Tangerine+K

Write your answers here. Remember, your answers must be in COMPLETE sentences.



........ .......  War Eagles New begining .... ....  .....  ....  ....  ....  .....  no IEP new friends ....... new teachers ........... ..........  no Joey ...... erik scary ...... ......  he's a horrible person ....... .....  To stop him ........ ........
 * 1 voice: paul || Both || 2 voice: joey ||
 * Tangerine

We all want to win ..... .......  The title of champion is the prize ........... ......  .....  .....  .....  .....  ......  .........  .....

complicated ....... mysteries solved ........ ......  ......  ....  .....  ....  ....  ....  .....  ....  ....  .... || .... ..... Middle school ...... ...... ........ expierenced the extremes of sinkholes muck fires freezes vandalism awful storms ...... ...... ..... ..... ..... ..... ..... .... ..... ..... ...... My brother ...... ...... are there things I could've done? ...... ..... soccer it's my life ...... ..... ...... ....... .....

will the title be ours? .......... Team work gets us to where we are today work as a team win as a team be a team ........ My life ....... ....... ....... ....... ....... love loss friends family school death ...... our life is hard full of challenges that are tough but we have the strength to over come them all || ...... Lake Windsor ....... .......  Seagulls nothing new ..... .....  .....  ......  ......  ........  .....  ......  Old friends ...... old teachers no Paul ...... mike ...... dead ....... ....  .....  he was a good person ...... ........  To save him ...... .....  .....  ......  The pressure to be the best is on ......  Will we win or will we loose?? ...... .....  ....  ....  ....  ....  .....  ......  ......

hard ...... Tragities I have not gotten over ...... ......  ......  ........  ........  ....  ....  .....  .....  .....  ..... ||

BACK TO WIKI PALS

Question 1: At the end of the prologue, Paul's mom reminds him that he can't see very well. Paul responds by thinking, "But I can see. I can see everything. I can see things that Mom and Dad can't. Or won't." What are some things that Paul is "seeing" that his parents aren't? What other things do you think Paul will "see" in the novel? Paul is seeing the side of Erik that his parents choose not to see. He sees him sneaking out with some of his friends in the middle of the night. They take off in a loud, obnoxious car. When Paul was little, he was almost killed by someone who he thought was Erik. On one of Paul's first days of kindergarten, Erik told all of his friends that Paul's eyesite problem was caused by looking at an eclipse without protection. Erk's friends started to call him Eclipse Boy. I think Paul will see Erik getting himself into more trouble and at some point and lose his football privledges. Look forward to your response, POMEGRANATE!!!!!! :) I totally agree with you. Paul’s parents don’t pay ant attention to Paul. They give their undivided attention to Erick all the time. They only think of him as the perfect son so when Erick does something bad they don’t want to believe it. They all ways want to see the good side of him. Because of this their not really giving Paul any attention. Happy Writing!!!!! Pineapple<3

I totally agree with you!! I thought it was really mean of Erik and his friends to laugh about the accident with Mike Costello. Obvisouly Erik doesn't care that something horrible happened to him and that it will hurt the football team. He only cares about himself and I think it is very strange that his parents don't notice any of this. I think Paul's father only cares about Erik's activites (football) and I think this will start to anger Paul because when the soccer coach told Paul he was not on the team anymore Mr. Fisher just made it worse and didn't put up a good argument about Paul's rights. I think he definately would've done this for Erik. To me Erik is the favorite child and the center of their attention. I honestly feel bad for Paul because nothing like this happened back at his old home, only in Tangerine. I also thought that Joey shouldn't have invited Paul to the carnival if her was just going to ditch him for his other friends and that Paul should consider being friends with Joey because he doesn't seem to notice Paul, onlywhen he decides he needs a friend. Talk to you soon!!!! Pomegranate!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! <3 * <3

OMG!!! Again I totally agree with you!! How strange is that? But anyway, Yha Erick and his friends were being RUDE, OBNOXIOS, and plain out HORRIBLE. I mean who in their right minds would say things like that after the guy just died?? And especially when they would do it behind others backs and then just act like they did nothing wrong!!! That is not right at all!!! And for them to still want to go to football practice after one of their teammate just died that is awful!!!!!! Even their dad isn’t affected by this and still wants Erick to go to football practice. He thinks that because there the first game of the season that it’s all right to still practice and not morn about their teammate’s death!!!!! What is wrong with them?? I think it’s so sad that Paul’s friends ditched him at the carnival. Plus that girl that he likes was on the fairest wheel with another guy!!! Wow, that is so not right! Looking forwarded to your reply J

