Shooter by Klara Kalina https://padlet.com/2099026/k4hmfgei17jo en-us 2018-08-17 21:55:53 UTC 2026-01-30 21:08:33 UTC hello@padlet.com #1 Questioning 2099026 https://padlet.com/2099026/k4hmfgei17jo/wish/273822852 Pages 1-97
-Did Leonard show signs of mental illness/ an unstable state throughout his life or did it start when he was older?
- Was Cameron always a loner or did he have friends before?
-Did Cameron notice signs of depression before becoming friends with Leonard?
-How did Carla get into her abusive situation?
-What was the specific reason that Leonard went to therapy?
-Was Camerons dad always as  toxic as he currently was?
-Did Cameron's mom try to stop Cameron's dad when he treated Cameron badly

]]> 2018-08-17 22:00:21 UTC https://padlet.com/2099026/k4hmfgei17jo/wish/273822852 #2 Connecting 2099026 https://padlet.com/2099026/k4hmfgei17jo/wish/273823161 Pages 10- 100
Text to self:
Cameron's dad is always working and away from home, so Cameron is much closer with his mom than with his dad. Similar with my dad because he's always away on business trips or working long hours, so me and my sister are closer with our mom.

Pages 1-223
Text to World: 
The book was about a school shooting and this year we've had 32 school shootings in America.

Text to Text:
This is a story about a person who has a mental illness and how his life is with that mental illness, similar to the book "Words on Bathroom Walls" where the main character Adam is also dealing with a mental illness and its about his life with that mental illness

]]> 2018-08-17 22:06:46 UTC https://padlet.com/2099026/k4hmfgei17jo/wish/273823161 #3 Inferring 2099026 https://padlet.com/2099026/k4hmfgei17jo/wish/273823610 Pages 107- 140
-Carla isn't going to come back into town and become friends with Cameron, even though it seems like she will
-Leonard is going to hurt all the people that gave him a hard time
-Carla is going to get shot by Leonard
-Cameron is going to get shot by Leonard
-The authorities are going to think that Cameron and Carla were also shooters in the school
-Leonard is going to find Carla hiding in the closet





]]> 2018-08-17 22:17:05 UTC https://padlet.com/2099026/k4hmfgei17jo/wish/273823610 #4 Visualizing 2099026 https://padlet.com/2099026/k4hmfgei17jo/wish/273823840 Page 135
     "When I got to the library, I looked in and saw Len looking out the window. There was a duffel bag on the floor next to him. I went in and said hello. He told me he was going to paint the walls of the library. He asked me if I wanted to cut him to start the bleeding. Thats what he asked, if I wanted to "start the bleeding." I said no. Then he opened the duffel bag and pulled out the Kalashnikov. Thats when I started panicking. I asked him what the rifle was for, and he said to hold off people until he had painted enough signs. I was still freaking out. I said that I didnt want any part of any rifles, and he pointed it at me and cocked it. I wanted to run but I was too scared to move. I thought he was going to shoot me."

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     "I got there just as Carla came through the door. I told her we needed to split big-time. She saw the gun and asked me what I was doing with it. Then Len was yelling down the hall at us and I was trying to pull Carla into the stairwell and she didnt know what was happening so she pulled away. Then Len shot a blast at us and knocked out the glass from a display case. The glass shattered and blew all over the hallway and Carla screamed."]]> 2018-08-17 22:22:03 UTC https://padlet.com/2099026/k4hmfgei17jo/wish/273823840 #5 Summarizing main ideas and themes 2099026 https://padlet.com/2099026/k4hmfgei17jo/wish/273825005 Pages 1- 141
Cameron, Leonard/Len, and Carla were all outcasts at school, coming together and forming a friend group. Cameron and Carla were just your average teens but Len was a mentally unstable person who never got the help he needed. One day Len decided he had enough of all the people who never expected him, especially his classmate Brad Williams. Len convinces Cameron and Carla to help him "stop the violence" not knowing what that really meant to Len. April 22, a day everyone would remember as the day Leonard Gray shot up the school and murdered a classmate.

