Summarizer+E

Day 1

**Summarizer** __Book:__ _ Catcher in the Rye**
 * Name: Lexy Hartner
 * Assignment: Chapter 1-4**
 * Your job is to prepare a brief summary of today's reading. The other members of your group will be counting on you to give a summary that conveys the key points, the main highlights of today's reading assignment. It is a good idea to jot down the main events on scratch paper before you complete this form. //Be sure to write your summary in complete sentences !//**
 * When you have finished your summary, give this section a short title--something that captures the main idea.**
 * My Title for the Section:**
 * Summary:** The book starts off with a boy talking about his life but doesn't want to get too personal. He's at the tope of Thomsen Hill looking down at his schools football game. He wasn't at the game because he was preparing himself to visit Mr. Spencer, his social studies teacher. He also had been having a bad day because he left the fencing teams equipment on the bus. He was the manager of the fencing team which he wasn't too thrilled about. Besides his bad day he had to go visit Mr. Spencer because he had a goodbye letter for him and wanted to see him one last time before he had to leave. He had to give him a goodbye letter because he had gotten kicked out of Pencey Prep, which is the school he goes to currently. This is the fourth school that he had failed out of. Mr. Spencer lectures the boy about him failing out, and asks how his parents handled the situation. He hadn't told them yet and they will find out when he gets home. They boy ( his name revealed, Holden) had given Mr. Spencer a goodbye letter which he had read aloud. Holden didn't like that but it was too lat to stop reading now. Mr. Spencer just kept lecturing him. When Holden gets back to his room, a boy named Akley comes into his room. Holden doesn't like him because he is annoying and is gross looking. He has gross teeth and pimples everywhere. He is a senior and is 18. After he had left his roommate Stradlater came in hurrying around looking for Holden's jacket. He was getting ready to go on a date with a girl named Jane Gallagher. Holden new this girl because he used to live by her. He knew everything about her. As Stradlater was getting ready for his date, Holden sat with him by the washbowl and talked about Jane. He was enfatuated with her.


 * //My comment or question about this part of the book is://**
 * My group agreed that my summary was complete and accurate ___yes no (If no, add what is missing below.)

Day 2 __** **Summarizer**
 * Name:** Jordan Mosser
 * Book:** __Catcher In The Rye__
 * Assignment:** Ch 5-8
 * Literature Circle's Name: __Team Purple __**


 * Summary:** This section of our reading begins with the boys at Pencey having their crappy (supposed to be nice) steak dinner on Saturday night. When they leave the hall there are a couple inches of snow on the ground so they have a snowball fight. Holden, Ackley, and Mal then decide to go and see a movie even though Holden really doesn't like the movies. When they get home from going out, Ackley tells Holden about a girl that he had sex with in the summer but Holden does not completely believe him. Then Holden starts to work on the paper that Stradlater was having his write and he decides to write it about a baseball glove that belonged his brother Allie. His brother had died a few years earlier from cancer and really misses him. When his friend gets back from his date, Stradlater reads the paper about the mit and says it sucks because its supposed to be about a house or a room. Holden wonders how the date went and asks but Stradlater really doesnt want to talk about it. Then Stradlater talks about how him and Jane didnt go to New York like he planned, but instead sat in the back of a car. This pisses Holden off so he takes a swing at Stradlater, who dodged it and pinned Holden to the ground. He ends up punching Holden out and leaving him to avoid getting in trouble. Holden spends some time talking to Ackley in his room until he decides to leave Pencey that night and stay in a hotel until he decides to go home. Holden takes a train to New York and while he's on the train, sits next to the mother of a boy who goes to his school. She talks about her son and how great he is and when she asks about Holden, he lies about his name and everything.

