New Moon Tenth Journal Entry : )

Pg 292-563
Five things I Understand
1. Edward brought Bella back home.
2. Decided to put her mortality to a vote in the Cullen house.
3. Most of them voted in favor of turning Bella into a vampire.
4. Carlisle decided to turn Bella into a vampire after graduation.
5. If Edward were to do it, he wanted Bella and him to get married first.
Four Questions I have
1. Is Bella going to be turned into a vampire?
2. How will Jacob react?
3. Will Jacob be friend with Bella?
4. What will happen to their friendship if Bella turns into a vampire?
Three Vocabularies
1. Mangled pg 495: Confused
2. Coherent pg 503: logical
3. Asinine pg 519: silly
Two Literally Elements
1."Tears welled up and then gushed miserably down my cheeks" pg 510. This is personification.
2. "My will crumbled into dust" pg 512. This is a metaphor. Will cannot crumble into dust. It’s only used to make a person imagine a feeling.
One sentence Summary
1. The Cullens aren’t harmed by the werewolves because they made a treaty with them. The problem is that if Bella is going to be turned into a vampire she has to be bitten and that would go against the treaty.

New Moon Ninth Journal Entry

Pg 436-492
Five things I Understand
1. Alice was thinking that she should turn in Bella into a vampire.
2. Stole a car in Italy to get to where Edward was.
3. Edward was thinking about making the Volturi kill him.
4. Met Marcus, Caius and Aro who were in a painting that Carlisle owned.
5. The Volturi let Alice and Edward go but only if they turned Bella into a vampire.
Four Questions I have
1. Are they going to make it in time?
2. How come the Cullens don’t hunt on their grounds?
3. What’s’ going to happen to Alice?
4. How did the vampires come up with the name "singer’?
Three Vocabularies
1. Scourge pg 437: bane
2. Faust pg 438: A magician and alchemist in German legend who sells his soul to the devil in exchange for power and knowledge
3. Undulated pg 453: To cause to move in a smooth wavelike motion
Two Literally Elements
1. "Sun continued to climb in the sky while Alice raced against it" pg 442. This is partly personification because the sun does not climb in the sky.
2. Irony; "Saint Marcus day" p440, when a man drove all the vampires away from the city. On the same day Edward was planning on exposing himself.
One sentence Summary
1. Edward was lucky that Bella made it in time to save him.

New Moon Eight Journal Entry

392-436
Five things I Understand
1. Jacob felt like there was a vampire near by.
2. Jacob didn’t want to go back and leave Bella where the vampire was.
3. Alice was the vampire that was there.
4. Rosaline told Edward about Alice’s vision that Bella had jumped of the cliff.
5. Edward thought that Bella was dead so he went to Italy to go and find death.
Four Questions I have
1. How long was Alice staying?
2. What type of life did Alice’s parents have?
3. Are the Volturi that powerful?
4. How old are they?
Three Vocabularies
1. Stupor pg 433: Trance
2. Charade pg 400: false
3. Recoiled pg 410: jump back
Two Literally Elements
1. "Marble skin" pg 388. This is a metaphor. It is using the word marble to describe Edward’s skin.
2. "Remorse pinned me against the seat" pg 380. This is personification.
One sentence Summary
1. Alice came back and told Bella about her vision and about what Edward was about to do.

New Moon Seventh Journal Entry

Pg 336-392
Five things I Understand
1. Jacob told the other werewolf that Victoria was after Bella.
2. Sam was the one that left the scars on Emely.
3. A fresh track of Victoria was found.
4. Bella went hiking even though Jacob had left.
5. Bella jumped into the water.
Four Questions I have
1. Do any of the other Cullens have any special abilities?
2. Will Bella go tout with Jacob?
3. Will the vampire kill Bella?
4. Will the Cullens find out?
Three Vocabularies
1. Unabashed pg 336: forward
2. Foray pg 338: assault
3. Scant pg 339: limited
Two Literally Elements
1. Point of view; the book is told in first person. It is a girl going through many things and telling them as they happen.
2. "The waves were angrier" pg 356, this is personification. The waves cannot be angry, angry is a human characteristic.
One sentence Summary
1. Bella jumped into the water looking for Edwards’s voice.

