Hoot

Theme Quarter 2:
Systems and Interdependence

Essential ?s:
What is a system? How do the parts of a system help it work? How do problems affect a system? How does a system change?

Class Book Quarter 2:
__Hoot__ by Carl Hiaasen

Book Preview: (taken from: http://www.carlhiaasen.com/young.html) Roy Eberhardt is the new kid--again. This time around it's Trace Middle School in humid Coconut Grove, Florida. But it's still the same old routine: table by himself at lunch, no real friends, and thick-headed bullies like Dana Matherson pushing him around. But if it wasn't for Dana Matherson mashing his face against the school bus window that one day...