RESEARCH (CHAP 8-12)

Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton

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For the National Guard camp in Virginia, see Camp Pendleton (Virginia).

Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton
San Diego County, California
MCB Camp Pendleton Insignia
Type	Military base
Coordinates	33°20′N 117°25′WCoordinates: 33°20′N 117°25′W
Built	March 1942
In use	September 25, 1942—present
Controlled by	United States Marine Corps
Garrison	I Marine Expeditionary Force
Current commander	Brigadier General Vincent A. Coglianese[1]
Shown within San Diego County, California

Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton is the major West Coast base of the United States Marine Corps and serves as its prime amphibious training base for Assault Craft Unit 5.^[2] It is located on the Southern California coast, in San Diego County, and bordered by Oceanside to the south, San Clemente, Cleveland National Forest, Orange and Riverside counties to the north, and Fallbrook to the east.
The base is split into North and South and was established in 1942 to train U.S. Marines for service in World War II. By October 1944, Camp Pendleton was declared a "permanent installation" and by 1946, it became the home of the 1st Marine Division. It was named after Major General Joseph Henry Pendleton (1860–1942), who had long advocated setting up a training base for the Marine Corps on the west coast. Today it is the home to myriad Operating Force units including the I Marine Expeditionary Force and various training commands.
















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Red Ryder BB Gun

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The Red Ryder BB Gun is a BB gun made by Daisy Outdoor Products and introduced in 1938 that resembles the Winchester rifle of Western movies. Named for the comic strip cowboy character Red Ryder (who also appeared in numerous films between 1940 and 1950, and on television in 1956), the BB gun is still in production despite the fact that the comic strip was cancelled in 1963.

  Two Red Ryder BB Guns in box. These are a relatively recent reissue. The boxes promote the gun as being "just like the one your Dad had!"

 

Original source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Ryder_BB_Gun

MARBLES
A marble is a small spherical toy usually made from glass, clay, steel, plastic or agate. These balls vary in size. Most commonly, they are about 1/2 inch to 1 inch (1.3 to 2.6 cm) in diameter, but they may range from less than 1/30 inch (0.111 cm) to over 3 inches (7.75 cm), while some art glass marbles for display purposes are over 12 inches (30 cm) wide. Marbles can be used for a variety of games called marbles. They are often collected, both for nostalgia and for their aesthetic colors. In the North of England the objects and the game are called "taws", with larger taws being called bottle washers after the use of a marble in Codd-neck bottles.

Original source:  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marble_%28toy%29

Chpt. 17-21 Illustration

Chpt 21: When Victor swam out towards the dolphins and the rock where he had seen Joseph and Jesus.

Critical Thinking Questions Chpt. 13-16

1. What distracted Victor from thinking right after he first told his brother to cross the clump of thick marsh grass and then changed his mind?

2.Why was Victor proud of having peed on his fathers face when he was small?

3.When Chemo asked Victor to keep a secret, why does Victor find it so hard to keep quiet?

4. What do you think the flash Victor saw, of the red truck coming from the bottom of the hill, represented?

5. Why do you think Joseph was not surprised and so calm when he found out his brother jumped out of the car?

6. Do you really think Shep took off in the morning towards the hills to intercept with Josephs Soul? Why?

Bi As The Travel Tracer (Chap 13-16)

CHAPTER 13: Victor's brother, Joseph, came home after he was feeling better. Joseph went to a horse ride to the West end with Victor at night and fell into shallow grass. Joseph broke his leg. Victor's cousin and his sister took care of Victor while his parents gone for business. On a ride, Victor refused to remain in the car because of his cousin's incautious driving so he jumped outside and broke his leg.

CHAPTER 14: Victor told Joseph what happened at the incident. Joseph lectured him that he should learn to make good decision his own sake.

CHAPTER 15: Victor got depressed because of his brother illness. He didn't have any mood on winning marbles. His friends stick with him everyday to explore about "blackmail business." Older kids challenged Victor in a marble battle. They ended up beating each other. Victor losed but he felt ease for not being the champion.

CHAPTER 16: Joseph died. The family sadly opened a funeral. Victor is in great pain and his parents got frustrated because their children died. The death incident had been a burden

Chapter 8-12 Summarizer

Chpt. 8

     After being transferred to a new school Victor and los vatos began the second grade at a school in which he considered awful because of the treatment the teachers gave to Mexican kids. At that school he met Whitakin, a new kid at school whose parents owned a bakery and would always share his cream puffs with Victor before riding their bikes to school. He also met Gus, a Texan kid who introduced him and the school to playing marbles.Victor was not good at playing marbles so he asked his brother Joseph for techniques. Joseph taught him what voting was about and insisted he wait two weeks before he played against Gus. When he finally played Gus. he won at first, but then lost due to the fact that he did not know how to play with big circles.After receiving more techniques from his brother Victor played Gus again winning more marbles but letting him win more so he could come back to play. Victor was amazed of all the good strategies his brother knew that he had learned from his father.

Chpt. 9

     At school Victor learned how to multiply and became a math genius, yet when the teacher asked for students to read aloud he was shy because of his trouble with reading. He bribed several classmates to volunteer to read for a nickle so they wouldn't call on him, but one day Mrs. Morlo, the teacher, noticed and convinced him to stay after school for extra reading time. Though, Victor tried to understand to read he did not succeed and was told he would have to repeat the third grade. One rainy day while Victor and Gus were headed to school they encountered many snails and a lizard that they stepped on and set on fire. That night Victor imagined a big lizard and a frog he believed would eat him. He was told he had to ask God for forgiveness and so he prayed so that his he could be free of guilt.

Chpt. 10
     When Victor's family house was completed, a man came looking for the owner of the mansion. Victors father lied, telling the man that the owner was very important and he was just a worker. He invited Ford to the celebration "his boss" was throwing. The next morning they had to slaughter the steer, Joseph was feeling weak but he asked his brother to not tell anyone of how he was feeling. The day of the celebration Victor began to realize people called his dad the Al Capone of the West, and he began to think his father was a bad guy. Though he was curious, he payed no much attention to it and began to celebrate like everyone else.

Chpt. 11
     Two weeks after the party, two men from Carlsbad barrio came where they lived looking for Victors dad claiming he was a trader for now wanting to be with the white people. They were insulting him in front of his children but he was still calm about it and offered them whiskey. The men were discouraged to be given a "women drink" and did not appreciate the bottle so Victors dad smashed the bottle into one of the guys face. As the others tried to start a fight, the two cowboys came supporting Victor's dad with their guns telling the, to get off his land and so they did.

Chpt. 12
     In chapter 12, Victor's brother is sent to Scripps Hospital because he was sick from his liver. He had been getting the wrong treatment from his previous doctor. Victor was afraid his brother would die, and hearing his mother plead for God to take her instead of Joseph he became sad. He didn't want no one from his family to die. He believed that if God had to take someone it should be him because he was unworthy. His father had a talk with him and told him God was not going to take anyone.