New Moon Sixth Journal Entry

Pg 280-336
Five things I Understand
1. Jacob stopped being with Bella because of Sam.
2. I think that Jacob is a wolf. I mean he was trying to get Bella to guess his secret and related it to the time when they were in the beach talking about the legends that his tribe believed in.
3. Another person disappeared.
4. The werewolves killed Laurent.
5. Victoria is after Bella. She is a vampire that wants to avenge her mate that was killed by Edward.
Four Questions I have
1. Is Jacob a werewolf?
2. How long do they live?
3. Since when have vampires existed?
4. Where did the legend some from?
Three Vocabularies
1. Reverie pg 320: daydream
2. Chortling pg 308: A snorting, joyful laugh or chuckle
3. Guffawed pg 328: A hearty, boisterous burst of laughter
Two Literally Elements
1. Foreshadowing; "in his place was an enormous, red-brown wolf with dark, intelligent eyes" pg 292. This quote was taken on when Bella was having a dream about Jacob and then in his place a wolf appeared. This is pointing that Jacob is a wolf.
2. "Like an infection" pg 280. This is a simile.
One sentence Summary
1. Bella is being protected from Victoria by Jacob.

New Moon Fith Journal Entry

Pg224-280
Five things I Understand
1. Jacob seems to be sick.
2. Billy didn’t want anyone visiting Jacob in the hospital.
3. There was a missing hiker found in the woods.
4. Bella went to the woods by herself to find the place that Edward had once taken her to.
5. She met Laurent in the wood, he was a vampire. These wolves came and chased the Vampire away.
Four Questions I have
1. Is Billy hiding something?
2. Do Bears eat people?
3. Will Laurent eat Bella?
4. Why did Laurent run from the wolves?
Three Vocabularies
1. Array pg 231: Collection
2. Charade pg 231: fake
3. Placate pg 147: calm
Two Literally Elements
1. "Unhealed wounds like a serrated edge" pg 240. This is a simile.
2. "Forest seemed creepier" pg 233. This is foreshadowing. Bella went by herself, without Jacob to the forest and then she felt like something bad was going to happen.
One sentence Summary
1. It seems like Vampires are afraid of wolves.

New Moon Fourth Journal Entry

Pg 168-224
Five things I Understand
1. The bikes are done.
2. Sam had a gang that followed him; Jacob didn’t like them a lot.
3. Bella was going to practice with the bikes; she also wants to go diving into the ocean.
4. Bella got a cut on her head while she was learning how to ride the bikes.
5. Bella wanted to find the place where Edward had once taken her.
Four Questions I have
1. Is Edward paying attention to Bella?
2. Does she actually hear Edward?
3. Is Charlie going to find out about the bike?
4. Is Jacob hiding something from Bella?
Three Vocabularies
1. astride pg175: spanning
2. Contorting pg 182: To twist, wrench, or bend severely out of shape
3. Bleak pg 174: depressing
Two Literally Elements
1. Setting; "we were above the shore, on top of the cliffs that bordered the beach here, and the view seemed to stretch on forever." Pg 170
2. Foreshadowing; pg 173, mentioned Sam, before Bella had had a nightmare where he was, something to do with vampires.
One sentence Summary
1. Bella is becoming very good friends with Jacob.

New Moon Third Journal Entry

Pg112-168
Five things I Understand
1. Bella has a nightmare almost every night.
2. Bella bought motorcycles.
3. Quil and Embry are Jacob’s friends.
4. Bella started trying to hang out with her friend again.
5. Bella was depressed for a long time.
Four Questions I have
1. Will Bella gave an accident with the bikes?
2. Does Jacob like Bella?
3. Will Bella start a relationship with Jacob?
4. Is Edward going to come back?
Three Vocabularies
1. Impish pg 139: wicked, playful
2. Dithering pg 113: indecisive
3. Entity pg 164: unit
Two Literally Elements
1. Irony; when watching the movie about the zombie, the main character was the last one left and she was going to be turned into a zombie. It’s kind of how Bella wanted to be a vampire.
2. Man vs. Himself; Bella was fighting with herself about her feelings. She was thinking about forgetting Edward. pg 124
One sentence Summary
1. Bella stared dong things that would make her voice of Edward come back.

