Sustain Silent Reading 2

Hello again! I'll be posting another post about our Sustain Silent Reading (SSR) activity in Hurumanu 6. Here's my link to my first post so you'll get a better understanding of what I've been reading.

June 3, 2020 - Schooled by Gordon Korman

I'm currently on Chapter 3 of the book. Last week, I've read about Capricorn's grandmother Rain falls out of the Plumtree breaking her hips. Cap (Capricorn for short) had to bring her to a hospital by himself. Because Cap's parents abandoned him when he was young and was left with his grandmother in Garland farm, no one was gonna take care of him.

Cap was thirteen years old so he needed someone to look after him while her grandma is getting healed in the Hospital. Though her cranky grandma Rain refuses to stay at the hospital, she had no other choice but to heal herself first. Cap met Mrs. Donelly a woman who once also spend her childhood in Garland and knew his grandma Rain. Mrs. Donelly seems fishy for me though.
To be continued...

June 10, 2020 - Chapter 3-6 
This week again we are doing SSR. The plot of this story is getting spicy. Cap being the odd one out, he's unfortunately targeted by the bullies (Zach and his minions). Mrs. Donelly wasn't fishy at all. She was trying her best to make her daughter Sophie to not being rude about him. Sophie has hated Cap's guts and is clearly showing it visibly.

There was also a new character Hugh Winkleman, the outcast nerd who used to be bullied. But now that Cap came to the school. He's now the new target replacing Hugh's position. He pitied Cap for it since they are starting to make fun of him such as spitball, and currently electing him for being the president when he didn't even sign up for it. Hugh felt bad for him and has clearly had the understanding what's going on but didn't have the guts to tell Cap. Because, if Cap isn't gonna be the target and then he will be just like in the old times, and he doesn't want it to happen. So he just chooses to stay silent and ignore it.

There's also a new character introduced. Naomi Erlanger. A girl who's willing to do anything to get her crush's attention which is Zach and to eventually be in a relationship with him. Even if it means, bullying Cap along with his friends. The thing is though, her bold best friend Lena, Zach has a crush on her friend. So she's basically doing anything to surpass her friend through Zach.

June 15, 2020 - Chapter 6  
As Zach and Naomi trick Cap on being the president. He was forced to give a speech in the assembly as being elected as the 'president'. The next thing he said was bizarre. He thought he shouldn't be the president because he doesn't know anyone in the school. For what he believes, It's part of the president's job to learn all the student's name and there's like 200+ students in the school. Naomi felt sorry for him but she has to play along with Zach's plan as well as she wants to get Zach's heart.

June 17, 2020 - Chapter 6 - 7
The secret bullying continues as Cap being the 'President' of Grade 8th students in Claverage High School. Besides Zach and Naomi not telling him that he doesn't have to learn all the student's names to be the president. They also put some unpleasant things inside Cap's locker. There were some weird things but he didn't really put any reactions to it. But one of the things Naomi and Zach put in was a dead bird. Cap as a pure soul, he dug a small grave for the dead bird to put in and some Daisy flowers in it. Gathering some attention to other students.
Naomi felt somehow an emotion to him which she felt bad for him and liked the sensitive, pure sides of Capricorn. She joined him on the little funeral of the dead bird. Zach was sort of disappointed with her for getting her emotions took control of her.

June 22, 2020 - Chapter 7-8
As always, the book is all about Capricorn knowing some more cruel things outside Garland farm in which he grows up. He is also continuing to have a little crush on Sophie - Mrs. Donelly's 16-year-old daughter. Sophie would always get irritated with him and take things personally. As usual, Cap would get up early in the morning and do some martial arts stretching and Sophie emptied a bucket of water down to his head from upstairs. Mrs. Donelly was really sorry for him and he realized Sophie does really hate him. Also, Mrs. Donelly is finding out some things about what's happening at school with Capricorn, she felt really bad for him to deal with this.

June 24, 2020 
Cap is discovering more unusual stuff outside Garland. He is getting more confuse on what is happening. Like this one, for example, people always throw spitballs at his fluffy curly long hair and he thought they are some sort of molecules that got into his hair because of how much paper there are in school. He discovered it every after school while he was brushing his hair. He also constantly misses Rain her grandma of course. He feels lost and unguided in the world. He also comes to the realization of why Rain moved to Garland from the city because it's a bunch of chaos etc. He also kept on getting some made-up love notes from Naomi and it sort of makes him feels crept out.

June 29, 2020
Cap is falling for Sophie more even though she's being mean towards him, he even started watching her favorite TV shows on the TV and he amused by it I guess. He has not seen a single TV on his life and it was a blast for him. His shoes were stolen so he had to go home barefoot and a bunch of yucky stuff stuck on his foot. On Sophie on the other hand she had a date with Josh. Josh was about to pick her up from her house when they both saw Cap looking like a homeless boy scrapping off his foot on whatever random stuff got stuck on his foot. Sophie was embarrassed to admit she lived with him so she said he was some random disgusting homeless guy. But eventually, she regretted saying it. Her date with Josh was a letdown. He talks about gaming for 3 hours so it was really boring.