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Survival Guide

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2. Throwing a football better than highschool kids 3. Runnng away from home 4. Having a fit on the concert stage || 1.Walking 200 miles 2. Surviving 51 weeks by your himsel 3.Leaving home at 11 years old 4. Making it through the East Side of town ||
 * Realistic || Unrealistic ||
 * 1. Helping a kid escape from a scary neighbors backyard

//__Maniac Magee __// Ch.16 How is Maniac Magee blind? 1.Maniac can see everything very clearly except for one thing. He can see the ball zipping through the air. But he can't see the life through people or the colors of skins. Maniac see's everyone as the same. He doesn't realize that the colors of skins backthen meant something. Maniac can't see the black and white colors but he can see Carmel, and pale and chocolate.
 * < Chapter ||< Amazing Feat ||
 * < Chapter One ||< In chapter one, Maniac Magee, screamed during his school and then when everyone heard him, he just ran away . He never returned to his aunt and uncle or school. ||
 * < Chapter Two ||< In chapter two, Maniac Magee ran 200 miles which took him 51 weeks. He did it all with no help and had to walk/run the whole way at all. He finally made it to a little town that was racially divided called Two Mills. ||
 * < Chapter Four ||< In chapter four, Jeffrey interrupted a football game. He ran onto the field with a book in hand, and he caught the football all with one hand. Jeffery didnt know this but the thrower was the famous hands down, the spectacular football star. He could not believe his eyes whenhe saw a 11 year old boy catch a football like it was no big deal. But to Hands Down it was.. ||
 * < Chapter Five ||< In chapter five, Maniac Magee saves a boy from the evil neighbor's house ,Mr. Finsterwalds after a couple high school boys thought it would be a funny joke to toss him over the gate. Maniac Magee saves the boys life. ||
 * < Chapter Six ||< In chapter six, the Pickwells were eating dinner while Maniac Magee decided to joined in. The kids finally realized that none of them knew him and that he had just popped out of no where. In an eye blink he ran off on the steel rail itself!!! ||
 * < Chapter Seven ||< In chapter seven, Maniac Magee shows up in a Little League baseball game with an undefeated pitcher. Magee was the first one ever to not get a strike out. He actually hit the ball. After many tries to get Magee out, the pitcher brought back a frog and used it as a ball. Maniac Magee still won. That made the pitcher mad because then heis reputation would be ruined. ||
 * < Chapter Nine ||< In chapter nine, the pitcher from chapter seven, John McNab, couldn't stand to have a blemish on his record so he thought to himself that beating a kid up was the same as striking him out. John finally found Maniac Magee running on a pipe. Then, he and his friends, called the Cobras, threw rocks at him but Maniac dodged them. He eventually crossed Hector Street to the blacks side and the Cobras stopped because they thought that, if he can't even survive on the East Side of town theres no way he can live on the West. ||
 * < Chapter Ten ||< In chapter ten, Maniac Magee comes across Mars Bar who seems to believe that he is the king of the East End. When Maniac comes around, Mars takes the book that Maniac is holding which belonged to Amanda Beale from the third chapter. Maniac gets the book back but not before one page rips out. Then, a lady comes out and helpes Maniac get that last page back. But its still ripped. In the end, she says,"You better get on boy, where you belong. I can't be following you around. I got things to do." ||
 * < ChapterThirteen ||< Maniac Magee was allergic to pizza. ||
 * < ChapterFourteen ||< Jeffrey scored 49 touchdowns in football. ||
 * < ChapterTwenty ||< Jeffrey successfully figured out Kobble's Knot, something that many others before him, failed to do. ||
 * < ChapterTwenty-One ||< After Jeffrey untied Kobble's Knot, somebody broke into the Beale's house and stole Amanda's Encyclopedia A. They ripped it up into little pieces and used it for confetti when Jeffrey untied Kobble's Knot. Amanda was heartbroken and Jeffrey felt bad, so he walked right out of town. ||
 * Chapter Twenty-Two || In Chapter Twenty Two an elder man named Grayson finds Jeffery on the floor next to the Baffalo pen in the zoo. He then takes Jeffery to the back room to care for the sick child. After Grayson feeds Jeffery they get to know each other and at te end goes off to get som Krimpets for Jeffery. ||
 * Chapter thirty-six || Maniac Magee tricked Piper and Russell, John McNab's little brothers, into going to school by offering them a free large pizza every week. One week, they decide that they don't want pizza. They wanted Maniac to go into the Finsterwald's backyard and stay there for ten minutes. Maniac does it without any case of Finsterwallies and comes out alive. Then, he also knocked on the Finsterwald's front door and did not get hurt in any way. ||
 * Chapter thirty-seven || There are several in this chapter.-Twenty steps away, he hit a telephone pole with a stone sixty-one times in a row.-When the once-a-week freight train hit Elm Street, he started running with it on one rail and beat the train to the park with no sweat. Also he beat the train in the race too.-Maniac took off his sneakers and socks and walked right across the rat-infested dump at the foot of Rako Hill.-Maniac put his entire arm, up to his elbow, into a mysterious hole, held it inside for sixty seconds and then made it out with all his fingers.-He climbed the fence at the zoo and kissed the baby buffalo. ||
 * Chapter thirty- eight || Maniac went back to the East End and won against Mars Bar in a race. ||

