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[jordantopping808-blog]

Genre 7 Flashback For our last Genre Project we made a flashback of what has happened to Brew throughout the book. We made it seem like a dream because he was in a coma. There were events from the beginning where he meets Brontë. Events from losing the Bull. Family arguments and the death of Uncle Hoyt. This was out of the box thinking because we had to relate things to our prior readings and have good comprehension. Everything had no sound because Brew was dreaming all of this and looking back on all that happened.

[english8evonnec]

http://snp.gd/tbcyxo Genre 7: How-To Manual Kelcie and Evonne We were trying to show the scene when Brontë and Tennyson were trying to revive Brewster. We thought that we would do a SnapGuide about CPR because we wanted to show the steps on how to do it and what might've helped Brontë and Tennyson learn about it during their life saving class. This revealed that Brontë and Tennyson wanted to feel their own emotions for themselves and wanted the pain. They stopped their addiction to being happy and became tougher mentally. It revealed that even with all the pain Brewster experienced, he still had the strength to press on and continue taking other peoples' pain. It shows that no one and nothing can stop him even if he doesn't want to do something.

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How to Manual Genre 6

How to manual: http://snp.gd/tbcusu Genre 6: How To Manual Our genre three project was based on the incident that happened with Cody and Brewster. We made a how to manual because we thought it would be fun to create an instructional manual on a certain problem that occurred in the reading. We came up with the idea of creating the manual based on Cody's kite problem because we believed it would fit perfectly into this week's reading. The how to manual provides pictures and instructions on how to remove your child from any high standing area. This is out of the box thinking for multiple reasons. First of all we needed to capture the voice of an instructor or someone giving directions. We had to talk in the voice of someone telling someone how to do something. Lastly we needed to be extra clear in the instructions we were giving in order to communicate to the reader better.

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Genre 5 Hoyt Eulogy

Hoyt, You deserved to die. You never took care of the children and me. Next thing I know, you all of a sudden leave out of nowhere. I saw the news interview with you in it about a “mysterious beating”. I know it was you. I feel it in my bones. You are just that cruel of a person to do something so abhorrent to such innocent children. Since your dead, I can tell you now that Brewster has been writing me every two weeks, telling me what you have done to them, what loathsome of an uncle you are, and how disastrous Brew’s family is because of you. You spent your time drinking away the pain you have caused upon yourself, yet used Brewster as your ragdoll. Now, Brew is living with angelic nobodies. He has been writing me about his new girlfriend and how wonderful she is. Yet, you don’t have the heart to listen and allow him to be happy if it doesn’t involve you benefitting from it. How could you be so heartless? I hear Cody is as chipper as ever, but I don’t see how that is possible if he lives with you. I was asked to write a eulogy, but I couldn’t think of one happy memory with you. I can't imagine you ending up anywhere close to heaven, so goodbye for ever. You will not be missed. Oretha Smith Explanation Genre 5 Uncle Hoyt Eulogy For this weeks project, we created a eulogy for Uncle Hoyt from his ex wife. The Eulogy is insincere instead of caring words. The ex wife was being extremely rude and sharing her true thoughts about Hoyt. She also reveals a secret Brew has been hiding this whole time. She shares her opinion on how Hoyt has been treating Brew and Cody. This is out of the box thinking because in our Eulogy we were able to refer back to our previous project which was the interview on Hoyt. We practically connected and built off of our last project. We also needed to infer the ex wife's thoughts and anger towards Hoyt. By doing that, we were able to make the story come alive.

[jackmcmanusenglish-blog]

Genre 3: Poster Jack and Airica We created this poster of "special" child abuse by using the example of Brewster. We wanted to make a poster for children whose situations are not similar to any others. We realize that Brewster would just be angry seeing any poster about child abuse, because they think they understand, but he knows they wouldn't understand his situation. So we decided to make a poster that would make Brewster feel safe and like had somewhere to turn if he really got fed up with his uncle. This represents out-of-the-box thinking because we took an idea that we still don't quite understand, and tried to make light of it by making a poster about it.

