theroad

__**Week 1**__

Person A-Collin Person B/C-Ryan Person D-Tommy

__**Questions**__

1. Where does the story take place? All over the left over terrain of America.

2. Why is the conflict of the story extra difficult for the faher and his little boy? The father already lost his wife and he doesn't want to lose the last person in the world he loves.

3. What characters have we met in the story? Name a few character traits- Father- Brave and will do anything to protect his family Mother- Selfish didn't have the will to stay and fight with her family to survive. Little Boy- brave and scared for the future

4. Do you have any guess what s going to happen to the boy and his father? If so explain. They will come face to face with one of the lawless bands. Also it will come down to where the son looses the father.

5. In your opinion, what do you think of the father and sons relationship? Great relationship and shows the real father and son bond.

__**Quotes**__
 * 1) “You forget what you want to remember, and you remember what you want to forget.”
 * 2) “Nobody wants to be here and nobody wants to leave.”
 * 3) “ There is no God and we are his prophets.”
 * 4) “If trouble comes when you least expect it then maybe the thing to do is to always expect it.”
 * 5) “When you die it’s the same as if everybody else did too.”

__**Summery**__

Book Club one Summery

First we all came into the classroom. We ate our snacks Collin brought Nutter Butters and I brought Pop Tarts Ryan Forgot to bring food. Then we got to work. Collin went onto the wiki and answered the questions that Ryan wrote we discussed the answers to the questions while Collin answered them. Then Ryan put the quotes on we discussed each quote and told what we thought they meant. Next I started writing the summery and that’s where it ended.

//__**Week 2**__//

Person A- Ryan Person B/C-Tommy Person D- Collin

__**Questions**__

1.Do you think when the son says he sees a boy there was actully somone there? Yes, but the boy ran away before the father came back.

2. How does the father stop the man from killing his son? He shoots him in the face with the revolver.

3. Are there any good people like the father and son or are they all bad like the people they keep seeing? Yes, there are several people called refugees.

4. Why does the dad leave the son alone for a little bit? He needs to get firewood.

5. Why does the dad starting coughing up blood? He ran two miles carrying the boy running up hills, running away from bad guys. **__Quotes__**

1."People in the road, keep your face down, don't look"

2."The boy was sitting on the steps when he saw somthing move at the rear of the house across the road. A face was looking at him" 3."If it's a commue they'll have barricades. But it may just be refugees like us  yes like us  what if its the bad guys?  we'll have to take a risk. We need to find somthing to eat"

4."He sat there cowled in the blanket. After a while he looked up. Are we still the good guys?" 5."The sooner i go the sooner ill be back and we'll have a fire and then you wont be scared anymore"

__** Summary **__

We sat down and started to drink Brisk. Ryan was being immature because he said he was going to bring something in for the group and didn’t. So I didn’t give him a drink. Tommy posted the questions and quotes on the wikispace. Then Ryan started to answer the questions. We then started to discuss the question and quotes. Then we discussed the values of life and why you should fight to stay alive and not to kill yourself. Being strong and willing to fight is essential in the situation they are in. We spoke about how it was very selfish of the mother.

__** Week 3 **__

Person A-Tommy Person B-Collin Person D-Ryan


 * __Questions__**

1. What does the father mean when he says "it's my job to protect you, god assigned me"? The father means that the were still alive so he has to protect him. 2. Why is the father so protective if he knows that he won't be there forever? He's so protective because he knows that one day they could make it to the refugee and survive 3. Why does the son always ask if they are the good guys? The son always asks because he doesn't want to turn into the bad guys, he doesn't want to eat other people and he doesn't want to kill people. 4. Where do they think that life is okay? In california or all over the west coast 5. What was the most important thing they found so far? They found a bunker underground with everything essential for life.
 * __Quotes__**

"This is what the good guys do" "I wish we could live here" "They wont find us" "You put your butter on the biscuit" "You'll have to wait for me"


 * __Summary__**

Tommy is asking Collin questions about what the quotes mean. We are all discussing the answers to all of the questions. Some of Collins quotes don’t make sense. Collin brought in goldfish for the group and while on task we are all eating goldfish. We started to answer the questions as a group. We are all discussing each of the questions and Tommy is typing the answers and eventually is going to post it on the wiki. Now we have finished answering the questions.

__**Week 4**__ //personA- Collin// //PersonB/C- Ryan// //PersonD- Tommy//

__**Questions:**__ 1.What are the key moments that help push the father to keep striving on? When his son asks him if they are going to die. So the father wants to assure that he will be suite for life when he has passed on. 2. One man they meet on the road says "There is no God and we are his prophets." What does he mean by this? The man on the road means everything in the entire world has been destroyed at our creators hands and he was supposed to protect them. 3. What would you do in a world like this? Would it change your beliefs? What would you hope in? I would strive to stay alive and believe in all miracles. I would hope in safety for my family. 4. Why did the father choose to survive and not the mother? What did he see that she could not? That there was hope and they couldn't give up on their son. 5. Do you think there is a lot of weight on the fathers shoulders because he has to stay strong for his son? Yes because he has to prepare him for the world for when he is gone.

__**Quotations**__
 * 1) “If he is not the word of God, God never spoke.”
 * 2) “Nobody wants to be here and nobody wants to leave.”
 * 3) “Once there were brook trout in the streams in the mountains.”
 * 4) “And perhaps beyond those shrouded swells another man did walk with another child on the dead gray sands.”
 * 5) “The cold relentless circling of an intestate earth.”

__**Summary**__

We sat down at our table and waited for Ryan to upload the questions and quotes. It took him a long time so we discussed the topic for the day in the mean time. Then Collin read the questions out loud and we discussed each question together and answered them. Then we discussed the quotes and talked about each one.

__**Week 5**__


 * Questions-**

1. What was your reaction to the end of the book? It was very sad, the boys dad dies and he is left there but his luck came in and a man saved him and brought him in this his family. 2. What was your favorite part of the book? My favorite part of the book was when they found the underground base where there was a surplus of food and everything, they were so happy. 3. Was it a good idea that the boy went with the man? yes, the boy had to give the man a chance and he did, it was a good idea they brought the boy in with the rest of family 4. Who is your favorite character? Why? My favorite character is the boy, he always has faith even when his dad died, when his mom died and when he almost died. 5. Do you think the father did his job i believe the father definitely did his job, he protected the boy in so many sinerios and helped him when he was sick.
 * Quotations-**

1. They wandered through the rooms like skeptical house buyers.

2. well, because we don't like surprises. Surprises are scary.

3. They stayed at the house for four days eating and sleeping.

4. They ate well but were still a long way from the west coast.

5. Are you the good guys? Yes, we have been following you for a while.

Summary- We were doing just fine and then Collin got a little angry. We still managed to discuss the book with distraction. Collin is typing the quotes and questions. Now Tommy is answering the questions and all of us are discussing what we think the quote means. We are discussing the summary of the book and we are also discussing all of our opinions of the book. All of us enjoyed the book a lot.