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May 14, 2011 Questions to ask about the way life was during the 1970’s. Interview with Carmen Alvarez, Vice President of the UFT.

Date of the Interview: 6/14/2011 Name of the person interviewed: Carmen Alvarez Age of the person in the 1970's: 19 years old Where in NYC they lived during the 1970's: She lived in the Upper West Side

Artifact from the 1970's:
 * **the chapter:** Chapter #2
 * **the time period:** 1970's
 * **context and significance: what's happening in the chapter-- what is your artifact depicting? How does it connect with the events of the chapter?:** The car that they are driving to Connecticut was a MG, "MG" Stands for "Morris Garages". This is relavent to the other chapters because it was one huge change in the industrial and technology age between the 1880's and the 1970's.


 * **one quote that is evidence of the connection:** "It was the old-style model with running boards and exposed radiator-front, and although New York is really no place to own a car, Kate had this because it just exactly fitted into a narrow areaway beside her shop if she illegally drove up over the curb. When it was parked you had to climb in and out over the back end, but it saved garage rent, making it possible for Kate to have it." (//Time and Again//, by Jack Finney, page #18)
 * **proper MLA citation of the source***: "The MG TC in an original 1945 brochure." //History of the MG TD,// Hermann Egges, 2011. Retrieved June 15, 2011, from http://www.mg-td.com/

*No matter how great your stuff is you WILL NOT get credit unless you give proper credit! If it's an image, here's the citation machine link: []

May 18, 2011

1st Period: Open Note Quiz on 15 and 16 You have until 3:00 to finish quiz then we move into 2nd period.

Chapter 15: The Building where Jake Pickering's Office is located 1. [202-203] Cite one "Show" (Indirect) and one "Tell" (Direct) Description of the building.

Tell: "It had no distinction; just a plain, tired-looking, flat-roofed old building with store fronts on the street floor, and above them four identical stories of narrow, closely spaced windows. The storefront windows were dirty, and a lot of them had torn and faded summer awnings folded back against the wall; the bottom halves of some were protected by rusting metal grillwork." (//Time and Again//, page #202)

Show: "On both lists some of the names had been professionally lettered, but they were faded now, sometimes chipped; these were the older tenants, I imagined. Newer names names were often crudely lettered, paint dribbles actually running down from the letters of one of them. A good many names were scratched or painted out, others written in above them. Some of these were only scribbled; one was simply penciled longhand. And none of them read "Jake Pickering." " (//Time and Again//, page #203) 2. [203] Cite the example of the literary technique of "foreshadowing" on pg. 203

" "A question often asked, but seldom answered with any certainty. He has a den, a lair, under the Nassau Street entrance, and is sometimes caught there. . . " (//Time and Again//, page #203) 3. [205] a. What kind of work is happening in the building? b. How is the building currently being heated?

a) The work being done in the building is that the elevator shaft is being cut through. b) The building is currently being heated by burning wood. 4. [206] a. What floor is Jake's office on?

 a) Jake's office is on the Third floor, room Numbe  ﻿ r 27    5. [207] Where does the door inside his office lead?

To the elevator shaft that is under construction. 6. [211-212] Cite evidence from text showing how Jake reacts when he discovers Simon drawing Julia's portrait again.

﻿"Because my sketching of Julia enraged him as though in his mind my eyes on her face, my moving pencil taking her likeness, were a kind of deep intimacy. As it is in a way. In any case, it was somehow unbearable to him; more than rage, it was emotion past thought: beserk. His eyes lifted from the pad to my face. They were small now, the whites reddened, and they were absolutely implacable. He lifted his arm to full length, and his lips parted to bare his teeth like an animal as he pointed at me wordlessly; I don't think there were words for the fury he felt." //(Time and Again//, page #212//)// 7. [216] When Jake comes back, what has he done?

Jake has had Julia's name tattooed on his chest.

Chapter 16 The Board Room Decision 8. [218-219] Describe 2 ways in which Simon thinks the people of the 1880's were different than the people of 1970 NYC.

#1: That people from New York in the 1970's were in a sense dead to the world aroound them.

#2: There is an //excitement// that existed in 1882, that was now gone in the present New York of 1970.

#3: "Their faces were animated, they were glad to be just where they were, alive in that moment and place." //(Time and Again//, page #218//)//

#4: "You could see that: They weren't //bored//, for God's sake! Just looking at them, I'm convinced that those men moved through their lives in unquestioned certainty that there was a reason for being. And that's something worth having, and losing it is to lose something vital." //(Time and Again//, page #'s 218-219//)//

9. [222-223] What went wrong with the Denver time travel experiment?

﻿Ted had done something durring the time travel that made a college friend of his not exist anymore. 10. [four parts] What does Danziger think should happen with the Time Travel project [226-227]? How do Colonel Esterhazy and Rube Prien think they should proceed [226-229]? Who wins? What does Simon decide [233]?

 May 11, 2011

Partner Research Jigsaw: Choose a partner and decide who will research which topics:

<span style="margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 3em; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">#1: Boss Tweed and the Tweed Ring <span style="margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 3em; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">#2: Inspector Thomas Byrnes

Locate one non-credible source (aside from wikipedia), list it on your PP, and note which reason(s) from the "Credibility " page make it non-credible.

