https://padlet.com/kazmira_passineau/gf9xo4vjzy85 Made with a creative frenzy en-us 2017-12-15 15:07:00 UTC 2026-02-08 20:16:51 UTC hello@padlet.com kazmira_passineau https://padlet.com/kazmira_passineau/gf9xo4vjzy85/wish/216509523 Amy's Papa is upset about Amy arriving home late from the dance. He proclaims "This would have never happened if you would have went out with a Japanese boy" (Miklowitz 12).]]> 2017-12-15 15:15:09 UTC https://padlet.com/kazmira_passineau/gf9xo4vjzy85/wish/216509523 kazmira_passineau https://padlet.com/kazmira_passineau/gf9xo4vjzy85/wish/216510048 The students are picking out their arm band colors, when Amy finds out that she grabs a blue color band, and Adam got an orange color band, she begins to frek out. Adam and Amy decide they will play the game, and btry to become the same color. Adam apologized "Gotta play the game rihgt honey.But don't worry. Maybe we can change to the same color later. You be bad and get demoted, and I'll be good and get promoted." (Miklowitz 35).]]> 2017-12-15 15:16:27 UTC https://padlet.com/kazmira_passineau/gf9xo4vjzy85/wish/216510048 kazmira_passineau https://padlet.com/kazmira_passineau/gf9xo4vjzy85/wish/216511793 Amy, Papa, and Mama are at Hideo and Sue's house, getting ready for dinner. Papa is very traditional, so Amy mentions, referring to Papa, "He'd been thinking Sue should be in the kitchen, not Hideos" (Miklowitz 20). ]]> 2017-12-15 15:20:26 UTC https://padlet.com/kazmira_passineau/gf9xo4vjzy85/wish/216511793 kazmira_passineau https://padlet.com/kazmira_passineau/gf9xo4vjzy85/wish/216512401 Amy is realizing that most boys like quiet girls, which is very much unlike her, but she confessed "It didn't take long to see, even in high school, that most boys liked girls that way, so I became a chameleon" (Miklowitz 39-40).]]> 2017-12-15 15:22:02 UTC https://padlet.com/kazmira_passineau/gf9xo4vjzy85/wish/216512401 kazmira_passineau https://padlet.com/kazmira_passineau/gf9xo4vjzy85/wish/216513255 Amy is struggling with whether to play the game for Adam, or for herself. She mentions "I'd tell him, but would it make him angry? And could I actually free that "me" trapped so long inside the person pleaser, the father pleaser, and now the Adam pleaser?" (Miklowitz 40)]]> 2017-12-15 15:24:10 UTC https://padlet.com/kazmira_passineau/gf9xo4vjzy85/wish/216513255 kazmira_passineau https://padlet.com/kazmira_passineau/gf9xo4vjzy85/wish/216514033 Amy is having trouble deciding if she should stay a blue and risk her relationship with Aam, or get demoted to orange just to be with Adam. When Amy tells Adam that she is going to stay a blue, Adam clucks "Amy, do you realize what that means? We won't be able to be together for weeks" (Miklowitz 48).]]> 2017-12-15 15:26:02 UTC https://padlet.com/kazmira_passineau/gf9xo4vjzy85/wish/216514033 kazmira_passineau https://padlet.com/kazmira_passineau/gf9xo4vjzy85/wish/218868227 Amy believes that all people should be treated equally, no matter their social stadings. Others do not agree with her, one of Amy's classmates, Dana says "Bowing to everyone was na act of respect for others. She was saying all colors are equal" (105).