Ch.17 & Ch.18 What is Race? Two Mills was divided by race--Black people lived on the east and White people lived on the west. Just to see how you do with races, click this website and see if you can sort people by race. [] > Take a look at the 3 different forms of racism. Pick one of the forms of racism and relate it to one of Maniac's experiences. []  List 3 ways that we can stop racism or be kind to people. Give an example for each.
 * How did you do? Why is it silly to categorize people by race? Describe how Maniac felt about skin color and give an explanation.
 * What is Racism?

1. You can’t really tell peoples ace by skin color. When you think about someone you think is black they might be Latino and you would be accusing that person of what their really not. When I did the game the truth is I really didn’t know the answer to the entire race category. 2. Racism is where you’re from. Such as if you’re from Africa you might be black. People can go against you for that maybe not now but in the earlier days they would have. You can’t be ashamed of it either we are all human being. 1. <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt;">My score was 5 points. It is silly to categorize people because without really knowing them you can’t be sure what kind of race they are.

<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">2. <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt;">In Maniacs position the racism is the blacks verses the whites. In the time Maniac ran he had to fight the urge of different emotions that occurred when the whites (Maniac) and the blacks connected. Such as the time when the Beale’s family went to the beach, an elderly man told Maniac to go back home where he belong. What he did not know was the Maniac didn’t have a home besides the Beale”s house.

<span style="background: white; color: black; display: block; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 24pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 10pt; text-align: center;">Ch. 19 <span style="background: white; color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 14pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">Describe Cobble's Knot. Give details from the chapter to support your answer.

<span style="background: white; color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">1.Cobbles knot the most unusual knot ever. It’s said to have more twist and turns than Albert Einstein’s brain. No one can untie it but Amanda thinks Maniac can untie the amazing knot. At the end of the chapter maniac decides to try the knot out.

<span style="background: white; color: black; display: block; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 24pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 10pt; text-align: center;">Ch.20 <span style="background: white; color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 14pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">Why do you think Maniac was successful when others before him were not?

<span style="background: white; color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">1.Maniac knew every bit of hand motion to keep the knot from tangling again. He knew things that others didn’t. Maniac had to find the routes of the knot otherwise one bad tug and the knot would go back together even tighter.

<span style="background: white; color: black; display: block; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 24pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 10pt; text-align: center;">Ch.21 <span style="background: white; color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 14pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">Compare the Cobras to Mars Bar's East Enders, use examples from the text.

