Nonfiction book padlet by Halle Chase https://padlet.com/hallechs94/kwib2x9yxo4p Orange is the New Black, Piper Kerman en-us 2016-09-19 17:27:30 UTC 2017-03-15 10:35:13 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padletuploads.blob.core.windows.net/aws/80961422/f3ce7749a9d5e7071c220444b031fa3993493cf0/926da18fbe111c4acc55d6aeb6b6e75d.jpg Reading Schedule hallechs94 https://padlet.com/hallechs94/kwib2x9yxo4p/wish/124839464 Here is where you will tell me what pages you will read for each week. I will give you class time Monday to create your site and map out a reading schedule for yourself based on the dates below. 

DUE DATES:  
9/23- 1-50
9/30- 50-100
10/7- 100-150
10/14-150-200
10/21-200-250
10/28-250-298]]> 2016-09-19 17:27:30 UTC https://padlet.com/hallechs94/kwib2x9yxo4p/wish/124839464 Week 1 (1-50) hallechs94 https://padlet.com/hallechs94/kwib2x9yxo4p/wish/124839465 September 23, 2016]]> 2016-09-19 17:27:30 UTC https://padlet.com/hallechs94/kwib2x9yxo4p/wish/124839465 After four years of study I still felt like a dilettante, underqualified and unmotivatedfor a life in the theater, but neither did I have an alternate plan, for academic studies, a meaningful career, or the great default- law school. hallechs94 https://padlet.com/hallechs94/kwib2x9yxo4p/wish/124839466 Dilettante- (noun) a person who cultivates an area of interest, such as the arts, without real commitment or knowledge.
Sentence: If I ever got involved in the arts, such as drama, the whole class would call me a dilettante because I am better subjects like math than anything in the arts.]]> 2016-09-19 17:27:30 UTC https://padlet.com/hallechs94/kwib2x9yxo4p/wish/124839466 "I never talked about my involvement with Nora to new friends, and the number of people who knew my secret remained very small. As time passes, I gradually relaxed inside my head. I started to feel as though there were no second shoe, and it had all been a crazy interlude. I thought I understood risk. I considered my time abroad with Nora a crash course on the realities of the world, how ugly things can get, and how important it is to stay true to yourself and even in the midst of an adventure or experiment. In my travels I had encountered all kinda of people whose dignity seemed to have a price-widely variable- and I thought that next time I had better set my price higher than anyone would pay."(17) hallechs94 https://padlet.com/hallechs94/kwib2x9yxo4p/wish/124839467 I picked this passage because it sums up the beginning first 30 pages and most of the memoir. In the beginning she starts out with Nora and gets caught up in the adventures Nora takes her on. She finally realizes how dangerous they really are and gets herself out before it's too late. She says that she has lost herself, which i predict most of the book will be about. It will be about her finally finding herself while she is in prison. Even if it means she's different then what other people expect such as her parents and boyfriend. I am excited to discover how the author changes and evolves throughout the book.]]> 2016-09-19 17:27:30 UTC https://padlet.com/hallechs94/kwib2x9yxo4p/wish/124839467 Short Bio of yourself - 60-100 words; why did you choose this particular book? hallechs94 https://padlet.com/hallechs94/kwib2x9yxo4p/wish/124839468 I decided to choose Orange is the New Black by Piper Kerman because I watched the Netflix series and I wanted to know how different the T.V. show was from the book. I've heard a lot about how the show over exaggerated things so I'm excited to learn the truth Usually when movies are compared to books, the book is always better. So, I am hoping the book is even better than tho show. I am also very interested in learning about how people are treated in prison and all of the different things that could go wrong. I wasn't very excited to have to read a non-fiction book, but this book could actually be very good.]]> 2016-09-19 17:27:30 UTC https://padlet.com/hallechs94/kwib2x9yxo4p/wish/124839468 Week 2 (51-100) hallechs94 https://padlet.com/hallechs94/kwib2x9yxo4p/wish/126532256 September 26th 2016]]> 2016-09-27 00:26:09 UTC https://padlet.com/hallechs94/kwib2x9yxo4p/wish/126532256 "In bursts of activity the polyglot of women came and went, clustered in groups, hurried, loitered, very often waited, and almost always chattered in an overwhelming rush of noise, accents, ad emotions mixing into swirling eddies of language." (61) hallechs94 https://padlet.com/hallechs94/kwib2x9yxo4p/wish/126532403 Polyglot- adj. knowing or using several languages
A lot of people described Jack has a polyglot, which I didn't understand until he told me he spoke English, Spanish, and Chinese.]]> 2016-09-27 00:27:46 UTC https://padlet.com/hallechs94/kwib2x9yxo4p/wish/126532403 "I had only the most tenuous idea of what might happen next, but I knew that I would have to be brave. Not foolhardy, not in love with risk and danger, not making ridiculous exhibitions of myself to prove that I wasn't terrified- really, genuinely brave. Brave enough to be quiet when quiet was called for, brave enough to observe before flinging myself into something, brave enough to not abandon my true self when someone else wanted to seduce or force me in a direction I didn't want to go, brave enough to stand my ground quietly. I waited an unquantifiable amount of time while trying to be brave." (35) hallechs94 https://padlet.com/hallechs94/kwib2x9yxo4p/wish/126532422 This passage really stands out to me because it just says a lot and its spelled out really simply. Piper Kerman says straight forward that to survive in prison, you have to be quiet at most times and avoid all of your normal instincts no matter what. No matter how much you might want to do something for fu or for the thrill, don't. Now that she is in prison she needs to be brave but a different kind of brave people are used to. Not fearless, not prepared to do anything, but the kind that is able to sit back and be quiet. It really stands out because being quiet can sometimes be the hardest thing to do in situations. ]]> 2016-09-27 00:27:59 UTC https://padlet.com/hallechs94/kwib2x9yxo4p/wish/126532422 "I had decided from the beginning to reveal nothing about my sapphic past to any other inmate."(76) hallechs94 https://padlet.com/hallechs94/kwib2x9yxo4p/wish/127418617 Sapphic- adj. of or relating to lesbians or lesbianism.
