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13-21 Reading Review

1. They plan to take out the careers food supply by blowing it up. It unfolds by after Katniss blows up the food she goes back to the meeting spot and Rue isn’t there. She starts to look for her but she finds her trapped under a net with a spear in her.

“Today we take out the careers' food.” I say. pg. 210

2. They meet up when the announcement is made and Katniss goes out to find him. Katniss follows the blood trail and she finds him camouflaged under the mud by the river. When she finds him his leg is badly hurt and she has to help him. Once she cleans his leg they go to a cave to sleep. The star crossed lover act is still going so they can get gifts from the sponsors. When they act like lovers they get gifts that help them survive.

“Remember, we’re madly in love, so it;s al right to kiss me anytime you feel like it.” pg. 253

3. When Katniss gets to the bag Clove tries to kill her. When they are fighting Clove tries to cut her, but Thresh rips Clove off Katniss because she was talking about how they killed Rue. Thresh killed Clove to get revenge. Katniss gets away with the bag. In the bag is a thing of medicine to help fix Peetas leg.  

“Just this one time, I let you go. For the little girl. You and me, we’re even then. No more owed. You understand?” pg. 288

4. At first Katniss goes to look for Peeta so they both can live, and she thought that if she didn't look for him the people watching would be mad because they are supposed to be the star crossed lovers that are in love with each other. When she finds him, he is badly hurt and she needs to take care of him. “Let’s get you in the stream, wash you off so I can see what kind of wounds you’ve got.” When she finishes cleaning his wound they go to a cave so they can have shelter and protection. There she gives him food to eat and takes care of his wound even more. “Maybe I’ll put some of the burn ointment on it. I think it helps with the infection anyway. Wrap it up?” Katniss genuinely cares while taking care of Peeta, only the love act is fake so they can get supplies they need. If she was only doing it for the game she probably wouldn’t have given Peeta her burn ointment, she would have saved it for herself. 

Air Conditioner Protest Project

Dear Moanalua High School, 

 We propose that air conditioners are needed in all classrooms on the Moanalua High School campus. With air conditioners in all classrooms, students will have better concentration while doing their school work. Studies show that concentration and cognitive abilities decline substantially after a room reaches 77 or 78 degrees according to the New York Times. With Hawaii’s temperature ranging around low 70 degrees fahrenheit and high 80 degrees fahrenheit in Honolulu according to gohawaii.com. Though some days during winter and certain rainy days air conditioners are not needed because temperatures are already in perfect learning temperature. However the rest of the school year students have to go through the school day in uncomfortable overheated classrooms. “It has been found by research that in the comfort conditions the working capacity of the human beings increases. If the room temperature is very high, not all the heat from the body is released and the person feels uncomfortable from deep within that causes irritation of mind and lack of concentration.” according to the Bright Hub Engineering. Some students on campus might have allergic reactions to dust or pollen. Also with our global warming issues our earth’s atmosphere has a lot pollution. The air conditioners have filters built into them, so they filter out the unclean air so the students in the classroom will breath in clean air. “One in five Americans spends at least part of the day in a school building. In February 1995, the U.S. Government Accounting Office released a survey indicating that more than half of U.S. schools have deficiencies that adversely affect indoor air quality. In addition to triggering asthma attacks in susceptible children, poor indoor air quality causes drowsiness, inability to concentrate, and lethargy. Whether poor air quality forces students to actually miss class because of asthma attack, or whether it simply reduces attentiveness, learning is compromised.” said the http://sdpl.coe.uga.edu/articlesandpapers/lyons.html. Our plan of action is to spread the word about our protest through flyers and social media. This protest will be in front of the our administration building because this is where the principal and top administrators have their offices.  This protest will be peaceful because we want to be civil people in our community. Also we feel that we don’t need to be destructive in order to get our point across. The protest signs will have slogans and facts about air conditioners and the positives of having them. Due to cost and the budget that our school has from the Department of Education (DOE) “roughly $1.4 billion” we understand the difficulty of adding something like this in your budget. However our group would really appreciate that you understand why we are going to protest. We are standing up for the students at the Moanalua High School so we can make a change in the our learning environment. 

