By The Waters of Babylon

claim: it is better not to take things in too fast all at once.
quote: "truth is a hard deer to hunt. if you eat too much truth at once you may die of the truth"
commentary: he is saying that if take it too much at once it could kill you because your not actually thinking about what your doing.

"There will come soft rains"

claim:
Future technology can help us out.
quote:
"The room was acrawl with the small cleaning animals, all rubber and metal. they thudded against chairs, kneading the rug nap, sucking gently at hidden dust. the house was clean"
commentary:
Little robots that are made in the future can just clean our house for us so we have less work to do. if you are at work and your busy your house can get clean without you even doing it. technology makes our lives easier in some ways.

By The Waters of Babylon

Prereading:
i think we can sometimes because sometimes we just want to get things going as fast as possible where we just take any information we get and put it into our work but other times we really have to sit down and think about it so it takes a longer period of time. Occasionally we just get information thrown at us and we have to take it in fast because we don't have the time to sit and think about it.
Plot Reaction:




Questions: What leads them to believe in spirits?

"There will come soft rains"

Prereading:
The world will be high technology all around. everything will be top notch because of the way and the speed that technology moves now.

Time:                                                                          what happens?
7:00                                                                            time to get up
7:09                                                                            breakfast time
8:01                                                                            go to school
8:30                                                                            eggs were shrived
9:15                                                                            time to clean
10:00                                                                          sun came out
10:15                                                                          garden sprinklers came on
12 noon                                                                      dog whined
2:00                                                                            a voice sang
2:15                                                                            dog was gone
2:30                                                                            bridge tables sprouted from patio walls.
4:30                                                                            nursery walls glowed.

Questions: why does the author think this is what the world will be like in 2026?
why isn't there actually people rather than voices?

Quotation Sandwich

Claim: The society Harrison Bergeron lives in is not at all equal.

Quote:
"Hazel, as a matter of fact, bore a strong resemblance to the Handicapper General, a woman named Diana Moon Glampers."
pg.135

Commentary:
If everyone in the society is equal then there cannot be generals because generals are much higher than regular people. Generals control everyone else, and if everyone was equal no one would control anyone else.

Harrison Bergeron

summary:
Harrison Bergerson, the son of Hazel and George was handicapped. Harrison was a genius and an athlete. if you are too beautiful you have to wear a mask because everyone has to be equal. people are made equal from devices that bring them down to a normal level in everything like their social life or ability to play sports. it could be things like weights masks glasses or radio transmitters.

Harrison Bergeron

Author: Kurt Vonnegut

Equality- everyone is equal and should be treated with a fair chance.

Plot/Reaction:

Who is Harrison Bergerson?

How does Harrison challenge the government's handicap program?

List 2 questions you have..

Quote: List 1 significant quote that reveals something meaningful about the short story.

Man vs Nature

Exposition:
Tom cares about his job too much and spends all his time working on this yellow sheet of paper.

Rising Action:
His wife, Clare, goes out while Tom stays home and works.
When Tom closed the door after saying goodbye to Clare the yellow sheet of paper flew out the window.
Yellow sheet of paper was splattered against apartment building.
Tom acted on impulse and jumped out the window of his 11 story high apartment building to retrieve the paper.
As Tom was hanging on the ledge he was paralyzed with fear.
Tom tried to drop coins to get someone's attention but it did not phase anyone.
When Tom finally made it back to his window it was closed and couldn't be opened from the outside.

Climax(Turning Point):
Tom realizes the only option he has to be safe again is too break the glass with his fist and go crashing into his living room.
This would either work or he would fall off the building.

Falling Action:
Tom lands safely into his living room.
He realizes that putting his life on the line for work wasn't worth it.
He gets his top coat and goes to find his wife because he got his priorities straight.

Resolution:
As he was leaving the door he saw the yellow sheet of paper fly off the desk again and out the window but he just watched it and laughed.


Symbols:
yellow sheet of paper: a symbol of all Tom's work and a new grocery store line.
window- represents his safety and his only way of surviving.

Short Story Journal

This story is about a man named Tom Benecke. Tom was all about working hard all the time and his wife always came second to him. when he got this job working at a grocery store he wanted to be on top so badly that he began to neglect his wife. one day his yellow sheet of paper flew out the window onto a building. this one sheet of paper meant everything to Tom because it had everything he had been working on that was needed on it. Tom decided that it was necessary to retrieve this paper so he put his life on the line and climbed the building. he ended up having to break the window to get back safe in the house and in the end realized that his wife was more important to him so he went to find her and ended up loosing the yellow sheet anyways. 

why did tom care so much?

Why didnt Tom use something heavier to weigh it down the second time around?

did Clare ever find out about all this?

"Tom Benecke burst into laughter and then closed the door behind him." this means that Tom finally got his priorities straight and lightened up a little about work.