Deadline

Book Club Schedule 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.

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.

Week 1: Person D (Julia) Ben is a high school senior, and has just discovered that he has chemo. He has decided not to tell anyone, not even his parents. He does this because he wants to live his last year to the fullest. To do so he tries out for football for the first time, he has always wanted to be a football hero. He also wants to date Dallas Sezuki, who he has liked for a long time. He has a younger brother Cody, who is his opposite. Cody is big, and tall, and Ben is small and skinny. Since Ben is so small, everyone is wondering why he is trying out. He thinks that this is the best decision, but can Ben keep this a secret for a whole year?

Person B (Courtney)
 * 1) “…We have to get right on it. Otherwise you’ll be lucky to have a year.” (4)
 * 2) “I was thinking of my mom. How in the word do I tell her this?” (5)
 * 3) “I’ve had this dream since grade school. This kid is in a hospital bed surrounded by doctors, nurses, and parents. Tubes protrude from the nose and he is seriously puny, and the only dialogue is, ‘it isn’t working.’ I cant see that the kids face is mine, but one of the people standing around the bed is my brother, Cody.” (6)
 * 4) “…’What in hell are you doing here?’ ‘I wanted a new experience.’” (18)
 * 5) “My plan was to focus my senior year on information…” (1)

Person C: (Katie and Kaitlin) 1. Why doesn’t Ben Wolf tell his parents about the diagnosis? Because he wanted to have a normal senior year and there are too many problems in their family already. 2. Why does Ben try out for the football team? To make it the best senior year. 3. Do you think Ben made the right decisions by not telling anyone? No because when he dies they will be really shocked. He should have given them time to know and absorb it. 4. Would you have done the same thing? No. 5. Do you think that anyone is going to find out? Yes especially when he's in the end stages and really weak. 6. What kind of mental illness does the mom have? Alcoholic problem. 7. Who does Ben Wolf have a very close relationship to? Cody and the coach.

Person A : Paige (answered questions)

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 2: 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

Questions: Paige

-How did Ben explain Dallas to his therapist? he said that she was athletic and pretty and could get any guy she wants

-What does Ben’s dad call it when his mother has breakdowns? Ben's dad calls his mother's breakdown's a "crash".

-What is the rumor about Dallas the rumor is that she doesn't let anyone in her house.

-Where were Dallas’s parents when Ben was at her house? they were in Boise

-Who is an ex-priest? ruddy is an ex-preist Answered by courtney and Kailtin

Summary (Katie): Deadline is a book about a teenage boy who finds out he has cancer in the beginning of senior year. In order to live out the rest of his life, Ben Wolf wants to read as many books as he can, play football, and more importantly have the girl of his dreams. In the book, Ben Wolf goes out for football. At the big game Ben is sitting on the bench as normal, however, Ben’s brother demands that Ben gets put in the game. Once Ben gets in, he makes the winning touchdown. After the game, Ben Wolf enjoys the homecoming dance with his favorite girl, Dallas Suzuki. Dallas had been his love since 8th grade. Finally, Ben Wolf was having the time of his life and finishing his life on a high note

Quoter (Julia): 1) "I'm making each second of my life count, and I'm spending anything I have saved up, right here on this field, right here on this day" (Crutcher p.104) . 2)"This season ends for me with no regrets" (Crutcher p. 105). 3)"He's been running pass patterns for me since we were in grade school" (Crutcher p. 108) 4)" He's right. This is not the night to try to repair my mother" (Crutcher p.114) 5)"You're running around in the middle of the night and you decide the town drunk needs company? I think not" (Crutcher p.86).

Week Three: October 15

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

Quotes( Kaitlin) " You can lead a horse to water" ( Dallas, 153). " Hickory dickory dock..." (Dallas, 153). " Two mouses ran up the clock" ( Dallas. 154). "Ask me whats inside my sleeping bag?" ( Henry,155). " What a great kid" ( Dallas, 156).

Questions (Katie): Answers (Julia)

1. What is the reaction when Ben Wolf walks into the prom? Everyone is cheering for him because he won the football game.

2. Where does Ben stay for the night? He stayed at Dallas Suzuki's house.

3. What was Ben’s dad's reaction to Ben staying out? He didn't care that much because he wanted Ben to have a good time.

4. What does the coach say about Ben mouthing off to his teacher? He told Ben to stop because it isn't smart, and he could get in trouble.

5. What did the coach do to the book the //Malcolm X// because of Silvia? He burned the book outside of the school.

Summary (Courtney&Paige)

In chapters 9-14 of deadline, Ben’s team wins the football game. After the game, he stayed at Dallas’s house. Ben was hoping “something” would happen again, but Dallas was scared and didn’t want to. After leaving Dallas’s house in the morning, he dad was concerned about where he was, but he didn’t really care. The next day, Ben goes so class. He is always talking back to his teacher. Silvia, a girl in his class, complains about a book. So later that day, Silvia gets the book from the library and burns it.

Week Four: October 22

Topic: Themes/Images (section 4 out of 5 of your text)

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

Questioner (Katie)


 * 1) What happened to Dallas when she was thirteen?
 * 2) What did Ben discover about Rudy?
 * 3) What does Ben start think about doing at the end of the chapters?
 * 4) What does the coach do on thanksgiving?
 * 5) Why doesn’t Ben not want to talk to hey-soos?

answers: (Julia) 1. She was pregnant with a child 2. When Ben went back to tell Rudy something, and Rudy told him that he had to leave. 3. He is thinking about telling Dallas that he has cancer. 4. He makes dinner and brings it to their house. 5. He thinks that he will be too embarrased Week Five: October 29 (LAST MEETING)

Summary (Kaitlin) In this section we read, Dallas told Ben that she was pregnant when she was thirteen. She told everyone that it was her mom’s baby. On Thanksgiving, the coach went to Bens house and made dinner for their family. Ben’s mom is very isolated because of everything that is going on in her life. So during thanksgiving, she is in her room the hole time, while the coach made dinner for her family, for Thanksgiving.

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

Person D(katie):

In the last few chapters of //Deadline// by Chris Crutcher, many things happened. Ben Wolf has to tell all the people who love him that he has a terminal disease that will turn fatal. Many did not take it well, like his girlfriend, brother, and his drunken mother. At the end of the book, Ben Wolf does die and his brother must speek on his behalf at their high school graduation. The book began to become very sad and it definitely showed bond between siblings.

Person B (Julia): 1) “Something you learn on the last day of your life is as important as something you learn on the first day of grade school, because you’re not dying, you’re changing” (Crutcher 310). 2) “Let’s say he does, and let’s say some kid picks it up when they start looking at half the stuff in our generation and nobody around this hick town knows Malcolm X from Malcolm in the Middle” (Crutcher 276). 3) “…Dallas Suzuki gliding past me as if I don’t exist. I’d do anything for a do- over, but at least I this dimension time marches on. I blew it and it remains blown” (Crutcher 273). 4) “We’re home when I finally tell him, sitting in his room after midnight under posters of Michael Jordan, Brett Favre , and Michael Johnson”(Crutcher 263). 5) “Ben, you made a lot of us proud on the football field this year, you really did. But if I were you, I’d let it go at that and keep this Malcolm X thing under your hat” (Crutcher 260).

Person D (Kaitlin) Person A (Paige and Courtney)

Who did Ben tell first about his desease? //ben told his coach first.// Who speaks on Bens behalf? //his brother, cody, talked on his behalf.// What does Ben find out about rudy? He found out that Rudy is a child molester. Hows does Bens parents react when he tells them ? //they were really upset that they didn't tell him.// How does dallas react? //Dallas tell him to get out of his house and she freaks out.//