Project Info

So far the project is going well. All  the group needs to do is email the rest of the information to Sarah so that way all of the information is with her. We decided to change things up and make a timeline of are topics. We will explain the topic and then explain how they are similar and different to one another as we jump to a new topic.

Brag Sheet

5 Golden Warriors 
Play baseball
Play basketball
Saint Patrick Church walk for life.
Volunteer work for church.
Community service for special Olympics.
Coach 10U baseball team.

Best of American Lit

The best thing that I have learned this year is how to use technology for schoolwork. It made everything 10 times easier and it beets reading out of the text book. It gives us a new way to communicate with each other.

Derby Reportage

Story #1
Explains a race.
     It is very fast pace.
     Also intense.
Story#2
May 2nd, 1970 Diame Camp was the first women to race in the Kentucky Derby.
     She inspired women to go for sports.
     Her horse's name is Fathom.
Story#3
Uses himself in the article.
Faggot-A bungle of sticks to burn people who are homosexual. 
4,000 troops gathered at Vale because of the tennis protest.
HE couldn't rent a car because it was full but it got situated later.
the Steadman was waiting in the PressBox.
First time going to a Derby in 10 years.
Went off on a guy at the end of the story and said we don't need the Kentucky.

Johnny Cyberpunk

In the story it talks about a person named Johnny who is a data trafficker. HE even went to great lengths and put a chip in his head so that way he can have more memory and look back on things. He also has a shotgun. Jones is a cyborg and is used to crack the code and break into Johnny's bank. This is a postmodern and a cyberpunk story because it is a different type of story. having to do with hacking is also another way that makes it post modern and a cyberpunk story.

Future Me

My Slaughterhouse

My Slaughterhouse

      Postmodernism is a different and very confusing style of writing. It breaks the fourth wall, and is not told in any order. In Slaughterhouse-5 Kurt Vonnegut writes a story about a man named Billy Pilgrim and Vonnegut does everything that Post Modernism is in the story. 

      Breaking the fourth wall is only used once in Slaughterhouse-5 and this is different than any other story. It makes the story confusing because the person talking to us is giving away information that we may not need to no yet. This is why Slaughterhouse-5 is a Post Modernism story because it breaks the fourth wall. Breaking the fourth wall can cause a lot of confusion.

      Slaughterhouse-5 is not told in any order and this is different than most stories because it is not in chronological order. An example is when Billy is in the hospital and then he closes his eyes and is back in the war. Another example is when Billy is with the Tralfamadorians and then back on Earth the very next day. This is why Slaughterhouse-5 is a Post Modernism book because it is not in chronological order. 

      Slaughterhouse-5 is Post Modernism because it breaks the fourth wall and is not told in any order throughout the story. These are just two of many techniques that use Post Modernism and Vonnegut uses them very effectively.

Notes Chapters 8-10 Slaughter House 5

Howard Cambell Jr
     Was a American and became a Nazi.
     Recruits me for the Germans "The Free American Corps."
     Has his own style of uniform.
     Said that Red is for the American Patriots who lost their lives in the past.
Trout
     A writer.
     Billy met him in 1964.
     Doesn't care about other people.
     Is driven by Billy to deliver a paper route. 
     Puts everything about him in his books he writes.
February 13 1945 Dresdon is destroyed.


Valencia
     Billy's wife.
     She got in a car crash on her way to the hospital and died from Carbon Dioxide.
Starts to talk about the Atomic Bomb and how it was used in WWII.
Billy
     Woke up in the hospital and didn't know what was going on.
     Missed his wives funeral because he was still to sick.
Tralfamadorians.
     Told Billy to enjoy his happy experiences and to ignore the bad ones.
Billy.
     Cried about the trasportation.
     Had his daughter take him home.
    Snuck out and went to New York City.
Monatana.
     "God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, courage to change the things I can, and wisdom always to tell the difference.


Aliens
    See Charles Darwin as the most important human being.
Corps Mines in Dresdon.
Billy.
     Discovered that the door was open and the war was over.
     The transporttion was the carrage and horses that he cried for.
     A bird was singing "Poo-tee-weet."
          This is what the narrator said his next book was going to end. 

