Connector+A

Day 1

Connector/ Artistic Adventurer For this role, you have two options: (1) make connections to the reading, or (2) artistically interpret the reading. Option #1: Connector Name: __Book:__ _Catcher in the Rye __Assignment: page to page Literature Circle's Name:__ _1-35 As the Connector, it is your job to find connections between the novel your group is reading and the outside world. This means connection the reading to: Think about a minimum of two connections today's reading reminded you of. List the connection and write a paragraph for each explaining how and why you made the connection.
 * Your own life * Happenings at school or in the neighborhood
 * Similar events at other times and places * Other books or stories
 * Other writings on same topic * Other writings by the same author

1.) "He was one of these very, very tall, round-shouldered guys-he was about six four- with lousy teeth. The whole time he roomed next to me, I never even once saw him brush his teeth. They always looked mossy and awful, and he damn near made you sick if you saw him in the dining room with his mouth full of mashed potatoes and peas or something. Besides that, he had a lot of pimples. Not just on his forehead or chin, like most guys, but all over his whole face. He was also sort of a nasty guy."- page 19 On page nineteen the narrator was describing his friend that rooms next to him. He goes on depicting every part of his body. This reminds me of high school girls. Very often girls create their "clicks" and pick random girls to tear them apart. They list their bad qualities and pick out everything thats wrong with them instead of their good qualities. More specifically this reminds me of my lunch table. We often get caught up talking about certain girls in a negative way just like the narrator did with Ackley.

2.) "I forgot to tell you about that. They kicked me out I wasn't supposed to come back after Christmas vacation, on account of I was flunking four subjects and not applying myself at all." -page four Although I was never kicked out of school because I was flunking four subjects I can relate to the narrator. I know the feeling of leaving something you are used to and comfortable with to start something new. We, the readers, do not know what he will do after he leaves Pencey Prep but he most likely will start another school or start a new experience in his life. I was home schooled until sixth grade. I knew how the narrator felt when he has to leave Pencey Prep. I personally did not want to go because I was comfortable with being home schooled and didn't want to start a new experience by going to public school. Both the narrator and I got "kicked out" of what we knew best and what we were comfortable with to go forth with what was ahead of us.

Day 2 Connector/ Artistic Adventurer For this role, you have two options: (1) make connections to the reading, or (2) artistically interpret the reading. Option #1: Connector Name: __Book:__ _Catcher In the Rye __Assignment: page to page Literature Circle's Name:__ _36-58 As the Connector, it is your job to find connections between the novel your group is reading and the outside world. This means connection the reading to: Think about a minimum of two connections today's reading reminded you of. List the connection and write a paragraph for each explaining how and why you made the connection. 1.) Page 36-37: "All I did was close the window and walk around the room with the snowball, packing it harder. A little while later, i still had it with me when I and Brossard and Ackley got on the bus. The bus driver opened the doors and made me throw it out. I told him I wasn't going to chuck it at anybody, but he wouldn't believe me. People never believe you." When Holden packed the snowball and held onto it, it reminded me of when I was little and when it would snow. My brother and I would always pack a whole bunch of snowballs then we would sneak them in the Freezer to keep them for as long as we could without our parents telling us to put it back outside. It's just like when Holden tried to keep the snowball with him on the bus but the bus driver refused to let him.
 * Your own life * Happenings at school or in the neighborhood
 * Similar events at other times and places * Other books or stories
 * Other writings on same topic * Other writings by the same author

2.)"Usually I like riding on tirans, exspecially at night, with the lights on and the windows so black, and one of those guys comin gup he aisle selling coffee and sandwiches and magazines. I usually buy a ham sandwich and aout four magazines. If I'm on a rain at night, i can usually even read one of those dumb stories in a magazine without puking. you kno. one of those stories with a lot of phony girls named Linda of Marcia that are always lighting all the godam Davids' pipes for them. I can ever read one of thse lousy stories on a train at night, usually." This passage reminded me of when i was in Germany. I have a friend that lives there and when shes at college they take the train to get everywhere at night. Holden's experience on the train at night reminded me a lot of mine. It's more relaxing at laid back. It's different than during the day.

Day 3 Connector/ Artistic Adventurer For this role, you have two options: (1) make connections to the reading, or (2) artistically interpret the reading. Option #1: Connector Name: __Book:__ _ __Assignment: page to page Literature Circle's Name:__ _ As the Connector, it is your job to find connections between the novel your group is reading and the outside world. This means connection the reading to: Think about a minimum of two connections today's reading reminded you of. List the connection and write a paragraph for each explaining how and why you made the connecti on. 1.) 2.)
 * Your own life * Happenings at school or in the neighborhood
 * Similar events at other times and places * Other books or stories
 * Other writings on same topic * Other writings by the same author

