The Misfits Slides by James Howe

The Misfits By:James Howe

For this last unit we will be reading the novel "The Misfits" by James Howe

4/23 Today I can get some insight of the characters of "The Misfits."

Warm Up 1: Think and Jot

Respond in complete sentences to the following question.

Explain your view on nicknames or name calling. Are both the same or different? Is having a nickname a positive or negative thing to have? Explain your answer.

Read about James Howe and why he wrote this novel.

Exposition

Joe

Joe is a kid who gets picked on because he acts more like a girl than a boy.

"The Misfits" by James Howe

Read Chapter 1 & 2

Chapter 3: Character List

-Skeezie

-Addie

-Joe/Scorpio/Jo-Dan

-Bobby

Small group/ Classwork Makeup

Bobby, Skeezi, Addie, and Joe are all seventh graders who are constantly getting bullied and called names in school because of their appearance and how they act. They all don't like this at all so they start a campaign to end it. But the teachers and Principal keep getting in the way.

Definitions

Setting

The setting of the novel takes place in Paintbrush Falls, New York.

Other settings in the novel are :

-School

- the candy shop

Definitions

Resolution

• Fagot: a pile of stick and twigs
• Aforementioned: denoting a thing or previously mentioned
• Upholstery: soft, padded textile covering that is fixed to furniture such as armchairs and sofas
• Rendition: a performance or interpretation
• Nanosecond: a billionth of a second

• Geek: an unfashionable or socially inept person
• Copacetic: in excellent way
• Intuitive: using or based on what one feels to be true even without conscious reasoning; instinctive.
• Cynic: person who believes that people are motivated purely by self-interest rather than acting for honorable or unselfish reasons
• Fatso: a fat person

In the end of this book Mr. Kiley was amazed by Bobby's speech about being called names in school. He agrees to help put a stop to people being called names in school and asks the misfits to help. The school starts having a No-Name week when everyone has no name for a week and don't get called names by other people.

Skeezi

Skeezie is known as a "hooligan" because of how funny he acts.

Bobby

Bobby is a kid who gets picked because of his weight. He is also the narrator of the novel.

Climax

Addie

Theme

The theme of this book is to never give up. This is the theme because in the book the kids were always getting bullied and there campaigns were also failing until Bobby gave the big speech and then all of them changed the whole act of bullying.

Addie is a very smart girl who gets picked on for being tall and extremely smart and outspoken.

Bobby, Skeezi, Addie, and Joe must face off with opposing parties and convince all of their classmates of the damage caused by name calling to all the other four and harassment.

My Opinion

The Gang Of Five

I really liked this book because, it taught me many things like how little things can make a big difference. Like how the kids made a huge difference. They made it able for them to go to school and not get picked on or called names and they started the no-name week thing at school and gave that big speech and made it better for them.

Characters

The gang of five is four people which are Bobby, Skeezi, Addie, and Joe. The call them selves the gang of five to make people wonder. All of them are picked on because they don't fit in so they try their best to end it all and in the end they finally get what they wanted.

-Bobby Goodspeed

-Skeezi Tookis

-Addie Carle

-Joe Bunch

-Mr. Kellerman