Class List

- No matter how hard life gets, just keep going.
- The human race is capable of horrors beyond belief.
- Live your life to the fullest, because you never know what will happen next.
-Humans are capable of inhuman acts.
-Many possessions can be removed from us, but relationships are lasting.
-You should'nt judge people from their religion or where they come from, because it will lead to aweful things.
-The human body can only take so much stress.
-Don't hate; it's okay to dislike. Hate only leads to things everyone is going to regret.
-Never complain about your life. Someone always has it worse than you.
- Through rough times, you rely on relationships to get you through.
-Life is short; cherish it.
-Anything is possible.
-Keep your faith and hold strong even when it seems impossible.
-Those that look only to the past and present are certain to miss the future.
- Never give up on life because life doesn't give up on you

#2 If Elie were to give advice to the St. Thomas More community on how to live your life today, what do you think he would say?

If Elie were to come to Thomas more I think that he would tell us to treat others with respect. He would tell us to not hate or take you anger out on anyone. He would share with us some of his stories and tell us to never forget. He will tell us not to let it happen again and speak up when someone is doing something unjust.

#1 What is one things you have learned after reading this novel? What messages has Elie communicated to you?

When life gets hard, just keep going. Elie struggled alot while in the camps, including the struggle of helping his father survive. It was hard for him, but he held up strong and stuck to his faith and values.

What would you do?

1. I would kill the guy. He wants to die anyway, and I myself along with everyone else in the camp would probably prefer not to die.
2. One dying is better than the both of them. I would save one over killing both, but if the mother would become suicidal after the death of her child, kill the both of them.
3. No, he shouldnt leave his son. That's his child. He needs to stay with him & protect him. If the child will die anyway, then he should leave him. But, if he could live if under the protection of his father, then his father needs to stay with him.

Class list chapter 3

Images:

• Smelled like death
• Crossroads in the center of the camp-selection processes
• Dr. Mengele
• SS officers every few yards
• Babies were burned in a ditch.
• Second barracks were two stories and cement.
• Sign: "Work makes you free"
• Smoke from the crematoriums

Dehumanization:

• Forced to take clothes off.
• Beaten
• Branded number on their arms.
• Transferred in cattle cars.
• Stuffed in barracks
• Shaving hair and taking valuables
• Unfit clothes to wear
• Lack of food

Stein of Antwerp:

• Part of Elie's family.
• Came wondering where family was.
• Elie lies about where his family is so he could have the will to live because his family knows he is alive.
• Stein dissapeared after he was given the real news.

Night: Darkness blanketing his life.

Dehumanization

• The segregated the men and women, and the young and old.
• They made them ttake off their clothes.
• Shaved all their hair.
• They would beat them early in the mornings.
• They gave them unfitting clothes to wear.

Significance of Mrs. Schacter class list

• Reveals madness of the incident.
• Foreshadows the future.
• Hate breeds more hate.
• Fire symbolizing the cremation of Jews.
• Burning of religion, culture, and memories.
• Symbolizes hate.
• Symbolizing Hell.
• Chaos
• Friction
• Conflicts

Significance of woman who sees flames

The significance of the woman who saw the flames, Mrs. Schacter, was that it shows how the conditions drove people mad and how bad things were, and the flames foreshadow what's going to happen to them.

Class List of Foreshadowing

• Foreign Jews were removed from Sighet.
• Dirty smoke when leaving the train station on the cattle car.
• Wearing the Star of David.
• Moishe tells his story and no one believes him; Jews were being slaughtered, were taken out to forests, forced to dig holes where they were shot and burried. 
• "What do you expect? That's war."
• Ghetto-Jews were enclosed.
• Transported into cattle cars.

Foreshadowing in "Night"

• 1:All foreign Jews were expelled from Sighet.
• 2:Moishe the beatle was taken away by the Gestapo.
• 3: Facist party had seized power.

Holocaust

1. The holocaust was the killing of 6 million jews, 5 million others, and 11 million individuals.
2. The 'final solution' plan was to exterminate all jewish people.
3. jewish ghettos were city like places where the germans forced jewish people to live in terrible conditions.
4. the ghettos were over populated all jews had to wear badges had to perform forced labor and lived under the rules of the nazis.
5. there were death camps and work camps all were told to be resettling when taken to the camps. in reality, theyd just be killed.
6. it was created to incinerate enemies of the german and nazis, to have a supply of forced laborers, and to eliminate groups of the populations whos death was determined by nazis.
7. 440,000 jews from hungary were deported 426,000 of them to auschwitz, 320,000 were sent straight to the gas chambers. 1.1 million jews were deported to auschwitz, and 200,000 others were sent to auschwitz.
8. jewa who were sent to monowitz were more likely to survive because they were considered too valuable to be sent to gas chambers because they were needed to work. The factory produced synthetic rubber called buna.
9. The holocaust was the extermintation of a large group of the included jews, gypsies, homosexuals, and the mentally disabled. The ghettos were very cramped and gross, all jews who lived there were controlled by the nazi officer and were restricted from doing alot of things. Concentration camps were rat infested, uncleanly, even more cramped, and scary. You never knew when you'd be killed or how long you'd live. You werent allowed much food either. 

