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PROJECT IN PROGRESS:

Miyah and I presented our project on Friday May 31.  It went very smoothly but wasn't nearly as good as the ones presented before us.  Our project listed all the subjects we learned in this class throughout the year, and showed that we do know what we're talking about.  It's sad to say that this would be the last presentation I will give for Dr. Preston:(

PROJECT IN PRGRESS

today in class while Preston worked with other students, my partner and I talked about our project and what we were going to do.  We ended up decided to make a website on the four major subjects we learned this year.

Brag Sheet

What I have done that I'am most proud of is stay in school and get good grades.  Not everyone can say that as confident as I can.  Many times I have thought about what it would be like to just quit and drop out, but I knew that wasn't the right choice for me.  There's a saying I learned this year in Preston's class, "when the going gets tough, the tough get going", and that exactly what I do.

• My academic achievements:  I can confidently say I've earned a GPA of 3.0 or better throughout high school.  Freshman year I received the Golden Warrior Award in my Earth Science class and I aspire to earn more as the year progresses. 
• Sports:  I have played basketball for eight years now.  I'am so thankful I tried out for the Girls Righetti High School Basketball Team because it has made me the person I'am today and has had so many benefits.  
• Volunteer:  I have had numerous volunteering jobs.  Freshman year I helped set up Solvang's annual bike tour.  It was a very nice experience meeting all the different people there and serving them. Another volunteering job I've had was working at Solvang's Cancer Center doing whatever I could to help the patients there.  Keeping all the patients company and helping around the office was something I'll never forget.
• Languages: I've grown up around big family of Spanish speaking relatives.  I took two years of Spanish throughout high school and still am learning more and more Spanish each and everyday. 
• Awards: I have earned many awards while in basketball and school.  I've been asked to attend Righetti's Renascence Awards numerous times for my excellent grades.
• Travel: I have been all across the country traveling to multiple states varying from up and down the coast of California, to the Lone Star state of Texas, and all the way to the corn fields in Iowa.  
• Interests: I have many interests.  Some of my favorites are painting, listening to music, and being outdoors.
• GPA: One of the most important things about school are your grades, and I'am proud to say that I've earned a 3.0 or better throughout my school years. 

"BEST OF AMERICAN LIT"

What I remember most about this year is not about a certain subject, but how to use the computer as my advantage in school.  Before Preston's class I hardly used my computer at all.  After I use it nearly everyday.  Realizing how our blogs can be seen by anyone around the world just amazes me and we can use them to contact people for advice or just post something that we want others to see.

: DERBY REPORTAGE

The narrator (I couldn't quite catch his name) is a reporter from San Francisco.  He is meeting an English illustrator, Ralph Steadmen, to write an article about the Kentucky Derby.  There ultimate goal is to capture someone who was drunk and messy to get the full effect of what the race was like in reality.  At the end of the story the narrator looks in the mirror and realizes that they were the perfect examples of this hag, drunk, sloppy derby regular.  This is Gonzo Journalism because they put themselves into the story which is a big no-no in regular journalism.  I noticed the sentences are very choppy because he is writing everything as soon as he thinks it.

"JOHNNY CYBERPUNK"

Johnny has a device that was implanted in his brain that carries secret information.  He meets a girl names Molly that has had surgery to make her fingernails like razor blades.  When she sits down at the table her and Lewis get into an argument and he tries to hit her and she slices his arm.  Johnny fires his gun at the bad guy because he had surgery that makes him faster.


This story is cyberpunk because it has science fictional qualities in it.

FUTURE ME !!

This was hands down the coolest assignment I've had. Really had me thinking! Crazy what technology can do these days. Can't imagine what the future has in store!

Post modern prezi's!

Watching Frank present his post modernism project. The song was good :)!

MY SLAUGHTERHOUSE

    What is Postmodernism?  Some believe Postmodernism can be whatever the hell you want.  Others believe it can be considered postmodern by not being in chronological order, have a sense of humor, and breaking rules.  Slaughterhouse Five, by Kurt Vonnegut, can be considered postmodern because it goes back and forth in time, it mixes reality with science-fiction, and has irony.

   Billy Pilgrim, the main character, is a time travel that moves back and forth in time.  Kurt Vonnegut would be talking one moment about how Billy was a child, and the next he would be a prisoner in WWII.  Kurt uses postmodernism in this novel by breaking the rules of time and not writing it in chronological order.
 
Another reason it is classified as a postmodern is because Kurt mixes reality with science-fiction.  Billy would be a prisoner of war in Dresden, and then he would time travel to the planet Tralmafadore.  Combining the two in Slaughterhouse Five makes these the perfect post modern elements of a story.

