What are the major events in The Wednesday Wars?

Because he is the only Presbyterian in his school Holling Hoodhood has to stay in school with his assigned teacher Mrs. Baker. He thinks she hates his guts because she makes him do quizzes him about why he will be in her room on Wednesdays, criticizes his grammar when he answers, gives him extremely hard sentences to diagram in English class, and suggests that he might benefit from sitting in on a sixth-grade math class and made him read Shakespeare.