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1. Locate ten vocabulary words that are unfamiliar to you. This may be words you do not know or words used in a different way than the 'normal' way. Write the sentence the word is in and define it according to its usage in this sentence. 2. Choose one passage for literary analysis. This should be a passage that is rich in detail, diction and style. It should be one that speaks to you for its richness. Analyze according to specific directions. You will need to make a copy of this passage you annotate to turn in. 3. Write a literary letter of approximately 500 words Address the letter to me. A letter is informal writing. An essay rubric will not be used to judge this assignment; however, the criterial listed will be used to determine your grade. Remember--I want a LETTER, not a postcard! Suggestions for your letter. 4. Keep a record of symbolism and motifs are you read. You will need this for your final project. [] = = =Prereading= 2. Scott Westerfeld thinks that we are headed in the direction of us getting to choose how we look. Some people will stay the way they look because it is cool or they are powerful, and some people will try to be the best in manipulating themselves. Because of this, he wrote a book with fairly similar results. In the books, the local government forces you to look a certain way, like your parents do now. [] 3. [] [] BIB written in incorrect format. = Section 1 =

Number 1: //Yes, "semi" was definitely a __bogus__ word.// pg. 4 //She slipped on her interface ring and listened angrily as the ping played, saying that no one would be admitted tonight without a really __bubbly__ costume.// pg. 6 //"I give them fifty __milli-Helens__," he said.// pg. 24 //"Let's go as __Smokies__ tonight!"// pg. 15 //"You didn't __surge__ again, did you?" Tally asked, and Shay giggled.// pg. 7 //Tally thought of famous dictators from history, but most of them turned out to be men and __fashion-missing__.// pg. 10 //The plastic face jarred something in Tally, a painful memory that took a moment to __gel__.// pg. 19 //Tally leaned back against one of the cool stone walls, remembering the gray silk coveralls that __Specials__ wore and the cruel pretty faces they were given.// pg. 19 //The door closed behind her, muffling the __tumult__ of the party.// pg. 31 //Didn't you get the __ping__?"// pg. 5
 * Bogus** is used by pretties to mean anything bad or broken. It is the opposite of bubbly.
 * Bubbly** means a lot of things to pretties: the champagne they drink, the way they act at parties, and how they feel when they like someone. Anything stimulating is bubbly.
 * Milli-Helen** is exactly the right amount of beauty to launch one ship.
 * Smokies** are a group of rebels and runaways started by Maddy and Az, two surgeons who uncovered the bubblehead effect. They lived in a rustic mountain camp, using a combination of traditional and high technologies. They recruited runaway uglies from the cities, which ultimately led to their being tracked down and recaptured by Special Circumstances.
 * Surge** is short for surgery.
 * Fashion-missing** means uncool, out of fashion, or someone who simply doesn't seem to care. Also "face-missing."
 * Gel** means to settle in, clear up, or remember.
 * Specials** are members of Special Circumstances, the secret branch of city government that has replaced the military and intelligence services. They have their own kind of surgery that makes them "cruel pretties," beautiful but scary.
 * Tumult** is a violent and noisy commotion or disturbance of a crowd or mob or an uproar.
 * Pings** are messages carried by the city interface, the everpresent system of communication and control. Pings carry any kind of data you want a combination of e-mail, voicemail, and text-messaging.