 Lastly, it is postmodern because of Kurt Vonnegut's use of irony.  After something terrible would happen, or someone died, Kurt would say, "So it goes."  A phrase said with no expression of feelings.  In reality is would be sad, but in Slaughterhouse five, they just moved on like nothing happened.  So it goes.

 All in all, Slaughterhouse Five is one of the best examples of a postmodern book because it's use of irony, lack of rules, and lack of chronological order.

Post modernism project:

So It Goes.....

Chapter 9;

Billy lost his wife in a car accident. She heard about his plane crash and was hysterical. She was driving to get to the hospital and got into a fender bender. As she took off the muffler came off of the car and by the time she arrived to the hospital she became unconscious and died of carbon monoxide poisoning. Rooming with Billy was a 70 year old man named Rumfoord. He had a 25 year old fiancé that brought him books. Rumfoord would talk to Billy about his time in Dresden and how horrible it must have been. Billy time travels back to New York where he buys more books that Trout wrote then travels back to tralmafadore to Montana and the baby.

Chapter 8;

Billy meets an author that he absolutely adores. His name is Kilgore Trout. Kilgore is fascinated with how Billy knows him because he hasn't had a single fan of his books so far. Billy invites him to his anniversary party and when the quartet starts to sing to Billy he starts to feel sick. Kilgore knows something's suspicious and suspects he has seen a time portal. But Billy denies it and realizes that he felt sick because it reminded him of the night Dresden was bombed. Billy then time traveled to Tralfamadore and told Montana the story of Dresden. He travels back to the war when the city got bombed and the prisoners of war and guards found an Inn where they were welcomed to stay.

Chapter 7;

Not much happened in chapter 7 of Slaughter House 5. Billy was going on a trip with other optometrists on a plane and he knew the plane would crash. Right before it did he closed his eyes and time traveled back to the war in Dresden. There, he, Gluck, and Derby were walking around the camp looking for the kitchen. They wet to work the next day. They were surrounded by a special syrup that had minerals and honey in it. You weren't supposed to eat it because it was only for pregnant women but there was hidden spoons around everywhere for the workers to secretly eat some once or twice a day. Billy and Derby had some syrup and heard someone coming to they went back to work.

SCHLACHTOF

In chapter 6 of Slaughter House 5, Billy is back in the war and taking to Lazzaro and Derby in his hospital bed.  Lazzaro talks about how revenge is the sweetest thing and that he has a hit list.  He goes into further detail about how Billy is on it for killing his best friend Weary.  Billy already knows how he is going to die and describes it being in Chicago.  He is addressing a large crowd and explains to them that he will die soon and that Lazzaro will keep his promise.  He wasn't scared at all.  Moments later, Billy Pilgrim is shot in the head.  So it goes.  After awhile he travels back in time to the war.  The Englishmen announce that the Americans are moving on to Dresden today.  They described the city being very beautiful.  From then on the were taken to Schlachthof Funf; Slaughter house five.

SCHLACHTOF FUNF

Chapter 4:
Billy Pilgrim is in bed with his wife and he awakens.  He can't sleep and goes into his backyard where the Tralfamadorians take him into their ship.  From there Billy time travels back and forth from preset day to the war and back to when he was a baby.  When he was in the war they talked about how no one wanted to sleep around Billy because he whimpers, kicks, and screams.  Billy asks one of the Tralfamadorians why they picked him and they simply said, "Well, here we are, Mr. Pilgrim, trapped in the amber of this moment.."

Chapter 5:
Billy is back on the ship and asks the Tralfamadorians if they had anything to read.  He began to look at some of their own books in amazement.  He then travels back in time to when he was a boy visiting the Grand Canyon with his parents then back in time again to the war.  They stop at Englishmen's cabins where they stay to eat and sleep. Billy travels back and forth from the war to the mental hospital he is in.  Billy traveled back to the Tralfamadore zoo where he was being watched by thousands of them.  He had been on their planet for six months. Billy talks to the guide about life there in Tralfamadore and how life is on Earth for Billy. He traveled back to when he was marrying Valencia. Then traveled again back to the zoo where the Tralfamadores brought him a girl to mate with for all the Tralfamadores to see.  Then went back in time to his office where a patient said he was going crazy.