 Sincerely, 

Jessica Kalen, Erin Kobayashi, and Skyler Yamamoto 

Grade 10 

Protest Poster #2

Protest Poster

Tribute Graphic

MacBeth Essay Final

      Change can be both a good and bad thing. If you change to become a better person for yourself then that is a good example of change, but if you change to fit into someones life and change the person you are is a bad example. For example in the play “MacBeth” by William Shakespeare, a character named Macbeth changes to fill his wife Lady MacBeth needs for power.  He has changed his morals in life to make another happy, even if that means killing the ones closest to him. MacBeth loses everything he once cherished for power that he didn’t even want. William Shakespeare’s “MacBeth” shows us that you shouldn’t change to live a life that is not meant for you, or else you will destroy the person you once were. 

      MacBeth in the beginning of the story was thought of as a humble person. People liked him and thought that he was a strong noble warrior. “I wish you had deserved less, so that I might have been able to give you thanks and payment in a proportion greater then you deserve. I can only say that more is owing to you then can ever be repaid.” But then MacBeth received a message from the three witches telling him that he would become king once King Duncan died. MacBeth wrote a letter telling Lady Macbeth what would happen. However, Lady MacBeth wanted to gain the power faster so she told MacBeth to kill the king. "When Duncan is asleep, which his hard day's journey will strongly invite him to, I will so overpower his two servants with wine and drunken toasts that memory, which should guard the brain, will become merely a wisp of smoke, and the vessel of reason (the brain) will only be an empty container. Asleep like swine, their alcohol-drowned senses numb as if in death what can't we two do then to the unguarded Duncan? What blame can't we attach to his drunken servants, who will be held guilty of our great murder?” With getting a glimpse of a life they could have Lady MacBeth is already trying to convince MacBeth to change for the bad. 

       Lady MacBeth convinced MacBeth to kill Duncan by calling him a coward and telling him that "If Duncan hadn't looked like my father in his sleep, I'd have done it myself.” causing his morals to change. MacBeth killed someone because his wife told him to, and he didn’t want to upset her so he did. After he killed Duncan MacBeth was paranoid about everything. Every little sound he heard he would freak out about. Whenever someone would whisper he thought that they knew what he and Lady MacBeth did. "Where is that knocking coming from? What is the matter with me that every noise terrifies me?” MacBeth is changing more and more each time people talk leading him to become someone he's not. He sent out murderers to kill Banquo, his best friend, because the three witches said that his children would be kings. After the death of Banquo, Macbeth wasn’t quit the same. Turning a kind, loyal man into a monster afraid of everything all for the name of King and Queen

      With having stolen power, MacBeth was more suspicious of everything. He grew more frantic about the crimes he had committed that he sent murderers out to kill MacDuff because he was told by the three witches that MacDuff was a danger, so to get him out of the way he was going to kill him. “Macbeth! Macbeth! Macbeth! beware Macduff; Beware the thane of Fife.” But when the murderers got to MacDuff place he already left to find Malcolm. The day MacDuff was coming to battle MacBeth his wife died. The wife he cared so much for, that he killed people for committed suicide because she was overwhelmed with killing Duncan. “The queen, my lord, is dead.” But MacBeth didn’t care, he stopped caring for her because he was too caught up in everything else to focus on anything besides staying alive himself. In the end MacBeth died, and Malcolm became king. It’s fitting that the power MacBeth fought so hard for to get ended up killing him in the end.

      William Shakespeare’s “MacBeth” shows us that you shouldn’t change to live a life that is not meant for you, or else you will destroy the person you once were. That is exactly what happened to MacBeth. He changed who he was, for power that he wasn’t supposed to have. He may have physically died at the end, but the person he once was died when he decided to kill to Duncan for power. He lost all of his morals, thus the man he changed into was for the worst, not for the greater good. He should have just waited for his time to be king, not trying to change fate and make it come faster. Shakespeare teaches us to stay true to who you are and not to change for someone else. 

MacBeth Rough Draft

Change can be both a good and bad thing. If you change to become a better person for yourself then that is a good example of change, but if you change to fit into someones life and change the person you are is a bad example. In the play “MacBeth” there are two characters named MacBeth and Lady MacBeth, and one of them makes the other change for the wrong reason. MacBeth changes to gain power for him and Lady MacBeth no matter the price he has to pay. William Shakespeare’s “MacBeth” shows us that you shouldn’t change to live a life that is not meant for you, or else you will destroy the person you once were. 

