![]() Joey still had that cocky smile plastered on his face. "A guide dog? You're calling Theresa a guide dog?" "What? Is she guiding somebody else today?" He was all smiles, and he said something like, "Hey! So far, so good." Pollard told him to take a seat, so he came back and sat next to me. ![]() He was all by himself-no Theresa to show him around, like I had hoped. The scene came back to me today on the way home. But after what he said yesterday, I can't. There's something I forgot to record here about Joey's first day at Tangerine Middle School. I had to say something, so I muttered, "I'm sorry you feel like that," and headed out, without him, into the crowded hallway. The speaker came on, and the gong sounded. I took in the ugliness of Joey's words, and I saw, for the first time, how different he was from me-different parents, different friends, different brother. Like we're learning to live among the natives here." "I let you talk me into coming to this dump." I suddenly became aware of the other kids around us as he went on. "I can't believe I let you talk me into this," and he gestured around the room. I said, "OK," and I was willing to leave it right there.īut Joey wasn't. I'm gonna play football when I get to high school. Not here, anyway." He finally looked at me. I finally said, "That's it? You're just not on the team anymore, and that's it?" I looked at him, but he wouldn't look back. Joey finally said, "I'm not on the team anymore." You know? A chance to get in with some of the people from the team." This'll give you another kind of chance with people. This is something that you're really good at." "What are you saying, that I stink in soccer?" "Hey, this isn't soccer practice, it's science class. Anybody but him." He shot an angry look at Tino. "Do what? We gotta get in a group, right? I don't want to be a leftover." He returned to his seat and Joey said to me, "What did you do that for?" Tino stopped and looked at me, surprised. I called out to him, "Hey, Tino! What about me and Joey? Can we be in your group?" Tino bumped his fist down on top of Henry's and started back toward his desk. Henry D., whose real name is Henry Dilkes, is a quiet country boy, always polite. You want to be in a group with Theresa and me? We got a hot idea." He stopped at Henry D.'s desk and said, "Yo, Henry D. I was looking over the project sheet with Joey when I saw Tino walking back toward us. After that she would form new groups out of "the leftovers," as she called them. Potter gave us twenty-four hours to form our own groups of four to six kids. Narrow topic-an agricultural product that is native to this area of Florida Science/Language Arts Cross-Curricular Project At the top of the project sheet, it says: Potter passed out a project sheet that describes what we're supposed to do, how we're supposed to do it, and how we're supposed to present it to the class. Now we're starting a new cross-curricular project. I came in at the tail end of the last project, so all I could do was sit and listen to kids read their reports. That means that we do a science-type project in science class, and we write about it in language arts class. The first and last periods of the day, science and language arts, do cross-curricular projects together. ![]() I'm in classes with Theresa, Tino, Maya, Nita, and Henry D. It was a photo of Nita Shirali with the caption, "Maya Pandhi Leads All Scorers in Tangerine County." There was no article about our team, but there was a photo. This morning I looked in the Tangerine Times, in the back of the sports section. Like I said, that all happened yesterday. By the time Shandra was back in goal to start the scrimmage, we had lost about twenty minutes of practice time. Finally the coach and Shandra came walking out. Victor sat down, so the rest of us did, too. He grabbed his bag, climbed up into the driver's seat of the van, and the two of them drove back the way they came.īetty Bright watched them go, then walked slowly across the field and into the school. The guy with the long hair saw this and broke away from the boys. ![]() She doesn't want any part of newspapers or publicity, so that's the way it's gonna be." "You're the first-place team in the county. Donnelly held up his hands to explain, and the coach looked at them. I've had girls on this team for five years. Donnelly replied, "But he's not news, Coach. If you want to run a picture of our team, you should show Victor. "This is more disruptive than you could know, Mr. ![]()
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