*OBJECTIVE: Apply post-reading strategies to comprehend, interpret, analyze, and evaluate text
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Travis Julien Becker 7th hour September 3rd 2010
Scribe notes should typically begin at the start of 7th hour. Instead, this time it started in 6th. Towards the end, I was starting to feel nervous about the fact that i was up to bat today. I didn't think I would have much to write about. Turns out, I did have something after all. Well, today I walked in talking to a friend about classes we had earlier today. I sat down got out a sheet of paper and started writing. The 1 minute bell rang in the usual annoying chime. I think it's pointless as do others. At that moment people started filing in as if they were late for their flight at the airport. Real quick, Mr. Becker told everyone to get out a half sheet of paper so we could take the quiz. We did so and went on with the quiz. It was easy. Others beside me seemed to agree when we were going over the answers. The questions seemed like they'd belong in a first grade reading assignment. Since today was a discussion day for the book, we started out like any other discussion. Many hands went up and many questions and comments were answered. Meanwhile, whenever someone made a comment about the book, Mr. Becker's head was bobbing up and down like a bobble head acknowledging everyones' comments. Like usual, Mr. Becker started reading a excerpt from the book that he said was important to bring to our attention. We then went on to ask more questions and make more comments. I couldn't exactly remember what was asked by Mr. Becker, but it made the whole class burst into laughter when Kevin gave us his hilarious comment. A little later, Justin asked Mr. Becker a question apparently why everyone in the Party drank gin. "Are they Russian?", I believe the question was. Mr. Becker said that if they were Russian it would have to be called "Victory Vodka." Once again, the class burst into laughter. It seemed that today wasn't that bad. Usually everyone says it feels like prison. I can agree with that. But today, it seemed different. A few laughs here and there made it somewhat bearable. Towards the end of class, I looked to the clock to see how much time we had left. There wasn't much more interesting that appeared to go on. I looked at the clock, 20 minutes left. I looked again. 15 minutes. It seemed like the clock couldn't get any slower. A little while later, that bell that would free us was just 5 minutes away. Finally, after an aggravating 5 minutes, the bell rang. Freedom was finally here! I left the classroom with the feeling of relief that we wouldn't have to return for another three days.
Ian V. 3rd Hour "We're taking a test," qouth Mr. Becker as he entered the classroom. It seems as though some students haven't been keeping up with their reading, so we answered five questions that pertained to the recently assigned reading section. Luckily, I read this section, and passed with ease. Next, we started our novel discussion. About fifteen minutes into our discussion, I realized that it was my day to be the class scribe. "Crap," I muttered to myself as I frantically found a notebook and began jotting down things I remembered. We mainly discussed Julia, the weird woman with dark hair who followed Winston around. She handed Winston an interesting note. A note that resembles something elementary to show the stunt in emotional growth that occurs in the poeple of 1984. "I love you" it said. So, Winston and Julia form a secret relationship that progresses very quickly. This being the main point in the section, we discussed this for a majority of the time. We decided that is was an act of passion and lust; not of love. We also make the realization that "technically", Winston is cheating on his wife, whom we've not seen or heard from thus far. The act of passion was also described as a rebellious act towards the government. We now see that there is another person who sees Big Brother as being evil. Next, we realized that writing down page numbers of important qoutes or paragraphs will drastically reduce awkward pauses of page searching. We discuss the significance of the chane in tone and vocabulary that Orwell uses before and after Julia comes into the picture. Toward the end of class, I made a statement in which I abbreviated a foul word, and was then informed that that was frowned upon. Minutes before the bell rang, an obscure accusation that Julia is a man was shouted, and we ended our class with a laugh. A good way to end it, indeed.
Michael K., 1st Hour On the morning of September 3rd 2010 we walk into class ready to start the day (or get it over with). First we took a short quiz on the last section we read to see if we actually read the section. After that we discussed the 4th section of the book to learn about the relationship Winston and Julia had, at first Winston wanted to kill her now he sees that she’s not a threat and is actually pretty nice. So Winston and Julia went to London to escape Big Brothers eyes. And now I think that they just might fall in love, who knows we’ll just have to keep reading. A lot of good question were asked on that day. As things in the book finally start to make sense we start to realize why they live in such a fearful town, and how people live out their lives. This is not the life for these people to be watched over all the time. Finally we just read, I predict in the future we might see a rebellion against Big Brother. Then we will see Winston and Julia’s relationship evolve as we progress in the book, as they work together to free their people. Will we see Big Brother fall? We will just have to keep reading.
