Tangerine+C

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

BACK TO WIKI PALS 

== Question 1: Some things that Paul is seeing are thing such as his brother trying to hurt him such as him trying to "smash him." Paul sees things that his parents would never believe unless they saw it. Even thought Paul is not able to see very well, he can see like a regular person with his very thick glasses on. He may have been wrong about some things he sees but being the youngest, you are not always believed. In the future, I think Paul will be able to see future things such as predicting whats happeneing or being able to see things happening when others can't. ==

**Clementine **
Clementine, I see where you’re coming from by thinking Paul can see the future, and his parents can’t, but I think otherwise. I don’t think that the question was that literal. I believe that Paul’s parents can’t see how people are feeling and they can’t “read” people the way Paul can. He always puts others first, and himself last. He makes sure that everyone else is alright before he moves on with his life. In the same sense, Paul’s parents definitely give his brother way more attention, especially when it comes to sports. In fact, Paul feels a bit invisible when his brother is around.I believe Paulwould like it if people paid a bit more attention to him, the way he always does fofr others. --KIWI--

Dear Kiwi,
== I think that your thoughts that you have in question one are really thoughtful. I still partly think that Paul may be able to see what people can’t. I also am starting to agree with you that Paul’s parents can’t see how people are feel because that’s something that only you can feel. I also agree that Paul is very kind in the ways that he is putting others first. You also mentioned how Erik gets more attention than Paul which I definitely agree with. It seems as if Paul feels like people don’t even know he’s there the way he is treated. Besides being treated badly by his family, he is also treated unfairly by his coach. == ==Question 2: I thought it was very unfair that Paul was not allowed to play soccer. Although he is visually impaired, I think that he can see fine with his glasses and shouldn’t be excluded from the team. If I was Paul, I would fight the decision although there are some things that I agree on with the coach. As much as I think that Paul should be allowed to play and that they are being a bit unfair, I think that the coach is partly right. Rules are rules ad technically Paul shouldn’t be allowed to play. After all he is handicapped, if they let a handicapped player play, they would have to let people with major surgeries and people in wheelchairs play. For the lightning problem, I think the team and the coach should find new times and dates that they could have practices that wouldn’t be dangerous. To help them, they could do conditioning and training inside and then when they need the fields, find better times. This way they wouldn’t have to waste time on the field by conditioning, stretching and warming up. ==

Clementine
**Clementine, ** **I completely agree with you that, even if he is visually handicapped, Paul should be able to play on the school’s soccer team. I don’t think that it is fair not to let a child play a sport that he loves and is good at simply because his eye sight isn’t very good. With his glasses, he can see just as well as any other kid who is playing on that team. ** **Even though I think he should be able to play, I also see where the coach is coming from. If anything were to happen to Paul’s glasses during a game, then he wouldn’t be able to see and he could get seriously hurt. But, I believe Paul should still try to fight the school’s decision because he can teach his team members so much, he loves playing soccer, and the team truly does need him to win. Even if the school does not let Paul back on the team, they should compromise and allow Paul to help the team at practices, so he can at least participate in some way. **

I think that the smart thing to do about the lightning problem is to move the practices to a time when there is no storm, and is safe for everyone to play. If that can’t be done, then it would also be smart to make another field where the teams can practice because the book says that the lightning hits the same spot every time there is a storm. Therefore, it would only make sense to create a new field.

Overall, Paul should be able to play or help the team, he should try to change the school’s mind, and the school should change the time of the practices or make a new field to practice on to keep the sport teams safe.

**--KIWI-- **

Kiwi,
==﻿ I completely agree with you about what they should do about Paul and soccer. Like you said, it would not be good if Paul lost his glasses in the game. As far as the football problem, I also agree with you on that. I think they should play on another field because then the lightning won’t strike at the same place. You have very good thoughts on that. They could also change the time to later at night at a time that will work out with the players and there will be no storms. == ==For question number three, I think that it would be very hard to decide what they would do about not being able to go to school. First off, I think that the 6th graders should not be allowed to return to class at that school because it still could be a bit dangerous in the future. For all we know, another sinkhole could occur under the building and then the 6th graders would e in danger. If I was the principal, I would have all the 6th, 7th, and 8th graders all go to catholic school and other schools close in the area. So the other schools aren’t overloaded with kids, I think that they should split them up by neighborhoods/ area. I think that this is the safest thing that they could do for the kids. This will benefit all because everyone is safe and will be able to continue learning this year. ==

