![]() ![]() I finally said, "That's it? You're just not on the team anymore, and that's it?" I looked at him, but he wouldn't look back. Joey finally said, "I'm not on the team anymore." You know? A chance to get in with some of the people from the team." This'll give you another kind of chance with people. This is something that you're really good at." "What are you saying, that I stink in soccer?" "Hey, this isn't soccer practice, it's science class. Anybody but him." He shot an angry look at Tino. "Do what? We gotta get in a group, right? I don't want to be a leftover." He returned to his seat and Joey said to me, "What did you do that for?" Tino stopped and looked at me, surprised. ![]() I called out to him, "Hey, Tino! What about me and Joey? Can we be in your group?" Tino bumped his fist down on top of Henry's and started back toward his desk. Henry D., whose real name is Henry Dilkes, is a quiet country boy, always polite. You want to be in a group with Theresa and me? We got a hot idea." He stopped at Henry D.'s desk and said, "Yo, Henry D. I was looking over the project sheet with Joey when I saw Tino walking back toward us. After that she would form new groups out of "the leftovers," as she called them. Potter gave us twenty-four hours to form our own groups of four to six kids. Narrow topic-an agricultural product that is native to this area of Florida Science/Language Arts Cross-Curricular Project At the top of the project sheet, it says: Potter passed out a project sheet that describes what we're supposed to do, how we're supposed to do it, and how we're supposed to present it to the class. Now we're starting a new cross-curricular project. I came in at the tail end of the last project, so all I could do was sit and listen to kids read their reports. That means that we do a science-type project in science class, and we write about it in language arts class. The first and last periods of the day, science and language arts, do cross-curricular projects together. I'm in classes with Theresa, Tino, Maya, Nita, and Henry D. It was a photo of Nita Shirali with the caption, "Maya Pandhi Leads All Scorers in Tangerine County." There was no article about our team, but there was a photo. This morning I looked in the Tangerine Times, in the back of the sports section. Like I said, that all happened yesterday. By the time Shandra was back in goal to start the scrimmage, we had lost about twenty minutes of practice time. ![]() Finally the coach and Shandra came walking out. Victor sat down, so the rest of us did, too. He grabbed his bag, climbed up into the driver's seat of the van, and the two of them drove back the way they came.īetty Bright watched them go, then walked slowly across the field and into the school. The guy with the long hair saw this and broke away from the boys. She doesn't want any part of newspapers or publicity, so that's the way it's gonna be." "You're the first-place team in the county. Donnelly held up his hands to explain, and the coach looked at them. I've had girls on this team for five years. Donnelly replied, "But he's not news, Coach. If you want to run a picture of our team, you should show Victor. "This is more disruptive than you could know, Mr. This was not an easy book to read, due to the subject matter, but I feel it is an important book.The coach still wasn't looking at him. Joeydag's review sums it up very well, in my opinion. The rest of my thoughts are covered in other reviews. Thank God! But reading this book, watching what these very good-intending parents do, how they reason it out, why they fail their kids even though they care, was another form of education for me in how I can be as good a parent as possible. The horror in this book is way beyond what most of us are going to go through with our kids. The parents in this book do not set out to be bad parents, but they make bad choices based on faulty reasoning consistently over the years and that leads to horrible events for their kids. Read this book if you're a parent, because parenting is hard. This book will give you info you need to know and it will do it in a way that does NOT make you feel preached at or talked down to or swallowed in helpless despair. Read this book if you want some interesting thoughts of what happens when people chop down all the trees to build a new subdivision without tending properly to ecological concerns. There are lots of reviews on this book and I agree with many of them so I'm going to limit my review to two points I didn't see in other reviews. ![]()
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