https://padlet.com/msbullar/5jp3srxbw804 Freak the Mighty Signposts en-us 2016-09-17 15:29:11 UTC 2026-01-21 06:42:05 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/icons/Lightdecrease.png msbullar https://padlet.com/msbullar/5jp3srxbw804/wish/124520850 Example: “It’s more than just the way Maxwell resembles him, Grim says that night in the kitchen, the boy is like him, we’d better watch out, you never know what he might do while we are sleeping” (pg.3).
Explanation: This is an unexpected comment two grandparents would say about their own grandson. It appears they are scared of Max, or at the very least do not trust him. They focus on the fact that Max is really getting to look like his father, and perhaps he is also acting like him, too. I wonder if their feelings about Max are valid and true or it is just paranoia.]]> 2016-09-17 15:29:11 UTC https://padlet.com/msbullar/5jp3srxbw804/wish/124520850 023122 https://padlet.com/msbullar/5jp3srxbw804/wish/125039418 Signpost: Words of the Wiser
Example: The narrator says "you can remember any thing weather it happened or not." 
Explanation: The human brain sometimes have memories that haven't even been made yet.]]> 2016-09-20 12:35:34 UTC https://padlet.com/msbullar/5jp3srxbw804/wish/125039418 022266 https://padlet.com/msbullar/5jp3srxbw804/wish/125039710 Signpost:
Contrasts and Contradictions
Example: "'Identify yourself earthling." I'm busy keeping my feet from tripping and don't get it that he means me "I said Identify yourself, earthling, or suffer the consequences""
Explanation:
This is unexpected because since he is a resident of earth he wouldn't call him an earthling. Also at the time you wouldn't expect him to say that but the farther you get you know why he says that.(that is definitely not a spoiler )

]]> 2016-09-20 12:36:19 UTC https://padlet.com/msbullar/5jp3srxbw804/wish/125039710 121175 https://padlet.com/msbullar/5jp3srxbw804/wish/125040344 Signpost: contrasts and Contradictions Example: " Then I see  Fair Gwen". (pg. 7) Explanation: This is unexpected because he changes his thinking. He goes from being depressed to blushing because he see's Gwen.]]> 2016-09-20 12:38:19 UTC https://padlet.com/msbullar/5jp3srxbw804/wish/125040344 121175 https://padlet.com/msbullar/5jp3srxbw804/wish/125358127 Signpost: Contrasts and Contradictions Example:" I go, "I thought there weren't any real robots. Just in movies."(pg.18) Boy does that make his eyes blaze. Like whoa! talk about laser beams! He's like fuming, so upset he can hardly talk." Explanation: Kevin changes from a happy boy who was telling stories to so angry when Max said that]]> 2016-09-21 12:06:32 UTC https://padlet.com/msbullar/5jp3srxbw804/wish/125358127 022266 https://padlet.com/msbullar/5jp3srxbw804/wish/125578010 Signpost
Memory Moment
     Example
"" I never saw much of your mom after they got married.  He made it. . .  difficult for your mother to have any friends""

Explanation
 Gwen is remembering back to when she originally lived there and her and Max's mother were "friends"

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Contrasts and contradictions

Example: When grim says ""of course  you can son,"".

Explanation: Grim usually doesn't  call max "son" he just calls him Maxwell or "that boy".]]> 2016-09-23 12:05:59 UTC https://padlet.com/msbullar/5jp3srxbw804/wish/125976759 023122 https://padlet.com/msbullar/5jp3srxbw804/wish/125977276 signpost Contrast and contradictions 
example: Freak is opening up more.
Explanation he usually kept to him self but now hes' expressing more emotion]]> 2016-09-23 12:07:54 UTC https://padlet.com/msbullar/5jp3srxbw804/wish/125977276 121175 https://padlet.com/msbullar/5jp3srxbw804/wish/125980340 Signpost: Contrasts and Contradictions  Example:" of course you can son, son," and it's like whoa! because he never call me that(pg. 42). Explanation: Grim changes from calling him Max, Maxwell, or "that boy" to calling him something completely different like son]]> 2016-09-23 12:21:58 UTC https://padlet.com/msbullar/5jp3srxbw804/wish/125980340 023122 https://padlet.com/msbullar/5jp3srxbw804/wish/125980890 signpost: Aha Moment
Example:Max noticed that it wasn't turning homes into castles or pools into moats but a real quest
Explain: Freak is getting a robot transplant.]]> 2016-09-23 12:24:19 UTC https://padlet.com/msbullar/5jp3srxbw804/wish/125980890 121175 https://padlet.com/msbullar/5jp3srxbw804/wish/126455495 Signpost: Contrasts and Contradictions Example: "When we get to the Testaments, though, Freak shuts right up."(pg. 64) Explanation: He changes from talking a mile a minute to being quiet.]]> 2016-09-26 17:24:52 UTC https://padlet.com/msbullar/5jp3srxbw804/wish/126455495 023122 https://padlet.com/msbullar/5jp3srxbw804/wish/126621849 Signpost:aha moment