 Day 3 **Summarizer**
 * //My comment or question about this part of the book is://**
 * My group agreed that my summary was complete and accurate _yes no (If no, add what is missing below.)**
 * Name: __Book:__ _catcher in the rye**
 * Assignment: page __to page Literature Circle's Name:__ _Team Purple**
 * Your job is to prepare a brief summary of today's reading. The other members of your group will be counting on you to give a summary that conveys the key points, the main highlights of today's reading assignment. It is a good idea to jot down the main events on scratch paper before you complete this form. //Be sure to write your summary in complete sentences !//**
 * When you have finished your summary, give this section a short title--something that captures the main idea.**
 * My Title for the Section: Leaving School**
 * Summary: The chapter begins with Holden arriving at Penn station. When he arrives he begins to think of someone he can call but can't seem to think of anyone. He felt it would be to late to call anyone so he went and got a cab. He had the cab take him to the hotel to stay for the night. While on his way he begins to talk about weird things making the cab driver think he is crazy. Once Holden arrives at his hotel and gets his room he begins to look around at his hotel and looking out the window notices how gross it is because all you see is another hotel. He spent some time looking at different people in the hotel through there windows. Then He decides to go to a club him and his brother use to go to. Holden tries to buy alcohol thinking his gray hair would make him look older but it failed. He also attempted to dance with three ladies but they were not interested. later Holden leaves and begins to think about Jane he thinks about past memories and shares the they have only kissed and held hands before but were also the best of friends. After getting upset about thinking about her he couldn't sleep at the hotel so he decides to leave and get a taxi to a night club he went with D.B. to. He got himself a drink and then later decided to leave once he saw a past girlfriend of D.B.**

Day 4 **Summarizer** Book:Catcher in the Rye _** Literature Circle's Name:Team purple _**
 * //My comment or question about this part of the book is://**
 * My group agreed that my summary was complete and accurate ___yes no (If no, add what is missing below.)__**
 * Name:Alex Kuehner
 * Assignment: page 88 to page 113
 * Your job is to prepare a brief summary of today's reading. The other members of your group will be counting on you to give a summary that conveys the key points, the main highlights of today's reading assignment. It is a good idea to jot down the main events on scratch paper before you complete this form. //Be sure to write your summary in complete sentences !//**
 * When you have finished your summary, give this section a short title--something that captures the main idea.**
 * My Title for the Section:**
 * Summary: In the beginning of chapter 13 Holden leaves Ernie's and walks 41 miles all the way back to the hotel because he was sick of taking cabs. It was freezing cold outside and he thought about the time he got his gloves stolen at Pencey and how he was too scared to confront the theif because he is a coward. When he arrives at the hotel he takes the elevator up to his room. On the way the elevator man offers him a prostitute for fives dollars and he desperatly accepts. But when she arrives he is too afriad and doesn't go through with it. He tells her he is unable to have sex because he just had an operation. So he pays her five dollars, but she demanded ten. she eventually left with the five but she wasn't happy. After that he had a few cigs and started thinking about his dead brother Allie and about the time he left him out of a BB-gun game. He finally starts to go to sleep, but suddenly he hears a knock on his door. Its the elevator man demanding the five bucks that Holden owed the prostitute. Holden didn't give in without a fight. But the man won. He punched him in the stomach and got Holden's five bucks. He gets to bed finally. In the morning he makes a lunch date with Sally and goes to a sandwich bar. They met two nuns and talked to them Romeo and Juliet.**

Day 5 **Summarizer** Day 6 **Summarizer ** Book: Catcher in the Rye** Literature Circle's Name: Team Purple **
 * //My comment or question about this part of the book is://**
 * My group agreed that my summary was complete and accurate _yes no (If no, add what is missing below.)**
 * Name: __Lexy Hartner Chapter 16-18__**
 * Assignment: page 113-141**
 * Your job is to prepare a brief summary of today's reading. The other members of your group will be counting on you to give a summary that conveys the key points, the main highlights of today's reading assignment. It is a good idea to jot down the main events on scratch paper before you complete this form. //Be sure to write your summary in complete sentences !//**
 * When you have finished your summary, give this section a short title--something that captures the main idea.**
 * My Title for the Section: Little sisters : )**
 * Summary: After breakfast, Holden decides to go for a walk. As hes walking around he starts to think about his little sister Phoebe alot. It seems like he misses her and really wants to see her soon. He then goes down to the broadway where he buys a record called Little Shirley Beans for his sister. He thinks it sounds somewhat "raunchy" as his favorite word to use in the book, and not cute. Its a record for a child, like Phoebe, who is ten. As Holden keeps thinking about Phoebe, he realizes that she may be the only person that understands him. Holden thinks of her as a wonderful person. Holden keeps walking and passes a little boy whos singing a song that cheers Holden up. Since hes in a good mood he decides to call Jane, but when he does he just hangs up because her mother answered the phone when he called. Later, Holden is preparing for his date with Sally and buys tickets to see a show called " I Know My Love". Later Holden thinks about Jane again, and really wants to call her. So he tried again but this time nobody answered. He kept thinking about her and the one time that she was dancing with another boy who Holden thought was a big show off. He then called a guy named Carl Luce, a guy he used to go to school with and asked him if he cared to meet up for some drinks. Before they met, Holden went to see a movie about the army. Thats when he decided that he would never go to the army, and that hed rather be shot by a firing squad or sit on top of an atomic bomb.**
 * //My comment or question about this part of the book is: I think that its interesting that he would rather be shot by a firing squad or sit at the top of an atomic bomb rather then going into the army.//**
 * My group agreed that my summary was complete and accurate ___yes no (If no, add what is missing below.)__**
 * Name: Jordan
 * Assignment: Ch. 19-21


