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media type="custom" key="8830674"media type="custom" key="8638412"media type="custom" key="8638748" __Chapter Questions__ When I played the game, I only got seven out of all of them. When playing the game, I noticed that people did not look as their race did and that their looks are deceiving. Maniac was not very sure about skin colors. Though skin colors were named black and white, Maniac thought of the colors of various shades of black. For Maniac being white, well, he thought that white was the most boring color of them all. Racism is when someone treats someone else differently or badly because of their race or nationality. One form of racism is damage to property, including graffiti. Something happened like this to Maniac and Mrs. Beale had to clean it up. She had managed to scrub away the F in FISHBELLY GO HOME. One way that we can stop racism or be kind to people is by giving people an education on racism. This way people will understand racism and how serious it is. Maybe then people will think twice about racism. Another way that we could stop racism is by putting yourself in that persons shoes. You probably wouldn't like it if someone talked bad about your race like that. The final way that we could help stop racism is by try to make friends with a person of a different race. Maybe if you would take a chance to get to know someone of a different race, then maybe you could understand their race in the process. __Questions and Answers__ 1. When Maniac told the old man that he no longer attended school, how did Grayson react to it? Grayson thought that he had to go to school and if he didn't then they would make him. When Maniac told him that he did not go to school and Grayson asked why not, he just said that if he tried to make him go, he would just start running. 2. When Maniac got in the shower at the locker room and felt the sting of the shower needles, what did this remind him of? This reminded Maniac of a good, welcome-back-to-town stinging. He had been living with the buffaloes for a while, and he probably didn't take a bath or shower for a while either. 1. How come when Grayson offered for Maniac to come and stay at his place, he wanted to stay at the baseball equiptment room and sleep there for the night? Maniac refused the offer to stay at Grayson's place because he usually had trouble with coming and staying at a certain place with parents. 2. Why did Grayson keep asking about Maniac and the Beale family and what the black people did? Grayson was asking so many questions because he was white and he had probably never heard of a white kid living with a black family in the East End. Also he could of been asking so many questions because he had never been familiar with the way black people do things. 1. What was the reason that Grayson failed to succeed at baseball? Grayson had played a horrible game while on the Mud Hens, which was very close to the Majors, and he lost his game. He wasn't pitching as good as he used to and ended up at some league in Mexico. He then spent the last thirteen years as a baseball player, and then he was done. 2. Why was Grayson not on the field with the Bluefield Bullets? Grayson was not with his team, the Bluefield Bullets, because after he was told that he could get a free dinner at the Blue Star restaurant and he could not pay it, he was back at the Blue Star washing dishes to work off his entire dinner.
 * 16.** Maniac Magee is blind in a way because he didn't see when people disliked him. This had gotten Maniac into trouble a lot, too. He is also blind in a way because he does not understand how people were divided by color. He thought of black and white as more complicated colors.
 * 17.** and **18.** Race is the nationality of a person. In other words, it is the type of person you are. Black, White, Mexican, etc.
 * 19.** Cobble's knot is a huge knot that formed one day in front of Cobble's Corner Grocery. Cobble noticed what a spectacular knot it was and offered a prize to the person that could untie the massive knot. The knot was said to be the size and shape of a lopsided volleyball. The knot had defeated everyone who had tried to untie it until Maniac had come along.
 * 20.** The reason that Maniac was successful and others before him were not is because Maniac took his time while untieing the knots. I also think that he succeeded was that he had had a lot of practice with knots before taking on Cobble's Knot.
 * 21.** The Cobras are somewhat different from Mars Bar's East Enders. The Cobras are a gang that includes John McNabb and some of his friends. They go around trying to catch Maniac for outdoing John McNabb's record. Mars Bar's East Enders are a group of kids including Mars Bar and his friends. This group also chases Maniac around, but not for the same reason. They feel that he does not belong in this part of Two Mills and should go back to where he came from.
 * 22.** Grayson is an old man that picked up a terrible looking Jeffrey and took him to the band shell. Grayson is a very kind man, especially because he picked up and cared for Jeffrey when no one else would. He ate Krimpets with the kid and even told the kid his story. In the end, Grayson was very nice to Jeffrey considering that he didn't even know him at all.
