Summarizer+F

Day 1

**Summarizer**

**Assignment:** Page. 1-35 **Literature Circle's Name:** Our group

 * 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.**


= =

=The novel begins with David, the narrator, and main character of the story, unwilling to talk about his "lousy" childhood. Although he doesn't talk much about his past he does happen to briefly mention his brother, D.B., who is a very talented writer in hollywood. He then moves on to his big breakdown; his departure from Pencey Prep. David's refusal to apply himself, left him failing every class but english, therefore he was kicked out. The Saturday before Christmas break, or the day of his farewell, David attends a football game and then goes to say goodbye to Mr. Spencer, his previous history teacher. When he arrives at Mr. Spencer's house, David and his former teacher begin talking about David's plans for the future. When David announces he has none, Mr. Spencer lectures him about the importance of education. He even takes out one of Davids old essays to show David how going back to school should be his first priority. David interupts Mr. Spencer, and decides he's heard enough, David returns back to his dorm. = = =

=In chapter 3 David describes the environment of his dorm, introducing us to Ackley and Stradlater, his roommates. Ackley is Davids insecure next door neighbor who is constantly annoying him and who also has terrible dental hygiene. Stradlater is Davids roommate who is extremely popular and stuck on his apperances. Throughout chapters 3 and 4 David is conversating between his roommates, both Stradlater and Ackley who arent the best of friends. When Ackley leaves, Stradlater and David begin to talk about Jane Gallagher, Stradlaters date that night and also, Davids old friend from the past. From the way Holden talks about Jane it is very noticable that he still holds strong feelings toward her. Holden wants to go say hi to jane but themn soon changes his mind. When Stradlater leaves David continues to think about Jane, then Ackley barges in the room once again, annoying david as always. = = =


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

Day 2 __** **Summarizer**
 * Name: Book: _**

==This chapter starts out with dinner and then a snowball fight! Then they go see a movie and they take the gross boy along. Then they get there and have already seen the movie so they just eat. Then Ackley tells stories about all the girls he's slept with. Then Holden starts to do Stradlater's homework. He writes about a baseball glove. Then he talks about Allie, who is a boy, who dies of leukemia. The Stradlater comes home and is mad that he didn't do his assignment right. Then they get in a fight and Holden gets a bloody nose. He spends the night with Ackley. He talks with him about joining a monastary. It was funny. hen he decides to leave and go to NY. On the train to NY he ends up sitting next to a classmates mother. He tells her how wonderful her son is, even though he is lying. He tells her he is going to NY for a brain tumor operation! LOL==
 * Assignment: page to page Literature Circle's Name: _**
 * 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:**

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: Jenn __Book:__ _**
 * Assignment: ch. 9-12 __Literature Circle's Name:__ _**
 * 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:** Chapter nine has the narrator debating whether to phone a friend. However, all the people he can think of calling aren't available, or would compromise him (since his parents don't know he is in New York). Then he takes a taxi to a cheap hotel, which is "lousy with perverts". The vernacular of the time is certainly more expressive and original than ours, especially when describing people. No, I'm serious. Anyway, he gets the opportunity to watch a transvestite crossdressing (is that redundant?) before deciding to phone a callgirl one of his classmates suggested he look up in New York. She remembers the classmate, but declines the offer of a cocktail "or something", leaving our hero pretty bummed. Moving onto chapter ten, the narrator reminisces about his little sister Phoebe before going downstairs to the hotel's two-bit nightclub. There he encounters three girls, only one of whom he feels is attractive. When he finally talks to "the blonde one", lots of derogatory remarks about her intelligence are made. (Can't blame him, though--she's exactly the kind of flighty, self-absorbed creature **I** try to avoid talking to.) It's even more amusing when he voices some ironic observations about her wit that go completely over the girl's head. Our boy dances with her, of course, and is "half in love with her"--or at least her butt--by the end of the song. Ah, the male psyche. Truly fascinating in its simplicity. The first line in chapter eleven is another reference to Jane Gallagher. It turns into a stream of memories involving Jane. It's kind of cute, and adds another dimnesion to his character: girls, to him, aren't judged solely on the basis of their looks. Huzzah! But then he remembers that she (not in so many words) went on a date with another guy one time. Being of the masculine persuasion himself, it really burns Holden up to think about this.