 * Summary:** **The reading begins with Holden thinking about his friend Luce. He was an older guy at one of Holden's previous schools who used to always tell all the younger boys about sex. All Holden talks about at the bar, when Luce gets there, is sex. Luce starts to get really annoyed and leaves shortly after Holden told him to get anaylyzed pshycologically because his dad does that for a living. Holden stays after Luce leaves and keeps drinking. When he is drunk he goes to a phone booth and calls sally to make a date with her and in the process, pisses off Sally and her grandmother. He then tries to get with a dancer named Velencia but ones again, gets turned down. He makes a final attempt at getting a date by asking the hat girl out again and gets turned down. After that, Holden walk to central park to see if the ducks are there and ends up breaking the record he bought for phoebe earlier. Then he fixes his hair with the lake water and since its so cold out, his hair freezes. Holden starts to think about freezing to death which makes him think about his brother, allie's, funeral. He starts to get upset because he didn't get to go to his brother's funeral. He had been in the hospital since he punched out the windows in the garage while upset about his brothers death. He walks all the way to his family's apartment and sneaks in. Holden was happy watching his sister sleep peacefully, and decided to look through some of her books which wakes her. He has to try to explain to her why he isnt at school once she sees him watching her. They talk and she is being mean to him and bashing him for failing. She eventually asks him if he likes anything and he says allie. Phoebe tells him allie is dead and then they continue talking. Holden quotes the song that he heard the boy singing outside of church and Pheobe tells him that he as the words all wrong.**

 Day 7 **Summarizer **
 * //My comment or question about this part of the book is://**
 * My group agreed that my summary was complete and accurate _yes no (If no, add what is missing below.)**
 * Name: __Book:__ _Catcher In The Rye**
 * Assignment: page __to page Literature Circle's Name:__****_ Team Purple **
 * Your job is to prepare a brief summary of today's reading. The other members of your group will be counting on you to give a summary that conveys the key points, the main highlights of today's reading assignment. It is a good idea to jot down the main events on scratch paper before you complete this form. //Be sure to write your summary in complete sentences !//**
 * When you have finished your summary, give this section a short title--something that captures the main idea.**
 * My Title for the Section: Coming to an end**
 * Summary: The reading begins with Holden talking to Phoebe in her room. He begins to tell her how much he hated his school and how much of a joke it was. She tells him how he hates everything which makes him angry. He then calls a past teacher Mr. Antolini who then invites him over. Eventually there parents come home and Holden quickly hides. Once there mom left the room he told Phoebe he was going west so she gives him money and he heads out but really he planned to go to Mr. Antolini's house. Once Holden arrives at his house Mr. Antolini's wife makes them coffee and he begins to question Holden about pency prep. Mr. Antolini begins to call Holden out and begins to anger him because he realizes that his argument is not a good one. Finally Holden goes to bed but is woken up by Mr. Antolini stroking him. Holden freaks out and leaves the house. He goes to Penn station where he sleeps for the night. The next morning Holden decides to give Phoebe her money back so he writes her a note to meet him after school. They meet at a museum and she asks if she can go with Holden. She begins to pout when Holden says no so then he then takes her to the zoo where they walk around. After a while Phoebe gets on the carousel and while Holden watches her he finds himself happy. After that day holden went home and was eventually sent to a rest home where the story then ends.**


 * //My comment or question about this part of the book is://**
 * My group agreed that my summary was complete and accurate ___yes__ __ no (If no, add what is missing below.)**.