Sunday, February 6, 2011

slaughterhouse 5 blogger assignment

Please list 10 ways you can improve your essay scores

1. More time                     6. Focus better
2  analyze info better          7.have more recourses
3. better quotes                  8.more thought
4. read the book                9.More in depth
5. More efficient                10.more instruction


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 crazy when he said that he time traveled

2. It was terrible when he described how valencia died

3. It was sad when he described how dresden was bombed
4. its hard to read when his daughter thinks that her dad is crazy when he describes the tralfamadorians to his daughter

5. It was cool how the author arranged this book. he gives up what happens in the book basically in the first chapter

6.It was o so funny when the tralfamadorians put billy in a cage

7.I thought it was mind blowing how billy was only gone on earth for a microsecond but he was stuck with the tralfamadorians for a long time

8.It was interesting how the tralfamadorians were green

9.It was interesting on how the tralfamadorians thought about death

10.I thought it was awesome how the tralfamadorians did not belive in free will but humans do

11.So it goes was amazing to me because thats how simple death was to the tralfamdorians

12.It was intriging on how the tralfamadorians could see in the 4th dimension

13.It was awesome how many near death experiences billy had

14.It was cool how the book was placed in the time of ww2

15.it was cool how the main charcter was really never described all that much


State 5 possible themes for the book Slaughterhouse-5.
1.so it goes means Death is just a part in your life

2.Time is a virtue

3.afterlife

4. Free will is a privelage

5.Life is what we make it


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.
B. Hey
W sup
BHave you heard of the 4th dimension?
WNaaahh, Was dat
BIts a dimension in which you see in length width height and time
Wwooh so you life in a timeline and a whole thought
BYes that is right
Wthats just crazy
Byea you know what else is crazy i went on another planet with tralfamadores
Wtralfamadores?
B they are the life form their
W your insane man
B have you heard of the dresden bombings
W nope
B i was their when it happened it was insane
WHow many people died
B 150,00
W thats just war ma man
B yea its terrible
W okay good talk
B peace