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Reading Circle 2
Book Title: Paper Towns
Author: John Green
Discussion Director: April Joyce Pasaol
Literary Luminary: Judy Ann Diaz
Connector: Ethel Mae Billones
Vocabulary Enricher: Roanne Claudette Calaclan
Character Captain: Jemima Nadine Bentaib
Artist: Judy Ann Diaz
Connector
The story revolves on a guy named Quentin Jacobsen and his miracle... Margo Roth Spiegelman.
Quentin has never broke any rules before not until Margo went up his window for a night full of adventure. Little did he know, it was his last day meeting Margo he loves.
Discussion Director
Question 1: Why does Quentin begin to believe that Margo may have committed suicide?
Answer: When Quentin read the highlighted lines from “Song of Myself” by Walt Whitman which Margo left for him saying “I bequeath myself to the dirt to grow from the grass I love. If you want me again, look for me under your boot soles”. Quentin begins to think that Margo have killed herself and she wants him to find her body. Quentin also thought that maybe Margo’s last string may have broke that’s why she may committed suicide.
Question 2: Which philosophy of life do you most agree with: Margo’s strings? Whitman’s Grass? Or Q’s Cracked Vessel? Why?
Answer: I agree with Margo’s Strings life. I agree that we have strings in life and as soon as we get closer in to death,each string starts to break until nothings left.
Question 3: Why do you think Margo picks Q as her accomplice on her campaign of revenge?
Answer: It’s because Q was always been a paper boy to Margo, one person with two dimensions. She wants Q to find his real self and get out of his comfort zone.
Question 4: Who made an imaginary place called “Paper Town”?
Answer: Margo Roth Spiegelman
Question 5: Do you think Margo wants to be found? Do you think Margo wants to be found by Q?
Answer: No, Margo doesn’t want to be found by anyone neither Q. She only leaves a clue in her door in order for Q to find the abandoned small store to have a place to stay whenever he wants to be alone.
Literary Luminary
Passage 1:
“Everyone gets a miracle.” – Page 1
Passage 2:
“The town was paper, but the memories were not.” – Page 227
Passage 3:
“The way you think about a person isn’t the way they actually are.” – Page 266
Passage 4:
“What a treacherous thing it is to believe that a person is more than a person.” – Page 282
Passage 5:
“Forever is composed of nows.” – Page 296
Explanation for Passage 5:
Life is simply short for us to do just everything in the world. There are countless opportunities and choices that are yet to be explored but life doesn't give us that satisfaction. Life makes us decide on the constant questions we encounter and face the consequences of our actions.
We don't have an UNDO button in life, we live with our mistakes and learn from them. We shouldn't be afraid to make our decisions because if we do we will forever regret not choosing the path we oath to take and will forever wonder of that infinite “What Ifs”.
That is why we should say what we should say and do what we should do before it’s too late; because tomorrow may be our last day with the persons we love.
Character Captain
Margo Roth Spiegelman
Margo is often cool and aloof. "She never acted as if she liked anyone all that much" , and she refers to her "friends" as her "various and sundry minions". Not a social circle we'd want to be in. She's also self-absorbed, illustrated by the fact that "she never really asked [Quentin] any questions"; she only talks about herself.
Quentin Jacobsen
At first Quentin was a very shy and quiet person because his life was not very adventurous. Quentin is more confident “You’re cute when you’re confident and less when you are not”. When Margo says this Quentin is most likely wanting to be seen as cute in Margo’s eyes, so he tries to act more confident. He is kind-hearted person because he is followed by true friends who are always by his side through thick and thin. He is also concern to the person he loves.
Ben Starling
Ben is an easygoing person with simple goals in his mind. He always manages to construct ridiculous ideas that are so simple, that they are much more efficient than actually brainstorming. He is physically gifted because he has a good body build and standard height. His simplicity of clothing style defined his simple minded personality.
Vocabulary
Trapeze (pg.15) A short bar that is hung high above the ground by two ropes and that is held by circus performers who perform athletic tricks on it
Context in book: “Margo Roth Spiegelman, who spent three days traveling with the circus – they thought she had potential on the trapeze.”
Felonies (pg.26) A serious crime; typically one involving violence and usually punishable by imprisonment for more than one year or by death.
Context in book: “Remind me if breaking and entering is a felony.”
Earth-inheriting (pg.30) A saying adapted from the Beatitudes from the Sermon on the Mount. Note: The saying implies that those who forgo worldly power will be rewarded in the kingdom of heaven.
Context in book: “The first shall be last; the last shall be first; the meek shall do some earth-inheriting.”
Vindictive (pg.41) Having or showing a strong or unreasoning desire for revenge.
Context in book: “I found myself feeling slightly bad for Jason – it wasn’t his fault he had a micropenis and a brilliantly vindictive girlfriend.”
Hustle (pg.55) Force someone t move hurriedly or unceremoniously in a specified direction.
Context in book: “We gotta hustle, okay? Time’s wastin’.”
