Assignments

Monday: Write a summary (in your reading notebook) of the chapter titled "December" for Wednesday. Your summary should not be more than 5-6 sentences. Answer these questions in your notebook, "Why do you think Holling went through the job of being Ariel for the Long Island Shakespeare Company Holiday Extravaganza? Why did Doug take out the cardboard box for number 166 out of the coatroom, never to be seen again? Add three items to the wiki - Due Wednesday.

Wednesday, April 15th: Read pages 101-120. Add at least three items to the wiki. Write a summary for this part of the chapter titled "January." Answer all questions in your reading notebook: On page 109 Mrs. Baker says that in //"Macbeth,// Shakespeare wasn't trying to find names that sound alike, what did he want to express in words more beautiful than had ever yet been written?" What does this mean to you? What is malice? Mrs. Baker says that "malice is small and petty." How can malice be small and petty? Why do you think Mrs. Bigio is so mean to Mai Thi? Why do you think Mrs. Baker stopped talking to Holling? Add three to five items to the wiki. Due Tuesday, April 21th.

Tuesday, April 21st: Read pages 120-129. Add at least three items to the wiki. Write a summary for this part of the chapter titled "January." Answer all questions in your reading notebook: What is vengeance and why does Hollings keep referring to this word throughout this chapter? Why do you think the author keeps talking about the Vietnam War? Is there any connection with the war and the story of Holling? Add three to five items to the wiki. Due Thursday, April 23th.

Thursday, April 23nd: Read pages 130 through 142. Write a summary for this part of the chapter titled "February." Answer all questions in your reading notebook: When Holling's sister announced to her dad that she wanted to be a "flower child," what did that mean? When Holling's father told the carpenters and plasterers that better come and fix the ceiling on Saturday morning and offer restitution for the property damage, what was he talking about? Why do you think that Hollings asked Meryl Lee out? What were his parent's reaction when he told them? What is Woolworths? Who is Mrs. Bigio and why would she give Hollings two tickets for //Romeo and Juliet?// Add three to five items to the wiki. Due Monday, April 27th

Monday, April 27th: Read pages 142 - 155. Write a summary for this part of the chapter titled "February." Answer all questions in your reading notebook: Write out five facts about //Romeo and Juliet.// What is a cheapskate? Why did Holling go back to Meryl Lee's house? What does that tell you about Holling? When Mr. Hoodhood talks to Holling and says, "If you can't play for keeps, you shouldn't be in the business in the first place," what do you think this means? The telegram at the end of the chapter, talk about what this means. Add three to five items to the wiki. Due Wednesday, April 29th.

Wednesday, April 29th: Read pages 156-169. Write a summary for this part of the chapter titled "March." Answer all questions in your reading notebook: What is Khesanh? What was the Vietnam war about? Why were we fighting in this war? What is a mallet and what was it going to be used for? What is a soothsayer and why would Mrs. Baker call Holling one? Who is Bobby Kennedy? What was he known for? What is a communist? What are the ides of March in terms of Julius Caesar? Add three to five items to the wiki. Due Friday, May 1st.

Friday, May 1st: Read pages 170-183. On page 174 when Holling was reciting Shakespeare what do you think the paragraph means? Why did Mrs. Baker say, "Azalea" to Holling? Why did Mrs. Sidman just pick up the rats? Why wasn't she scared like the others? Why did Mrs. Bigio make fried bananas for the class/ If you could pick one word to describe this chapter, what would it be? Due Tuesday, May 5th

Tuesday, May 5th: Read pages 183-195 On page 185 when Mrs. Baker went back into the classroom and said, "It will be called Operation Pegasus. Now, someone tell me the meaning of the classical allusion." What does this mean? When Holling's father announced that Kowalski and Associates are, "Done, Over, Washed Up" what does that mean? Find five facts out about Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. that you don't think anyone else would know. What is a "nonrestrictive clause?" Why would Mrs. Baker take Holling to the baseball game? What does this tell you about Mrs. Baker and Holling? Due Thursday, May 7th

Thursday, May 7th Read pages 196-207 Due Monday, May 11th Who was Joe Pepitone and why was he impressed with Mrs. Baker? Why would Mrs. Baker want to meet "the boss?" Coach Quatrini believed in democracy, what does that mean? Why didn't Mr. Hoodhood want Holling's sister to go to college?

Monday, May 11th: Read pages 208-219 Due Wednesday, May 13th What is an atomic bomb and who did we think might fire this bomb on the United States? Who is Leonid Brezhnev? Why do you think Mr. Hoodhood bought a new Mustang? What changed once Holling's sister left? What is a bar mitzvah? What do you think will happen next - make a prediction?

Wednesday, May 13th: Read pages 220-236 Do you think Mrs. Baker purposely knocked down the jug of cider in the coat room? Why or why not? Why don't you think that Mrs. Baker would answer Holling's question about Kowalski and Associates on page 224? What does it mean when Mrs. Baker stated, "And perhaps we practice because we feel as if there's nothing else we can do, because sometimes it feels as if life is governed by the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune?" On page 226, Holling thinks, "For it so falls out, that what we have we prize not to the worth whiles we enjoy it; but being lacked and lost, why, then we rack the value, then we find the virtue that possession would not show us while it was ours." What is a virtue and what does this all mean to you? Why wouldn't Holling's father go and get his sister? Why did Holling call his sister Heather? Was this a connection to the Minneapolis bus station? Do you think there is a connection between Hamlet, Shakespeare and Holling's lives? Explain. Why did Mrs. Baker let Holling stay in the room when she received the telegram? How do you think this book is going to end? Due Friday, May 15th

Friday, May 15th: Read pages 236-249 Why was Holling's sister so upset about Bobby Kennedy dying? Why did Holling and Heather walk to Saint Adelbert to light a candle? Why do you think Mrs. Baker would take her class camping even if she hates camping? On page 242 it states, "A very ominous beginning." What does this mean? Due Tuesday, May 19th

Tuesday, May 19th Read pages 250-264 What does it mean that in five years Holling has to register for the Vietnam draft? Pick out five sentences/phrases that have vividly descriptive words that make you feel that you are right in the story. What is a "yarmulka?" What is a "tefillin?" What is the "Torah?" When describing Danny and his bar mitzvah, why did Holling keep saying, "more weight?" So why did the mom keep saying, "Let's get in the car?" Why do you think Holling's mom blew him a kiss? What is a comedy? Why do you think Mrs. Baker told Holling the story of Don Pedro? Why do you think Holling said, "//L'chayim//" to Mrs. Baker and she responded by saying, "Chrysanthemum?" How did you like the ending? Due Thursday, May 21st

Project/Scrapbook due Thursday, May 28th