Before+I+Die

BEFORE I DIE  Brielle - Courtney - Jenna - Alexis - Gianna = =

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 * Jobs || Week 1 (1/5) || Week 2 (2/5) || Week 3 (3/5) || Week 4 (4/5) || Week 5 (5/5) ||
 * Group Leader: || Alexis || Courtney || Jenna || Brielle || Gianna ||
 * Quotation Finder: || Brielle || <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Alexis || <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Courtney || <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Gianna || <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Jenna ||
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Key Questioner || <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Jenna || <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Gianna || <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Brielle || <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Alexis || <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Courtney ||
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Group Summarizer || <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Courtney || <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Brielle || <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Alexis || <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Jenna || <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Brielle ||
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Group Summarizer || <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Gianna || <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Jenna || <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Gianna || <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Courtney || <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Alexis ||

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Book Club Schedule
<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> You should divide your book into 5 equal sections. For example, if your book has 100 pages, you should have five 20 page sections. You should read the appropriate section for each meeting.

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Requirements: <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Groups will decide appropriate penalties for group members who fail to uphold their responsibilities.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">PERSON A - GROUP LEADER - This group member will be responsible for both keeping the group on task throughout the meeting as well as responding to the week's topical questions, listed below.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">PERSON B - QUOTATION FINDER - This group member will be responsible for finding 5 important, meaningful quotations from their section of the text. They will also facilitate a discussion regarding these quotations.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">PERSON C - KEY QUESTIONER - This group member will be responsible for providing 5 open-ended questions regarding the week's reading section. These questions, and their responses, will be posted on the group's wiki.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">PERSON D - GROUP SUMMARIZER - This group member will be responsible for posting a thorough, two-paragraph summary of the group's Friday meeting, to be posted on the group wiki no later than the Sunday following the meeting.

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">NOTE: If your book club has three members, the roles B and C should be combined; if your book club has five members, two students should take the role of C (5 questions each).


 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Week One: **

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> Topic: Characters (Section 1 out of 5 of your text)

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> Assignment: <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> 1. On your group's wiki page, describe the main characters in your text. What makes them interesting? What is their story or background? Why are you drawn to them? Conversely, are there any characters that you just cannot stand? Why not? (A) <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> 2. Person B should share and discuss their selected quotations, using Save The Last Word techniques. <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> 3. Person C should post the meeting summary on the group's wiki page after class. <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> 4.Person D should share his/her questions with the group, as well as post the questions on the group's wiki page <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">roste

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">1. “I wish I had a boyfriend. I wish he lived in the wardrobe on a coat hanger. Whenever I wanted, I could get him out and he’d look at me the way boys do in films, as if I’m beautiful.” (page 1) <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">2. “Squeeze my hand,” dad said “I don’t want to hurt you,” “When your mother was in labour with you, she held my hand for fourteen hours and didn’t dislocate any fingers! There’s no way you’re going to hurt me, Tess” (page 38) <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">3. “I don’t have any other friends – and before you suggest it, I don’t want to make any. I’m not interested in rubberneckers wanting to get to know me so they’ll just get sympathy at my funeral.” (page 44) <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">4. ‘I follow Jake up the stairs, concentrate on the sway of his hips to keep myself cheerful. I felt a bit strange, dizzy, and slightly nauseous. I don’t think that walking up the stairs behind a guy would remind me of hospital corridors. Maybe I’m just tired.‘ (page 21) <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">5. ‘Zoey adds rum to hers from the hip flask she keeps in her bag. All the students at her college do this, she says, because it makes going out cheaper. Not drinking is one prohibition I’m going to stick to, because it reminds me of radiotherapy. I once got wasted between treatments on a mixture of stuff from Dad’s drinks cabinet, and now the two are stuck together in my head. Alcohol and the taste of total body irrttation.’ (page 11)
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">-Quotation Finder: Brielle Droste **

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> 1. Is her dad a smoker? <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> 2. Did Zoey ever try smoking? <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> 3. In chapter 9 does Zoey’s dad get mad? <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> 4. What did they call the dress when it was on fire? <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> 5. On pg. 38 why did Zoey not want to squeeze her dad’s hand?
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">-Question Finder: Jenna Celentano **

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> Tess is a girl that has been fighting against cancer for the past 4 years. She made a list of what she wants to do before she dies. Tess has a negative attitude towards everything. She has a younger brother, who just makes her feel bad too. Tess isn't going to school. She normally just lays in her bed all day, but now she is trying to go to get up and actually do stuff. She is trying to complete her list of 10 things before she dies, she already has completed number
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> -Characters: Brielle Droste & Courtney Basovsky **