Clementine
 GREETINGS, SPECIAL AGENTS. SCHMORLANDO HERE. YOU’RE DOING A GREAT JOB DISCUSSING THE ISSUES IN THE NOVEL WITH EACH OTHER. ONE QUESTION—WHAT TIME SHOULD FOOTBALL PRACTICES BE SINCE LATE AFTERNOON DOESN'T SEEM TO BE SAFE? ARE MORNINGS A BETTER OPTION? GOT TO GO. I’M CATCHING A RED EYE BACK TO L.A. FOR MY LATEST MOVIE, I MEAN, JOB…

<span style="color: #ff9900; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">SCHMORLANDO,
==<span style="color: #ff9900; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">I think that they could have some football practices early in the mornings on weekends. As for weekdays, I think that they should have later night football practices at times such as eight so that the storm will have passed. Also, they could practice on a different football team so they wont be at the place where the lightning strikes at the same place and time. ==

<span style="color: #ff9900; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">--Clementine--
==<span style="color: #ff9900; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">I can tell that Paul is going to be upset when he has to return to his old school. After the portables are re-built, I think Paul is going to try to see if he could finish out the year at the school he is at now. As the coach of the soccer team said before, she only wants him on the team if he is dedicated to being there and not leaving. I don’t think that Paul would want to break his promise. If Paul must return to LWMS I think that he will fight until he can actually stay there. He has already made the soccer team their, made friends, and started to become comfortable with the school, classes and teachers. Paul will most likely finish out his first year at Tangerine and then for next year transfer back to LWMS. ==

<span style="color: #ff9900; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">---Clementine---
<span style="color: #7030a0; font-family: 'Franklin Gothic Demi','sans-serif';">Dear Clementine, <span style="color: #7030a0; font-family: 'Franklin Gothic Demi','sans-serif';">I’m sorry that my answer to question #3 didn’t post…… I don’t know what happened! However, I do believe that football practices should be rescheduled so that during the week, they have practice during resource (or their study hall) and on the weekends, they should have late afternoon practices. This way, everyone is safe from late storms and they can still have their daily practices. <span style="color: #7030a0; font-family: 'Franklin Gothic Demi','sans-serif';">Anyway, I agree with you that Paul will be upset when he has to leave, but I think Paul may try to convince his parents into letting him stay at Tangerine Middle School when they finish rebuilding the portables at Lake Windsor Middle School because he’s so happy playing on the soccer team, and he knows that if he leaves, he still won’t be able to play because of his IEP. Paul has made a lot of new friends, too and if he returns to Lake Windsor Middle School, then he wouldn’t be friends with the same people. Also, I think that Joey will do the same and try to stay at Tangerine Middle because if he goes back to Lake Windsor Middle School, he’s sure that everyone is going to make fun of him (again) for trying to take Mike’s shoes off of him after he was struck by lightning, and everyone would be giving him sympathy and it would be harder for him to get over the fact that Mike really is dead. That’s why I think paul and Joey won’t leave Tangerine Middle School without fighting against it. <span style="color: #7030a0; font-family: 'Franklin Gothic Demi','sans-serif';">(:  <span style="color: #7030a0; font-family: 'Franklin Gothic Demi','sans-serif';">--KIWI--

<span style="color: #ff9900; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; margin: 0in 0in 10pt; marginbottom: 10pt; marginleft: 0in; marginright: 0in; margintop: 0in;">Kiwi,
==<span style="color: #ff9900; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; margin: 0in 0in 10pt; marginbottom: 10pt; marginleft: 0in; marginright: 0in; margintop: 0in;">It’s fine about the discussion question three. It has been happening to a bunch of people on wiki lately. I like your idea about having practice start during their study hall or resource. I think your ideas will solve most of their problems. Also, I agree with you about what you thought about Joey getting made fun of. I really can’t believe how rude people can be about Joey! Especially about what happened to Mike and how he has to live without his brother for the rest of his life. Anyway, it looks like we have most of the same thoughts/ideas which will help us in the two person poetry project. Do you have any ideas? I have been trying to think and really haven’t come up with many things yet. The only thing that I really thought of was to have the two soccer players in general fighting about the teams such as who is better and who will win. Pretty much it would be a fight saying things that “my team is better.” ==