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1. Maniac runs 200 miles in 51 weeks from Holidaysburg to Two Mills 2. Talked to a black girl in the East End named Amanda Beale 3.Caught a football from Hands Down and punted it farther than he ever could with one hand holding a book 4. Rescued Arnold Jones from the Finsterwald's backyard then sat and read a book on the un-sat-on front porch 5. Ran on the steel rails of the train tracks 6. Broke John McNab's Little League record and first to bunt a frog 7. After all of the amazing things he did, he was finally given the name Maniac 8. Maniac ran all the way into the East End while running away from the Cobras 9. Maniac took a bite of Mars Bar's candy bar when white people aren't supposed to put their mouths where blacks had already 10. Maniac Magee finally had his own address at the Beale's house 11. Maniac Magee untied Cobble's massive knot in front of Cobble's Corner Grocery after all others failed 12.The Cobras and Maniac walked down Hector street all the way out of town 13. Maniac stood for ten minutes straight, and then some more, in the Finsterwald's backyard 14. Walked up to the Finsterwald's backyard, knocked on the door and actually spoke with them 15. Hit a telephone pole with a stone sixty-one times in a row 16. When the once-a-week freight train passed by, he would run and beat the train, on one rail, to the park 17. Walked barefoot through the rat-infested dump of Rako Hill 18. Put up to his elbow down the mysterious hole by the creek for sixty seconds 19. Kissed the baby buffalo while at the zoo while the mother buffalo was not looking || Makes Maniac feel as if he does not belong here Always is chasing around Maniac and calling him Fishbelly Ripped a page out of one of Amanda's book while Jeffrey was using it Says to be able to stop traffic and that no one is able to stand up to his glare
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Bad is what he thinks of himself A person who you do not want to take a bite out of their candy bar Really wants Maniac to leave the East End and won't stop until he succeeds __Questions and Answers__ 1. Each day, when Grayson gave Maniac 50 cents or so, what did Maniac do with the money instead of buying the Krimpets? After Grayson gave Maniac the money, he would go down to the library and buy the cheap books that the library no longer wanted. 2. After showing and explaining it to Maniac, where did Grayson discover the "stopball"? Grayson had said to find it at the Texas League, and that by the time that he had gotten really good at it, he had been done with baseball. 1. When Grayson was growing up, how come he never got the chance to learn how to read? Grayson's parents were very drunk almost all the time. He was put in classes where they always played games and never really learned much. His class didn't even get to be able to read a STOP sign. 2. When teaching Grayson to read, how did Maniac show to him that he was going to be a tough manager? Maniac showed he was a tough manager by never letting Grayson go back to the showers and kept on teaching the old man until he got reading as he was supposed to learn in school. 1. After Maniac was done hugging and squeezing and yelling "a-men" to Grayson, how was he able to make him a snack? Maniac was able to make him a snack because, overtime, Grayson had made Maniac's baseball equiptment room a place of his own. The room had grown because Grayson had bought the kid a lot of stuff for his small home and has most of the stuff in a regular house. 2. When Grayson was reading "The Little Engine That Could", why did Maniac start yelling "a-men" to the old man? Maniac began yelling "a-men" because somebody says something or does something that you really like. The kid must have felt that Grayson was a really nice person and him learning and Maniac teaching was something that he liked. 1. Why had the Thanksgiving with Grayson in the baseball eqiptment room been Maniac's best Thanksgiving he ever had? This particular Thanksgiving was Maniac's best Thanksgiving because Grayson was there to spend it with him. Other than sitting at the table with an absolutely silent Aunt Dot and Uncle Dan, he was actually enjoying himself this Thanksgiving. 2. After eating their Thanksgiving dinner and listening to Grayson's polka records, why did Maniac ask Grayson for a paint brush and paint? Maniac asked Grayson for a paint brush and paint because he went outside to paint on the address. He put "101" on the door and he called it "One oh one Bandshell Boulevard". He did this because Maniac Magee had, once again, an address of his own. 1. Why was Christmas with Grayson a paradise? Christmas with Grayson was a paradise because Grayson had moved out of the Y and into 101 Bandshell Boulevard. Also because Grayson's friendship with the locker room attendant let them use the showers whenever they pleased. This Christmas the two had decorated almost every inch of the place and trimmed two trees because of their urge to trim. 2. After trimming their first tree, how did they do the second one? Grayson and Maniac took a journey to the woods where they found a good evergreen, then they took it back to their home and decorated it with red and yellow bittersweet, pinecones, sumac berries, boats of milk-weed, and Queen Anne's lace. 1. When Grayson and Maniac went out into the night, all bundled up, Maniac was carrying a paper bag in his hand? Maniac was carrying a paper bag in his hand because they visited the zoo and stopped to see all the animals and wish them a Merry Christmas. The two stopped in front of the buffaloes, the ones that Maniac had been living with before he met Grayson, and hopped over the fence to give the baby buffalo a scarf which was in the bag. 2. What did Grayson give Maniac that he had once used in his baseball career? For Christmas, Grayson gave Maniac the baseball glove that he had used when he was in the Minors. Grayson also gave him a new baseball to use with the glove he had used for so many years. When this present was given to Maniac, he couln't take his eyes off of the glove. 