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Section/Chapters: Chapters 1 (Rocket Summer) - Chapter 7 (And the Moon Be Still as Bright)

Members Absent: None

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In Ohio, winter is most of the time cold, but gets hot at times like the time there was a “Rocket summer” which is where it got hot from the rockets going to space. A couple, Mr. And Mrs. Ylla are very savvy with tech but are simplistic livers and are Martians. When all of the humans are moving to the moon, Mrs. Ylla dreams of a earther named Nathaniel York, but Mr. Ylla doesn’t like this so he puts a stop to thoughts on this dream. On the second trip to Mars, was called Tyr by the Martians and the Martian scientist Mr. Lii captures humans from earth. He puts them in a mental institution and Mr. Lii kills these men but hallucinates about them even after the fact that they are dead. This leads to him taking his own life because he thinks he’s sick.  We are introduced to another character, Prichard who escaped onto the expedition due to his bad feeling of life on earth at the time. When Captain Buck and the third expedition land on Mars, it reminds them of earth because of similar living ways. At this time now, Martians act as human family members and use telepathy. On the fourth expedition, the earth men realize that all of the Martians have died from chickenpox.

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Section/Chapters: Chapters 15 (Way in the Middle of the Air) - Chapter 21 (The Off Season)

Members Absent: None

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It starts with the Civil Rights Movement on Earth and then people are shocked when African Americans are now coming to Mars on rockets. This is odd because it illustrates how people prefer to avoid problems instead of trying to fix them in a developed society. Humans implement their culture into Mars by naming monuments human names. This gives us the idea that they are trying to assert some sort of power as if now they own Mars. The government which is futuristic attempts to outlaw literature but Stendhal opposes it. He creates a mansion where he murders government officials at a fake party like Edgar Allen Poe writes about in one of his works. Later on, as a nuclear war happens on earth, the owner of a baggage store on Mars mentions the immediate return of people to Earth. This gives another example of how humans try to always avoid problems and obstacles in life.

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Make a bold prediction. Explain

One bold prediction that I am making is that there will become a growing conflict on Mars as human colonization continues there. Tensions between aliens and humans will rise and the different cultures of the two different beings won’t mix causing this conflict. I think that this conflict will lead to some sort of battle and whoever wins it will eventually end up taking over Mars. The fate of the martians relies on whether or not they sort out differences with the colonizing humans. They need to create a balance with them. I think this will happen because of what has happened so far like things of cultural differences and the differences shown between the humans and martians in these early chapters. These tensions don’t decline, but only rise because the humans won’t back down on colonizing Mars, the Martians’ homes. This actually happened when the British tried to take over America from the colonizers, leading me to my conclusion on my prediction.

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Section/Chapters: Chapter 8 (The Settlers) -Chapter 14 (The

Musicians)

Members Absent: None

Discussion Highlights/Plot Highlights:
New colonizers which were called “settlers keep on immigrating more and more to Mars for various reasons. They begin to take ideas from earth like canals and sowing seeds and doing them on Mars, showing how they are slowly claiming Mars. Ben Driscoll, a settler, tries to get people to plant trees in order to provide oxygen. Even though the rockets may burn trees because they come and go so much, Mars would morph into a “shining orchard”. As the second part of colonization, builders began to come to Mars. A character named Tomás goes exploring on Mars and sees a Martian, but can’t talk to it because they speak different languages but eventually sort of learn what they are trying to say. The Martian picks up his language and introduces himself as Muhe Ca and says he is spending the night at an exciting city. Tomás says that city is dead but Muhe Ca says that they are in different contexts which are past and present. More immigration occurs, American settlers come in waves as the rest of the world is “burred in war or the thoughts of war” (Bradbury 115). This reading ends with young boys going to an abandoned Martian town.

