This allowed the rats to build thing faster because they now had tools to help. These were two traps that lead to ironic good things. ** **<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">On page 196 and 197, Mrs. Frisby is trying to escape so that she could tell the rats what she had just recently learned. Not thinking about her own safety and what will come if she does not escape by day, she tries to escape only to warn the rats. This shows that she has a positive character and a selfless one. Her character is positive because she only thinks about escaping and not what will happen if she doesn’t escape, and it selfless because she isn’t thinking about herself at all but only the rats and their safety. She knows about the rats plan to move and be self-sufficient, and realizes that if they go through with the plan earlier than planned, they could get away before the government comes to exterminate them. The author here is giving us the message that when you have goodness, bravery, intelligence, and civilization, when someone does a huge favor for you, you will go through anything to return it. In Mrs. Frisby’s case, the rats are saving Timothy by moving her house and she will return the favor by helping them avoid possible death by extermination. This is the message the author gives. ** **<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">When the rats are moving Mrs. Frisby’s house they are using many different tools, but all in their own certain way. To dig out a hole where the new house location will be they used shovels that were the right size to be handled by rats. To lift the house out of its current hole, the rats used pulleys, which are a series of rope aligned on axis’s that can make it easier to lift heavy objects. And the rats used log shaped tools to roll the house to its new location. The rolling process wasn’t as easy as it sounds though; each rat had a specialized labor or assigned work station to help get the house to its new location. First, some rats pulled on ropes to advance the house forward and 2 others reset the logs after they fell out of place. This is how the rats showed specialized labor. To the author, being truly civilized seems to mean that you have all the tools and knowledge to succeed in life. ** **<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 17px;">The rats come to the conclusion that they must leave their secret home because of the information that Mrs. Frisby gave to the rats about what Mr. Fitzgibbon’s said. When Mrs. Frisby was trapped in the Fitzgibbon’s home, she acquired some very useful information that could potentially save the lives of all the rats. She learned that some people from the Public Health Service, possibly people form NIMH, would be coming to exterminate the rats the following morning. Based on this information and a few other details, the rats come to the intelligent conclusion and plan of how they will leave their home to go to thorn valley without leaving a trace that they were rats that were altered in NIMH. The rats cover up their tracts because they believe that if they find all the tools and electronic things down in the rat’s home that they will know they are the rats from NIMH and come looking for them in their new home. This is what the rats plan to do after finding out about the plans for extermination. ** **<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 17px;">The rats would like to move because they want to start a new, more self-sufficient life. One way they plan to do this is by instead of stealing the water and electricity from the Fitzgibbon’s water and electricity lines, they plan to make and find their own sources of water and electricity. They also plan to plant their own food and crops in order to get food. This says about the rats characters, that they are self-sufficient and do not like stealing from humans. ** **<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">Civilization is when you have the knowledge and supplies to live self-sufficiently. The rats have all the knowledge, because of being altered at NIMH, courage, because they complete tasks that can only be done with courage, and responsibility by deciding to provide for themselves and each assigning jobs. This is what it means to be civilized and how the rats are civilized. ** **<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">When the rats find out that they are going to be exterminated, they make a plan to fool the exterminators. First, they know that I they are found to be the rats from NIMH they will be searched for, so they get rid of any evidence that showed they were in fact the rats of NIMH. This included getting rid of the lights, electricity line, water line, and any mechanized objects. Second, they chose only 10 rats to stay behind to eliminate the fact that they all ran away and would be searched for. Lastly, when the time came, the 10 rats left behind took a secret way in and out to make it look like their were many rats fleeing the scene although there were only 10. This is how the rats fooled their exterminators in an intelligent way. ** **<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">Mrs. Frisby witnesses the rats moving her home to a safer place so that her son Timothy would not die. In a way the rats saved Timothy’s life, and Mrs. Frisby saved the rats. Mrs. Frisby saved the rats lives because while she was trapped in the Fitzgibbon’s house she learned some very important information. Mrs. Frisby learned that the rats would be getting exterminated the next morning and she soon knew that she had to free herself and warn the rats in order to save their lives. After being freed, with the help of Justin the rat, she immediately told the rats what was to happen the next morning. She saved their lives and was heroic just as she had witnessed the rats move her home and save Timothy which was also heroic. ** **<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">On pages 230 and 231, Mrs. Frisby shows consideration by telling her children what they rightfully deserve to know, about their father and the rats. The children, since their father was one of the mice altered at NIMH, would too become ageless and have no idea why. Mrs. Frisby told them the reason was because of NIMH and their father. She also tells them about the rats because they were curious about why they would do such a kind thing as to move their house for someone they barely knew, or so the children thought. The children would have been wondering forever, but Mrs. Frisby showed consideration by telling her children about the rats. This is how Mrs. Frisby showed consideration by telling her children about the rats of NIMH and their relation to the mice’s father. ** **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">The author of Mrs. Frisby and the rats of NIMH, wants us to know that in to be civilized you must have all the knowledge and tools it takes to survive. A civilized person must be intelligent in order to know the facts of life and how to survive. They also must be brave because some point in making life possible includes risks, which by reading the book Mrs. Frisby and the rats of NIMH you figure out. The rats take many great risks, but only because they are necessary for survival. Another character trait it takes to be civilized is to be kind. In order to succeed in some of the challenges life makes, you need to have a friend or someone that can help you by your side. If you are not kind to anyone then it would not come easy to find this person or people. It does take a lot to be civilized and it would be easier to be uncivilized because you would not have to worry about all of the requirements it takes, but life comes easier by being civilized. **
 * <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 17px;">XI. (11.) ****<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 17px;">Read Frisby pages 165-186. **
 * <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">‍ ****<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 17px;">Answer the following thinking questions in a short essay of no fewer than 8 sentences, and no more than 20 sentences: **
 * <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">‍ ****<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 17px;">A. What does ****<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 17px;">the allegorical story [story with an intended message] of the vacuum cleaner business ****<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 17px;">on pages ****<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 17px;">169-171 ****<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 17px;">mean about the danger of taking the easy way out ****<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 17px;">, of the danger of ****<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS','sans-serif'; font-size: 17px;">� ****<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 17px;">stealing ****<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS','sans-serif'; font-size: 17px;">� ****<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 17px;">? **
 * <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 17px;">On pages 169-171, Mrs. Frisby is told of a story that Nicodemus read. This story has a message behind it. The story’s message is that if you take advantage of something, the outcome maybe bad. In the lady in the stories case, she was taking advantage of the vacuum cleaner and the outcome was that everyone wanted one and they were all using a lot of electricity and the air in the town was polluted causing the ladies to have to clean their floors more often. The lady could have prevented this by sticking to her mop and broom witch cleaned her floor just the same as the vacuum did only it took more effort and work. In the rat’s case, they are taking too many supplies from the people, such as running water, electricity, and food, that the bad outcome sure to happen if they don’t stop will be that they will be found and possibly exterminated or sent back to NIMH. This is what the meaning of the vacuum story is. **
 * <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">‍ ****<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 17px;">B. ****<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 17px;">Why does Jenner disagree ****<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 17px;">with Nicodemus about whether they should move to Thorn Valley? ****<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 17px;">Why does Nicodemus disagree ****<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 17px;"> with Jenner? Later on, in the next chapter, ****<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS','sans-serif'; font-size: 17px;">� ****<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 17px;">Captured, ****<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS','sans-serif'; font-size: 17px;">� ****<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 17px;"> we learn why Jenner left. ****<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">Why did he and his followers leave? **
 * <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">Jenner and Nicodemus have a fight in the chapter Thorn Valley and Captured. This fight is brought on by the following problem. Nicodemus is worried that if the rats keep living where they live, and taking from the humans all the time, that the rats would soon be found and they would no longer be able to live a free life. Jenner disagrees with this statement and he believes that no harm will be done by living where they are and stealing everything they use to survive from the humans. Nicodemus disagrees with this statement because of his worries about being caught. Jenner, one day, stormed out of a meeting because of all the talk about moving to Thorn Valley and starting a new, self-sufficient life. When all the rats decided that they were going to act on their plan, Jenner and a group of followers left the civilization to start their own. **