What do I know about the Holocaust?

I know:

• It was the genocide of many jews, gypsies, and homosexuals.
• All were sent to concentrations camps where they would be put to work till they couldnt work anymore, then theyd be killed.
• The living conditions in the concentration camps were terrible; very small, crammed with 100s of people, dirty, rat infested, and disease prone.
• Adolf Hitler lead the holocaust.
• Joseph Mengele was a doctor who conducted cruel experiments on Jews, trying to make them blonde haired and blue eyed.

We know:

• US troops found the 1st concentration camps in 1944
• Hitler hated the Jews.
• Hitler wanted an Aryan race (blonde hair blue eyes)
• Scientific exeriments were performed.
• crying meant you were mentally unstable and would be killed
• there were death camps and death camps.
• mass killings in gas chambers.
• holocaust mainly took place in germany poland and austria.
• 6million jews died, 11 million people in total.

9 sentence paragraph

In Shirley Jackson's short story, "The Lottery", irony is illustrated through the community event of the lottery. Initially, the reader begins to assume the lottery is an event where somrthing is won, but as the story progresses, one realizes that the lottery is a death sentence. The "happy" setting Shirley writes of makes the reader believe the story is happy. "The morning of June 27th was clear and sunny, with the fresh warmth of a full summer day; the flowers were blossoming profusely and the grass was richly green." Summer is usually a symbol of life, freedom and happiness, which we're tricked to believe will be shown in this story. When we read on, we see that something bad will come out of the lottery. We find out at the end that the lottery being won means being stoned to death and ones family turns on them. "The children had stones already. And someone gave little Davy Hutchinson a few pebbles." Davy, being her own flesh and blood shouldn't be throwing stones. Nor should the rest of her family.

The Lottery

Author: Shirley Jackson
What is justice?
When people get what they deserve.
List traditions you have within your family.
• Christmas at Grandmas
• Eating turkey on Thanksgiving
Describe the community/town in this short story.
The town was a very little town and seemed to be “old fashioned”. Everyone in the town was segregated.
What happened to Mrs. Hutchinson? Why?
Mrs. Hutchinson was stoned to death because she won the lottery. There was no reason given to why this happend. Mrs. Hutchinson comes to the ralization that it's not fair, because at last, she was being the one stoned.
Questions:Why did they do the lottery each year?
Who started the tradition?
Why do they think its okay to do that?
Quote:
“The children had stones already. And someone gave little Davey Hutchinson a few pebbles.” - stand up for your family... dont throw rocks at them!

By the waters of Babylon

Author: Stephen Vincent Benet
Do you believe we process information to fast? What is your view on technological advancements?
I don’t think we process information to fast maybe we apply the information to fast and dont realize what we're doing. I think it makes life easier, but because of that, we become lazy and mess stuff up.
Plot: Walked out of sight of the village and waited for a sign from the Gods on a rock, Went east following a white fawn, Through the forest and past the forest people, Walked the god roads and came to the banks of the great river, crossed the river to the Place of the Gods, Went north in the Place of the Gods, went into the great temple in the middle of the city, north toward dead houses, went inside a dead house, entered a dead room, slept in front of the fire, When back to his home in the hills
Questions:What year is this?
where is this?
Who were the gods?
why are these people so un-advanced?
Quote:I said, “Father, they were men! I have been in the Place of the Gods and seen it! Now slay me, if it is the law- but still I know they were men.”

There will come soft rains

Author: Ray Bradbury
What will the world look like in the Year 2026? I think everything will look almost exactly the same as now, but with more modern buildings and maybe cooler computers.
Plot:
Time of Day and What is happening in the story?
7:00 am Time to get up
7:09 Breakfast time
8:01 Time to go to school and work
9:15 Time to clean
10:00 The sun came out and the house was alone in a city of ash
10:15 Garden sprinklers went off showing the silhouettes in paint of people on the sides of the burnt house
12:00 pm Mangled dog walked into the house and died
2:00 Mice picked up decay
2:15 Dog was gone
2:35 Bridge tables unfolded and drinks were made
4:30 Nursery walls glowed with pictures and sounds
5:00 Bath was filled with hot water
6:00 – 8:00 Dinner was made and cleaned up
9:00 Beds were warmed
9:05 Poem was randomly selected and read
Questions
where are all the people?
why was the city "glowing"?
is the story based off the poem?

Harrison Bergeron

By: Kurt Vonnegut

 

What is Equality?

Equality is no separation between anything. Everyone is equal and no one is better than the other.

Who is Harrison Bergeron?

Harrison Bergeron is a guy in the story who had many handicaps because he was really smart and really strong. he was taken away because the government thought he was plotting to overthrow them.

How dose Harrison challenge the governments handicap program?

He went to a television station, took off his handicaps, and claimed himself as emperor. He told everyone to take their handicaps off, which upset the government.

Questions:

What made this “equality” happen?

Why was their version of equality making everyone stupid & weak?

