By 6th Grade T.A.G. Class
Cagle Kids of 2012/2013:
Emily Beth Blakely Dashawn Dunbar
Madison Floyd Kaitlin Grubb
Christian Hanna Abbi Locklair
Chance Matthews Sean Swaringer
Saquan Wahab Nicholas Wilkes
Jordan Yarborough Abbigail Yates
CHAPTER 1. AND YOU
WONDER WHY WE GET
CALLED THE WEIRD WATSONS
BY: Madison Floyd
The Watsons go to Birmingham
IT WAS VERY COLD OUTSIDE


“ It was one of those super-duper-cold Saturdays.
One of those days that when you breathed out your
breath kind of hung frozen in the air like a hunk of
smoke and you could walk along and look exactly like
a train blowing out big, fat, white puffs of smoke.”
“ It was so cold that if you were stupid enough to go
outside your eyes would automatically blink a
thousand times all by themselves, probably so the
juice inside of them wouldn’t freeze up.”
KENNY AND BYRON HAD TO SCRAPE THE
CAR’S WINDOWS


“ Dad pulled two ice scrapers out of his pocket
and said,“ O.k., boys, let’s get out there and
knock those windows out.”
“ We moaned and groaned and put some more
coats on and went outside to scrape the car’s
windows.”
BYRON GOT FROZE TO THE CAR!

“Keh-ee! Keh-ee! Hel’ . . . Hel’ . . . ! When he started banging on the door of the car I
went to take a peek at what was going on.”

“ By was leaned over the outside mirror, looking at something in it real close. I
picked up a big, hard chunk of ice to get ready for Byron’s trick.”

“ Ke-hee! Keh-ee! Hel’ me! Hel’ me! Go geh Mom-ma! Go geh Mom-ma! Huwwy uh!
He banged his hand against the car harde and started stomping his feet.”

“ I moved closer. I couldn’t believe my eyes! Byron’s mouth was frozen on the
mirror! He was as stuck as a fly on flypaper!

“ Momma, quick! It’s By! He’s froze up outside! I screamed, “Really! He’s froze to the
car! Help! He’s crying!’

Remember….???
BYRON GOT FROZE TO THE CAR!
CONTINUED…


“Momma, please hurry up!”
“ The fly was still stuck and buzzing. Oh, Mom-ma! Hel’ me! Geh me offa ‘ere!”

“Oh my Lord’! Momma screamed. Joey, of course, started crying right along
with Byron.

“Daniel Watson! What are we gonna do? What do ya’ll do when this happens
up he-uh?”

“Dad said, “I don’t know, pouring water on him might be the worst thing to do,
bit it might be our only chance.”


“Momma tried to pour water on the mirror but her hands were shaking so
much, she was splashing it all over the place. Dad tried too, but he couldn’t
look at Byron without laughing and shaking. That meant I had to do it.
I gently poured a little stream of water over the mirror. Dad was right! This
was the worse thing we could do! The water made a cracking sound and froze
solid as soon as it touched the mirror and By’s lips!
BYRON GOT UNSTUCK FROM THE MIRROR!


“Momma gave Byron’s head a good hard snatch
and my eyes automatically shut and my hands
automatically flew up to cover my ears and my
mouth automatically flew open and screamed
out, Yeeeowwww!
“When I opened my eyes Byron was running to
the house with his hands over his mouth and
Momma following right behind him.”
BIBLIOGRAPHY
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By Nicholas Wilkes
 Writer
of many novels.
Bud not buddy , the
Watsons go to
Birmingham, 1963 , and most
resent The Mighty Miss.
Malone.
 Ex:
 All
the setting’s are in flint,
Michigan where Mr. Curtis was
raised.
 Byron
 The
said “ was t*** brown.”
Watsons automobile / car
 Byron
says he must be adopted because “there's no way two folks
as ugly as momma and dad gave birth to him.”.
 Kenny's
 Beats
 Only
made up super hero
up super hero's smaller than him
thing he's afraid of is a cold mirror
 "Google."
 The
Google. N.p., n.d. Web. 07 Dec. 2012
Watsons go to Birmingham 1963 Christopher Paul Curtis
Kaitlin Grubb
Ms. Cagle 6th grade
Kenny gets tired of being bullied by a kid
named Larry Dunn. That’s when Rufus
comes in. Kenny at first sees him as his
personal savior sent by God. A friendship is
developed as the story progresses.
 “As soon as the doors of the
bus swung open and two
strange new boys got on, I knew
part two of my miracle
happened.”
 “As I looked at this new boy
with the great big smile and
the jacket with holes and the
tore-up jeans, I knew who he
was. I knew God had finally
sent me my personal savior.”


“As soon as the boy thanked
the driver in that real polite,
that real country way I jerked
around in my seat to see what
the other kids were doing to do
to him.”
“I knew they weren’t going to
waste any time with this new
guy, it was going to be real
easy and real quick with him.
He was like nobody we’d seen
before. He was raggedy, he was
country, he was skinny and he
was smiling at everybody a
mile a minute.”


