Week 7

Why do you think Zero and His mom got kicked out of the house?
Where do you think is Zero's dad?
What do you think Laney Park looks like?
Do you think it is possible for somebody to learn to spell and read as fast as Zero learnt?
If you had the decision between Camp Green Lake
 
 
I relate to the part when it's the time in the story when Zero is spelling out words to Mr. Pendanski to when in life people dont believe in people and underestimate people and hen they are proven wrong. I also relate to the part when Zero runs away to real life when people go missing and dont 
 
By Ziggy Dalton

 The story takes place in the United States of  America. The main character’s name is Stanley Yelnats. Stanley is an overweight, teenage boy that comes from a poor family. The name Stanley has gone down their family tree. They all like the name because Stanley Yelnats is the same the other way round. So he is Stanley Yelnats the IV. One day Stanley is walking back from school, he is under a railway station and a pair of sneakers “fall from the sky.” He realises these shoes are from a famous basketball player and he starts running back home as fast as he can, but then a police officer stops him and he gets caught. The Yelnats family always blame their bad luck on their dirty-rotten-pig-stealing-great–grandfather. Stanley gets arrested and the judge gives him the option of prison or going to a place called Camp Green Lake. The family wanted to know more about Camp Green Lake but the judge said he quickly had to make up his mind. Stanley chose to go to Camp Green Lake. Stanley went on a long bus drive to the camp. In the bus was only the bus driver, a security guard and Stanley. He finally arrived at the camp, exhausted and thirsty. The first person he met was Mr Sir. Mr Sir was the guard at the camp who owned a gun. He was scary and in a bad mood as he had just given up smoking. He gave Stanley his clothes and informed him about the camp rules. After that Stanley meets Mr Pendanski. Mr Pendanski was the counsellor for tent D where Stanley was given his bed. He was a kind person and seemed to like the boys in the camp. Camp Green Lake was actually called Camp Green Lake Juvenile Correctional Facility. It was definitely not a luxurious place to be. It was the complete opposite. It was a hot and dry place with no rainfall and in the middle of nowhere. There also was very little water. As a punishment every boy had to dig a hole 5 foot deep andfive foot across. They had to dig one hole per day. He was shown his tent and his bed. Stanley was given the bed of a boy named Barf-Bag. This boy had somehow disappeared and ended up in hospital, but no-one was talking about it. That made Stanley feel a bit uncomfortable. At the start the other boys were quite unfriendly to Stanley. Mr Pendanski introduced the boys by their real names but they all insisted to be called by their nicknames. Eventually the other boys start to like Stanley. They got him out of a fight with one of the biggest boys in the camp. After that they even gave Stanley the nickname “Caveman”. He was happy because now they had accepted Stanley as one of them.
 
Connection

From chapter 21-24 it is like a friendship is growing between Zero and Stanley but they don’t even know it. When Zero Helped dig Stanley’s hole Stanley paid him back by teaching him to read and
write. What I think it is saying is that they are going to make through Camp green Lake together and they will pull one another through it when they are struggling.
By Jacqui Ekermans

 

    Hello my name is Ziggy. My favourite sport is cricket . I live in South - Africa and I am in Grade 6.

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