https://padlet.com/rcerra/jbr6f0hzlaj9 Chapter Summaries from 1-18 en-us 2016-04-14 00:36:06 UTC 2019-08-07 14:29:02 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padletuploads.blob.core.windows.net/aws/109139818/c8f75bf396cadb1f2afe5bebb9b48b62724359ae/3ced62fd0319836f48a3b398a14026fd.jpg rcerra https://padlet.com/rcerra/jbr6f0hzlaj9/wish/105688549 *pencil and boomer are best friends
*pencil and boomer star gaze and pretend that the shooting stars are part of their football games
*pencils dream was the play AFL in essondon with boomer
*pencil and boomer played for Gippsland power
*they were the two best players in their team Gippsland power

]]> 2016-04-14 00:36:37 UTC https://padlet.com/rcerra/jbr6f0hzlaj9/wish/105688549 rcerra https://padlet.com/rcerra/jbr6f0hzlaj9/wish/105688598 Pencil would race buses and leap over fences every morning for training. Him and his friends would talk on the bus about school, training and their dream of becoming an Essendon football player. ]]> 2016-04-14 00:37:11 UTC https://padlet.com/rcerra/jbr6f0hzlaj9/wish/105688598 rcerra https://padlet.com/rcerra/jbr6f0hzlaj9/wish/106922898 *Pencil played for a club and was doing better then ever. He would win all the awards in the sporting field
*Pencil knew that he had a chance to make it in the AFL team 
*On the field he knew football was he's thing, He would everyday train and train just to achieve his dream
*The coach invited Pencil to training. In his first kick 2 kick game he held his own
*That's how he got his nickname pencil
*The couch was impressed with pencil skills in football
*The couch knew he would get bigger and join a professional club
*Pencil took everything seriously with his schoolwork, training, his help around the farm and everything else
*The couch was impressed with pencils poise and balance In the air so he invited him to training and soon enough he made it in the team
*Pencil won the springs, the longer distances, even the 1500 meters
*Pencil realised that he had a football match]]> 2016-04-21 05:29:14 UTC https://padlet.com/rcerra/jbr6f0hzlaj9/wish/106922898 rcerra https://padlet.com/rcerra/jbr6f0hzlaj9/wish/106922925 *Pencil took most of his marks from the front.
*Together they were an awesome team.
*All pencil had to do was lead out front of his man and boomer would run and dodge about 15 enters to get the space to kick to his mate.
*He loved knowing his body had been through a tough workout and was still running.
*he was sick after each game.
*"why don't you try to run around the mark and take me on"?
*i don't think my bloke will be expecting it.

]]> 2016-04-21 05:29:39 UTC https://padlet.com/rcerra/jbr6f0hzlaj9/wish/106922925 rcerra https://padlet.com/rcerra/jbr6f0hzlaj9/wish/106922933 he was leading to the grand final at the MCG
Four Dad before the game the couch came to see pencils parents and pencil was not invited to hear the conservation 
*It was Essendon vs  the Knights 
*he was questioning him self what his couch was talking about to his  parents 



]]> 2016-04-21 05:29:47 UTC https://padlet.com/rcerra/jbr6f0hzlaj9/wish/106922933 rcerra https://padlet.com/rcerra/jbr6f0hzlaj9/wish/106922939 In chapter 6, 
-They have the grand final, + there is scouts from pencils favourite team, bombers. 
-His team Power got to play at the MCG for the grand final.
-They where amazed by how luxurious it was for a football team.
-The Bombers where very interested in O'Rilleys statistics.
-They where determined to win the TAC cup.
-Two senior players from Essendon Jobe Watson and the clubs new captain Patrick Ryder were in the stand forpicking Pencil as 'their boy'. 
-Pencil ran for the fifteen metres before tunnelling one through the centre goals, putting the first points on the board.
-4 seconds, left everything going in slow motion, as pencil hand balls the ball over there heads only concentrating on the goals, and putting the ball straight threw the goal.
-At that moment he goes back to reality as he hears the roar and the siren, and at that moment he see's his dad shaking hands with Watson and another man who looked familiar, I wonder what that was all about.]]> 2016-04-21 05:29:54 UTC https://padlet.com/rcerra/jbr6f0hzlaj9/wish/106922939 rcerra https://padlet.com/rcerra/jbr6f0hzlaj9/wish/106922942 - people from essendon watched pencil's game.
-In Chapter 7 Pencil is greeted by Jobe Watson and Patrick Ryder, he is told to come and train with the Essendon football club. 
-boomer also got offered to join essendon aswell.
-the two boys were so excited about training with the bombers.]]> 2016-04-21 05:29:57 UTC https://padlet.com/rcerra/jbr6f0hzlaj9/wish/106922942 rcerra https://padlet.com/rcerra/jbr6f0hzlaj9/wish/106922950 In chapter 8, Pencil completes his first Afl training with the Essendon Bombers. He is very hopeful that Essendon will draft him. While Pencil was enjoying his footy life he forgot about his personal life, like his friend boomer. So they decided to go fishing. They sat on a branch over the Tarwin River. But as they were fishing away the branch they had fished on for many years had suddenly broke and they both dropped in the angry river. Pencil made it back up to the air but Boomer had not, instead his leg was trapped under a branch and was drowning. But by the quick thinking of Pencil, he pulled him out of the water. Bommer had almost gone unconscious, but by a cough of water he was okay. When Pencil got home he was surprised to find a group of Aboriginals standing out the front of his porch dancing and singing in appreciation of Pencil saving Boomers life.]]> 2016-04-21 05:30:01 UTC https://padlet.com/rcerra/jbr6f0hzlaj9/wish/106922950 rcerra https://padlet.com/rcerra/jbr6f0hzlaj9/wish/106922955 In chapter 9, pencil talked to his dad. His dad gave him advice and encouraged him to fulfill his dreams. He played the game and he was player 18660. Pencil said in an interview his favorite thing about footy was the ball. Coach hird gave him a training program ]]> 2016-04-21 05:30:05 UTC https://padlet.com/rcerra/jbr6f0hzlaj9/wish/106922955 rcerra https://padlet.com/rcerra/jbr6f0hzlaj9/wish/106922957 .Pre season started immediately 
.Coach hird wanted the fittest team in the league this season
.He said he wanted gladiators on the field men who could take everything and keep .going
.He gave them a punishing preseason workout
.adam ramanauskas a former essendon premiership player who was now the clubs runner he took an instant liking to pencil and had a word with him early on
.penicl nodded and looked around the room he were the Giants of the game as far he was concerned
.out on the filed pencil kept up with the fastest of them he also kept as high of any of them and he tackled as hard as any of them even though he sometimes bounced of them like a volleyball 
.week after week night after night pencil punished his body to a hard as a rock

