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This is my algebra project. For this project I created a design that was graphed with slope and y intercept.

[my project] (https://docs.google.com/document/d/1cpRChU51Px0q3quMTwUnj2LgvXfNsZbb-imMd2cv5Fo/edit?usp=sharing)

On Desmos, Me and Naheem created a flag design that we’ve thought of. We used Slope, and different type of lines

I worked with Kade to create a design of a heart in a box. We created this using different types of lines and by calculating the slopes of these lines. Q2 Benchmark

For this Benchmark we needed to make a design out of lines on a coordinate plain. My design is up for interpretation but I see it as a big star and a little star. This is one of the more creative projects we have had to do this year.

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ym45IqUpKZq5ViS2pAMleYWuJHRlCS_FdYDE5YvZN9A/edit

My project is a design on a graph made by points and equations. Our shape is multiple diamonds on top of each other. We used slope to find each point on the graph.

https://docs.google.com/document/d/14O9Cw9gr9EdBRmmfps8zJaTGR_aOQJHi8MHKtq6mVQo/edit

I made my project by placing lines down on my coordinate plane. we had to solve for the lines using slope intercept and point slope to get the equation for them.

For this benchmark my partner and I created and graphed a design. We applied all of our in class concepts to this project.

https://docs.google.com/document/d/14O9Cw9gr9EdBRmmfps8zJaTGR_aOQJHi8MHKtq6mVQo/edit

Q2 notebook project

During this quarter, my notebook has helped me look back and use the tools that we’ve been discussing in class. I also used my notebook to write down any important information about a topic that we were learning. My notebook helped me share many opinions and thoughts about class lessons, especially towards our previous novel.

Join Nick, Michael, Sam, and Samson, the Slaughterhouse 4 for our third and final podcast. This time discussing Author’s intent.

https://www.wevideo.com/view/2927792826

This is my quarter 2 notebook project. This shows you how I have used my notebook throughout this quarter. My notebook allows me to put my thoughts down from discussions or the book. I think that I can still improve in using my notebook by using it more often during class discussions and to be able to know when I should use my notebook even if I’m not being told to use it.

Notebook Project

This is my Q2 Notebook. With my note book this quarter I utilized more of my notes in the book. I used my book to write things down and then come back to them. This was good for me because I have problems with remembering information. Other things like discussions were good for us because it made us think more. It made us have our own and different Ideas and we were all able to talk without disrespecting others perspectives. I also did more notetaking.

https://www.wevideo.com/view/2927768549

Q2 Notebook My notebook has helped me during quarter 2 because it allows me to look back on previous lesson notes when I need them. I will continue to keep my notes organized moving forward.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-G1B-RAvK7k

Kayla Parlin

1. Marxist

2. The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga

3. Corbyn, Jeremy, et al. “Jeremy Corbyn: Brazil’s Insurrection Plotters Are Trying to Destroy Democracy.” Jacobin, 1 Sep. 2023, jacobin.com/2023/01/jeremy-corbyn-brazil-insurrection-attempt-bolsonaro-lula-democracy.

4. This source provides information of a current event both similar to America’s January 6th incident in 2021 and Brazil’s January 8th of 1973. Both these events mark a dark time in history where a powerful politician convinced his supporters to question democracy and wreak havoc on the government. The current event that connects the two is the more recent insurrection attempt in Brazil, instigated by Jair Bolsonaro. In the White Tiger by Aravind Adiga, democracy is nothing but a tactic. In the novel, fingerprints are bought off from citizens by police and used to vote for the Great Socialist while in Brazil, Bolsonaro’s support from the police allowed so many citizens to walk right into Congress, the supreme court and presidential palace. Both the Great Socialist and Bolsonaro look at democracy as something to manipulate for their own gains and, identically enough, both have full support of police and great power to continue to openly do so.

This quarter, my notebook has helped me stay organized and make sure my thoughts stay all together. In the future, for quarters three and four I plan to use it to practice my taking notes not copying notes. Even though we continue to practice it, I still find it difficult so I plan to use this notebook to max out my skills.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ozSFnfdUNypBbOt4XGJbkoN2PrYWiiNf/view?usp=share_link

Welcome to All booked as Damola, Cole, and Giann tackle their newest series Things falls apart written by Chinua Achebe. This is part three of the discussion of the book.

My notebook was a helpful tool over the course of the 2nd quarter because I really focused on what quality over quantity meant. I took notes of what I thought would be useful to me in the future rather than putting everything in my notebook. In the future, I plan on continuing to use this method because I have found that it works well for me.

Join our hosts, plus one new host, Sa’Mya, on our final review of The Road!

This quarter, my notebook has sincerely helped me create, format, and plan everything from projects to responses to board prompts. Since the last quarter my note taking has become a lot more stable. I believe that I am settling into taking notes effectively. I was able to achieve my goal from last quarter, making legible notes. Not only are they legible, they are actually useful. I genuinely took away from what we talked about in class about Born A Crime into how I annotate when I read. This quarter my notebook has become purposeful and hopefully you will see this during my notebook reflection.