“Hiya, y’all!” and I knew
that here was someone
who was going to be
easier for the kids to
make fun of than me.”
“Then Larry Dunn said,
“Lord today, look at the
nappy-headed, downhome, country corn flake
the cat done drugged up
from Mississippi, y’all!”
Chapter 5 From The Watsons Go to Birmingham-1963
Written by: Christopher Paul Curtis
PowerPoint by: Abby Yates
Byron tries to make a “movie” that’s called “ Nazi
Parachutes Attack America and Get Shot Down
Over the Flint River By Captain Byron Watson and
His Flamethrower of Death”.
 He starts setting toilet paper on fire with
matches, and throwing them in the toilet, then
flushing it.

When Byron was on take seven, Mrs. Watson
starts to wonder why the toilet was flushing so
many times.
 Mrs. Watson gets curious and walks upstairs to
find out why the toilet was flushing so much.
 She looks to find Kenny peaking into the
bathroom through the keyhole.

 Mrs. Watson
starts to smell matches, so she
busts the door down and catching Byron
making the “movie”.
 She grabbed Byron by the neck, drags him
downstairs, and took him in the living room.
 “Joetta, go out to the kitchen and bring me a
book of matches.”
 Mrs. Watson was about to burn Byron.
 Joey
begged Mrs. Watson not to burn him,
but Mrs. Watson was a square peg and
Joey was a round hole.
 Byron was completely frozen with fear,
literally!
 Mrs. Watson lit the match, put it closer
and closer to Byron’s fingers.
Then…………………….
WHOOSH!
Joey blew the match out.
Mrs. Watson lit another one,
WHOOSH!
This happened over and over until
Mrs. Watson decided to stop.
Byron was LUCKY!! This time…..
"
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A hairstyle in which curly or kinky hair is
straightened hair or looked slicked back
Pg. 86 “ Byron, what did I tell you about
wearing that hat in the house?” said
Momma
She made Byron take off his hat and he had
on a blue handkerchief on.
Momma took in a ton of air.
Byron had gotten a conk.
“ Do you think that looks
more attractive than your
own hair”
 “Did those chemicals give
you better-looking hair
than me and your daddy
and God gave you?”
 Momma tells Byron he
looks like Bozo
the Clown.
Byron says his new
hairstyle makes him look
cool.
Momma send Byron to his
room.

 Kenny
tells Joey as soon as she gets home
from church and they go upstairs and wait
for Byron.
They went upstairs and Byron’s feet were
dangling.
Joey was shocked when she saw Byron’s
hair.
“Death row prisoner number
five forty-one.” said Kenny.
“Lets go wash that stuff out
Before Daddy gets home.”
“ Mr. Watson let me introduce you to Señor
Byroncito Watson!”

Dad went upstairs and Byron was sitting on the
toilet.
 They closed the door and Joey started
crying again. All they could hear was
choo-chicka choo-chicka.
Let me introduce you to Yul Watson.
Byron’ head was so shiny and that could only
mean one thing.
 Daddy had shaved Byron’s head.

 http://www.enotes.com/watsons-go-
birmingham-1963/chapter-7-summary
By: Jordan Yarborough
December 7, 2012
The Brown
Bomber
The brown
bomber looked
great! Not almost
new, but not
almost fifteen
years old either.
Page 101
The Final Touch
Page 103
And now the thing
that makes this car
more perfect…
Dad started helping
Joey cut up. He said,
The final touch.
Joey repeated, the
final touch!
Joey pulled her hand
out of the bag and
said, it’s a smelly
green pine tree!
In the middle of
the dashboard, to
the right of the
steering wheel,
something real
big was sticking
out.
Ladies and
gentlemen, the
newest addition
to the Brown
Bomber! Our very
own drive-around
record player!
Page 108-109
The Ultra-Glide
Chapter 9 page 100
Kenny’s Favorite Song
“Yakety Yak”
Beautiful
Music
 And then the
most beautiful
notes of music
I’d ever heard
came from the
front of the car
and the back of
the car at the
same time.
 Page 116
Sources
Google.com
Yahoo.com
Youtube.com
The Watsons Go To
Birmingham-1963
By : Dashawn Dunbar

In this crazy the Weird
Watsons’ take a trip down to
Birmingham, Alabama to visit
old grandma Sands. Also be
prepared to read other scary
mysterious parts of this book

By, Kenny, Joey, Mama, Daddy all
take an odd trip. During this trip
there is slob, peanut butter, and
handling business behind trees.
Warning! Danger! No
swimming! Six lives
have been lost here!
Bad drop off!
SIGNED JOE COLLIER
Chapter 11 from The Watsons Go To Birmingham-1963
By : Christian Hanna
BOBO BRAZIL MEETS THE SHEIK
BOBO BRAZIL VS. THE SHEIK


