Mrs. Baker's had two rats in class. Shortly after some time in the school they are accidentally escaped and are now running around the school. Holling is forced to try out for the track team, but he is a very fast runner so it wasn't a big deal for him. He blew all the eighth graders away. Mai Thi is made fun of in school by some stupid bullies, but is saved by Doug Swieteck. After Doug Swieteck helped Mai Thi, he was suspended. Mai Thai is made fun of by a bully and luckily Doug Swietek came and saved the day even though it got him suspended. At the end of march, the two rats that were let loose were killed by a bus.
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Holling's dad becomes the Chamber of commerce Business man of 1967. This months Shakespeare play is Romeo and Juliet. For valentines day, Holling asks Meryl Lee out on a date. When Holling went to the school the net day Mrs. Bigio gave him wo tickets to see the play. He decided to take Meryl Lee with him. After the play Holling and Meryl Lee talk about the architectural designs. When Meryl Lee takes them home nd shows them to her father. He then decides to copy Mr. Hoodhood's sketches and designs. This sets off Mr. Hoodhood. This caused Meryl Lee and Holling too avoid each other for the next couple days. As soon as it got too much, Mr. Kowalski dropped out his entry, which binds back Meryl Lee and Holling together. Holling brings Meryl Lee some gifts at her house. It was now back to normal.
In this chapter, holling gets revenge on Doug Swieteck's brother for posting those embarrassing pictures of him in the tights. Holling throws a snowball at him at a perfect angle that is smacked him directly in the nose leaving frostbite left on his face. During the standardized test, holling asks to go to the bathroom since he is drenched in his own thermal underwear since the radiator was broken in winter. he was not allowed to go during the test until after he finished. When Holling got in the bathroom, he saw Doug swietecks brother and some other boys smoking. Somehow, Doug Swietecks brother found out Holing threw the snowball at him and told Holling "you are dead". Holling saved his sister from a bus, even though he bruised his butt, he was a hero.
This month it was when the school announced the students at Camillo Junior High will be taking the New York standardized tests and would have to practice over break.In this chapter was when Holling dressed up in the yellow tights and feathers on his butt and was made fun of in a picture.
November, starts while Holling is in his "Perfect house" It eventually started leaking and dripping into the house which causes a small commotion.
While everyone ws at Church, Holling and Mrs. Baker stay behind in school.The next book she assigned Holling was called "The Tempest" Holling found more curses in the book and began going around saying them with everyone getting aggravated at him. He didn't just do it at home, but at school. after the book was finished, he takes yet another test with 150 questions, which I still think is insane, so did Holling. At the end of the chapter the suspense rises up when we hear Mrs. Bigio's husband was killed during the Vietnam War. Quote: "There is a part of us that can be so awful. And Shakespeare shows it to us in Caliban. But there's another part of us, too-a part that uses defeat to grow." I think that this line interprets that everyone has something to hide that we are ashamed of. |
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