New Moon Second Journal Entry

Pg 56-112
Five things I Understand
1. Bella got a cut on her hand and the Vampires were eager to have some but they had to restrain themselves.
2. Edward thought that there was something wrong with their relationship.
3. The Cullens are leaving.
4. Carlisle already looks really young for the age that he claims to be.
5. The Quileutes did like the cold one. They had many suspicions about them.
Four Questions I have
1. Where did Alice go?
2. Will they meet again?
3. Will the vampire from the fist book com back.
4. Why did the Cullens leave?
Three Vocabularies
1. Glowed pg 97: to illuminate
2. Lulls pg 93: It’s a saint
3. Crevice pg 62: Gap
Two Literally Elements
1. "I felt a brief shiver as something icy twisted in my stomach; I ignored that and took the picture." pg 61. This is foreshadowing. She felt like something was going to happen.
2. "His eyes were like topaz" pg 70. This is a simile.
One sentence Summary
1. The Cullens leave and Bella id left behind.

New Moon First Journal Entry

Pg1-56
Five things I Understand
1. Bella has a boyfriend that’s a vampire.
2. She turned 18 years old on that day.
3. Bella wanted to become a vampire.
4. The Cullens didn’t drink blood.
5. The Cullens didn’t celebrate birthdays much.
Four Questions I have
1. How old is Alive?
2. When did Jasper join the family?
3. Why didn’t Bella want her birthday known?
4. Will Bella go back to her mom’s place?
Three Vocabularies
1. Chaffing pg 23: Thin dry bracts or scales, especially
2. Hoarse pg 39: Rough
3. Disarray pg 12: Panic
Two Literally Elements
1. Expositions, were introducing the characters and what was going on.
2. "The skin was soft and withered bent into a thousand tiny creases that clung gently to the bone beneath, like a dried apricot." pg 3. This is a simile, it’s using the word "like" to describe something.
One sentence Summary
1. Bella turned 18 and didn’t like it when her birthday was celebrated.

The American Plague Tenth Journal Entry : )

Pg207-239
Five things I understand
1. Major William Borden the man that had performed reed’s operation began a campaign to build what would become known as “Borden’s Dream.” He wanted to combine the Army Medical Museum, Army Medical School and Surgeon’s General’s Library into a single medical center.
2. Today that hospital named after Reed admits close to 16,000 patients a year.
3. In March 10, 2002 a man had a fever of 103. The doctor Ton McCullough had given him malaria medicine. The man died.
4. The doctor that attended to the man with yellow fever ended up dying of yellow fever later. Seems like an epidemic was about to hit Texas.
5. That that the yellow fever should be treated as an epidemic. Still today there are cases of yellow fever.
Four Questions I have
1. Is there a disease that can’t be cured with medicine apart from the popular ones like aids?
2. How come American didn’t have a cure for the yellow fever?
3. Is there a chance that a yellow fever epidemic might erupt in U.S?
4. Are people in the Caribbean more likely to get the yellow fever?
Three Vocabularies
1. Encephalitis pg 225: Encephalitis is an inflammation of the brain
2. Plumbing pg 233: The pipes, fixtures, and other apparatus of a water, gas, or sewage system in a building
3. Gnarled pg 235: Twisted
Two literally elements
1. Foreshadowing, there was foreshadowing with the man that ended up being sick with yellow fever. He showed symptoms of yellow fever but the doctors didn’t know the reason of his death at the beginning.
2. Climax: I think that the climax of the book, even though it was not really a story was when people were very close to discovering the link between the mosquitoes and the yellow fever epidemic.
One sentence summary
1. The scientists were able to come up with a vaccine for yellow fever.

The American Plague Ninth Journal Entry

Pg 184-207
Five Things I Understand
1. Reed was sure that the yellow fever was transmitted by the mosquitoes that took the blood from humans that had the yellow fever. Volunteers were coming and after they got the yellow fever they were again back to health. They didn’t die like most of the other people back then had died.
2. The surgeons’ general seems to have finally accepted the mosquito theory.
3. Reed had a new theory the first generation of mosquitoes would pass the fever to the second generation of mosquitoes.
4. John Andrus took it upon him to get yellow fever; he went down with a severe case of yellow fever.
5. Antibodies tend to build a lifelong immunity against viruses. Camp Lazear had closed. The word virus means venom in Latin. Reed died of a bad surgery. He had a perforated appendix.
Four Questions
1. What’s a silver patina? Pg 188
2. How can a lifelong virus be built when viruses can become stronger?
3. What kinds of tools did scientist used at the time when yellow fever was discovered?
4. What disease did reed have?
Three Vocabularies
1. Trepidation pg 186: Fear
2. Cavalry pg 189: a branch of an army made up of such soldiers
3. Falsetto pg 191: A male voice in an upper register beyond its normal range
Two literally elements
1. “Air itself steeped in poison” pg 190. This is personification. It is saying that the air was filled with poison.
2. There was man vs. man conflict on page 199. Sternberg was trying to take credit for the work of yellow fever but then Reed didn’t want that to happen.
One sentence Summary
1. Scientist are getting closer to proving the mosquito theory.