Number 2: //The bash was in Valentino Mansion, the oldest building in New Pretty Town. It sprawled along the river only a few stories high, but was topped by a transmission tower visible halfway across the island. Inside, the walls were made of real stone, so the rooms couldn't talk, but the mansion had a long history of giant and fabulous bashes. The wait to become a Valentino resident was at least forever.// // Peris, Fausto, Shay, and Tally walked down through the pleasure gardens, which were already bubbling with people headed to the bash. Tally saw an angel with beautiful feathered wings that must have been requisitioned //  months //ago, which was so cheating, and a bunch of new pretties wearing fat-suits and masks that gave them triple chins. A mostly naked clique of Bashers were pretending to be pre-Rusties, building bonfires and drumming, establishing their own little satellite party, which was what Bashers did.// // Peris and Fausto kept arguing about when exactly to light themselves on fire again. They wanted to make an entrance but also wanted to save their sparklers for the other Crims. As they got closer to the mansion's noise and glimmer, Tally's nerves started to jump. The Smokey costumes didn't look like much. Tally wore her old sweater and Shay a copy, along with rough pants, knapsacks, and handmade-looking shoes that Tally had described to the hole in the wall, remembering someone wearing them in the Smoke. For unbathed authenticity they had rubbed dirt into their clothes and faces, which had seemed bubbly during the walk down, but now just felt dirty. At the door were two Valentinos dressed up as wardens, making sure no one got inside without a costume. They stopped Fausto and Peris at first, but laughed when the two set themselves on fire, waving them through. They just shrugged at Shay and Tally, but let them in... ...Tally saw snowmen, soldiers, thumb-game characters, and a whole Pretty Committee of scientists carrying facegraphs. Historical figures were everywhere in crazy clothes from all around the world, which reminded Tally how different everyone used to look back when there were way too many people. A lot of the older new pretties were dressed in modern costumes: doctors, wardens, builders, or politicians- whatever they hoped to become after having the middle-pretty operation. A bunch of firefighters laughingly tried to extinguish Peris's and Fausto's flames, but only succeeded in annoying them. //// pg.16-18 // 1. The action in this passage is just Tally, Shay, Fausto, and Peris going to a bash. The subject is all the different types of costumes at the bash. 2. See above passage. Diction- Diction Diction- word choice to convey a certain effect Detail- ​ Detail Imagery- Imagery Imagery- words or phrases a writer uses to represent people, objects, actions, feelings and ideas descriptively by appealing to the senses. ex: sight, sound, taste, smell, touch Comparisions- Comparisions 3. The author's attitude toward the subject in this passage is excited and interested because he goes into a lot of detail about the bash and their costumes.

4. Scott Westerfeld uses language to create a tone of excitement in this passage from __Pretties__. A theme from the passage is all the costumes. Westerfeld keeps talking about all of the different types of costumes at the bash. This is linked to the tone because if he had spent so much time describing the costumes, he must be excited by them. Westerfeld uses language to create tone.

Scott Westerfeld uses language to create tone. Diction is word choice to convey a certain effect. Westerfeld uses diction when he says // reminded Tally how different everyone used to look back when there were way too many people //. This is diction because it is telling about how she sort of disapproved of that time period and this creates a tone of disapproving. I sort of get what Tally is feeling. In her time, everything is controlled, including population. I would disapprove too. Westerfeld uses details to create certain tones.

Scott Westerfeld uses detail to create a certain tone. Westerfeld uses detail when he says //bunch of new pretties wearing fat-suits and masks that gave them triple chins//. This is detail because it tells about the new pretties' fat-suits. The details cause the reader to be able to visualize what their costumes looked like. Westerfeld is good at making the reader picture the scenes in your head as you read it. Westfeld also uses imagery.

Scott Westerfeld uses imagery to create a certain tone. Westerfeld uses imagery when he says // A mostly naked clique of Bashers were pretending to be pre-Rusties, building bonfires and drumming... // This is imagery because it tells about what they look like and what they are doing. The imagery in this passage allows the reader to picture the Bashers. Westerfeld also uses comparison.

Scott Westerfeld uses comparison to create a certain tone when he said //which had seemed bubbly during the walk down, but now just felt dirty// //.// This is comparison because it compares when they were walking to the bash and the time they are at now. The comparison in the passage shows how Tally felt at the two times mentioned in the passage. The passage tells the reader about life.