<span style="color: #5000ff; display: block; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; text-align: left;">blogspot.com is not a credible source because it is posts by many people on one site, and what these people post is not cited and sometimes they put up their own knowledge which is also not reputable, and Blogspot itself does not provide any way to cite it

Locate one credible source, cite it correctly according to MLA, and note which reason(s) from the "Credibility " page make itcredible.

Write a one paragraph summary of your topic on your PP.

Copy and paste your summary and your source onto your partner's PP (so you both will have background info on each topic).

May 3, 2011

On page 128 (in chapter 10) Simon and Kate are in the Post Office (below), about to observe the mailing of the infamous letter.

Page #127, The post office in City Hall Park
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On your personal page please complete the following assignment:

1) Compare and contrast the definitions of "connotation" and "denotation" (look them up if you need to). // Remember to use a different color font for your answers :-) //



2) Pg 128 is our first encounter with the character who mailed the mysterious letter. What can we learn about him through the author's use of vocabulary? Locate 3 vocabulary words which, through their denotations and connotations, give insight into his character:



3) Based on the above connotations and any other text from page 128, what is your initial impression of this character?

<span style="color: #880599; display: block; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; text-align: left;">He seems to be very defiant, but carries himself with pride. He also seems to have a very strong determination to see things through once he has set his mind to it. 4) Summarize what happens on pg 130

<span style="color: #880599; display: block; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; text-align: left;">While he is waiting for the bus to come, he has a confrontation with a wagon driver. The wagon driver threatens to whip the man if he does not move out of his way. In the end the man doesn't move and the wagon driver goes around him and then leaves. After the wagon driver has left, the man begins to laugh very loudly. The man then resumes waiting for the bus, but then it something dawns upon him. He seems to realize that because certain circumstances have changed, he feels his way of transportation should change as well. So, the man approaches the first in the line of four to five hansom cabs and rudely asked to be taken home. 5) Cite one quote from pg 130 and analyze what it tells the reader //about the significance that mailing the letter has for the character.//

6) What do Kate and Simon discover on pg 131?

<span style="color: #880599; display: block; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; text-align: left;">A miniature version of Kate's adoptive grandfather's tombstone was imprinted into the snow on the ground. 7) Based on where they found it, try to guess what this might be. (If you can't, at least write down where it was.) Back in the Board Room...Chapter 11

<span style="color: #880599; display: block; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; text-align: left;">It was imprinted into the snow on the ground, so it could have possibly been from the bottom of someone's (possibly the man's) shoe. 8) Please read the following description of what is commonly known as "The Butterfly Effect": <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">In [|chaos theory], the **butterfly effect** is the //sensitive dependence on initial conditions//; where a small change at one place in a [|nonlinear system] can result in large differences to a later state. For example, the presence or absence of a butterfly flapping its wings could lead to creation or absence of a hurricane. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">Although the butterfly effect may appear to be an esoteric and unusual behavior, it is exhibited by very simple systems: for example, a [|ball] placed at the crest of a hill might roll into any of several valleys depending on slight differences in initial position.

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">The term "butterfly effect" itself is related to the meteorological work of [|Edward Lorenz], who popularized the term. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">The butterfly effect is a common [|trope] in fiction when presenting scenarios involving [|time travel] and with "what if" cases where one storyline diverges at the moment of a seemingly minor event resulting in two significantly different outcomes.

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">The phrase refers to the idea that a butterfly's wings might create tiny changes in the [|atmosphere] that may ultimately alter the path of a [|tornado] or delay, accelerate or even prevent the occurrence of a tornado in another location. The flapping wing represents a small change in the initial condition of the system, which causes a chain of events leading to large-scale alterations of events. Had the butterfly not flapped its wings, the trajectory of the system might have been vastly different. While the butterfly does not "cause" the tornado in the sense of providing the energy for the tornado, it does "cause" it in the sense that the flap of its wings is an essential part of the initial conditions resulting in a tornado, and without that flap that particular tornado would not have existed. ("The Butterfly Effect", wikipedia)

9) In Chapter 11, please summarize what Colonel Esterhazy calls the "twig-in-the-river" theory:

<span style="color: #880599; display: block; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; text-align: left;">That all of the events of the world are far too great to be altered completely by one small action or event. 10) How does this compare to the "Butterfly Effect"?

<span style="color: #880599; display: block; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; text-align: left;">The "Butterfly Effect" theory is the contradiction to the "Twig-In-The-River" theory about how small events affect the future of the world. Except, the "Butterfly Effect" theory states that even the smallest action can change the course of the future. April 12, 2011 - Story of The Dakota

1) Find a good image of The Dakota building (but you can't use the ones I have; there's one below, too! :-) ). Upload it onto your personal page, adjust it to a reasonable size, and in the "caption" box paste the url of the site where you found the image. [NOTE: this is not the same thing as "citing" the source according to MLA standards, but at least it acknowledges where you got it].



