Crank


 * Meeting 1**

Dan (A) 1. Kristina- What makes her interesting is basically that her life is very fast paced. 2. Her parents are divorced and she goes to visit her father in Mexico in his bad apartment. 3. because she has a very interesting and eye catching life. 4. No, they all seem very interesting to me and i feel that this will turn out to be a very good story.

Steve (B) 1 “Life was good before I met the monster.” 2 “As for dad, well, truth be told, his love of drugs surpassed his love family.” 3 “Like he knew me, knew I had no life, suspected I’d come spying, set up the game just for me” 4 “Life is full of choices, we don’t always make the good ones” 5 “I mean, there I was, snorting crank with my dad, my boyfriend, and his other girlfriend. Something majorly wrong with that picture.”

Aaron(C)

Matt C.(D) Kristina is a quiet girl in high school. She never gets into any trouble. Her parents are divorced. She lives in Nevada with her mom. One day, she went to see her dad in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Her dad is irresponsible and lives in a rundown apartment.

When She gets there she meets a guy named Adam in the apartment next to her dads. When they meet, she doesn’t tell Adam her real name. She says her name is Bree. Adam introduces Kristina or “Bree” to Crank. Crank is a drug that changes her life. When Bree tries it for the first time she doesn’t really like it. Then they did another line. She liked it. Bree said it didn’t burn as bad, and made her feel good. She also is doing drugs with her dad.


 * Meeting 2**

Aaron(A) 1. Kristina went out to the buffet with her mom, because her mom shows her love with food. 2. No, I do not. She got into drugs by lying about her name, and trying to impress a boy. 3. I think she will at this point, but if she starts using again then she will stay involved. 4. She prayed to the Lord for her protection and safety against speed. 5. They are Adam and Brendan.

Dan(B)- 1. " I got up headed for the door hoping that Adam would stop me" 2. "Unlucky me, mom's kitchen is more stocked than dad's 3. "Wrote a four page letter to my sister, told her i was in love" 4. "Seeming and Being are two different things" 5. "Chase or no Chase, i wanted to see Brendon"

Matt(C) 1) Where did Kristina go out to dinner with her mom? 2) Do you think her dad is a bad influence and part of the reason she started using drugs? 3) Do you think Kristina will ever stop using Drugs? 4) Why did Kristina pray to the Lord on pg 207. 5) What are her two boyfriends names?

Stephen(D) Bree is caught in the room at the bowling alley by her dad doing lines. He joins in. This is her first time. She also gets attacked on her way home, but Adam stops them. She cleans the entire apartment because she can't sleep. Lince falls off the balcony and Adam is upset. They visit Lince in the hospital.

Her dad asks her if she's had sex with Adam. Bree and Adam were going to have sex but she got her period. Adam tells her Lince is going to be okay. Then they get high again and Adam tattoos her leg as a sign of their love. She leave to go back home. She isnt the same person who left and has a hard time dealing with her family now. Her mom tries to fix everything with food. She sleeps alot and calls Buddy to talk but he's at the hospital with Lince.


 * Meeting 3**

Matt(A)(Answers to questions) 1)Chase and Brendan 2)She got a tattoo. 3)Chase~ She ran into him at the mall 4)Her boyfriend because he wanted to say sorry. 5)Her dad drove by and saw that Chase was over.

Aaron(B) " I looked her in the eyes and for the first time in my life, told my mother, "fuck you." " " Very late. But I'd definitely be awake. I coughed up the fact i was sneaking out." "A word of advice: never shop on crank." " Damn. There's my boss. Back to work. Call me, okay? i wondered if i could. I'd always waited for boys to call me." "Looks like we've got a lot to talk about. But maybe this isn't the best time?"

Stephen(C) Who did bree meet at scott's anaul picnic? Why did bree got GUFN? Who did she leave the mall with to go get high? Who sent bree a letter? Why? Why did she get GUFN again?

Dan(D)

Today is Friday October 15th. We have read up to page 321. This week I am Person D. Aaron is person B. Steven is person C and Matt is person A. Matt is in charge of keeping the group together and on task and he is answering the questions for week three. Aaron is in charge of getting important quotes from the section of the book that we read for this week. I am in charge of making a 2 paragraph summary if what we are doing today. Everyone has all their work done and we are going to clean up our wiki space to make it look better. Steven is in charge of being the key questioner. He is going to find some questions that we feel would be important to know from reading the book.


 * __MEETING 4__**

Matt(B) “If I couldn’t get crank from chase than who could I get it from?” “Locked the door, sat on my bed. Robyn produced a V of crusty foil, tapped in the last crumbs of powder. This little bit will go right to your brain and wont clog your sinuses.” “I smiled, nodded, apologized for foul temper and angry words, protested when it seems I ought to and somehow managed t avoid GUFN” “Mom and Scott believed they’d bitten a bullet.” “Somehow I managed to convinced myself life with the monster was not a routine.”


 * 1) What happened with brendon and kristina on the date.
 * 2) Where do Kristina and Brendon go on their date?
 * 3) Who comes to Kristina to try and comfort her?
 * 4) Why does Scott, her step dad come to talk to her? What do they talk about?
 * 5) Who is going to get the crank for Kristina?

Stephen (A) 1. The author uses images such as crosses, mountains and things like that to show different meanings. 2. These things show the struggle the Bree goes through on a daily basis. 3. I think the author uses different symbols to represent what she is going through, like an uphill or downhill struggle.

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Today is October 22,2010. We have read up to page 428. Everyone has done their individual reading. Everyone is staying on task, and doing their current assignment. Matt is putting up quotes that stick out from this week’s reading. Dan is responsible for asking questions about choices Kristina has made, how she’s been doing, and what has recently happened to her. Steve is answering the week four questions about theme and imagery.======

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At this point in “Crank” Kristina has just taken ecstasy. She’s alone with Chase in his house. Before all of the guests arrive for the party Kristina and Chase have sex. Once the guests do arrive Kristina starts smoking, snorting, shooting up, and dropping E again. Kristina becomes almost out of control. She’s full of energy dancing the night away. Towards the end of the night Kristina meets up with Chase and they go outside to smoke a cigarette and get away from everyone. Chase realizes the time, kicks everyone out, and drives Kristina home. Kristina’s mother yells at the both of them and says she is GUFN.======

__**Meeting 5**__

Matt (D)

Today is November 1st. We have finished the book. I am group summarizer, Dan is group leader, Steve is Quotation, and Aaron is questions. Aaron is absent. Everyone has done there reading for this week. Steve is listing quotes that were important from this weeks reading. Dan is answering the week five questions about responding to the text. Steve is cleaning up the wikispaces to make it look better.

Dan (A)

We are finished reading our book. Everyone is on task and doing their jobs. We thought this was a pretty good book. Our group would recommend this book to a friend and say it was a good book. We think this because it is a very interesting book to read and it can teach you a lot and to make the correct and responsible decisions. Out of most of the book I have read, I have not seen any books, out of what I have read, to relate to this book and have the same topic. Although we feel we would recommend this book to a friend we don’t think that it should be considered to be used in schools. It is a good book, however there is a big reason this is a banned book. Overall we all thought this was a good and interesting book and would recommend it to a friend.

Stephen (B)

"I should have been scared to death, but ecstasy dissolves all fear." "Have you ever once in your life reached out to touch infinity?" "And somehow I managed to convince myself life with the monster was not routine." "The problem with resolutions is they're only as solid as the person making them." "The monster will forever speak to me. And today, it's calling me out the door."