Q2 Notebook- Adrian Marrero

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

Q2 Notebook

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

Kayla, Tanaia, Anna, Lucia

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.

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Q2 Notebook flip through

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

Hannah Weldon Q2 Notebook

This is my Quarter 2 notebook video, it shows all my techniques and ways that have helped me learn and reflect on our English lessons. It has been really useful to use these new tools and help me pay attention in class. For Quarter 3 I am definitely going to keep using these techniques and try out new ones that work for me, like using more visual tools. Q2notebookvid

Q2 Notebook Reflection- Analeigh Yancey

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.

My Q2 Notebook

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)

Time Skippers Episode #3

Time Skippers
Time Skippers

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 Q2 Notebook Project

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

Algebra 1 Q2 Benchmark Final Product

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

Slaughtercast 5 - Episode 2

““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.