Maximum Ride: The Angel Experiment Part 2 (a) Summary

Part 2 (a): "Hotel California, Sort Of" Summary 

 

Pages 39-106

 

Summary:

Max, Fang, and Nudge set out to rescue Angel, leaving Iggy and Gazzy at home. While traveling, Max sees a girl in trouble and leaves Fang and Nudge to help her. In the process, Max gets shot in the shoulder and is forced to get help from the girl, Ella, and Ella’s mother. Fang and Nudge fly ahead and make camp on a cliff just above Lake Mead and wait for Max. Back at the house, Iggy and Gazzy make preparation (i.e., bombs) to protect the house when the Erasers come back. After a few well-placed booby traps catch the Erasers, Iggy and Gazzy head to an old cabin to wait for them to leave but end up surrounded by Erasers. Meanwhile, Angel is being put through a series of grueling tests at the School, conducted by scientists that are all too excited to get their hands on “Subject Eleven.”

Characters:

Ella, Dr. Martinez

Important Passages:

Chapter 13 (pg. 43-45): Angel wakes up back at the School
Chapter 15 (pg. 49-51): Iggy and Gazzy plan how to protect their home when the Erasers come back
Chapter 19 & Chapter 21—22 (pg. 60-63, 66-72): while on the way to save Angel, Max spies a girl being bullied and decides to intervene
Chapter 28 (pg. 86-87): Iggy and Gazzy set up traps around the house
Chapter 29 & Chapter 31 (pg. 88-90, 93-96): Max seeks out the girl she saved for help after getting injured
Chapter 32—Chapter 33 (pg. 97-102): the Erasers fall into Gazzy and Iggy's trap but then corner the two in a tree house 
 

Recommended Literacy Strategies:

Double-Entry Diary - chart with two columns, the first for a passage or quote from the book and the other for a connection or question related to that particular passage/quote
Visualization - drawing or doodle based off of a section of reading (recommended to use for Angel at the School and the other test subjects)
 Cause and Effect - diagram illustrating how events are connected, where one box contains an event and is connected to a box containing the results of the event by an arrow (recommended to use with Max saving Ella, Iggy and Gazzy staying behind)
KWL Chart - chart with three columns: Know, where the reader writes down information they already have learned; Want to know, where the reader writes down questions they have, and Learn, where the reader writes down what they have learned (recommended for the rest of the book)

Discussion Topics:

-Was Max right to stop and help Ella?
-What is the significance of Angel being "Subject Eleven"?
-How would you feel not knowing if you had parents?

Questions:

-How will Gazzy and Iggy escape the Erasers?
-What are all the tests on Angel for?
-Will Ella and her mom keep Max's secret?