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=Extender: Taylor Bauman= __The Diamond Necklace__ can re related to many modern day things. For my first refrence, I related __The Diamond Necklace__ to __Monte Carlo__, the movie with Selena Gomez. These two stories are related because in __Monte Carlo__, Selena's character is mistaken as roylalty and expected to wear a diamond necklace, which she loses. __The Diamond Necklace__ also has a character, Madame Liosel, who wants to be rich, almost like royalty. So, she borrows a diamond necklace, but she loses it as well. So both stories have a character who wants to be richer, and loses a diamond necklace. media type="youtube" key="Rxm_bVVhbr8" width="425" height="350" media type="youtube" key="yqzT_ZlFq6c" width="425" height="350"

__The Diamond Necklace__ is the exact opposite of the classic story of Cinderella. Unlike Cinderella, where Cinderella works hard before a ball, and then gets her reward after the ball. Madame Liosel doesn't work hard before the ball even though she is not rich. But after the ball she works very hard, which is the opposite of Cinderella. media type="youtube" key="VbqSEbALYno" width="425" height="350"

__The Diamond Necklace__ also compares to the song, __Buzzin__ by Mann. The song Buzzin, has lyrics which say "I feel like money." And Madame Liosel "feels like money" on the night of the ball. She badly wants to have more money, and she also wants to look and feel richer, which this song describes. media type="youtube" key="jRwaDGq527s" width="425" height="350"

__The Diamond Necklace__ also compares to a common procedure used today by millions of people. Millions of people use plastic surgery to make themselves "perfect" or for medical purposes. Madame Liosel feels the pressures by society to be a certain image, which is a rich woman, with lots of expensive jewelry and clothes. This same pressure is on many women today and they turn to plastic surgery to make themselves fit the image society tells us to look like.

=Vocabulary Builder: Scarlet Foley= 1. Dowry- the money, goods, or estate that a wife brigs to her husband in marriage. I chose dowry because it deacribes Mathilde, supposedly a beautiful charming women, but she was born into a family of clerks. So when she gets married she won't have a lot of money to offer. It describes her social class and her livelihood. 2. Ingenuity- the quality of being cleverly inventive or resourceful. The way Guy De Maupassant used it was to describe the way women had to be back in the time period he was writing about to stand out and be, "the very greatest ladies". 3. Supple- characterized by ease, responsiveness, and adapability in mental action. Supple was used to describe what the minds of the women back then had to be to stand out and again be the, " very greatest ladies". 4. Hierarchy- any system of person or things ranked one above another. Again, this word helped describe the expectation of the women who wanted to be outstanding or stand out. They were ranked by social class and they way they acted. 5. Ceaselessly- endless: with unflagging resolve. In the story it says that Mathilde suffered ceaselessly feeling like she was born into a live that should be walt and have plenty of luxuries. But instead she is suffering for poverty and distress. 6. Antechambers- a small room leading to a bigger one. Mathilde imagines owning a beautiful elegant house with many priceless items. She wishes to own a home with an antechamber and beautiful exsesories. 7. Ecstasy- an overwhelming feeling of great happiness or joyful excitement. It describe how beautiful and stunning Mathilde looked in her elegant dress and "priceless" necklace. She is not uses to looking all done up, so when she sees herself it almost takes her breath away. 8. Improverished- to make a person or area poor. This word describes her life after her hard working years and how she became even more poor and her household became a wreck and disarray. She had worked so hard to recover the money that she had spent to recover the money from the lost necklace. 9. Ingenuous- a person or action innocent and unsuspecting. It describes the moment right before Mathilde finds out the necklace that was originally given to her was worth much less then what she thought it was and worked hard to repay herself for. 10. Paste- a thick, soft, moist substance, mixed with other liquids. Mathilde finds out the necklace was paste meaning that it was a fake and not really make form real diamonds. It was far less expensive then what she originally thought it was worth.

=Character Tracker: Alli Ambrosini=

1. Grateful - I think that Mathilde's husband is grateful, because throughout the whole story he is always happy with what they have, and doesn't really mind being poor. 2. Selfish - In the beginning of the story, Mathilde seems very selfish. Even though she could have been thankful just for being invited to a ball, she made a huge deal out of looking perfect, though she couldn't afford it. Obviously, this led Mathilde and her husband to have many problems later! 3. Trusting - Mme. Forestier is very trusting and generous for letting Mathilde borrow any of her jewelry with no questions asked, even if she did end up giving her a fake diamond necklace without letting her know. 4. Charismatic - Mathilde must have been very charismatic, as she really had a way of convincing her husband to do anything. She also became very popular at the ball, where many members of nobility didn't even notice that she was actually extremely poor. 5. Irresponsible - Mathilde must have been pretty irresponsible to have lost what she thought was a precious diamond necklace that wasn't hers to begin with. By doing so, she caused herself and her husband so much trouble for such a tiny thing, as they had to work 10 years just to pay off what she had lost, and it wasn't even worth it in the end.

=Image Finder: Miguel Martinez= //__http://www.sodahead.com/entertainment/who-shoul...n-2647655/__//
 * 1.** I chose this picture because at the beginning of the story, it says that Madame Mathilde was a really pretty girl and charming young creatures who are born by fate.


 * 2.** I chose this because in story, when Madame Mathilde sits down to eat dinner with her husband, she dreamed about having a lot of fancy silverware and oriental tapestry going around the room in which they are eating in.

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 * 3.**In the story, Madame Mathilde has her dress for the ball, but she doesn't have any jewelry to wear with the dress. So she asks her friend Madame Forestier if she will let her borrow any of her jewelry. Then Mathilde sees a Diamond Necklace and she falls in love with it.

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//**4.**// In the story, Madame Mathilde lost her friends diamond necklace. So now she has to work for ten straight years so she can pay back for the necklace. And she had to do everything to pay it back. __//http://weaselzippers.us/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/janitor.jpg//__

//**5.**// For the last image, I chose a fake diamond necklace. The reason I chose this picture was because the diamond necklace Madame Foresteir let Madame Mathilde use wasn't real. It was only worth 500 francs and not the 36,000 francs Madame Mathilde paid for the replacement necklace because it was paste. [] =Questions:= =Costa's Levels of Inquiry= Taylor's questions 1.What does Madame Loisel want for the ball? 2. Analyze where Madame Loisel could have lost the necklace. 3. Hypothesize how Madame Forestier felt at the end of the story.

Scarlet's Questions 1. What kind of family was Mathilde born into? 2. Compare and contrast Mathilde's life before and after the necklace incident. 3. How do you predict that her life will change after she figures out the necklace was a fake or do you think it will change at all?

Alli's Questions 1. How did Mathilde react to being invited to the ball? 2. Why do you think Mme. Forestier didn't tell Mathilde that the necklace wasn't real? Do you think she thought that Mathilde knew? 3. How different would Mathilde and her husband's life been if she hadn't lost the necklace?

Miguel's Questions 1. What was Madame Mathilde's husband's job? 2. Why do you think Mathilde didn't want to wear natural flowers to the ball?/ 3. What would you have done if you found out all the work you've ever done was for nothing