SCHLACHTOF DREI & SCHLACHTOF VEIR

In chapter 3 or Slaughter House 5 the author talks about Billy Pilgrims experiences in the war. Him and Weary were taken by the Germans and made Weary wear clogs that made his feet bleed. They stopped at a cottage that was for prisoners of war. Then Billy traveled in time back to being a optometrist. Then went back in time again to WWll. From then on he flips back and forth in time from present day to WWll 📖

SCHLACHTOF ZWEI

In chapter 2 of Slaughter house 5 the author talks about how Billy Pilgrim was in a fatal plane crash in which he was the only survivor.  Billy Pilgrim started going kind of crazy, it was probably the only way he could cope with things. He started telling everyone how he was abducted by aliens and they took him to their planet Tralfamadore.  Everyone wanted to know why he didn't tell them these stories right after they happened and his only response is because, "..it was too soon."  Billy goes back and forth through different times of his life a lot.  At the end of the chapter Billy time shifts back to being captured by Germans.  I have noticed that the author puts "So it goes" after every bad event.

Essay Prompt: GG

Nick caraway is used in GG to help piece everyone's story's together. He is somewhat of an inside man who gets us all the details needed to know about everything and everybody. In a way, Nick is almost telling us a story of a Man and his problems he undergoes in his life from beginning to end.

Short story: GG

At West Egg High, there are many cliques. There are the jocks, the preps, and the norms. Leading the jocks is Tom Buchanan, leading the preps is Daisy B., and leading the norms is Nick Caraway. Tom and Daisy have had a thing for awhile now but all of that goes down hill when the new kid arrives and catches Daisy's curious eye. Jay Gatsby's the name and he comes from a less fortunate family but dresses to impress. He meets Daisy in his first class and she shows him around the school. When Tom sees them walking together he get very jealous and takes Daisy away. Nick, leader of the norms, offers to finish up the tour for Gatsby and they become really good friends. Nick told Gatsby that he just so happens to be cousins with Daisy so he tries to set them up at a party of his. They start talking and eventually start seeing each other behind Toms back. Once Tom starts hearing these rumors he bully's Gatsby to his breaking point. Gatsby tells Nick how he just can't take it anymore and wants to leave West Egg. Nick try's to stop but its too late. Late that night Gatsby came to Daisy's house to see if she would want to run away with him but she decides to stay with Tom. Heart broken Gatsby leaves without telling anyone where he left and why he did. Ever since then Gatsby has been the talk of the town.

Chapter 8: GG

Gatsby returns home very early in the morning and Nick rushes over to his house to talk to him. Gatsby informs Nick that nothing happened and Daisy didn't come to see him. Wilson is still in udder disbelieve that his wife has been murdered. He starts to lose it and wants the person who did this to pay. At first he thought it was Tom, but later realized that Gatsby was the one "driving". Wilson disappears, worried everyone starts looking for him. Picking up clues here and there they soon find out he was on his way to Gatsby's house. When everyone arrived it was already to late..... Wilson shot and killed Gatsby while he was in his pool, and right after killed himself.

Chapter 7: GG

A lot happens in chapter 7; Nick and Gatsby sent over to the Buchanan's house to have lunch with Jordan, Tom, and Daisy. Everyone was restless because of the heat. Daisy wanted to go into town and no one obliged because it was extremely awkward. Gatsby drove in Toms car with Daisy and Tom drove with Jordan and Nick in Gatsby's car. Tom stopped at Wilson's garage to full up the car with gas. Mr. Wilson said that his wife Myrtle ( Toms girl on the side ) wanted to move out to the West. Once they reached town they went into a hotel to hang out. Gatsby then confronted Tom about how Daisy never loved him for the 5 years they had been married. They both broke out into an argument leaving both men furious and Nick, Jordan, and Daisy sat there awkwardly. While driving back home after the confrontation, Tom, Nick, and Jordan saw Myrtles dead body in the middle of the road while eye witnesses and cops were inside the garage. Listening to people's side conversations, Tom realized that the car who hit Myrtle was his own that Gatsby was driving. In shock he drives home in disbelief that Gatsby didn't even stop to help her. Nick waited outside for his taxi when Gatsby appeared from the bushes explaining to Nick that Daisy was the one who was driving and didn't stop when Gatsby wanted too. Nick was tired of everyone's drama and went home in the taxi and retired for the night.

Chapter 6: GG

I'am kind of confused as to what happens in chapter 6. Gatsby invites everyone (Nick, Daisy, and Tom) over to his party and I got the impression that Tom was a little suspicious and jealous of Gatsby when he notices him and Daisy spending more and more time together. Once everyone leaves, Gatsby talks to Nick about how Daisy didn't like the party but Nick reassures him she had a wonderful time. At the end, it confused me weather or not Gatsby actually kissed Daisy, or if he was just imagining it; ending chapter 6.

