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!
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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
This was a group/ single person project, I partnered with lucas and we made a graph with lines on it then did a bunch of work on that graph and explained slope.
For this benchmark, we had to design a shape using linear functions. In this quarter 2 project, we had to go in-depth on the slopes of all the functions and properties of the lines.
in this project i will consist of linear equations, digital and non digital.
For this benchmark, we had to create a lined structure on a graph and on demos. I worked with a partner on this which lightened the load.
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1h3-4Zx6EM19z5LXepajt1nx6OUsonxEe_MC8w9Be6ts/edit?usp=sharing
I created a snowflake with my desmos graph. I plotted the points and through trial and error i ended up with my ending product. https://docs.google.com/document/d/1rZo2lNGcJpO0sj4lbWkV4RwquG2QwVP3t9-4G3NKtQI/edit
This is our Algebra 1, Quarter 2 Benchmark. In this project, we hope to demonstrate our knowledge of Slope-intercepts form, Point-slope form, Horizontal Lines, and Vertical lines.
Me and Sasha made a heart shape on a graph. We used the topics we learned in class and applied them here. [Here is our benchmark] (https://docs.google.com/document/d/1UtE0cnQFes8W3mPAkkhhQhwqULYMvK_scPYefokf_To/edit?usp=sharing)
This is our Q2 Algebra Benchmark. Melissa and I put together our knowledge of lines and their equations to make this project. We hope you learn something from reading out project.
https://docs.google.com/document/d/15bcdCxc3cCF6_FV9Rx7N7lDFQ6GrbCvhTWN0pn-tbjU/edit?usp=sharing
my project is on a shape that we made that we labeled with points. it was ok
We made a heart using points on a coordinate plan. We then found the equations and put everything together. Here is a our benchmark!
This project was inspired by reflections and each side is the opposite of the other.
Simple explanations on slope and those said skills used on a graph. Graph as stated in the intro is a frame of a song.