Usurped (pg.62) To take the place of someone illegally or by force.
Context in book: “I’m the new queen of vocabulary! I’ve usurped you!”
Squinting (pg.77) To look at someone or something with one or both eyes partly closed in an attempt to see more clearly or as a reaction to strong light.
Context in book: “She was staring past me, her eyes squinting almost closed.”
Succulent (pg.88) (in food) Tender, juicy, and tasty.
Context in book: “Your six words are pink, round, firmness, succulent, supple, and pillowy.”
Anarchic (pg.94) An absence of government and absolute freedom of the individual, regarded as a political ideal.
Context in book: “High School is neither a democracy nor a dictatorship – nor, contrary to popular belief, an anarchic state.”
Narcissistic (pg.106) Having an excessive or erotic interest in oneself and one’s physical appearance.
Context in book: “Margo’s parents suffer a severe narcissistic injury whenever she acts out.”
Idle (pg.140) Without purpose or effect; pointless.
Context in book: “I learn that it is not the idle fantasies of someone who maybe wants something important to happen to him, even if the important thing is horrible.”
Shushed (pg.183) To tell or signal to be silent.
Context in book: “But then Becca and I had a huge fight and she called me a whore and then she stood up on the couch upstairs and she shushed the entire party and then she told everyone I have an STD.”
Pseudovisions (pg.209) A neighborhood that was never built.
Context in book: “But Collier Farms was like none of the other pseudovisions I’d seen, because it was wildly overgrown, as if it had been abandoned for fifty years.”
Purportedly (pg.249) To appear or claim to be or do something, especially falsely; profess.
Context in book: “Ben manages to get the bottle underneath his robe without showing us the world’s purportedly largest balls, and then we all sit and wait, too disgusted to look.”
Frail (pg.302) Easily damaged or broken; fragile or insubstantial.
Context in book: “We’re not as frail as the strings would make us believe.
“I go to seek a Great Perhaps.”
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Reading Circle 1
Book Title: Everyday
Author: David Levithan
Discussion Director: Roanne Claudette Calaclan
Literary Luminary: Jemima Nadine Bentaib
Connector: Judy Anne Diaz
Vocabulary Enricher: Ethel Mae Billones
Character Captain: April Joyce Pasaol
Artist: Judy Anne Diaz
Discussion Director
1.) What is A?
- A is a thinking being but not human and apparently not demonic. He has his own memories but is able to tap into the memories and knowledge of the person whose body he inhabits.
2.) Why does A avoid making real connections with people?
- He avoids connections with people because he knows he'll be gone the following day and to avoid the pain of losing the ones he love.
3.) How did Nathan Daldry get a hold of A’s email?
- A made a mistake by leaving access to his email on Nathan’s computer when he inhabited it.
4.) Who was like A?
- Someone who inhabits Reverend Poole is actually someone like A though inherently evil.
5.) What did A do for Rhiannon to show her his love for her?
- While in the body of a boy named Alexander, A plants the memory of meeting Rhiannon for the first time and falling in love with her, almost at first sight. He begs Rhiannon to give Alexander a chance, knowing that Alexander is a good guy and that he can make Rhiannon happy. The next day, A wakes in the body of a girl named Katie and plans to leave the area in order to fully break off contact with Rhiannon.
Literary Luminary
Passage no.1
“Answer less questions can destroy you. Move on.” ― David Levithan, Every Day
Passage no. 2
“It would be too easy to say that I feel invisible. Instead, I feel painfully visible, and entirely ignored.”
― David Levithan, Every Day
Passage no. 3
“Kindness connects to who you are, while niceness connects to how you want to be seen.”
― David Levithan, Every Day
Passage no. 4
“The clock always ticks. There are times you don't hear it, and there are times that you do.”
― David Levithan, Every Day
Passage no. 5
“When first love ends, most people eventually know there will be more to come.
They are not through with love. Love is not through with them. It will never be the same as the first,
but it will be better in different ways.”
― David Levithan, Every Day
Explanation in Passage no. 1
“Answer less questions can destroy you. Move on.”
― David Levithan, Every Day
Though were only human being we are not perfectly made of, somehow we are lack on capability to know things such as even own questions bothers own minds.
Sometimes there are certain happenings that left us behind towards reality, though we are fully hanging by those questions that bothers, we are already far behind the truth in present or in future can be.
All we need is just a perfect analysis and realization, fulfilling the truth that leads us for our own freedom, freedom to explore and exposure.
Being expose to the world of reality, is just like simply setting your mind for good. Leave your doubts stop thinking, leave your bleak world and look forward for the future.
Don’t you ever look back for someone choice that destroy you once upon a time in your life.
Characters
A - selfless, sacrificial and kind
A is a being of unknown origin who does not remember a time when he didn’t hop from one body to the next each night at midnight. He has grown progressively older though the years and inhabits the body of someone about his age in the same general area of his current body. By this means, he has aged to become sixteen years old mentally and inhabits the bodies of teens who are also about sixteen. He has no control over when or how he finds his way into a new body. He says that he’d tried remaining awake in the hope of putting off the change but that experience was horrible and he never tried it again. A is careful with the lives of the people he encounters.
