Rules and Things
Rules and Things Number 83:
If an adult tells you not to worry, and you weren't worried before, you better hurry up and start 'cause ____________________________________
You're already running late
The Drummer
Doug The Thug Tennant
Herman E. Calloway is my Father
Mighty Maple
I stood up on the woodpile and held the rake like it was a Louisville Slugger. I eyed where the bat was sleeping and revved the rake like I was going to hit a four-hundred-foot home run.
The shed
"Anyone ever tell you you've got a little peanut-head?"
Lefty Lewis
Rules and Things Number 16:
If a grown-up ever starts a sentence by saying "Haven't You Heard," Get Ready 'Cause ______________________________
What's about to come out of their mouth is gonna drop you headfirst into a boiling tragedy
Dirty Deed _________
Breed
Bud's suitcase symbolizes
His love for his Momma
It was a bunch of huts and shacks throwed together out of pieces of boxes and woods and cloth
Hooverville
"Awww man what'd you hear?"
Doug The Thug Tennant
Rules and Things Number 29:
When you wake up and don't know for sure where you're at and there's a bunch of people standing around you, It's best to______________________________
DAILY DOUBLE
Pretend you're still asleep until you can figure out what's going on and what you should do
The Sleet Siblings
DAILY DOUBLE
Kim and Scott
The orange faces around the Hooverville fire symbolize...
The struggle of people of all kinds during the Great Depression
He handed me the sandwich and the pop and the apple. I was so hungry that I forgot all about scraping the mustard off the baloney sandwich
Owosso, Michigan
"Momma says you're our special guest and we have to treat you nice. Am I being nice?"
Kim
Rules and Things Number 39:
The Older You Get, ___________________________________________
The Worse Something Has To Be To Make You Cry
The source of information for Bud and Bugs in Hooverville
M.O.M. (Mouth Organ Man)
According to Bud, Momma was a __________
Tornado
I just kept walking on stage. I had to see my father's face
The Log Cabin
"Oh, my, a gentleman. I'm pleased to make your acquaintance as well."
DAILY DOUBLE
Miss Thomas
Rules and Things Number 28
Gone=
Dead
Steady Eddie's Girlfriend
DAILY TRIPLE
Tyla
What instrument is "the thunder, soft and far away getting closer all the time."
The giant fiddle/ upright bass,
All the kids watched the woman as she moved along the line, her high-heeled shoes sounding like little firecrackers going off on the wooden floor.
The Home
"I know you are , my daddy says families are the most important thing there is. That's why me and my momma are going to wait together for him to come back or write for us to come to him."
Deza Malone