Question: When I first saw the bookAlice in Lace, I thought I was going to like it. And as it turned out, I love it! I love books about life and being a kid. And Alice in Laceis just that kind. It's a humorous book about being thirteen and the problems kids might face. Alice and her friends get a strange assignment from their totally cool teacher, Mr. Everett. It was like playing the game of "Life," but you had to act it out. 

So Pamela is pregnant, Elizabeth buys a car and Alice gets married. Well, of course, Pamela wasn't really pregnant, but she walked around with a pillow under her shirt to get people's reactions. Elizabeth didn't really buy a car, but she went to the car lot and made the sales guy think she was. The whole class got assignments like these! I would love to do something like that for school. 

In the book Alice has a lot to think about. "Getting married is hard!" Alice says. She has to plan the ceremony, the honeymoon, find a place to live, pay for furniture and two months' rent and food. Maybe she and her "husband" could work it out -- if they were getting on fine! 

Although this book was funny, it really made me think about how problems like these could really mess up your life. Take teenage pregnancy for example. How could you have a baby and stay in school? You couldn't find a babysitter every day to stay with your kid. A child really consumes your life. I understand what the teacher was trying to do. He was trying to discourage the class from getting into these problems by giving them a glimpse of life. As someone about to become a teenager myself, I can say sometimes a story makes you think about what's up ahead. 

Overall, I would say this book is wonderful. My favorite part of the book is discovering that if I like it, there are seven other Alice books I can check out at my local library. I love this book, and I hope you will too. 1. who was in Lace?
2. What was the name of the book?
3. What was the favorite part?
4. How many more books in the series?
5. Where are they available?
6. What was one of problems in the book?
7. Did the teacher expect students not to have child early?
8. Did the story tell you about the upcoming events?
9. What Alice thought hard?
10. What she had to think early about that?
11. anything else?
12. Did it talk about paying?
13. what?
14. Anything else?
15. Was the book entertaining?
16. Who was pregnant?
17. Who is getting married?
18. Anyone buying a vehicle?
19. Who?
20. How was the teacher?
21. What Provide a numbered list of answers.
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A numbered of answers: 1. Alice
2. Alice in Lace
3. discovering that if I like it
4. seven
5. local library
6. teenage pregnancy
7. yes
8. yes
9. Getting married
10. plan the ceremony
11. find a place
12. yes
13. furniture
14. rent and food
15. yes
16. Pamela
17. Alice
18. yes
19. Elizabeth
20. cool
21. Mr. Everett


Question: Farmer John loves to have parties! Everyone says that he has the best parties in the neighborhood. He invites all of his friends to his farm and cooks lots of food. Bill is Farmer John's best friend. Bill often comes over to the farm early to help Farmer John cook the food. They like to make sandwiches, salad, pasta and bacon. Bill always makes the pasta. Mary also comes to help Farmer John decorate the farm. Mary likes to put up lots of pink decorations all around the farm. She also brings her friend Jessica. Jessica's favorite colors are blue and green so she brings plenty of blue and green balloons to help make everything look pretty. After everyone has finished setting up the farm all the guests come over. Robert is always the first person to show up. He brings fried chicken and likes to eat a lot of food. He always eats a plate of bacon first. When he is done he eats a big plate of pasta. When everyone else arrives at the party, they play a game in the living room. Farmer John enjoys playing pin the tail on the unicorn. Whoever wins the game gets a big piece of cake. Last time they played, Jessica got the cake. 1. What did Farmer John like to have?
2. Did he throw the best parties?
3. Does he cook food for them?
4. Who is Bill?
5. What does he help Farmer John do?
6. What kind of food?
7. Who makes the pasta?
8. What are jessica's favorite colors?
9. Does she bring ballons those colors?
10. What happens when they finish setting up?
11. Who is the first to show up?
12. What does he bring with him?
13. What does he eat first?
14. What does he eat after that?
15. Do they play a game in the living room?
16. Whats the prize?
17. Who one last time?
18. Does Robert like to eat lots of food? Provide a numbered list of answers.
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A numbered of answers: 1. parties
2. yes
3. yes
4. Farmer John's best friend
5. cook the food
6. sandwiches, salad, pasta and bacon
7. Bill
8. blue and green
9. yes
10. guests come over
11. Robert
12. fried chicken
13. a plate of bacon first
14. a big plate of pasta
15. yes
16. a big piece of cake
17. Jessica
18. yes


Question: Volleyball has become a worldwide sport that is popular with all age groups, but when did this fun sport start? The history of volleyball dates back to 1895 when William G.Morgan met a Canadian James Naismith, inventor of basketball and was influenced by him and basketball.Then he wanted to invent a new game that was fit for middle-aged men. 

Morgan enjoyed the game of basketball, but soon he realized that it was too fast paced for some of the older men.So, he decided to invent a game that was still played on a court , but the players were not required to run up and down--he created the game of "mintonette." Volleyball history shows that the original game of mintonette was played on a full court with a net in the middle.Two teams tossed the ball back and forth over the net, similar to the game of badminton.In order to cut down the equipment costs, the players played the ball with their hands. 

The game quickly became popular, and everyone wanted to learn how to play volleyball.It quickly spread to other areas, across the United States, and even to other countries.Several changes were made to the game. 

Then specific volleyball rules were set into place.Some of the rules of volleyball included the court size, number of players, and number of hits per team.The rules also stated that players must rotate around the court so that everyone had a turn to serve the ball.Also, a standard volleyball size and shape were decided within a few years.The rules continued to change and adjust throughout the history of volleyball, until the game became what we have today. 

Even though volleyball history says that the game was originally created for middle-aged men, the game has become so popular among all kinds of people.Today there are many different kinds of competitive volleyball teams: high school volleyball, college volleyball, women volleyball, men, children, mixed teams, etc.There is an endless amount of possibilities with this game because it is easy to learn, many people can play together, and it can by played indoors or outside. 1. What was volleyball originally called?
2. What other game was it very similar to?
3. What was the main difference between it and the game it became?
4. Did it stay in its original country?
5. How many countries did it spread to?
6. Who was it created for?
7. Did it remain popular for that age group?
8. When did the rules evolve to what we consider as volleyball today?
9. Do some schools have volleyball teams?
10. What sport inspired volleyball?
11. Who created that sport?
12. What was his nationality?
13. Who created volleyball?
14. What was his nationality?
15. When did he meet Naismith?
16. What did they talk about?
17. What was one of his primary objective in making the game?
18. Is it difficult to start playing? Provide a numbered list of answers.
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A numbered of answers:
1. Mintonette
2. Badminton
3. They tossed the ball instead of hitting it.
4. No
5. unknown
6. Middle aged men.
7. Yes
8. unknown
9. Yes
10. Basketball
11. James Naismith
12. Canadian
13. William G. Morgan
14. unknown
15. 1895
16. unknown
17. Making a game that older men could play.
18. No