<span style="color: #ff9900; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; margin: 0in 0in 10pt; marginbottom: 10pt; marginleft: 0in; marginright: 0in; margintop: 0in;">p.s. i copied you(:
**<span style="color: #7030a0; font-family: 'Century Gothic','sans-serif';">Clementine, ** **<span style="color: #7030a0; font-family: 'Century Gothic','sans-serif';">I also think that since we usually have the same thoughts on the book that this poetry project will be pretty easy to complete! I really like your idea that the poem should be all about “my team is better than yours”. It’s a really clever idea. The other day, I was thinking about what we should mention and I think we should talk about the difference between the teams (rules, etc.) For example, we can have a part where the Tangerine Middle side says “All handicapped kids are welcome” and the Lake Windsor side will say “Absolutely no handicaps”. This way, the reader can get some background on both schools/teams first. I think that we could use either idea! If we used your idea, it could also be from Joey vs. Paul’s point of view….. that would be interesting since they both went to Lake Windosr, then Tangerine, and now they’re at different schools and because they used to be good friends and now they don’t talk to each other. It would be a bit of a challenge, but I think we could pull it off!!!! ** **<span style="color: #7030a0; font-family: 'Century Gothic','sans-serif';">Just a thought (: **  **<span style="color: #7030a0; font-family: 'Century Gothic','sans-serif';">--KIWI-- **  **<span style="color: #7030a0; font-family: 'Century Gothic','sans-serif';">p.s. I noticed! hahaha (: **

Kiwi-
== I really like your idea much better than mine. I like your idea of the part “All handicapped kids are welcome” and the Lake Windsor side will say “Absolutely no handicaps”. This way, the reader can get some background on both schools/teams first. I thought that was a really cool thought that made me think of how we could pull this together. Maybe we could do something like I am the principal of one school and you are for the other school. We could go back and forth a little on our differences between our schools. Also, we could have that part but instead having the two captains of the soccer teams fighting about their school differences. One of us could be victor and the other Gino. This way we could have some of both ideas such as who is allowed on the soccer team and how the team captains handle things. ==  Tell me your ideas, Clementine☺

p.s. see attachment

<span style="color: #7030a0; font-family: 'Arial Rounded MT Bold','sans-serif';">Hey Clementine, I really like your idea about having us be the principals of the two schools and writing all about the schools. Since we probably should mention something about the two soccer teams being rivals and constantly showing differences, we should talk about Gino and Victor getting in a fight, or something along those lines. (We shouldn’t change from the principals to Victor and Gino because that might confuse the reader). What you wrote so far is very good, and I think we can make this a really awesome poem! J <span style="color: #7030a0; font-family: 'Arial Rounded MT Bold','sans-serif';"> I have a bunch of other ideas, but right now, I need to go!!! BYEE --KIWI—

<span style="color: #ff9900; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Hey Kiwi---
==<span style="color: #ff9900; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">I put the table on the page so you can just add to it whenever you can come back on... try to make some changes to make it better. I think the poem hopefully will turn out good((sorry spacing got messed up when saved) ==

<span style="color: #ff9900; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">---Clementine---
= GREETINGS, SPECIAL AGENTS. IT'S YOUR FAVORITE LANGUAGE ARTS SECRETARY. YOU ARE DOING A GOOD JOB DISCUSSING YOUR IDEAS FOR THE POEM. YOUR IDEA OF BEING THE PRINCIPAL IS VERY INTERESTING. I DON'T THINK MANY OTHER GROUPS ARE USING THAT IDEA. I MUST GO NOW. I'VE GOT A MEETING WITH MY AGENT. KEEP UP THE GOOD WORK-- SCHMORLANDO = **<span style="color: #7030a0; font-family: 'Century Gothic','sans-serif';">Clementine- ** **<span style="color: #7030a0; font-family: 'Century Gothic','sans-serif';">Good work so far! I think it’s really creative…. Sounds like we’re pretty much going with the Victor vs. Gino idea. It’s ok that the spacing got a little messed up (it was a little hard to read, but I’m pretty sure I got the order!!!) I added to the chart, too and I tried to fix the spacing… let’s hope it saves! Tell me what you think ;) ** **<span style="color: #7030a0; font-family: 'Century Gothic','sans-serif';">--KIWI-- **

