A Fine Dark Line
Pages 3-45
Summary
A Fine Dark line is a story of someones life told from the point of a 13 year old kid. The story is placed in the fifties and it starts off on how they moved. The dad bought a drive in and the whole family runs it.
Monday, January 31, 2011
Thursday, January 20, 2011
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The Wednesday Wars
Pages 184-207
Summary
Holling's cross country training is starting to get serious. He is running at least three miles a day and Mrs.Baker is coaching him on top of that. It is spring break and getting close to the opening day for the Yankees and Holling has two tickets for his dad and himself. When Holling brings this subject up to his dad at dinner he acknowledges this. His sister also brings up that she wants to go to college, but Holling's dad doesn't want her to because it is not safe. He says that she has a good job and shouldn't go to college where classes are suspended because of protests. When opening day comes Holling has a note for his teachers because he is leaving at 12:00. When 12:00 rolls around his dad is no there. He is not there at 12:11. Holling is getting nervous so he calls his dad's work. He then finds out that he has meetings until 2:30. Which is when the game starts. So Mrs. Baker drives him as slow as she can there, but they make it there by the third inning. By the end of the game they are invited onto the field and start playing and running around the basses. Holling had a great time.
Pages 184-207
Summary
Holling's cross country training is starting to get serious. He is running at least three miles a day and Mrs.Baker is coaching him on top of that. It is spring break and getting close to the opening day for the Yankees and Holling has two tickets for his dad and himself. When Holling brings this subject up to his dad at dinner he acknowledges this. His sister also brings up that she wants to go to college, but Holling's dad doesn't want her to because it is not safe. He says that she has a good job and shouldn't go to college where classes are suspended because of protests. When opening day comes Holling has a note for his teachers because he is leaving at 12:00. When 12:00 rolls around his dad is no there. He is not there at 12:11. Holling is getting nervous so he calls his dad's work. He then finds out that he has meetings until 2:30. Which is when the game starts. So Mrs. Baker drives him as slow as she can there, but they make it there by the third inning. By the end of the game they are invited onto the field and start playing and running around the basses. Holling had a great time.
Monday, January 10, 2011
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Handbook for Boys
Pages 3-52
Summary
In the handbook for boys Jimmy, the main character starts out in a police department, and is being told that he could serve time for assaulting someone at school. Duke, an owner of a barbershop took him in, and now he works for him doing odd jobs like cleaning and reorganizing the store. So far he has been talking with the old guys that just hang around the store. He also listened to someones story on how his wife got mad at him and how she left him. Duke related this to how a tiger advertised to a monkey on how to teach them the monkey walk while blindfolded. Life ended for the monkey because the tiger tricked him because the tiger had a trap set for him when the monkey followed the tigers voice. The moral of this story is that there are good times and bad times.
Pages 3-52
Summary
In the handbook for boys Jimmy, the main character starts out in a police department, and is being told that he could serve time for assaulting someone at school. Duke, an owner of a barbershop took him in, and now he works for him doing odd jobs like cleaning and reorganizing the store. So far he has been talking with the old guys that just hang around the store. He also listened to someones story on how his wife got mad at him and how she left him. Duke related this to how a tiger advertised to a monkey on how to teach them the monkey walk while blindfolded. Life ended for the monkey because the tiger tricked him because the tiger had a trap set for him when the monkey followed the tigers voice. The moral of this story is that there are good times and bad times.
Thursday, January 6, 2011
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The Wednesday Wars
Pages 121-183
Summary
In these pages, the seventh and eighth graders are working on running for the cross-country team and Holling is not looking forward to this. Over the weekend, he runs 7 miles because he does not want to be made fun of for not running fast. On a Wednesday, Mrs. Baker tells Holling that the way he runs is too tight and it looks like he is digging his nails into his hands. Therefore, Mrs. Baker brings Holling out to the track and tells him how to make running easier. Holling does what she said to do and it makes his running easier. A few of the board members will be coming to see Mrs. Baker’s class and she wants some help on how to be a better teacher in attitude. Therefore, Holling tells her a few things and so they both were able to profit off each other. When the members of the board arrived, the class was running perfectly for most of the time, until one of the bulging asbestos tiles came crashing down with the two rats that had been hiding up there. The tile fell into one the board members laps. Everyone in the room was scared and screaming trying to get as far away as they could, while Mrs. Sidman the board member picked them up and carried them down the hall to a cage. The same day is the tryouts for the cross-country team, and Holling is hoping that they will cancel it because of the rat scare. When Holling starts running he is in the back of the pack, but by the fourth lap, he is up near the front. As he is in the final part, he passes the rat cage and those rats somehow figure out how to get out of the cage. When they get out they start chasing after Holling and he ran faster than any seventh grader has ran before. While he is running, a school bus comes in and the rats are in the road, but they do not try to get out of the way. They just stand there and face off with the bus. The bus wins. Since Holling ran so fast he made varsity and he is the only seventh grader with the other eighth graders.
Pages 121-183
Summary
In these pages, the seventh and eighth graders are working on running for the cross-country team and Holling is not looking forward to this. Over the weekend, he runs 7 miles because he does not want to be made fun of for not running fast. On a Wednesday, Mrs. Baker tells Holling that the way he runs is too tight and it looks like he is digging his nails into his hands. Therefore, Mrs. Baker brings Holling out to the track and tells him how to make running easier. Holling does what she said to do and it makes his running easier. A few of the board members will be coming to see Mrs. Baker’s class and she wants some help on how to be a better teacher in attitude. Therefore, Holling tells her a few things and so they both were able to profit off each other. When the members of the board arrived, the class was running perfectly for most of the time, until one of the bulging asbestos tiles came crashing down with the two rats that had been hiding up there. The tile fell into one the board members laps. Everyone in the room was scared and screaming trying to get as far away as they could, while Mrs. Sidman the board member picked them up and carried them down the hall to a cage. The same day is the tryouts for the cross-country team, and Holling is hoping that they will cancel it because of the rat scare. When Holling starts running he is in the back of the pack, but by the fourth lap, he is up near the front. As he is in the final part, he passes the rat cage and those rats somehow figure out how to get out of the cage. When they get out they start chasing after Holling and he ran faster than any seventh grader has ran before. While he is running, a school bus comes in and the rats are in the road, but they do not try to get out of the way. They just stand there and face off with the bus. The bus wins. Since Holling ran so fast he made varsity and he is the only seventh grader with the other eighth graders.
Monday, January 3, 2011
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The Wednesday Wars
Pages 65-120
Summary
Holling brings in a long box of cram puffs and everybody in his class is excited for them. Even his teacher seems to be looking forward to them. Holling's teacher tells them to go out to recess before the eat them because she has to go and light a candle. When they get back from recess Sycorax and Caliban the classes rats that escaped were in the box of cream puffs. The kids who made Holling get the cream puffs say he has ten days to get them the cream puffs. Even though he didn't eat the one he was given, they feel like he has to get them the cream puffs. It has taken him long enough to pay for them in 3 weeks and they want him to get them in 10 days.
Pages 65-120
Summary
Holling brings in a long box of cram puffs and everybody in his class is excited for them. Even his teacher seems to be looking forward to them. Holling's teacher tells them to go out to recess before the eat them because she has to go and light a candle. When they get back from recess Sycorax and Caliban the classes rats that escaped were in the box of cream puffs. The kids who made Holling get the cream puffs say he has ten days to get them the cream puffs. Even though he didn't eat the one he was given, they feel like he has to get them the cream puffs. It has taken him long enough to pay for them in 3 weeks and they want him to get them in 10 days.
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