Anne Frank Remembered Entry # 3

5 comments:

1. Mr. Frank ends up tricking a lot of people.
2. They were not able to use the bathroom during the day time.
3. Jews believe strongly in their religion.
4. Jews would hide for their own personal beliefs.
5. They had limited amount of sources that they could use.

4 questions:

1. Why does it seem like Miep is forced to take care of the Frank family?
2. Will Miep ever become a mother?
3. What's so special about Mouschi?
4. Why aren't Mr. Van Daan's jokes funny?

3 words:

1. Muted: incapable of speech; dumb.
2. Acquiesced: to assent tacitly; submit or comply silently or without protest; agree
3. Keepsakes: anything kept, or given to be kept, as a token of friendship or affection; remembrance.

2 Literary elements:

1. Similie: "the Jewish deportations as resettlement and claimed that those taken were being treated decently" pg. 119
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Sentence Summary:

1. The family still has to hide, and more and more people are joining them to hide.
   

Anne Frank Remembered Entry # 2

5 comments:

1. Miep has really strong feelings for Henk.
2. Jews would only receive information through the radio or through newspapers.
3. Miep got married.
4. The discrimination was getting to the family.
5. There was a lot of emotion going through the room that they were in.

4 questions:

1. How is it that so much is just thrown upon their lives?
2. How were Jews supposed to get to where they wanted too?
3. Why wasn't Hitler being challenged by anybody?
4. Did Mr. Frank already expect the family to have to go into hiding?

3 words:

1. Sadist: any enjoyment in being cruel.
2. Contemptuous: showing or expressing contempt or disdain; scornful.
3. Frivolity: the quality or state of being frivolous

2 literary elements:

1. Imagery: "The sugar coating melted from her face when I declined her invitation" pg. 44
2. Metaphor: "Her eyes narrowed and drank in my face with a fixed stare, as though to memorize my every feature.

Sentence Summary:

1. Miep becomes closer to the Frank family and sticks with them to help.
   

Anne Frank Remembered Entry # 1

5 comments:

1. She never met her actual parents.
2. Miep Gies helped Anne Frank and her family hide.
3. Miss Heel seemed very cranky
4. I found out that not only Jews were being discriminated against, but anybody who was not German.
5. They didn't have many of the privileges that we have today.

4 Questions:

1. Why did her parents give her up?
2. How did her parents feel about leaving her?
3. How long were they hiding?
4. How does Anne Frank feel?

3 words:

1. Cavernous: full of small cavities; porous
2. Luminous: radiating or reflecting light; shining; bright.
3. Trudged: to walk laboriously or wearily along or over

2 literary terms:

1. Metaphor: "I was suddenly on unsteady ground" pg. 28
2. Personification: "I always fly to work on my secondhand bicycle" pg. 33

Summary Sentence:

1. Miep Gies introduces how she lived and how she knew Anne, what was her story and how it happened.
   

Fever Pitch Movie Entry

The Movie Fever pitch is closely related to the story. The Main character in the movie, is just as obsessed with baseball as the main character in the story is with soccer. The thing is in the movie the obsession with baseball puts his relationship with a young women at risk. The movie is a love comedy. It was a love story, between baseball and a relationship. At the end, baseball actually helped the relationship.

Fever Pitch Entry # 5

5 Things I understand:

1. Because of the obessseion hes had to sacrifce some of his friends
2. He thinks a bit too much
3. It's as if this book contains the history of soccer
4. It looks like he tries to impress people
5. The whole book is him talking to the reader

4 Questions I have:

1. Girls or soccer?
2. Does he ever get bored of soccer?
3. How many soccer games has he watched his whole life?
4. How many soccer games has he played his whole life?

3 Words:

1. Commendable: (v) to present, mention, or praise as worthy of confidence, notice, kindness
2. Conspicuous: (adj) easily seen or noticed; readily visible or observable
3. Demonologies: (n) the study of demons or of beliefs about demons

2 Literary Elements:

1. Simile: "Football, famously, is the people's game, and as such is prey to all sorts of people who aren't, as it were, the people." - pg 88
2. Metonymy: "Her room helped me to understand that girls were much quirkier than boys, a realisation that stung me" - pg 94

1 Sentence summary:

1. He is starting to have more of a life than just soccer.
   

Fever Pitch Entry # 4

5 Things I understand:

1. He views certain soccer matches as a matter of life and death
2. He sees this opportunity to show his talent
   
3. A different person when it comes to a soccer game
4. He feels as if his team will die
5. He is worried on what will happen to the team

4 Questions I have:

1. Why is it that people change when it comes to something they love?
2. What ends up happening to the team?
3. Is he the type that really stresses situations?
4. Is something bad going to happen that makes him want to leave soccer?

3 Words:

1. Contemplating: (v) to look at or view with continued attention; observe or study thoughtfully
2. Fixations: (n) the act of fixing or the state of being fixed
3. Pretensions: (n) the laying of a claim to something.

2 Literary Elements:



1 Summary Sentence:

1. Right now he is in a stressful situation and is really worried about the soccer team.
   

Fever Pitch Entry # 3

5 Things I understand:

1. He would do anything in order to go see a soccer game
2. If you ask him any question on soccer he would answer it
3. In a way you can say this book is almost like a documentary on his love for soccer
4. Soccer to him is as serious as a heart attack
5. Nothing compares to soccer in his point of view

4 Questions I have:

1. If the story Fever Pitch is on soccer how did it become to be a baseball movie?
2. How does he feel about American Football?
3. Does he know the complete history on soccer?
4. What was his preferred position?

3 Words:

1. Rosettes: (n) a rose-shaped arrangement of ribbon or other material, used as an ornament or badge.
2. Incredulous: (adj) not credulous; disinclined or indisposed to believe; skeptical
3. Dilapidated: (adj) reduced to or fallen into partial ruin or decay, as from age, wear, or neglect.

2 Literary Elements:

1. Metaphor: "Away games were my equivalent of staying late at the office. . ." - pg 45
2. Metaphor: " For all of us it meant sporadic electricity, candlelight, occasional cold suppers, but for third-year football fans it meant visits to the Electricity Board showroom, where the cut-off rota was posted, in order to discover which of us were able to offer The Big Match on Sunday afternoons." - pg 51

1 summary sentence:

1. Now we are in the part of the book where the games are being seen, and the life of a soccer player is being shown.