 * <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">‍ ****<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 17px;">C. On page 179, what do we learn about ****<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 17px;">Jonathan Frisby ****<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 17px;">that ****<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 17px;">shows his kindness ****<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 17px;">towards his wife? ****<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 17px;">What did he not tell Mrs. Frisby? ****<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 17px;"> Why did he not tell her this? **
 * <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">On page 179, Mrs. Frisby finds that Mr. Frisby was not telling her about NIMH not because he didn’t want to, but to save Mrs. Frisby from the truth. Because Mr. Frisby was injected with steroids at NIMH, he was going to live a lot longer than any mouse would. Because of this, he did not tell Mrs. Frisby about NIMH, because Mrs. Frisby would soon grow old and die while MR. Frisby would not. This is how Mr. Frisby showed kindness to Mrs. Frisby by not telling her about NIMH. **
 * <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">‍ ****<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 17px;">D. All of the above responses have to do with doing the right thing. ****<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 17px;">According to the author, what does it mean to do the right thing? ****<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 17px;"> Refer to your answers above. What does the author want us to see about the ****<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 17px;">connection between being civilized and ****<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS','sans-serif'; font-size: 17px;">� ****<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 17px;">doing the right thing"? **
 * <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 17px;">By being civilized you do what you can to survive and live a sometimes good life. By sometimes you have to forget about civilization and just do the right thing. For example, Mr. Frisby, doing the civilized thing, would tell Mrs. Frisby about NIMH and how he would live longer than her. If he would have done this then all of Mrs. Frisby life she would have been worried about what Jonathan would do without her or about dying before Jonathan. Since Jonathan did the right thing and didn’t tell Mrs. Frisby about NIMH, then Mrs. Frisby was able to live a worry free life. This is what the author means by doing the right thing over doing the civilized thing. **
 * <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">‍ ****<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 17px;">XII. (12). Read Frisby pages 187-194. **
 * <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">‍ ****<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 17px;">Answer the following fact and thinking questions: **
 * 1) **<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">‍ ****<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 17px;">What does Mrs. Frisby learn ****<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 17px;">when she is captured, inside the birdcage? **
 * <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 17px;">When Mrs. Frisby is trapped in the birdcage in Mr. Fitzgibbon’s house, she learns some bad news. The Fitzgibbon’s family was talking about how a few days ago seven rats were found dead around an electrical motor, and it almost looked as if they died while trying to steal the motor. Could it have been Jenner and his 6 followers? Well the newspaper that week was running short of stories and when they heard about the rats they decided to do and article on it. When this article got more attention than the any one thought it would get, the federal government got involved. They sent over the Public Health service Unit, and their leader in this rat mission was a doctor someone. Mr. Fitzgibbon’s forgot what the doctor’s name was. Could it have been Dr. Schultz in search of his run away rats? Mr. Fitzgibbon’s had mentioned that he had rats on his farm and the government said they would be coming to exterminate them on Saturday morning. Mrs. Frisby had to tell the rats to escape while they can, but how could she when she is trapped in a cage. This is what Mrs. Frisby learns while trapped in the cage. **
 * 1) **<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">‍ ****<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 17px;">Why, ironically, is Mrs. Frisby's capture a good thing? **
 * <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">When Mrs. Frisby is trapped in a cage by Mr. Fitzgibbon’s son, I’m sure she was thinking that it wasn’t a good thing. She was right, indeed it wasn’t a good thing, but ironically in a way it wasn’t all bad. She learned information that could potentially save all of the rats on the farm. This information was that on Saturday morning Public Health Service was coming to exterminate the rats. She also learned that 7 rats, possibly Jenner and his 6 followers, had died while trying to steal a motor. They said the rats must have chewed through the insulated wire and the current went right through all of them killing them all. This was good information to tell the rats, for they would surely be interested. This is why it wasn’t all bad being trapped in a cage in an ironic way. **
 * 1) **<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">‍ ****<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 17px;">Describe two other examples of "entrapment" ****<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 17px;"> [being trapped or caught] ****<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 17px;">that, ironically, led to good things. Explain fully. **
 * <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">Not only was Mrs. Frisby being trapped a good thing in an ironic way, but there were also some other traps that lead to and ironically good things. For example, when Nicodemus, Jenner, and some of the other rats that lived with them, where trapped at the market it wasn’t all bad. They were sent to NIMH, National Institute of Mental Health, where the partly good thing would take place. Most of the rats that were trapped at the market were injected with a serum that would change their lives forever. It would change their strength level and their intelligence level as well. After being injected they were able to read, write, and learn new things a long their journey. It was the injection that caused them to be able to build machinery, build up their civilization, and allow them to live a lot longer than any rat could. Another trap that lead to a good thing was when the old toy tinkers wheel got stuck in a whole. This was good because when the rats discovered the old man dead, they also found his car. His car was probably the thing that helped start their entire civilization because it was loaded with small rat sized tools that were made for working on toys. This allowed the rats to build thing faster because they now had tools to help. These were two traps that lead to ironic good things. **
 * <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">‍ ****<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">XIII. (13). Read Frisby pages 195-205 **
 * <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">‍ ****<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">In the chapter, ****<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">� ****<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Escape, ****<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">� ****<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;"> (especially on pages 196 and 197) Mrs. Frisby spends quite a bit of time thinking about the rats. Re-read those pages. ****<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">Why does Mrs. Frisby want to escape and do? What does this say about her character? What does she say about the rats and their plan? What message does the author want to give us about goodness and bravery and intelligence and civilizations? **
 * <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">On page 196 and 197, Mrs. Frisby is trying to escape so that she could tell the rats what she had just recently learned. Not thinking about her own safety and what will come if she does not escape by day, she tries to escape only to warn the rats. This shows that she has a positive character and a selfless one. Her character is positive because she only thinks about escaping and not what will happen if she doesn’t escape, and it selfless because she isn’t thinking about herself at all but only the rats and their safety. She knows about the rats plan to move and be self-sufficient, and realizes that if they go through with the plan earlier than planned, they could get away before the government comes to exterminate them. The author here is giving us the message that when you have goodness, bravery, intelligence, and civilization, when someone does a huge favor for you, you will go through anything to return it. In Mrs. Frisby’s case, the rats are saving Timothy by moving her house and she will return the favor by helping them avoid possible death by extermination. This is the message the author gives. **
 * <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">‍ ****<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">During the last five pages of the chapter, ****<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">we see the rats actually moving Mrs. Frisby ****<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">� ****<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">s house. What do they do? How do they do it? In what ways do they show specialization of labor? In what ways do they show intelligence? Resourcefulness? Cooperation? According to the author, what does it mean to be truly civilized? **
 * <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">When the rats are moving Mrs. Frisby’s house they are using many different tools, but all in their own certain way. To dig out a hole where the new house location will be they used shovels that were the right size to be handled by rats. To lift the house out of its current hole, the rats used pulleys, which are a series of rope aligned on axis’s that can make it easier to lift heavy objects. And the rats used log shaped tools to roll the house to its new location. The rolling process wasn’t as easy as it sounds though; each rat had a specialized labor or assigned work station to help get the house to its new location. First, some rats pulled on ropes to advance the house forward and 2 others reset the logs after they fell out of place. This is how the rats showed specialized labor. To the author, being truly civilized seems to mean that you have all the tools and knowledge to succeed in life. **
 * <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">‍ ****<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 17px;">XIV. (14) Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH, pages 206-215 **
 * <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">‍ ****<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 17px;">On page 206, how do we know that an important conflict (Mrs. Frisby ****<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS','sans-serif'; font-size: 17px;">� ****<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 17px;">s conflict) has been resolved? **
 * <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 17px;">On page 206, we know that Mrs. Frisby’s conflict is truly solved because Mrs. Frisby’s house was safe and sound from harm’s way of the tractor. Mrs. Frisby the next morning felt very confident and proud of the rats and herself because of the moving of the house. This is how I know that an important problem was solved. **