Day 4 Connector/ Artistic Adventurer For this role, you have two options: (1) make connections to the reading, or (2) artistically interpret the reading. Option #1: Connector Name: __Catcher in the Rye Assignment: chapters 13-15__ As the Connector, it is your job to find connections between the novel your group is reading and the outside world. This means connection the reading to: Think about a minimum of two connections today's reading reminded you of. List the connection and write a paragraph for each explaining how and why you made the connecti on. 1.) He describes his mother about how she doesn't feel well ever since Allie died. I thought of my mom when my sister left for the army. She didn't want my sister to join in the first place, so it made it worse. Whenever my sister would call her from boot camp my mother would be in tears shortly after. And every time my sister goes to leave she just gets sad and depressed and isn't herself for a couple of days. 2.) When he refuses to give Sunny the five extra dollars that he is supposed to give her for her duty and then she comes back up with Maurice he is forced to give her, her money. This reminds me of when my parents tell me to do something and i just keep putting it off and off until they tell me i have to do it or i can't do anything with my friends. So even though i don't want to do it, i end up doing it for myself.
 * Your own life * Happenings at school or in the neighborhood
 * Similar events at other times and places * Other books or stories
 * Other writings on same topic * Other writings by the same author

Day 5 Connector/ Artistic Adventurer For this role, you have two options: (1) make connections to the reading, or (2) artistically interpret the reading. Option #1: Connector Name: __Book:__ Catcher in the Rye __Assignment: page to page Literature Circle's Name:__ As the Connector, it is your job to find connections between the novel your group is reading and the outside world. This means connection the reading to: Think about a minimum of two connections today's reading reminded you of. List the connection and write a paragraph for each explaining how and why you made the connecti on.
 * Your own life * Happenings at school or in the neighborhood
 * Similar events at other times and places * Other books or stories
 * Other writings on same topic * Other writings by the same author

1.) On page 121 Holden is saying how the best part of the museum was that it never changed. He says that "certain things they should stay the way they are. You ought to be able to stick them in one of those big glass cases and leave them alone." This reminds me of the last day of school in eighth grade. Eighth grade was my favorite year of school, I loved every part of that year. When it was the last day I wish I could have just stayed there and not left to go to highschool. I wanted to "put it in a glass case" and leave it alone instead of starting something new.

2.) On page 123 Holden gets to the movies before Sally does. Therefore he decides to sit down and watch the girls. He talks about "girls with their legs crossed, girls with their legs not crossed, girls with terrific legs, girls with lousy legs, firls that looked like swell girls, girls that looked like they'd be bitches if you knew them." As Holden sits there he watches andd ovserves the girls. This reminds me of when I'm at the boardwalk at the beach. My older sister and I always love to sit on the benches and just watch everyone. We look at what they are wearing, how they are acting, who they are with etc. Just like HOlden did with the girls while he was waiting for Sally to arrive at the movies.

Day 6 Connector/ Artistic Adventurer For this role, you have two options: (1) make connections to the reading, or (2) artistically interpret the reading. Option #1: Connector Name: _Cadie Confer_Book:_The Catcher in The Rye_ _ __Assignment: page to page Literature Circle's Name:__ 141-166_ As the Connector, it is your job to find connections between the novel your group is reading and the outside world. This means connection the reading to: Think about a minimum of two connections today's reading reminded you of. List the connection and write a paragraph for each explaining how and why you made the connection.
 * Your own life * Happenings at school or in the neighborhood
 * Similar events at other times and places * Other books or stories
 * Other writings on same topic * Other writings by the same author

1.) On page 143 when Holden is at the bar with his friend Luce, he is trying to have a serious conversation with him about something that is very important to him. This has happened to me numerous amounts of times. You are trying to sit down and have a conversation and either the person doesn't care, or is too distracted by something to ever listen to what your saying.

2.)On page 154 Holden is in Central Park walking around drunk and everything is going wrong for him. He broke the record he has bouht for his sister, he was

finding ice chunks in his hair because he splashed water on it, hoping to sober-up, and all of that led to him beginning to think about his funeral.

This relates to me, because everyone has had those days where it seems as if every little thing that could go wrong is.

Day 7 Connector/ Artistic Adventurer For this role, you have two options: (1) make connections to the reading, or (2) artistically interpret the reading. Option #1: Connector Name: __Book:__ _ __Assignment: page to page Literature Circle's Name:__ _ As the Connector, it is your job to find connections between the novel your group is reading and the outside world. This means connection the reading to: Think about a minimum of two connections today's reading reminded you of. List the connection and write a paragraph for each explaining how and why you made the connecti on. 1.)When Holden was talking to his sister and he said that maybe he liked dead people more then people who are alive because they are more annoying and irritating. that reminds me of how sometimes i would rather be with someone whom has died instead of the people i am actually with. 2.)When Holden's sister takes the blame for the smell of smoke that reminds me of times when my brother or i would take the blame for each other because we new what would happen if we didn't. It was easier and less of a punishment if we took the blame for each other and had each others backs.
 * Your own life * Happenings at school or in the neighborhood
 * Similar events at other times and places * Other books or stories
 * Other writings on same topic * Other writings by the same author