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The Homework Machine

The Homework Machine

Starting with a stern statement from the Grand Canyon, Arizona Police Chief Rebecca Fish, meet four fifth graders in big trouble. There's long-haired, rebellious, cool guy Sam Dawkins; fun-loving, unacademic, pink-haired Kelsey Donnelly, African American grind Judy Douglas, and friendless genius Brenton Damagatchi. The whole thing starts because Sam is anti-homework, especially the daily fill in-the-blank worksheets his first-year teacher Miss Rasmussen hands out. Sam is skeptical when Brenton claims he has programmed his computer to search the web and do all his homework each day, but it’s true. Soon the four seatmates are spending every afternoon in Brenton’s bedroom, printing out their daily assignments on the computer they nickname Belch. It can’t do any harm, right? The chronology and confession of their ill-fated escapade is related entirely through a series of transcripts, narrated by the four contrite kids, their parents, classmates, and Miss Rasmussen.

There are many interesting threads explored in this nimble story: keeping secrets, making friends, being popular, the morality of taking the easy way out, first crushes, the meaning of war, and even the loss of a parent. The setting of the Grand Canyon and sub-themes about playing chess, starting fads, and using a catapult will get kids looking up supporting information in books and on the Internet. Questions readers can think about as they read include: Which of the four main characters is most like or unlike you and why? Which one would or would not be your friend and why?

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Themes : DEATH. FRIENDSHIP. GRIEF. HUMOR.

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  • “A dramatic and thought-provoking story with a strong message about honesty and friendship.” – Elaine E. Knight, School Library Journal
  • “Booktalkers will find this a natural, particularly for those hard-to-tempt readers whose preferred method of computer disposal involves a catapult and the Grand Canyon.” – Carolyn Phelan, Booklist
  • “Tucked in between the laughs are excellent messages about tolerance, honesty, and the importance of what the students’ teacher calls the “homework machine [that] already exists. It’s called your brain.” – Child Magazine
  • “Short chapters of alternating voices tell the story, which is funny in some places, but is not without intense and sometimes sad moments.” – Susie Wilde, Children

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The unlikely foursome made up of a geek, a class clown, a teacher's pet, and a slacker -- Brenton, Sam "Snick,", Judy and Kelsey, respectively, -- are bound together by one very big secret: the homework machine. Because the machine, code named Belch, is doing their homework for them, they start spending a lot of time together, attracting a lot of attention. And attention is exactly what you don't want when you are keeping a secret.

Before long, members of the D Squad, as they are called at school are getting strange Instant Messages from a shady guy named Milner; their teacher, Miss Rasmussen, is calling private meetings with each of them and giving them pop tests that they are failing; and someone has leaked the possibility of a homework machine to the school newspaper. Just when the D Squad thinks things can't get any more out of control, Belch becomes much more powerful than they ever imagined. Soon the kids are in a race against their own creation, and the loser could end up in jail...or worse!

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The Homework Machine is an Wiki Channel Original Movie set to premiere 2015.  The movie is based on the book of the same title."It is much like the book, but more grownup." said Tatertat, the producer and director for the film.

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When Brenton, Sam, Judy, and Kelsey all get paired up to sit together in homeroom, you would think nothing can happen right...? But when one claims to have a homework machine, their lives change forever. Now the kids that wouldn't be caught dead together... are hanging out, laughing and even flirting with each other; that gets people wondering. And that is the last thing they need. Then everything changes when jealous rises, grades start to drastically change and the machine starts get more powerful then inspected. With the police, teachers, an mysterious stranger all on their tails, will four students be able to stick together or will they be force to be apart? And is a machine that does your homework really worth it?

