Anne Frank Remembered JE# 5

5 Comments:

• Now that Henk was leaving, I have a feeling their relationship is going to gradually drift away.
• Miep was now in charge of the business because she worked for Mr. Frank for a longer time.
• People at this time committed many crimes and got away with it. As long as you weren't a Jew, you got away with anything.
• They are lucky they didn't have to turn in their food to the Germans.
• Mr. Frank considered Miep as family because they spent many years together. 

4 Questions: 

• Didn't people ever wonder who she was working for? Why is she working for a man who disappeared? 
• What s the NSB?
• Could Miep do anything, knowing they committed a crime?
• Were Miep and Mr. Frank still in contact after they got caught?

3 Words: 

• Dium-sized (pg. 202):
• Jubilation (pg. 211): a feeling of or the expression of joy or exultation
• Rhine (pg. 221): A river of western Europe formed by the confluence of two tributaries in eastern Switzerland

2 Literary Terms: 

• Personification (pg. 198): "On the floor, amidst the chaos of papers and books"
• Figurative Language: (pg. 218) " We were deathly afraid..."

1 Sentence Summary: 

• The Franks and the rest of the hiding friends were caught and sent to concentration camps where everyone except Miep ended up dying. 

Anne Frank Remembered JE# 4

5 Comments:

• Anne's eyesight was beginning to fade.. she needed glasses.
• If a thief broke in and reported Jews in hiding, they were not prosecuted for their crime.
• Anne was beginning to understand the way life was going to be in hiding.
• Miep has a very high self-esteem.
• The red high heels were a symbol that signified she was becoming a young lady.

4 Questions:

• Why is it that only married couples can talk to each other by eyes?
• Is their anyway that Anne could have gotten her eyes checked than callin a doctor, who could possible saythey were in hiding?
• Why does Margot and Peter not talk much to Henk and Miep?
• Why didnt they want to tell any of their friends in hiding?

3 Words:

• commodity (pg.164):
• savored (pg. 186):
• fanatic (pg. 187):

2 Literary Terms:

• Figurative Language (pg. 169):"always it was a fight with stinging rain and slippert streets"
• Hyperbole (pg. 188): " US Twelfth Army had smashed the German Patton's Third Army"

1 Sentence Summary:

• The Frank family remain in hiding while thing begin to get a little more intense causing the "darker days".

Anne Frank Remembered JE# 3

5 Comments:

• Mr. Frank set a good trap leading people with the note he left in the apartment.
• They couldn't use the bathrooms during the day, or workers would hear from downstairs in the office.
• Jews believed that going into hiding for their beliefs was more valuable than a pot of gold.
• Jews were going into hiding for many different, but similar reasons.
• They didn't have basic neccessities for all, for example same chairs.

4 Questions:

• Were Henk and Miep now forced to take care of these children who were dropped off at her door in the middle of the night.
• Does this means that Henk and Miep wouldn't have enough time to have a baby of their own.
• Why does Mouschi keep getting mentioned throughout the book?
• Was Mr. Van Daan's jokes actuallu funny.

3 Words:

• alotted(pg. 108):
• temperamental(pg. 114):
• privy (pg. 117):

2 Literary Terms:

• Hyperbole ".. and diguise the bitter feeling that burned in my heart" (Pg. 117)
• Simile "the Jewish deportations as resettlement and claimed that those taken were being treated decently" (pg. 119)

1 Sentence Summary:

• The Frank family are continued to be in hiding while more people want to join, Henk and Miep get two gifts at their door early in the morning.

Anne Frank Remembered JE #2

5 Comments:

• Miep was having a strong compassion for Henk to the extent possibly getting married.
• The Radio and the newspaper was the only source of information Jews were receiving.
• Miep was very lucky throught the marriage process, many times she could have been caught and deported.
• The discrimination against Jews was becoming a struggle for both the Frank family and Miep.
• Even with the silence in the room, Miep could sense the feelings and emotions the Frank family was experiencing when they went into hiding.

4 Questions:

• Why did everything happen at once, the bad news however luckiness?
• How were Jew supposed to transport themselves? Not everthing required feet.
• If America was on the Jews side, why didn't they help them fight against Hitler?
• Was Mr. Frank expecting to one day go into hiding? Reason for already having the secret door room.

