https://padlet.com/mconfroy1/9vvwtcscsb4y3l9z Period 7: Discuss your reading process and the epigraph (see directions on sheet). Each group member will add their own discussion question, and reply to the others. en-us 2021-05-18 13:05:27 UTC 2021-05-24 11:50:35 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet.com/mconfroy1/9vvwtcscsb4y3l9z/wish/1539600596  I try to make time to read after I finish my other school work however I did not make enough time to finish, so next week I will try to add more time to reading so I get it done faster]]> 2021-05-19 13:53:32 UTC https://padlet.com/mconfroy1/9vvwtcscsb4y3l9z/wish/1539600596 jack_boccanfuso https://padlet.com/mconfroy1/9vvwtcscsb4y3l9z/wish/1539602869 I made a little time to read after school but not enough time to finish the reading. This week, I will try to give myself more time to read so im not behind.]]> 2021-05-19 13:53:58 UTC https://padlet.com/mconfroy1/9vvwtcscsb4y3l9z/wish/1539602869 patrick_maloney https://padlet.com/mconfroy1/9vvwtcscsb4y3l9z/wish/1539615530 I made some time to read when I got home from vacation but not to the point where I finished the section. I will have to catch up and then stay on a steady pace.]]> 2021-05-19 13:56:33 UTC https://padlet.com/mconfroy1/9vvwtcscsb4y3l9z/wish/1539615530 https://padlet.com/mconfroy1/9vvwtcscsb4y3l9z/wish/1539617610 After school I made time to read. I will read all at once to make more time for other work.]]> 2021-05-19 13:57:00 UTC https://padlet.com/mconfroy1/9vvwtcscsb4y3l9z/wish/1539617610 jack_boccanfuso https://padlet.com/mconfroy1/9vvwtcscsb4y3l9z/wish/1539649194 2021-05-19 14:03:26 UTC https://padlet.com/mconfroy1/9vvwtcscsb4y3l9z/wish/1539649194 https://padlet.com/mconfroy1/9vvwtcscsb4y3l9z/wish/1539704233 ¨There was a small nucleus of people who settled here
and worked here and cared about the future of the town¨ 
Why did many not care or try to make things better? Yes, there were difficulties with agriculture and land, however not much effort was put in to fix it.]]> 2021-05-19 14:14:41 UTC https://padlet.com/mconfroy1/9vvwtcscsb4y3l9z/wish/1539704233 https://padlet.com/mconfroy1/9vvwtcscsb4y3l9z/wish/1539721782 "Nothing about living in odessa was easy. Finding a scrubby tree that could barley serve as a christmas tree took 2 days. Even dealing with cattle rustlers and horse thieves has to be compromised. They were shot instead of hanged because there weren't any trees tall enough to let them swing."
Why did they hang the thieves in the first places instead of taking more of a non violent approach (as in like a death injection or something)]]> 2021-05-19 14:18:21 UTC https://padlet.com/mconfroy1/9vvwtcscsb4y3l9z/wish/1539721782 jack_boccanfuso https://padlet.com/mconfroy1/9vvwtcscsb4y3l9z/wish/1539724605 “That tradition was enshrined on a wall of the field house, where virtually every player who had made All-State during the past twenty-nine years was carefully immortalized”

This puts a lot of pressure on the players, and I wonder how it will effect them during the season. Playing on the football team comes with a lot of responsibility to continue the "tradition" of a winning team.

]]> 2021-05-19 14:18:58 UTC https://padlet.com/mconfroy1/9vvwtcscsb4y3l9z/wish/1539724605 https://padlet.com/mconfroy1/9vvwtcscsb4y3l9z/wish/1539733565 ¨IN THE BEGINNING, ON A DOG-DAY MONDAY IN THE
MIDDLE OF August when the West Texas heat
congealed in the sky, there were only the stirrings of
dreams¨ I think this quote was included because it introduces us readers about the town, and informs us people there have dreams that keep them going. This quote makes me think of the future and how having dreams and goals will drive you to complete them.]]> 2021-05-19 14:20:47 UTC https://padlet.com/mconfroy1/9vvwtcscsb4y3l9z/wish/1539733565 patrick_maloney https://padlet.com/mconfroy1/9vvwtcscsb4y3l9z/wish/1553338983 "The first murder in odessa occurred late in the nineteenth century when a cowboy rode into a water- drilling camp one afternoon and demanded something to eat from the cook. the cook, described as a "chinanian," refused, so the cowboy promptly shot him. He was taken to San Angelo and put on trial, but the judge freed him on the grounds that were were no laws on the books making it illegal to kill a chinaman". 

No rules against a killing a chinaman? Is the rule not to kill whiteman? If so why is the rule not to kill people period? Does the Judge lack fear of the backlash he could get? It seems as though where this is taking place people are casual racists. The Judge seems to not care what others may think or those people could agree with the Judge and all be racists. ]]> 2021-05-24 11:46:52 UTC https://padlet.com/mconfroy1/9vvwtcscsb4y3l9z/wish/1553338983