This passage tells the reader about life. It tells how Tally felt at the bash. If you were going to the bash where people would decide if you were good enough to be in a certain clique, you would be nervous too. Like Tally, you would try to be as "Crim" as you could be. You would also analize other people's costumes to make sure your's looked good. You would also be looking at others' costumes to see what they would look like.

Number 3:

Dear Mrs. Morgan, Scott Westerfeld is a sci-fi author. He has written many books, all sci-fis. He is from Texas and writes mostly young adult novels, but he has also written five adult novels. He wrote the __Uglies__ series because of what happened to his friend. His friend got a new job in Los Angeles (which totally get 50 __milli-Helens__, enough beauty to launch exactly one ship, even without all the tumult, violent and noisy commotion or disturbance of a crowd or mob or an uproa r ) and he went to the dentist there. He did the normal thing, cleaning and rinsing, and then the doctor asked him what he wanted to do with his teeth. Keep them the way they are, or get Tom Cruise teeth. Straight and white. This got Westerfeld thinking about what if someone could get their teeth altered in less time. Then he thought of everything else. The major characters in my novel are not believable. They are not believable because of what happens in the book. Real people wouldn’t have any major __bubbly__, anything stimulating, surgery, like the Pretties and __Specials__ do in this book. Specials are members of Special Circumstances, the secret branch of city government that has replaced the military and intelligence services. They have their own kind of surgery that makes them "cruel pretties," beautiful but scary. The government would also not put __bogus__, anything bad or broken, lesions in some one’s brain to keep them unknowing. Without all the sci-fi-ness, the characters would be believable. Tally, Zane, and Shay are all just normal people in the wacked up world they live in. They are in one of the biggest and least __fashion-missing__ (uncool, out of fashion, or someone who simply doesn't seem to care) cliques in New Pretty Town. Tally is a little less normal than the other two because every bad thing that happens in the books seems to center around her. Anything that happens to Shay or Zane or anyone else is most likely because of what Tally did. Her weaknesses are getting whatever she is supposed to get (i.e. Pretties __surge__, short for surgery, or a normal life). Her strengths are that whatever she sets her mind to, she does, one way or another. She is very determined. She also is good at messing things up. It might take a little while to __gel__, to settle in, clear up, or remember, but she always gets to her goal in her head, and then does it. When Tally ran from the __Smokies__ to the city with David, she knew exactly what she wanted to do and did it. The Smokies were a group of rebels and runaways started by Maddy and Az, two surgeons who uncovered the bubblehead effect. They lived in a rustic mountain camp, using a combination of traditional and high technologies. They recruited runaway uglies from the cities, which ultimately led to their being tracked down and recaptured by Special Circumstances. Tally went with David to get them back. Unluckily for Tally, she was the cause of the Smokies being captured because she had a pendant that sent a __ping__ (messages carried by the city interface, the ever present system of communication and control. Pings carry any kind of data you want a combination of e-mail, voicemail, and text-messaging) when she found the Smoke, leading the Specials to their hideout and helping the Specials get rid of a large resistance.

-Eveliina Fallini

=Section 2/3=

Number 1: //Zane still sometimes got crippling migraines that could put him out for hours...// pg.102 //Brewing smells began to percolate into the room...// pg.103 //Finally, some wardens showed up with the abandoned interface rings, medspray for Tally's palms, and muffins.// pg.105 //The hoverlifters that held the floating rink up in the air were easy to see...// pg.109 //His operation-augmented muscles had been freed from pretty timidity and sloth.// pg.110 //More booms thundered above her unleashing a steady rain of incandescence.// pg.114 //...-enough stimulation to break the logjam of her memories-...//pg.148 //up here in the void, the board's lifters might be useless for flying, but they would still interact with the metal in her crash bracelets.// pg.238 //"Maybe three hours, traveling tandem like this."// pg.326 //The camp was bedlam when they arrived.// pg.349
 * Migraines** are extremely severe headaches.
 * Percolate** is to filter through.
 * Medspray** is like a spray on band-aid with some medicines in it.
 * Hoverlifters** are big engine-like things that lift objects into the air.
 * Augmented** is to make larger, enlarge in size, number, strength, or extent; increase
 * Incandescence** is the emission of visible light by a body, caused by its high temperature.
 * Logjam** is any blockage of accumulation.
 * Crash bracelets** are hoverboard safety equipment.
 * Tandem** is one following or behind the other.
 * Bedlam** is a scene or state of wild uproar and confusion.