 * <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">‍ ****<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">At the meeting with the rats that Mrs. Frisby attends, explain exactly how ****<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">� ****<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">and why--the rats intelligently come to the conclusion that they must abandon their ****<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">� ****<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">subrosa ****<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">� ****<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;"> [meaning under the rose and meaning a secret] home? What evidence do they have? ****<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 17px;">How do they intelligently evaluate the evidence? What predictions do they make? **
 * <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">‍ ****<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 17px;">Then, after they decide to abandon their underground lair, what strange plan do they hatch? Why do they come up with this plan? **
 * <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 17px;">The rats come to the conclusion that they must leave their secret home because of the information that Mrs. Frisby gave to the rats about what Mr. Fitzgibbon’s said. When Mrs. Frisby was trapped in the Fitzgibbon’s home, she acquired some very useful information that could potentially save the lives of all the rats. She learned that some people from the Public Health Service, possibly people form NIMH, would be coming to exterminate the rats the following morning. Based on this information and a few other details, the rats come to the intelligent conclusion and plan of how they will leave their home to go to thorn valley without leaving a trace that they were rats that were altered in NIMH. The rats cover up their tracts because they believe that if they find all the tools and electronic things down in the rat’s home that they will know they are the rats from NIMH and come looking for them in their new home. This is what the rats plan to do after finding out about the plans for extermination. **
 * <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">‍ ****<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 17px;">Timothy asks his mother on page 215 why the rats are moving away. She says, ****<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS','sans-serif'; font-size: 17px;">� ****<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 17px;">Because they want to. ****<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS','sans-serif'; font-size: 17px;">� ****<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 17px;"> This is a deep and profound statement. ****<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 17px;">Why do the rats want to move away? What does their wanting to do so reveal about who they are and what their true character is? **
 * <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 17px;">The rats would like to move because they want to start a new, more self-sufficient life. One way they plan to do this is by instead of stealing the water and electricity from the Fitzgibbon’s water and electricity lines, they plan to make and find their own sources of water and electricity. They also plan to plant their own food and crops in order to get food. This says about the rats characters, that they are self-sufficient and do not like stealing from humans. **
 * <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">‍ ****<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">XV. (15) __Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH__, pages 216-233 **
 * <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">‍ ****<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">The author ends the novel with a final ****<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">� ****<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">statement ****<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">� ****<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;"> about intelligence, courage, and kindness. __In your own view, what is the overall, general message that the author would like to leave us with about being civilized, especially as it relates to intelligence, courage, and responsibility? More specifically, in what way are all three ideas related to the idea of being civilized?__ **
 * <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">Civilization is when you have the knowledge and supplies to live self-sufficiently. The rats have all the knowledge, because of being altered at NIMH, courage, because they complete tasks that can only be done with courage, and responsibility by deciding to provide for themselves and each assigning jobs. This is what it means to be civilized and how the rats are civilized. **
 * <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">‍ ****__<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">First __****<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">, in what way does the rats ****<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">� ****<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;"> method of trying to fool their would-be executioners show intelligence? What do the rats do that is clever? **
 * <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">When the rats find out that they are going to be exterminated, they make a plan to fool the exterminators. First, they know that I they are found to be the rats from NIMH they will be searched for, so they get rid of any evidence that showed they were in fact the rats of NIMH. This included getting rid of the lights, electricity line, water line, and any mechanized objects. Second, they chose only 10 rats to stay behind to eliminate the fact that they all ran away and would be searched for. Lastly, when the time came, the 10 rats left behind took a secret way in and out to make it look like their were many rats fleeing the scene although there were only 10. This is how the rats fooled their exterminators in an intelligent way. **
 * <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">‍ ****__<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">Second __****<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">, what brave or heroic action does Mrs. Frisby witness? What past action of her own does it ****<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">� ****<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">mirror, ****<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">� ****<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;"> or in what way has she, too, been heroic? **
 * <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">Mrs. Frisby witnesses the rats moving her home to a safer place so that her son Timothy would not die. In a way the rats saved Timothy’s life, and Mrs. Frisby saved the rats. Mrs. Frisby saved the rats lives because while she was trapped in the Fitzgibbon’s house she learned some very important information. Mrs. Frisby learned that the rats would be getting exterminated the next morning and she soon knew that she had to free herself and warn the rats in order to save their lives. After being freed, with the help of Justin the rat, she immediately told the rats what was to happen the next morning. She saved their lives and was heroic just as she had witnessed the rats move her home and save Timothy which was also heroic. **
 * <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">‍ ****<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">T__hirdly,__ on pages 230 and 231, how does Mrs. Frisby show kindness or consideration or responsibility when she speaks with her children? **
 * <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">On pages 230 and 231, Mrs. Frisby shows consideration by telling her children what they rightfully deserve to know, about their father and the rats. The children, since their father was one of the mice altered at NIMH, would too become ageless and have no idea why. Mrs. Frisby told them the reason was because of NIMH and their father. She also tells them about the rats because they were curious about why they would do such a kind thing as to move their house for someone they barely knew, or so the children thought. The children would have been wondering forever, but Mrs. Frisby showed consideration by telling her children about the rats. This is how Mrs. Frisby showed consideration by telling her children about the rats of NIMH and their relation to the mice’s father. **
 * <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">‍ ****<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">Finally, re-read what you wrote. Then, think and write: __What does the author of Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH want us to know about being civilized? What does it mean to be civilized? What__ __are the character traits of a civilized person? Why is being civilized hard? Is it easier to be__ ****__<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">� __****__<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">uncivilized __****__<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">� __****__<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">? Why? __**
 * <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">The author of Mrs. Frisby and the rats of NIMH, wants us to know that in to be civilized you must have all the knowledge and tools it takes to survive. A civilized person must be intelligent in order to know the facts of life and how to survive. They also must be brave because some point in making life possible includes risks, which by reading the book Mrs. Frisby and the rats of NIMH you figure out. The rats take many great risks, but only because they are necessary for survival. Another character trait it takes to be civilized is to be kind. In order to succeed in some of the challenges life makes, you need to have a friend or someone that can help you by your side. If you are not kind to anyone then it would not come easy to find this person or people. It does take a lot to be civilized and it would be easier to be uncivilized because you would not have to worry about all of the requirements it takes, but life comes easier by being civilized **
 * <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 17px;">XI. (11.) ****<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 17px;">Read Frisby pages 165-186. **
 * <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">‍ ****<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 17px;">Answer the following thinking questions in a short essay of no fewer than 8 sentences, and no more than 20 sentences: **
 * <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">‍ ****<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 17px;">A. What does ****<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 17px;">the allegorical story [story with an intended message] of the vacuum cleaner business ****<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 17px;">on pages ****<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 17px;">169-171 ****<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 17px;">mean about the danger of taking the easy way out ****<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 17px;">, of the danger of ****<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS','sans-serif'; font-size: 17px;">� ****<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 17px;">stealing ****<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS','sans-serif'; font-size: 17px;">� ****<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 17px;">? **