<span style="color: #ff9900; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Kiwi,
==<span style="color: #ff9900; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">I think that you did a really good job with the poem...its still a bit hard to see the spacing. We should maybe copy and paste it to word again to make it easier for spacing. Again, I really like what you did with the poem. It sound really cool how they finish off each others sentenses. There is not much more work that we have to do besides the spacing. I will add some things and you can delete some of my lines if you think it doesnt sound good. Otherwise I think the poem sounds fine. Good Work! ==

<span style="color: #ff9900; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">p.s.-- the spacing was perfect until wiki saves it ):
**<span style="color: #7030a0; font-family: 'Century Gothic','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Clementine, ** **<span style="color: #7030a0; font-family: 'Century Gothic','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Great ideas!!! (: I really like how you described their passion for winning and the look in their eyes when they’re playing in a game. The spacing is SO confusing!!! hahaha I had the spacing perfect last time I edited the poem and wiki ruined it **** L ****<span style="color: #7030a0; font-family: 'Century Gothic','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">(it’s really depressing…….) anyway, we’ll just figure out the spacing when we meet each other on Friday. Hopefully, it won’t be very hard to figure out. Let’s just try to ignore the spacing issues for now and focus on the actual poem. ** **<span style="color: #7030a0; font-family: 'Century Gothic','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">I’m really looking forward to meeting you this Friday! (: ** **<span style="color: #7030a0; font-family: 'Century Gothic','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">--KIWI-- **

p.s. i just found out that if you put a "." at every line where there's no words (every time you press "enter"), it will (most likely) keep the spacing the way you want it!!!!! I couldn't fix the entire poem because I don't have anymore class time, but let's try to fix this next time!!! (:

<span style="color: #ff9900; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Kiwi---
==<span style="color: #ff9900; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Poem sounds great! I think we are done! I wil try to color coat it and if you want you can try and refix the spacing if you know how... Otherwise you did a great job adding lines. We will figure out each of our parts when we "meet" each other. ==

Hey clementine-
== I finished the poem and printed out 2 copies for us when we "meet" on Friday! (: The color coding really helped alot- so thanks!!! I fixed the spacing on word and can't wait till we "meet"! See you on Friday ==

--KIWI--

 * Voice 1 || Both || Voice 2 ||
 * Victor

I play for Tangerine Middle

I work my team hard

Handicap’s are welcome We want to include everyone

.But its for good reasons

..It can be a little tough with all that presure

Soccer is alot more competitive then you think....

Winning is important

As the captain,

I don't want to disappoint my coach

or my fans.

to be the best...

With fire in our eyes

bring back the burning passion we had

play with a craving for winning

When I'm under alot of pressure,

I have to get agressive...

Soccer's a tough sport

so don't think that we're too obbessesed with soccer . .  .  .  .  we must.... || I ﻿am a captain

We have a perfect record

Tough competitors. thats what we want

Sometimes I am selfish

. Sometimes the only way to win is for me to score.

Its scary when everyone is watching you.

It's my life.

I push my team

there is no test. I am a captain... And soccer is my passion.

Hustle, and play to win

We are out here to win and take the grand title

So we must

Play to win

we cannot loose.

. ..

. . . . . . . . . . . ..

HAVE to be the best. || <span style="color: #7030a0; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Gino I play for Lake Windsor Middle

.

I make sure we win

We only want the best of the best, ones that can see and hear

My team wants to win.

Sometimes it gets nervewraking on the penalty line

It's not just a game.

We want to make people proud.

I have to work extra hard.

or my family

we are the best....

We have to play with desire

Look and act like we are the true champions

when we started the season

play aggressivley

but most of all...

and we're loosing a game,

just to make sure we win.

you must have strength and skill

when we're practicing everywhere we go.

we absolutely..... ||