3 Words:

• Frivolity(pg. 55):
• Impoverization(pg. 80):
• Demoralized(pg. 86):

2 Literary Terms:

• Personification(pg.67) "dark wintee settled over us"
• Imagery(pg. 96): "We were soaked through to the skin"

1 Sentence Summary:

• Miep finally becomes a Dutch and become closer to the Frank family, she then had to help them in hiding when Margot receives a labor letter.

Anne Frank Remembered JE #1

5 Comments:

• She was adopted and never lived with her biological parents.
• This book is from the lady who helped the Frank family go into hiding.
• Miss Heel was very rude and jealous of Miep.
• Hitler was a man who was not only agaisnt Jews but those who were not Germans.
• Miep's Saturday trips to the theater was like our modern day trips to the movies.

4 Questions:

• Wasn't it a hard thing for her biological parents to just give her up at such a young age?
• Was she in love with the man that she previously worked with or the man she currently worked with?
• When does the Frank Family go into hiding?
• Why is Margot always explained as being pretty more than Anne is? What is it trying to imply?

3 Words:

• Melancholy(pg. 37): a gloomy state of mind
• Excursion (pg. 41): a short trip or outing to some place
• Depravity (pg. 43): the state of being depraved

2 Literary Terms:

• Imagery(pg. 21): " The horizon always flat and luminous, the winter sunreddish"
• Personification(pg. 33): "I always fly to work on my secondhand bicycle"

1 Sentence Sumary:

• Baascially Miep is introduced and her lifestyle is explained in detail, mentioning the things she went through based on the fact that she lived with adoptive parents.

Girl with a Pearl Earring by TC Movie

5 Comments:

• Overall the movie skipped some on the key important parts that the book had mentioned.
• Sometimes, the events did not happen in the exact same order.
• Some of the characters weren't described in the same detail.
• The ending was confusing because Griet looked the same and you couldn't tell that she was older.
• Tanneke didn't seems as mean as she was in the book.

4 Questions:

• Why did they eliminate key parts?
• What could they have done to improve the ending?
• Why was Cornelia such a brat?
• Was Johannes having micxed feelings about Griet?

6 Film Terms:

• Long shot - when Tanneke shows her the studio
• Over the shoulder - when Griet is cleaning windows and Johannes is by the door lookin [in darkness]
• Midshot - Griet & Johannes are at the window look at the clouds.
• Long shot & Zoom - When Griet is being painted with earring, just like the picture
• Establishing shot - when she left the house because Catharina had found out about her sneaking around
• Bird's Eye - gets to the center of town and has to decide where to go

1 Sentence Review:

• Overall, I think the movie was okay, it could have been better if only it inquired the main points and theme of the story.

Girl with a Pearl Earring by TC #5

5 Comments:

• I Can't stand Van Ruijven.
• Johannes didn't want to say anything to help Griet.
• I think Griet made the correct choice in marrying Pieter.
• After all those years Cornelia and her mother dipised Griet.
• Griet kept the 5 coins because she still had love for Johannes.
• It's about time Griet slapped Cornelia**Met her with a slap and left her with a slap**

4 Questions:

• Deos van Ruijven want to cause trouble?
• What was missing from the painting?
• What was so special about the pearl earring that Griet noticed?
• Where did Greit decide to go?
• Did Johannes committ suicide?

3 Words:

• Placate(pg.197): to appease or pacify
• Cumbersome(pg. 200): burdensome
• Tavern(pg 229): a place where liquors are sold to be consumed on the premises.

2 Literary Terms:

• Flashback(pg. 232): "I reached over and slapped her"
• Symbolism(pg. 233): " I would hide them somewhere that Pieter nd my sons would not look, some unexpected place that only I knew of. I would never spend them."

1 Sentence Summary:

• Griet is caught in the act, runs away.. 10 years later she starts a new life and it is finished when Catharina gives her the pearl earrings.

Girl with a Pearl Earring by TC #4

5 Comments:

• Griet was now feelinf more welcoe and comfortable living with the new family.
• All these other painters were influencing Johannes.
• Pieter the son can't seem to understand Griet sometimes.
• Maria Thins was beginning to do favors for Griet.
• The way she ended hear was like he was doing something to her that she didn't like (reminded me of rape)
• Pieter was a sick pervert.
• Griet said no to her master for the first time.

