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//19 Minutes: Akshay Anand, Lavar James, Matt Eng, Nick Cefali, Alexis Perricelli, Courtney Basovsky//

You should divide your book into 5 equal sections. For example, if your book has 100 pages, you should have five 20 page sections. You should read the appropriate section for each meeting.
 * Book Club Schedule**


 * Requirements**:
 * **PERSON A - GROUP LEADER** - This group member will be responsible for both keeping the group on task throughout the meeting as well as responding to the week's topical questions, listed below.
 * **PERSON B - QUOTATION FINDER** - This group member will be responsible for finding 5 important, meaningful quotations from their section of the text. They will also facilitate a discussion regarding these quotations.
 * **PERSON C - KEY QUESTIONER** - This group member will be responsible for providing 5 open-ended questions regarding the week's reading section. These questions, and their responses, will be posted on the group's wiki.
 * **PERSON D - GROUP SUMMARIZER** - This group member will be responsible for posting a thorough, two-paragraph summary of the group's Friday meeting, to be posted on the group wiki no later than the Sunday following the meeting.


 * Groups will decide appropriate penalties for group members who fail to uphold their responsibilities.**


 * NOTE: If your book club has three members, the roles B and C should be combined; if your book club has five members, two students should take the role of C (5 questions each).**


 * Week One: May 6**

Topic: Characters (Section 1 out of 5 of your text)

Assignment: 1. On your group's wiki page, describe the main characters in your text. What makes them interesting? What is their story or background? Why are you drawn to them? Conversely, are there any characters that you just cannot stand? Why not? (A) 2. Person B should share and discuss their selected quotations, using Save The Last Word techniques. 3. Person C should post the meeting summary on the group's wiki page after class. 4.Person D should share his/her questions with the group, as well as post the questions on the group's wiki page

//**Alexis Perricelli- Group Leader**// Alex- Alex is Josie's mom, and is the judge for Peter's case. Alex and Josie are not very close. Alex is very confusing at times, and no one understands why her and her daughter arn't close. Peter- Peter is a high school student who gets made fun of a lot, and brings a gun to school. Peter has a big impact in the book, because of what he did which tells the whole story. Peter always gets made fun, and one day just blew up. Josie- Josie is in the popular crowd in high school. Josie eventually gets questioned in Peters trail. I'm very interested in her character because she pretends to be someone she's not, and thinks if she shows are true self no one will accept her. There's no characters that I can't stand, because were not that far in the book to know about more of them.

In our group we began the discussion by talking about the author and what other work she was done. Many of the members in the group fell as though the book is going to get better as we go on. He talked about the characters in the book and the information about them. We also talked about how the main character, Josie, has a plan to kill herself in case people start thinking she is not popular. We end the day by talking about the shooting that took place in the book.
 * //Nick Cefali 5/6/11- Summarizer//**

What was Alex for 34 days? A judge What did Josie thought her life was like? She felt her life was like a room with no doors and no windows. Who was Patrick Ducharme? A detective on the Sterling police force Were did the crime take place? Sterling High school gym What did Peter’s father tech him to do? His father taught him to clean a gun
 * //Matthew Eng: Key Questioner//**

Who is Josie? -Josie is a teenage girl in high school. She is very popular, has a boyfriend and is basically who every girl wants to be. She has a secret. She is fake and knows it. She acts like someone she’s not everyday of her life. 2. Who is Alex? -Alex is the mom of Josie. She is a judge. Alex tells Josie that she is always a judge even when she isn’t in court; this is what keeps Josie and her mom from being close. 3. Why does Josie keep pills in her drawer? -She has the pills in her drawer because she thinks that there will be a day when she gets tired of being someone she’s not and she knows that if she took these 15 pills with some vodka it would kill her. 4. What makes Josie forget about being depressed? -She is happy when she looks into Matt, her boyfriend’s eyes and when he kisses her. This makes her feel lucky. 5. What does Patrick do for a living? -Patrick Ducharme is a detective. "Something still exists as long as there’s someone around to remember it."
 * //Courtney Basovsky- Key Questioner://**

"Everyone thinks you make mistakes when you’re young, but I don’t think we make any fewer when we’re grown up." 'I was in your French class, did you know that? I sat in the row by the window, second from the back. You always seemed sort of mysterious, and I liked your smile. I would have liked to be your friend' "Here, no one would talk about him as if her were an animal" 'The prosecutor took a step closer. "You never put together a plan, like Peter, to go through the school systematically killing the people who had hurt you the most, did you, Dereck?" Dereck turned to Peter, so that he could look him square in the eye when he answered. "No," he said. "But sometimes I wish I had."'
 * //Lavar James- Quotation Finder//**

“What’s on the docket today?” – Alex pg.6 “Promise me you’ll finish that?”- Alex pg.8 “How’d I do on the last test?” –Matt pg.13 “You missed loser.”- Drew pg.17 “Are you ok?”- Patrick pg.23
 * //Akshay Anand: Quotation Finder//**


 * Week Two: May 13**

Topic: Language (Section 2 out of 5 of your text)

Assignment: 1. On your group's wiki page, discuss the type of language that your book contains. Is it easy to read? Conversational? "Classic"? Does it use a lot of words you don't understand? What grade level do you think the book is written at, and why? (B) 2. Person B should share and discuss their selected quotations, using Save The Last Word techniques. 3. Person C should post the meeting summary on the group's wiki page after class. 4.Person D should share his/her questions with the group, as well as post the questions on the group's wiki page

//**Nick Cefali- Group Leader**// Yes the book is easy to read. It is mostly conversational so far. No there are not many words that we have never heard of. This makes the book easier to read. This is for teens in 9 thought 12 grades because of the topic of school shootings and how it describes the event. It talks about bullying to appoint of madness.

