Sunday, February 6, 2011

slaughterhouse 5

Please list 10 ways you can improve your essay scores

1. better quotes                      6. focus
2  better thiesis                       7 better word choice
3. read thouroughly                 8. better pie paragraph
4. pay attention to detail          9. understand main point
5. put more rime in                  10. better topic




Please write any 15 thoughts about the book Slaughterhouse-5.  For each thought, please refer to a specific part of the book that generated this thought (for instance, “It was funny” receives no credit; “It was funny when he described the Tralfamadorians” receives full credit).

1. It was funny when billy got kicked off the radio station for talking about the aliens

2. It is intresting that the book is called slaughterhouse-5 when it barley has anything to do with the story

3. It weird when the author said billy was unstuck in time because it doesn't make any sense

4. it was suprising that aliens and only people have "free will"

5.It was sad when the americans treated the british people bad when they were being so nice

6.It was crazy how many near death expeirneces billy had

7. It was amazing that the traughamidorians could see a 4th dimension

8. It was frustrating how no event was described very well

9. it was unique how billy is the only one that could see these events




10.  it is also funny how "zillion" is apparently a made up number but the Tralfamadorians live over a zillion lightyears away from earth




11. I think that it makes you think about death and how real it really is


12. I really like how it talks about scenes of world war II .


13. I think it is intrigueing how tralfamadorians have five sexes when humans only have two


14. I think it is suspenseful when it talks about billy's friend's execution


15. the book makes you wondre what sort of afterlife there is, if there even is one


State 5 possible themes for the book
1. Time is what you make of it.

2. Beleive in what you want and dont let anyone tell you different.

3. Death is not the end of life.

4. War can be a brutal place/expeirience

5. More is possible than we know.


Write a conversation between yourself and Billy Pilgrim in which he tries to teach you a lesson based on his own experiences.  You must explain IN DEPTH at least 3 specific events and details from the book in order to receive full credit.  This conversation should go on as long as it takes to demonstrate YOUR UNDERSTANDING of Billy’s experiences.
EXAMPLE:
Billy: Hello, Mr. Cheng
Mr. Cheng: Hi Billy
Billy: Have you heard about Tralfamadore?
Mr. Cheng: No, what’s that?
Billy: It’s a planet where they... etc.




C: hey
B: hey. do you know what traughamidor is?
C: no? what is it?
B: its an amazing place that i have time traveled too.
C: you cant time travel
B: you wouldnt know if i can
C: ok.....
B: they are very peaceful beings
C: i wish we were
B: they have war like us but they choose to ignore bad moments and things like that.
C: wow we should do the same as them, that would make us peaceful too
B: yes. yes it would.