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Meeting 1 Date: 1/19/24
Pages/Chapters: Chapters 1 (Rocket Summer) - Chapter 7 (And the Moon Be Still as Bright)

Meeting 2 Date: 1/30/24
Pages/Chapters: Chapter 8 (The Settlers)-Chapter 14 (The Musicians)

Meeting 3 Date: 2/7/24
Pages/Chapters: Chapters 15 (Way in the Middle of the Air)- Chapter 21 (The Off Season)

Meeting 4 Date: 2/15/24
Pages/Chapters: Chapters 22 (The Watchers)-Chapter 26 (The Million-Year Picnic)

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Name: Jack Durnan
Email: 25117jd@chaminade-hs.org

Name: Nicholas Forgione
Email: 25140nf@chaminade-hs.org

Name: Alex Fiorillo
Email: 25133af@chaminade-hs.org

Name: Lukas Takvor
Email: 25386lt@chaminade-hs.org

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All members are responsible for completing and submitting the Padlet. If you are absent, you STILL NEED TO COMPLETE THAT WEEK’S WORK! Ask your group members to fill you in on missed agenda items

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Section/Chapters: Chapters 22 (The Watchers)-Chapter 26 (The

Million-Year Picnic)

Members Absent: None

Discussion Highlights/Plot Highlights:
Settlers on Mars follow how Earth is being destroyed by nuclear war. After leaving, the earth en cut off communication with Earth due to a feeling of guilt by leaving their homeland in the dust. Walter Gripp meets Genevieve Selsor, the last woman on Mars and spends time alone with her. This shows how all humans can’t live alone and need connections and companionship. Hathaway has a heart attack and passes away after first expedition Captain, Captain Wilder landed on Mars. Wilder discovered that his family is actually robots and not humans. Then we jump into a post nuclear war earth where an automated home is in operation despite humanity being gone. The Williams family goes to Mars and lives a new life. Mr. William’s says to his kids that they were going on vacation but are actually living there, once and for all. When books are burned the people burning them lol into water and see themselves as Martians, resembling how humans and Martians are the same. These humans are now referred to as Martians.

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The biggest disappointment we decided on as a group of part three was the outlawing of creativity in Usher II.  The outlawing of creativity is a disappointing part of this book because of the future it shows we are heading.  The disappointing nature represents a dystopian side of the future which could be coming our way with the development of technology.  We also were disappointed that the main character had to kill in order to continue pursuing creativity.  The suppression of ideas was extremely disappointing for us.

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Agenda Topic 1: Who was your least favorite character?

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Agenda Topic 1: Who was your least favorite character?

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Our least favorite character so far in The Martian Chronicles is Mr. Ylla because he shot and killed Mr. Splendor. This caused the wife that was meeting people that were going to help her to explain her dreams not be able to do it. Since this happened, this wife became depressed because she couldn’t figure out the meaning of her dreams. Since Splendor dies, Mrs. Ylla’s dreams are now also ruined since he has died, giving another reason to not like Mr. Ylla as a character. He shows oppressive behaviors towards his wife which do not seem right while also acting as a dictator over his wife’s actions making him a terrible husband.

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You can discuss the Agenda Topics in your group discussions, but the Meeting Reflections are INDIVIDUAL reflections - each person will have his own different reflections

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Agenda Topic 1: Who was your favorite character? Why?

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Agenda Topic 1: Who was your favorite character? Why?

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Our favorite character in this book would be Mrs. Ylla. Mrs. Ylla is our favorite character because her husband is very mean and treats her terribly, making us have sympathy for her. Another reason is because she tries to connect and sort of make peace with the colonizing humans on Mars. She even has a dream of a human from earth showing how she wants to connect and dive deeper into how the humans live life and what they do. We also feel sympathy for her because of her fate. Lastly, we like Mrs. Ylla is our favorite character because she follows her heart and goes against her people by trying to connect with the humans instead of getting rid of them. She can be an inspiration to many of the Martians and cause for more to try and create peace by seeing what she is doing.