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Travis Julien
Becker 7th hour
September 3rd 2010
Scribe notes should typically begin at the start of 7th hour. Instead, this time it started in 6th. Towards the end, I was starting to feel nervous about the fact that i was up to bat today. I didn't think I would have much to write about. Turns out, I did have something after all. Well, today I walked in talking to a friend about classes we had earlier today. I sat down got out a sheet of paper and started writing. The 1 minute bell rang in the usual annoying chime. I think it's pointless as do others. At that moment people started filing in as if they were late for their flight at the airport. Real quick, Mr. Becker told everyone to get out a half sheet of paper so we could take the quiz. We did so and went on with the quiz. It was easy. Others beside me seemed to agree when we were going over the answers. The questions seemed like they'd belong in a first grade reading assignment. Since today was a discussion day for the book, we started out like any other discussion. Many hands went up and many questions and comments were answered. Meanwhile, whenever someone made a comment about the book, Mr. Becker's head was bobbing up and down like a bobble head acknowledging everyones' comments. Like usual, Mr. Becker started reading a excerpt from the book that he said was important to bring to our attention. We then went on to ask more questions and make more comments. I couldn't exactly remember what was asked by Mr. Becker, but it made the whole class burst into laughter when Kevin gave us his hilarious comment. A little later, Justin asked Mr. Becker a question apparently why everyone in the Party drank gin. "Are they Russian?", I believe the question was. Mr. Becker said that if they were Russian it would have to be called "Victory Vodka." Once again, the class burst into laughter. It seemed that today wasn't that bad. Usually everyone says it feels like prison. I can agree with that. But today, it seemed different. A few laughs here and there made it somewhat bearable. Towards the end of class, I looked to the clock to see how much time we had left. There wasn't much more interesting that appeared to go on. I looked at the clock, 20 minutes left. I looked again. 15 minutes. It seemed like the clock couldn't get any slower. A little while later, that bell that would free us was just 5 minutes away. Finally, after an aggravating 5 minutes, the bell rang. Freedom was finally here! I left the classroom with the feeling of relief that we wouldn't have to return for another three days.
Ian V. 3rd Hour
"We're taking a test," qouth Mr. Becker as he entered the classroom. It seems as though some students haven't been keeping up with their reading, so we answered five questions that pertained to the recently assigned reading section. Luckily, I read this section, and passed with ease.
Next, we started our novel discussion. About fifteen minutes into our discussion, I realized that it was my day to be the class scribe. "Crap," I muttered to myself as I frantically found a notebook and began jotting down things I remembered. We mainly discussed Julia, the weird woman with dark hair who followed Winston around. She handed Winston an interesting note. A note that resembles something elementary to show the stunt in emotional growth that occurs in the poeple of 1984. "I love you" it said. So, Winston and Julia form a secret relationship that progresses very quickly. This being the main point in the section, we discussed this for a majority of the time. We decided that is was an act of passion and lust; not of love. We also make the realization that "technically", Winston is cheating on his wife, whom we've not seen or heard from thus far. The act of passion was also described as a rebellious act towards the government. We now see that there is another person who sees Big Brother as being evil. Next, we realized that writing down page numbers of important qoutes or paragraphs will drastically reduce awkward pauses of page searching. We discuss the significance of the chane in tone and vocabulary that Orwell uses before and after Julia comes into the picture. Toward the end of class, I made a statement in which I abbreviated a foul word, and was then informed that that was frowned upon. Minutes before the bell rang, an obscure accusation that Julia is a man was shouted, and we ended our class with a laugh. A good way to end it, indeed.
Michael K., 1st Hour
On the morning of September 3rd 2010 we walk into class ready to start the day (or get it over with). First we took a short quiz on the last section we read to see if we actually read the section. After that we discussed the 4th section of the book to learn about the relationship Winston and Julia had, at first Winston wanted to kill her now he sees that she’s not a threat and is actually pretty nice. So Winston and Julia went to London to escape Big Brothers eyes. And now I think that they just might fall in love, who knows we’ll just have to keep reading.
A lot of good question were asked on that day. As things in the book finally start to make sense we start to realize why they live in such a fearful town, and how people live out their lives. This is not the life for these people to be watched over all the time.
Finally we just read, I predict in the future we might see a rebellion against Big Brother. Then we will see Winston and Julia’s relationship evolve as we progress in the book, as they work together to free their people. Will we see Big Brother fall? We will just have to keep reading.
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