Chapter 5: GG

The day finally comes. Nick invites over Daisy to his house for tea. At first it was really awkward and tensions were high but after awhile of talking everyone got more and more comfortable with each others presence. When Gatsby invited Nick and Daisy over, he gave them a tour of the house. Gatsby then ordered on of them men in his house to play the piano for them. Nick decides to leave shortly after; leaving Gatsby and Daisy all alone.

Chapter 4: GG

Gatsby invites Nick to lunch. They become "closer" with each other and Gatsby tells Nick that he has to schedule a tea date with miss baker. Nick seems kind of irritated but let's it go. When he see miss baker she tells him the story of how Gatsby an Daisy met and how he was madly in love with her and wants her to fall in love with him. Miss baker tell Nick that Gatsby wants to invite Daisy over when he is over so that they will fall in love with each other again. Nick ends up really liking miss baker and they kiss, ending chapter 4.

Chapter 3: Great Gatsby

Nick is invited by Gatsby himself for a party. Nick meets Jordan baker there and accompanies her all night. He soon realizes that not many people there know Gatsby personally and had been invited through friends or just showed up. While in the garden talking to Jordan, a man asked nick why he had looked so familiar and it ends up being Gatsby. Nick over here's gossip of Gatsby once killing a man but doesn't quite believe them. As they were about to leave Gatsby invited nick to go hydroplaning the next day to get acquainted better. When Jordan and Nick left, they discover people who had crashed into a ditch.

March literature analysis: BRAVE NEW WORLD

GENERAL
1. Brave New World takes place in the future sometime after "Ford"  In this world everyone is created in labs in test tubes.  There are no mothers or fathers, or natural aging.  Everything in this world is created to be perfect.  Bernard Marx, one of the higher ranking members of this society, doesn't quite fit in with all the others.  Bernard is not as outgoing and "normal" as the others because he wants to break free from their everyday routines and become his own person making his own rules.  When he meets Lenina Crowne, they decide to take a trip to the Savage Reservation full of what we would consider "normal" human beings.  Mothers, Fathers, children and aging are all completely natural here but to Lenina and Bernard all taboo.  Bernard becomes friends with a savage at the reservation that goes by the name of John.  Bernard soon finds out that John is the D.H.C's son and brings him back to London to show everyone that he had a son.  The D.H.C flees from embarrassment and Bernard becomes highly respected.  John becomes angered with everyone at Brave New World and begins to lash out.  When John tries to keep some of the Deltas from taking their soma it leads to the arrest of Bernard and Helmholtz, and emotional engineer.  Later the World Controller Mustapha Mond exiles Bernard and Helmholtz to an island where John is to be kept in London.  All this pressure of being in the spot light makes John go somewhat insane and it causes him to start to whip Lenina with rage.  After realizing what he had done, he felt horrible and lays lifelessly in his light house.
2. The theme of this novel is that we have to be careful to whom we put in charge.  Letting the government take total control of how we live can seriously affect our lives.
3. The tone of this novel is very dramatic because of the way Huxley describes things in Brave New World
4.  Character: Bernard Marx is one of the main characters in Brave New World.
 Static Character: The D.H.C is a static character because he doesn't change throughout the course of the book.
Dynamic Character: Bernard is also a Dynamic Character because he changes from being a meek outcast to a highly respected man to an outcast again.
Direct Characterization: Lenina was described as "pneumatic" woman.
Motivation: Bernard had motivation for getting John back to London for all the others to see.
Conflict: One of the conflicts in Brave New World was when John started to whip Lenina.
Internal Conflict: Bernard had internal conflict when he struggled to find himself and break free from the others.
Foreshadowing: When Bernard put two and two together of the D.H.C being the father of John we knew he would try to take him back to London.

CHARACTERIZATION:
1. Direct Characterization:  Two examples would be when Huxley describes Lenina as being a pneumatic woman and when he describes the old man at the savage reservation.
 Indirect Characterization: Two examples would be when Bernard was perceived by the other Deltas; different. Another would be how everyone would talk about how everyone has "shared" Lenina, indicating that she gets around.
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3. Bernard (the main character) is a dynamic and round character because he does experience changes and we get a good sense of what he looks like by how Huxley describes him.
4. After reading this book I didn't come away feeling close to any character in particular because I couldn't fully engage myself in it.  I found it to be very boring.

