Slaughterhouse Blogging Prewriting

Please list 10 ways you can improve your essay scores

1.Take my time                        6.end with a good conclusion that sums up my ideas
2 find legitimate quotes                       7make sure i read the directions
3.include more transition words                8.come up with ideas that can be backed up by evidence
4.use complete sentences                        9.ask for help when i am confused
5.Start off with a good intro that explains why im writing                        10.do prewriting beforehand to lay out what im about to write


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.i thought that it was funny how weary would make fun of billy

2.it was funny when billy described the aliens, and the aliens describing him

3.it was very deep when thinking that there is a 4th dimension

4.it made me think real hard when the aliens say that there are a total of 7 sexes, but we can only see 2

5.it was depressing when billy would see death everywhere in the war

6.it made me think if there was actually a planet called tralfamadore where aliens roamed their planet

7.i was confused when billy would constantly time travel from place to place

8.i was confused on how billy and a few others survived the bombing, while nobody else did

9.i didn't completely understand why the book was called slaughterhouse 5

10.i found myself often lost when billy would jump from time to time throughout his life, seeing him as a soldier and a dad and a animal on another planet

11.i thought that it was kinda dumb how billy described the aliens, and how they look like...a shaft with an eye and a human like hand that surrounds it

12.i thought that it was really annoying when billy would say, no, i have to die, this is my destiny, it will happen sooner or later

13.it really confused me how billy was all calm about his 3 lives, he never seemed worried at all or nervous what will happen to him at any given time

14.i noticed a pattern throughout the book, that whenever billy drifts off to sleep, he time travels to somewhere else, and wakes up someplace else in a completely different world.  like a bad dream

15.i thought that it was kind of funny but at the same time predictable and repentant when billy would always time travel back to his bedroom, making live to his wife.  it was very easy to spot where he would go next after he was just in tralfamadore, or in the war in Germany, as a prisoner or a soldier.


State 5 possible themes for the book Slaughterhouse-5.
1.learn to accept the things you cannot change, for it is called destiny.

2.do not fear death, death is a natural part of life, and eventually everyone will experience it sooner or later

3.life as a soldier should be valued, for you set your life on the line everyday in battle

4.be kind and use your manners, because it may just alter the enemie's decision to kill you

5.try hard and never give up, because if you don't give up, you have faith and you will eventually find peace and happiness


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, Matt
Matt: Hey Billy
Billy: have you ever heard of time travel?
Matt: of course i have
Billy: Have you ever experienced it before?
Matt: No. have you?
Billy: yes, i have been time traveling for as long as i can remember
Matt: you must be crazy, there is no such thing as time travel
Billy: oh yes there is such thing as time travel.  When i was a new recruit as a soldier in the war, that is when they took me
Matt: who took you?
Billy: The little native aliens of the planet Tralfamadore, they live millions of lightyears away from planet earth.
Matt: so i take it that you were abducted by the aliens? just like all of the other alien movies?
Billy: yes i was, but i was also living three lives at once, and i had no idea it was possible.
Matt: When did you start to time travel?
Billy: first there were some flashes of my life, then it began to get rough. on the planet of tralfamadore, 6 earthling months in just a few seconds in real life.
Matt: so is it safe to say that it would feel like you have been gone for years, and then when they travel you back in time to earth, you have only been gone for a few seconds?
Billy: yes you are completely correct except that over time i found a reaccuring pattern within my life time traveling from place to place
Matt:...so, what is it then? you choose when and where you want to go?
Billy: i found out over time, that i time travel whenever i go to sleep or take a nap.  i have no control over it and it is quite depressing.
Matt: wait, you told me something about you being in the war.
Billy: yes i was fighting in the was as a new recruit against the germans, and then where i was located in, dresden, germany, got completely bombed and looked like a ghost town. me and a few other soldiers were hit by a miracle to see that we were still alive.  When i would time travel, i would usually go back and forth between my real life at home, my life on the planet of tralfamadore, and my life as a soldier in the war.  In my life i got very confused on which way to go and even what to do.  The aliens have manipulated my life, and i wish the flashes would stop and i could be finally free from being unstuck in time.
Matt: that is very deep, billy.  your life sounds very stressful and full of obstacles you need to dodge in order to survive.
Billy: yes, and i wish i was back home now with my wife, for i am soon going to be taveling through time to the war again.
Matt: is there anything i can do to help you billy
Billy: no there is not. there is no cure or help you can assist me of the get me back into my beloved family life.  Even if i die or get killed in the war, i will then wake up from a nightmare inside my cage in tralfamadore.
Matt: so you are technically invincible? did the aliens keep you as a zoo animal on theyre planet?
Billy: yes you could say that, and i am a filthy animal rotting away in an old rusty cage on that long lost planet.  The aliens have such a different way of looking at life, and they think that i am beautiful.  i am locked up in a cage and am nearly humiliated to death when those creatures point laugh or watch me as if i am some kind of stubborn brute.
Matt: i am sorry billy that your life has been too complicated.
Billy: i am getting tired now matt, i think it is time for me to go back to the frontline of the war and defeat germany, just like i have done in the past many times before.
Matt: okay billy, it was nice talking to you and i hope to see you again.
Billy: farewell my friend, be sure to say hi to mr.cheng for me
Matt: ok bye