Darnell Rock Reporting

Darnell Rock suggested that an old basketball court be turned into a ------.

• skateboard park

• playground for inner-city youths

• community art center

• garden to feed the homeless

What did Linda Gold say about homeless people?

• They didn't like to eat vegetables.

• They didn't have experience farming.

• They would not want to work.

• They would cause trouble at the garden.

Darnell knew he would have enjoyed the meeting if -----.

• Linda hadn't been so mean to him

• his parents had been there

• he hadn't had to speak

• Tamika had been able to stay

At the meeting, Darnell said he hadn't been "doing too hot" before he -----.

• joined the paper and the JOURNAL printed his article

• was involved in a community garden in the city where he used to live

• met Sweeby Jones through a Journal reporter

• started playing basketball in the South Oakdale league

At the council meeting, Sweeby asked the council members why they ------.

• didn't want to listen to Darnell

• assumed he wouldn't want to have a garden

• liked parking lots so much

• were so disrespectful to Miss Seldes