1. What did Maniac do after he realized that Grayson was dead? Maniac told Grayson of his travels and some of the places he had been to before he met the old man. He then read aloud all of the books that Grayson had managed to read. He saved Grayson's favorite for last, which was "Mike Mulligan's Steam Shovel", then he lay down on his chest protectors and he cried. 2. While at Grayson's funeral, what did the hole-digging tractor that the two men were leaning on remind Maniac of? The hole-digging tractor at the funeral reminded Maniac of the steam shovel from "Mike Mulligan's Steam Shovel". He thought of the tractor as the steam shovel having a baby, and that this one looked like it would have been. __Questions and Answers__ 1. How did Maniac feel after winning the race between him and Mars Bar? Maniac was confused by the whole thing after he had won the race against Mars Bar. He had many questions going through his head, mostly wondering if he had done the right thing. After all, he had won the race against Mars Bar by running backwards. Maniac was puzzled by the fact that he had just done until he began to think on the bright side of the matter. 1. Why were George McNab, John McNab, and a handful of Cobra's putting together something they called "A pillbox" ? George McNabb, John McNab, and a handful of Cobra's were putting together something they called "A pillbox" because they believe that the blacks of the East End will attack and they are preparing for them early. They have been planning this for a long time and when they come, they will be handy with weapons. 1. How come Maniac decided to stay at the McNabs' house with Piper and Russel for such a long time? Maniac decided to stay at the McNabs' house because felt if he were to leave the McNab boys than he would be abandoning something inside of himself. He had a feeling that deep down, the McNab boys were similar to Hester and Lester, but were not being cared for properly. Maniac thought that if someone didn't do something immediately, they would be this way for long.
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Name: Michael Workman Period: 4/5 Topic: __Wilderness Survival Guide/Technology KWL Chart__ [about this Idea or Question] || What I Want to Know… [about this Idea or Question] || What I Need to Find Out – Post in your notes and sources || · Can be very sunny which may cause severe sunburn without protection. || · What is the average temperature in the winter and summer? · Does Canada have extreme weather conditions (storms ,tornadoes)etc. · How often does it rain in Canada? · Does Canada have four seasons like we have here in New Jersey? || · In the winter the temperatures are usually 5 degrees F and in the summer the average is 77 to 86 degrees F.    · Yes, Canada does have extreme weather conditions such as earthquakes, tornadoes, blizzards, ice storms and heavy amounts of rain and snow fall there. It also experiences 27 hours of freezing rain. · April is when it begins to turn to rain. The precipitation before is mostly snow. It rains throughout the summer then in October, it turns back to snow. Each year, Canada receives about 52cm of rain. · Canada has all the seasons with shorter summers and colder winters. || · Must have a food and a clean water supply · Need some sort of defense against any harmful things · Have to have a fire for warmth · Must be able to have weapon to hunt for food · || · What are the edible plants that I can eat? · How can I purify lake water so that it is safe to drink? · How do I start a fire with no matches or lighter? · How do I hunt for animals? || · Edible plants in the Canadian Wilderness are blue berries, Golden currents, and the Prairie turnip. · To purify lake water, you have two choices with the supplies that you are likely to have. You could either build a filter out of a cone from a birch bark tree or you could boil the water over the fire that you have hopefully built · To start a fire without any matches or lighter, you can use a cottonwood, juniper, aspen, willow, cedar, cypress, or walnut stick. To make a spindle (a stick that you spin) and a fireboard (a flat board that you spin the spindle) until you get an ember, then lightly blow the ember until you have a fire. Note: this is the hardest, but most effective way to start a fire. · To hunt for animals, you must have some sort of way to catch it. To name some ideas you could make a spear to either throw or to catch fish, a bow and arrow made of the materials in the Canadian Wilderness, or possibly you could make a trap and catch the animal that way. || · Animals can camouflage with their surroundings. · Moose can swim. · The Kangaroo keeps their young in their pouch and ||  · Where do the animals live? · What do they eat? · How do they protect themselves and their young? · How do animals survive in cold weather? || · The animals live in caves, trees, underground, and under the deep lake water. · Animals in the Canadian Wilderness eat meat, other animals, and plants. · Animals protect their young by either hiding their young from predators or they will carry their young and stay around there. · They migrate, hibernate, and some of the animals that can’t stay warm find some sort of hole to burrow inside of. || · You can rub aloe on a burn to make it heal · You can snack on blueberries from a blueberry bush ||  · What does an aloe plant look like? · Where can you find