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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.
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.
5 Comments:
- A college professor wanted there to be a course so that students could learn how to make Hip Hop.
- Many people think Hip Hop is street music and it contains no intelligence.
- Berklee is the best college of music int he entire world.
- Rappist were really scholars, who experience a different method of learning.
- Hip Hop had to make a purpose in the world.
4 Questions:
- Why were the student shocked that their professor wanted a Hip Hop course?
- Does the Death Row Records stand for something bad?
- How did their intelligence relate to Hip Hop's ghetto tenches?
- How do people take Berklee college for granted?
3 Words:
- Turntablism (pg. 229): Turntablism is the art of manipulating sounds and creating music using phonograph turntables and a DJ Mixer.
- Tutmultuous: (pg. 238): full of tumult or riotousness
- Intelligentsia (pg. 247): intellectuals considered as a group or class
2 Literary Terms:
- Metaphor (pg. 234) "Many of Hip Hop's 'best and brightest' belie the tradional definition"
- Pun (pg. 239) " Single parent household drove him to the streets"
1 Sentence Summary
- Many people Hip Hop isn't formed from intelligence, but it really is all about experienced learning.
5 Comments:
- Hip Hop is an insult to women and it abuses our value.
- He was criticized for having inappropiate behavior in a video.
- Hip Hop can sometimes have a bad influence on teenagers.
- Blacks have a higher risk of receiving HIV because they are morte sexually active.
- R. Kelly's career was on hold because of his intercourse with a minor.
4 Questions:
- Why would they mix Hip Hop and porn?
- Where did HIV come from?
- What has Gina Wingwood found about sexually active Black girls?
- Shouldnt have R. Kelly gotten suspended from the Hip Hop business?
3 Words:
- Moguls (pg. 207): A small hard mound
- Entrenchment (pg. 209): the act of entrenching
- Ensued: (pg. 226): to follow in order
2 Literary Terms:
- Simile (pg. 211) "He was so hyperactive as a kid"
- Metaphor (pg. 222) "The adolescent journey, so the therories assert is an especially treacherous period for young girls"
1 Sentence Summary:
- Hip Hop is loved by many people, but sometimes they do not notice when it is doing them wrong.
5 Comments:
- Since the Mayor of detriot fancied Hip Hop, he was able to keep his title as mayor.
- He believed that he was involved in politics cause he was born to be political.
- Even though he was all for Hip Hop he removed the earing to respect the elderly.
- Detroit becoming a black city may have caused trouble.
- Kilpatrick may have been elected for the wrong reasons.
4 Questions:
- Was it a problem that Detroit was becoming a black city?
- Did the people elect Kilpatrick only because he was into Hip Hop?
- Why did they have to imply that he was near the top of his class?
- Why didn't the older people very much vote for Kilpatrick?
3 Words:
- Remediation (pg. 189): The act or process of correcting a fault
- Moniker (pg. 196): a person's name, esp. a nickname or alias
- Revitalize (pg. 202): to give new life to
2 Literary Terms:
- Simile (pg. 202) "Like virtually every other major urban metro area in the U.S."
- Personification (pg. 204) "The aftershocks of September 11 produced a political and econmical climate that left America's big cities all but abandoned"
1 Sentence Summary:
- There is a day in the future that Hip Hop will make a difference in our lives, as it did in Kilpatrick's.
5 Comments:
- Many rappers from long ago represented the West Coast.
- There were more people in the U.S. who were being put in jail in 1994.
- They tried to project people from criminals.
- They didn't care about how the people felt they treated them like trash.
- They thought it was better for people to get taught than to be punished.
4 Questions:
- How can they protect the entire puclic from prisoners?
- Why did so many of those rappers die or get killed?
- Why was it that those who were not white were the ones who always seemed to be the bad ones?
- What did it take to form the CYA?
3 Words:
- Ethos (pg. 163): the fundamental character or spirit of a culture
- Incarceration (pg. 174): to imprison
- Pinnacle (pg. 177): a lofty peak
2 Literary Terms:
- Metaphor (pg. 163) "In the mountainous terrain, vast highways, and electic bed of urban and suburban communities that make up California's Bay"
- Personification (pg. 180) "Hip Hop informs the language we use"
1 Sentence Summary:
- The youth have a strong control on whether or not something will make a difference and succeed.
5 Comments:
- The people who are attracted to Hip Hop changed over time.
- Simmons built his own hip group that raised many funds for Hip Hop.
- Hip Hop has enough power to control and make a difference on many things in the world.
- Trying to catch the young people's attention is a difficult task.
- In order to do well they have to improve the mistakes they made in the past.
4 Questions:
- Why is it so important to impress everyone?
- If Afrika didn't experiment with anything that had to do with Hip Hop, why does it matter?
- Did any of those people that came to Texas Southern University actually make it into the music business?
- Did the boycotts agaisnt the HSAN ever stop?
3 Words:
- Pragmatist (pg. 145): a person who is oriented toward the success or failure of a particular line of action
- Coalition (pg. 152): a combination or alliance
- Constituency (pg. 162): a body of constituents
2 Literary Terms:
- Onomatapoeia (pg. 155) "Though the summits have generated considerable buzz, some have questioned their relevance"
- Metaphor (pg. 155) "Hip Hop is a potent catalyst for transforming the world"
1 Sentence Summary:
- Russell Simmons writes about his experience in how he realized what it takes in order to grap the people's attention.
