The catcher in the Rye

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Planning Reader project

Episode: Holden fights with Stradlater.
-An episode of the text rewritten to place the action in another setting.

E-Petition

Miss Carla should get new speakers for the English class.

Responsible department: ICT department

The English department does listening tests every period. But there are some situations they don't consider.

-We can't listen everywhere in the class.
-The speakers they use are the ones included in the computer or a really bad black speakers, both make it hard to listen. You can only understand what the people in the video are saying only if you are at 10 cm from the speakers.
-If the school gets new speakers we would be able to get better results in the listening tests.
-The school could use them to watch videos that afford important things to the class.
Everyone in the school would get benefits for this new speakers that we need a lot.

Chapter 5 Questions.

4)    Why does the dining hall at Pencey serve steak on Saturday nights?  Why is this reason typical of Pencey in general, at least at Holden perceives it?

A: They serve steak on Saturday nights because on sunday a lot of parents went to the school and they would probably ask their children what they ate last night, basically to give a good impression about the school.

5)    What does the fact that Holden invites Ackley to the movies show about Holden’s personality?

A: It shows he is a friendly person, he's nice to others even if he doesn't like them a lot.

6)    Why doesn’t Holden throw the snowball?

A: Because everything looked so nice and white, he didn't want to ruin those things.

7)    Does it surprise you that Holden writes the composition for Stradlater?  Why do you think he does it?

A: It did surprise me because why would anyone do others work just because they didn't want to, but I think he did it because he didn't have anything better to do.

8)    Why is Holden “not too crazy about describing rooms and houses” (38)?

A: Because they didn't mean anything to him, they were boring things.

9)    Compare and contrast Allie and Holden, based on Holden’s description of his younger brother.

A: Allie was really smart and a really good person, he never got mad, but Holden wasn't smart, he was kicked out because he wasn't good at school.

10) What words and actions demonstrate how Holden feels about Allie?  List at least two examples.

A: When he broke every window in the garage and his hand while doing it, because he was angry about Allie's death. And also the way he talks about Allie, he describes him as a wonderful person, for example "It wasn't just that he was the most intelligent member in the family. He was also the nicest, in lots of ways." also "God, he was a nice kid though"

International Organizations Activity.

I.- Information about different organizations

World Vision: It's a evangelical christian humanitarian aid, development and advocacy organization. They bring donors and sponsors alogside children communities in more than 100 countries.

World Trade Organization (WTO): It intends to supervise and liberalize international trade. It provides a framework for negotiating and formalizing trade agreements. It deals with regulation of trade between participating countries.

European Union: The European Union is an economic and political union of 28 member states primarily in Europe.

Greenpeace: It's goal is to ensure the ability of the earth to nurture life in all it's diversity. Greenpeace focuses it's campaigning on worldwide issues such as global warming, deforestation, overfishing, etc.

United Nations: It's an intergovernmental organization established to promote international cooperation. It was created to prevent another conflict like WWII.

International Monetary Fund (IMF): It's goal was to assist in the reconstruction of the world's international payment system post WWII. It works to foster global moneytary operations.

Answers to the questions in the guide:

1.- It prevents some thing from happening that are harmful for us, the world in general. And some of them help to "fix things that are happening.

2.- Each organization promotes something, whatever it is some countries get benefits from it, or they are good for the society, so they become interested in them and by participating they support every country in it and the purpose of the organization.

3.-Stop pollution, protect the diversity of natural life and the atmosphere, and pursue a nuclear-free world.

4.- Environmental problems lead to the emergence of international organizations such as greenpeace because some people were interested in the cause and they decided to get more people to support the cause too but for that they must get more people and more than a country, because a country isn't enough, everyone must cooperate. Also creating the organization and making it popular, they influence more people.

5.- Because they want to show they do it alone and with no help, without any extra money or help.

6.- Really important, they help to keep peace  around the world trying to avoid any war. Their success depends on agreement and cooperation between both parties.

7.- They suggested the Kyoto Protocol.

8.- Because the Kyoto Protocol would affect the United States economy.

9.- Kyoto protocol wasn't set for developing countries.