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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.