Number 2: //Tally was nervous about the breakthrough, but she and Zane didn't say much on the way to the skating rink. Although their cuffs couldn't hear anything while wrapped up in the heavy winter gear, silence was a habit that had begun to follow them everywhere. Tally had grown used to communicating in other ways: winks and rolled eyes and silently mouthed words. Living in an unspoken conspiracy filled every gesture with significance, charged every shared touch with unspoken meaning. Inside the glass elevator that carried them up to the floating sheet of ice, Zane took Tally's hand. His eyes flashed, as they did before a sudden, unexpected trick, like a snowball ambush from the roof of Pulcher Mansion. His playful glance was perfectly timed to settle Tally's nerves a little. it wouldn't do for the other Crims to see her anxious, after all. Most of them were already there, trading in boots for ice skates, finding bungee jackets in the right size. A few newly voted-in Crims were warming up, looking wobbly ankled on the floating ice, the sound of their skates like a library minder telling them to shush. . . . She saw that Shay had wrapped a black scarf around her forearm in solidarity. Shay had also sported a version of Tally's flash tattoo, a nest of snakes curling around one brow and down her cheek. A lot of the Crims had new facial tattoos with heart-rate triggers- you could see at a glance how bubbly they were. Self-heated coffee mugs sent clouds of steam into the air above the pack of Crims, and everyone's tattoos were spinning. . . . Tally checked the flash tattoo on Peris's forehead- a third eye that blinked with his heartbeat- and looked into his gorgeous brown eyes, brown and soft and depthless. Peris seemed bubblier than he had a month ago- all the Crims did- but Tally no longer saw improvement in him from day to day. It was so much harder for the// // rest of them who hadn't had the pills, who weren't half cured like Tally and Zane ////. They could get excited in the short term, but it was hard to keep them focused. . . . ...Tally pushed off against the flat of one blade, building up speed as she swept around the rink's outer edge. She looked down through the mottled window of ice underfoot. The hoverlifters that held the rink up in the air were easy to see, spaced in a grid a few meters apart and sending a sunburst of refrigeration tendrils. Much farther below, the broad oval of the sports stadium was visible, softly out of focus like the world through a pretty-minded haze. The stadium lights were coming on, warming up for the soccer game scheduled on forty-five minutes...// pg.106-109

1. The action in this passage is Tally and Zane going to the skating rink, getting ready, and skating there. The subject is what happens at the skating rink. 2. See above passage. Diction- Diction Diction- word choice to convey a certain effect Detail- ​ Detail Imagery- Imagery Imagery- words or phrases a writer uses to represent people, objects, actions, feelings and ideas descriptively by appealing to the senses. ex: sight, sound, taste, smell, touch Comparisions- Comparisions 3. The author's attitude toward the subject in this passage is excited and nervous because he is making Tally and Zane plan something big, and he wants to make sure it works, while having fun.

4. Scott Westerfeld uses language to create a tone of excitement in this passage from __Pretties__. A theme from the passage is the skating rink. Westerfeld keeps talking about what is happening at and on the way to the skating rink. This is linked to the tone because if he had spent so much time describing the people at the skating rink and what they were doing, he must be excited by them. Westerfeld uses language to create tone.

Scott Westerfeld uses language to create tone. Diction is word choice to convey a certain effect. Westerfeld uses diction when he says // who weren't half cured like Tally //// and //// Zane // . This is diction because it is telling about how she sort of felt that she and Zane were sort of different and maybe better then the rest of them and this creates a tone of aloof. I sort of get what Tally is feeling. In her time, everything is controlled, including what everyone thinks. I would feel different and maybe a little better then the rest of them too. Westerfeld uses details to create certain tones.