MacBeth in the beginning of the story was thought of as a humble person. People liked him and thought that he was a strong noble warrior. “I wish you had deserved less, so that I might have been able to give you thanks and payment in a proportion greater then you deserve. I can only say that more is owing to you then can ever be repaid.” But then MacBeth received a message from the three witches telling him that he would become king once King Duncan died. MacBeth wrote a letter telling Lady Macbeth what would happen. However, Lady MacBeth wanted to gain the power faster so she told MacBeth to kill the king. "When Duncan is asleep, which his hard day's journey will strongly invite him to, I will so overpower his two servants with wine and drunken toasts that memory, which should guard the brain, will become merely a wisp of smoke, and the vessel of reason (the brain) will only be an empty container. Asleep like swine, their alcohol-drowned senses numb as if in death what can't we two do then to the unguarded Duncan? What blame can't we attach to his drunken servants, who will be held guilty of our great murder?” With getting a glimpse of a life they could have Lady MacBeth is already trying to convince MacBeth to change for the bad. 

Lady MacBeth convinced MacBeth to kill Duncan by calling him a coward and telling him that "If Duncan hadn't looked like my father in his sleep, I'd have done it myself.” causing his morals to change. MacBeth killed someone because his wife told him to, and he didn’t want to upset her so he did. After he killed Duncan MacBeth was paranoid about everything. Every little sound he heard he would freak out about. Whenever someone would whisper he thought that they knew what he and Lady MacBeth did. "Where is that knocking coming from? What is the matter with me that every noise terrifies me?” MacBeth is changing more and more each time people talk leading him to become someone he's not. He sent out murderers to kill Banquo, his best friend, because the three witches said that his children would be kings. After the death of Banquo, Macbeth wasn’t quit the same.

With having stolen power, MacBeth was more suspicious of everything. He grew more frantic about the crimes he had committed that he sent murderers out to kill MacDuff because he thought that he knew that he killed Duncan. But when the murderers got to MacDuff place he already left to find Malcolm. The wife he cared so much for, that he killed people for, he stopped caring for her because he was too caught up in everything else. “The queen, my lord, is dead.” MacBeth was to busy trying not to die himself that he didn’t care when his wife died. In the end MacBeth died, and Malcolm became king. It’s fitting that the power MacBeth fought so hard for to get ended up killing him in the end.

William Shakespeare’s “MacBeth” shows us that you shouldn’t change to live a life that is not meant for you, or else you will destroy the person you once were. That is exactly happened to MacBeth. He may have physically died at the end, but the person he once was died when he decided to kill to Duncan for power. He lost all of his morals, thus the man he changed into was for the worst, not for the greater good. He should have just waited for his time to be king, not trying to change fate and make it come faster. 

2 Questions & Macbeths Soliloquy

1. Macbeth seemed like a person who people looked up to and was a hero, but he actually is a coward who will do anything his wife tells him to. She makes him do really bad things even when he doesn’t want to. He takes the easy way out of things by killing Duncan to get power instead of working for it. After Macbeth killed Duncan he becomes worried of everything. He panics at every little sound he hears and he isn’t himself anymore. He has done something so bad that he probably will never go back to normal, he will alway be afraid that people will learn his secret. 

2. In Act III Macbeth will be crowned new king due to Duncan's death. Macbeth will probably be frightened that someone will find out what he and his wife did, so he will do everything in his power to stop that from happening. He will blame other people for what he did to keep his new position as king. 

Macbeth’s Soliloquy:

Why did I let her talk me into doing that? I didn’t want to kill Duncan, he trusted me. He didn’t deserve to die so I could get power. The only way I can live with myself is because I keep telling myself that I gave my wife what she wanted. Yeah that’s what I did, I gave my wife happiness. I gave us power. But still, I killed a man who thought I was his friend. I still have nightmares when I sleep, every little noise scares me. I guess I should listen to my wife advice and to stop being a coward, whats done is done. I should act like we did nothing wrong and move on with my life. I will do everything in my power to make sure we do not get caught for Duncan’s murder. I shall be the great king that I was always meant to be. 

LA2 Handout #2 4/1

Part I:

1.  Yes, Lady Macbeth is a cold blooded murderer because she tells Macbeth to kill Duncan and she doesn’t feel guilty about it, she also puts the bloody daggers in the guards hands to frame them when they are knocked out. 

2. Lady Macbeth faints to look innocent so it would take Macduff’s suspicions away. It works because it fooled Malcolm, Macduff, and Donalbain and she was carried away.

3. The of Duncan gets to him and he lets the guilt overcome him. He starts to say things that will give away what he and Lady Macbeth did. 