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Agenda Topic 2: Who is your least favorite Character so far?

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Agenda Topic 2: Who is your least favorite Character so far?

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After this meeting, we have a different least favorite character in the past few chapters read, Mr. Teece. Mr. Teece is our least favorite character because he shows many of the bad sides to what is happening in the process of the humans colonizing Mars. He doesn’t show any respect for the life or the things around the life of the Martiansnwhile colonizing, while it is not only Mr. Teece, many others do it as well, but Mr. Teece does it to a big extent. Mr. Teece explicitly shows this in Chapter 17 when he has a big role in taking advantage of the Martian artifacts. He sees them as non-historical pieces of life and sees them as a way to make money and things to be sold to earth. Many of his actions, such as this, are most likely how the humans may destroy the Martian’s lives and society, giving him the role of our least favorite character.

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Insert a Gif or series of emojis that best sum up your feelings on the group, book, the sweet new workshop rules, and/or the 1st quarter of your book, and of course, explain

Our thoughts on the first quarter of the book and the revised workshop guidelines are best shown by this GIF. To start, we find many of the author's and the characters' decisions in this novel unclear. For example, Ylla's husband told her that she was hallucinating things and that she should see a doctor when she told him about her dreams and visions of the humans. But the night she informed him that a ship would be landing, he decided to murder humans who arrived on the ship and then told Ylla that nobody was there. This led us to wonder whether he was aware of the ship landing or the human race in general, leading us to wonder what the author was trying to accomplish. Second, our group is confused by the new workshop rules because they make it more difficult for us to create our padlets because we can't access them while discussing the book.

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Agenda Topic 2: Logos Appeal in the chapters read

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Agenda Topic 2: Logos Appeal in the chapters read

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Ray Bradbury uses many Logos appeals throughout the entire book to make the reader question things that are happening in the book. One example of a logos appeal that Bradbury uses is when the kids on Mars stomp on the dead people. The kids on Mars had become bored and decided to stomp on the bones and corpses of the dead Martians who had lived there in the past. The logos appeal here is that the reader knows that stomping on dead people is wrong and this gets the reader intrigued and shocked. However, it also makes the reader question how messed up and different this new society is and how people have developed differently here than on earth. This example highlights the true dystopia Bradbury created in this book.

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Workshop Class is now an iPad FREE ZONE!! You can use a notebook to jot notes, reflections, thoughts down, and then they can be put onto the Padlet later. Padlet responses don’t need to be in complete sentences.

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Agenda Topic 2: Who was your least favorite character? Why?

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Agenda Topic 2: Who was your least favorite character? Why?

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Our least favorite character in this book would be Garrett. Garrett is a guy who conforms to the society and does not play any special role in the society. Garrett was a puppet to the government and the controllers of society and he did not fight for what he believed was right and just, rather he just accepted what the government said and was a droid for them. Garrett also tried to stop Stendahl, who tried to break this dystopian society and free literature. Overall, we disliked Garrett the most because he was very conformed and tried to fight and terminate Stendahl's work and life.

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Agenda Topic 3:Who is your favorite character so far?

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Agenda Topic 3:Who is your favorite character so far?

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After this meeting, we all agreed that Stendahl is our favorite character so far in the book. The reason why we decided that Stendahl is the best character is because he goes against the dystopian society and fights the corrupt government. This resembles characters like Bernard in Brave New World and Guy Montag in Fahrenheit 451. We liked how he outsmarted the government and used their own banned literature to lure them in and eventually kill Garrett in a very ironic way, like that of the books he portrayed throughout the house. We all feel that we can connect to him as he fights the dystopian society to create what closely resembles our own society on Earth and not the dystopian Earth society in the book.

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Identify 1 argument the author is making. How is he/she making it? What kind of argument is it. What kind of appeal is he/she using? How effective is it?