4 Questions:

• Was Johannes afraid to mention that Griet was helping him?
• Was Catharina really happy to have Johannes paint Griet?
• What was going to happen not that Fran's knows about Griet's feelings for her master?
• Why was Catharina constantly getting pregnant?

3 Words:

• Curlicues(pg. 164): an ornamental
• Bravado(pg. 156): a pretentious
• Querulous(pg. 174): full of complaints

2 Literary Terms:

• Imagery(pg. 142): " The sea is visible but can never be reached"
• Simile(pg. 169): "...their grey was ike the inside of an oyster shell"

1 Sentence Summary:

• Griet sneaks around behing mostly everyone in the household as Johannes paints her, but he then asks her to put on his wife's earrings.

Girl with a Pearl Earring by TC #3

5 Comments:

• Maria Thins now knows what Griet was up to, and she does not mind.
• Griet's parents like Pieter and want him to marry her.
• Maertge was 18 years old and the oldest sister.
• Tanneke acts this way towards Griet because Williem beat his sister Catharina.
• Catharina was very conscious of herself.

4 Questions:

• What does the painter want from the apothecary?
• Was the painter aware of the situation he was putting Griet into?
• Is Johannes going to paint Griet and get her pregnant for him?
• Why is Tanneke jealous of Griet?

3 Words:

• ocher(pg. 95): any of a class of natural earths
• winced(pg. 137): to draw back or tense the body

2 Literary Terms:

• Man Vs. Man Conflict(pg. 109): "So this is what you've been up to, eh, girl?"
• Simile(pg. 141): "Maertge was a little like my sister, Agnes, had been lively"

1 Sentence Summary:

• Griet becomes more closer in contact with the painter as she run errands and grinds things for him.

Girl with a Pearl Earring by TC #2

5 Comments:

• Griet always mentioned the man as he... does not know his name.
• That was rude... She disses her own sister just because she was with Maertge.
• Her Agnes died... That was karma for turning her sister back the day she saw her.
• He was planning on painting a picture of Griet.
• Tanneke was mad because he was painting a picture of Griet.

4 Questions:

• Was she ashamed when she saw her sister when she wasn't alone?
• Was Griet beginning to fall for the painter or the butcher's son?
• How did Griet feel when she found out her sister Agnes had died?
• What does the painter want from the apothecary?

3 Words:

• Subdued(pg. 48): to conquer and bring into subjection
• Camera Obscura(pg. 56): a darkened boxlike device in which images of external objects
• Pheasant (pg. 79): any of numerous large

2 Literary Terms:

• Simile (pg. 58): "When he smiled his face was like an open window"
• Personification (pg. 89): "Warm days rasied hopes until ice and grey skies shut over the town again"

1 Sentence Summary:

• Griet becomes a different person as she spends more time with her new family, and her life begins to change.

Girl with a Pearl Earring by TC #1

5 Comments:

• The woman that came to the house was pregnant.
• Griet's father had lost his eye sight because his kiln exploded.
• The father could tell that the man was good, based on his paintings.
• Griet has still not seen the man of the house.
• She went to her family's butcher at first.

4 Questions:

• Why does the mistress treat her so badly and making her sleep in the dark basement?
• Was she going to start buying the meat from her family's butcher?
• Why did Griet hide when the father came out of the house?
• Why did Griet's father only smile when she mentioned light?

3 Words:

• Flagon(pg. 3): a large bottle for wine
• Stuivers(pg. 9): a former nickel coin of the Netherlands
• Chemises(pg. 24): a woman's loose-fitting

2 Literary Terms:

• Simile(pg. 3): "A woman's bright as polished brass, and a man's low and dark like he wood of the table"
• Motif(pg. 3): Pearls

1 Sentence Summary:

• Griet gets to know this new rich family, in which she is the new maid, order to help make money for her family.

Fahrenheit 451 Entry #10

5 Comments:

• Beatty came back to help Montag
• Even though Montag didnt bring books back to the town, he brought it so that he could use it.
• Now it isn't good to write books and have them be about women.
• It shows how even in the future there will be discrimination against women

4 Questions:

• So Beatty jus ratted out Montag because it was his job?
• What was he going to do now living, somewhat lonely?
• Was it bad to write about women?

