Adrian C’s Blog

1. After the funeral, how does Carl Ray show a different side of his personality during the conversation with Tommy?

As Carl Ray talks with Tommy his personality changes by him telling Tommy what  happens after the funeral and how he goes to heaven.

2. Who is Mr. Biggers? How does he become a part of Carl Ray’s life?

Mr Biggers is a lawyer, he will change Carl Ray’s life because he wants to give Carl Ray Money.

In the beginning Mr. Furtz dies and is a very tragic moment. A little bit later the Finneys go to view Mr.Furtzat the DiMaggioes viewing house. Then a day later he was burried and all the kids had nightmares and couldn’t sleep. The next day Mary Lou gotbored and rummaged through the attic and found her dad’s ice skates and a yearbook. After they decided to go to the pool andmet up with Alex Cheevey. It is fourth of July and the family went to a park to have a picnic , the kids climbed trees and went to windy rock. Then everyone went to the pool. The next evening Carl Ray received a phone call from Mr. Biggers concerning that he must go to court.

In the group so far we have been working together greatly and we have talked about the book in detail. In the future we’ll probably be doing the same things we are doing now. Our jobs affect most of the group, in the future our jobs may let us look at the book in a different way and understand it better. 

1. Describe Beth Ann’s new behavior. How does Mary Lou feel about it?

Beth Ann is acting very strange, She starts using words like divine and wonderful about her new boyfriend. Mary Lou thinks that her acting this way will affect their freindship.

2. How does Mary Lou react when Mr. Furtz dies?

Mary Lou is astonished by the death of Mr. Furtz because he was a strong healthy looking man. 

Reading these chapters made me think that in the future Mary Lou will go out with Alex Cheevey because Maggie saw him at the party and he was asking for her.Also Carl Ray won’t not much appreciate his job because when Mary Lou’s parents ask him about his job he just shrugs and says “Emph.” Lastly I think the Furtzes won’t take the death of thier father very well because he was so healthy.

1. How does the author describe the the setting and characters in the story?

2. Which events come first and how do they affect what goes on in the story?

3. Do you think the arrival of Carl Ray is a good or bad thing? Explain.

The Titanic is about what happened on her maiden voyage and when where and how it sank and who lived.

1. Why was Paul content about being back up goalie?

    Paul was content  about being back up goalie because he just wanted to be on the team with no IEP. 

2. What happened when Paul went in to the soccer game for Victor? What was Victor’s reaction?

    When Paul went into the game Maya kicked the ball to him and Paul kicked as hard as he could and scored a goal. Victor’s reaction was that he said to Paul “you were me out there man,” and they highg fived eachother. 

3. Why didn’t Maya need Mrs. Fisher’s encouragement?

     Maya didn’t need Mrs. Fisher’s encouragement because she thought she was the best and can do great with her own encouragement.

On Monday, September 11, Lake Windsor Middle had a horrifying incident. There was a sinkhole that sucked many portables in, Paul Fisher, Joey Costello and other students came to the rescue and pulled all kids before the portable went down. All this commotion happened because it hadn’t stopped raining for the past two weeks or so. 

These sinkholes happen because the ground didn’t have enough support due to the rain. The ground came tumbling down with a noise sounding like loud blasts of thunder. The ground was so wet that when it fell inward the portables slid down and in getting torn to pieces. The water was rushing from the floods of the field and made it look like a manmade pond.  

After observing it people estimated that it was about twenty-five feet deep and would take a while to fix. The sinkholes happen because limestone and salt beds that dissolve by ground water going through them. These rocks are in about 35 to 40 percent of the United States and destroy many places around the area.  

The school is very afraid of what they will do about all these portables gone and all the students without classes. Paul, Joey and all of the other brave students should be rewarded for saving those scared kids and teachers. Sinkholes often happen around that area because the rain has been very continuous around the school and has made the ground instead, leading to many more sinkholes. Unless we try to dry up the area these things will keep happening so we need your help! 

 Lake Windsor Middle was already a low ranked school they have gangs, portables and now a field with a gigantic whole right smack dab in the middle. They are all worked up about what has happened and can not place these kids anywhere else because all they have are portables. They don’t want to risk having other kids being hurt or lost to another sinkhole.Lake
Windsor has gone through a rough time with the sinkhole and the placing of the kids. To help we need to be able to put these kids in a safer environment.