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  • Joseph Brandon as  Brenton Damagatchi:  He is the main focus of the movie, He is the genius behind it all. He is also not really the type of person to have lots of friends, but over time he starts to adjust to the three others. He is always over the top when it comes to school work as well. In science class, when he was asked to create a small catpult, he creates a life size one. The only person he respected him fully before this happened was Judy due to the fact that they are both in advance classes together.
  • Celeste Banks as  Judy Douglas:  She is the typical teacher's pet. She gets awesome grades, but not as good as Brenton. She considers herself very likable, being the person that usually watches drama unfold instead of being in it. She is the observer in the group due to her quiet nature and ususually good hearing. She gets closer to Sam out of most of the group when she discovers that not everyone is of what they seem.
  • Katy Young as  Kelsey Donnelly:  She is kinda the class clown of the bunch. Always there where you need a laugh. She wants nothing more to get out of the place called school. She keeps her grades just above failing so she can stick with the rest of the crowd. She doesnt really seem to get the value of school a lot and doesnt seem to give Brenton or Judy the time of day before all this.
  • Conner Weston as  Sam "Snikwad" Dawkins:  He is the slacker of the group. He sees school as a waste of space. He also tends to rebel from time to time. Sam makes fun of Brenton from time to time but realizes that they are both alike because of the lack of fathers in their lives. His father is in the U.S. army and the group helps him gets through time when he gets bad news on his father's condition on base in Iraq. He is connects the most to Brenton and Judy despite sharing horrible grades with Kelsey, they dont click like him and Judy do. 

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  • Tamar Singh as  Milner:  Nobody knows who exactly he is until the end of the film but he plays a important role. He is the first to know about the homework machine outside of the group after spying on the D-squad. He wants in on it but doesnt want to share. He starts to send threatening notes to the crew demanding that they give up the machine. He also causes the breaking point in the movie when he breaks in to try to steal the machine but is caught by Brenton's mom.
  • Julianna Fox as  Danielle Jameson : She is not your typical popular chick, she is extremely nice and sweet. But she does have a bad jealous side to her. When her longtime crush, Sam seen with Judy more than he should, she decided that might need to be stop before things get serious. So when she hears about the homework machine, she sees it as the chance to split the pair up. But here's the thing, how do you break a couple up that arent even one...yet?
  • Maria Santos as Natasha: Best friend to Danielle and has a noticable evil side. Her and Danielle balance each other out and are nice to the majority of the student body. She loves seeing her best friends jealous side and would do anything to get it out. 
  • TBA as  Miss Rasmussen:  She is a first year teacher and teaches science along with homeroom. She is very inexperienced and oblivious to things around including four student behaviors. Considering she has all of them for science, she is the teacher who has to test their knowledge when her D-average students are getting straight 100s on their homework.
  • TBA as  Officer Thomas:  He is the head officer in the case. He is very specific when it comes to his work in the force. He doesnt believe it when it first told to him that a powerful homework machine exists, but joins the investigation as lead officer when they discover that the machine is indeed real and more powerful then they think. 
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DOING HOMEWORK BECOMES A THING OF THE PAST The unlikely foursome made up of a geek, a class clown, a teacher’s pet, and a slacker – Brenton, Sam Snick, Judy and Kelsey, respectively, – are bound together by one very big secret: the homework machine. Because the machine, code named Belch, is doing their homework for them, they start spending a lot of time together, attracting a lot of attention. And attention is exactly what you don’t want when you are keeping a secret. Before long, members of the D Squad, as they are called at school are getting strange Instant Messages from a shady guy named Milner; their teacher, Miss Rasmussen, is calling private meetings with each of them and giving them pop tests that they are failing; and someone has leaked the possibility of a homework machine to the school newspaper. Just when the D Squad thinks things can’t get any more out of control, Belch becomes much more powerful than they ever imagined. Soon the kids are in a race against their own creation, and the loser could end up in jail…or worse!

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Dan Gutman hated to read when he was a kid. Then he grew up. Now he writes cool books like The Kid Who Ran for President ; Honus & Me ; The Million Dollar Shot ; Race for the Sky ; and The Edison Mystery: Qwerty Stevens, Back in Time . If you want to learn more about Dan or his books, stop by his website at DanGutman.com.