Schlachtof Sieben

Stop being a machine and be a real person.
Plane Crash
     Billy and Pilot are the only survivors.
     Billy was operated from a surgeon for 3 hours.
Back at the slaughterhouse.
     Had spoons hidden with syrup on them.
     Billy gave a lollipop to Derby and he started to cry.


Page 156 "Billy, knowing that the plane was going to crash pretty soon, closed his eyes, traveled back in time to 1944."
     This quote is important because it shows that Billy knows how to control his time travel a little but because he closed his eyes right before something bad was going to happen to avoid it.

Schlachtof

Wakes up in prison.
     Going to Dresden.
     Falls asleep and when he wakes up he is building a latrine. 
1976
     China drop a hydrogen bomb in Chicago.
     U.S. divided into 20 nations.
     Billy was killed but then sent back to 1945.

Schlachtof Funf

Billy couldn't sleep on his daughter's wedding night.
      He new that the aliens were coming for him.
WWII bomber story was told backwards and stopped with Adam and Eve.
Saucer
     100 ft diameter.
     Opened up and took Billy inside of it.
There is no "why" as to why Billy was chosen to go with the aliens.
Everyone told Billy to leave them alone while trying to sleep.
Camp
     Edgar Derby is 40 years old.
     Paul Lazarro is in the worst shape of the men.
Billy wakes up and is wondering how he got were he is.
Aliens eyes are yellow.


"Valley of the Dolls" by Jacqueline Susann
     Only book that Aliens had for billy.
Went threw a time warp and Billy is 12 years old again.
Back in the war and men singing "Hail,Hail, the Gang's All Here" from The Pirates of Penzance.
A Jerry is a German Soldier
1948
     Billy is back in New York
Rosemater 
     Said people needed to come up with new lies or people won't no how to live anymore.
Back in the war and had to surrender in order to live.
Valencia Merble 
     Billy's Fiance
Aliens 
     Made a new Gospel for the humans.
     Observed Billy's body.
     were 446,120,000,000,000,000 miles from earth.
     Put Billy into a zoo for all to see him on their planet
     They are the ones that destroy the universe in the future and do not want to change that.
Billy
     Back at his wedding night
          Honeymoon is in Indian Summer in New England
1944-Father's Funeral
Said America is wealthy but people are poor.
Everything was beautiful and nothings hurt.
Please leave this Latrine as trily as you found it.

Schlachtof Drei & Schlachtof Vier

Coital
     Sex
War/Sex don't go together
Chaplain
     Religious officer in the military who can be any religion for the cause at hand.
'Where have all the years gone?'
     Our perception on time.
Being a prisoner of poverty is the same as being a prisoner of war.
Billy
     Life is boring and he is lonely.
Saint Elmo's Fire??
Billy's train did not move for 2 days in the Germay.
At the end of the chapter it is 1967 and a saucer from Tralfamader comes back again.

This is Absurd

Absurd means unreasonable.

Something that I find absurd is a talking dog if there ever was one.

Schlachtof Zwei

Reverses the wedding and widow sentence.
Billy
     Has stage fright.
     Doesn't get angry.
     Went back to 1965 to see his mother in the old people home.
     Catholic.
"So it goes"
     Is used after something bad is said.
Flibbertigibbet
     Excessivley talkative person.
Begins to talk about the war alot.
     Weary.
          would hang out with people dumber than him and then beat them up.
          Served with Billy.
          Asked Billy about getting stabbed with a triangle blade.
The rest of the chapter is about the war and the narrator continues to go back and forth to events that happened in his life.

Schlachthof Eins

Author is the narrator and a character in the book.
"So it goes"
Mustard gas and roses
      It is horrible but good at the same time.
Stays up after his wife is asleep to call ex girlfriends.
The book about war was a fail
The new book will be fun
Puts things together to describe his experiences he has had.
O'Hore wife doesnt like the war because she doesn't want her children to join and die.
 SCHLACHTHOF EINS-Means ones slaughterhouse.

The Great Gatsby Essay

The Great Gatsby

           The Great Gatsby is a story about a rich man named Jay Gatsby and is told by Nick Carraway. Nick Carraway is just like a normal guy and he becomes friends with Gatsby. Nick Carraway functions The Great Gatsby because he tells the story from his point of view on things. Nick also functions the story because he shows us Gatsby's life and if we didn't no his name then the story would be totally different. 

