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 * Gerard Falzarano. Questions Week 1**

1. What kind of pitcher is Shane? Shane is a closer for his high school team.

2. What kind of job does Shane’s father have and what happened to him? Shane’s father works for a lexis dealership and gets arrested at Shane’s baseball game in front of everyone.

3. What is he accused of? Shane’s father was accused of selling cars to drug dealers and being associated with selling drugs.

4. What did Shane’s dad keep on repeating to the family before he died? He repeated many times that if the family sticks together then this will soon be over.

5. What did the note say that the dad wrote right before he shot himself? The note said; I am sorry, I didn’t mean for any of this to happen.

1. I’m a closer, so I cant live and die on every pitch, especially in the early innings of a game.
 * Jake Sirico Quotes**

2.You father is dead. He shot himself.

3. All mom did was sit in the kitchen smoking.

4. Did you ever think about going to another school? Maybe Whitman?

5. My dad is big he played first base and batted clean up at Washington state.


 * Jimmy Butler Summarizer**

 The main characters name is Shane as we just found out because it did not say his name in chapter one. Gerard worked vigorously on the questions while Jake asked him different questions on how to be the quote person. We found out that the Cleary test was easy. We also found out that the book we are reading is written by Carl Deuker not Tim Wendel.  We all found it quite sad when Shane’s father committed suicide. It was a very tragic scene. Jake was being ignorant and his feelings weren’t shown. Jake put on his determination face and focused on his quotes as he talked about how the book could connect to real life. As I read aloud Jake gets more and more frustrated. Shane was a very good ball player but after the death of his father he started to play poorly and decided to quit. In the end we figured out that we could all contribute to our discussion and that this book is also very interesting.

**Week 2** 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?

The language in High Heat is intermediate and easy to ready. There is not too many long and confusing words that no one knows what means. There is not many characters introduced in the book but it is conversational. We all agreed that High is more moderate because it has situations closer to the present. Shane keeps a lot of him thoughts in his mind and only talks to people when they start the conversation because he is still in shock that his father killed himself. I would say this book is written at an eighth grade level because it is not a hard book to read and understand.
 * Gerard Group Leader**

1. What does Shane get arrested for? Shane gets arrested for stealing alcohol at a Minni mart. 2. What school does Shane switch too? Shane switches to Whitman High. 3. Do you think Shane is hanging out with the right people? No, because there forcing him to steal. 4. How do you think Shane will do on his new school baseball team? I think he will do okay and make new friends. 5. What did Shane do for community service? How did it benefit him? Shane was forced to clean up the baseball field. He meet the coach and fell and decided to play baseball again.
 * Jake Sirico Questions**

1. "How could i tell him that i wanted him to miss my next game,and the game after that and the game after that." 2. "Don't expect much" mom said. 3. "Its not what you're used to" 4. "But it's clean, and we're all together,and we're healthy, and thats all that matters." 5."Seattle Housing Authority."
 * Hunter Quotes**

During our discussion today Mr. Gotliffe opened the window and packed a snowball. After this we got back to work and discussed how the language in the book was. Everyone participated and contributed. Finally we all answered the questions that Jake made up. Today was a very successful day.
 * Ricky Tiburcio**


 * Jimmy Butler Summary**

Gerard and Jake helped each other with their jobs. Then we all discussed more on what led up to the dad killing himself. We discovered that there were many different reasons as to why he might have done this. Were all perplexed on how Shane behaves after this. We are still working on our contributions to the wiki now.

Jake Sirico Summarizer
 * Week 3**

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Its week three January 6, 2011 we are about to disuse the mood and the theme of the book. Jimmy is looking for quotes. Hunter is thinking of questions. Ricky is doing hid questions for group leader. I am typing this summarizer. Mean while Gerard is chilling and waiting for me to finish the first paragraph. Ricky thinks he is daffy duck. We are discussing what we are doing next week. ===== We got confused because we thought that is was week four and we had nothing for week three on the wiki page. We then concluded that is was week three. As a group we decided that the theme of high heat is no matter what obstacles confront you, never give up what you love to do. We had a good discussion about what happen up to page 150 .We also discussed what we think will happen later in the book. Ricky Tiburcio- group leader.
 * Gerard summarizer**

The theme of this book no matter what obstacle that is in your path, never give up what you love to do. The mood of this book changes a lot but the main mood of the book is sadness and overcoming things.

Jimmy Butler Quotes

1. "All we had to do was chip away at the lead, a run here, a run there and we would be right back in it." 2. "For a moment i couldn't say anything." 3. "He wasn't going to get it. Not of me." 4. "A minute later i heard sirens in the distance." =5. "I have to go home i said."=

Week 4

**Jimmy Butler- Group Summary**
Today is week four for our book groups. We talked about how the book was going and what is happening to Shane’s former teammate. We know he is being taken to the hospital for head injuries do to getting hit by a pitch in a game by Shane. We also thought that Shane was a boring name so we renamed him Shanaynay.

**Jake Sirico- Group leader**
The Theme to this book is never give up when things are bad. The symbol to this book is a baseball. This symbol is a baseball because in the book Shane’s always thinking about baseball. Baseball also helps Shane stay out of trouble. The author put these symbols in to show how sports could keep kids of trouble.

1. “You know Shane. Were not rich. If you earned some money, it would help.” 2. “Did I want to become an electrician or a plumber? How about AmeriCorps or VISTA? Was I interested in a technical school, a community college, or a four year college?” 3. “But that was when we had money, and I got good grades. Now we didn’t have money, and I didn’t get good grades. 4. “Our second Christmas in the house was a lot different from the first. For one thing, the house felt like home.” 5. “High school baseball games don’t get the attention of football or basketball, but there’s a certain electricity that comes with every opening day, even if the bleachers are half empty.”
 * Gerard Falzarano- Quotes**

**Hunter Biedenkapp- Group summary** Today is January 21st this is week four for our Ir book groups. Shane now plays on the Whitman high school baseball team. Shane is upset about hitting his former teammate. He made his former teammate go to the hospital. Also we discussed what happened through out the book.

Ricky Tiburcio-Questions

Who got hit by the pitch? How do you think he feels hitting is former teammate? How do you think the teammate feels? How does Shanaynay try to get money? Does baseball keep him out of trouble?

Week 5

Would you recommend it to peers? I would recommend this book to peers because it is very exciting and it has a good plot. Why or why not? This book is great it has a lot of action and tells a good story about a boy and his life. Has this topic been discussed more/less effectively in another book or books? This topic has been shown in many different ways and its tough to tell which one is shown the best. Should this book be considered for the school's curriculum? This book should be part of the curriculum because of the story line and how students could relate to Shane life.
 * Jimmy Butler - Group Leader**

1. In a different way Kim’s scholarship took some pressure of me. 2. Were in the district tournament! 3. So I gave up and let it all in. My dad…my mom…Grandison some how I was aware of all of them, but most of all I was aware of Reese. 4. I made the last warm up pitch from the mound, then the shore lake batter stepped in. This was it. 5. I blew up some air and got the sign from Gold.
 * Jake Sirico- Quotes**

Gerard Summary. Today we discussed why we should recommend this book for our fellow peers to read. If you like sports and drama then you would like High Heat. In the middle of this great discussion we had, Jimmy was complimenting our apparel. Meanwhile, Ricky was eating some Nabisco 100 calories ritz snacks. Hunter still denies that he was questions on week three and is being very stubborn about it. After our discussion, Jimmy was showing our group the new headphones he will be getting and Ricky was showing our group the new shoes he wants. We observed that Harrison is playing chess on his laptop. Everyone agreed that High Heat was a good read and the ending was good.