example: Max realized that these people knew his dad.
explain: He doesn't like them.]]> 2016-09-27 12:14:39 UTC https://padlet.com/msbullar/5jp3srxbw804/wish/126621849 121175 https://padlet.com/msbullar/5jp3srxbw804/wish/126718538 Signpost: Aha Moment! Example:" "I came back," he says. "Like I promised."(pg.99) Explanation: When Max realizes who is back.]]> 2016-09-27 15:55:21 UTC https://padlet.com/msbullar/5jp3srxbw804/wish/126718538 022266 https://padlet.com/msbullar/5jp3srxbw804/wish/126795353 Signpost: Aha! Moment












Example:"I came back" he says "Like I promised"





Explanation: You realize it is his father because he mentions "coming back" and "like he promised". His dad also recently came back from prison also it sounds like he knows Maxwell.]]> 2016-09-27 19:16:44 UTC https://padlet.com/msbullar/5jp3srxbw804/wish/126795353 121175 https://padlet.com/msbullar/5jp3srxbw804/wish/126920805 Signpost: Memory Moment Example:            ""Will you look at this? It's like I'm looking at an old picture of myself. You really are a chip off the old block, you know that?""(pg.102) Explanation: He see's his son and he remembers that was what he look liked when he was his age. ]]> 2016-09-28 12:05:41 UTC https://padlet.com/msbullar/5jp3srxbw804/wish/126920805 023122 https://padlet.com/msbullar/5jp3srxbw804/wish/126931384 Signpost:Aha moment

Example:He said"I came back like I promised."

Explanation:Max realized it was his father. ]]> 2016-09-28 12:41:22 UTC https://padlet.com/msbullar/5jp3srxbw804/wish/126931384 023122 https://padlet.com/msbullar/5jp3srxbw804/wish/127213848 Signpost:Contrasts and contradictions

Example:Killer Kane is actually trying to be nice to his son and it says "...ain't he an old chip off the block?"

Explain:Killer Kane  a little bit into the chapters isn't Killing anyone.]]> 2016-09-29 12:01:32 UTC https://padlet.com/msbullar/5jp3srxbw804/wish/127213848 023122 https://padlet.com/msbullar/5jp3srxbw804/wish/127214922 Signpost:Memory moment

Example:He remember that Killer Kane did kill his mother and Max says "I remember you killed her!"

Explain :KIller Kane killed Max's mom]]> 2016-09-29 12:06:00 UTC https://padlet.com/msbullar/5jp3srxbw804/wish/127214922 121175 https://padlet.com/msbullar/5jp3srxbw804/wish/127216335 Signpost: Memory Moment Example:""I saw you do it," I say. "I say you kill my mother." You weren't but four years old, " He says.(pg.129) Explanation: It might change his dad's thinking about him because Max remembers what his father did.]]> 2016-09-29 12:12:01 UTC https://padlet.com/msbullar/5jp3srxbw804/wish/127216335 022266 https://padlet.com/msbullar/5jp3srxbw804/wish/127413553 Signpost: Contrasts and Contradictions

Example: "Now, your grandparents you're nothing but a dysfunctional retard"



Explanation: I wouldn't really think that he would refer to his son a retard, even his he was referring to his grandparents.]]> 2016-09-29 22:56:38 UTC https://padlet.com/msbullar/5jp3srxbw804/wish/127413553 022266 https://padlet.com/msbullar/5jp3srxbw804/wish/127416282 signpost: Memory Moment


Example: "" I saw you kill her! I saw you kill mom!""

explanation: Max remembers back to when his dad killed his mom]]> 2016-09-29 23:39:04 UTC https://padlet.com/msbullar/5jp3srxbw804/wish/127416282 121175 https://padlet.com/msbullar/5jp3srxbw804/wish/127851882 Signpost: Aha Moment Example: "Which is why I missed The funeral." (pg. 158) Explanation:You realize that the author is directly telling you that freak is dead.]]> 2016-10-03 12:44:37 UTC https://padlet.com/msbullar/5jp3srxbw804/wish/127851882