The American Plague Eight Journal entry

Pg 161-184
Five things I understand
1. Lazear ended up getting the yellow fever.
2. They mentioned Lena Warner again. She was the nurse taking care of Lazear.
3. Lazear died at the age of 34. NO one knows if he actually infected himself with the virus or if it was just an accident.
4. Reed and this guy funded a camp called “camp Lazear” were they would further study yellow fever.
5. In the camp, they paid immigrants from Cuba to get sick! They were paid if they caught the yellow fever. Reed was able to prove with his camp that the yellow fever was not acquired by germs but by the mosquitoes.
Four Questions I have
1. How did Lazear die?
2. Were the immigrants well informed about the yellow fever?
3. How did the men survived when they were exposed to poor sanitation room?
4. How did the Surgeon’s General react when proven wrong?
Three Vocabularies
1. Stagnant pg 161: Heavy, inactive
2. Writhed pg 164: To twist, as in pain, struggle, or embarrassment
3. Furnace pg 174: Boiler
Two literally elements
1. “Rapid-fire action” pg 176. This is a metaphor. It is comparing a movement with fire.
2. “Surely, they even observed with appreciation the folds of mosquito netting placed thoughtfully over their beds” (Crosby 176). This is irony. They were at a camp were they were suppose to be bitten by mosquitoes yet they were being protected from it.
One sentence Summary
1. It has finally been proven that the yellow fever was passed on by mosquitoes and not germs.

The American Plague Eith Journal entry

Pg 161-184
Five things I understand
1. Lazear ended up getting the yellow fever.
2. They mentioned Lena Warner again. She was the nurse taking care of Lazear.
3. Lazear died at the age of 34. NO one knows if he actually infected himself with the virus or if it was just an accident.
4. Reed and this guy funded a camp called “camp Lazear” were they would further study yellow fever.
5. In the camp, they paid immigrants from Cuba to get sick! They were paid if they caught the yellow fever. Reed was able to prove with his camp that the yellow fever was not acquired by germs but by the mosquitoes.
Four Questions I have
1. How did Lazear die?
2. Were the immigrants well informed about the yellow fever?
3. How did the men survived when they were exposed to poor sanitation room?
4. How did the Surgeon’s General react when proven wrong?
Three Vocabularies
1. Stagnant pg 161: Heavy, inactive
2. Writhed pg 164: To twist, as in pain, struggle, or embarrassment
3. Furnace pg 174: Boiler
Two literally elements
1. “Rapid-fire action” pg 176. This is a metaphor. It is comparing a movement with fire.
2. “Surely, they even observed with appreciation the folds of mosquito netting placed thoughtfully over their beds” (Crosby 176). This is irony. They were at a camp were they were suppose to be bitten by mosquitoes yet they were being protected from it.
One sentence Summary
1. It has finally been proven that the yellow fever was passed on by mosquitoes and not germs.