Day 4 **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: _**
 * Assignment: page to page Literature Circle's Name: _**
 * 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: Chapters 13 to 15**
 * Summary:** Holden begins to feel like he is a coward for leaving Ernie's, and walks back to his hotel. When he is walking back he thinks about a pair of gloves that he had that were stolen at Pencey, and imagines himself standing up to the person who took them. He comes to the realization that he is only a coward and deep down he does not particularly like confrontation (I thought this was extremely interesting considering he punched his roomate in the face before he left). When he gets back to the hotel, a man (who I believe was operating the elevator???) offers to send him a whore for five dollars. Holden (who at this point is feeling depressed and upset at himself and his life) decides to accept the offer. Holden thinks that because of his hatred for confrontation and the fact that he is a coward are the reason he has never slept with a woman, and in his mind that is what he believes a woman would want. In mid thought, the prostitute he payed for is knocking on his door. Sunny (which I suppose is just her hooker name) comes into the room and Holden again in his mind, judges her for her high voice and negative attitude. Holden removes Sunny's dress (which causes him to literally go into shock) and Sunny sits on his lap and proceeds to try and seduce Holden. Holden realizes what he has gotten himself into and subconsciously realizes that he is not ready for this. He tells Sunny that he is recovering from an operation and cannot have sex with her (and he makes up that the surgery was on his clavichord... is that even possible?!). Holden decides he will just pay her the five dollars and send her on her way, but when he gives her the money Sunny claims that the fee is actually ten dollars. Holden refuses to pay her more (hahaha) and Sunny leaves him angry and sour.

Day 5 **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: Amanda Marie Pinto __Book: The Catcher in the Rye__ _**
 * Assignment:Chapter 16-18 __Literature Circle's Name:__ _**
 * 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: It begins with Holden waking up around noon on the day of his date with Sally. He goes on to think of the nuns from the previous day, and how they would give away their free time in order to do a good cause. He begins to picture his mom or aunt doing something like the nuns but then realizes there scenarios have faults. Holden begins to walk down Broadway in order to find "Little Shirley Beans", a record he heard at Pencey and thought his sister Phoebe would enjoy. During his walk he encounters a family in which the little son begins to sing and brightens up his day. Broadway was extremely crowded but Holden happened to find the record in the first store he enters. When he finally leaves the record store he goes into a drug store and decides to finally give Jane a call. But when he calls the phone is answered by Jane's mom so Holden quickly hangs up and goes to buy orchestra tickets for Jane and himself. After purchasing the tickets he goes to find phoebe to give her the record. As he looks through the park he finds no sign of his sister so he decided to ask a girl, about the same age as his sister, but the little girl only knows that there teacher takes them to the museum on Saturday's. Although it is a sunday Holden goes to the Museum anyways. But as he reaches the front entrance decides to take a tab to meet up with Sally. As he waits for her, he watches some girls and think about there futures and sympathizes for there lousy boyfriends. When Sally arrives he describes her as looking terrific and says he would like to marry her one day, but catches himself and calls himself crazy. On there way to enter the theater Holden fools around with sally in the cab and tells her he loves her . Sally responds in the same way and they continue all the way to the theater. After watching the show Holden describes how boring and out of hand it really was. Sally decides the night is not quite ready to end and asks Holden if he would like to ice skating, Holden says yes and the two go off on there ice skating adventure. Even though they were horrible skaters the two enjoyed themselves a lot. When they were done being tortured by their skates they went to the bar where Holden asks Sally to go away with him, marry him, and live with him. Because of Holdens tone Sally becomes frightened and explains to Holden that he has plenty of time to think of that stuff after college. Holden freaks out and calls Sally a pain in the ass. This causes them to argue and and leave them both in conflict. Holden leaves without her.**

Day 6 **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: _**
 * Assignment: page to page Literature Circle's Name: _**
 * 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:**

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: Jenn __Book:__ _**
 * Assignment: page __to page Literature Circle's Name:__ _F**
 * 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: Where's day 6?**
 * Summary:**


 * //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.)**.