By: Geoff Fisher
Please list 10 ways you can improve your essay scores
1. Read the book for accuracy instead of completion.
2 Spend more time re-reading and editing.
3. Do more of the in class work to get more out of the book.
4. Find better quotes then what I did in my essay.
5. Add more detal in my explantiations of the quotes.
6. Better Puncutation and grammer with in the Essay.
7. Work on my counclusions parapraph instead of re-writing my theise and add more.
8. Have to fin a better opening paragraph intorductory quote.
9. Stay after school and get prep for the final (on our half days). and Ask questions about the book.
10. Be active in the group decisoins and be apart of the conversation instead of just listioning and zoneing out.
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 intresting beacuse when ever Billy Pilgrim Traveled to tralfamanafor it was intresting what he would experience next.
2. I thought it was strange everytime he said "so it goes" and how he intented to use that sentence.
3. I found out what an otpomistrist was and what they do for an occupation.
4. I like how they used bad langauge in the book it really put it into depth when he was in the war.
5. I thought it was strange when Billy was on his honeymoon right after sex and he went into the bathroom and had a flashback to the war.
6. I thought it was funny when Billy Pilgrim went to tralfmandor and he was locked in the zoo and everyone thought he was so beautiful.
7. It was strange when they walked into the kitchen and found all those naked women all over.
8. I thought it was sad when billy puts his mom into the nurseing home.
9. I thought it was intresting when a flying saucer took billy to tralfandor but in the real world he was only gone for secounds.
10. I thought it was ironic that when the plane crashed into the mountines billy and the pilot where the only ones to survive.
11. I thought it was sad that billy's wife vilencia died of carbon minoxide posioining.
12. I thought it was ironic that billy worked at a non mental hospital for people who served in the army.
13. I thought it was cool that billy was elected preseitdent of the iilum
14. I thought it was strange when billy went the on the radio to discus his experiences on tralfamandor.
15. I thought it was sad when billy's dad was shot while he was hunting.
State 5 possible themes for the book Slaughterhouse-5.
1. War is more then death.
2. Everyone is speical in some way or another.
3. The most crazyiest things can be true in one mans eyes, and completly outragous in another.
4. "So it goes"
5. Free will to believe.
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.
Billy: Hello, Geoff
Geoff: Hey, Billy
Billy: Did you hear about the planet of Tralfamadore.
Geoff: No, I havent what is it?
Billy: Its a planet where thier are people like look like tolent plungers
Geoff: Really!
Billy: Ya, One night during my daughters wedding I went thier,when a flying sauser apread and took me their, When I go their they think im the most beautiful thing ever!
Geoff: This place sounds cool I want to go thier!
Billy: I even meet Montana WildHack thier too and we had sex!
Geoff: No way! This place sounds like Heaven
Billy: The best thing is thier is never any war! its all peaceful!
Geoff: Are you sure this isnt heaven?
Billy: Yes, Im sure.
Geoff: Have you told anyone else about Tralfamador.
Billy: I tried too I went to new york and went on the radio and talked about it.
Geoff: Whats else happens thier?
Billy: Well they know when the earth is going to end!
Geoff: How!?!
Billy: A experiment went wrong and they know exactly when we will all die!
Geoff: Thats not good!
Billy: Not good at all!
(I had more then 3 examples some better then others)
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