One argument the author is making is that the Martians are extremely powerful creatures. He does not directly imply this and state ways in which the Martians are extremely powerful, but he reveals how powerful they are through many examples in the first quarter of the book. This argument that Bradbury makes is a deductive reasoning argument because he does not tell us how powerful they are but gives us hints and examples for us to understand how powerful they must have been. He uses appeals such as the allusion to classic works of literature and imagery of the Martian's technology and intelligence-filled society. This argument he makes is very effective because these examples and literary appeals he uses really draw the reader into believing and thinking about how truly powerful the Martians are.

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Agenda Topic 3: Pathos appeal in chapters read

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Agenda Topic 3: Pathos appeal in chapters read

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Pathos appeals are highlighted multiple times throughout The Martian Chronicles.  The most apparent Pathos appeal was the questioning of emotion between the Martians and the humans.  Muhe Ca, a Martian, finds contact with a human named Tomás.  The two’s first interactions contain the questioning of who, what and what are their emotions towards what is happening on their planet.  They both questioned each other's backgrounds to figure out who they were and how they felt.  Bradbury did this to make the reader think to himself why they are questioning each other and what they are trying to figure out.  The pathos appeal should also make the reader think to themselves about what we should feel when we are put into strange situations such as the one Tomas and the Martian were in.

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Agenda Topic 3: Which one was better - the 1st Trimester book or the 2nd Trimester book? Explain

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Agenda Topic 3: Which one was better - the 1st Trimester book or the 2nd Trimester book? Explain

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The better book in our opinion was The Martian Chronicles in the second trimester because of the better pace it took and the level of interesting things it had to offer.  The format of Martian chronicles was much different than what I was used to from a book as there was a lot going on very early.  At first even with the dull nature of Old School we thought Martian chronicles was going to be worse but, as we understood what was going on and how the format of the book worked we all really enjoyed reading it and felt we took out of it all that we could have.

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1. All of us contributed heavily and were both on pace with where we needed to be reading wise. We all improved on organizing our discussion better.

2. This meeting was very well organized and a lot of things got done because of shared thoughts and both of us being around the same area of the book.

3. Awe greatly took our own advice from last meeting and discussion and reflection and while we were reading, remembered to try and take out more important and more plot points from the reading that would contribute to discussion.

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1. The meeting went very well today as we both made a lot of connections from the text into real life things. One real life thing that we connected this book to is when the British began to try and take over America while the colonists have been doing so before them. We said this is just like the Humans coming onto Mars and taking over Mars while the Martians have already been colonizing.

2. All of us contributed heavily and were both on pace with where we needed to be reading wise. We also were able to make more discussion than we actually intended to do which is good.

3. Even though we got a good amount of discussion in our meeting, we are going to try to be more coordinated in our discussion and form more thoughtful opinions on the book. Instead of just blurting out what we think.

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1. The meeting went well and everyone read the expected amount. Even though we missed this class due to a virtual day or something that caused the class to be cancelled, we all read in our own time.

2. Going off of how we didn’t actually have a class to meet up and do this, everyone contributed well to what they were assigned to do today and so far everyone in the group is still intrigued in the novel.

3. The discussion went pretty smoothly and everyone seemed to comprehend the reading we assigned ourselves very well. We really discussed most of this in the second meeting due to us not having an actual first meeting and managed to also get all of the second meetings work done as well.

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1. We got all of the book done and read diligently in order to finish the book on our last meeting. Even though we missed this class day because of a virtual day, we still managed to finish the work.

2. We all engaged immensely in the agenda topics and really expressed what we thought. On the third agenda topic, I think that I really dove into whether I liked this book or not rather than the first book I read. I ended up agreeing that I liked the book for the most part.

3. Overall, I think that we all learned from our previous reflections and even our first trimester reading groups on how to read in ways that we maintain more important information so that our discussions flow better and so we can connect more. By doing this we were able to make deeper, more educational connections in our discussions which led to better answers to our agenda topics with more evidence and information to back up our answers.