Performance for the first day back:

Today I felt a little uneasy going into this essay but in the end came out feeling good about it. Some things could have been better, there is always room for improvement. Hopefully I won't take long for me to get adapted to the whole "going to school" thing again.

summary of BNW: Chaps 7-10

So basically to sum up chapters 7-10 Lenina and Bernard go to the savage reservation and get a different view on life.  At first Lenina was in disgust of how old the people were with their dark hair and skin.  She was in shock at the fact that they were all "mothers" and only shared one person for the rest of their lives.  This would all seem so ordinary to us, but in Brave New World it is taboo.  Bernard puts two-and-two together and realizes that Linda was the D.H.C's lover that he lost a long time ago.  She had a son, John, that was an outcast of the tribe because of their light skin and hair.  When John meets Bernard and Lenina he starts to grow fond of them, especially Lenina.  Bernard offers to take John back to London with them, and maybe Linda too.  Bernard was allowed to take them back with and and just as the Director was about to fire Bernard and make him transfer to Iceland, he brings Linda in the room and everyone was is awe.  The Director asked if  "..this was a monstrous practical joke" when Linda was asking him if she remembered exactly who she was.  John stepped into the room and got on his knees and in front of everyone shrieked "my father" Laughter broke out among the crowd and the director ran out with his hands covering his ears trying to ignore the Ford awful sounds of the word "father"

And that concludes chapters 7-10.

MODERNIST AUTHOR PLAN:

Miyah and I have decided to hack this project by becoming partners.  We are going to make a Wiki page on Langston Hughes.

JOSIE COLLEGE

I thought today was very helpful. The intonation I got today at the career center will definitely help my next year singing up for applications. I don't know what colleges I'm looking at yet but I do know I want to go to Hancock for 2 years then transfer. I want to be in the medical field so hopefully Josie will help me on which way to go from there

I AM LANGSTON HUGHES

1)I am a African American that was part of the Harlem's burgeoning cultural movement. (Harlem Renaissance)
2)I am the winner of "Opportunity" magazine literary competition and received a scholarship to attend Lincoln University.
3)I am a contributor for a Broadway play "Street Scene" which earned enough money so that I could buy a house in Harlem.
4)I am a victim of prostate cancer and had jazz and blues music at my funeral.
5)My home received New York City Landmark status in 1981.

MAP (1): INTO-LANGSTON HUGHES

Fact 1: Was an American poet and author during the Harlem Renaissance
Fact 2: He enrolled at Columbia University but dropped out to travel to Africa, Holland, and Paris
Fact 3: He died of prostate cancer
Fact 4: His parents divorced when he was young and left him with his grandma
Fact 5: He worked as a sailor before becoming a writer

Vocab March 4:

Chronic: persisting for a long time
Sentiment: attitude towards something
Mortality: death rate
Remorse: deep regret
Acquaintance: person you know, but aren't friends with
Sanity: reasonable behavior
Implication: conclusion that can be drawn from somebody
Alternative: another option
Savage: aggressive, hostile
Phenomenon: occurrence that can be perceived by senses

APPLIED MODERNISM; F 451

Sometimes when the world doesn't make sense, you have to take a self healing journey and find out what to make of all of it. Modernists take on life is to follow your heart and to make sense of the world around you by staying true to themselves and what they believe in.
In "Fahrenheit 451", Montag was the perfect example of a modernist. He was the ideal example because the world around him didn't quite fit the person he truly was. His beliefs clashed with the rules, therefore he had to take action as the modernist he was and followed his inner self and conscious.
When you decide to take that first step and make sense of the world, you decide to break the rules on your own terms and fulfill the purpose you sought for. But before you do try to fix the world around you, your inner self and conscious must be fixed first. The majority if modernist felt that the generation before them didn't stay true to themselves and saw no flaws in the world around them, but they knew that there was so much imperfection to be dealt with.
Ray Bradbury was a modernist himself and wanted to portray that with his character Montag. When Montag took that first step with breaking the rules by reading those books, he ultimately began the journey for self fulfillment. Ray Bradbury was one of the ideal modernist authors that set the stage for many more modernists to come.
All in all, what modernists wanted to get across was to be true to yourself and follow your heart. To make sense of the world around you, you need to heal your inner self and conscious first.

My writing: Post five years

I think that my writing is different now that It would have been five years ago because entering this class has changed that way that I look at literature and express myself through my writing.

MY MODERNIST !

James Mercer Langston Hughes (February 1, 1902 – May 22, 1967) was an American poet, social activist, novelist, playwright, and columnist. He was one of the earliest innovators of the then-new literary art form jazz poetry. Hughes is best known for his work during the Harlem Renaissance. He famously wrote about the period that "the negro was in vogue" which was later paraphrased as "when Harlem was in vogue". I chose him because I found him the most interesting to me.

