Black Like Me, by: John Howard Griffin
1st post
5 comments

• Before i even started to read the book I noticed that the entire book is like a dairy, it's written day by day.
  
• the first thing your find out in the book is the setting, the author immediately tells you the date and year.
• He does a good job at grabbing your attention, asking questions that seem impossible and absurd really makes you want to hear what is up with this man.
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4 questions

• is the way the book is written, meaning the style of the book, going to effect the way the book is read?
• why haven't i read the charcters name yet?
• Who is adelle. Jackson ?
• Is he really goign to follow through with this?
  

3 words i don't know

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2literary terms

• One litterary term being used is setting, it is used at the beginning to tell the city or town he is in.
  

summary


2nd post

5 comments

• When the black boy offers to take him to the movies personal I bet that griffin starts to realize that black people will work even harder to help each other out.
• I can't believ that after all that had happened to him he stilled tried to belive that the man was being nice to him and tried to help him out.
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4 question I have

• I wonder if after this griffin try's to do something to help out the black community.
• Why did he move from the bench if it wasn't off limits to black people.
• ow is it that even with all the evidence that the FBI collecting the jury stilled found the white men innocent.
  

3 words I don't know

• manuscripts
• focusless
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2 literary terms

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summary

page 40-55

5 comments

• These guys really based their lives all around football, some weren't able to read good enough for their age.
• The football player's are more like heros in there town
• If only boobie was as a good a student as he was an athlete, then he would truley be a great Student-athlete.
• whats the point of telling about the situation with the stadium.
• they have a strong community behind them supporting them.
  

4 questions

• Even though boobie was a good football player how were his grades, since he was getting so many letters from all these colleges?
• What could life look like for the players after they graduate?
• Is the town just as supporter ask that agin because the didn' treally with the blackshg words I don't know
• Are they just going to end up useing boobie even though he has a bad knee
  

3 words i do'nt know

• intricate
• contemplating
  
• crevice
  

2 literary terms

• "he made it look like"- simile
  
• forshadowing-
  

summary
Begins to talk about how he got here .


pages 56-70
5comments

• boobies carrier is officially over
• his uncle sould have encouraged him to do better in school
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4 questions

• What is boobie mile going to do without football?
• What is curbed services?
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3 words i don't know

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2 words i don't know

• accoutrements
• gauzy
  

summary

Friday night lights by H.G. BISSINGER

prologue
5 comments

• The narrator is very sarcastic, most likely the climax of the story is going to be when his personality changes and he becomes more serious .
• as of right now football is seeming like an actually war the way he is describing the player's feelings.
• the quarter back seems to live a ruff life, and he doesn't seem to have a close relationship with his parents.
• excitement seems to get him more focused.
• chavez's seems like the one who is going somewhere in life.
  

4 question

• why would they need police escorts?
• It seems like one of the players is going to die or something, is something that bad going to happen?
• are they going to lose the game?
• is this game going to decide their future?
  

3 words I don't know

• hating
• agonized
  
• retching
  

2 literary terms

• "wondering around in his uniform as the minuets dripped away"- imagery
• "As in in civil war, goodwill and love disintegrated and members of the town turned on each other"- metaphor
  

summary
The begining felt more like a climax. It was all about the first game that the Permian pathners lost of what was a perfect football season. It was also a chance to get to known the charcters and what football means to them and how important the game is to their future.


pages 21-40

5 comments

• i just realized that the begining was a flashforward to what is going to happen.
• This group of permian panthers, unlike past players, is going to be remembered long after the season is over.
• the coach even seems like football is the only thing he knowns he even refers to the players as a special breed.
• footballl seems more like a religon to the coachs.
• there is a lot of tension when the other team is playing odessa
  

4 questions

• when is boobie going to play agian?
• Are the readers going to learn the story of other players on the team in this chapter
• Where and how did there school get alll that money.
• how did the building burn down?

3 literary terms

• "it was a littleafter six in the morning......with no signs of life except the perpetual glar of the convenience store lights.."-setting
• "It was enshrined in the balc carpet, and the black-and-white cabinets, and the black rug"-repitetion
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2 words i dont know

• congealed
• perpetual
  

summary
it's the beginging of the season, the team is geeting ready for what is going to be a war.

The martian chronicles

Page 109-126

5 Comments

• Robots are going to end up doing to the humans what the humans did to the martians once they were all gone.
• i think the mr. stendahl is going to kill all the scientist because he already seems kind of insane.
• Mr.Garrett is smarter than pikes and stendahl thought. But i still don't think they are going to get caught.
• Mr. Garrett is falling into there trap and he doesn't even known it.
• I have a feeling that the second Garrett is also a robot.
  