3 Words:

• Prefaces (pg. 169): A preliminary statement or essay
• Tiffin (pg 170): to eat lunch
• umpires (pg. 179): A person appointed to rule on plays

2 Literary Terms:

• Simile (pg. 170): "the stacks like a chimpanzee"
• Personification (pg. 1750: "... my mountain of mail delivered"

1 Sentence Summary:

• Montag had to do what he had to do

Fahrenheit 451 Entry #9

5 Comments:

• Mildred had came back.
• He had planned to take regular transporation.
• There was some symbolism with the bird pheonix just like mockingbirds
• He had to pretend in order to get by.
• He never saw Mildred again

4 Questions:

• Was he jus dreaming about Mildred or did she really come?
• Was Montag still in the barn?
• Wouldn't he get caught if he takes public transportation?
• Why didn't the Granger tell his this all along?

3 Words:

• Ecclesiastes (pg. 160): a book of the Bible
• goddamn (pg. 163): used as an exclamation of any strong feeling
• dime (pg. 167): a cupronickel-clad coin

2 Literary Elements:

• Personifcation (pg. 160): "The concussion knocked the across..."
• Simile (pg. 160): "... the men over like dominoes"

1 Sentence Summary:

• Montag finally fully escaped with the help of Granger and lived somewhere else and began writing.

Fahrenheit 451 Entry #8

5 Comments:

• Montag was going to be away from home for a long time.
• He was staying in a barn over night.
• Montag was to meet up Faber in the "future"
• Montag is no long in existence

4 Questions:

• Where did Mildred go?
• Would the Hounds still look for him even though they didnt find him the first time?
• How did they come to a conclusion that Montag was dead?

3 Words:

• Asbestos (pg 141): a fibrous mineral
• Immese (pg.143): vast
• Incriminate (pg.152): to accuse of or present proof of a crime or fault

2 Literary Terms:

• Simile (pg.144): "He smelled the heavymusk like perfume"
• Hyperbole (pg. 151): "we have way to shake down your clinkers"

1 Sentence Summary:

• Montag spends his first night out after running away and is really cautious about his surroundings.

Fahrenheit 451 Entry #7

5 Comments:

• The setting at this time is Fall.
• The captain tht was dead was someone special to Montag.
• The beetle symbolizes something.
• Beatty was suicidal - reason for suicide popping up in the book.
• Montag had ran to get away from the Hound.

4 Questions:

• Did Montag not care about his wife at the moment?
• What does this bettle symbolize?
• The Hounds couldn't smell Montag out when he was in the water?
• What was Montag goin to do?

3 Words:

• Procaine (pg. 120): a compound
• Guage (pg 126): to determine the exact dimensions
• Incenerator (pg 135): a furnace or apparatus for burning trash

2 Literary Terms:

• Personification (pg. 120): "a car hurtiling by"
• Simile (pg. 121): "the house burnt like an ancient bit of stage scenery"

1 Sentence Sumary:

Fahrenheit 451 Entry #6

5 Comments:

• Faber was talking to Montag throught the green air piece
• Words never stay in one place
• Montag wants to bring books back
• The House Montag was looking at was Clarisse's
• Faber goes to meet thet Printer

4 Questions:

• Why did Mildred leave?
• Did the war begin?
• What did Beatty say when he found the ear piece?
• Was Montag forcing Faber to help him the only way?

3 Words:

• Melancholy (pg. 100): a gloomy state of mind
• Warped (pg. 114): To turn or twist
• Ferrets (pg. 108): A weasellike, usually albino mammal

2 Literary Terms:

• Simile (pg. 100): "To lie before us like a land of dreams"
• Onomatpoeia (pg. 103): " The sleepy mosquito buzz"

1 Sentence Summary:

• Montag gets somewhat caught by his own fellow firefighter and this is when the conflict begins.

Fahrenheit 451 Entry #5

5 Comments:

• Montag went to Faber so that he could prevent his wife from dying
• Books show the way of life
• Faber motivated Montag to try and make a difference
• Montag was trying to get the guests into poetry
• Made the lady cry

4 Questions:

• What do they mean Shakespeare is too aware of the world?
• Why does Faber choose to to Montag while he is sleeping at night?
• What is this "war" all about ?
• Did Montad almost pull out a book when guests were over the house?