This week our group read to page 200. We discussed the trail that Peter went on. We also talked about some of the events that led up to him bring a gun to school. We said how it’s not fair that as little as 6th grade kids are being bullied. We talked about the quotes and how there are so many names that start with “P”. Also in the quotes we discussed how Alex, the judge of this case is reacting to everything in this trail. From the quotes were starting to talk about why Peter decided to hurt these people, not only the bullying but also how he felt lonely but no one could tell because he just pretended to always be okay.
 * //Courtney Basovsky- Group Summarizer//**


 * //Alexis Perricelli- Quotation Finder//**

-“On the Surveillance video taken from the cafeteria, students were carrying trays and doing homework and chatting when Peter entered the room holding a handgun.”(Picoult pg. 126)
-“When you don’t fit in you become superhuman. You can feel everyone else’s eyes on you, stuck like Velcro. You can hear a whisper about you from a mile away. You can disappear, even when it looks like you’re still standing right there. You can scream, and nobody hears a sound. You become the mutant who fell into the vast of acid, the Joker who cant remove his mask, the bionic man who’s missing all his limbs and none of his heart. You are the thing that used to be normal but that was so long ago, you can’t even remember what it was like” (Picoult, 137)

//**Matt Eng- Quotation Finder**// - “ Blessed those who mourn,” the pastor read,” for they will be comforted.” Pastor pg. 116 -“ They are all hypocrites,” Peter said. “ If they saw a cockroach, they’d step on it, wouldn’t they?” Peter pg. 133 -“She had nothing left inside. She’d give it all to her son.” Picoult pg. 166 -“ Selena shrugged. “ Wasn’t in the vows I took. If you want to have a pity party, set the table for one.” Selena pg. 177 -“ Pretty self-explanatory,” Guenther said. “She stuck the gun in her mouth and pulled the trigger.” Guenther pg. 192


 * Week Three: May 20**

Topic: Mood/Tone (section 3 out of 5 of your text)

Assignment: 1. On your group's wiki page, discuss the mood or tone of your book.What is the overriding emotion of this book? What examples back up your claim? (B) 2. Person B should share and discuss their selected quotations, using Save The Last Word techniques. 3. Person C should post the meeting summary on the group's wiki page after class. 4.Person D should share his/her questions with the group, as well as post the questions on the group's wiki page

The over all mood of this book would be upsetting and surprising. So far in the book the main characters all have problems that they don’t know how to address. For example, Josie is getting extremely tired of living a life she doesn’t want to live and is getting upset all of the time over little things. She made a big choice to have sex with Matt and Courtney went through her email and she sent the conversation between her and Matt to everyone. Josie doesn’t know what to do. Now Josie has everyone making fun of her but on top of all that she has to take a pregnancy test because she thinks she’s pregnant. She said the test came back positive. Also Courtney sent out one of Peters emails to Josie. In this email Peter told Josie that he liked her and now everyone knows. Peter is getting so sick of being bullied. This is increasing everyone’s stress and while reading the book you can tell that they are soon going to do something about their stress.
 * //Courtney Basovsky- Group Leader//**

Why did Josie push at Matt when about to have sex? - She didn't want to have sex unprotected. What did Courtney do when Josie was taking a shower? - She sent out a email from Matt to the whole school. Who wrote an email to Josie and why? - Peter because he liked Josie. When Josie took a pregnancy test what was the results and how did Matt react? - The pregnancy test was positive, and Matt said she was overreacting. Why doesn't Matt pay attention and care to what Josie has to say about the pregnancy test? - He's too worries about Drew's party this friday, and doesn't think Josie really is pregnant.
 * //Alexis Perricelli- Key Questioner//**

“There are a million things you can talk about,” Josie said. (Jodi Picoult, 316) “Did you ever bully him?”(Jodi Picoult, 352) “Tell me something…why was Josie lucky?” (Jodi Picoult, 354) “The Bullied Victims of America.” (Jodi Picoult, 360) “Could you see what kind of gun it was?” (Jodi Picoult, 368)
 * //Nick Cefali- Quotes//**

//**LaVar James- Group Summarizer**// Today we talked about Josie likes Peter. Then we talked about how Courtney sent the letter out for everyone to see what Peter likes about Josie.We discussed how surprised Josie was about this email and she couldn't believe that that is what Peter thought about her. Today was basically talkingabout their love affairs.

