It+Used+To+Be+Green+Once+Criticle+Responce

====Mum in the story it used to be green once was a very interesting character because she was a woman was the boss of the neighborhood. To get the 14 children up in the morning she would pull down there PJs and place there bear bums====

====. Mum in the story it used to be green once was very resourceful as she was very poor before they won the lottery. They used to pick up cheap fruit from town take out the rotten and bruised bits and give them to the children for lunch, people from down the road qwho shot your peers”. She also used to by the cheapest togs for girls and chop them in half to make the top half for the girls and the bottom half for the boys. They used to refuse to go to school and sit up on the drive and get yelled at by mum Get of the road; my girl====

====. The author Patricia Grace gave the readers along the way much clues that the family was Maori. Like one of the fourteen kids name is Peti. And on Wednesday when Mum went to get the shopping they orders from her friends and relatives. Because she had now brakes would be in Maori like “Maoria mai he riwai” if they wanted potatoes and they had more for what ever they wanted, Mum would give them the thumbs up so they know she knew what they wanted.====

====Mum is very shameless to her kids she would always do something embarrassing. Like on Wednesday all the kids will walk home so they didn’t get embarrassed on the bus when they passed Mum coming back with all her groceries in her car so they just walked. The boys hated it but the all the girls liked it because Mr Hadley lived close to them and all the girls thought he was awesome. But one day they were really unfortunate when they hear the horn and voice of Mum yelling “Who wants a ride” Mr Hadley dived in on top of all the groceries====

====. Mum had a real good sort to her as she was really poor but she but on every Wednesday she would buy all her relations and friends there groceries for the week. She would also offer people rides when they wanted one. And when they won five hundred thousands dollars in the lottery she got a new car and new dresses but all the rest of the money on the others in her family like new shoes, school bags and new clothes====

====. Mum in the story “it used to be green once” was a very instisting person. When they won the lottery all the kids thought Mum still wouldn’t shame them but she never changed it was just the way she is she likes to be generous.====

**Literacy - Writing Sample**

My Writing is called It used to be green once.

It is a Critical Response to a Short Story written by Patricia Grace

I wrote it as an example of how to critically respond to a character in a story.

One of my learning goals was to analyse a character from a short story and give evidence from the text to support my judgements and comments about the character.

I achieved this because I used qotes from the text to support my judgments and I can explane what Mum's personality was like.

**Teacher Comment**