Slaughterhouse Blog prewriting!

Please list 10 ways you can improve your essay scores

1. read the book thourghly                      6.make sure to use the P.I.E. structure
2. read the question completly                        7.  partcicipate in the large group discussions
3. find quotes before you write                       8.  when using the E part of PIE dont just restate what the quote said, go in depth
4. have a strong intro/thesis                        9.Take time to prepare writing and be efficent in writing time
5. end conclusion paragraph with a strong ending quote or statement.       10. the P in PIE makes sure to just state the idea and make a point to introduce the following quote!



Please write any 15 thoughts about the book Slaughterhouse-5.  For each thought, please refer to a specific part of the book that generated this thought (for instance, “It was funny” receives no credit; “It was funny when he described the Tralfamadorians” receives full credit).

1.  It was funny when billy had to wear the cinderella boots because thats all he had to wear and they were silver.

2.  it was also funny when the german camp he was taken to gave him a coat that was way to small for him and he looked very funny.

3.There are 3 different things going on: world war 2, tralfamadore, and the mental hospital/current time.

4.there is a lot of sex in the book like when he and montana wildhack do it on tralfamadore

5.it is serious when they are fighting in the war because people can get killed

6.  at the end of the book when Edgar took the teapot and got sentanced to death was wrong because you cant just get arrested for takinga teapot from a dead city right?

7.  I didnt know that they used jew fat to make candles and soap and I thought that ws interesting

8.i learned that an Optometrist was someone who tested defects in peoples vision and prescribed them glasses.

9.I thought that it was interesting when the author used the phrase "so it goes" everytime after someone died.

10.  I thought it was cool how the author made up the world Tralfamadore because it brought the factor of you wanting to read the book more and made it exciting.

11. I thought it was funny Larazzo was was told to get revenge by Weary and and then broke his arm.

12.  It was exciting when the 3 Muskateers were in action and how Weary thought they were gonna be famous.

13. The profane language made the book more modern and interesting to read.

14. I thought it was exciting when Edgar burst in to tears when he was handed a lolly pop out the window because billy never did anything dangerous.

15.  I didnt like it when the british were constantly making fun of the americans because they thought they looked weak and didnt deserve to be in the army, when the british didnt even know what the americans had been through.


State 5 possible themes for the book Slaughterhouse-5.
1.  Time is what you make it out to be

2.There is something after death and that it is not the end

3.  there is another planet outside of ours that humans have been on

4.  War can change how you live your life

5.  There is a fourth dimension


Write a conversation between yourself and Billy Pilgrim in which he tries to teach you a lesson based on his own experiences.  You must explain IN DEPTH at least 3 specific events and details from the book in order to receive full credit.  This conversation should go on as long as it takes to demonstrate YOUR UNDERSTANDING of Billy’s experiences.
EXAMPLE:
Billy: Hello, Mr. Cheng
Mr. Cheng: Hi Billy
Billy: Have you heard about Tralfamadore?
Mr. Cheng: No, what’s that?
Billy: It’s a planet where they... etc.

C: hello there
B: hi, have you heard of the 3 muskateers?
C: no, no i have not
B: well they are the people in WWII that I traveled with, but they are all dead now ):
C: oh im sorry to hear that, ive heard that you can time travel?
B: yes i can ive been to a planet called tralfamadore where I was kept in a cage like a zoo, and shown to their people who look like shafts that point upwards.
C: sounds like a fun expirence?
B: yes it was actually
C: Do you think death is the end?
B: no I do not death is just like the beginning to a new life really.  Life continues to go on even if you "die" as I would say "So It Goes."