To see what your friends thought of this book, Because his dad want's him to keep on working at the barbeque, Shelley Pearsall's book "All of the Above" is an encouraging story of four inner-city Cleveland, Ohio kids, Sharice, James III, Rhondell, and Marcel, and their math teacher Mr. Collins. The story takes place in Cleveland, Ohio. Dorothy Canfield Fisher Children’s Book Award Nominee (2008), Missouri Truman Readers Award Nominee (2009). Very heartening for another teacher of an "unnecessary" subject--music. In order to break the world record, theirs had to be made 16,384 smaller tetrahedrons. Goodreads helps you keep track of books you want to read. I loved this book. The group of James, Marcel Rhondell, Sharice and their teacher Mr. Collins. James has to stay on the first day too because of detention. Deeper character development would have made the story more compelling and less flat. Spell. The story also goes into their personal lives. See all 4 questions about All of the Above…, 'The Thirty Names of Night' on Identifying Love, Loss, and Finding Your Place. All of the Above is a book that consists of four kids, James, Sharice, Rhondell, and Marcel that attempt to build the worlds largest tetrahedron. He convinces everyone to join together again and rebuild the structure. Setting The main setting of this novel is in Cleveland, Ohio in Mr. Collin's class room in Washington Middle School, where the students made the tetrahedron. Created by. But when something happens they have to decide if they even want to continue building it, and a very unlikely person keeps them going. He comes up with an idea to start a project of building the biggest tetrahedron ever built, so he gets together a club after school with some students to get started. They are in a math club trying to build a tetraheedron and break a world record. All of the Above by Shelley Pearsall is a story about four 7th grade students (James Harris III, Sharice, Rhondell, and Marcel) who attend Washington Middle School in Cleveland, Ohio. It starts off with Mr. Collins being sick and tired of not being paid attention to in class. What would they do if they were in James Harris III, Rondell, Sharice, or Marcel’s position? Lisa Godfrees is fascinated with creatures that don't exist, especially jackalopes. Rhondell has a pretty normal life but she dreams of going to college though she doesn't have the money. The four kids names are Rhondell, Sharice, Marcel, and James Harrris III. They form an after school math club to start building it. That is when the "The Rainbow Connection" has begun, but the team members, James Harris III, Rhondell, Sharice, Marccel, and Mr. Collins, don't know that yet. In All of the Above, Mr. Collins wants to get his seventh grade math class actually interested in math class but can't seem to do so unless there was a competition. One day the gang comes into the classroom and they are devastated to see what has happened. An author’s dream. James hates school, especially math class. Shelley Pearsall's book "All of the Above" is an encouraging story of four inner-city Cleveland, Ohio kids, Sharice, James III, Rhondell, and Marcel, and their math teacher Mr. Collins. I merely chose it because it has the cover art that my copy has, and I really don't have the time to add another edition. We’d love your help. All Of The above By Shelley Pearsall “ Based on a true story, All of the Above is the delightful and suspenseful story of four inner –city students and their quest to build the world’s largest tetrahedron. The project he came up with was to build the largest paper tetrahedron - which is a geom. Required fields are marked *. All Of The Above by Shelly Pearsall is about a group of middle schoolers, Marcel, James, Sharice, and Rhondell who attempt to construct the largest tetrahedron so they can make it into the Guinness Book of World Records. Rhondell is a quiet and smart girl who hopes to go to college someday, and Sharice is smart, and independent. In her words, it was “boring but ok.”. The lessons taught in the book are maturing, and working together with people you usually wouldn't to create something great. After getting extremely far on the pyramid, James's attitude changes toward the project after he elects himself president after Marcel, the old president has to leave early everyday due to his job at Willy Q's. James at the beginning is very reluctant to help, but eventually he comes around. They each tell their stories and points of view in their own individual chapters. A tetrahedron a pyramid that has four faces all made of triangles. bewildered-a reaction and/or All these children end up caring a lot about the tetrahedron project they were working on and won the award for the largest Tetrahedron ever created.

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