edible plants in the Canadian Wilderness? · What do poisonous plants look like? · How do you know if a plant is edible? || · Aloe plants look much like a cactus and also have thick, light green leaves. Gel comes out of the plant and is able to treat minor burns and skin irritation · Finding edible plants in the Canadian Wilderness may be a hard task. Although you can live months without food, and just live off of water. · There is no rule to identifying poisonous plants. You must make the effort to learn as much as possible about the plants in the Canadian Wilderness. · There is no rule in identifying poisonous plants. You must make the effort to learn as much as possible about them. || · Canadian Wilderness has much more forest area than New Jersey does. || · How will the terrain of the Canadian Wilderness affect my survival? · Because of the difference in the terrain, will I have any problems? || · The Canadian Wilderness has a mountainous terrain. However, trying to get past one of these may be a problem. If you decide to climb it, you must have the proper gear and equipment to do so. If you should decide to go around it, that also may take a while to do. · Because New Jersey does not have the same terrain, it may not be familiar to you and you might have issues adjusting to the area. You might not be familiar to the mountains there and not know what you need to do that. || · There are far more dangers in the Canadian Wilderness with all of the animals that live there. || · How can you protect yourself from the animals in the Canadian Wilderness? · What are some of the animals that you should watch out for? · || · You can protect yourself from the animals by using weapons to fend them off. You could make a spear out of a sharpened piece of wood or any other way that you can think of. You can also do certain things such as when you come in contact with a bear you make yourself look as big as you can. · To name a few of the certain animals that you should watch out for in the Canadian Wilderness there are grizzly bears, elk, moose, caribou, skunks, and many more dangerous animals live in the Canadian Wilderness. ||
 * Main Ideas or Questions you have about survival in the Canadian Wilderness (one in each box) || What I Already Know …
 * 1. What is the pattern of weather in the Canadian Wilderness and how can it effect survival? || · The weather can be very frigid and snowy
 * 2. What are 5 basic steps of surviving the Canadian Wilderness and what would happen if you did not do them? || · Must have some type of shelter in the wilderness
 * 3. Describes a minimum of two animals and their lifestyles that also support the description with facts, images, and sounds integrated. || · There are animals there that can potentially harm you
 * 4. Describes a minimum of two plants related to survival and supports the description with facts, images integrated, and the specific scientific names and classification. || · Don’t touch any plants unless you have back up.
 * 5. How is the Canadian Wilderness terrain from the New Jersey terrain? || · Much of the terrain there is forest area.
 * 6. What are the animals like in the Canadian Wilderness? || · The animals living in the Canadian Wilderness are far more dangerous than the ones here in New Jersey.

Michael Workman Talent 21 Notes Talent 21 Notes 3/1/11 Period 4/5 · In the winter the temperatures are usually 5 degrees F and in the summer the average is 77 to 86 degrees F.  · Yes, Canada does have extreme weather conditions such as earthquakes and heavy amounts of rain and snow fall there. · April in Canada is when it begins to turn to rain. The precipitation before is mostly snow. It rains throughout the summer then in October, it turns back to snow. · ** Boiling ** · This is the surest method of purifying water of bacteria and microbes. Sources conflict as to how long it is necessary to boil water to kill all of the harmful microbes. However, it should be boiled at least 5 minutes, and boiling for more like 20 minutes is probably the safest. · Boiling water requires heat, and therefore a [|fire] of some sort. And as well you will need a [|container]. If you have a fire-proof container, then you can put the water into the container and place the container on the fire. Otherwise you will need to use rock-boiling. · With rock boiling you place stones in a fire, wait for them to heat up, then remove them and place them into the container full of water. The water will quickly heat up as the hot rock transfers its heat to the water. You will need enough rocks in the fire to keep adding them to the container of water often enough that the water comes to a boil and stays boiling for the required time (5-20 minutes). · ** Build a water filter: ** · You can make a water filter [|from a cone of birch bark]. This cone is then filled with layers of sand, charcoal, grasses, and other materials. Grasses and sand help to trap suspended particles. Charcoal helps to remove bacteria and such. You may have to pass the water through the filter more than once, depending on the size of the filter and what it's made of. Generally speaking, the bigger the filter, and the more layers you have in it, the better. · The birch bark cone will need to have a fairly small hole in the bottom. The cone will have to be tied with cordage to keep it from opening up. Put a few stones in the very bottom, to help hold your filtering materials in place. Then pour in layers of charcoal, grasses, sand, and possibly other materials that you feel will help to filter out suspended particles and perhaps even bacteria. · Once you have constructed the filter, simply pour impure water through the filer, catching it in another [|container] at the bottom. Websites: [] [] [] [] [] [] [] []