4 question

• Why did he have the ape kill Mr. Garrett?
• what kind of name is pikes?
• What are they up to, is he planning on takeing over mars or something?
• Why is it that they basically made fun illegal?
  

3 words i don't know

• centrifuge-an apparatus that rotates at high speed and by centrifugal force separates substances of different densities, as milk and cream.
• anti septic-free of contamination or pollution.2 literary terms
• ruminated-to meditate on; ponder.

2 literary terms

• Personification- the wind was describe as the shape of a women
• Foreshadowing- the author is constantly describeing the robots, meaning something big, like mabey the climax of the book, is going to happen with the robots.
  

summery
It seems there are still martians, but bfore that was descoered Mr. stenahl went crazy and killed the people sent by the goverenment to destroy his home that he bulit.

The martian chronicles

page 73-90

5 comments

• people really are like that, when ever something isn't going there way or things get tough, or they have completely messed up there surroundings they try and take over someone else place instead of fixing there own.
• He probably fainted because of the lack of air that there is.
• I think that the rain is a sing that there will be plant life on mars, he just has to have some faith.
• I think that Mr. driscoll is either crazy or sick because he keeps on fainting.
• maybe its all in his head, like a allusion.
  

4 questions

• How are plants going to be able to sprout on mars?
• Who is it doing all this planting, i thought everyone was killed?
• How many people have settled on mars so far?
• How is it that the trees he planted could be so big after only one month?
  

3 words i don't know

• Elixir-A substance or medicine believed to have the power to cure all ills.
• Sherry-A fortified Spanish wine ranging from very dry to sweet and from amber to brown.
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2 literary terms

• Personification- The author talks to the fire as if it were a real person.
• Simile- "Mars was a place as unpredictable as time" Its comparing the characteristics of mars to time using As.
  

summery

The Martian Chronicles
page 91-108

5 comments

• theses people are really naive to think that he black people built a rocket in Africa.
• I am assuming that Lucinda is black because he called her a darkie.
• Belter better not stay just because Mr. Teece said he has to. If I were him I would have sucker punched him and ran.
• Mr. teece must see belter is a child to belive that he would belive him when he said there were monsters on mars.
• Mr. teece seems to be feeling kind of lonely, and it seems like everyone around him has had a change of hart about black people.
  

4 question

• What years is this suppose to be in?
• What are thicken eddies?
• Where did his wife go to, is she going after Lucinda?
  
• Are the white people going to trie to stop all the black people from going to mars or are they going to try and bribe them into staying?
  

3 words i don't known

• turgidly-inflated, overblown, or pompous; bombastic
• glint-gleaming brightness; luster.
• sophisticates-To cause to become less natural, especially to make less naive and more worldly.

2 literary terms

• Allusion- When the author is describing the flood he uses allusion to give the reader a good mental picture of what is happening.
• simile- The author uses like to compare watermelons to tortoise cats.
  

summery-
By the end of the section all the blacks have moved to mars. Some white people were nice and let them go peacefully, but others like Mr. Teece tried to find reasons four why they had to stay. If any had owned him money he would tell them that they had to work it out and miss te rocket to mars. But his plan didn't work and he was left high and drie.

The Martian Chronicles

page 55-72

5 comments

• Spender is the one who is going to stay alive the longest because he is the only one thinking about the martians and what might have happened or what will happen, and he is the only one who seems to care about the planet and its history.
• I think spender was either taken by the martians or he simply didn't want to be apart of what he knew was going to happen to the rest of the crew.
• Spenders body was probably taken over by a martian or it took the form of him.
• Spender seems to be really laid back about the hunters coming for him.
• how could the caption be defeated by one man
  

4 questions

• Are they going to find out that there were martians living on the earth?
• I wonder if the poem that spender recited to the men is some kind of warning?
• Are the Martians going to get spender?
• What dose the martian want with people, why don't they like the humans?
  

3 words i don't know

• mechanisms- A machine or mechanical appliance.
• congressional- A formal assembly of representatives, as of various nations, to discuss problems.
  
• leery- wary; suspicious

2 literary terms

• situational irony- Spender is feeling sorry for the death of the martians, he says they must have been a peaceful race accepting what came to them. its ironic because what he says is not true, the martians did not accept what came to them. Every single human who landed on mars ended up dead.
• Foreshadowing- During there party the the wind is heavy and the author describes it going around people, he describes it as if the wind is alive. Then the wind suddenly dies which is like a sing saying that something bad or frightful is going to happen.
  

summery
In his section of the book, things start to looked bad for the fourth expedition, then things got real ugly. On of the crew members, spender, goes somewhat insane and he starts to kill the other members of the crew. He feels as if the planet is to good for humans to be on because all they will do is end up destroying it.