Quotes:

Contents of the Dead Man's Pocket

author: Jack Finney
date: October 8th, 2010

Pre-reading: top 5 priorities:
family, homework, religion, friends, cleaning.

Plot/reaction: Tom's wife was going out for the night to a movie. He stays in so he can finish some paperwork. An important paper of his flies out the window. He decides that the paper is too important to let go of and climbs out on the ledge to retrieve it. While he's put there, the window shuts on him. He tries numerous times to get help by starting paper on fire and letting it drop and screaming for help. He almost fell of the ledge a few times. He finally punches through the window, climbs in, and goes out to find his wife.

Questions:

• What is Tom typing? 
• Why didn't Tom go with his wife?  
• Why was the yellow paper so important?
• Why didn't Tom prop the window open with something?

Quotes:

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"There Will Come Soft Rains" quotation sandwich

Claim: The convenience of technology can be helpful to humans.

Quote: "In the kitchen the breakfast stove gave a hissing sigh and ejected from its warm interior eight pieces of perfectly brown toast, eight eggs sunnyside up, sixteen slices of bacon, two coffees, and two glasses of milk."

Commentary: The kitchen cooking a meal itself is one out of the many examples showing the convenience of technology. By the kitchen cooking by itself, it would give humans more time to prepare themselves for the day.

Quotation Sandwich

Claim: The society Harrison Bergeron lives in is not at all equal.

Quote: "It was then that Diana Moon Glampers, the Handicapper General, came into the studio with a double-barreled ten-gauge shotgun."

Commentary: The society isn't as equal as the people think it to be. We see in the story that there are people who have more power than others, such as Diana Moon Glampers. Diana comes in with a shotgun and shoots two people, and there are other people in the story with no rights to be individual or have any form of power or pride like George, who is forced to wear birdshot to restrain his strengths and a radio in his ear to keep him from thinking and being more intelligent than others.

Imagery

"Then, from the short hallway at his back, he heard the muffled clang of wire coat hangers in the bedroom closet."

"But as usual the window didnt budge, and he had to lower his hands and then shoot them hard upward to jolt the window open a few inches"

exposition:
it took place in the 1970's in New York.
Tom's wife leaves the house to to go to a movie and he stays home to work on a paper.

rising action:
an important paper on his desk flew out the window
he goes onto the ledge to retrieve his paper.

climax:
the window shuts on him
he's stuck outside

falling action:
He punches the window and it falls out again

resolution:
he leaves his works behind to go out with his wife.

1st person point of view

narrator who refers to him-/herself as “I.” Often, a first-person narrator is limited to his or her own experiences and thoughts who must assume the feelings, thoughts, or reactions of other characters.
Bella from Twilight Is a 1st person narrator.

I was surprised.

AS we rushed down the hill, my heart started beating to a rhythm I hadn't felt before. Something inside my head was screaming with joy. I could feel the adrenaline coursing through my veins. I couldn't think straight at the time. My mind was racing. Nothing had ever shocked me so much. Just as I thought the ride was slowing down, we whipped around the corner, jerking my head side to side. My eyes began to water uncontrollably. When would this ride end?

The room was a mess.

As I opened the door, I was thrown back by the wafting stench of rotting pizza and dirty gym clothes. There were chip bags and candy wrappers so old; I could have sworn they had evolved into another life form! There was homework burried under yards of dust and dirt, video games that looked as if they were made when dinosaurs roamed the earth, and magazines older than my great-grandmother. As I sat outside the room, staring in horror, I thought to myself, I feel bad for the creatures are living in this disaster!

10 events in my life (14, actually)

3 years old-sitting in my minnie mouse bed puking corn.
3 years old-sitting in my backyard pulling the dandelions out
3 years old-my 1st day of k-4
4 years old-eating letter cookies and plums for snacktime
4 years old-found centipede in the fake glass of milk in our play-kitchen.
6 years old-my 1st grade teacher threatening to cut my fingers off.
8 years old-my bowling birthday party
8 years old-me & brittany switching places in class
8 years old-zoo trip with the class.
9 years old-Nick Packer proposes to me.
10 years old-our class throws a wedding for a pretzel and a squirrel.
12 years old-first school dance with Danielle and Sydney
12 years old-my first dance with a boy/1st boyfriend
13 years old-me & shannon harrass roommate in D.C.
14 years old- 1st day of high school.

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If I had 6 monthes to live.

Surprisingly, at the age of 14 I had already made a "bucket list" otherwise known as a list of things to do before you die. Sitting here now, freshly 15, this is an easy subject for me. Since I've already made a list of things I want to accomplish, I would go all out in my last 6 monthes trying to achieve my goals. I would like to go sky diving, first of all. I want to know what it feels like to "fly" in a sense. I also want to hold a human eyeball. A friend of mine told me that's the one thing she wanted to do, and it made me think, "hey, that DOES sound awesome!". I would like to travel to Canada, since I have a great love for Canadians. I want to ride a mechanical bull, most of all! I don't know why, but, that has always seemed so fun to me! Skuba diving would be the last thing on my list. I want to swim with the fish, and feel the danger of swimming next to a shark. The last few moments, I would want to spend with my family.

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