What is Humor?

Humor is "what makes stuff funny" and has the "power to evoke laughter." You will be exploring humor in a novel of your choice.



It is very important that you make wise decisions in this project since this is one of two major projects before the end of the year and it will take you several weeks.



For your individual novel, you get to choose a novel that uses humor. Making a good choice of novel will make this easier for you. Choose a novel that will expand and challenge your humor. Do not choose a novel just because you think it is short; this often makes things more difficult. Do not try to get away without reading the novel. This is a novel project - you need to READ a novel.

Make Wise Choices!

Make Wise Choices!

Saturday, May 14, 2011

Kendra Johnson- 24 girls in 7 days

Now that Jack Grammar is the talk of the school, girls are coming onto all different ways. Jessica Woo, a girl that goes to his school, writes a whole newspaper article explaining Jack's situation. "How did Jack go from being the slightly geeky kid who could name all thirty-some Shakespeare plays to suddenly being the flavor of the moment?" She talks about how over 200 girls responded to the ad, and how all these rumors are going around about him. In the ad she even asks Jack to call her. Jack was sitting outside his house that night and a girl drives by and yells out the window "Jack, give me babies!". Girls are going crazy over this newly popular Jack Grammar. Some girls get creepy and contact Jack's family, and Jacks sister decides to set up a speed dating date with 5 girls. She holds this speed dating in her kids play room, so Jack is sitting at this little plastic toddler table, with his date. There is a big pole in the room that is surrounded with at least eight inches of foam padding, and while hes on one date his niece runs straight into the extra-foam padded pole. Jack couldn't stop laughing and that girl got mad that he wasn't paying enough attention to her, so she got up and left. Too bad for him huh, cause he only has about 199 other girls that want him. One of the speed date girls wants to play one-on-one basketball with him. They went out and she beat him by a long shot so hes pretty much in love with her. There's one part that's kinda funny because Jack says why his favorite day is Thursday, because he was born on a Thursday and conceived on a Thursday. At school that day a hippie girl, Mary, with huge out-of-date glasses according to Jack came up to him and played a song she wrote for him on her guitar. That night, star football player, Scott comes a knocking on Jack's door in his wheelchair because he broke his leg. Scott begged Jack to go to prom with his girlfriend because she thought it would look dumb if she went with a guy in a wheel chair to prom, but Jack talks Scott's girlfriend into taking Scott. Every year at prom, Percys' grandpa, who is also the janitor at the school, start off prom by dancing to the first dance. Everyone watches in an awe because there two people that you can tell that are in love and always have been. This year, Percy's grandpa is really sick, and is still in the hospital. At the end of the book, Jack doesn't find one girl he actually wants to go to prom with. (which was a big waste of the whole 24/7 thing) So he asks Percys' grandma to go with him. She said yes, so Jack and Percy's grandma started off prom this year.

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