Literary Analysis #2: Fahrenheit 451

GENERAL:
1) A war has broke out in a world where firefighters jobs are to start fires and end all way of freely thinking.  A middle aged man that goes by the name Montag; Guy Montag and his wife Mildred have quite the peculiar relationship.  Very dry and not loving at all.  Montag is a third generation fireman.  His job is to burn down houses and books, and arrest anyone who owned them.  He enjoyed his job very much and looked forward to going in to work until one day, when he met his seventeen year-old neighbor Clarisse.  She points out to him there is more to life then what he is doing now.  After thinking about all this he remembers and old man he met in the park one day.  He was a retired professor named Faber.  Faber loved books and all they information they had to offer.   Montag started to rebel against the rules of his town little by little. Meeting up with Faber now and again to talk about books because he knew Faber was the only one out there who would listen to all he had to say.  He wondered more and more about books and what the meaning of life actually was.  His fascination with books became stronger and more tempting that he ended up saving books and reading them and memorizing them.  Once his captain Beatty found out he had been getting interested by books, he gave him a few chances to get over it and come back to his old ways of burning things and loving fire.  Beatty realized after Montag had become more and more rebellious enough was enough and had to step in and stop Montag with all his absurd new ways of thinking.  After Making Montag burn down his own house and books he has stored away for a year or so, Montag finally cracked.  He kills his captain and runs from the law with his books in hand.  After leading on police with a chase, he escapes to a river just outside of town and is floats away like a piece of drift wood, being carried away farther and farther from the city and all he left behind.  After hiding in the forest he comes across a group of old men.  They welcome Montag with open arms and let him become part of their quest for seeking better ways of living.  They were all once professors and understand Montag.  The war continues until they drop the bomb that will end their old lifestyle and foolish rules forever.  Hoping to recreate a new town and rules, Montag and his new group start fresh with nothing but the shirts on their back and memories of all the books they had once read.
2) Theme of the novel: Some rules are meant to be broke, and follow your heart. When Montag broke the rules it ended up leading him to a better group of understanding people and a new civilization.
3) Authors tone: Somewhat gloomy because Montag is miserable with the way things are going now.
4) Simile: "there was only a girl walking with him now, her face as white as snow...." pg 7
    Imagery: When Montag explains how the burning books look like birds on fire with their feathers floating around his feet like ashes.
    Flashback: When Montag thinks back about the very first night he met Clarisse.
    Symbolism: Whenever Montag or any of the other men saw fire, they thought of their job, not about how beautiful and warm a fire actually could be.
    Repetition: "And the uncles, the aunts, the cousins, the nieces, the nephews, that lived in those walls, the gibbering lack of tree apes that said nothing, nothing, nothing, and said it loud, loud, loud." pg 44
Irony: Their firemen started fire, and our firemen are here to put them out.
CHARACTERIZATION:
1) Direct Ch: .."her face was white as snow.." Stating that Clarisse had a white face.
    Indirect Ch: Montag would always smell like kerosene and have a charred black face, describing him as a firemen.
2) I don't think the authors syntax or diction changed at all throughout the book ?
3) Montag is a dynamic character because he changed from a firemen who never really thought about the reasons why he had to burn down books, to a man who really wanted to know the meaning of life and what it had to offer.
4) After reading this book, I came to the understanding that some rules are meant to be broken and to always follow your heart no matter what; there's no way of telling what the outcome might be..

(title: BOB I)

Ranking Out of 1-5; 5 Being Highest 

Jarrett Anzalone: 2
Alyssa Barajas: 4
Joseph Beas:2
Jasmine Beebe:  5
Jacob Bigelow: 2
Michaila Bohard: 4
Amanda Cagle: 5
Roman Davis: 3
Jose Farias: 3
Danny George:  5
Derek Gonzalez: 2
Cory Grant: 1
Shelby Hennick: 4
Trevor Henson:  0
Melissa Hernandez: 4
Shelby Kanakanui:  0
Frank Limon: 3
Jonah Maher: 3
Taylor Martinez: 3
Rosario Mena Ortiz:  0
Chance Miranda: 4
Miguel Moreno: 3.5
Shelbi Nunes: 2
Karla Paredes: 4
Nicholaus Paulus: 5
Alicia Ramirez: 5
Cameron Reese: 5
Matt Reynolds:  4
Josh Salcido:  0
Carlos Serrano: 5
Teanna Silveira: 5
Kyle Stickler: 3
Diego Tejeda-Mora: 4
Patricia Tuttle: 4
Vanessa Vargas: 4
Miyah Velasquez:  5
Jessica Wilkin: 2

"The First Seven Years"

I absolutely loved this story!!! At first while reading it in class I didn't get into it because I couldn't focus and I thought it would be really boring.  While reading it at home, I got more and more into it and at the end of  the story when Feld goes to open up shop again, the day after his talk with Sobel, he walks in to find Sobel back to work.  My heart, oddly enough, started to pound at the end of the story because I was so anxious to find out what was going to happen next! All in all, I found this book to be quite delightful.

