Sunday, February 8, 2009

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.

Thursday, December 18, 2008

Journal Entry # 9 Hip Hop Matters

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.