I had no idea that in high school she was in a sapphic relationship, I guess she was interested in different thing back then.]]> 2016-09-30 00:17:07 UTC https://padlet.com/hallechs94/kwib2x9yxo4p/wish/127418617 " When I thought about how terrified I had been of Rochelle, and why, I felt like a complete jackass. I had gone to school with, lived with, dated, and worked with middle-class black people my whole life, but when faced by a black women who hadn't 'been where I've been' I felt threatened, absolutely certain she was going to take something from me." (80) hallechs94 https://padlet.com/hallechs94/kwib2x9yxo4p/wish/127419073 I picked this passage because it shows how much peoples views can change in prison or where ever you are. For example in your own town, where ever your comfortable, you're fine with everyone. But then once you get out of your element and into somewhere strange all your views can change. Even if your not racist and have nothing against anyone, in prison especially, you will be extra scared of anyone who isn't your own race because that is how things are run. We are taught to be scared of things that are different when really, things are only scary if we make them to be.]]> 2016-09-30 00:23:41 UTC https://padlet.com/hallechs94/kwib2x9yxo4p/wish/127419073 Week 3 (101-150) hallechs94 https://padlet.com/hallechs94/kwib2x9yxo4p/wish/128966706 2016-10-06 19:56:15 UTC https://padlet.com/hallechs94/kwib2x9yxo4p/wish/128966706 "I understood on a visceral level, as he did not, that they really could end a visit and take all my privileges away.(120) hallechs94 https://padlet.com/hallechs94/kwib2x9yxo4p/wish/128967502 visceral- adj. relating to deep inward feelings rather than to intellect
Deep in my gut, I had a visceral sensation that he would break up with me, even though he said everything was fine.]]> 2016-10-06 19:59:35 UTC https://padlet.com/hallechs94/kwib2x9yxo4p/wish/128967502 "My mother drove six hours round-trip until I begged her to come every other week. I saw more of her during he eleven months I was at Danbury than I had in all my previous years." (111) hallechs94 https://padlet.com/hallechs94/kwib2x9yxo4p/wish/128970134 This passage, had been something that has surprised me the whole memoir. Throughout Pipers time in jail, many of her friends visited her and barely any cared that she was even in jail. In this it says she's seen her mom more while she was in jail than in past years. What I thought would happen, especially from where she came from, was that her friends would feel uncomfortable and never visit or think differently of her. I thought that jail would be an embarrassment for Piper and her friends nd family but it didn't seem to affect any except for her fiancé.]]> 2016-10-06 20:11:51 UTC https://padlet.com/hallechs94/kwib2x9yxo4p/wish/128970134 "No matter how stupid, how pointless, how painful my current situation was, as I listened to Mixtape every week I couldn't deny the love I still felt for the reckless, audacious fool who was still me, if only in my mind." (144) hallechs94 https://padlet.com/hallechs94/kwib2x9yxo4p/wish/128994019 This really stuck out to me because one thing I'm really into is music. I find that music, depending on what type you're listening to, can be a major stress reliever. This passage proves this by saying that even when she was in jail and things got really bad, music could make it better. I'm a big believer in music being very healing and that it can help people in a lot of situations. It can make people feel different emotions depending on the genre. I love how big of a thing it is in making Pipers day better and also how it reminds her of her past.]]> 2016-10-06 23:34:05 UTC https://padlet.com/hallechs94/kwib2x9yxo4p/wish/128994019 Week 4 (151-200) hallechs94 https://padlet.com/hallechs94/kwib2x9yxo4p/wish/130616357 2016-10-13 22:30:56 UTC https://padlet.com/hallechs94/kwib2x9yxo4p/wish/130616357 "I slapped it onto a huge, previously innocuous but now disgusting foot-long phallus." (172) hallechs94 https://padlet.com/hallechs94/kwib2x9yxo4p/wish/130616579 Innocuous- adj. not harmful or offensive