 * <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">‍ ****<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 17px;">B. ****<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 17px;">Why does Jenner disagree ****<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 17px;">with Nicodemus about whether they should move to Thorn Valley? ****<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 17px;">Why does Nicodemus disagree ****<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 17px;"> with Jenner? Later on, in the next chapter, ****<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS','sans-serif'; font-size: 17px;">� ****<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 17px;">Captured, ****<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS','sans-serif'; font-size: 17px;">� ****<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 17px;"> we learn why Jenner left. ****<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">Why did he and his followers leave? **
 * <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">‍ ****<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 17px;">C. On page 179, what do we learn about ****<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 17px;">Jonathan Frisby ****<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 17px;">that ****<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 17px;">shows his kindness ****<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 17px;">towards his wife? ****<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 17px;">What did he not tell Mrs. Frisby? ****<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 17px;"> Why did he not tell her this? **
 * <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">‍ ****<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 17px;">D. All of the above responses have to do with doing the right thing. ****<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 17px;">According to the author, what does it mean to do the right thing? ****<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 17px;"> Refer to your answers above. What does the author want us to see about the ****<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 17px;">connection between being civilized and ****<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS','sans-serif'; font-size: 17px;">� ****<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 17px;">doing the right thing"? **
 * <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 17px;"> By being civilized you do what you can to survive and live a sometimes good life. By sometimes you have to forget about civilization and just do the right thing. For example, Mr. Frisby, doing the civilized thing, would tell Mrs. Frisby about NIMH and how he would live longer than her. If he would have done this then all of Mrs. Frisby life she would have been worried about what Jonathan would do without her or about dying before Jonathan. Since Jonathan did the right thing and didn’t tell Mrs. Frisby about NIMH, then Mrs. Frisby was able to live a worry free life. This is what the author means by doing the right thing over doing the civilized thing . **
 * <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">‍ ****<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 17px;">XII. (12). Read Frisby pages 187-194. **
 * <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">‍ ****<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 17px;">Answer the following fact and thinking questions: **
 * 1) **<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">‍ ****<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 17px;">What does Mrs. Frisby learn ****<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 17px;">when she is captured, inside the birdcage? **
 * 1) **<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">‍ ****<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 17px;">Why, ironically, is Mrs. Frisby's capture a good thing? **
 * 1) **<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">‍ ****<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 17px;">Describe two other examples of "entrapment" ****<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 17px;"> [being trapped or caught] ****<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 17px;">that, ironically, led to good things. Explain fully. **
 * <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">‍ ****<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">XIII. (13). Read Frisby pages 195-205 **
 * <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">‍ ****<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">In the chapter, ****<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">� ****<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Escape, ****<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">� ****<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;"> (especially on pages 196 and 197) Mrs. Frisby spends quite a bit of time thinking about the rats. Re-read those pages. ****<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">Why does Mrs. Frisby want to escape and do? What does this say about her character? What does she say about the rats and their plan? What message does the author want to give us about goodness and bravery and intelligence and civilizations? **
 * <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">‍ ****<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">During the last five pages of the chapter, ****<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">we see the rats actually moving Mrs. Frisby ****<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">� ****<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">s house. What do they do? How do they do it? In what ways do they show specialization of labor? In what ways do they show intelligence? Resourcefulness? Cooperation? According to the author, what does it mean to be truly civilized? **
 * <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">‍ ****<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 17px;">XIV. (14) Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH, pages 206-215 **
 * <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">‍ ****<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 17px;">On page 206, how do we know that an important conflict (Mrs. Frisby ****<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS','sans-serif'; font-size: 17px;">� ****<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 17px;">s conflict) has been resolved? **
 * <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 17px;">On page 206, we know that Mrs. Frisby’s conflict is truly solved because Mrs. Frisby’s house was safe and sound from harm’s way of the tractor. Mrs. Frisby the next morning felt very confident and proud of the rats and herself because of the moving of the house. This is how I know that an important problem was solved. **
 * <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">‍ ****<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">At the meeting with the rats that Mrs. Frisby attends, explain exactly how ****<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">� ****<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">and why--the rats intelligently come to the conclusion that they must abandon their ****<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">� ****<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">subrosa ****<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">� ****<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;"> [meaning under the rose and meaning a secret] home? What evidence do they have? ****<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 17px;">How do they intelligently evaluate the evidence? What predictions do they make? **
 * <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">‍ ****<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 17px;">Then, after they decide to abandon their underground lair, what strange plan do they hatch? Why do they come up with this plan? **
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 * <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">XV. (15) __Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH__, pages 216-233 **
 * <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">‍ ****<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">The author ends the novel with a final ****<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">� ****<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">statement ****<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">� ****<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;"> about intelligence, courage, and kindness. __In your own view, what is the overall, general message that the author would like to leave us with about being civilized, especially as it relates to intelligence, courage, and responsibility? More specifically, in what way are all three ideas related to the idea of being civilized?__ **
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**<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 17px;">On pages 169-171, Mrs. Frisby is told of a story that Nicodemus read. This story has a message behind it. The story’s message is that if you take advantage of something, the outcome maybe bad. In the lady in the stories case, she was taking advantage of the vacuum cleaner and the outcome was that everyone wanted one and they were all using a lot of electricity and the air in the town was polluted causing the ladies to have to clean their floors more often. The lady could have prevented this by sticking to her mop and broom witch cleaned her floor just the same as the vacuum did only it took more effort and work. In the rat’s case, they are taking too many supplies from the people, such as running water, electricity, and food, that the bad outcome sure to happen if they don’t stop will be that they will be found and possibly exterminated or sent back to NIMH. This is what the meaning of the vacuum story is. ** **<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">Jenner and Nicodemus have a fight in the chapter Thorn Valley and Captured. This fight is brought on by the following problem. Nicodemus is worried that if the rats keep living where they live, and taking from the humans all the time, that the rats would soon be found and they would no longer be able to live a free life. Jenner disagrees with this statement and he believes that no harm will be done by living where they are and stealing everything they use to survive from the humans. Nicodemus disagrees with this statement because of his worries about being caught. Jenner, one day, stormed out of a meeting because of all the talk about moving to Thorn Valley and starting a new, self-sufficient life. When all the rats decided that they were going to act on their plan, Jenner and a group of followers left the civilization to start their own. ** **<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">On page 179, Mrs. Frisby finds that Mr. Frisby was not telling her about NIMH not because he didn’t want to, but to save Mrs. Frisby from the truth. Because Mr. Frisby was injected with steroids at NIMH, he was going to live a lot longer than any mouse would. Because of this, he did not tell Mrs. Frisby about NIMH, because Mrs. Frisby would soon grow old and die while MR. Frisby would not. This is how Mr. Frisby showed kindness to Mrs. Frisby by not telling her about NIMH. ** **<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 17px;">When Mrs. Frisby is trapped in the birdcage in Mr. Fitzgibbon’s house, she learns some bad news. The Fitzgibbon’s family was talking about how a few days ago seven rats were found dead around an electrical motor, and it almost looked as if they died while trying to steal the motor. Could it have been Jenner and his 6 followers? Well the newspaper that week was running short of stories and when they heard about the rats they decided to do and article on it. When this article got more attention than the any one thought it would get, the federal government got involved. They sent over the Public Health