<span style="background: white; color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">1. Mars Bar's and the Cobras are similar to each other because they both want to attack Maniac. But for different reasons, Mars Bar’s is getting back for the book Maniac snatched out of his hand. Also the Cobra is after Maniac because he could hit the fastball McNabb threw. (Which no one can do) <span style="background: white; color: black; display: block; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 24pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 10pt; text-align: center;">Ch.22 <span style="background: white; color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 14pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">Describe Grayson.

<span style="background: white; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">1. Grayson is an old caring, loving kind of guy. He can be remembered as a grandfather. One who is there for you no matter what damage you’ve done? After Grayson found Jeffery on the floor he rushed to the back room to check if Jeffery was ok. Grayson took care of Jeffery by feeding him chicken noodle soup. In between all this Jeffery spit out the truth of why he was living in the deer pen or so he thought. The zoo keepers switched the deer and buffalo last month while he was living at the Beales. At the end Jeffery asked if they could go out to eat Kirmpets. So they both went on like they were old friends.

Ch.23

1. Why does Grayson care about Maniac so much?

Grayson likes Maniac so much because Grayson’s personality is not mean or grumpy but helpful and kind. He is not like the elderly man who called Jeffery “Whitey” But an Antonym of him.

<span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt 40.5pt; text-indent: -0.25in;">2. Why is Grayson having a happy feeling when Jeffery tells him the reason why he doesn’t want to go to school?

Grayson understood how he felt. Always being compared to the other kids was maybe something Grayson could relate to. Also when Jeffery said he would not have a home when school went out Grayson felt sorry for him.

<span style="display: block; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 26pt; line-height: 115%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt 40.5pt; text-align: center;">Ch.24 <span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in; text-indent: -0.25in;">1. Why did Grayson call the blacks as “The Blacks” instead of anything else?

Grayson calls the blacks “The Blacks” because he doesn’t see like Maniac. Unlike Maniac he sees the true color which is not necessarily a good thing. He thinks its right to categorize people by race. Maniac doesn’t.

<span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in; text-indent: -0.25in;">2. If Maniac and Grayson are so different then why do they get along?

Maniac and Grayson are so different but so in common. Maniac is young, wild and has so many dreams to fulfill. Grayson is elderly, slow and lived his life and had dreams. But somehow Grayson connects with Maniac because Maniac is what Grayson was like when he was younger or at least wanted to be like.

<span style="display: block; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 26pt; line-height: 115%; text-align: center;">Ch.25 <span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; margin: 0in 0in 10pt 39.75pt; text-indent: -0.25in;">1. After all the praying for the big game when Grayson was younger why did that game fail? Grayson’s game always was great he never prayed or anything. But the day he did he regretted it. After him Grayson prayed for hours the night before the game it wasn’t worth it. He lost the game and that was it.

<span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; margin: 0in 0in 10pt 39.75pt; text-indent: -0.25in;">2. Why did Grayson cover for Maniac when the Superintendent came checking up on him because Jeffery was with him? Grayson knew if he told him what really happen then Jeffery might have to leave and Grayson might lose his job. So he decided to protect the secret for the safety of them.

<span style="color: black; display: block; font-size: 26pt; line-height: 115%; margin: 0in 0in 10pt; text-align: center;">CH.26 1. Why does Grayson ask Maniac to teach him how to read at the end of the chapter?

Grayson probably never learned how to read. Maybe he couldn’t afford going to school or he had troubles at home.

2. Why did Maniac get books from the Library instead of just going to school?

Maniac didn’t want to go to school because he wouldn’t have anywhere to go home and you can’t stay at school. So instead of going he bought books from the library to teach himself with.

<span style="color: black; display: block; font-size: 26pt; line-height: 115%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.75in; text-align: center;">Ch.27 1. Did using the reading in baseball version help Grayson learn to read?

Learning how to read in base ball version did help Grayson. When he was younger all he did was play baseball. So it helped because he knew everything to it. 2. Why do you think Grayson was so excited when he read “I see the Ball?” Grayson was happy and excited that he could finally read. He sees the ball means he can read it. He walked out with a smile glad that after many years he can read.