4. Lady Macbeth did not kill Duncan because he looked like her father when he was sleeping. 

5. Macbeth should do whatever it takes to still be king because he didn’t go through all of that work to have someone find out it was him that killed Duncan and let them take it away from him. 

Part II:

1. ”My hands are the same color as yours - but I'd be ashamed to have a heart as white as yours!” Page 73

"Weak-willed creature ! Give me the daggers. Persons sleeping or dead are only like paintings. It is childish to fear a painted devil. If Duncan bleeds, I'll paint the guards' faces with the blood, because they must appear to be guilty of his murder.” Page 51

2. "Who could control himself that had a loving heart and in that heart the courages to show it?

*faints* Help me out here.” Page 63

"What will you do? Let's not get together with them. To show sorrow you don't feel is an act which comes easily to a hypocrite. I'm going to England. And I'm going to Ireland. By going separate ways, we shall both be safer. Wherever the two of us are, men's smile conceal daggers. The closer the relative, the nearer he is to spilling our blood.” Page 65

3. "Where is that knocking coming from? What is the matter with me that every noise terrifies me?” Page 51

"Who can be wise and astounded, and calm and furious, loyal and neutral, all at the same time? Nobody. My passion overwhelmed my reason. Here lay Duncan” Page 85

4. "If Duncan hadn't looked so much like my father as he slept, I would have murdered him myself.” Page 69

LA2 Handout #1 3/31

Part I:

1. Macbeth and Lady Macbeth are in love. Close to the end of Act I Lady Macbeth convinces Macbeth to go through with the murder of Duncan 

2.  Macbeth ultimately decides to go through with the murder because Lady Macbeth told him to. She called him a coward if he didn't kill Duncan. 

3. This far in the story Macbeth seems like a good person, and society enjoyed him. But his wife can show the ugly side of him when she tells him to kill Duncan.

4. Macbeth will get away with the murder of Duncan because no one will think it was him due to his loyalty to him. Also Lady Macbeth left bloody daggers with the security.

5. Macbeth should not kill him unless his reason was fitting. Like if he was a bad king and didn't help the people and Macbeth wanted to take control and help the people. He shouldn't kill him just because his wife told him to for power. 

Part II:

1. “We will speak further about it. Just look innocent a troubled face is always dangerous. Leave all the rest to me.” Page 31

“I beg you, be quiet! I dare do all that is fitting for a man to do; anyone who dares do more is not a man.” Page 37

2.  "When Duncan is asleep ---- which his hard day's journey will strongly invite him to ---- I will so overpower his two servants with wine and drunken toasts that memory, which should guard the brain, will become merely a wisp of smoke, and the vessel of reason (the brain) will only be an empty container. Asleep like swine, their alcohol-drowned senses numb as if in death ---- what can't we two do then to the unguarded Duncan? What blame can't we attach to his drunken servants, who will be held guilty of our great murder?" Page 39

"What monster was it then that made you share this scheme with me? When you dared to do it, then you were a man." Page 57

3.  "I'm settled on it then. All my faculties shall be devoted to this terrible deed. Let's go and pass the time as perfect hosts. We must conceal our false hearts behind false faces." Page 61

"We teach the art of bloodshed, then become the victims of our own lessons. This evenhanded justice makes us swallow our own poison." Page 55

4. "We will speak further about it. Just look innocent - a troubled face is always dangerous. Leave all the rest to me." Page 31

"Welcome him with your eye, your handshake, your conversation. Look like the innocent flower but be the serpent hidden underneath it. For Duncan's coming, preparations must be made, and you must put this night's important business under my direction.” Page 31 

Macbeth pre-reading work

Individual Work:

1. Disagree. A great man can be independent without a women at his side. My aunt's husband died a while back and she is really successful with no man at her side supporting her. 

2. Agree. I believe that Witches, demons, and evil spirits exist. When everyone dies not  

everyone is "laid to rest" some do not die peacefully, and you get angry spirits that want revenge. My mom went to her sisters house and put her keys on the counter and when they went back to get them to leave they were in the drawer and it was only those two home and they didn't touch them.

3. Agree/Disagree I guess it depends on what it is that you are doing. If you are poor and take food without paying to feed your family then that is okay, but if you just take something that you want and you have money then its wrong. My friend cheated on a test because the teacher did not teach them anything ad she wanted to pass the class so she cheated to get a good grade. 