]]> 2018-01-04 23:20:13 UTC https://padlet.com/kazmira_passineau/gf9xo4vjzy85/wish/218868227 kazmira_passineau https://padlet.com/kazmira_passineau/gf9xo4vjzy85/wish/218868237 One of Amy's friends Paul is also feeling the same as Amy's Papa, he proclaims "Its good that a white dude wrote the book, because no one would believe what its like if a black man said those things" (94).]]> 2018-01-04 23:20:30 UTC https://padlet.com/kazmira_passineau/gf9xo4vjzy85/wish/218868237 kazmira_passineau https://padlet.com/kazmira_passineau/gf9xo4vjzy85/wish/218868240 Papa believes that people treat his family differently because of how they look, not as how they are as a person. Papa goes on to prove his statement by saying "It wouldnt have made a difference. We were treated badly because we looked different" (88).]]> 2018-01-04 23:20:31 UTC https://padlet.com/kazmira_passineau/gf9xo4vjzy85/wish/218868240 kazmira_passineau https://padlet.com/kazmira_passineau/gf9xo4vjzy85/wish/218868241 Amy is realizing that her friends she had before the color game have changed, and the colors are really affecting how she treats others and how others treat her. Amy's friend Carol says "Im not supposed to talk to blues"(58).]]> 2018-01-04 23:20:33 UTC https://padlet.com/kazmira_passineau/gf9xo4vjzy85/wish/218868241 kazmira_passineau https://padlet.com/kazmira_passineau/gf9xo4vjzy85/wish/218868242 Adam backtalks a G4 because he is caught without his journal, which is supposed to be carried around with him wherever he goes, Bill proclaims "Isnt that a shame... next time maybe you wont talk back to your superiors"(57).]]> 2018-01-04 23:20:33 UTC https://padlet.com/kazmira_passineau/gf9xo4vjzy85/wish/218868242 kazmira_passineau https://padlet.com/kazmira_passineau/gf9xo4vjzy85/wish/218868244 Amy is having trouble with wondering if her life would be different if her family was poor, she goes on, "I wonder if Adam and I could have ever become friends in real life if one of us had been very poor" (Miklowitz 50).]]> 2018-01-04 23:20:34 UTC https://padlet.com/kazmira_passineau/gf9xo4vjzy85/wish/218868244 kazmira_passineau https://padlet.com/kazmira_passineau/gf9xo4vjzy85/wish/221010501 Gwen, a higher color, wants to help out the oranges and make more color bands for them. The oranges are not so sure, "Sure, like what could you do?" (149). ]]> 2018-01-12 15:42:09 UTC https://padlet.com/kazmira_passineau/gf9xo4vjzy85/wish/221010501 kazmira_passineau https://padlet.com/kazmira_passineau/gf9xo4vjzy85/wish/221010556 When the group of oranges get to school Wednesday morning, they notice all of the color bands that they had made were stolen from their lockers. Adam says, "They took it! Those damn G4's. Otero must have gotten combinations to our lockers from the office, and the G4's got here early and stole them! I'm so furious, I could!" (148).]]> 2018-01-12 15:42:15 UTC https://padlet.com/kazmira_passineau/gf9xo4vjzy85/wish/221010556 kazmira_passineau https://padlet.com/kazmira_passineau/gf9xo4vjzy85/wish/221010563 The oranges figure that someone from their group must have snitched because no one but the oranges knew about the meeting. The members are getting heated and turning on one another. Troy is the most upset and says, "Yeah! How did you know? Who told on us?" (131).]]> 2018-01-12 15:42:16 UTC https://padlet.com/kazmira_passineau/gf9xo4vjzy85/wish/221010563 kazmira_passineau https://padlet.com/kazmira_passineau/gf9xo4vjzy85/wish/221010571 The oranges hold a meeting at Juan's house, an orange, to get ready for the rally. When everyone is packing up and getting ready to go, the G4's show up. Adam says in excitment, "Oh, no! No! Where did they come from?" (130).]]> 2018-01-12 15:42:17 UTC https://padlet.com/kazmira_passineau/gf9xo4vjzy85/wish/221010571 kazmira_passineau https://padlet.com/kazmira_passineau/gf9xo4vjzy85/wish/221010576 Amy starts to realize more and more that maybe it would have been better to just follow the games rules. Amy is talking to Adam about a test they took, "Otero's trying to teach us one of his little 'lessons.' Probably trying to say that poor people and ethnic groups don't test well because of language problems and cultural differences" (117).]]> 2018-01-12 15:42:18 UTC https://padlet.com/kazmira_passineau/gf9xo4vjzy85/wish/221010576 kazmira_passineau https://padlet.com/kazmira_passineau/gf9xo4vjzy85/wish/221010600 Amy got demoted to an orange for conversating with lower colors and not following rules. She is realizing how different it is, when a G4 asks to see her journal and she is in the rain, conflict comes up. "You'll stand here until I see that journal!" (Miklowitz 110).]]> 2018-01-12 15:42:19 UTC https://padlet.com/kazmira_passineau/gf9xo4vjzy85/wish/221010600