Ch.28

1. Why does Maniac never use a bed and sleeps on the floor?

Maniac thinks he does not come useful to the bed. He would rather sleep on the floor. I predict that when he was growing up he never had a bed. 2. Was it a good thing that Maniac didn’t help Grayson on his first try at a book? It was great because that way Grayson can learn from his mistakes. Also he had to try harder which would make him a better reader.

<span style="color: black; display: block; font-size: 26pt; line-height: 115%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt 94.5pt; text-align: center;">Ch.29 1. What did Maniac do with paint and a paint brush at the end of the chapter?

Maniac took the Paint and Paint brush outside. He also brought along a jacket to keep him warm in the winter night. Then he wrote 101 on top of the door. It was his new address. 2. What did Grayson and Maniac do during winter and Thanksgiving? Grayson and Maniac were both sensible but the cold, harsh winter didn’t stop them from going to a baseball game. Also in thanksgiving they sat down and prayed and then of course ate a feast. After that Grayson and Maniac danced while Polka music played on a recording. <span style="color: black; display: block; font-size: 26pt; line-height: 115%; margin: 0in 0in 10pt; text-align: center;">Ch.30 1. What did Maniac and Grayson do for Christmas?

Grayson and Maniac set up two tree’s, one inside their home strung with popcorn and ornaments hung on to it and another out in the woods but decorated with nature colors and ornaments from outdoors. Also they trimmed both trees. 2. Why did Maniac and Grayson go overboard with Christmas? Maniac probably loved Christmas when he lived with his family so this would be one without them; he wanted it to be special. As for Grayson I think he hasn’t had a good Christmas for a while because he was all alone. When Maniac came his Spirits brightened. Ch.31 1. What did Grayson get from Jeffery? Jeffery made a hand book illustrated and written by him. Also Grayson got gloves and a woolen cap. 2. What did Jeffery get from Grayson? Grayson got Jeffery a box of Krimpets, gloves and a sparkling snow-white never-ever used baseball. Finally Grayson dug deeper into his on heart. The last gift was used, scratch up and almost dead but it was very special to Grayson and Jeffery. It was Grayson’s old baseball glove that he wore when he was younger and in the Minor League.

Ch.32 1. Why didn’t Maniac get help sooner, but just let the Grayson die on the bed? Maniac knew the day was coming, if you think about it Grayson was an elderly man. Maniac knew that there was nothing he could do to save him. 2. Why did no one come to Grayson’s funeral? No one came to Grayson’s funeral because before Maniac came he was a grumpy old man. But after Grayson and Maniac met things changed over time, life changed for both of them. But no one got to know the real Grayson. When the change did happen, Grayson passed away too early for his co-workers to notice.

Ch.38 At the end Maniac see's Hester and Lester do u thnk he and Amandsa will forgive eachother and live together again? Maniac will not live with the Beale's anymore because of trhe trouble he cause them before. He let them take the blame and Maniac felt guilty for that.

Ch.39 Why did Mr. McNabb never learne Maniac's name after 3 months?

Mr.McNabb doesnt care for such things. He is very iresponsible in that way.

Ch.40 Why did Maniac explode when He saw Piper and Russel play with the glove Grayson gave him? Maniac yelled at the brother beacause they crossed the line. The glove was the only memory of his good friend Grayson Those boys needed more disapline then any other kids around.

M ARVELOUS AT PLAING BASEBALL A MAZING AT UNTIEING KNOTS N EVER LET’S ANYONE GET IN HIS WAY I MPOSSIBLE TO STOP A LLERGIC TO PIZZA C AT LIKE REFLEXES

M AGNIFIGHENT AT CATCHING A BALL A LWAYS RUNNING G RAYSON LET’S MANIAC SLEEP IN HIS HOUSE E XCELLENT AT CLEANING UP AND LEAVNG E ATS KRIMPETS