4. Agree, it’s called karma. If you do something good or bad it will come back around to find you. It might take a while but eventually happens. My aunt's boyfriend left her when she was sick after they have been dating for a year, now he has lost all of his business partners and he hurt his leg.

5. Agree, its called greed. It also can be money because if people have money then they want more things then they need.  Like the book if you give a mouse a cookie then its gonna want a glass of milk. Same for people, if you give them something they are always gonna want something more something better.

6. Agree. If you feel that the person leading is doing a poor job then you have the ability to change it. You might not succeed but at least you tried. I turned in a paper and my teacher said I didn't so I went to talk to her. If i didn't talk to her and showed her that I turned in my work then I wouldn't have gotten a better grade. 

7. Agree. There are circumstances where killing someone is reasonable. If a person killed someone in selfdefense then they shouldn’t be punished for saving their own life from being killed.

8. Disagree. Being successful is very important, but if you have to miss important parts of your family’s lives, or you have to change who you are to get it, it's not worth it in the end if you are a different person. It depends on what your opinion is on being successful is. My friend has a job they wanted and they never have time to hang out and talk to their friends and family.

9. Disagree. Sometimes kings are appointed to be rulers because they kill to get there. They aren't chosen they use force and that is not being selected by god to lead. 

10. Disagree. You have to believe in that kind of stuff to let it affect you. Your horoscope can relate to anyone, not just you. It’s just a trick of the mind. If you believe that you are going to have a bad day because of something you read then your probably gonna have a bad day because thats all you have been focused on.

11. Agree/Disagree. I feel that they should have a chance to explain why they did what they did. If they have a good reason then they should only have little punishment. But then once those traitors are released then they can always betray us again and not get severely punished 

Partner Work Kaye Anne:

1. No evil is not ingrained in human nature. People are not born evil, they are born pure. They can be raised to become evil. Where you live does have an effect on what you become, the people you hang out with. We tend to follow in the footsteps of those we hang out with. So if you hang out with people that do evil things, eventually you’ll do the same. 

2. Our lives are done by free will not by fate. We can take control of our life and change it if we wanted to. Nobody’s life is set in stone. There is no ruler controlling our future, you control your own life and the choices you make. You make those choice by freewill, not by fate. 

3. Redemption is possible but it’s a long process. It’s difficult to forgive someone that has committed an unjustifiable act, but with time, it’s possible to learn to forgive them. Committing a terrible sin will equal to people looking down on you and losing their respect. Even though it might take a while to forgive someone for creating an act of evil, they still can be forgiven. 

4. We don’t think its possible to admire or respect someone that has done acts of genuine evil. However we wouldn’t look down upon them. They may not have been in the right sense of mind when they created the act of evil. If that person has changed for the good, they should not have to suffer for the mistakes they’ve made in the past. Everyone should get a second chance. But if they created an act of evil before they could easily do it again.  

5. People who use morally evil methods to acquire a goal will forever be tainted or polluted by the actions they used to achieve their goal. People tend to take the easy way out by cheating or doing evil acts to get what they want, but if you truly want to succeed then you need to take the harder path to get things done right. Working hard and achieving your goal will feel much more rewarding rather than taking shortcuts.

Dialectical Journal Practice #3

1. Theme: Survival; its something we all need to do in order to live, in the book “Night” by Elie Wiesel we learn that you can’t just let things happen to you and not do anything about it, because you’ll eventually lose hope and never get back to where you once were before.

Pg. 88: "No one wanted to give to give up now, just before the end, so near to the goal."

Pg. 88: ”We walked over pain-racked bodies. We throd on wounded faces. No cries. A few groans."

Pg. 92: “As we were not allowed to bend down, everyone took out his spoon and ate the accumulated snow off his neighbors back. A mouthful or bread and a spoonful of snow."     

Pg. 95: “One day when we had stopped, a workman took a piece of bread out of his bag and threw it into a wagon. There was a stampede. Dozens of starving men fought each other to the death for a few crumbs.”

Pg. 96: "His son searched him, took the bread, and began to devour it. He was not able to get very far. Two men had seen and hurled themselves upon him. Others joined in. When they withdrew, next to me were two corpses, side by side, the father and the son."

Pg. 108: "We had been tormented with hunger. We had eaten nothing for six days, expect a bit of grass or some potato peelings found near the kitchen."