]]> 2016-04-21 05:30:08 UTC https://padlet.com/rcerra/jbr6f0hzlaj9/wish/106922957 rcerra https://padlet.com/rcerra/jbr6f0hzlaj9/wish/106922961 .it was 8 weeks into the season in AFL
.he played 8 games in the season so far
.the tractor was flipped on pencils dads leg
.pencil tried to lift the tractor off
.pencil took time off afl for a week to help the herd
pencil gets up at 4:00 am in the morning for milking
pencil isnt playing well in training
.gets time off AFL to look after his family ]]> 2016-04-21 05:30:12 UTC https://padlet.com/rcerra/jbr6f0hzlaj9/wish/106922961 rcerra https://padlet.com/rcerra/jbr6f0hzlaj9/wish/106922966 Pencil would wake up early every morning to feed the cows. 
Pencil invented a course for the cows, so that they would be doing their morning routine.
With the help of his family, Pencil went to sleep, knowing his dream would still be alive of being in the Essonden AFL Team.]]> 2016-04-21 05:30:15 UTC https://padlet.com/rcerra/jbr6f0hzlaj9/wish/106922966 rcerra https://padlet.com/rcerra/jbr6f0hzlaj9/wish/106922972
Pencil lay awake thinking about returning to Essendon 
They won 17 games
There in the final
His dad walked in to talk to him
He warned him that it would be hard to get back in the team
He made an invention and his father said that it would help the family a lot
Tough heart soft eyes
Losing it made something inside me turn hard and I'm not going to let my chance slip away


]]> 2016-04-21 05:30:23 UTC https://padlet.com/rcerra/jbr6f0hzlaj9/wish/106922972 rcerra https://padlet.com/rcerra/jbr6f0hzlaj9/wish/106922996 *Training day came around soon enough.
*pencil was on the road to his training.
*his going back to training with the bomber after his dad had an accident.
*pencil felt nervous going back to footy.
*pencil remembered all the drills and carried them out with the rhythms of a dancer.

]]> 2016-04-21 05:30:44 UTC https://padlet.com/rcerra/jbr6f0hzlaj9/wish/106922996 rcerra https://padlet.com/rcerra/jbr6f0hzlaj9/wish/106923008 Pencil was going to play for the gendigo bombers he saw some of his essendom teammates. He started of a bit rusty but as the game went on he improved and they won the game]]> 2016-04-21 05:30:51 UTC https://padlet.com/rcerra/jbr6f0hzlaj9/wish/106923008 rcerra https://padlet.com/rcerra/jbr6f0hzlaj9/wish/106923011 Pencil met with his couch at windy hill
Pencil was ready to vs Sydney swans 
Pencil lined up for 30 meters out and sent the ball straight through for a goal 
Pencil scored a mind blowing goal that Amazed the crowed 
It was half time a Essendon was 46 and Sydney 39
 ]]> 2016-04-21 05:30:55 UTC https://padlet.com/rcerra/jbr6f0hzlaj9/wish/106923011 rcerra https://padlet.com/rcerra/jbr6f0hzlaj9/wish/106923019 *The grand final day came very fast.
*players bounced off him and he kept going.]]> 2016-04-21 05:31:04 UTC https://padlet.com/rcerra/jbr6f0hzlaj9/wish/106923019 rcerra https://padlet.com/rcerra/jbr6f0hzlaj9/wish/106923030 After, he kicked the winning goal at the grand final, Pencil was in newspapers and had a lot of interviews. He gave advice to newcomers hoping to get drafted.]]> 2016-04-21 05:31:11 UTC https://padlet.com/rcerra/jbr6f0hzlaj9/wish/106923030