Saturday, March 30, 2013

Watsons Blog

In chapter one we are introduced to the Watson family:
- Kenny: Main character, 10 years old, 4th grade
- Joetta (aka Joey): Kenny's little sister
- Byron: Kenny's big brother, 13 years old
- Daniel: Kenny's dad
- Mom: from the south
- Buphead: Byron's friend

setting: flint, Mi

Summary of chapters so far:
 chp. 1:
- Byrons lips get stuck to their cars mirror

chp 2:
- All 3 Watson children attend Clark elementary, a K-6 building (Byron is the god of the school)
- Kenny (aka Poindexter) has a lazy eye, s a very good reader
- Larry Dunn is the king of Clark (bully)

chp 3:
- Rufus Fry: new kid, doesn't bring a lunch, from down south, knows how to shoot guns
- Cody Fry: Rufus' little brother
- Fry boys: little clothes, southern accents
- Kenny used to play with dinos with LT, who would steal his dinos

chp 4:
- Byron tells story that their mom makes them where so much clothes because people from the south frese and a garbage truck picks the frozen people up in the morning
- Watson children get two pairs of leather mittens each year
- Kenny and Rufus were sharing Kenny's leather mittens
- Larry stole Kenny's second pair of mittens, Byron beat him up

chp 5:
- Byron was playing with fire so their mom tried to burn him, Joey didn't let her

chp 6:
- Byron found out the grocer lets his family pay for their food on pay days so Byron got 2 bags of cookies
- Byron hit and killed a bird with a cookie, threw up then buried the bird



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