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  • Publisher: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers (June 26, 2007)
  • Length: 176 pages
  • ISBN13: 9780689876790
  • Grades: 3 - 7
  • Ages: 8 - 12
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THE HOMEWORK MACHINE

by Dan Gutman ‧ RELEASE DATE: March 1, 2006

When fifth-graders Judy, Sam and Kelsey discover their classmate Brenton Damagatchi’s homework machine, they think they are on to a good thing and begin to visit him regularly after school. Alphabetically seated at the same table, the brilliant Asian-American computer geek, hardworking, high-achieving African-American girl, troubled army brat and ditzy girl with pink hair would seem to have nothing in common. (They would also seem to be stereotypes, but young readers won’t mind.) But they share an aversion to the time-consuming grind of after-school work. Their use of the machine doesn’t lead to learning—as a surprise spring quiz demonstrates—but it does lead to new friendships and new interests. The events of their year are told chronologically in individual depositions to the police. In spite of the numerous voices, the story is easy to follow, and the change in Sam, especially, is clear, as he discovers talents beyond coolness thanks to a new interest in chess. Middle-grade readers may find one part of this story upsettingly realistic and the clearly stated moral not what they had hoped to hear, but the generally humorous approach will make the lesson go down easily. (Fiction. 8-11)

Pub Date: March 1, 2006

ISBN: 0-689-87678-5

Page Count: 160

Publisher: Simon & Schuster

Review Posted Online: May 19, 2010

Kirkus Reviews Issue: Feb. 1, 2006

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  • Fire-Forged Friends : If Brenton had never built the Homework Machine and they didn't go through the ordeal with it together, they never would have been more than classmates.
  • Two Girls to a Team : Unusually, there are an equal number of boy and girl main characters, though Snik and Brenton do generally get more focus.

Sam "Snikwad" Dawkins

  • I'll Be Your Best Friend : His original strategy to get Brenton to let him use the Homework Machine. They eventually become best friends for real.
  • Odd Friendship : With Brenton.
  • Smart People Play Chess : Interestingly enough, Sam is not interested in chess until Brenton describes it as a virtual simulation of war. Him being able to beat Brenton at Chess is a hallmark of his character development .
  • War Is Glorious : Originally believes this until his father dies and he sobers up about it.

Brenton Damagatchi

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  • My God, What Have I Done? : Building the Homework Machine and, later, starting Canyonism. Though, if he had never built the Homework Machine, he and the D-Squad never would have become friends.
  • Odd Friendship : With all of the D-Squad, but especially Snik.
  • The Stoic : Very rarely loses his cool, and even when he does he tends not to be over the top about it.
  • Scam Religion : He and Snikwad design Canyonism as a joke, but when people start taking it seriously, both of them have a massive Oh, Crap! moment.
  • Smart People Play Chess : He played Chess with himself as a young child, and introduces Sam to the game later. Sam being able to beat him is a hallmark of the latter's character development .
  • Stop Worshipping Me : Freaks out when people don't realize that Canyonism is a joke.

Judy Douglas

  • Black and Nerdy
  • Teacher's Pet : At first.
  • Official Couple : With Brenton at the end of the first book, but they're both so young that it doesn't last.
  • The Perfectionist : Despite her best efforts, she is never quite as academically gifted as Brenton, her resentment of which tempts her into using the Homework Machine for the first time.

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  • Granola Girl : Goes through this phase in Book 2, which inspires Brenton and Snik to start Canyonism.
  • Hidden Depths : The reason she never cares much about anything is because her father died when she was six, and as a result she doesn't find it worth it to get worked up about the less important things in life anymore.
  • The Slacker

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  • Character Death : At the end of Book Two.
  • Get-Rich-Quick Scheme : His character's endgame.
  • Red Herring : In book one, but by Book Two he has become the main antagonist for real.
  • Snake Oil Salesman
  • Stalker without a Crush : Claims that he isn't a stalker, but he knew Kelsey's name and family history without possibly being able to have legitimately. He's really desperate to recruit Brenton into his Get-Rich-Quick Scheme .
  • A.I. Is a Crapshoot : Maybe. We don't know to what extent Belch is sapient, considering these books mostly fall into the realm of realistic fiction, but he is powered by an experimental superchip...
  • It Won't Turn Off : When Brenton decides to deactivate it, it refuses the shut off commands and continues to run even after being unplugged.
  • Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane : More like "Maybe firm Science Fiction, maybe realistically possible", but still qualifies.

