Outline on Hoot Paper

Paragraph #1 – Talk about who kids are and why they get involved with owls
- Roy Eberhardt (new kid)
- Moved to coconut Grove, Florida
- Has no real friends , always sits alone, there is a bully that teases him
- Dana Mathews (the bully)
- If dana mathews never put roys face up to the bus that one day he would of never seen the tow headed running boy, and if he never saw him he would have never seen Beatrice, and if he never saw beatrice he might never had discovered the owls living on the corner of East Oriole Avenue
- Roy learned about owls from running boy and mullet fingers and got interested in them
Paragraph #2 – Talk about Pancake House and why they want to build on that property – don’t care about owls and just want to build the property5
- Construction company begins building a Pancake house but Roy knows that the owls are burrowing under the ground on the site
- Construction company ignores that the owls are there and keeps building but the kids want this to stop.
- In order for the company to stop building, the kids feel they have to vandalize the construction site to save the owls

Paragraph #3 – What the kids do and why you think it is justified despite the rules against vandalism
- Specific acts that the kids do are:
- Take stakes out where the company is planning on building
- Spray paint windows of cars
- Something about an alligator
- Goal is to try to stop the construction company from building, or at least buy a little more time to save the owls
- Kids know that what they are doing is against the rules (policy officer talks to them and warns them – quote from book?)
- Kids still want to do anything they can to save the owls and are willing to get in trouble – eco-sabotage

Paragraph #4 – A real incident that happened in real life of where eco-sabotage worked
- Find a situation where it really worked
- Find out what people did and what outcome was

Conclusion
- Sum up why eco-sabotage ok in certain circumstances
- Why was it ok with the owls
- Is it worth the risk