          Nick is telling the story from how he see's it and this is important because it shapes the story. For example Nick explains everything on how it is from his eyes and it would change the story completely if it was told by another character. For example, if Gatsby was telling the story we would see everything from his perspective and the story would change because it would contain different information on other characters and events that happened. 

           Nick also functions the story because he goes into Gatsby's life for us. An example of this is when Nick is invited to Gatsby's party and Nick does not see him. This shows us that Gatsby does not care for his guests and has other important things to do besides mingling with his guest. Another example is when Nick gets Gatsby to explain how he has feelings for Daisy. This allows us to see that Gatsby cares about some one other than himself and that he will do anything for her.

          None of this would make any sense if we new nothing about Nick. This is because we learn about Nick's life as much as Gatsby's life. If we did not no Nick then there would just be a random character in the story. We would also be left out throughout the story because we would get no information on him at all.

          Nick Carraway is a great narrator for this book because he explains the story really well from his point of view. He also shows us how Gatsby lives and how it would be different if we did now know his name.

Short Story The Great Gatsby

Andrew is a boy in high school and he throws the sickest party's. Now he throws party's every week so that way he can impress Andrea. Andrea is very pretty and she used to date Andrew but is now dating Angel. Angel just does his own thing and starts to hang out with Andrew more and more. Andrew invited Angel to his Homecoming after party and it was poppin. Everyone was having a good time but Angel didn't see Andrew the entire night. A week went by and Andrew and Angel became friends and started to hang out everyday. Angel invited Andrea over so that way he could try and hook her up with Andrew and when they met is was really awkward.  A day passed and Andrew had everyone over his house just to chill. Angel then told everyone to go to the beach because it was a nice day. Everyone just went with the flow and went to Avila Beach. Angel and Andrew had some trouble in decided which car to take so they just ended up taking each others. When they got to the beach they is a big party and everyone is having a good time. All of a sudden everyone was screaming because someone got hit by a car. Angel went to go check it out and he discovered that it was his and everybody elses friend, Alex. Some guy told Angel that the truck that hit her was a yellow Chevy. Andrew told Angel that he better get out of town because of what happened and Andrew said that Andrea was the one driving and he would take the blame for her. A couple pf days later Andrew stopped throwing a party and Angel went to go check on Andrew. When he arrived he found Andrew dead in his pool.

The End of Gatsby

Gatsby's funeral.
      Only a handful of people showed up out of everyone he new.
Tom and Daisy moved away and know one knows where they are.
Gatsby wrote a book about self improvements.
Nick runs into Tom in New York.
Tom told Nick that Gatsby deserved to die.

Chapter 7 and 8 The Great Gatsby

Gatsby did not throw a party for the first time in a long time.
Gatsby fired and replaced all of his servants so that way their would be no gossip.
Daisy comes to his house a lot now.
Tom wants to go to town.
Tom thinks that Nick and Jordan think he is dumb.
Wilson wants a car so he can move to the west with his wife.
Tom gave his car to Wilson for free.
      He did this because he knows what it is like to loose some one.
      Diasy.
The heat symbolizes the rising tension that is happening between all of the characters.
Trimalchio threw big parties.
It is Tom's birthday.
Myrtle was hit by a car and was killed.
A Negro citizen said that he saw a yellow car hit her.
Daisy was driving the car.
Gatsby said that he will take the blame for it if he has to.
Nick told Gatsby to leave town.
Gatsby felt married to Gatsby.
Wilson's body was found in the grass.
      The holocaust was complete.
             This may have been a plan by Gatsby to get Daisy somehow. 

Chapter 6 Notes The Great Gatsby

A reporter came to talk to Gatsby out of no where.
James Gatz is Gatsby's real name.
      He changed it when he was 17.
Self' made man.
      Gatsby is becoming anything he wants to be.
Gatsby is said to have lived in a bout and fished.
Ella Kaye came and Cody was inhospitably died a week later.
      Ella Kaye got millions of his money.
      Gatsby got $25,000.
Gatsby wanted to learn more about Tom.
Daisy and Gatsby talk.
      Gatsby is not having a good time because Tom is their.
The Shadows symbolize not knowing.
Tom said that Gatsby is a "Big Bootlegger."
Gatsby is going to make it like the past with Daisy.