3 Words:

• Leisure (pg. 84): freedom from the demands of work or duty
• Aeschylus (ph. 89): Greek poet and dramatist.
• Incense (pg. 95): an aromatic gum or other substance producing a sweet odor

2 Literary Terms:

• Onomatopoeia (pg. 80): "The train hissed to its stop" & " The train door whistled open"

1 Sentence Summary:

• Montag is becoming too comfortable with these books and is beginning to put it out there in the world.

Fahrenheit 451 Entry #4

5 Comments:

• Montag just changed his views of things when he met Clarisse
• Montag & Mildred began to read the books he hoarded
• There were almost caught againd by Beatty
• Mildread freaked out because she didnt know what to do or saw
• Repeated words shows emphasis

4 Questions:

• Is Montag going to burn the book?
• Does reading the books bring Montag and Mildred closer together?
• What is happening in town now?
• Is Mildred now afraid of Montag?

3 Words:

• Pagan (pg. 60): one of a people or community observing a polytheistic religion
• Sieve (pg. 78): an instrument with a meshed or perforated bottom

2 Literary Terms:

• Consonance/Alliteration (pg. 79) "Denham Dandy Dental Detergent"
• Hyperbole (pg. 73) "The world is starving"

1 Sentence Summary:

• Mildred become more closer to her husband when he reveals the books to her.

Fahrenheit 451 Entry #3

5 Comments:

• Clarisse was in an accident, explains her abstency.
• Montag was almost caught with the book by Mildred
• Everything that isnt bad in out lives is bad in theirs'
• They banded books because different groups of people didnt like some.
• He didn't understand why they banded books.

4 Questions:

• Why did he get a book if he knew if was illegal?
• Didnt' Montag's wife know he was hidint something?
• How long does Montag plan on hiding the book?
• What did they do if there were people who liked books?

3 Words:

• Pantomine (pg. 46): the art or technique of conveying emotions
• Phoenix (pg. 52): a mythical bird of great beauty fabled to live 500 or 600 years in the Arabian wilderness
• Pastropding(pg. 54): Any of various small marine gastropod

2 Literary Terms:

• Hyperbole (pg. 45) "that some on... sucked you up in a gigantic vacuum"

1 Sentence Summary:

• Montag was almost caught with the book because he is curious and hiding it from everyone.

Fahrenheit 451 Entry #2

5 Comments:

• Montag doesn't really love his wife
• The Hound is the thing that goes and searches for evidence books.
• Montag was beginning the feel guilty about burning

4 Questions:

• Is Clarisse trying to get Montag to like him?
• Who is Beatty?
• Why didnt the woman want to leave the building?
• Didn't the other firefighters feel bad about leaving the woman in the building?

3 Words:

• Ballistics (pg. 26): The study of the dynamics of projectiles
• Accusation (pg. 37): a charge of wrongdoing
• transcription (pg. 29): the act or process of transcribing

2 Literary Terms:

• Simile (pg. 24): "It was like a great bee..."
• Mataphor (pg. 29): "It's alot of funnels and a lot os water poured downt he spout"

1 Sentence Summary:

• Montag goes to burn down a house, after a reporting of books and Montag wife is introduced.

Fahrenheit 451 Entry #1

5 Comments:

• 451 is the number on Montag's helmet-title of book
• The sidewalk he was felling uncertain about whether it would be burned
• The lady's name is Clarisse McClellan
• The book take place in the future (after present life)
• The used "ancient" machines and new ones

4 Questions:

• How was it a pleasure to burn?
• Who was the lady that just showed up out of nowhere?
• Wasn't it always only the girl walking with him?
• Is the girl some type of spy who is trying to find out informatiotn?

3 Words:

• Miraculous (pg. 7): of the nature of a miracle
• Refract (pg. 11): to subject to refraction
• Pulverized (pg. 14): to reduce to dust or powder

2 Literary Terms:

• Personification "the house jumped up in a gorging fire" (pg. 3)
• Simile "everything there, as if her eyes were two miraculous bits on violet" (pg. 7)

1 Sentence Summary:

• Introducing the story and characters to let reader get the gists of the stroy.