I believe this quarter my notebook has helped me a lot by keeping all my notes organized and at a place where I can easily access them. This upcoming quarter however I would like to write down more into my notebook as the little as I’ve written has helped me a lot with work and understanding. [Riley’s Q2 Notebook Review] (https://drive.google.com/file/d/1-BX-z530h33obqn0yeYBAGGej-_6gwKw/view?usp=sharing)

Welcome to the Third and Last Episode of the TimeSkippers Podcast!

In this episode, hosts Luccas, Abi, Kaitlyn, and Diana go deep into explaining what was the author’s intent in writing the book, Homegoing. They explore different topics mentioned in the book and their significance in the book. Come join them for their last episode!

https://youtu.be/dARDU4Nif6Y

My notebook has helped me through the quarter by helping me learn how to take notes and being able to use those notes in the future. One way i’ve used my notes through the quarter were annotations in books. I’ve used those annotations in multiple writing assignments and essays I worked on throughout quarter i also used it to take notes on how to take better notes.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1vYnaG9nARn5_To5wDKxPDZ1dOEknN692/view?usp=sharing

Link to episode 2: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1h7lrzYTSU9PC3AqfohW_nsmiVRunb6qK/view?usp=sharing

This is Me and my partner Mila’s Algebra 1 Benchmark Q2 Final Product! We did a simple logo of a K-Pop Group, We tried our best to do something not too complicated and luckily it kinda ended up how we wanted it to even though there were last minute changes! Hopefully it looks good :)

LINK TO OUR BENCHMARK: https://docs.google.com/document/d/17RVhj-XxSNPaeOWwFO_OzjVsqCO_qBL5bNgIvGavW1A/edit?usp=sharing

““Slaughterhouse-Five” at 50.” NPR.org, www.npr.org/2019/07/06/739154414/slaughterhouse-five-at-50.

This article was about reflecting on Slaughterhouse 5 years later and included snippets of an interview with Vonnegut about the book. One of the main focuses of the interview was why it took so long to write the book and other things that aren’t quite as important for what I want to look at, but through it all you can see lots of Vonnegut’s purpose in the way the book is written and why certain choices are made. Vonnegut really wanted the book to be the truth, despite being a work of fiction, about the war, not something glamorized or anything like that. It also gives a bit more context about when the book was written, including the time period of the Vietnam War, which can offer new insight into the writing.

Roston, Tom, and The Writer’s Crusade: Kurt Vonnegut and the Many Lives of Slaughterhouse-Five. “What Drafts of Slaughterhouse-Five Say about Kurt Vonnegut.” Time, Time, 11 Nov. 2021, https://time.com/6116467/kurt-vonnegut-slaughterhouse-five-struggles/.

This article is fairly interesting because it goes over Vonnegut’s 23 years worth of manuscripts that never made it to the final product, with approximately 5,000 pages being scrapped by Vonnegut. I think Vonnegut’s mentality towards some of the historical claims he made about the bombing really fits the New Historicist lens well. He says that 135,000 germans died in the bombing, but that number has been discredited for quite some time, with the modern estimate being about 25,000 people. When Vonnegut was confronted about this he asked why is was important, meaning why did it matter how many people died. Which I do agree with in part, the fire bombing of a city is terrible whether 25,000 or 134,000 people died or not. No matter the number it’s still too many. It’s also interesting how the world-historical events around him influenced how he could write, with the start of the Vietnam war and people being generally angry at the war allowing him to decry how poorly Americans had treated germans in World War 2.

Tonguette, Peter, et al. “Reading Kurt Vonnegut While Social Distancing.” The National Endowment for the Humanities, The National Endowment for the Humanities, 29 Apr. 2020, https://www.neh.gov/article/reading-kurt-vonnegut-while-social-distancing.

Kurt Vonnegut’s Novels focus heavily on the connections and interactions between humans, and the world that all of them inhibit. During his life he saw long distant, instant communication get easier and easier, which in his view actually made people less connected. This source goes in depth on one of his books that demonstrates that view the most clearly, but also questions artificial connections to other people like distant familial relations. He talks about lonliness and it relates to his time and his life and its very present in Slaughterhouse-Five.

Remembering Author Kurt Vonnegut, Who Would Have Turned 100 on Friday.” NPR. NPR, November 11, 2022. https://www.npr.org/2022/11/11/1135984054/remembering-author-kurt-vonnegut-who-would-have-turned-100-on-friday.

My article give plenty of insight inside the often difficult to read mind of Vonnegut this especially pertains to slaughterhouse 5 as the article gives insight to his untreated PTSD which we see the main character of slaughterhouse 5 suffer from. This also affects the neo historicist lens as seeing Vonnegut’s backstory and youth helps us understand many of his views, especially those that pertain to war and pacifism. Vonnegut speaks a lot about how the lens of history is shaped by those in power which perfectly encapsulates the neo historict lens.

I and my partner Eddie did our project about graphing a design on paper and desmos. On desmos we typed in equations to make our line design appear