Amy+&+Roger


 * Discussion Time:**
 * Friday****, January 20,** **11:10-12:40 (4B)**

Haley Estabrook Brittany Elvidge Gina Robertson Carlene Shaw Emily Godfrey Hillary Pidden
 * Group Members:**

Amy and Rogers Epic Detour
 * Characters **
 * Amy- High school girl; feels guilty for the death of her father; very responsible; throughout the journey Amy transforms from a quiet, shy girl to a confident person willing to take risks. **
 * Roger- Cute 19 year old guy who goes on road trip with Amy. At first he is on a quest to win back Hadley, but as the book continues he falls in love with Amy. He is very friendly and caring, and throughout the journey tries to get Amy to open up to him. **
 * Charlie- Amy’s twin; much more rebellious, shown by his tendency to party; after his father’s death he is sent to rehab **
 * Amy’s dad- He is accidentally killed in a car accident that was being driven by Amy. He loved Elvis Presley. **
 * Bronwyn- Roger’s friend from college; very friendly; when Amy and Roger spend the night at the Colorado College, she gives Amy a whole new set of clothes. She dislikes Hadley. **
 * Cheeks (Drew)- Roger’s friend from college who is nicknamed this. On Roger and Amy’s way to Kentucky, they stop in Kansas to meet him. Drew is very friendly and introduces them to NuWay Café. **
 * Walcott (lawnmower guy)- Meets Roger and Amy while they are with Drew, in Kansas. Walcott is the first person that Amy opens up to, admitting that her father was dead. He is also in a band. **
 * Hadley- Roger’s inconsiderate ex-girlfriend who lives in Kentucky. At first Roger tries to win her back, but he soon realizes that she isn’t worth it. She is described as very pretty. **
 * Lucien -Hadley’s brother from Kentucky; very well mannered; has a crush on Amy; wealthy. **
 * Muz- Messed-Up Zach; Charlie’s roommate/friends in rehab. He makes Amy go to North Carolina to bring the letter to the boy at Dairy Queen. **


 * Setting(s) **
 * place: Across country in Amy’s car, various hotels and restaurants **
 * economic: Amy and Roger tend to spend most of their money on fast food; although, in the beginning, they use Amy’s mother’s credit card for everything. They didn’t have to worry until Amy’s mom got mad at her. They were very short on money then. **
 * Geography: Everywhere from California, to Yosemite, boring Utah, the Rocky Mountains, the Great Plains, Kentucky, North Carolina, and finally Philly. **
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Droid Serif'; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Since this book tells the story of a road trip, it is very laid-back. Amy and Roger take one day at a time. They don’t seem to care if they are taking longer than Amy’s mother had planned. **


 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Droid Serif'; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Important plot events **
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Droid Serif'; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">1. Roger’s suggest they take the scenic route, so he can visit Hadley in Colorado. This changes the whole series of events. It would be a totally different book without this decision. **
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Droid Serif'; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">2. Bronwyn give Amy a whole new wardrobe, which gives her confidence. It might have also attracted Roger to her more than before. Also, Roger learns in Colorado that Hadley is in Kentucky, which leads to the next point. **
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Droid Serif'; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">3. Amy and Roger decide to take yet another detour to Kentucky. There, Amy meets Lucien, Hadley’s cute brother. He makes a move on her, but she hesitates because she can only think of Roger. Also in Kentucky, Hadley metaphorically stabs Roger in the heart. **
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Droid Serif'; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">4. Amy finally kisses Roger.... and the rest is history. They both express their hidden feelings for each other. ****
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Droid Serif'; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Droid Serif'; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Conflicts - Identify and elaborate on the conflicts that drive the plot.


 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Droid Serif'; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">1. Roger is determined to see Hadley again- leads to the epic detour. **
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Droid Serif'; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">2. Amy’s inner thoughts (both about Roger and her guilt with her father’s death) **
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Droid Serif'; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">3. Money (After Amy’s mother cancels the credit card). They have to penny pinch their way to Conn. **


 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Droid Serif'; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Narration (point of view) **
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Droid Serif'; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">-This book is written in first person; therefore, it is very personal. There are also many scrapbook pages with pictures, so the reader can see the sights too! **


 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Droid Serif'; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Qualities of the journey - <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Droid Serif'; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> Each group member should make a statement about the journey (metaphorical, literal, etc.) and how the character changes (or not...). **


 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Droid Serif'; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Carlene: I definitely think Amy changed throughout the journey. She was able to express her feelings more to Roger and being more confident and outgoing. **
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Droid Serif'; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Brittany: This journey helped Amy grow and heal as a person by giving her a chance to escape. As the journey progresses, Amy gradually gains more confidence and shifts from a quiet, shy girl to someone willing to take chances. Also she learns to accept the past and move forward with her life, guilt-free. **
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Droid Serif'; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Gina: I believe that--although Amy’s journey was physically a road trip--she traveled a mental expedition, as well. As Carlene, Emily, and Brittany have already addressed, Amy and Roger’s Epic Detour addresses the path that each person must take to heal and how every individual deals with pain in unique ways. **
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Droid Serif'; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Emily: I think that the journey helped Amy accept her father’s death, and help her deal with the fact that she feels it was her fault. By the end of the book Amy is ready to face her family and wants to talk about the accident. It helped her heal and prepare her body for dealing with whats happened to her. **

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Droid Serif'; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline;">__Whip__

 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Droid Serif'; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Whip questions for beginning of the discussion: ****
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Droid Serif'; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Droid Serif'; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">How did you like the book?
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Droid Serif'; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Droid Serif'; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">How did you respond to a certain character?
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Droid Serif'; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Droid Serif'; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">What did you care most about in the book?
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Droid Serif'; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Droid Serif'; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Describe your level of understanding.