SPRING VOCAB 5

brouhaha: A noisy and overexcited display of interest
 cloy: Disgust or sicken (someone) with an excess of sweetness
 demeanor: Outward behavior or bearing
 deference: Humble submission and respect
 enigmatic: Difficult to interpret or understand
 definitive: final - conclusive 
 bumptious: cocky
 choleric: Bad-tempered or irritable.
 bulwark: A defensive wall
 curtail: shorten - reduce 
 adamant:  uncompromising
 profligate: wasteful
 mawkish: emotional 
 thwart: prevent
 onus: burden  - responsibility 
 requisite: necessary -required
 mollify:- soothe - pacify  
 sartorial:  clothing, fashion
 presentiment: premonition  - hunch 
 impromptu: Done without being planned
 forbearance: patience - endurance - tolerance
 remit: send in

Scavenger Hunt: Fahrenheit 451

Frank runs around campus on a hunt for new clues

I AM HERE

I think I have done fairly well in this grading period.  I have been getting good grades and doing pretty much everything that is asked of me.  Overall, the grade I'am looking forward to getting in this grading period is an "A"

ESSAY POST GAME ANALYSIS:

I think I summed up some key information well in my essay. Next time I will improve the length of my essay. I would give myself a B + on this essay.

PARLOR POETRY

Montag chose to recite Dover Beach in front of the woman in the parlor because it was about life, love and feeling feelings.  Something Montag knew these woman didn't understand.

The poem I chose:  No regrets- Live your life

Don't regret it,

Don't forget it,

Life is short,

May your moments be worth,

Don't just stand there watching the rain,

Make your life worth it everyday,

Don't look at your enemy with greed,

Simply fight for what you believe,

Don't stay at home and read a book,

Seduce someone with just one look,

Don't watch all day TV,

Let's go to the movies and watch a horror or comedy,

Don't worry about getting into a relationship,

Worry about keeping your friendship,

Don't let others control you,

Do everything like you wanna do,

Don't let others stop you,

Don't think of being wealth,

Here's a hint,

Be yourself

I chose this poem because I feel that this is how we should live our lives.

Here's a hint,

Be yourself.

MY F451

A war has broke out in a world where firefighters jobs are to start fires and end all way of freely thinking.  A middle aged man that goes by the name Montag; Guy Montag and his wife Mildred have quite the peculiar relationship.  Very dry and not loving at all.  Montag is a third generation fireman.  His job is to burn down houses and books, and arrest anyone who owned them.  He enjoyed his job very much and looked forward to going in to work until one day, when he met his seventeen year-old neighbor Clarisse.  She points out to him there is more to life then what he is doing now.  After thinking about all this he remembers and old man he met in the park one day.  He was a retired professor named Faber.  Faber loved books and all they information they had to offer.   Montag started to rebel against the rules of his town little by little. Meeting up with Faber now and again to talk about books because he knew Faber was the only one out there who would listen to all he had to say.  He wondered more and more about books and what the meaning of life actually was.  His fascination with books became stronger and more tempting that he ended up saving books and reading them and memorizing them.  Once his captain Beatty found out he had been getting interested by books, he gave him a few chances to get over it and come back to his old ways of burning things and loving fire.  Beatty realized after Montag had become more and more rebellious enough was enough and had to step in and stop Montag with all his absurd new ways of thinking.  After Making Montag burn down his own house and books he has stored away for a year or so, Montag finally cracked.  He kills his captain and runs from the law with his books in hand.  After leading on police with a chase, he escapes to a river just outside of town and is floats away like a piece of drift wood, being carried away farther and farther from the city and all he left behind.  After hiding in the forest he comes across a group of old men.  They welcome Montag with open arms and let him become part of their quest for seeking better ways of living.  They were all once professors and understand Montag.  The war continues until they drop the bomb that will end their old lifestyle and foolish rules forever.  Hoping to recreate a new town and rules, Montag and his new group start fresh with nothing but the shirts on their back and memories of all the books they had once read.

David Foster Wallace: TO MODERN OR TO POSTMODERN

What I got from this quote is even when we're in "dark times" we don't always have to talk about them in our fiction, and that We can bring out the best of things in any situation if we apply ourselves to.

