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.
   

Fever Pitch Entry # 2

5 things I understand:

1. The way he speakes to the reader feels as if it is a television show,
2. He has a tendency to compare soccer to real life experiences
3. Has a tendency to put little side notes in parenthesis
4. Soccer could be considered his drug
5. He finds soccer therapeutic

4 Questions I have:

1. How is it possible to get so addicted to something?
2. Will he ever lose his love for soccer?
3. Why does he talk about his past so much?
4. Why does he make it seem as if what he does is best?

3 Words:

1. Unambiguous: (adj) Having or exhibiting no ambiguity or uncertainty; clear
2. Extravagantly: (adj) spending much more than is necessary or wise; wasteful
3. Methadone: (n) a synthetic narcotic, C_{2 1}H_{2 8}ClNO, similar to morphine but effective orally, used in the relief of pain and as a heroin substitute in the treatment of heroin addiction

2 literary elements:

1. Metonymy: "I hope they get stuffed" - pg 22
2. Personification: "The simple truth is that obsessions just aren't funny, and that obsessives don't laugh." - pg 35

1 Summary sentence:

1. He continues to talk about his passion and even describes a game that he is watching and how he interacted with his father.
   

Fever Pitch Entry # 1

5 Things I understand:

1. The Narrator is English (From England)
2. The Narrator has a strong passion for soccer
3. The story speaks in first person a lot
4. The Narrator speaks about his personality a lot
5. He can talk about soccer all day

4 Questions I have:

1. Why is almost the whole beginning of the book describing how he is?
2. How old is he?
3. He spoke about his father in the beginning, does he have any children himself?
4. Does he have a passion for any other sport like he does for soccer?

3 Words:

1. Tetchy: (adj) irritable; touchy
2. Traipsing: (v) to walk over; tramp
3. Fractious: (adj) readily angered; peevish; irritable; quarrelsome

2 literary elements:

1. Metaphor: "I fell in love with football as I was later to fall in love with women" - pg. 7
2. Metaphor: "The long beach and the sea were their lawn; the blanket their home; the ice chest and thermos their kitchen." - pg 10

1 Summary sentence:

1. The entire first part of the story pretty much described who he is and what his personality is like.
   

Fahrenheit 451 post 10

5 comments:

1. Montag has now found ways in which to trick the government so they do not find him
2. Montag doesn't care about his wife anymore
   
3. Montag was not along when he would walk upstream.
4. He would have interesting conversations with the people he was with.
5. The city becomes polluted due to the bombs

4 questions:

1. Why does'nt Montag like to talk about his past?
2. Does Montag and his wife ever meet again?
3. How does the war end?
4. What ever happened to Clarisse?

3 words:

1. Pyre: a pile or heap of wood or other combustible material.
2. Litany: a ceremonial or liturgical form of prayer consisting of a series of invocations or supplications with responses that are the same for a number in succession.
3. Sputter: to make explosive popping or sizzling sounds.

2 literary elements:

1. "I ate them like salad" -similie
2. “The day was brightening all about them as if pink lamp had been given more wick.”-similie

1 sentence:

• This section is where the war begins and how it is obvious that Montag's life has changed completely.
  

Fahrenheit 451 post 9

5 comments:

1. The author describes where the story takes place better then he did before.
2. Montag is now a wanted fugitive.
3. Montag starts using fire to keep himself warm.
4. Montag follows the railroad.
5. Montag gets a concussion

4 questions:

1. What is Montag's final destination if he keeps running?
2. Would he die if they catch him?
3. What ever happened to Clarisse?
4. If they never catch him would he have too change his identity?

3 words:

1. Dentifrice: a paste, powder, liquid, or other preparation for cleaning the teeth.
2. Valise: A small piece of hand luggage.
3. Bramble: any rough, prickly shrub, as the dog rose.

2 literary elements:

1. "turned the men over like dominos" -similie
   
2. "The fire was gone, then back again, like a winking eye" -similie
   

1 sentence:

• Montag is still on the run but is also starting to begin a new chapter in his life.
  

Fahrenheit 451 post 8

5 comments:

1. The Police are looking for Montag.
2. The police are making everyone look for Montag.
3. He needs to be on the run or else he will suffer bad consequences.
4. Mildred does not care what happens to Montag.
5. Montag killed Beatty.

4 questions:

1. Why did Montag go to the river?
2. What happened to Mildred?
3. How long is he going to be by the river?
4. Do they ever find Montag?

3 words:

1. Penance: a punishment undergone in token of penitence for sin.
2. grotesque: odd or unnatural in shape, appearance, or character; fantastically ugly or absurd; bizarre.
3. Hayloft: a loft in a stable or barn for the storage of hay.

2 literary elements:

1. “The books leapt and dance like roasted birds, their wings ablaze with red and yellow feathers.” -similie
2. "he smelled the heavy musk like perfume" -similie
   

1 sentence:

• Montag is now on the run from the police because of the crime that he has comitted.
  

Fahrenheit 451 post 7

5 comments:

1. Montag ends up facing the consequences for having books.
2. Beatty would not leave Montag alone.
3. Montag has drawn so much attention to himself.
4. Montag now has to face crucial decisions.
5. I don't think Montag is strong enough for these types of situations.

4 questions:

1. What is Montag's future?
2. Does he end up dieing?
3. Why is Beatty doing that to Montag?
4. How does he handle the situation?

3 words:

1. sieve: to put or force through a sieve; sift.
2. Cinders: a partially or mostly burned piece of coal, wood, etc.
3. Breach: the act or a result of breaking; break or rupture.