2) Find a good image of a detail (a part of the building, not the whole thing) you described in your walking trip chart. Same as above, upload to your page, adjust size, and paste the url into the caption box.

http://static.panoramio.com/photos/original/1402357.jpg

3) Post your Observations and Inferences Chart on your personal page, beneath the images.

4) Based on listening to the podcast below about the Dakota, use what you hear to write the "story" of the Dakota. (Ignore the information about Rosemary's baby-- it's only relevant in that the building was an important part of that movie, just like it's an important part of our book __Time and Again__). []

The Dakota was constructed from October 25, 1880 to October 27, 1884. It is a co-op apartment building located on the northwest corner of 72nd Street and Central Park West in the Upper West Side of Manhattan in New York City. The architectural firm of Henry Janeway Hardenbergh was commissioned to create the design for Edward Clark, head of the Singer Sewing Machine Company. The firm also designed the Plaza Hotel. The building's high gables and deep roofs with a profusion of dormers, terracotta spandrels and panels, niches, balconies, and balustrades give it a North German Renaissance character, an echo of a Hanseatic townhall. Nevertheless, its layout and floor plan betray a strong influence of French architectural trends in housing design that had become known in New York in the 1870s. The general layout of the apartments is in the French style of the period, with all major rooms not only connected to each other, en filade, in the traditional way, but also accessible from a hall or corridor, an arrangement that allows a natural migration for guests from one room to another, especially on festive occasions, yet gives service staff discreet separate circulation patterns that offer service access to the main rooms. According to often repeated stories, the Dakota was so named because at the time it was built, the Upper West Side of Manhattan was sparsely inhabited and considered as remote as the Dakota Territory. However, the earliest recorded appearance of this account is in a 1933 newspaper story. It is more likely that the building was named "The Dakota" because of Clark's fondness for the names of the new western states and territories. The Dakota is square, built around a central courtyard. The arched main entrance is a porte cochère large enough for the horse-drawn carriages that once entered and allowed passengers to disembark sheltered from the weather. Many of these carriages were housed in a multi-story stable building built in two sections, 1891–94, at the southwest corner of 77th Street and Amsterdam Avenue, where elevators lifted them to the upper floors. The principal rooms, such as parlors or the master bedroom, face the street, while the dining room, kitchen, and other auxiliary rooms are oriented toward the courtyard. Apartments thus are aired from two sides, which was a relative novelty in Manhattan at the time. (In the Stuyvesant building, which was built in 1869, a mere ten years earlier, and which is considered Manhattan's first apartment building in the French style, many apartments have windows to one side only.) Some of the drawing rooms are 49 ft (15 m) long, and many of the ceilings are 14 ft (4.3 m) high; the floors are inlaid with mahogany, oak, and cherry (although in the apartment of Clark, the building's founder, famously, some floors were inlaid with sterling silver). Originally, the Dakota had sixty-five apartments with four to twenty rooms, no two being alike. These apartments are accessed by staircases and elevators placed in the four corners of the courtyard. Separate service stairs and elevators serving the kitchens are located in mid-block. Built to cater for the well-to-do, The Dakota featured many amenities and a modern infrastructure that was exceptional for the time. The building has a large dining hall; meals also could be sent up to the apartments by dumbwaiters. Electricity was generated by an in-house power plant and the building has central heating. The Dakota property also contained a garden, private croquet lawns, and a tennis court behind the building between 72nd and 73rd Streets. The Dakota was a huge social success from the very start (all of the apartments were taken before the building opened), but it was a long-term drain on the fortune of Clark (who died before it was completed) and his heirs. For the high society of Manhattan, it became fashionable to live in the building, or at least to rent an apartment there as a secondary city residence, and The Dakota's success prompted the construction of many other luxury apartment buildings in Manhattan. While it's an architectural gem in its own right, the apartment building is best known as the place where former Beatle, John Lennon was gunned down in December 1980. Lennon fans still visit the site regularly and place objects there in homage to the singer/songwriter. The Dakota has also attracted the rich and famous, ever since its opening in the late 19th century. Famous residents have included Judy Garland, Leonard Bernstein, Lauren Bacall, Carson McCullers, Boris Karloff, Connie Chung, and Paul Simon. John Lennon lived here with his wife Yoko Ono until his death; Ono still lives at the Dakota Apartments presently. The façade of the building has also been used in a number of cinematic productions.

5) Go to Citation Machine [], go to the MLA link, from there go to the "podcast" link, and follow the directions for formally citing the Bowery Boys podcast if this were a college research paper. Post the final product on your Personal Page, beneath your summary.

Young, Gregory, and Tim Myers, "#8 Dakota Apartments and 'Rosemary's Baby'" //NYC History: Bowery Boys Archive//, Euro Cheapo, October 5, 2008. Retrieved April 12, 2011, from http://boweryboysarchive.libsyn.com/index.php?post_id=387773.

April 6, 2011 - The Dakota

Coursework for Tuesday April 5, 2011



April 3, 2011 While you did a good job with the technology, this does not meet the criteria of the 2-class assignment. -Whitney

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