2. Character: Sometimes it’s okay to help others in need when it comes down to them surviving or not, Elie shows us that in the book “Night” when he has to take care of his dad and its making life harder on him. 

Pg. 82: "He was suddenly seized with cramp in the stomach. "I've got stomach," he whispered to me. He could not go on. He had to stop for a moment. I begged him: "wait a bit, Zalman. We shall all be stopping soon. We're not going to run like this till the end of the world" But as he ran he began to undo his buttons, crying: "I can't go on any longer. My stomach's bursting..." "Make and effort, Zalman... try..."

Pg. 85: "Come on, father, let's go back to the shed..." He did not answer. He was not looking at the dead. "Come on, father, it's better over there. We can lie down a bit, one after the other. I"ll watch over you, and then you can watch over me. We won't let each other fall asleep. We''ll look after each other"

Pg. 94: "No!"I cried. "He isn't dead! Not yet!" I set to work to slap him as hard as I could. After a moment my father's eyelids moved slightly over his glazed eyes. He was breathing weakly."

Pg. 99: "Father," I said. "Only another moment more. Soon we can lie down-in a bed. You can rest..."

Pg. 100: "Father!" I screamed. "Father! Get up from here! Immediately! You're killing yourself..." I seized him by the arm. He continued to groan. "Don't shout, son... take pity on your old father... Leave me to rest here... Just for a bit, I'm so tired... at the end of my strength"

Pg. 101: "Father! Ive been looking for you for so long... Where were you? Did you sleep?... How do you feel?"

Dialectical Journal Practice #2

1.  Critical Stance: Wiesel chronicles the gradual dehumanization of the prisoners. 

a. First, define 'Dehumanization'

Dehumanization is the psychological process of demonizing the enemy, making them seem less than human and hence not worthy of humane treatment. This can lead to increased violence, human rights violations, war crimes, and genocide.

b. Then, describe the behavior of the various prisoners that shows their gradual transformation from their normal behavior as human beings.

When they first came to the camp they still believed in god, that he was testing them. But the longer they were in the camp some of them lost faith in him, while others still believed in god. They started to lose faith and did inhumane things to survive.

c. Last, describe the behavior of Eliezer, the changes that he notices and his response to them. 

Eliezer 

Eliezer began to lose faith. He was upset and frustrated that God was letting innocent Jews norm in the fire. Eliezer didn’t do anything to stop the guards from beating his father and other prisoners, he just stood there and watched. 

2. Dialectical Journal Entries

Find quotations for each of the comments you have made in question #1

Pg. 52 I had watched the whole seen without moving. I kept quiet. In fact I was thinking of how to get father away so that I would not be hit myself. What is more, any anger I felt at that moment was directed, not against the Kapo, but against my father. I was angry with him, for not knowing how to avoid idea's outbreak. That is what concentration camp life had made of me.

Pg. 59 The thousands who had died daily at Auschwitz and at Birkenau in the crematory ovens no longer troubled me. But the one, leaning against his gallows---he overwhelmed me. "Do you think this ceremony'll be over son? I'm hungry . . . ." whispered Juliek." 

Pg. 61 The three victims mounted together onto the chairs. The three necks were placed at the same moment within the nooses. "Long live liberty!" cried the two adults. But the child was silent. "Where is God? Where is He?" someone behind me asked."

Pg. 66 "You're lucky to have been brought here so late. This camp is paradise today, compared with what it was like two years ago. Buna was a real hell then. There was no water, no blankets, less soup and bread. At night we slept almost naked, and it was below thirty degrees. The corpses were collected in hundreds every day. The work was hard. Today this is a little paradise. The Kapos had orders to kill a certain number of prisoners every day. And every week selection. A merciless selection....Yes, you're lucky."

Pg. 77 My neighbor, the faceless one, said: "Don't let yourself be fooled with illusions. Hitler has made it very clear that he will annihilate all the Jews before the clock strikes twelve, before they can hear the last stroke." I burst out: "What does it matter to you? So we have to regard Hitler as a prophet?" His glazed, faded eyes looked at me. At last he said in weary voice: "I've got more faith in Hitler than in anyone else. He's the only one who's kept his promises, all his promises, to the Jewish people."

Group Reader Response

1.  Discuss how Wiesel sets up the contrast between the panic of the Jews with each new decree or action of the government and their attempts to reassure themselves and to adjust to each new infringement on their freedom.

