Monday, September 17, 2012

1-1-1

Share your memoir title, 1 thing you learned, 1 interesting thing, and 1 question you still have.

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  1. Title: It's Kind of A Funny Story
    Thing Learned: Depression isn't something you can help having, it's an actual problem with your brain. Your brain doesn't manage hormones as well.
    Interesting Thing: There is such a thing as 1-800-SUICIDE
    Question: How do people get depression?

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    1. I think people get depression because other people are mean to them and they think life is worthless. Does that answer your question?

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  2. Facing The Lion, I learned how smart lions are, and how they corral their prey. I learned that lions eat cows, I thought they just ate gazelles. I want to know far can they throw their spears.

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    1. Who's this book about? Or is it just focusing on lions?

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    2. I think the lions are smart also

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    3. Why is the spear-throwing important?

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    4. Its about Joseph Lemosalai Lekuton. Yes, good call Mr. Wilkins.

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    5. They need to throw it far because, often their camp is far from the cows, so the have to hit the attacking lions from a distance.

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  3. Facing the lion. One interesting thing I've learned is that if you kill a lion in Kenya you become really popular and people make songs about you. One question i have is that why are you considered a warrior if you kill a lion?

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  4. With Their Eyes
    I learned that the World Trade Center was bombed in 1993.
    One interesting thing I learned is that one person survived while in the tower because he was walking up the staircase when the tower was it.
    Was the high-school in my book doing anything to help out the community after 9/11?

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    1. Oh, that's cool. I never knew that the WTC was bombed twice.

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    2. Ya, I never knew that the WTC was bombed twice.

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  5. Title: The Watsons
    Learned: Even though they aren't always nice to each other they have a very strong family connection.
    Interesting thing: Kenny has a lazy eye.
    Question: Why are they fixing up the Brown Bomber?

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    1. What is the Brown Bomber? I have a horse named Bomber.

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    2. I know someone with a lazy eye! families are cool when they are close.

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  6. My book is called It's Kind of A Funny Story, and I learned that no matter how much you want to escape, it's like a black hole, and you it's incredibly difficult to escape. My question is why did this party spur his depression, especially after his hard work paid off.

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  7. The Watsons go to Birmigham-1963
    Flint Michigan is cold
    If you kiss a car mirror in the winter, your lips will freeze to the glass
    Does Larry beat up Kenny because of what Byron did to him?

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    1. Why would you kiss a car mirror?

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    2. If you touch anything that is cold with something that is wet, that second object will freeze to the first, thus the old trick of daring someone to lick a flagpole in the winter. Woe to those who try it - their tongues freeze to the pole, and have to either be heated with something, or torn away. This also held true for metal ice trays, which existed before most ice trays became plastic. People who had just washed their hands found their fingers stuck to their ice trays!
      Your book sounds really good. Can you share more detail about it?

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    3. how cold is flint Michigan? huh huh??

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    4. Why did the person kiss a car mirror? :)

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    5. When he kisses the mirror its below zero out.

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  8. It's Kind of a Funny Story
    I learned that there are a lot of people with depression.
    One interesting thing is that Craig wants to commit suicide by jumping off of the Brooklyn Bridge.
    Since there are so many cops by the bridge, then wouldn't at least one of them stop Craig from jumping off of it?

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    1. How long has he been depressed before wanting to commit suicide?

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    2. Craig is really stressed about school, being the best, and doing all the homework. He has been depressed for about one to two years.

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  9. It's Kind of a Funny Story
    I learned that there are a lot of people with depression.
    One interesting thing is that Craig wants to commit suicide by jumping off of the Brooklyn Bridge.
    Since there are so many cops by the bridge, then wouldn't at least one of them stop Craig from jumping off of it?

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  10. My book is called The Watsons Go to Birmingham.
    One thing i learned was that it can get very cold in Michigan. Even into the negatives
    An interesting thing i learned was that you really can get your lips frozen to a car mirror by kissing it.
    A question i have is... Why dont the teachers stop the fighting?

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  11. The title of my memoir is With their Eyes. One thing I learned that there was no school the day after 9/11. One interesting thing was that an article written by the students about 9/11 was published in the New York Times. One question that I had, was why didn't the students evacuate immediately after the first plane hit?