service Unit, and their leader in this rat mission was a doctor someone. Mr. Fitzgibbon’s forgot what the doctor’s name was. Could it have been Dr. Schultz in search of his run away rats? Mr. Fitzgibbon’s had mentioned that he had rats on his farm and the government said they would be coming to exterminate them on Saturday morning. Mrs. Frisby had to tell the rats to escape while they can, but how could she when she is trapped in a cage. This is what Mrs. Frisby learns while trapped in the cage. ** **<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">When Mrs. Frisby is trapped in a cage by Mr. Fitzgibbon’s son, I’m sure she was thinking that it wasn’t a good thing. She was right, indeed it wasn’t a good thing, but ironically in a way it wasn’t all bad. She learned information that could potentially save all of the rats on the farm. This information was that on Saturday morning Public Health Service was coming to exterminate the rats. She also learned that 7 rats, possibly Jenner and his 6 followers, had died while trying to steal a motor. They said the rats must have chewed through the insulated wire and the current went right through all of them killing them all. This was good information to tell the rats, for they would surely be interested. This is why it wasn’t all bad being trapped in a cage in an ironic way. ** **<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">Not only was Mrs. Frisby being trapped a good thing in an ironic way, but there were also some other traps that lead to and ironically good things. For example, when Nicodemus, Jenner, and some of the other rats that lived with them, where trapped at the market it wasn’t all bad. They were sent to NIMH, National Institute of Mental Health, where the partly good thing would take place. Most of the rats that were trapped at the market were injected with a serum that would change their lives forever. It would change their strength level and their intelligence level as well. After being injected they were able to read, write, and learn new things a long their journey. It was the injection that caused them to be able to build machinery, build up their civilization, and allow them to live a lot longer than any rat could. Another trap that lead to a good thing was when the old toy tinkers wheel got stuck in a whole. This was good because when the rats discovered the old man dead, they also found his car. His car was probably the thing that helped start their entire civilization because it was loaded with small rat sized tools that were made for working on toys. This allowed the rats to build thing faster because they now had tools to help. These were two traps that lead to ironic good things. ** **<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">On page 196 and 197, Mrs. Frisby is trying to escape so that she could tell the rats what she had just recently learned. Not thinking about her own safety and what will come if she does not escape by day, she tries to escape only to warn the rats. This shows that she has a positive character and a selfless one. Her character is positive because she only thinks about escaping and not what will happen if she doesn’t escape, and it selfless because she isn’t thinking about herself at all but only the rats and their safety. She knows about the rats plan to move and be self-sufficient, and realizes that if they go through with the plan earlier than planned, they could get away before the government comes to exterminate them. The author here is giving us the message that when you have goodness, bravery, intelligence, and civilization, when someone does a huge favor for you, you will go through anything to return it. In Mrs. Frisby’s case, the rats are saving Timothy by moving her house and she will return the favor by helping them avoid possible death by extermination. This is the message the author gives. ** **<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">When the rats are moving Mrs. Frisby’s house they are using many different tools, but all in their own certain way. To dig out a hole where the new house location will be they used shovels that were the right size to be handled by rats. To lift the house out of its current hole, the rats used pulleys, which are a series of rope aligned on axis’s that can make it easier to lift heavy objects. And the rats used log shaped tools to roll the house to its new location. The rolling process wasn’t as easy as it sounds though; each rat had a specialized labor or assigned work station to help get the house to its new location. First, some rats pulled on ropes to advance the house forward and 2 others reset the logs after they fell out of place. This is how the rats showed specialized labor. To the author, being truly civilized seems to mean that you have all the tools and knowledge to succeed in life. ** **<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 17px;">The rats come to the conclusion that they must leave their secret home because of the information that Mrs. Frisby gave to the rats about what Mr. Fitzgibbon’s said. When Mrs. Frisby was trapped in the Fitzgibbon’s home, she acquired some very useful information that could potentially save the lives of all the rats. She learned that some people from the Public Health Service, possibly people form NIMH, would be coming to exterminate the rats the following morning. Based on this information and a few other details, the rats come to the intelligent conclusion and plan of how they will leave their home to go to thorn valley without leaving a trace that they were rats that were altered in NIMH. The rats cover up their tracts because they believe that if they find all the tools and electronic things down in the rat’s home that they will know they are the rats from NIMH and come looking for them in their new home. This is what the rats plan to do after finding out about the plans for extermination. ** **<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 17px;">The rats would like to move because they want to start a new, more self-sufficient life. One way they plan to do this is by instead of stealing the water and electricity from the Fitzgibbon’s water and electricity lines, they plan to make and find their own sources of water and electricity. They also plan to plant their own food and crops in order to get food. This says about the rats characters, that they are self-sufficient and do not like stealing from humans. ** **<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">Civilization is when you have the knowledge and supplies to live self-sufficiently. The rats have all the knowledge, because of being altered at NIMH, courage, because they complete tasks that can only be done with courage, and responsibility by deciding to provide for themselves and each assigning jobs. This is what it means to be civilized and how the rats are civilized. ** **<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">When the rats find out that they are going to be exterminated, they make a plan to fool the exterminators. First, they know that I they are found to be the rats from NIMH they will be searched for, so they get rid of any evidence that showed they were in fact the rats of NIMH. This included getting rid of the lights, electricity line, water line, and any mechanized objects. Second, they chose only 10 rats to stay behind to eliminate the fact that they all ran away and would be searched for. Lastly, when the time came, the 10 rats left behind took a secret way in and out to make it look like their were many rats fleeing the scene although there were only 10. This is how the rats fooled their exterminators in an intelligent way. ** **<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">Mrs. Frisby witnesses the rats moving her home to a safer place so that her son Timothy would not die. In a way the rats saved Timothy’s life, and Mrs. Frisby saved the rats. Mrs. Frisby saved the rats lives because while she was trapped in the Fitzgibbon’s house she learned some very important information. Mrs. Frisby learned that the rats would be getting exterminated the next morning and she soon knew that she had to free herself and warn the rats in order to save their lives. After being freed, with the help of Justin the rat, she immediately told the rats what was to happen the next morning. She saved their lives and was heroic just as she had witnessed the rats move her home and save Timothy which was also heroic. ** **<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">On pages 230 and 231, Mrs. Frisby shows consideration by telling her children what they rightfully deserve to know, about their father and the rats. The children, since their father was one of the mice altered at NIMH, would too become ageless and have no idea why. Mrs. Frisby told them the reason was because of NIMH and their father. She also tells them about the rats because they were curious about why they would do such a kind thing as to move their house for someone they barely knew, or so the children thought. The children would have been wondering forever, but Mrs. Frisby showed consideration by telling her children about the rats. This is how Mrs. Frisby showed consideration by telling her children about the rats of NIMH and their relation to the mice’s father. ** **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">The author of Mrs. Frisby and the rats of NIMH, wants us to know that in to be civilized you must have all the knowledge and tools it takes to survive. A civilized person must be intelligent in order to know the facts of life and how to survive. They also must be brave because some point in making life possible includes risks, which by reading the book Mrs. Frisby and the rats of NIMH you figure out. The rats take many great risks, but only because they are necessary for survival. Another character trait it takes to be civilized is to be kind. In order to succeed in some of the challenges life makes, you need to have a friend or someone that can help you by your side. If you are not kind to anyone then it would not come easy to find this person or people. It does take a lot to be civilized and it would be easier to be uncivilized because you would not have to worry about all of the requirements it takes, but life comes easier by being civilized. **
 * <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 17px;">XI. (11.) ****<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 17px;">Read Frisby pages 165-186. **
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 * <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 17px;">On pages 169-171, Mrs. Frisby is told of a story that Nicodemus read. This story has a message behind it. The story’s message is that if you take advantage of something, the outcome maybe bad. In the lady in the stories case, she was taking advantage of the vacuum cleaner and the outcome was that everyone wanted one and they were all using a lot of electricity and the air in the town was polluted causing the ladies to have to clean their floors more often. The lady could have prevented this by sticking to her mop and broom witch cleaned her floor just the same as the vacuum did only it took more effort and work. In the rat’s case, they are taking too many supplies from the people, such as running water, electricity, and food, that the bad outcome sure to happen if they don’t stop will be that they will be found and possibly exterminated or sent back to NIMH. This is what the meaning of the vacuum story is. **
