Wednesday, February 10, 2016

Announcements and Reminders:                                                                   Parent-Teacher Conferences will be held on February 11. We will have a Stargirl/Valentines' Day Party on February 12.  Bring treats to share. Desk decorating contest. What else? Do an anonymous act of kindness for someone.  You will write about it in class.

Targets for Today: READ!  Learn about ways to respond to books (and other literature).   Read more from Stargirl.     Learn about the literary element of character.

Today’s  Agenda:  1. Individual Reading Time: Choose your own materials. 2. In your composition books, respond to this question:   As the book begins, most of the students at Mica High are just trying to copy Wayne Parr, then they copy Stargirl, then they copy Hillari and whoever else is shunning Stargirl.   How much of our identity is really left up to us, and how much is just a mirror of everyone else around us? 3.  Brainstorm ideas for anonymous acts of kindness. 4. Stargirl  -- Page  126   Today we read to the top of page 149. Character --  Continue to fill in these charts: One for Stargirl and one for Leo Character Description Chart for ____________________________________________ What the character says, does, thinks What this shows about the character What others think and say about the character Character Description Chart for Various Other Characters What the character says, does, thinks What this shows about the character What others think and say about the character Hillari Kimble Kevin  Quinlant Archie Dori Cinnamon Wayne Parr Ron Kovac Anna Grimsdale Danny Pike Mr. Robineau Mr. McShane Mica High School Students

If You Were Absent: See above.

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CHARACTER LIST

Major Characters

Stargirl Her real name is Susan Julia Caraway. She was a 10th grade girl with blonde hair and freckles. She called herself Stargirl. Stargirl was mysterious. While the reader does become acquainted with her during the reading of the book, she maintains her mysterious quality. She was different from the other students at Mica High School. If she transferred to another high school, she would still be considered different there as well. 

Leo Borlock Leo Borlock, the narrator of the story, was a student at Mica High School. He found himself thinking about Stargirl much of the time. He wanted to understand her. He and his friend, Kevin, set up and ran a popular program at the school called Hot Seat. 

Archie Brubaker Archie was a retired professor who had known Stargirl for years, since long before she started going to Mica High School. 

Kevin Quinlan Kevin was a student at Mica High School. He was a good friend of Leo Borlock. Together they ran a popular program at school called Hot Seat. 

Hillari Hilari was the developer of Hilari’s Hypothesis, as Kevin called it. She stated that Stargirl was a plant. She was famous for her mouth; The Hoax, in which she tried out for the cheerleading squad, was chosen, and then did not join; and her boyfriend, Wayne Parr.

Minor Characters

Alan Ferko Stargirl sang to him on his birthday, the second day of school. 

Cinnamon Stargirl’s pet rat. Cinnamon traveled with Stargirl. 

Dori Dilson A ninth grade poet who nobody knew until, one day, she sat with Stargirl in the lunchroom. 

Mallory Stillwell The captain of the Mica High School cheerleaders. 

Anna Grisdale A senior whose grandfather died during the school year. 

Danny Pike Danny Pike was a nine-year-old who had an accident while riding his bicycle. 

Brent ArdsleyBrent Ardsley was the leading scorer on the Mica Area High School basketball team. 

Mr. RobineauThe faculty advisor for Hot Seat. 

Chico The Hot Seat close-up camera and its operator. Chico was the real name of the first close-up camera operator. The current cose-up camera operator only had that name while he was using the camera. 

Jennifer St. John, Damon Ricci, Mike Ebersole, Becca Rinaldi, Renee Bozeman Along with Hillari Kimble, these five were on the Hot Seat jury the day that Stargirl was the guest. 

Ron Kovac Sun Valley basketball team superstar who was injured during a game with the Mica Electrons. 

Barney This was a Paleocene rodent skull. 

Señor Saguaro This was a thirty-foot-tall giant cactus. 

Clarissa, Betty, and Adam Three people who Stargirl and Leo followed one day. The names were not their real names, just used for them by Stargirl and Leo. 

Peter Sinkowitz A five year old neighbor of Stargirl. She took pictures of him that she planned to save in an album to be given to him when he was older. 

Renshaw A fellow student whose name Leo yelled in the courtyard one day to see if he would respond to him or shun him. 

Susan Julia Caraway Stargirl’s given name. 

Mr. McShane Faculty representative who drove Stargirl and Leo to the Arizona state oratorical contest in Phoenix. 

Raymond Studemacher The Mica High School student who asked Stargirl to dance at the Ocotillo Ball. 

Guy Greco The leader of the Serenaders. He and his musicians continued to play the bunny hop after the conga line disappeared into the desert and did not stop until after the line returned, even though Hillari insisted that they play other dance music.