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  12. With There Eyes
    Learned:
    that with in 2 hours of the 1st plane hitting the towers had fallen
    Interesting:
    people jumped from the towers
    Question:
    What did the kids see?

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  13. Title: Marley and Me
    Learned: that John and Jenny got Marley so they could practice what caring for a child would be like
    Interesting: Marley is super scared of storms and rain when he's home alone and can scratch out walls if he wants
    Question: Will Marley ever become calmer/more tamed

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  14. Title: Grief Girl
    Learned: both parents died
    Interesting: sister's 18th birthday is a week after the deceased.
    Question: is this sister going to go to college.

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  15. The title of my book is Maus I and II, by Art Spiegleman. I learned that the chemical they used for Auschwitz's 'shower' chambers was called Zykon B. One interesting thing I learned is that the greatest pile of corpses was always found next to the door, where they had been trying to escape. The younger, older, and weaker were always on the bottom of the pile, often with their skulls crushed. Many had their arms as long as their bodies, having been pulled out of their sockets, and many more had their fingers broken from clawing at the door.
    One question I had is - how did so many people allow themselves to be captured? With sheer numbers, they could have rebelled. Most likely, the reason they did not do so, is that they feared their captors.

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    1. Excellent detail, Peyton...so sad. I imagine you're right; they feared their captures, who were probably armed, and they weren't.

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  16. Maus
    I learned that the nazis didn't like hills so they made captured soldiers dig them up.
    Something interesting is that the nazis made the Jews live in tents when they capture them
    A question i still have is did the nazis kill the jews if they didn't work

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    1. James, I think they killed them anyway. Eli, it probably made it difficult to transport troops and supplies.

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  17. Three Little Words
    I learned that Mrs. Moss pretends to be nice to the kids when there are people in her house so that no one takes them away, and she can keep punishing them.
    Interesting: Mrs. Moss hit Ashley with a spoon on the mouth hard and no one suspected anything bad about Mrs. Moss.
    Question: Will Ashley ever get out of Mrs. Moss's house.

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    1. I wanted to read that book! Is it good?

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    2. I feel for Ashley to have to live with a foster mom like that.

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    3. I know!! it sounds so sad :(

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  18. Boy
    that children were beaten in schools
    he faked being sick to get out of school
    why did he become a writer?

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    1. what were children beaten with?

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    2. They were beaten with a cane or yardstick! They bled from their butts OUCH!

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  19. Title: Maus 2
    Learned:i learned that in the prison camps they could negotiate with workers to get foods or shoes
    interesting: the prisoners usually wore wooden shoes that were too small or big
    Question:when will Vladek get out?

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    1. Cool, Why did they wear wooden shoes? Who is Vladek? Good work.

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    2. Cuz they had no leather and the nazis wanted to hurt them

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  20. Title: The Coalwood Way
    Learned: The Veteran's Day parade was a big Coalwood tradition
    Interesting: Never throw zincoshine in the furnace around the Coalwood Women's Club
    Question: Will Quentin go to college?

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  21. title: Marley and Me
    i learned that Marley was a surprise because everything that the family read about retrievers Marley was not.
    an interesting fact is that before they go hm they knew nothing about that kind of dog and they waited until they got Marley.
    one question that i have is how will Marley react of babies in the family?

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    1. Interesting! Why did they get a dog if they didn't know anything about it? Hopefully he doesn't attack the baby.

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  22. I am reading "Boy, Tales of Childhood" by Roald Dahl. He was a very naughty child, and for a laugh, he put a dead mouse in a jar at a candy shop. The old hag who owned the candy shop told the headmaster. He got whipped several times by him. His mom got really mad that someone would do that to her child. Next year he will go to a boarding school in England. I wonder how he will do at boarding school, while his family is at home in Wales.

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  23. Title: Maus 2
    Interesting: That 3 cigarettes was worth a loaf of bread in the camps and 100 cigarettes is worth a bottle of vodka
    Learned: You could pay the guards to not look when you run to escape but when you did they would shoot you.
    Question: What happened to Maurcie?

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    1. That's interesting about the cigarettes. It's interesting that you could bribe the guards

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  24. I am reading my life in dog years.I learned that Gary Paulsen really likes dog and always has one. The interesting thing i learned was that they used to eat dogs in the Philippians.One question I still have is how many dogs has he had?

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