 * <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">‍ ****<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 17px;">B. ****<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 17px;">Why does Jenner disagree ****<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 17px;">with Nicodemus about whether they should move to Thorn Valley? ****<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 17px;">Why does Nicodemus disagree ****<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 17px;"> with Jenner? Later on, in the next chapter, ****<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS','sans-serif'; font-size: 17px;">� ****<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 17px;">Captured, ****<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS','sans-serif'; font-size: 17px;">� ****<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 17px;"> we learn why Jenner left. ****<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">Why did he and his followers leave? **
 * <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">Jenner and Nicodemus have a fight in the chapter Thorn Valley and Captured. This fight is brought on by the following problem. Nicodemus is worried that if the rats keep living where they live, and taking from the humans all the time, that the rats would soon be found and they would no longer be able to live a free life. Jenner disagrees with this statement and he believes that no harm will be done by living where they are and stealing everything they use to survive from the humans. Nicodemus disagrees with this statement because of his worries about being caught. Jenner, one day, stormed out of a meeting because of all the talk about moving to Thorn Valley and starting a new, self-sufficient life. When all the rats decided that they were going to act on their plan, Jenner and a group of followers left the civilization to start their own. **
 * <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">‍ ****<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 17px;">C. On page 179, what do we learn about ****<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 17px;">Jonathan Frisby ****<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 17px;">that ****<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 17px;">shows his kindness ****<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 17px;">towards his wife? ****<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 17px;">What did he not tell Mrs. Frisby? ****<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 17px;"> Why did he not tell her this? **
 * <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">On page 179, Mrs. Frisby finds that Mr. Frisby was not telling her about NIMH not because he didn’t want to, but to save Mrs. Frisby from the truth. Because Mr. Frisby was injected with steroids at NIMH, he was going to live a lot longer than any mouse would. Because of this, he did not tell Mrs. Frisby about NIMH, because Mrs. Frisby would soon grow old and die while MR. Frisby would not. This is how Mr. Frisby showed kindness to Mrs. Frisby by not telling her about NIMH. **
 * <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">‍ ****<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 17px;">D. All of the above responses have to do with doing the right thing. ****<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 17px;">According to the author, what does it mean to do the right thing? ****<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 17px;"> Refer to your answers above. What does the author want us to see about the ****<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 17px;">connection between being civilized and ****<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS','sans-serif'; font-size: 17px;">� ****<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 17px;">doing the right thing"? **
 * <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 17px;">By being civilized you do what you can to survive and live a sometimes good life. By sometimes you have to forget about civilization and just do the right thing. For example, Mr. Frisby, doing the civilized thing, would tell Mrs. Frisby about NIMH and how he would live longer than her. If he would have done this then all of Mrs. Frisby life she would have been worried about what Jonathan would do without her or about dying before Jonathan. Since Jonathan did the right thing and didn’t tell Mrs. Frisby about NIMH, then Mrs. Frisby was able to live a worry free life. This is what the author means by doing the right thing over doing the civilized thing. **
 * <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">‍ ****<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 17px;">XII. (12). Read Frisby pages 187-194. **
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 * 1) **<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">‍ ****<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 17px;">What does Mrs. Frisby learn ****<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 17px;">when she is captured, inside the birdcage? **
 * <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 17px;">When Mrs. Frisby is trapped in the birdcage in Mr. Fitzgibbon’s house, she learns some bad news. The Fitzgibbon’s family was talking about how a few days ago seven rats were found dead around an electrical motor, and it almost looked as if they died while trying to steal the motor. Could it have been Jenner and his 6 followers? Well the newspaper that week was running short of stories and when they heard about the rats they decided to do and article on it. When this article got more attention than the any one thought it would get, the federal government got involved. They sent over the Public Health service Unit, and their leader in this rat mission was a doctor someone. Mr. Fitzgibbon’s forgot what the doctor’s name was. Could it have been Dr. Schultz in search of his run away rats? Mr. Fitzgibbon’s had mentioned that he had rats on his farm and the government said they would be coming to exterminate them on Saturday morning. Mrs. Frisby had to tell the rats to escape while they can, but how could she when she is trapped in a cage. This is what Mrs. Frisby learns while trapped in the cage. **
 * 1) **<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">‍ ****<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 17px;">Why, ironically, is Mrs. Frisby's capture a good thing? **
 * <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">When Mrs. Frisby is trapped in a cage by Mr. Fitzgibbon’s son, I’m sure she was thinking that it wasn’t a good thing. She was right, indeed it wasn’t a good thing, but ironically in a way it wasn’t all bad. She learned information that could potentially save all of the rats on the farm. This information was that on Saturday morning Public Health Service was coming to exterminate the rats. She also learned that 7 rats, possibly Jenner and his 6 followers, had died while trying to steal a motor. They said the rats must have chewed through the insulated wire and the current went right through all of them killing them all. This was good information to tell the rats, for they would surely be interested. This is why it wasn’t all bad being trapped in a cage in an ironic way. **
 * 1) **<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">‍ ****<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 17px;">Describe two other examples of "entrapment" ****<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 17px;"> [being trapped or caught] ****<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 17px;">that, ironically, led to good things. Explain fully. **
 * <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">Not only was Mrs. Frisby being trapped a good thing in an ironic way, but there were also some other traps that lead to and ironically good things. For example, when Nicodemus, Jenner, and some of the other rats that lived with them, where trapped at the market it wasn’t all bad. They were sent to NIMH, National Institute of Mental Health, where the partly good thing would take place. Most of the rats that were trapped at the market were injected with a serum that would change their lives forever. It would change their strength level and their intelligence level as well. After being injected they were able to read, write, and learn new things a long their journey. It was the injection that caused them to be able to build machinery, build up their civilization, and allow them to live a lot longer than any rat could. Another trap that lead to a good thing was when the old toy tinkers wheel got stuck in a whole. This was good because when the rats discovered the old man dead, they also found his car. His car was probably the thing that helped start their entire civilization because it was loaded with small rat sized tools that were made for working on toys. This allowed the rats to build thing faster because they now had tools to help. These were two traps that lead to ironic good things. **
 * <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">‍ ****<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">XIII. (13). Read Frisby pages 195-205 **
 * <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">‍ ****<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">In the chapter, ****<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">� ****<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Escape, ****<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">� ****<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;"> (especially on pages 196 and 197) Mrs. Frisby spends quite a bit of time thinking about the rats. Re-read those pages. ****<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">Why does Mrs. Frisby want to escape and do? What does this say about her character? What does she say about the rats and their plan? What message does the author want to give us about goodness and bravery and intelligence and civilizations? **
 * <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">On page 196 and 197, Mrs. Frisby is trying to escape so that she could tell the rats what she had just recently learned. Not thinking about her own safety and what will come if she does not escape by day, she tries to escape only to warn the rats. This shows that she has a positive character and a selfless one. Her character is positive because she only thinks about escaping and not what will happen if she doesn’t escape, and it selfless because she isn’t thinking about herself at all but only the rats and their safety. She knows about the rats plan to move and be self-sufficient, and realizes that if they go through with the plan earlier than planned, they could get away before the government comes to exterminate them. The author here is giving us the message that when you have goodness, bravery, intelligence, and civilization, when someone does a huge favor for you, you will go through anything to return it. In Mrs. Frisby’s case, the rats are saving Timothy by moving her house and she will return the favor by helping them avoid possible death by extermination. This is the message the author gives. **
 * <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">‍ ****<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">During the last five pages of the chapter, ****<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">we see the rats actually moving Mrs. Frisby ****<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">� ****<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">s house. What do they do? How do they do it? In what ways do they show specialization of labor? In what ways do they show intelligence? Resourcefulness? Cooperation? According to the author, what does it mean to be truly civilized? **
 * <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">When the rats are moving Mrs. Frisby’s house they are using many different tools, but all in their own certain way. To dig out a hole where the new house location will be they used shovels that were the right size to be handled by rats. To lift the house out of its current hole, the rats used pulleys, which are a series of rope aligned on axis’s that can make it easier to lift heavy objects. And the rats used log shaped tools to roll the house to its new location. The rolling process wasn’t as easy as it sounds though; each rat had a specialized labor or assigned work station to help get the house to its new location. First, some rats pulled on ropes to advance the house forward and 2 others reset the logs after they fell out of place. This is how the rats showed specialized labor. To the author, being truly civilized seems to mean that you have all the tools and knowledge to succeed in life. **