The American Plague Seventh Journal Entry

Pg 138-161
Five things I understand
1. The surgeon’s general spoke with Reed about the yellow fever. Reed tried to tell him about the mosquito theory but the surgeon said that that was a useless investigation.
2. Agramonte and Reed studied the cases of yellow fever at Pinar del Rio and noticed that there were more cases of yellow fever there than in any other place.
3. Reed and Lazear got together and had a meeting about the yellow fever. They were going to focus more on their studies about the mosquito theory.
4. There was a big debate about Doctors putting diseases on patients and children, also that some medical students would steal bodies from the grave.
5. Carroll ended up with yellow fever after being bitten by a mosquito that had before bitten a yellow fever patient. The mosquito theory seemed to be more clearly know. Lazear got note of what had happened to Carroll.
Four questions I have
1. Was the US in charge of Cuba?
2. What exactly was the Surgeon’s General’s job?
3. What do people think today about vivisection?
4. Does Lazear keep experimenting even though the board told them no to?
Three Vocabularies
1. Febrile pg 138: Feverish
2. Waning pg 140: fading
3. Ample pg 145: plenty
Two Literally Elements
1. “The smell of Molasses thick in the air” (Crosby 145). This is personification. A smell cannot be thick in the air. It does not have a shape.
2. There is Man vs. himself on page 156. Lazear had received some mosquitoes from Mr. Finlay and was experimenting with them. He let one of then bit him but he didn’t end up with the yellow fever. He was discouraged about what he was going to do with his research.
One sentence Summary
1. The research on yellow fever begins to advance more. The theory on the mosquito is more likely to be true.

The American Plague Sixth Journal Entry

Pg 115-138
Five things I understand
1. New sanitations methods were taken to the soldiers since they thought that that would be a method so that the soldiers could better be protected from disease.
2. Camp Columbia’s focus was the treatment for the soldiers.
3. 1,900 Americans had yellow fever in Cuba. They were part of the 15,000 people that were left to take care of the disease in Cuba.
4. Lazear was doctor that worked in Cuba with the yellow fever. He had a wife that was pregnant and sent them to New York since he heard that the yellow fever season was coming.
5. Lazear was keeping note of the mosquitoes and that I think will lead him to understanding the causes of yellow fever.
Four questions I have
1. Do many words have more than one meaning?
2. Does Lazear ever get to understand and find the connection between the mosquitoes and the yellow fever?
3. Who made the yellow fever board?
4. When was it that a cure for yellow fever was found?
Tree Vocabularies
1. Convalescent pg 120: restorative
2. Prone pg 122: Flat
3. Prolific pg 123: Productive
Two literally elements
1. “The scent of over ripened pineapples in nearby fields sugared the air, but beneath the sweetness, the chemicals were pungent”. Pg 120 I think that this would be personification. It if giving a characteristic to air when it doesn’t really have the description that it was given.
2. “A chill imbued the inky sky” (Crosby 123). This is a metaphor. It is calling the sky inky.
One summary sentence
1. The doctors are beginning to advance more in finding the cause of yellow fever.

The American Plague Fith Journal Entry

pg 92-115
Five things I understand
1. There was a destruction of a US Navy vessel and loss of sea men near the Havana.
2. Theodore Roosevelt, Henry Cabot Lodge and Henry Adams, considered that Cuba was pat of their Manifest destiny.
3. Since majority of the whites were the ones colonizing the tropical places they needed knowledge about medicine that they if they were to get sick they would have something that could cure them.
4. Some soldiers caught the yellow fever and could not return home so they were kept in Cuba.
5. Started speaking about Walter reed and that he was a doctor that would be really significant in the future. 17 when he gradated from the Philadelphia medical school.
Four questions I have
1. What battle are they talking about?
2. What was the battle of Santiago?
3. What is the closest that someone has gotten into graduating at an early age?
4. What was the surgeon’s general’s Job?
Tree Vocabularies
1. Elitism pg 96: Superiority
2. Palmettos pg 94: A type of tree.
3. Stout pg 103: Fat, heavy, solid.
Two literally elements
1. “Scattered moonlight” pg 94 this is personification. The moon’s light cannot be scattered literally.
2. “On the white paint of the ceiling was the impression of two human bodies – mere dust” pg 94, this is foreshadowing since she has yet to start talking about how that situation managed to happen.
One summary sentence1. The author introduces Cuba and the Spanish-American war