[jackmcmanusenglish-blog]

Genre 2: Album Cover Airica and Jack We tried to make an album cover with songs to represent what goes on in this reading. Our first song is "Now My Feet Won't Touch the Ground" by Coldplay. It is a peaceful, simple song, which we thought was very good background for the hike that Brontë and Brewster do together. The second is "Hear Me" by Imagine Dragons. This represents Brewster's pent-up rage, as shown when he recites "Howl". The next two songs, "I'm Yours" and "Monsters" also show Brewster's thoughts. "I'm Yours" is about how he may not be perfect, but he is enough for Brontë. "Monsters" is about how he feels about himself, how he thinks that he isn't a great guy. "Over My Head" and "Landslide" are about Brontë and how she never saw the fight coming, like the lyrics in "Over My Head", "I never knew that everything was falling through; that everyone I knew was waiting on a cue, to turn and run when all I needed was the truth." Brontë mentions how her family is on the verge of a "Landslide". The next songs, "The Scientist", "Exit Wounds", and "Barely Breathing", are about the family's crash and burn after the revelation that Lisa is having an affair. And, finally, "The Only Exception" is about Brewster's running from the house. He says he cannot care about Brontë. In "The Only Exception", part of the lyrics is, " And that was the day that I promised I'd never sing of love if it does not exist". What we were trying to reveal in these songs is that Brewster is trying to numb himself to the world, just as the album title says. Earlier in "The Only Exception", the singer sings about how her parents fell apart in love, how her father "broke his own heart". We think the same kind of thing happened to the Bruiser. His parents' lives fell apart, and he is scared the same thing will happen to him if he lets anyone in. This is thinking outside the box because we tried to make sense through music of a concept that has been unexplained so far.

[jordantopping808-blog]

CD Cover Our CD cover consists of 8 different songs that relate to each chapter title in the book Bruiser. Our first song was called Stop and Stare by OneRepublic. Stop and stare relates because Brewster was Stopping and staring at Brontë. One step at a time by Jordin Sparks. Next We related this song title the book because Brewster and Brontë need to take their very complex relationship one step at a time. The next title was explosion by Ellie Goulding. We related this title to the book by the title decimate and how the dinner with Brewster was a mass explosion because of how wrong it turned out. Our next song title was the song Howl! We related this to the story because of the poem that Brewster recited to Brontë which was called howl. Our next song title is puzzle with a missing piece by gotye! We related this because the song is describing like a conundrum or a puzzle! Next title is love the way you lie by Eminem! We related this song to the book because it talks about relationship problems just like in the book people are experiencing. Lastly we have Oblivious by Birgit Schuurman. We chose oblivious because it relates to the book in many ways. Such as how Tennyson and Brontë are oblivious to their parents wrong doings. We feel we have thought outside the box on this project because we had to use a different type of thinking in order to relate songs to the book. We needed to think outside the box on how the lyrics related and how it related by title.

[jackmcmanusenglish-blog]

Genre 2: Album Cover Airica and Jack We tried to make an album cover with songs to represent what goes on in this reading. Our first song is "Now My Feet Won't Touch the Ground" by Coldplay. It is a peaceful, simple song, which we thought was very good background for the hike that Brontë and Brewster do together. The second is "Hear Me" by Imagine Dragons. This represents Brewster's pent-up rage, as shown when he recites "Howl". The next two songs, "I'm Yours" and "Monsters" also show Brewster's thoughts. "I'm Yours" is about how he may not be perfect, but he is enough for Brontë. "Monsters" is about how he feels about himself, how he thinks that he isn't a great guy. "Over My Head" and "Landslide" are about Brontë and how she never saw the fight coming, like the lyrics in "Over My Head", "I never knew that everything was falling through; that everyone I knew was waiting on a cue, to turn and run when all I needed was the truth." Brontë mentions how her family is on the verge of a "Landslide". The next songs, "The Scientist", "Exit Wounds", and "Barely Breathing", are about the family's crash and burn after the revelation that Lisa is having an affair. And, finally, "The Only Exception" is about Brewster's running from the house. He says he cannot care about Brontë. In "The Only Exception", part of the lyrics is, " And that was the day that I promised I'd never sing of love if it does not exist". What we were trying to reveal in these songs is that Brewster is trying to numb himself to the world, just as the album title says. Earlier in "The Only Exception", the singer sings about how her parents fell apart in love, how her father "broke his own heart". We think the same kind of thing happened to the Bruiser. His parents' lives fell apart, and he is scared the same thing will happen to him if he lets anyone in. This is thinking outside the box because we tried to make sense through music of a concept that has been unexplained so far.