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Please list 10 ways you can improve your essay scores

1. read the book more carefully             6.develope my thoughts more

2. Don’t skip pages                              7 read directions carefully

3.take more time to write my essay       8. focus while writing

4.Find adequate quotes             9. don’t rush

5. Type instead of write                        10. check for correct spelling   

Please write any 15 thoughts about the book Slaughterhouse-5.  For each thought, please refer to a specific part of the

book that generated this thought (for instance, “It was funny” receives no credit; “It was funny when he described the

Tralfamadorians” receives full credit).

1.It was funny when he talked about the shafts that point upward.

2.It was interesting when he talked about how the tralfamadorians had sex in the 4^th dimension

3. It was weird in the sense that death did not affect them.

4. It was funny when he saw the porn of Montana wilder.

5. It was weird how the story had 3 main plots.

6. It was interesting to read a book with harsh language that is for school.

7. It is interesting how they interrupted time travel it really gets you thinking.

  

8. It was annoying how he was viewed as crazy by a lot of people.

9. It was cool how we could see that he was not crazy but charcters in the book could not.

10. It was funny that he had a fat wife. 

11. It was different that you could not tell witch time was the time he was curently in. 

12. It was anoying how it felt like nothing could emoshonaly affect Billy. 

13. It was weird that the aliens could not talk but still found a way to comunicate to billy. 

14. It was weird how the prison billy was in seemed to be a more fun envierment then those normally described in world war 2 books.

15.It was interesting that it was a book about the dressen boming because i have never read a book about this before. 

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State 5 possible themes for the book Slaughterhouse-5.

1. Death

2. Sex

3. Time travel

4. Being unstuck in time. 

5. Never dwell on a moment. 

Write a conversation between yourself and Billy Pilgrim in which he tries to teach you a lesson based on his own

experiences.  You must explain IN DEPTH at least 3 specific events and details from the book in order to receive full

credit.  This conversation should go on as long as it takes to demonstrate YOUR UNDERSTANDING of Billy’s

experiences.

EXAMPLE:

Billy: Hello, Mr. Cheng

Mr. Cheng: Hi Billy

Billy: Have you heard about Tralfamadore?

Mr. Cheng: No, what’s that?

Billy: It’s a planet where they... etc.



Conor; Hello Billy
Billy ; Hey Conor
Conor It seems alot of your tale is about time travel.
Billy: Why it is because i am unstuck in time.
Conor: what it like to be unstuck in time
Billy: it is good because i do not have to dwell on one moment because i can just go back and relive it.
Conor: Is that why you just say "so it goes" when someone dies.?
Billy : that exacally why.
Conor: Can people tell when you are time traveling?
Billy: most people can not like for example i did at my daughters weeding.
Conor: has anyone ever noticed?
Billy; One woman did her name was Montana Wilder
Conor: Well when do u time travel?
Billy: I found over time that i time travel when i go to sleep or take a nap.
Conor: thats interesting have you ever thought that it was just a dream?
Billy : Nope its time traveling
Conor: thanks for the interview 

Siddhartha blog

In the book Siddhartha, Siddhartha learnes many lessons. Like the lesson he learnes about happiness. "That was how everybody loved Siddhartha. He delighted and made everybody happy. But Siddhartha himself was not happy." (page 5) This quote showes that being loved does not allwayse birng happiness. I learned this same lesson after a championship loss in football. Every one was telling me that i still played good and i was player of the game and my paretns told me they loved me. This did not make me feel any better even though i was well liked and loved it did not bring me happiness. This is an important lesson one must learn in life and a lesson that i had the chance to learn at an early age.

Jack

Jack thank you so much for teaching our class about acting and improv. I personaly learned alot from you and i think my classmates did to. You made reading and doing storyes fun and imformative. The thing we did when you were gone was acting out things about the Odyssey. It really helped me understand the book and helped me suceed in that unit thanks again.
Conor Cavanor

ON the macbeth

you must drag ur curser over the words for the bottom quotes in white

Macbeth be a man

Quote 1.

Come you spirits that tend on mortal thoughts, unsex me here, and fill me from the crown to the toe, top-full Of direct cruelty.

(act1, Scene 5, line 47-50)

Context

Lady Macbeth learned about her husbands is going to kill the king so that he himself could wear the crown. The girl wishes that she can be a man so that she can be more cruel.

Inerpritaition

First Shakespeare implies that in order to be cruel or in my opinion stong enough to kill you must be a man women are to weak. He not only acknoledges that men way be stonger but they are also more creul. 

2. Quote:
Lady Macbeth: That made you break this enterprise to me?
when you durst do it, then you were a man;
And to be more than what you were, you would
Be so much more the man. Nor time nor place
Did then adhere, and yet you would make both.
They have made, themselves, and that their fitness
(Act 1 Scene 7, Lines 55-60)


Context

Lady Macbeth is haveing a conversation with Macbeth who is now hesitant to kill the the king. Lady Macbeth is basacally saying your not a man for being hesitant and taunting him.