Scott Westerfeld uses detail to create a certain tone. Westerfeld uses detail when he says // the sound of their skates like a library minder telling them to shush //. This is detail because it tells about how the pretties' skates sounded. The details cause you to be able to visualize what their skates sounded like. Westerfeld is good at making the reader picture the scenes and hear the sounds in your head as you read it. Westfeld also uses imagery.

Scott Westerfeld uses imagery to create a certain tone. Westerfeld uses imagery when he says // his gorgeous brown eyes, brown and soft and depthless. // This is imagery because it tells about what Peris's eyes look like. The imagery in this passage allows the reader to picture Peris's eyes. Westerfeld also uses comparison.

Scott Westerfeld uses comparison to create a certain tone when he said // rest of them who hadn't had the pills, who weren't half cured like Tally and Zane // //.//This is comparison because it compares Tally and Zane to the rest of the Crims. The comparison in the passage shows how Tally feels about Zane and her being cured and the rest of the Crims at the time mentioned in the passage. The passage tells the reader about life.

This passage tells the reader about life. It tells how Tally felt at the skating rink. If you and your boyfriend were the only two people in the whole city who were different in a maybe better way, you would also be assessing the other people in your clique, trying to get them to be like you. Like Tally, you would try to be as "Crim" as you could be. You would also analyze other people's reactions to make sure your idea works, even a little bit. You would also be looking at others' reactions to see what they think about your plan.

Number 3:

Dear Mrs. Morgan, I thought this book was good. It had many twists and turns that kept me on the edge of my seat. I liked the end. It was suspenseful. If it ever got dull, then there would be an exciting part that would keep you absorbed in the book. When Tally and Zane broke the glass in the hovering skating rink, I thought that was really cool. When Peris decided to stay at New Pretty Town, I was sad. He had been Tally’s best friend since they were uglies together. Then Tally met Shay and she became Tally’s best friend. Then Shay became sort of cured and she got all mad at Tally for what had happened when they were uglies. I feel sorry for Tally because all her friends end up disappointing her. I didn’t like how Dr. Cable keeps on using Tally and Zane to get to the Smoke. It makes me mad how she doesn’t care about them, only herself and her objective. Dr. Cable is the main person in charge. She is the head Special, so that automatically gives her power. She exercises that power, going as high up in the hierarchal ranks as she can. She is able to make the Specials, who are like the whole police force, go anywhere and do anything. The Specials are inhumanly strong and fast, so they make great weapons. They are the people who force people who misbehave, in a very extreme way, into submission. Dr. Cable is a Special, and she uses the advantages. She scares people into doing what she wants. She seems to know everything that is happening and what the people who are revolting the most think and feel. When she is not able to scare the troublemakers into submission, she does everything in her power, which is a lot, to stop them from doing whatever it is they are doing or were going to do. She is especially determined to see the Smokies stopped. She was happy when the Smoke was destroyed, but livid when she found out that they had made the New Smoke. In section three, the book ends with Shay finding Tally. Not that big, right? Wrong. Shay was always big with new surges. New eyes, new tattoos, but now she has crossed a line. Dr. Cable offered Tally a spot as a Special, but she refused. Tally was offered the choice because she was tricky. She ran away to the Smoke and thought her way out of being a bubblehead, along with Shay. Apparently, Shay was offered a spot as one, too. The only difference is, Shay said yes. So now you have this crazy, revenge-hungry person with superhuman strength meeting Tally. Only now Shay doesn’t want to be enemies she wants to be friends, so she stabs Tally with a syringe. The last words in the book is Tally hearing Shay say “face it, you’re special.” So going along with that, I infer that Tally will become Special and tell the next book from a Special’s point of view. -Eveliina Fallini 