Thursday, November 19, 2009

The Watsons go to Birmingham

1. It was so cold on saturday,the Watsons sat huddled together under a blanket on the couch.



2. Momma felt the cold the most because she was from Alabama.



3. Kenny and his family lived in Flint, Michigan.



4. Joetta was Kenny's little sister.



5. According to Kenny, which of the following was not true of his older brother Byron?He tried to make Momma laugh all the time.



6. The weatherman said the temperature in Alanta, Georgia, would reach the mid-seventies.



7. Dad told Kenny,Byron,and Joetta they were lucky not to be the children of Momma's old boyfriends named Hambone Henderson.



8. When she was adout to laugh, Momma put her hands over her mouth because she had a big gap between her front teeth.



9. Which of the following was not a warning Moses Henderson gave Momma about Flint?Because it was cold, babies were born with lumpy heads.



10. Momma said life in Birmingham, even though it was not perfect, was slower, friendlier, and black people were lefted alone.



11. Since they couldn't contact their landlord about their cold apartment, the Watsons planned to spend the night with Aunt Cydney.



12. The Brown Bomber was the Watsons' 1948 Plymouth.



13. Byron and Kenny were not happy when dad ordered them to scrape the ice off the car windows.



14. Kenny was agitated because Byron was not doing his share of the work.



15. The night before, Byron and his friend Buphead had given Kenny lesson in how to survive a blizzard.



16. At first Kenny ignored Byron's calls because he thought his brother was playing another trick on him.



17. Kenny discovered that Byron's mouth was frozen onto the outside mirror.



18. Kenny's parents were shook up when they heard that Byron was crying.

19. Dad laughed at Byron's predicament because he realized that Byron had been kissig his reflection in the mirror.

20. Kenny could tell Momma was worried because she started to talk Southern style.

21. During Byron's ordeal, Dad kept laughing and making jokes about the situation.

22. Pouring hot water on the mirror was not a good idea.

23. With all five of them crying and standing around a car in freezing temperatures, Kenny thought it was no wonder the neighbors called them the Weird Watsons.

24. Momma freed Byron from his predicament by yanking his head away from the mirror.

25. On the way to Aunt Cyndey's when Kenny paid Byron back for punching him in the forehead and for not doing his share of work, all the Watsons except Byron cracked up.

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