 * <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">‍ ****<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 17px;">XIV. (14) Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH, pages 206-215 **
 * <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">‍ ****<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 17px;">On page 206, how do we know that an important conflict (Mrs. Frisby ****<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS','sans-serif'; font-size: 17px;">� ****<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 17px;">s conflict) has been resolved? **
 * <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 17px;">On page 206, we know that Mrs. Frisby’s conflict is truly solved because Mrs. Frisby’s house was safe and sound from harm’s way of the tractor. Mrs. Frisby the next morning felt very confident and proud of the rats and herself because of the moving of the house. This is how I know that an important problem was solved. **
 * <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">‍ ****<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">At the meeting with the rats that Mrs. Frisby attends, explain exactly how ****<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">� ****<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">and why--the rats intelligently come to the conclusion that they must abandon their ****<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">� ****<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">subrosa ****<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">� ****<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;"> [meaning under the rose and meaning a secret] home? What evidence do they have? ****<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 17px;">How do they intelligently evaluate the evidence? What predictions do they make? **
 * <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">‍ ****<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 17px;">Then, after they decide to abandon their underground lair, what strange plan do they hatch? Why do they come up with this plan? **
 * <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 17px;">The rats come to the conclusion that they must leave their secret home because of the information that Mrs. Frisby gave to the rats about what Mr. Fitzgibbon’s said. When Mrs. Frisby was trapped in the Fitzgibbon’s home, she acquired some very useful information that could potentially save the lives of all the rats. She learned that some people from the Public Health Service, possibly people form NIMH, would be coming to exterminate the rats the following morning. Based on this information and a few other details, the rats come to the intelligent conclusion and plan of how they will leave their home to go to thorn valley without leaving a trace that they were rats that were altered in NIMH. The rats cover up their tracts because they believe that if they find all the tools and electronic things down in the rat’s home that they will know they are the rats from NIMH and come looking for them in their new home. This is what the rats plan to do after finding out about the plans for extermination. **
 * <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">‍ ****<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 17px;">Timothy asks his mother on page 215 why the rats are moving away. She says, ****<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS','sans-serif'; font-size: 17px;">� ****<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 17px;">Because they want to. ****<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS','sans-serif'; font-size: 17px;">� ****<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 17px;"> This is a deep and profound statement. ****<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 17px;">Why do the rats want to move away? What does their wanting to do so reveal about who they are and what their true character is? **
 * <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 17px;">The rats would like to move because they want to start a new, more self-sufficient life. One way they plan to do this is by instead of stealing the water and electricity from the Fitzgibbon’s water and electricity lines, they plan to make and find their own sources of water and electricity. They also plan to plant their own food and crops in order to get food. This says about the rats characters, that they are self-sufficient and do not like stealing from humans. **
 * <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">‍ ****<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">XV. (15) __Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH__, pages 216-233 **
 * <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">‍ ****<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">The author ends the novel with a final ****<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">� ****<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">statement ****<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">� ****<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;"> about intelligence, courage, and kindness. __In your own view, what is the overall, general message that the author would like to leave us with about being civilized, especially as it relates to intelligence, courage, and responsibility? More specifically, in what way are all three ideas related to the idea of being civilized?__ **
 * <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">Civilization is when you have the knowledge and supplies to live self-sufficiently. The rats have all the knowledge, because of being altered at NIMH, courage, because they complete tasks that can only be done with courage, and responsibility by deciding to provide for themselves and each assigning jobs. This is what it means to be civilized and how the rats are civilized. **
 * <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">‍ ****__<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">First __****<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">, in what way does the rats ****<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">� ****<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;"> method of trying to fool their would-be executioners show intelligence? What do the rats do that is clever? **
 * <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">When the rats find out that they are going to be exterminated, they make a plan to fool the exterminators. First, they know that I they are found to be the rats from NIMH they will be searched for, so they get rid of any evidence that showed they were in fact the rats of NIMH. This included getting rid of the lights, electricity line, water line, and any mechanized objects. Second, they chose only 10 rats to stay behind to eliminate the fact that they all ran away and would be searched for. Lastly, when the time came, the 10 rats left behind took a secret way in and out to make it look like their were many rats fleeing the scene although there were only 10. This is how the rats fooled their exterminators in an intelligent way. **
 * <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">‍ ****__<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">Second __****<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">, what brave or heroic action does Mrs. Frisby witness? What past action of her own does it ****<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">� ****<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">mirror, ****<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">� ****<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;"> or in what way has she, too, been heroic? **
 * <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">Mrs. Frisby witnesses the rats moving her home to a safer place so that her son Timothy would not die. In a way the rats saved Timothy’s life, and Mrs. Frisby saved the rats. Mrs. Frisby saved the rats lives because while she was trapped in the Fitzgibbon’s house she learned some very important information. Mrs. Frisby learned that the rats would be getting exterminated the next morning and she soon knew that she had to free herself and warn the rats in order to save their lives. After being freed, with the help of Justin the rat, she immediately told the rats what was to happen the next morning. She saved their lives and was heroic just as she had witnessed the rats move her home and save Timothy which was also heroic. **
 * <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">‍ ****<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">T__hirdly,__ on pages 230 and 231, how does Mrs. Frisby show kindness or consideration or responsibility when she speaks with her children? **
 * <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">On pages 230 and 231, Mrs. Frisby shows consideration by telling her children what they rightfully deserve to know, about their father and the rats. The children, since their father was one of the mice altered at NIMH, would too become ageless and have no idea why. Mrs. Frisby told them the reason was because of NIMH and their father. She also tells them about the rats because they were curious about why they would do such a kind thing as to move their house for someone they barely knew, or so the children thought. The children would have been wondering forever, but Mrs. Frisby showed consideration by telling her children about the rats. This is how Mrs. Frisby showed consideration by telling her children about the rats of NIMH and their relation to the mice’s father. **
 * <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">‍ ****<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">Finally, re-read what you wrote. Then, think and write: __What does the author of Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH want us to know about being civilized? What does it mean to be civilized? What__ __are the character traits of a civilized person? Why is being civilized hard? Is it easier to be__ ****__<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">� __****__<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">uncivilized __****__<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">� __****__<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">? Why? __**
 * <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">The author of Mrs. Frisby and the rats of NIMH, wants us to know that in to be civilized you must have all the knowledge and tools it takes to survive. A civilized person must be intelligent in order to know the facts of life and how to survive. They also must be brave because some point in making life possible includes risks, which by reading the book Mrs. Frisby and the rats of NIMH you figure out. The rats take many great risks, but only because they are necessary for survival. Another character trait it takes to be civilized is to be kind. In order to succeed in some of the challenges life makes, you need to have a friend or someone that can help you by your side. If you are not kind to anyone then it would not come easy to find this person or people. It does take a lot to be civilized and it would be easier to be uncivilized because you would not have to worry about all of the requirements it takes, but life comes easier by being civilized **
 * <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 17px;">XI. (11.) ****<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 17px;">Read Frisby pages 165-186. **
 * <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">‍ ****<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 17px;">Answer the following thinking questions in a short essay of no fewer than 8 sentences, and no more than 20 sentences: **
