![]() When he arrives at Tangerine Middle School, he is shown around by a girl named Theresa Cruz. ![]() The emergency relocation plan gives the students the choice to stay at Lake Windsor, their present school, with a different schedule and more crowded classes, or to transfer to Tangerine Middle School, on the other, poorer side of the county Paul chooses Tangerine Middle to be able to play soccer again. Many people, including Paul and Joey, help rescue those trapped, and no one is seriously injured. While Paul is at school, a field of portable classrooms collapses into a sinkhole. One day Mike Costello is killed by lightning Erik and his friend Arthur Bauer tell jokes after hearing the news, even though Mike was one of their teammates. On his first day of school, Paul meets Coach Walski, the coach of the soccer team, and tries out for the team, but is later told that his visual impairment prevents his eligibility, and blames this on his mother revealing the impairment to the school administrators. ![]() Soon after they unpack, Paul goes for a tour of his new school, where Mike Costello and his brother Joey are introduced. His family credits his visual injury to an incident, which he does not remember, in which at a young age, he continued to stare at a solar eclipse despite his parents' warnings not to. Paul, the younger son, is visually impaired and legally blind but plays soccer. Erik, the older son, looks forward to a football scholarship at the university of his choice. Paul Fisher and his family move from Houston, Texas to Lake Windsor Downs in Tangerine, Florida. You can expand upon them, or add your own twist.Tangerine is a young adult novel by Edward Bloor, published in 1997 by Harcourt. You can use them, but you don't have to use them. *Note: These craft ideas are just suggestions. Try drawing the entire contour of the object without lifting your pencil form the paper. At no time should you look at your hand as it draws. When the eye begins to move, so should the hand holding the pencil. Remember, the eye is like a snail, barely crawling as it begins its journey.ģ. Pick a point on the object where the eye can begin its slow journey around the contour or edge of the object. Choose an object to draw (a door, a book, shoes, window, plant etc.).Ģ. Have kids do a "blind contour" drawing of a friend or object in the classroom.ġ. Write a journal entry inspired by the book. Encourage readers to decorate and personalize their journals. Make simple journals with construction paper and ribbon. What would it be like to live in Tangerine? What kind of place is it? How involved should parents be in their children's sports? What is Tangerine (fruit, a place, a color)?Ĭan you play sports even if you wear glasses or have other physical disabilities?Ĭan people play basketball without the use of their legs? Yes-wheelchair basketball is very popularĭiscussion topics for during/after reading: The fires can burn for weeks or even months, traveling below ground and surfacing now and again at a hot spot, sometimes endangering structures built at the fringes of swampy areas. (It's below the surface of the soil.) Because Florida has lots of swamps and frequent droughts, it dries the peat enough to be a fire hazard. Muck fire -A fire that burns the organic material in the soil layer, such as peat or duff. Then a sudden collapse of the land surface can occur. These sinkholes can be dramatic because the surface land usually stays intact until there is not enough support. As the rock dissolves, spaces and caverns develop underground. Sink hole - Sinkholes are common where the rock below the land surface is limestone, carbonate rock, salt beds, or rocks that can naturally be dissolved by circulating ground water. Lignite - A soft, brownish-black coal in which the alteration of vegetable matter has proceeded further than in peat but not as far as in bituminous coal. Read the back cover of the book and the inside front jacket for a little background on Paul, the boy in the book, then start reading on the entry marked Monday August, 28th. The writing is so fine, the story so triumphant, that you just might stand up and shout when you get to the end. Who knows? Paul might even become a hero! Edward Bloor's debut novel sparkles with wit, authenticity, unexpected plot twists, and heart. In Tangerine, even a blind, geeky, alien freak can become cool. No one ever listens to Paul, though-until the family moves to Tangerine. He can see the lies his parents and brother live out, day after day. So what if he's legally blind? Even with his bottle-thick, bug-eyed glasses, Paul Fisher can see better than most people. Grade Level: 5th (GLCs: Click here for grade level guidelines.) Volunteers needed in October! Click here to sign up.
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