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> Before I Die by Jenny Downham, is about a teenage girl Tessa, who has been battling cancer for the past four years. Tessa has a list of things she wants to do before she dies, her best friend Zoey motivates her to keep going along with her list. Tessa already accomplished the number one thing on her list, sex. Tessa’s cancer is getting worse and worse and her time is very limited. When she thinks about all the things she is going to miss about life, she gets very upset. Tessa burns all of her old photos and her get well cards so she doesn’t have to remember her past. Tessa is now working on number two on her list, which is saying yes to everything.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">-Summary: Courtney Basovsky **

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> Tess 16 year old girl is facing death. She wants to live her life before she is gone forever. Her friend Zoey and her think up of a idea of a list. Which is introduced in the beginning of the chapters. The first is sex. So she goes to this guys house with her friend Zoey and she completes number one on her list. Number two: say yes to everything or anything asked of her.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">-Summary: Gianna Cocozzo **


 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Week Two: **

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> Topic: Language (Section 2 out of 5 of your text)

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> Assignment: <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> 1. On your group's wiki page, discuss the type of language that your book contains. Is it easy to read? Conversational? "Classic"? Does it use a lot of words you don't understand? What grade level do you think the book is written at, and why? (B) <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> 2. Person B should share and discuss their selected quotations, using Save The Last Word techniques. <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> 3. Person C should post the meeting summary on the group's wiki page after class. <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> 4.Person D should share his/her questions with the group, as well as post the questions on the group's wiki page

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">1. How does Tessa's personality strike you ? <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">2. Do you feel Adam is keeping a secret from the readers? <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> 3. What do you think Tessa's dad goes through? <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> 4. Do you agree with Tessa's list? <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> 5. How do you like Zoey?
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Key Questioner - Gianna Cocozzo **

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">“ I’m not sick any more.” I’m so excited it’s difficult to speak. “I need to stay here in the wood. I need to keep away from the modern world and all its gadgets then I wont be sick. You can stay with me if you want. We’ll build things, shelters and traps. We’ll grow vegetables.” Page 101.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> Quotation Finder - Alexis Perricelli **

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">“Tessa,” he says, “do you know what hypocalcaemia is?” <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">“If I say no, can I have something else?” page 76.

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">“She’s not with me,” I tell him. “I don’t know her.” Page 69.


 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Week Three: **

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> Topic: Mood/Tone (section 3 out of 5 of your text)

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> Assignment: <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> 1. On your group's wiki page, discuss the mood or tone of your book.What is the overriding emotion of this book? What examples back up your claim? (B) <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> 2. Person B should share and discuss their selected quotations, using Save The Last Word techniques. <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> 3. Person C should post the meeting summary on the group's wiki page after class. <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> 4.Person D should share his/her questions with the group, as well as post the questions on the group's wiki page


 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">- Key Questioner - Brielle Droste **

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">1.Where does Tessa make Zoey go with her? <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">- The mini mart to shop lift. <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">2. Who do they meet up with after they leave the mini mart? <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">- Two girls from their school. <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">3. Did Tessa + Zoey get caught? <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">- Yes, by the store officers. <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">4. What do Tessa + Cal find? <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">- A dead bird. <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">5. What happens to Tessa? <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">- She gets really dizzy.

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> “Fascinating as this is, we’ve got to go now. I have to collect the invited for my funeral.” Page 129
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">- Quotation Finder - Courtney Basovsky **

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> “We don’t need a map.” <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> Page 154

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> “If the second window turns pink and stays pink, then you’re pregnant. It stayed pink twice.” <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> Page 165

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> “What the worst that can happen?” <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> “It’ll hurt,” he says. <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> “It already hurts.” <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> Page 175

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> “Chemo prolongs your life,” I say, “but it makes you feel bad. I was having some pretty heavy therapy and I knew if I stopped, I’d be able to do more things.” <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> Page 190

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Zoey begins to get upset with not seeing Scott. Tessa’s dad finds out his daughter tried to Shoplift. Tessa begins to rip apart everything. Adam and Tessa decide to be friends, because he knows something will happen to Tessa eventually. Zoey begins to get really dizzy, and she begins to push of Adam and tell him to get away from here.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">- Group Summarizer - Alexis Perricelli **

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Tessa has another thing added to her list and it breaking the law. So she drags Zoey to the mini mart to shop lift. After grabbing a few things from the store and putting them in the jacket Adam had gave her to stay warm, Zoey and herself find themselves running into two girls they use to go to school with them. The store officers find her and bring her in a office, they give her a choice to call her dad or police she chooses her dad. Her dad comes gets her and brings her home: he was disappointed. Her and Cal find a dead bird on the lawn with maggots all around; they decide to bury it. The next thing on her list is fame, so her dad gets her the chance to be on the radio and tell her story.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">- Group Summarizer-Gianna Cocozzo **


 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Week Four: **

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> Topic: Themes/Images (section 4 out of 5 of your text)