 * <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">‍ ****<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 17px;">A. What does ****<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 17px;">the allegorical story [story with an intended message] of the vacuum cleaner business ****<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 17px;">on pages ****<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 17px;">169-171 ****<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 17px;">mean about the danger of taking the easy way out ****<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 17px;">, of the danger of ****<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS','sans-serif'; font-size: 17px;">� ****<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 17px;">stealing ****<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS','sans-serif'; font-size: 17px;">� ****<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 17px;">? **
 * <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">‍ ****<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 17px;">B. ****<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 17px;">Why does Jenner disagree ****<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 17px;">with Nicodemus about whether they should move to Thorn Valley? ****<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 17px;">Why does Nicodemus disagree ****<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 17px;"> with Jenner? Later on, in the next chapter, ****<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS','sans-serif'; font-size: 17px;">� ****<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 17px;">Captured, ****<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS','sans-serif'; font-size: 17px;">� ****<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 17px;"> we learn why Jenner left. ****<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">Why did he and his followers leave? **
 * <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">‍ ****<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 17px;">C. On page 179, what do we learn about ****<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 17px;">Jonathan Frisby ****<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 17px;">that ****<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 17px;">shows his kindness ****<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 17px;">towards his wife? ****<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 17px;">What did he not tell Mrs. Frisby? ****<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 17px;"> Why did he not tell her this? **
 * <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">‍ ****<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 17px;">D. All of the above responses have to do with doing the right thing. ****<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 17px;">According to the author, what does it mean to do the right thing? ****<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 17px;"> Refer to your answers above. What does the author want us to see about the ****<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 17px;">connection between being civilized and ****<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS','sans-serif'; font-size: 17px;">� ****<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 17px;">doing the right thing"? **
 * <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 17px;"> By being civilized you do what you can to survive and live a sometimes good life. By sometimes you have to forget about civilization and just do the right thing. For example, Mr. Frisby, doing the civilized thing, would tell Mrs. Frisby about NIMH and how he would live longer than her. If he would have done this then all of Mrs. Frisby life she would have been worried about what Jonathan would do without her or about dying before Jonathan. Since Jonathan did the right thing and didn’t tell Mrs. Frisby about NIMH, then Mrs. Frisby was able to live a worry free life. This is what the author means by doing the right thing over doing the civilized thing . **
 * <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">‍ ****<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 17px;">XII. (12). Read Frisby pages 187-194. **
 * <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">‍ ****<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 17px;">Answer the following fact and thinking questions: **
 * 1) **<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">‍ ****<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 17px;">What does Mrs. Frisby learn ****<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 17px;">when she is captured, inside the birdcage? **
 * 1) **<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">‍ ****<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 17px;">Why, ironically, is Mrs. Frisby's capture a good thing? **
 * 1) **<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">‍ ****<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 17px;">Describe two other examples of "entrapment" ****<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 17px;"> [being trapped or caught] ****<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 17px;">that, ironically, led to good things. Explain fully. **
 * <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">‍ ****<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">XIII. (13). Read Frisby pages 195-205 **
 * <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">‍ ****<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">In the chapter, ****<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">� ****<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Escape, ****<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">� ****<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;"> (especially on pages 196 and 197) Mrs. Frisby spends quite a bit of time thinking about the rats. Re-read those pages. ****<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">Why does Mrs. Frisby want to escape and do? What does this say about her character? What does she say about the rats and their plan? What message does the author want to give us about goodness and bravery and intelligence and civilizations? **
 * <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">‍ ****<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">During the last five pages of the chapter, ****<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">we see the rats actually moving Mrs. Frisby ****<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">� ****<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">s house. What do they do? How do they do it? In what ways do they show specialization of labor? In what ways do they show intelligence? Resourcefulness? Cooperation? According to the author, what does it mean to be truly civilized? **
 * <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">‍ ****<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 17px;">XIV. (14) Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH, pages 206-215 **
 * <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">‍ ****<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 17px;">On page 206, how do we know that an important conflict (Mrs. Frisby ****<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS','sans-serif'; font-size: 17px;">� ****<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 17px;">s conflict) has been resolved? **
 * <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 17px;">On page 206, we know that Mrs. Frisby’s conflict is truly solved because Mrs. Frisby’s house was safe and sound from harm’s way of the tractor. Mrs. Frisby the next morning felt very confident and proud of the rats and herself because of the moving of the house. This is how I know that an important problem was solved. **
 * <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">‍ ****<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">At the meeting with the rats that Mrs. Frisby attends, explain exactly how ****<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">� ****<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">and why--the rats intelligently come to the conclusion that they must abandon their ****<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">� ****<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">subrosa ****<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">� ****<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;"> [meaning under the rose and meaning a secret] home? What evidence do they have? ****<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 17px;">How do they intelligently evaluate the evidence? What predictions do they make? **
 * <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">‍ ****<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 17px;">Then, after they decide to abandon their underground lair, what strange plan do they hatch? Why do they come up with this plan? **
 * <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">‍ ****<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 17px;">Timothy asks his mother on page 215 why the rats are moving away. She says, ****<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS','sans-serif'; font-size: 17px;">� ****<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 17px;">Because they want to. ****<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS','sans-serif'; font-size: 17px;">� ****<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 17px;"> This is a deep and profound statement. ****<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 17px;">Why do the rats want to move away? What does their wanting to do so reveal about who they are and what their true character is? **
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 * <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">XV. (15) __Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH__, pages 216-233 **
 * <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">‍ ****<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">The author ends the novel with a final ****<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">� ****<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">statement ****<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">� ****<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;"> about intelligence, courage, and kindness. __In your own view, what is the overall, general message that the author would like to leave us with about being civilized, especially as it relates to intelligence, courage, and responsibility? More specifically, in what way are all three ideas related to the idea of being civilized?__ **
 * <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">‍ ****__<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">First __****<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">, in what way does the rats ****<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">� ****<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;"> method of trying to fool their would-be executioners show intelligence? What do the rats do that is clever? **
 * <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">‍ ****__<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">Second __****<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">, what brave or heroic action does Mrs. Frisby witness? What past action of her own does it ****<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">� ****<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">mirror, ****<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;">� ****<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16px;"> or in what way has she, too, been heroic? **
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