Whirly+-+4

=__**Whirligig by Paul Fleischman**__= Heather Stabinsky- "The Questioner" Heather will create 5 open ended questions. Andrew Crosby-"The Director" Andrew will create a trailer. JJ Williams-"The Wordler" JJ will create a wordle. Tomor Nalbani-"The Glogger" Tomor will create a poster on Glogster. **ROBERTO YOU HAVE TO PICK A ROLE** http://animoto.com/play/vI0j8qNI45HLG0wdh0NM1g - Andrew's Director Project TOMOR'S ITS NOT MISSING Ms.Gallagher. The other project just covered my name. media type="custom" key="12116054"- Tomor's Glogster project = Wordle-By JJ=
 * Everyone else please message us and tell us what role you would like to take on, and write it here.**
 * Read independently and start on project independently. If you need help message our group**
 * Washington, Florida, Maine, and California** - The four states that Brent visits to place his whirligigs in rememberance of Lea.
 * Alcohol -** Brent had a BAC was .11 when he attempted suicide and ended up killing an innocent teen named Lea.
 * Humiliated** - Brent hopes to have a popular girl Brianna as his girlfriend and she snaps at him at a party in front of everyone. He is humiliated. Then he gets in the car driving nowhere, and wants to commit suicide.
 * Lies** - As Brent is on his journey, he does not reveal his past. He lies about his life and lies about why he is making the whirligigs.
 * New** - As Brent is lying on his journey, he is beginning in his eyes, a new life. He makes new choices and has new standards. He wants to get out of his depression and terrible old life, and begin a new one.
 * Thinking** - Brent has a lot of time to think while he is on his trip for nearly 45 days. He however doesn't think too much of his past decisions, but more of how he can start new.
 * Time** - Brent has a lot of time of his trip to think. He doesn't have too much to do during the time inbetween visits.
 * Diligent** - Brent takes the whirligigs seriously. He works for several days on each one. He works hard and makes sure they work properly. He wants to impact the lives of everyone who sees them.
 * Affect** - Throughout the story, the author shows how each whirligig impacts lives. One old lady in dying, and she wants to visit this whirligig because throughout her life, whenever she was feeling sad, she would visit it. She wanted to see it one last time. This shows how much Brent's whirligigs impact some people's lives.
 * Move** - One thing that impacts Brent's decision is that he is constantly moving. He moved recently to Chicago, and this is a big reason as to why he wants a girlfriend and friends, and when they are denied, he wants to escape the world, through death.

__//**Questions- by Heather**//__

 * How does Brent kill Lea?**


 * Why does Brent decide to make the whirligigs, and how?**


 * How does Brent mature over the course of the book, and what does he learn about himself?**


 * What does Brent make some of the whirligigs out of?**

=//**Book Talk- by Roberto**// = = = =media type="file" key="Whirligig.wav" width="300" height="50"= = = = =
 * What lessons can you learn from Brent’s experience?**