//**Matthew Eng- Key Questioner**// 1. What talk did Josie have with her mom? They talked about sex 2. What did Josie want Matt to put on? She wanted him to put on a condom 3. What was the outcome of her pregnancy test? She came back positive 4. What did they want to know about Drew in the trial? If He bullied Peter 5. What did Derek and Peter make with their computers? They made videogames.


 * Week Four: May 27**

Assignment: 1. On your group's wiki page, discuss the themes and images that your book contains. What are some of the images that are used? What do they seem to represent? Why do you think the author uses these images to convey his or her meaning? 2. Person B should share and discuss their selected quotations, using Save The Last Word techniques. 3. Person C should post the meeting summary on the group's wiki page after class. 4.Person D should share his/her questions with the group, as well as post the questions on the group's wiki page

1.The theme of the story is depression. The image is the gun that Peter later used to get back at everyone who made fun of him. Also the pills that Josie keeps with the vodka to kill herself.
 * //Matt Eng- Group Leader//**

Peter is talked about on trail. Peter and Jason begin talking in the cell that Peter had been placed in that night. Later on, Peter receives a letter in the jail cell from one of his victims. Peter's mother was the next to take the bench. A man yelled at during the trail and yelled how much of a monster Peter is and maybe if his mother, Lacy did her job, his daughter and the rest of them would still be alive.
 * //Alexis Perricelli- Summarizer//**

//**Nick Cefali- Key Questioner**// 1) What happen after the jury was dismissed? The courtroom broke in a roar of questions. 2) What did Josie not won’t to do during the trial? She did not want to testify. 3) What was the problem with the way Matt’s death was? The problem was that the story didn’t make sense and it would never happen like this. 4) What did Lacy try to do? She tried to tough Peter up. 5) What did the man at the court room say? He stated that her son was a monster.


 * //Courtney Basovsky- Quotation Finder//**
 * 1) “In every single school shooting case, Uppergrate said, the bullying card gets played.” (Picoult 401)
 * 2) “The first day of kinder garden. He got on the bus was tripped as he walked down the aisle and had his superman lunch box thrown down the highway” (Picoult 405).
 * 3) “The grounds that I’ve got absolutely nothing better to salvage my case, Jordan thought” (Picoult 421)
 * 4) “In that instant, something in Peter broke: not his anger, and not this hidden fear, but that last spider-thread of hope” (Picoult 423)
 * 5) “I would share your secret if you don’t share mine” (Picoult 441)

"If you gave someone your heart and they died, did they take it with them? Did you spend the rest of forever with a hole inside you that couldn't be filled?" "You don't need water to feel like you're drowning, do you?" "Something still exists as long as there's someone around to remember it." "So much of the language of love was like that: you devoured someone with your eyes, you drank in the sight of him, you swallowed him whole. Love was substance, broken down and beating through your bloodstream." "Can you hate someone for what they have done, but still love them for whom they had been?"
 * //LaVar James- Quotation Finder//**


 * Week Five: June 3 (LAST MEETING)**

Topic: Responding to the Text (section 5 out of 5 of your text)

Assignment: 1. On your group's wiki page, discuss your final reflections on this book. Would you recommend it to peers? Why or why not? Has this topic been discussed more/less effectively in another book or books? Should this book be considered for the school's curriculum? (B) 2. Person B should share and discuss their selected quotations, using Save The Last Word techniques. 3. Person C should post the meeting summary on the group's wiki page after class. 4.Person D should share his/her questions with the group, as well as post the questions on the group's wiki page

//**LaVar James- Group Leader**// I would recommend this book to peers. I would recommend it because I think that the book really shows the true meaning of life and friendship. Although it was a very good and entertaining book, I do not think it should be apart of the schools curriculum.


 * Nick Cefali Summarizer**

For are last week we talked about the ending of the book. He talked about how we liked the book and what we did not like about the book. We also talked about how upsetting the book was. We also fixed up our wiki.

//**Courtney Basovsky- Quoation Finder**//
 * 1) “I think a person’s life is supposed to be like a DVD. You can see the version everyone else sees, or you can choose the director’s cut- the way he wanted you to see it, before everything else got in the way.
 * 2) “A plaque on the bricks by the front door read: A Safe Harbor.” (Picoult 444)
 * 3) “Peter was laying on the bench in the cell, his hands behind his head. To Jordan’s shock he was smiling. She was my friend again, Peter explained. “You don’t break a promise to a friend.” (Picoult 446)
 * 4) “The rest of us, we’re all like Peter. Some of us just do a better job of hiding it. What’s the difference between spending your like trying to be invisible, or pretending to be the person you think everyone wants you to be? Either way, you’re faking.” (Picoult 447)
 * 5) “Here was the amazing thing: in his dream. Peter wasn’t scared. He knew, somehow, that he as headed exactly where he’d wanted to go.” (Picoult 541)

//**Alexis Perricelli- Questions**// 1) Who did Peter lift the gun at? - Matt 2) Who was startled and why? - Peter was because of the noise 3) Why was Matt screaming at Josie? - Because Matt wanted Josie to shot Peter with the gun. 4) Who shot Matt? - Josie shot Matt 5) What secret does Josie tell Peter to keep? - That she killed Peter