Pineapple J
== GREETINGS, SPECIAL AGENTS. SCHMORLANDO HERE. YOU’RE DOING A GREAT JOB DISCUSSING THE ISSUES IN THE NOVEL WITH EACH OTHER. SO, DO YOU THINK KERRI AND PAUL HAVE A FUTURE OR SHOULD PAUL MOVE ON? GOT TO GO. I’M CATCHING A RED EYE BACK TO L.A. FOR MY LATEST MOVIE, I MEAN, JOB… == Hi Pineapple and Schmorlando!! I don’t know if Paul and Kerri will have a future. I feel bad for Paul because he doesn’t really know how to approach Kerri and Joey Costello wasn’t much help to Paul. All he said was that Kerri likes geeks and that Paul’s a geek too so that probably didn’t make Paul feel any better about trying to talk to Kerri. I hope Paul at least tries to approach Kerri because it would be interesting to see what would happen and I think Paul really needs somebody to hang out with. Question 3: If you were the principal at Lake Windsor Middle School, how would you handle the 'sinkhole situation'? What would you do with all of the 7th and 8th graders without classrooms? If I were the principal at Lake Winsdor Middle School I would start to suggest to the parents that they should look into going into a private school until the situation is resolved. For those who didn’t want to send their kids to a private school, I would maybe relocate the students to nearby middle schools until new portables are build. I would also consider just relocating the entire school to an area where it would be least likely to have another sinkhole. If they spend money to rebuild on the property where the middle school is currently at, couldn’t another sinkhole occur and end up being another frightening disaster for the students???? Look forward to your responses!!! Pomegranate!!!!! :)

** I think that all the kids should go to another school or a privet school, too. That way the teachers won’t have to work double time and the kids don’t have to go and end at different times than they’re use to. And yha they should relocate the school to a safer area that won’t have any bugs, muck fires, or sinkholes. I wonder what the dad was thinking about when he chose that place to live in. Its not the greatest place to live, there is sooo much danger there!!!!!!! ** ** Write back soon<3 ** ** Pineapple ** ** P.S. You write a lot!!!!! :) **  I totally agree with you!! Ha ha ha there was a lot to write about!! J

Discussion Question 3: Paul seems to love his new team. What do you think is going to happen when the portables are rebuilt at Lake Windsor Middle School and he has to return home? I think Paul will be really disappointed in having to go back to Lake Windsor Middle. He has made so many new friends and he has had such a great time playing soccer. I think it will be interesting to see Joey’s attitude towards Paul after all that happened between him. I don’t know what got into Joey and what would’ve caused him to act like that?! Was it because of his loss of Mike? Either way it wasn’t Paul’s fault.

Look forward to your response!! Pomegranate J

** Yha, Joey it’s being so nice to Paul. It’s like he doesn’t want to be friends with Paul anymore!!! ** ** Who’s saying that Paul will go back to Lake Windsor? Maybe he will stay at Tangerine for the rest of the school year and then go to Lake Windsor after the 7th grade is done. Maybe he won’t go back to Lake Windsor at all. You never know!!!!:) What do you think of the book so far? I <3 it !!! 3 thumbs up!!! ** ** (If only I had 3 thumbs **** J **** ) **  ** Pineapple **** J **    Ya I hope Paul doesn’t have to go back to Lake Winsdor because I don’t think that would be a good choice for him. I’d give it one thumb up. It’s not my favorite book, but I do like it. J  So about the double dialogue poem. What people do you want to do? I think we should definitely do Paul from Tangerine Middle. Maybe we could do Joey Costello from Lake Windsor Middle. We could talk about their ‘’issues’’ with each other and their point of view on school and soccer. We could also put in what they think of their friendship with each other and what will happen in the future. Write back soon!!!! Pomegranate!!! JJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJ

** Yha we could totally do that!!!!! We should also talk about their personal life like their different brothers, friends, parents and all that!!! So who do you want to be Joey or Paul?? Really I want to be Paul but what ever you want is fine by me!!! **** J ** ** Can’t wait to hear back from you!!! ** ** Pineapple **** J ** Ya we should totally talk about their brothers and feelings. I don’t really care I’ll be Joey if you want. I think we should also talk about their feelings for each other like how they don’t really like each other anymore and kind of explain why and what happened between them. I also think the switching of school is really important to both of them, especially the one where Joey moved from the shift at Lake Windsor to Tangerine and then back to Lake Windsor again. I think it would be cool to include sound effects of soccer like WHAM into the net or something like that. Talk to ya soon!!!! Pomegranate JJJJJJJJJ So what do you think so far?? I think we should each try to write at least 4 or 5 lines each time so we can get a good start on everything. I like the part you added with the new school, old school stuff. Pomegranate!

pineaapple!!!!!
Hey! I love the poem so far. We only need to do 20 lines, but I think we already did more than that. I’m stuck. I think we should talk about something else kindof like how we talked about soccer and brothers. What do you think we should do? Pomegranate J

I don't think that we should say anything about the parents because the book doesn't say much about joey's dad so i just think is woul be harder to write about the parentrs with the information missing. I don't really know what to write maybe something about how they feel about themselves? Pineapple!!!!!!! p.s my friend said that if you put a dot in the empty space then the poem will stay the spaces we want:)

Yeah you’re right, we shouldn’t talk about the parents at all. We actually have enough lines so I guess it’s ok if we don’t put in another category. The dot idea was really good!!! I was going crazy with the spacing, I was soooo annoyed at the computer for messing it all up! Hahaha. I color coded stuff. I put blue in for you ( you can change it, I don’t care) and red for me. The things we both say is just black. I think we’re finished. It looks really good!!!!!! Can’t wait to meet you on Friday. Pomegranate!!! J

** Yha I agree with you I think we’re done too!!! ** ** Can’t wait to see you too!!!!! ** ** Pineapple **** J **