Wiesel set up the contrast of panic with the Jews differently from one another. He made some of them panic and so of them calm. He made one women in the bus that was taking them to the camp panic seeing fire. The rest of the people on the bus would beat her to make her stop, but what she saw was correct, she saw people getting burned at the camp they were going to. Others stayed calm and believed that god was testing their strengths seeing how far they could make it. There were many different reactions when the Jewish people were getting taken away from their families.

2.  Dialectical Journal Entries. Find five direct quotations from the book that you feel is important to the story and provide each with your own commentary.

Page 4 Paragraph 4: ”Without passion without haste they slaughtered their prisoners. Each one had to go up to the hole and present their neck. Babies were thrown up in the air and the machine gunners used them as targets."

Comment: This is important because its Moshe the Beadle telling the story of what happened to his people but no one believed him. 

Page 8 middle of page: The race towards death had begun. The first step: Jews would not be allowed to leave their house for three days-on pain of death.

Comment: I used this quote because we need to know the steps of how the Germans started to change how Jewish people lived, and how they are taking control over their neighbor hoods

Page 21 paragraph  1: Lying down was out of the question, and we were only able to sit by deciding to take turns. There was very little air. The lucky ones who happened to be near a window could see the blossoming countryside roll by. 

Comment: This quote is important because it showed how the Jewish people were treated with very harsh living conditions.

Page 22 Paragraph 2: "There are 80 of you on this wagon," added the German officer. "If anyone is missing, you'll all be shot, like dogs..."

Comment: The Germans had no mercy for the Jewish people. They didn’t care who they killed, they wanted the whole population of Jewish people to die. 

Page 23-24 Paragraph 13: "Look at the fire! Flames flames everywhere".... Once more the young men tied her up and gagged her. They even struck her. People encouraged them: "Make her be quiet! She's mad! She's not the only one. She can keep her mouth shut....."

Comment: This quote showed how the people on the van ride to the camp acted when the women was panicking when she say fire. They didn’t believe her so they beat her because they were afraid themselves and she was making it worse for them to stay calm.

Page 36 paragraph 3: "Remember this," he went on. "Remember it forever. Engrave it into your minds. You are at Auschwitz. And Auschwitz is not a convalescent home. It's a concentration camp. Here, you have got to work. If not, you will go straight to the furnace. To the crematory. Work or the crematory- the choice is in your hands."

Comment: This quote shows how the Jewish people had no freedom, the Germans didn’t care who you were, if you didn’t work you would be burned alive. The people at the camp were treated like prisoners of was when they did nothing wring but be Jewish. 

Holocaust

The word “Holocaust,” comes from the Greek words “holos” which means whole, and the word  “kaustos” which means burned, was historically used to describe a sacrificial offering burned on an altar. Ever since 1945, the word holocaust has taken on a new meaning. The holocaust is now known as the mass murder of 6 million European Jews as well as members of some other persecuted groups, such as Gypsies and homosexuals, having killed 11 million people total. The Nazis thought Jews were racially superior and they were a threat towards the Germans. 

During the holocaust many innocent citizens died throughout this time.  Jewish people  were not the only ones targeted but many others were as well.  The Nazi army targeted people such as Gypsies, Homosexuals, Jehovah’s witnesses, and the disabled for persecution.  Whoever tried to resist the Nazi will also be forced to labor or even murder. “By 1945, the Germans and their collaborators  killed nearly two out of every three European Jews as part of the Final Solution.” Millions of Jewish people were killed because the Germans felt that they were a threat. During the holocaust about 11 million people died and six million of those people were jews. “Between two and three million Soviet prisoners of war were murdered or died of starvation, disease, neglect, or maltreatment.” These inhumane acts had scared so many people. So many family members were lost to the holocaust. The holocaust was such a bad time for Jewish people and many others, this deadly time period will never be forgotten.

