Health Book Report 2

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Chapter 1: Abstract: In the 1st chapter Henry decides to enlist in the army. Hes fighting for the Union army in the American Civil War.When he tells his mother this she tells him all the negatives about going to war and joining the military. She tells him to stay away from the negative people who do bad things like smoke and drink and swear. She tells him to not do anything that he would be ashamed to tell his mother. In the end he was talking about running away from the battle but he realized that all of his men were their fighting for his country and he wanted to do the same.

Response: I think Henry is a brave young man. He enlisted at a very young age, I think he should of taken into consideration what his mom was telling him before he went to Washington because now that he is their he doesn't want to be.

Question: What happened to the father?

Chapter 2: Abstract: Henry is really not wanting to be in War anymore. He keeps questioning his courage. He wants someone else in the army to feel how he feels about this. He wants to run away with one of the army men. One of the men he asked was Wilson. He asked wilson if he ever thought about running away from battle. And Wilson said that he would do his part in the battle. Henry is sad now because no one feels how he does about war and he always is lonely.

Response: I believe that Henry shouldn't of rushed into this decision so fast because he is really regreting it now and he is trying to talk other brave soilders to run away with him. He shouldn't of came if he was gonna whine like he is in chapter 2 about war.

Question: Why did Henry want to join the army so bad?

Chapter 3: Abstract: The next morning Jim wakes Henry and tells him that they heard gunfire in the distance. So all the soilders get together and start running towards the gunfire. Henry is in the middle of all the soilders while they are running. He thinks to himself even if he could run away right now he would just get trampled by soliders. He worries all the time about whats going to happen to him and his army. Wilson believes that he is going to die in this battle so he gives Henry a yellow envelope to send back to his family if he was to die. Henry really lacks courage he wishes that he could have more and be one of he brave army soldiers.

Response: I think that Henry is surrounded by brave men and he should look up to one of them on how to be a great soilder.

Question: Why would Wilson give Henry the Envelope?

Chapter 4: Abstract: In the beginning of chapter 4 all of the Inexperienced soilders are surrounding the veterans. While they were doing this a army group started to come after them so Henry were all loading there guns to fight them off. While every inexperianced soilder was thinking about how brave and couragous they were going to be during this battle all Henry could think about was running away. He has no courage.

Response: I think that everyone around Henry is a good leader. He needs to be more couragous and fight for what he went into war for.

Question: Is Henry ever going to come out of this shell he is of being afraid?

Chapter 5: Abstract: Henry finally started fighting like a soilder. He finally overcame his fear of lonliness and was fighting for his country. He has gained a lot of courage back from when he first went to the army.

Response: This chapter shows how Henry finally started fighting for his country and he gained a lot of courage in this chapter.

Question: What made him fight with courage?

Unit 4 notes

Unit 4 notes

Fredrick Douglas

This story was a narrative about Fredrick Douglas he told his story about slavery and how he saw it through his eyes.

A murder a mystery and a marriage

- John Gray- farmer, 55 years old, married to Sarah/Sally
- Deer Lick
- Daughter Mary wants to marry Hugh Gregory
- Reverend John Hurley
- Tom Gray- son of John and Sarah and Sally
- Dave Gray-John's brother-Has lots of money.

Declaration of indepenence Questions

1. Why do they repeat it? They are gaining independence from The king of England and they want them to know how important their freedom is.
2. Why do they make it personal?
Because they dont like the king and they use his name a lot to let him know it. It shows that what they were doing was wrong.


3. How does the D.I. anticipate its audiences resistance to change?
They want it to change and that everyones gonna need it later.

4. How does the D.I. use parallelism? How does it impact the effectiveness of the piece?
It shows that our country wants everything to be equal. And how important it is and extreme the situation is.
parallelism: when a writer uses similar grammatical forms or sentence patterns to express ideas of equal importance. parallelism: when a writer uses similar grammatical forms or sentence patterns to express ideas of equal importance.


5.What to you is the most convincing example stated in the D.I.? Why?
The most convincing thing i read is that people are made all equal no matter what. We all have are own freedom, beliefs, and rights.