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  • Print length 160 pages
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  • Lexile measure 680L
  • Dimensions 5.5 x 0.7 x 8.25 inches
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I was born in a log cabin in Illinois and used to write by candlelight with a piece of chalk on a shovel. Oh, wait a minute. That was Abraham Lincoln.

Actually, I’m a children's book author. I’ve written more than 170 books for kids from kindergarten up to middle school.

For the little ones, I write picture books like "Rappy the Raptor," about a rapping raptor named Rappy, who raps.

For beginning readers, I write "My Weird School," about some kids who go to a school in which all the grownups are crazy. Thirty-one million copies have been sold. I also write “Wait! WHAT?” a series of biographies that focus on the unusual aspects of people like Albert Einstein, Amelia Earhart, Muhammad Ali, and Teddy Roosevelt.

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The Homework Machine — by Dan Gutman

The Homework Machine

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The introduction to The Homework Machine is written from the perspective of Rebecca Fish, the police chief of Grand Canyon, Arizona. Rebecca is thinking back to the closed case of the “homework machine” and the four fifth-grade students involved, musing that the mile-deep canyon seems to attract strange cases like “flies to dog doo” (1). The police recorded the private testimonies of the students, teacher and parents involved in the case. The story of the case is told by these testimonies.

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Sam Dawkins (a fifth grader) introduces himself and explains his nickname, “Snik.” Snik is short for Snikwad , which is his last name backward. Snik’s father is in the air force, which is why his family moved to Arizona (he insists he was not kicked out of his last school). Snik tells the sequence of events leading up to their police interviews from his perspective , starting from the first day of school.

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I recently read the book The Homework Machine, by Dan Gutman. It is written in the form of an interrogation with about four characters. The main character is Sam Dawkins, who thinks that he is the coolest thing to walk the planet, whose father is in the war in Afghanistan. Brenton Damagatchi, a “mutant dork,” from his class shows him the Homework Machine he made that does his homework for him and even copies his handwriting… in pencil. It’s revolutionary! The four characters have different feelings about it. Brenton feels that he would have done his homework perfectly anyway; Sam feels that they should be making money off of it; Judy feels that Brenton cheated because she and Brenton are both top of the class, and she feels like she is competing with him; and Kelsey feels that they should just keep the existence of the machine to themselves. Since it is a book , as you know something has to go wrong.

When I was reading The Homework Machine it reminded me of the author Rick Riordan who wrote the Lightning Thief and The Red Pyramid and many more. It has the same level of vocabulary and it portrays the characters and their traits very well. For example, the reader knows that Brenton over-analyzes things when he makes a chart on what people call him that shows that he is getting cooler because people are calling him “dude” more than usual. Weird isn’t it? I think that 6th, 7th and 8th graders will enjoy this book and its sequel.

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Think about what an antagonist is...the villain right?

In the 3 little pigs the wolf, the evil villain, is the antagonist.

So think: What is the thing that is keeping the protagonist (the main character) from getting what he/she/it wants?

Remember an antagonist can be the environment, society, an evil robot, or even the protagonist themselves.

I hope this helped you figure out the answer for yourself. :)

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Sam Dawkins, Judy Douglas, Brenton Damagatchi, Kelsey Donnelly

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    Snik is cocky and outspoken. He prides himself on being a quick and accurate judge of character, pigeonholing his peers into groups of "clueless dweebs, pre-jock idiots, loses, brown-noses, and bullies" (8). Snik hates homework, and rather than take it seriously, he writes sassy, sarcastic answers that hint at his latent intelligence.

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