Read & take notes
Chapters
Read the chapter here. Make your own notes, compare with the model, then build your response to the aim.
The reader follows the printed pages in our class edition. Page markers and the page-jump menu match the book, so cite an exact quotation with the author and printed page—for example, (Alexie 15). The original cartoons are included from the cleaner supplied copy.
Chapter 1
The Black-Eye-of-the-Month Club
Chapter 2Why Chicken Means So Much to Me
Chapter 3Revenge Is My Middle Name
Chapter 4Because Geometry Is Not a Country Somewhere Near France
Chapter 5Hope Against Hope
Chapter 6Go Means Go
Chapter 7Rowdy Sings the Blues
Chapter 8How to Fight Monsters
Chapter 9Grandmother Gives Me Some Advice
Chapter 10Tears of a Clown
Chapter 11Halloween
Chapter 12Slouching Toward Thanksgiving
Chapter 13My Sister Sends Me an E-mail
Chapter 14Thanksgiving
Chapter 15Hunger Pains
Chapter 16Rowdy Gives Me Advice About Love
Chapter 17Dance, Dance, Dance
Chapter 18Don’t Trust Your Computer
Chapter 19My Sister Sends Me a Letter
Chapter 20Reindeer Games
Chapter 21And a Partridge in a Pear Tree
Chapter 22Red Versus White
Chapter 23Wake
Chapter 24Valentine Heart
Chapter 25In Like a Lion
Chapter 26Rowdy and I Have a Long and Serious Discussion About Basketball
Chapter 27Because Russian Guys Are Not Always Geniuses
Chapter 28My Final Freshman Year Report Card
Chapter 29Remembering
Chapter 30Talking About Turtles
Also in the supplied edition
After finishing the novel: discussion guide, interviews, and publication notes