]]> 2018-08-17 22:45:01 UTC https://padlet.com/2099026/k4hmfgei17jo/wish/273825005 #6 How does the main character change throughout the book 2099026 https://padlet.com/2099026/k4hmfgei17jo/wish/273825821 Pages 1- 99
Cameron Porter was Leonard Grays, and Carla Evans closest friend. All three of these characters were main characters but Cameron was the most relevant in the book, explaining the story of what happened on April 22. The book starts out as an interview and then it progresses into the full school shooting story at the end. At the beginning of Camerons interviews he didn't say much and was still too shaken up to properly answer all the questions. After every interview Cameron opened up more and told the story in more detail, adding on details from his personal life, and Carla and Lens personal lives. At the beginning we knew Cameron as an antisocial person who had a luxurious life at home because of his rich parents, we learn throughout the story that he lives an anxious life dealing with his father. His dad is gone all the time and doesn't understand why Cameron isn't exactly the way he wants him to be. Lashing out at Cameron over anything. And the money meaning nothing because his father doesn't want Cameron having any of it, because Cameron quit the basketball team.]]> 2018-08-17 23:02:39 UTC https://padlet.com/2099026/k4hmfgei17jo/wish/273825821 #7 Theme 2099026 https://padlet.com/2099026/k4hmfgei17jo/wish/273826369 Pages 19- 57
The theme of the book is about bullying. The cause for the school shooting was students bullying Len, if Len wasn't bullied than several students wouldn't have been injured and Brad Williams would have still been alive.

]]> 2018-08-17 23:14:38 UTC https://padlet.com/2099026/k4hmfgei17jo/wish/273826369 #8 Plot development/ events 2099026 https://padlet.com/2099026/k4hmfgei17jo/wish/273826809 Pages 1- 141
- Len, Cameron, and Carla become friends
-Len takes them to shooting range and they all become good at shooting guns
-Carla and Len get into a fight and Carla leaves group
-Len and Carla make up (Carla forgives Len out of fear) 
-Brad Williams and other classmates bully Cameron and Len
-Len convinces Cameron and Carla to sneak into school early to 'stop the violence" 
-Len almost shoots Cameron and Carla
-Len shoots and kills Brad Williams and injures many other classmates
- Len shoots himself in the head while bleeding out from cuts on his arms ]]> 2018-08-17 23:25:57 UTC https://padlet.com/2099026/k4hmfgei17jo/wish/273826809 #9 Authors writing craft/style 2099026 https://padlet.com/2099026/k4hmfgei17jo/wish/273827042 Pages 1- 223
Walter Dean Myers has a very interesting writing style. He changes font for every person because they all have different personalities and POVS. Making some look like messy paragraphs in Lens notebook and others like they were neatly typed at interviews. He also recreates what it's really like in our minds, making the sentences mostly short and jumping from one thought to another, just like our minds do when were overwhelmed. Another thing he does in his writing is that he changes the way each character speaks, the voice is theirs and they all speak and act very differently. With their own font and their own slang you can tell which character is which without having to be told.]]> 2018-08-17 23:32:09 UTC https://padlet.com/2099026/k4hmfgei17jo/wish/273827042 #10 Opinion of the book 2099026 https://padlet.com/2099026/k4hmfgei17jo/wish/273827386 Pages 1-223
I really enjoyed the book because it really made you think if its real or not. It has multiple interviews, newspaper articles, police reports, and notebook entries from the shooter. Seems very real, but in reality it's based off of the Columbine shooting. It was very original and didn't just tell you about some school shooting, it told you about the kids backstories and friendships and how their homelife is like. You really knew the character by the end of the book. You could really picture what was happening during the shootings because of the authors vivid description skills and attention to detail.



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