Rhiannon - nice, loving and understanding
Rhiannon is 16 years old. She is a nice girl. His boyfriend, Justin, is abusive but she is deeply in love with him. A was astonished by her beauty and passion. Everyday, A tracks Rhiannon and tries to see her. She is the only one who knows about A and cares a lot for him.
Justin - rebellious, harsh and hot-headed
Justin is known to be somewhat rebellious. He likes to smoke but not as much as he needed it every time he wakes up. He doesn’t care about anything including his girlfriend, Rhiannon, who loves him so much.
Nathan - curious, determined and goal-oriented
Nathan is the antagonist of the story. A took his body for a day and claims he was possessed by Satan. Nathan tries to hunt down A and convince other people to join his campaign.
Connector (Central Message)
Everyday by David Levitan
It is a story of someone named “A” who travels from one body to another every single day. He could access any information in the body’s memories. Like a parasite living in a host for a day. He doesn't know what he is nor why or how he got here.
Then one day he came across Rhiannon, the girlfriend of the guy he was in; A girl that changed his ordinary days into ‘extraordinary days ’. He finds ways to keep him near her even though it might jeopardize the body he was in.
He loves her without question but his mere existence is one that he is afraid of. He had to choose; Stay or runaway?
Vocabulary
Encapsulate (pg. 23) To express the essential features of (something or someone) succinctly. Context in book: "I suddenly realize why people believe in deja vu, why people believe they've lived past lives, because there is no way the years I've spent on this earth could possibly encapsulate what I'm feeling." Acquiescence (pg. 36) The reluctant acceptance of something without protest. Context in book: "When I don't argue, he takes it as acquiescence." Unmoor (pg. 50) To release the moorings of (a vessel). Context in book: "I might even be enjoying myself, if I could only unmoor myself from the place I want to be." Enormity (pg. 52) The great or extreme scale, seriousness, or the extent of something perceived as bad or morally wrong. Context in book: "The enormity rises within me." Decrepit (pg. 62) Worn out or ruined due to age or neglect. Context in book: "There is a decrepit bookshelf, and on it is a selection of old paperbacks." Camaraderie (pg. 81) Mutual trust and friendship among people. Context in book: "We work in quiet camaraderie until the task is done, and sleep calls." Irredeemably (pg. 103) Not able to be saved, improved or corrected. Context in book: "I tell Tom that I am going to make a Starbucks run, and he looks at me like I have been totally, irredeemably girlified." Dimensionality (pg. 107) An aspect or feature, of a situation, problem, or thing. Context in book: "By seeing the world from so many angles, I get more of a sense of its dimensionality." Paradoxically (pg. 113) Seemingly absurd, or self-contradictory. Context in book: "Paradoxically, I wish I were still in James's body, so I could see exactly what his memories of yesterday are." Amorphous (pg. 119) Without a clearly defined shape or form. Context in book: "Yes, the feelings themselves were intangible, amorphous, but the cause of the feelings was a matter of chemistry, biology." Ruminative (pg. 161) To think deeply about something. Context in book: "For Rhiannon, fabrication is a ruminative act, whereas lying is a part of my necessary nature." Idiosyncrasies (pg. 166) A mode of behavior or way of thought peculiar to an individual. Context in book: "AJ is full of idiosyncrasies that probably don't seem all that idiosyncratic to him anymore." Normalcy (pg. 182) The condition of being normal; the state of being typical, usual or expected. Context in book: "And while I once thought what I wanted from her was this normal, everyday tone, now that I have it, the normalcydisappoints." Perfunctory (pg. 185) An action or gesture carried out with a minimum of effort or reflection. Context of book: "Nathan's post is perfunctory, as if it's been summarized from his earlier statements." Repercussions (pg. 196) An unintended consequence occurring sometime after an event or action, especially, an unwelcome one. Context in book: "But there could be repercussions for that tomorrow." Pantomime (pg. 215) An absurdly exaggerated piece of behavior. Context in book: "They stare forward at all times, a pantomime of paying perfect attention." Acquiescent (pg. 254) Ready to accept something without protest, or to do what someone else wants. Context in book: "Before I became so adaptable-so acquiescent to the way my life worked-I would resist some of the transitions." Reconnaissance (pg. 255) Preliminary research or surveying. Context in book: "They had plenty of friends who could have done reconnaissance, but Dawn felt that if she was going to risk it, she was going to risk it firsthand." Festooned (pg. 307) To adorn (a place) with chains, garlands, or other decorations. Context in book: "I run upstairs and find it in his closet-a bag festooned with Post-its, each of them filled in with something his parents have said to him over the years, from A is for apple to Aways remember to check your blind spot." Aberration (pg. 322) A departure from what is normal, usual, or expected, typically one that is unwelcome. Context in book: "Over the course of her life, this day will be a slight, barely noticeable aberration."
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