Vs.
BOBO BRAZIL
Date of birth: July 10,1925
 Date of death: January 20,1998
 Birth name: Houston Harris
 Nickname : The South American Giant
 Signature Move: Coco Butt

THE SHEIK
Wrestler: The Original Sheik
 Real Name: Edward George Farhat
 Birthday: June 9, 1926
 Hometown: Born in Lansing, Michigan
Williamston, Michigan
 Married to: Joyce
 Height: 5'11

THE SHEIK (CONTINUED)
Weight: 247 lbs
 Debut: 1950
 Previous Gimmicks: Sheik of Arab
 Finishing Move: Camel Clutch
 Favorite Moves: Blatant Choke Weapons

BOOK QUOTE

There was going to be a battle something like if
Godzilla met King Kong , or if Frankenstein met
Dracula, or like when champion wrestler Bobo
Brazil meets the Sheik!
BIBLIOGRAPHY
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"Bobo Brazil (1925 - 1998) - Find A Grave Memorial." Find A Grave - Millions
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<http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=6717937>.
Curtis, Christopher Paul. The Watsons go to Birmingham--1963. New York:
Delacorte Press, 1995. Print.
Warning ! NO TRESPASSING !
NO SWIMMING ! NO PUBLIC
ENTRee
SIGNED JOE COLLIER
By Saquan J. Wahab
The wool pooh is faceless and is the sign of
death
When I went to the church people were
crying I saw a shoe that looked like Joeys
so I pulled it but it would not move when I
looked up I saw the wool pooh on the
other side pulling the little girl
 By: Chance
Matthews
 When
Kenny saw his shoes on the shore he
wished he was where they were.
 Grandma
Sands tells the kids to stay
away from Collars landing because a kid
got caught in a whirlpool and By being
himself told Kenny a story about Winnie
the poohs evil twin the Wool Pooh .
This
is a
whirl
pool
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The Watsons go to Birmingham
Abbi Locklair
December 6, 2012
Page 180
“She had on
a fluffy white
skirt, a
regular
blouse and
the little
white gloves
Grandma
Sands had
made her.”
“I know it was Sunday because I
heard Joetta getting ready for
Sunday School.”
“She did look
kind of pretty
too, she had
on lacy white
hat and little
lacy socks and
shiny, shiny
black shoes.”
Page 182
“ By! What happened?” He got the
pants up and said, “A guy just came
by and said somebody dropped a
bomb on Joeys church.”
“I could see people everywhere
making their mouths go like they
were screaming and pointing and
yelling but I didn’t hear anything.”
“I saw Momma and Dad
and Byron holding on to
each other, all three of
them looking like they
were crazy and trying to
keep each other away
from the pile of rocks
that used to be the front
of the church.”
“Grandma Sands said What are all them sirens doing?
Lord has the whole world gone mad today? Where's
your momma and daddy?”
The World-Famous Watson Pet
Hospital
By: Emily Beth Blakeley
If one of our dogs got hit by a car and
could walk away or if one of them
chewed through an electric wire or ran
away from home and showed up a
couple of weeks later half-starved or
something they’d head right for the back
of the couch.
Sound here

The only trouble was
that the magic
powers seemed to
be taking a real long
time to decide what
was going to happen
to me. Maybe I
wasn’t spending
enough time back
there.
 My
Adam’s apple felt like it was going to
blow a hole in my throat but I said “I did
go to the church, By. I saw what
happened. I saw two of those little girls. I
thought Joey got killed too.”

He grabbed my ear and twisted my head until I had to
look at him. “You think I don’t know you waiting for
some stupid magic powers or genies or an angel to
make you feel better? Dig this: you can wait behind that
couch for the rest of your life and ain’t no magic powers
gonna come back there and make you feel nothing.
Magic powers
angels
genies

He walked over to the mirror scrunched his
face up so he could look at his chin again, then
used his thumb and finger to pull that long,
skinny hair out a little bit. He let the hair go,
smiled at himself and ran his hands along his
head like he was brushing his hair.
Some of the time I wondered if there was
something wrong with me. A few minutes ago I’d
been crying on the floor like a kindergarten
baby and now I was looking in the mirror
laughing. I blew my nose and out. Besides, I had
to think of a way to get at least half of my
dinosaurs back from Rufus.
 “Come in Joey.”

Dear 2013/14 T.A.G. Class,
You guys are very lucky to have Ms. Cagle as a
teacher! We all agreed that The Watsons Go to
Birmingham-1963 is a wonderful book. This slideshow
(along with the book), is dedicated to the four little
girls’ lives that have been taken by the Birmingham
Church Bombing:
Smith, Kyle, Gail
~Addie Mae Collins
Cameron Wescott in
Birmingham, and David
~Carole Robertson
Cobb Craig in New.
"About the 1963
Birmingham Bombing."
~Cynthia Wesley
Welcome to English «
Department of English,
~ Denise McNair
College of LAS,

University of Illinois.
N.p., n.d. Web. 12 Dec.
2012.
<http://www.english.illi
nois.edu/maps/poets/