The American Plague Fourth Journal Entry

Pg 69-92
Five things I understand
1. Yellow fever had a tendency to come back after the patient had had a shot period of recovery.
2. The two sisters died of the yellow fever. There were people dying of the yellow fever. The people that wee taking care of the sick soon fell sick themselves. The largest funeral held in Memphis in that time was only 15 people.
3. It seem like the yellow fever went down after the cold started coming back. The boat that had originally brought the yellow fever had sunk in the sea taking away with it all the people except two cast ways.
4. Some doctors went to Cuba to learn more about the yellow Fever. They didn’t get much for their visit.
5. Mr. Finlay was a Cuban doctor that studied more the cause of yellow fever. He related it to a mosquito and also that it had to do with temperature and the environment. The people that he read a report to thought that he was crazy fro believing in everything that he about the theories of the mosquitoes.
Four Questions I have
1. Did the president know that so many people in Memphis were dying?
2. How was it that a cure was found?
3. Was there a cure found?
4. Did any other country have the yellow fever epidemic?
Three vocabularies
1. Martyred pg 72: One who chooses to suffer death rather than renounce religious principles.
2. Typhoid pg 82: Of, relating to, or resembling typhoid fever
3. Intrinsic pg 84 : Natural
Two literally elements
1. “Cold shadows arching across the skyline creating a mosaic of gray light, sun and blue sky” (Crosby 69). This is a metaphor. It is comparing the shadows that are arching with a mosaic of gray light.
2. Forshadonwing: I think that the disease will end up being in Cuba or some other place in the Caribbean. The boat that had brought the disease in the first place had traveled to Caribbean islands.
One summary sentence
1. The author starts speaking about a person and then goes on a transition and speaks about another but it does not follow a general story line.

The American Plague Third Journal entry

Pg 46-69
Five things I understand
1. The death of people on the Golden grow ship were blamed on overheating when the cause was actually the yellow fever.
2. Mrs. Kate Bionda was the first case of yellow fever that was actually reported.
3. Many people fled the city of Memphis. The rich would leave and leave everything in order to get away from the yellow fever. In July of that year, the city had a population of 47,000 and by September, 19,000 remained and 17,000 of them had yellow fever.
4. Contance and Thecla were nuns that had come to the city of Memphis to try and help many people. They had already become immune to the disease. Both of them came down with the yellow fever.
5. Armstrong was a physician when there was the epidemic of yellow fever. Physicians wee not seen as important people back then. They were not required to have an education or to have graduated from college. Even when there was pregnancy, the midwives were usually the ones to handle the situation.
Four Questions I have
1. Did the president ever try to help the people?
2. Was it really necessary to keep the people of Memphis away from everyone else?
3. If someone were to get yellow fever today, how would they be treated?
4. Would the government put someone in quarantine if they were to have a contagious disease that isn’t easily cured?
Three Vocabularies
1. Hemorrhaging pg48: Excessive discharge of blood from the blood vessels
2. Unfurling pg 53: unroll, unfold,
3. Stagnant pg 55: Sluggish
Two literally elements
1. “Dust from the lime blew in the air, bone colored and sifted fine as flour” (Crosby 49). This is a simile since it is comparing something using liker or as.
2. “Spectacular sun, a blood orange setting over the Mississippi” (Crosby 57). This is personification. Blood is a characteristic of a living thing and in this quote it is being used for the color that it has.
One summary sentence1. On this entry the author goes into more detail about the people that suffered from the yellow fever and how hard it was to help the

The American Plague Second Journal entry

pg23-46
Five things I understand
1. Parson was a person that lost wife and son to the scarlet fever and was soon to be another victim of the yellow fever.
2. The parade started, there were many people there having fun.
3. While all these festivities were going on a ship meet sail carrying hundreds of mosquito eggs ready to hatch.
4. The mosquitoes were living on the ship. The male mosquitoes would feed from the rotten fruits and the impregnated females from the blood of humans. That was the way that the yellow fever was caught by so many people. Aedes aegypti is the name of the mosquito that carried the yellow fever virus.
5. To be immune or used to some diseases in the Caribbean was almost like a rite of passage.
Four Questions I have
1. How many people suffered from yellow fever?
2. Is there a cure on this day?
3. Will another epidemic that that one ever happens again?
4. Did the people know that the mosquitoes were passing the virus along.
Three Vocabularies
1. Lax pg 41: Lay back
2. Goatee pg 41: small chin beard trimmed into a point; named for its resemblance to a goat's beard
3. Vindictive pg 42: Malicious
Two literaly elements
1. “Turquoise sky as beautiful as a summer day” Crosby 25). This is a simile, it is comparing something using like or as.
2. There is dramatic irony on page 40. There isn’t however an exact quote. It’s just that the author is talking about how the people didn’t know about the fever epidemics that was going to strike and yet the reader does know that’s its going to happen.
One sentence summary
1. The author starts getting more into when the epidemics started happening and how the people weren’t prepared.