 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Droid Serif'; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Whip questions for the middle of the discussion: ****
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Droid Serif'; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Droid Serif'; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">How did you respond to a plot event?
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Droid Serif'; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Droid Serif'; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">What passage(s) made an impact on you?
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Droid Serif'; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Droid Serif'; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">What points do you agree or disagree with?


 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Droid Serif'; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Whip questions for the end of the discussion: ****
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Droid Serif'; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Droid Serif'; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">What comment made today most affected your thinking?
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Droid Serif'; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Droid Serif'; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">What have you learned most about the book/the issues raised by the book today?
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Droid Serif'; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Droid Serif'; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">What questions still linger for you?

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Droid Serif'; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Discussion Questions:

 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Droid Serif'; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">What are the issues and ideas within this novel you’d like your group to discuss? Be sure to consider various parts of the text (beginning, middle and end). Collaboratively create 15-25 open-ended questions that promote discussion and organize them logically. ****
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Droid Serif'; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Droid Serif'; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline;">__Personal Response Questions__ <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Droid Serif'; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> -- These questions might address your personal reactions to the style and content of the novel and ask group members to share and compare.
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Droid Serif'; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Droid Serif'; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline;">__Open-ended, analytical questions__ <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Droid Serif'; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> -- These promote multiple perspectives and don’t yield a single answer. They address the WHY and HOW.


 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Droid Serif'; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">1) If you were put into Amy’s shoes, would you feel like your father’s death was your fault? **
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Droid Serif'; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">2) Did you find that Amy’s negative perception of Charlie was accurate? **
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Droid Serif'; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">3) Did you think it was for Amy to unload her problems on that random lawnmower? **

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Ten Words or Less

 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">This can be done as individuals or in pairs. ****
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">On your own or with one partner, summarize the book in ten words or less. Give everyone three minutes.
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Share the summaries: the writer reads the summary and another participant asks a question or makes a comment in response to that summary. The writer responds and talk can open from there. Move to the next summary.
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Commit to each summary earning one comment or question from another participant.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Passage Path

 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Try this if you’ve talked with your books closed for a while. It is helpful to use the language of the book as a way to open a discussion. ****
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Everyone should refresh their memory of passages they've marked as important in the text.
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">One person starts by bringing the group to a passage that felt significant. He or she briefly explains why the passage feels important.
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">The rest of the group should be thinking about other passages that compares or contrasts (for any reason) to the original. When a participant feels she has one, direct the rest of the group members to the page number and read the passage aloud. The participant explains the connection to the first passage; others can contribute.
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Repeat #2 until as many passages have been brought up as there are participants in the group, or for a small group, go around twice. Feel free to make connections to passages discussed earlier.
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Be aware not to but undue pressure on individuals with this protocol, but work together to find and explain the connections between the passages.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Droid Serif'; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Connections:

 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Droid Serif'; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Learn about your book and widen your discussion by researching outside resources. Each must include a specific part of the text the group should focus on, a statement about why the outside source is relevant, plus at least one comment or question for discussion. The outside resources can include: ****
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Droid Serif'; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Droid Serif'; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">literary criticism
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Droid Serif'; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Droid Serif'; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">book reviews


 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000099; font-family: 'Droid Serif'; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline;">[|__http://www.tickettoanywhere.net/2011/10/amy-rogers-epic-detour-by-morgan-matson.html__] **
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Droid Serif'; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">This blogger sincerely enjoyed this book. She thinks that Morgan Matson did a great job at expressing the emotions of the characters, especially Amy. She also liked the little flashbacks. She does not like how crued Amy’s mother was to her, just after doing one thing wrong. She thinks it is not fair that Charlie could do many things wrong and have practically no consequences, unlike herself. **


 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000099; font-family: 'Droid Serif'; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline;">[|__http://whatireadandwhatithought.blogspot.com/2011/12/book-review-amy-rogers-epic-detour-by.html__] **
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Droid Serif'; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">This blogger describes his surprised reaction to reading it, saying how it had a sadder tone than he had expected. However, despite it being predictable, as a whole this blogger enjoyed the book. ****
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Droid Serif'; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Droid Serif'; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">other works of literature
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Droid Serif'; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Droid Serif'; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">literary theory
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Droid Serif'; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Droid Serif'; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">author information -- interviews, obituaries, statements


 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000099; font-family: 'Droid Serif'; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline;">[|__http://authors.simonandschuster.com/Morgan-Matson/63461446__] <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Droid Serif'; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> interview with Matson **


 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000099; font-family: 'Droid Serif'; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline;">[|__http://daisychainbookreviews.blogspot.com/2011/07/amy-rogers-epic-blog-tour-delightful.html__] **
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Droid Serif'; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Here is blog tour of Matson that explains where she got her inspiration to write the book. **
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Droid Serif'; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Droid Serif'; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">trailers/spin-offs/popular culture references


 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000099; font-family: 'Droid Serif'; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline;">[|__http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XGDbEJNo2Po&feature=fvst__] **
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Droid Serif'; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">This is a home made trailer for the book. **