2 literary terms:

1. “… tending to their peanut- brittle bones…” - metaphor
   
2. “The Seashell hummed in his ear” - personification

1 sentence:

• Montag's housewas burned because his crime discovered.
  

Fahrenheit 451 post 6

5 comments:

1. Montag seems more aware of his surroundings
2. Montag's marriage is a joke, and is not going to last.
3. Montag panics when he doesn't know what to do.
4. Montag's imagination gets him into trouble.
5. He doesn't know how to handle situations.

4 questions:

1. Why does Montag keep hearing voices?
2. Does Montag have some type of disorder to make him so nervous?
3. Why doesn't he find a way to find a new life for himself?
4. What was in Montag's house?

3 words:

1. Enameled: any of various varnishes, paints, coatings, etc., drying to a hard, glossy finish.
2. fringes: A decorative border or edging of hanging threads, cords, or strips, often attached to a separate band.
3. Unitarians: An adherent of Unitarian Universalism.

2 literary terms:

1. “the firehouse stood all about in plaster silence and the orange Salamander slept with its kerosene in its belly and the fire throwers crossed upon its flanks" - personification
2. “The way the clouds moved aside and came back, and the way the stars looked, a million of them swimming between the clouds...” - personification

1 sentence:

• Montag keeps talking about his situatuion to more and more people
  

Fahrenheit 451 Post 5

5 comments:

1. Montag finally realizes something about the society that he lives in.
2. Montag seems very nervous and cautious about things now
3. Montag seems very confused.
4. He is starting to feel careless.
5. He thinks twice about his actions now.

4 questions:

1. What is there for Montag to be scared of?
2. Why would any one listen to Montag?
3. Why does he feel his happiness is gone?
4. What is the point about thinking everything over?

3 words:

1. tamped: To pack down tightly by a succession of blows or taps
2. Sieve:a person who cannot keep a secret.
3. tallow:the fatty tissue or suet of animals.

2 literary terms:

1. "It was like coming into the cold marbled room of a mausoleum after the moon has set" -similie
2. “That night I kicked the pill bottle in the dark, like kicking a buried mine.” - similie

1 sentence:

• this section talks about Montags new personality.

Fahrenheit 451 Post 4

5 comments:

1. Montag thinks that every sport is good.
2. Montag starts to feel that he doesn't like his life.
3. Montag's wife doesn't care anymore.
4. Clarisse is a freaky person.
5. I think Montag was even freaked out by her.

4 questions:

1. What is so special about Beatty?
2. What exactly freaked out Montag?
3. Why burn so much?
4. Why is Montag such a weak individual?

3 words:

1. Melancholy: sober thoughtfulness; pensiveness.
2. mausoleum: a burial place for the bodies or remains of many individuals, often of a single family, usually in the form of a small building.
3. parlour : reception room in an inn or club where visitors can be received

2 literary terms:

1. "How rarely did other people's faces take of you and throw back to you your own expression" -personification
2. “A book is a loaded gun in the house next door.” -metaphor

1 sentence:

• This section shows how Montag really is and how he is a weak individual

Fahrenheit 451 post 3

5 comments:

1. Montag's wife thought that the fact that she couldn't remember where they met was amussing.
2. Clarisse is a wierd person in my eyes.
3. She says many random things
4. The little girl us also pretty random
5. I think the kerosene has a lot of symbolism in the story.

4 questions:

1. Is the little girl Mildred?
2. What was the point for Montag to get drunk?
3. What is the attraction between Montag and Clarisse?
4. Why are books not allowed?

3 words:

1. Jargon: unintelligible or meaningless talk or writing
2. subconscious: existing or operating in the mind beneath or beyond consciousness
3. marionette:a puppet manipulated from above by strings attached to its jointed limbs.

2 literary terms:

1. "the clock was telling you" -personification
2. “No matter when he came in, the walls were always talking to Mildred” - personification

1 sentence:

• This section of the story was jus Montag talking to either Clarisse or Mildred

Fahrenheit 451 post 2

5 comments:

1. I think that the fact that Montag and Clarisse meet again symbolizes something.
2. The relationship between him and his wife now seems very uncomfortable.
3. Montag's career is mentioned a lot in this story.
4. Montag and Clarisse develop a good friendship.
5. They seem to like to talk to eachother.

4 questions:

1. Where exactly is this story taking place?
2. What does the flower symbolize?
3. Is Montag crazy?
4. Are Montag and Clarisse going to end up together?

3 words:

1. Slender:thing or slight
2. Olfactory:of or pertaining to the sense of smell
3. Waft:to send or convey lightly

2 literary terms:

1. "A wind had sprung up from no where" - personification
2. "the great shadowing, motioned silence of the Hound leaping out like a moth in the raw light" - similie

1 sentence:

• This section of the book shows more about the development of the relationship that Montag has with Clarisse.

Fahrenheit451 post 1

5 comments:

1. There is a lot of symbolism when Montag would go around the corner of the train station because he heard his name, when it was really the wind.
2. Montag doesn't seem to have confidence in himself.
3. He would keep on questioning himself.
4. Montag seems to be able to talk to his wife comfortably
5. I think he has a good relationship with his wife.

4 questions:

1. Why does Montag doubt himself so much?
2. Does he really like what he does for a living?
3. What really kept on calling his name?
4. Does he end up going crazy?

3 words:

1. Minstrel: a musician, singer, or poet
2. Kerosene:a mixture of liquid hydrocarbons obtained by distilling petroleum, bituminous shale, or the like, and widely used as a fuel, cleaning solvent, etc.
3. Stolid: having little or no emotion

2 literary terms:

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1 sentence:

• We start to see how Montag really is, and how he describes his wife, and you can also kind of see his relationship with his wife and his career.