Project Plan Update

Project is going good. Originally our idea was to make a simple boring Prezi with no life. I wanted to make it more interesting by having each idea connect with each other and compare the new to the old. Eli, Connor, and Whitney need to email me their thoughts and research to put in our Prezi. 

Project in Progress

In class on Wednesday the 22 I discussed my final project with my group (Eli Esparza, Connor Albright, and Whitney Houg). We talked about what we needed to do individually to finish by the deadline.

Best of American Lit

After some thought on the specific area I did well in during the course I narrowed it down to Fahrenheit 451. I felt like I best understood what was going on during the book because we spent a lot of time on it but I also liked reading the book. Another topic from the course that I think is the best is we could collaborate with our classmates like you would collaborate with coworkers and bounce ideas off each other and work with each other cohesively. Learning how to express our thoughts and interests into our work is a tool I will carry with me for the rest of my life that I learned in American Lit this year. 

Brag Sheet

ACADEMICS

 • Renaissance (3 years)

 • Scholar Athlete, 4.0 (3 years)

SPORTS

 • Scholar Athlete, 4.0 (3 years)

 • Varsity Soccer (2 years)

VOLUNTEER

 • Good Sam Club and Camp (2 years)

 • Special Olympics (1 year)

 • Patterson Road Elementary Silent Auction and Family Fun Fest 

Derby Reportage

I find it so interesting how Hunter S. Thompson tells his experience at the derby to tell what happened there and when he was meeting different people. The dialogue with some of the characters has colorful language and isn't something you typically see in journalism, but it made me feel like I was there having the conversations and hearing how people really are. Thompson doesn't discuss the actual events in the derby as much as the typical journalist would and that makes gonzojournalism so intriguing. Reading the article tells you what happened at the derby and how people are rather than what the outcome of the derby was. 

Johnny Cyberpunk

This is a very confusing story. All the technology references and new short words that Gibson makes is unique to his style of writing and makes this piece a cyberpunk story. The lack of chronological order makes "Johnny Mnemonic" a postmodern story as well. The spelling and grammar errors I think were placed in the story on purpose but who knows. This style of writing seems like fiction but also so real. 

FUTURE ME

I used futureme.org to send a letter to myself (via email) one year in the future. I did this last year as an English assignment also. I think it is so cool and interesting to see what you were thinking about a year ago (or whatever you set it to) and in what ways you have grown and how you have and haven't changed that much. I can't wait to get my letter next year!! 

My Slaughterhouse

Post modernism broke the rules of literature. This style of writing is about breaking the fourth wall, not having chronological order, and using satire go tell a story I a funny but real way. "Slaughterhouse-Five", by Kurt Vonnegut, is one of the first postmodernist books that conveys the postmodernist elements throughout the story.

Kurt Vonnegut breaks the fourth wall in the first sentence of the book. Vonnegut is talking directly to the reader and says, "Listen:". Using the technique of breaking the fourt wall brings the reader into the story. In postmodern literature talking directly to your audience is normal but it was a new and confusing concept to readers if early postmodernism. 

"Slaughterhouse-Five" is a sorry about Billy Pilgrim time traveling though his life. Billy met the Tralfamadorians and started to become "unstuck in time" having no sense of time is postmodern. Billy Pilgrim travels in time from the war, to his daughter's wedding, to present days, and back to the war. A story with no sense of time is difficult and frustrating to follow for most readers. 

Vonnegut uses satire, parody, and humor to tell a story about war. This element of postmodernism is used for readers to laugh at what is confusing and makes no sense in life. Postmodernism makes fun of what can before this style of writing fiction mixed with nonfiction.

Kurt Vonnegut is one of the postmodernist writers. In "Slaughterhouse-Five" he uses breaking the fourth wall, no chronological order, and satire to tell his story about Billy Pilgrim being "unstuck in time".

So It Goes

Part of my groups postmodernism project! Really excited how it is turning out!!! :)

SCHLACHTOF SIEBEN

Vonnegut says humans are machines
We all act the same
Waving-(medieval times) show that you aren't holding a weapon
-(present) you are "programmed" to
Dirty little limerick to a hanging
Elbe?
It is illegal to spoon the syrup
Somebody is coming
I have a feeling someone is going to get caught

Favorite quote: "...and he dreamed millions of things, some of them true. The true things were time-travel." This jumped out to me because the book is about Billy being unstuck in time and traveling in time to different parts in his life. Billy having a dream about time-travel and saying it was true caught my attention.