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Jessie and Kaye Anne

Boston Marathon Bombings 

http://www.history.com/topics/boston-marathon-bombings 

The Boston Marathon Bombing occurred April 15, 2013. The marathon is an annual marathon in Boston that has been celebrated for decades. But, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev and Tamerlan Tsarnaev changed the course of history by setting off a bomb during this event. During the afternoon of the marathon, there were still 5,000+ runners in the marathon when pressure-cooker bombs–packed with shrapnel and other materials and hidden in backpacks that were placed on the ground amidst crowds of marathon-watchers–exploded within seconds of each other near the finish line along Boylston Street. Unfortunately, three did not make it out alive while 260 people were severely injured. It took a couple days to unravel who was behind the terroristic attack; Tamerlan Tsarnaey died during the law enforcement shootout while Dzhokhar Tsarnaev is being held for trial. Yes, the bombing was tragic but the suspects of the crime were not making sense. People that knew the perpetrator personally were claiming opposite characteristics that an average mindset a criminal would have. The two brothers seemed to live a good and stable life, there were first degree past criminal records, and seemed like any average human beings. It’s wary to know that there was no rational reasoning behind the bombing. Terrorist attacks are no joking matter and the lives taken away from this action can never be resurrected.  

Sandy Hook Elementary Shooting 

http://www.cnn.com/interactive/2012/12/us/sandy-hook-timeline/   

Twenty-six people were shot and killed at Sandy Hook Elementary in Newtown Connecticut on December 14. 20 students ages 6 to 7 were killed and so were six adults. Investigators believe Adam Lanza, the shooter who is 20 years old, killed his mother, Nancy Lanza before he went to the school. When he arrived to school, classes were underway and around 700 students were present. The doors to the school were locked when the gunman arrived, but he shot his way into the school. School psychologist Mary Sherlach and vice principal Natalie Hammond went out to investigate when they heard a loud pop in the hallway. Only Hammond returned from the hallway alive and she was wounded. Lanza then moved to a classroom and shot all 14 students. He then moved to a classroom of 1st graders and killed the teacher and six of the students.  Adam Lanza took his own life, police said. He took out a handgun and shot himself in a classroom as law enforcement officers approached. 

Allusion Graphic Final

Allusion Poem Final

Distracted by her curiosity and fascination she leaves home and follows the clock

Not watching where her path takes her she falls

Falling for a while she doesn’t know where she is

Spinning and crashing to the ground

She gets up and turns around 

Dusting herself off she looks ahead and sees the door

Time’s ticking down

tick tock, tick tock the watch goes

This is her time to breakthrough 

Breaking down the doors

She runs 

Never looking back, she runs to this new strange world

Curiosity flowing through her, she keeps going only looking forward

In a hurry to get out she picks up the pace

Sticking to the shadows, she keeps to her own

Looking down at her surroundings she bumps into something

I must be losing my mind she thinks because she ran into a white rabbit and it’s talking

It gets up running away saying I'm late, I'm late I'm late!

She follows it as it runs back into the darkness

It leads her to a mad hatters tea party where she is now a guest 

She learns that they are stuck in time just like herself

Leaving the party to continue on her journey to get out

Stumbling upon a garden, not just any garden but the Queens garden

Gaining confidence she steps out of the shadows and meet the King and Queen

We play a game of croquet with live flamingos as mallets and hedgehogs as balls

Off with his head! the queen shouts at her guards being mad at a subject

Trying to get out of the chaos she turns and runs

She keeps running never looking back and thats when she falls, down a hole again

When she gets up and looks up, she sees something familiar

Something she has been trying to get back to, her house

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Allusion Poem

Distracted by her curiosity and fascination she leaves home and follows the clock

Not watching where her path takes her she falls

Falling for a while she doesn’t know where she am

Spinning and crashing to the ground

She gets up and turns around 

Dusting herself off she looks ahead and see doors

Time’s ticking down

tick tock, tick tock the watch goes

This is her time to breakthrough 

Breaking down the doors

She runs not falling down

Never looking back, she runs to this new strange world

Curiosity flowing through her, she keeps walking only looking forward

In a hurry to get out she picks up the pace

Sticking to the shadows, I keep to my own

Looking down at her surroundings she bumps into something

I must be losing my mind she thinks because she ran into a white rabbit and it’s talking

It gets up running away saying I'm late, I'm late I'm late!

She follows it as it runs back into the darkness

It leads her to a mad hatters tea party where she is now a guest 

She learns that they are stuck in time just like herself

Leaving the party to continue on her journey to get out

Stumbling upon a garden, not just any garden but it’s the Queens garden

Gaining confidence she steps out of the shadows and meet the King and Queen

We play a game of croquet with live flamingos as mallets and hedgehogs as balls

Off with his head! the queen shouts at her guards being mad at a subject

Trying to get out of the chaos she turns and runs

She keeps running never looking back and thats when she falls, down a hole again

When she gets up and look up, she sees something familiar

Her house

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