I used to think he was dangerous by the way he looked but turns out he's innocuous once I got to know him.]]> 2016-10-13 22:33:48 UTC https://padlet.com/hallechs94/kwib2x9yxo4p/wish/130616579 "Two hundred women, no phones, no washing machines, no hair dryers- it was like Lord of the Flies on estrogen. I sure as hell wasn't going to be Piggy" (174). hallechs94 https://padlet.com/hallechs94/kwib2x9yxo4p/wish/130616892 I picked this passage for this week because I thought it was funny. I liked how she related back to Lord of the Flies which was part of the Freshman english curriculum. I think the big thing about prison is everyone tries to avoid thinking about it. The worst part easily isn't the incarnation but the fact that you'd be deprived of what you normally use everyday. Consider going not a day but a year without a phone, washing machine, or hair dryer. A lot of people would consider this torture, but in jail it's normal. The simple necessities are things most people don't think about you really needing until you're forced to not have them.]]> 2016-10-13 22:38:13 UTC https://padlet.com/hallechs94/kwib2x9yxo4p/wish/130616892 Week 5 (201-250) hallechs94 https://padlet.com/hallechs94/kwib2x9yxo4p/wish/132315169 2016-10-21 12:16:06 UTC https://padlet.com/hallechs94/kwib2x9yxo4p/wish/132315169 "They were ingeniously constructed: double soles from shower shoes were bound together and then completely covered in pink and white cotton yarn crocheted into intricate designs." (207) hallechs94 https://padlet.com/hallechs94/kwib2x9yxo4p/wish/132315520 Ingenious- adj. cleverly and originally devised and well suited to its purpose.
When I finally turned in my project, my teacher was proud of my ingenious poster and how it was different from the rest of the class.


]]> 2016-10-21 12:18:00 UTC https://padlet.com/hallechs94/kwib2x9yxo4p/wish/132315520 " Standing there naked in the warden's bathroom, I could see that prison had changed me. Most of the accumulated varnish of the five unhappy years spent on pretrial was gone. Except for a decade's worth of crinkly smile lines around my eyes, I resembled the girl who had jumped off that waterfall more closely than I had in years" (192). hallechs94 https://padlet.com/hallechs94/kwib2x9yxo4p/wish/132319230 This is very important because it shows how people change in prison, not just their personality, but also physically. It's also important because before this Piper says this is the first time she has seen herself physically. Picture having to go years without being able to see yourself. It makes sense there are no mirrors because the glass could easily be used as weapons but it's another item no one thinks about not having. It's a whole different world in prison, which also brings out new identities and personalities of people.]]> 2016-10-21 12:35:17 UTC https://padlet.com/hallechs94/kwib2x9yxo4p/wish/132319230 "Usually I loved saying goodbye. Someone going home was a victory for us all. I would even go up there in the morning to say goodbye to people I didn't know very well-it made me that happy"(210). hallechs94 https://padlet.com/hallechs94/kwib2x9yxo4p/wish/132320017 This is interesting because i never thought that people being released would be that big of deal in prison since so many are let in an out every month. Apparently it is a huge and celebrated moment and it is very much appreciated. It reminds all the inmates that there will be a day they get out. I thought there would be some problems between inmates when one is let out because they would be jealous and angry they can't get out as well. It seems that a lot more friends are made in prison then enemies, at least for Piper. This allows people getting released an amazing occasion. ]]> 2016-10-21 12:38:42 UTC https://padlet.com/hallechs94/kwib2x9yxo4p/wish/132320017 Week 6 (250-298 hallechs94 https://padlet.com/hallechs94/kwib2x9yxo4p/wish/133865941 2016-10-28 12:29:32 UTC https://padlet.com/hallechs94/kwib2x9yxo4p/wish/133865941 "The institutions putzed along with the absolute minimum of staff presence, and the staff that were there invariably seemed less than interested in their jobs"(293). hallechs94 https://padlet.com/hallechs94/kwib2x9yxo4p/wish/133866784 Putzed- verb. engage in inconsequential or unproductive activity.
Most people in my study have putzed around and been  very loud so it's hard to actually get work done.

]]> 2016-10-28 12:33:43 UTC https://padlet.com/hallechs94/kwib2x9yxo4p/wish/133866784 "I turned and started walking briskly ahead of him. Ten yards farther, and I saw Larry, standing in front of the MCC, talking on his phone, until he turned and saw me. And I was runnning, as fast as I could. No one could stop me" (295). hallechs94 https://padlet.com/hallechs94/kwib2x9yxo4p/wish/133867615 I picked this passage on the final week of padlet because it shows she finally gets out of jail and gets what she wants. I like the last line "No one could stop me." because it means so much more than its literal meaning. It also means she finally has the freedom to do whatever she wants. She's out of prison and is appreciating being able to run towards Larry and do whatever she wants with him, which is what she's been craving the whole. This passage ends the book with happy feelings and I think it's a great passage to end this padlet with.]]> 2016-10-28 12:36:59 UTC https://padlet.com/hallechs94/kwib2x9yxo4p/wish/133867615