SPRING VOCAB #2:

Praetorian: body guards used by roman emperors
Sieve: sifter, separator
Veiled: partially covered or concealed
Saccharine: containing sugar
Harlequin: a character from a popular Italian comic
Toil: hard or continuous work
Delinquents: neglectful, failing
Gibbering: to speak foolishly, chatter
Insidious: intended to trap
Strewn: to let fall
Patronage: act of buying something
Cadence: pace, beat
Suffused: gradually spread through or over
Centrifuge: machine that spins quickly to separate
Dentifrice: things used to help clean teeth
Leisure: freedom from work
Vessel: container to hold fluid, or large craft
Phonograph: record player
Profusion: abundance of large quality of

Time of my life : 2-1-13

I used today's time by finishing up my homework for this class and other classes to make the rest of my day much easier.

Literary Analysis 1a

GENERAL:
1) Plot sum: The third eldest child of the Pelzer family, David grows up in Daly City, California, a town not too far from San Francisco.  David describes his life in the beginning as picture perfect.  A loving Mom, Dad, and brothers.  Without warning, David's mother starts to horribly abuse and torture David; starving him to death to the point where he steals other kids' lunch just to survive.  His "hero", Davids dad, sneaks him food every now and then, but can't stand the house hold he lives in so he leaves the family.  Being saved from the help of his school teachers and nurses, David is finally set free from the place he had once called "home."
2) Theme: the main theme of this book is how anyone can overcome anything if you have enough faith
3)Tone: the tone David ended up inquiring overtime was extreme hatred towards everyone around him, especially his mother.
4) Conflict: David finding food to save his life
    Antagonist: David's mom, Catherine
    Allusion: David's memories of the good times with his family down by the Russian river
   Symbol: David's dad his "hero"
    Foreshadowing: David's would predict how his mother would torture him
CHARACTERIZATION:
1) Teachers and kids saw him as skinny and smelly.
2) David says he hated going home, and that he was miserable
1a) The teacher would cover her mouth and nose when David came near her.  -indicating that David smelt
2a) David would say how he would imagine himself eating a big hamburger when his stomach growled. -indicating that he was hungry
: The author uses both direct and indirect characterization because it makes the book come to life and make you feel everything that he felt.
2) Dave Pelzer's uses diction.  When talking about his mom, he uses words like "bitch" showing his hatred towards her.
3) David is dynamic in a sense that he gets stronger and stronger throughout the book.  He is also a round character, being that he is real
4) After reading this book I came away feeling so great full for the family that I have.  I have a lot more faith and want to help children like David when I'm older.


A CHILD CALLED IT  

Feb 1. Miyah Velazquez & Syerra Fox

Poems about friendship ...

THE PEEVED PEDESTRIAN:

Ray Bradbury written this novel to ramify from the everyday ordinary literature during this time.   I came to this conclusion because the literature seen back then when it was written  isn't anything like Fahrenheit 451 and might seem a little  concerning to the people reading it back then.

Title: I'M A POET AND I KNOW IT

MY HAIKU 

Thoughts of doubt linger

My legs start to shake

I still keep climbing

Cool breeze fills my lungs

The warm sun burns the daylight

Sweat runs down my face

Victory is mine

This mountain; a piece of cake

We will meet again

SHELL BEACH HIKE

Montag Version

Thoughts of doubt linger
My legs start to shake
I can't keep climbing

Ash clouds fill my lungs
Kerosene runs down my face
Finally over

Victory is mine
Books; all burnt to ashes
I sit back and think 

FAHRENHEIT 451

Five things I learned reading Fahrenheit 451:

-Books are not allowed
-Firemen will burn down your house if they find a book
-You will be arrested for having books
-Most people hide from others about the books they have
-Being interested in intellectual activities will make you an outcast

Poem: THEME FOR ENGLISH B By:Langston Hughes

This poem by Langston Hughes took me about a full day to memorize.  When first looking at this I thought to myself I would never be able to memorize this because it didn't even make any sense reading it the first time around.  Memorizing each line, the story soon became more and more familiar to me.  As I read it over and over in my head it felt like it was me telling the story to my instructor.  Going over this countless times the story became embedded in my mind and I could say it faster and faster each time I said it out loud.  After overcoming this obstacle, I realized that the poem wasn't so bad after all.

"SPRING SEMESTER PLAN 1"

My plan for this semester is basically the plan I try to keep every year.  Grades are very important to me and being able to maintain them is even more of an accomplishment.  Some goals i have outside of school is being able to travel the world and take pictures of all the experiences i have.

"SPRING POST 1: MUSIC AS LITERATURE"

Can we consider music to be literature? How do we define literature? What is the difference between a novel, a poem, a rap, a song, an opera, and a symphony?

 Music in my opinion is definitely a form of literature.  The whole thing is a story just telling it a different way.  We define literature as writing in which we express our deepest thoughts, feelings, and the world around us with immense detail.  There really is no difference between a novel, poem, rap, song,opera, or symphony because they all tell a story, just in different ways.