Samuel

My Theme

Listen to adults advice. In the book Bradley doesn't listen to Carla's advice and is still bad in school. He never listens to any adults advice. The result is he is very bad in school.

My Prediction

I predict that Bradley is at Red Hills School. He is failing at school. He is in 5th grade. Then Jeff comes along into the school. He becomes friends with Jeff. When he wants Jeff to go with him to beat up Melinda he doesn't want to be his friend. He makes Jeff come with him. Melinda gives him a black eye.

Summary

In chapter 1 Bradley sits at the last row, last seat. He does bad in school. Then a new kid comes to school. His name is Jeff. He got a F on a language test. At recess Jeff is nice to him but Bradley says "Give me a dollar or I'll spit on you."

In Chapter 2 Jeff gave him a dollar. He always lies. Then Bradley gives him back the dollar for Jeff to be his friend.

In chapter 3 he has about 20 fake animals. He likes playing with them. He always says call them if you don't believe me. He makes an excuse for his mom not to go to the Parent Conference.

Newspaper Journalist

Chapter 4: Journalist: How did you feel when your mom went to the Parent Conference? Bradley: I felt that it wasn't fair. Journalist: What do you think your mother learned? Bradley: My teacher probably told my mom how bad I've been in school.

Chapter 5: Journalist: What did you think when you found out that there was a new counselor? Mom: I wish Bradley would just listen to me one time. Journalist: Do you think Bradley has a real friend? Mom: No not really

Chapter 6: Journalist: What did you feel when you went into the Girls Bathroom? Jeff: It was scary and surprising. Journalist: What do you think about the size of the school? Jeff: It's so big! I was almost lost.

Summary

Chapter 7: Jeff talks with the counselor and he shares his experiences. The counselor gives him advice. He then tells her that he went in the Girls bathroom.

Chapter 8: Bradley messes up his map. At lunch he talks with Jeff about the counselor. The girls talk with them and they know that Jeff went into the Girls bathroom.

Chapter 9: Bradley talks to the counselor. He doesn't like her. He says Mrs. Ebbel made him come. He tells her about the elephant. She believes everything he says. He still doesn't like her.

Chapter 10: Bradley tells Jeff that the counselor is weird. He wants to go into the girls bathroom but Jeff made an excuse not to go into the bathroom.

Chapter 11: Jeff always had a good reason not to go into the girls bathroom. After school he wants to beat up the girls and then go to Jeff's house to do homework.

Journal Writing

Chapter 12: Dear Diary, The counselor won't let me speak to her unless my parents sign this form! I think that's dumb. I want to know who to invite to my birthday party. I just want to know.

Chapter 13: Dear Diary, I went to see the counselor again. I told her that the president doesn't wear a hat because every time he walked under a doorway it would fall off.

Chapter 14-18 Dear Diary, I got a black eye. I can't believe that Melinda beat me up. Mom made us cookies and Bartholemew saved Ronnie from the gang of cards. I told my mom that Jeff and his gang beat me up. I hope he gets in trouble. I told Mrs. Ebbed that my hand was stuck but I took it off. Jeff became the other boys friends just because they think that he beat up me. I want to be friends with the other boys but they won't let me.

Newspaper Journalist

Chapter 19-23:

Journalist: Do you like your new friends? Jeff: You bet! Journalist: What do you do with them at recces? I play basketball. ... Journalist: What do you think about telling the secret to Carla? Colleen: At least she won't tell anybody. Journalist: What do you think about Carla? Colleen: I think she's nice. ... Journalist: Why did you tell the counselor a lie? Bradley: I didn't want her to know that a girl gave it to me. Journalist: You also told her another lie about the sickness. Bradley: I didn't want to talk with her about it. ... Journalist: What do you think about doing that assignment? Bradley: Maybe I didn't like it maybe I did. ... Journalist: Why do you keep on not shaking the counselor's hand? Bradley: I don't like her. Journalist: What did you talk with her about? Bradley: Monsters from outer space.

Summary

Chapter 24-28

Melinda beats up Jeff. Bradley tries to get a gold star but nobody lets him be good. Jeff's friends chase him and he bumps into a girl. the are going to get Bradley at lunch. He goes into the girls bathroom. 2 girls see him. He goes into the counselor's room and trades lunches with her. He tells her that Melinda beat up him. He talks to the counselor about the library. He doesn't want to do homework so he starts crying. She kisses him and he has trouble on his homework. His animals try to help him but they start arguing and it's no use. His mother helps him. Then Claudia her sister helps him. He learns how to and he teaches one of his animals how to do it.

Journal Writing

Chapter 29-33

Dear Diary, I did my homework. I hope it doesn't get lost. I want to get a gold star. ... I ripped up my homework. I'm glad I did it. Carla says that even though I ripped it up I still did my homework and I learned from it. Carla let me borrow a book from her so I can do my book report. I read some of the book today. It's very good. ... I read at home too. My animals asked me what I was doing. I told them I was reading. Parts of the book make me think. There's going to be a meeting about Carla. It's about complaints from parents. My sister knows that she kissed me. ... I knew an answer to a question and I almost answered it but someone else answered the question that I would have answered. My book is like magic. Jeff's gang tried to get Jeff to fight me but I stopped the fight and became friends with them. ... I tried a shot and I actually made it! I think it was because of my magic book. Jeff told me that Melinda beat him up and gave him a black eye too. Colleen walked into the boys bathroom.

Newspaper Journalist

Chapter 34-38

Journalist: What do you think about the incident when Colleen walked into the boys bathroom? Jeff: I was confused. Journalist: What do you think about the Zen Monk thing? Jeff: I want to be a Zen Monk. It seems fun. ... Journalist: What do you think about going to Colleen's birthday party? Bradley: I want to go but I don't know what to do. Journalist: Are you excited? Yes I am excited to go to Colleen's birthday party and tomorrow I can go tell Carla what happened. ... Journalist: What do you think about talking to Carla? Bradley: It was exciting pouring it all out to her. Journalist: What do you think about the birthday party now? Bradley: I hope I don't mess up. ... Journalist: What do you think about the meeting? Carla: I got fired. I don't like the Concerned parents Organization. ... Journalist: What do you think about your book report? Bradley: Carla said it was very good. Journalist: What happened after that? Bradley: Carla told me that she was leaving so I ran into the boys bathroom and she followed me.

Summary

Chapter 39-43

The other animals take a vote and they said they don't like Ronnie anymore. She sank into quicksand and died. ... Bradley feels sick because of Carla. He gets a gold star for his book report. ... They go to a barber shop and he doesn't like it. He gets an envelope from Carla and there is the book inside. ... Bradley tries to write a letter to Carla. The animals took another vote and said they liked Ronnie the best. Bartholomew tells Ronnie that he saved her from the quicksand. The party starts and the guests start to arrive. The boys don't show up. They're late.

Journal Writing

Chapter 44-47

Dear Diary, I'm going to Collen's birthday party. Claudia gave me a party hat that and she said I couldn't take it off. Jeff taught me about birthday parties. ... I just came to Colleen's birthday party. I almost messed up a lot of times. We first played some games. We won the first game. My team won the second race. We won all the races except for the somersault race. Everybody on the other team was excellent at it though. ... The last race was the 3 legged race. Jeff and I were on the same team. It was so funny. Everybody fell down. Jeff and I won 3rd place. For all the games I was the winner. We sang happy birthday to Colleen. I messed up though. ... I wrote a letter to Carla. I gave her Ronnie.