Interpretation and Explanation: In this passage Shakespere is demonstrating how she is saying that keeping a word is something a man does and that him thinking about going back on his word is unmanly. I think
"That made you break this enterprise to me?" means that he is about to break this promise to her.

Quote 3

“Prithee, peace:

I dare do all that may become a man;

Who dares do more is none.”

Act 1, Scene 7, Line 46,

 Macbeth to Lady Macbeth

Context Duncan and his entourage are enjoying the hospitality of Macbeth. This quote is when Macbeth is telling his wife to stop trying to convince him to go through with the murder.

Interpretation/Explanation: Macbeth is saying  that a man must fallow a certain unspoken code that they must fallow and if they don’t then they are worthless.

Quote 4.

Bring it after me.
I will not be afraid of death and bane,

Till Birnam Forest come to Dunsinane.

(act 5, scene 3, lines 72-74)

Context and Paraphrase: Macbeth is saying that he is not fearing death and ranting a little bit about the trees coming for him.

Interpretation In this quote Shakespeare is saying how a man is fearless even against something as scary as death. In a way it’s like men are invincible in his mind if they don’t even fear death.

Quote 5

Bring forth men-children only,
For thy undaunted mettle should compose
Nothing but males. (act1. scene7 line. 6)
Explanation- Macbeth is saying to his wife bring me male children and male children only. Saying that lady Macbeth is tough and will produce male children cause males are tough.

Interpretation- In this quote Shakespeare shows that male children are not only tough and brave. But they are better saying that she should “compose nothing but males”  that means that girls are almost worthless in my mind.

the odyssey

The Odyssey is a long book about the adventure of Odysseus and his men that have been trying to get home for 20 years. This book is about how you actions should be well thought out exacuted carefully and with good intenshons.           In book 12 Odysseus says "Si u warned my headstront men coplied, but for 1 month the wind blew nonstop as long as ou tfood and ruddy win held out the crew eager to save their lives kept there hand off the herd but when supplies aboard had all run dry they turned to hunting." pg281 lines 349 to 355 The wise Odysseus who had told them and thought it threw told his men not to eat the cattel of the sun however they were not smart enough  and gave into there selfish desiers and died. If these men had listened to there wise leader and left the cattel alone they would have lived, but thats why the book is writen to teach us to listen and think our problems all the way threw.            In book 19 Odysseus decidedes to chek the loyalty of his people. "Get a grip on yourself. No more questions now. Its just the way of the gods who rule Olympus. Off you go to bed. I'll stay here behind to test the women, and test your mother too." pg391 lines 45-49 He has been very careful and though through all his options he has discovered, that if he returns and the people are not loyal he will be killed so before he reveals himself he checks. This is a smart and important thing Odysseus does that teaches us to think threw situtations before u act on them.          In book 21 the suitors think that the old begger is nothing and worthless but in reality he is Odysseus. " Odysseus stung his mighty bow, quickly his fight hand plucked the string to  test its pitch and under his tough it sang out clear and sharp as a swallow's cry. Horror swept throught the suitors, faces blanching white, and Zeuz cracked the sky with a bolt his blazing sign the great man who had borne so much rjoiced at last that the son of cunning Cronus flun the omen down from him. He snachted a winged arrow lying bare on the board the rest still brisled deep inside the quiver.' 437 lines 452-471. The suitors did not think threw the situation they just judged the begger for the way he looked, but it costed him the begger was the mighty Odysesus and the men payed the price he shot the bow threw the axes and won the contest. This really teaches us to take a second thought and do not just judge witch is a valubale lesson to learn.

Essay for the road project

This project is good because it gets the whole class talking about the book in a way they care about. This book was not that good but with the games we played and now this project it has made it rather enjoyable. All around for a guy’s lit class this is a good project.      

This project makes the whole class excited about the book. Instead of writing some boring essay, or some pointless poster board. We can express ourselves through something we do for fun! I know that for me writing an essay is a pain and dread it every time I read a book. But this project has helped me stay interested in the book.

          One critic I have is I wonder if this is relevant to an English class I might take in the future. I fear that after this year I will fail in English because I took this class. I fell like we are learning stuff, but maybe not as much as the normal English classes because everyone always says how easy this class is.

Another good thing about this project is it is something I am good at. I am not really a good writer however I am good at video games so it lets me excel, so hopefully this will help my grade and my confidence with English classes. Also for me I am guy who often sleeps through his English classes and with activates like this it helps me be motivated to stay awake and participate.

          All in all this project is good for me and for the entire class it keeps people interested and lets them excel at something they are good at. In the future I would continue to do this project.