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> Assignment: <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> 1. On your group's wiki page, discuss the themes and images that your book contains. What are some of the images that are used? What do they seem to represent? Why do you think the author uses these images to convey his or her meaning? <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> 2. Person B should share and discuss their selected quotations, using Save The Last Word techniques. <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> 3. Person C should post the meeting summary on the group's wiki page after class. <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> 4.Person D should share his/her questions with the group, as well as post the questions on the group's wiki page

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> Tessa completed number eight on her list, becoming famous. Her father takes her to talk on a radio show about her cancer. Its Christmas and Tessa and her family have over Adam and his mom for dinner. Adam and Tessa fall even more in love. Tessa has a really bad nose bleed and she looses a lot of blood. She goes to the hospital and gets a transfusion. Next on her list is for Adam to move in with her, she wants him to keep her safe at night. Her father finally agrees and lets him stay. About a month later Tessa gets worse and faints and needs to be hospitalized. She knows her days are numbered so she goes home so she can live her last days out with her family.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> Summarizer - Courtney Basovsky **

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">- She wants to name her baby Lauren Tessa Walker. <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">- She wants Adam to move in. <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">- Because she has a nosebleed. <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">- Adam’s mother, Adam, and Zoey come over. <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> 5. Does Tessa get to see Zoey's baby? <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> - No, she dies before it.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Questions - Alexis Perricelli **
 * 1) <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">What’s does Zoey want to name her baby?
 * 1) <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">What one thing on her list does Tessa really want?
 * 1) <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Why does Tessa go to the hospital in the middle of the night?
 * 1) <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Who comes over for Christmas dinner?

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">1) “I want you to be with me in the dark. To hold me. To keep loving me. To help me when I get scared. To come right to the edge and see what’s there.” (Downham 237). <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">2) “I’ll always be here for you Tess”(Downham 240) <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">3) “I couldn’t; manage that kind of fear.” (Downham 246) <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">4) “She’s moving”(Downham 247). <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">5) “ No chance of a burger then?”(Downham 248)
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Quotes - Gianna Cocozzo **


 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Week Five: (LAST MEETING) **

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> Topic: Responding to the Text (section 5 out of 5 of your text)

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> Assignment: <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> 1. On your group's wiki page, discuss your final reflections on this book. Would you recommend it to peers? Why or why not? Has this topic been discussed more/less effectively in another book or books? Should this book be considered for the school's curriculum? (B) <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> 2. Person B should share and discuss their selected quotations, using Save The Last Word techniques. <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> 3. Person C should post the meeting summary on the group's wiki page after class. <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> 4.Person D should share his/her questions with the group, as well as post the questions on the group's wiki page

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Tessa begins to get very sick, she knows she will die soon, soon she can’t talk, or anything. She lay’s there, hearing other people voices which sound like a muffle to her. Adam and Cal are in the room watching Tessa as she begins to make a sound; her voice begins to make a weird noise, like she hasn’t got anything liquid done there. Soon, they realize she’s dying they get her dad and everyone. They being to tell her I love you and that it’s fine to leave, they feel Tessa needs guidance to leave and for them to let her go. Tessa then dies moments later.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">- Group Summarizer - Alexis Perricelli& Brielle Droste **

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">1. Even though Tessa is sick, why does she leave the hospital? <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">-Tessa would rather live while she can then act as if she was dead while she was still live. Also she wants to spend the last days she has with her family.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">- Questions - Courtney Basovsky **

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">2. Why did Adam need to start sleeping on the floor? <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">-Tessa was in too much pain to have anyone touch her while she was sleeping but in the morning she found Adam on the floor and didn’t remember yelling at him in the middle of the night.

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">3. When Tessa tells Zoey about the dream she had about Zoey’s baby, do you think Zoey was happy with her description? <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">-I think that Zoey was happy that Tessa was thinking about her and that even though she wasn’t going to be here to see the actually baby she did get to see her in some way.

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">4. Do you think Adam really loved Tessa? <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">-Yes, I think he really cared for Tessa. They were in love and although it was only for a short time, Adam will always have a nice memory of all the time he did spend with Tessa. Tessa was lucky to of found a guy like him who was there for her in her time of need.


 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">- Reflect - Brielle **

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">The theme of this story is to live your life to the fullest. In the beginning, Tessa didn't care about anything, she knew that she was going to die and didn't do anything to make her last days good ones. Then as she met new people, she realized that she shouldn't just be letting her days pass away, she wanted to really live her life to the fullest.


 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">- Reflect - Alexis **

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">The theme of this book is showing that why waste your time with the little you have left in life, go out have fun and live your life to the fullest. Take risk, take chances, and leave back something behind. Show everyone your not afraid of what is in the future for you and live life how you would live it if their wasn't something stopping you ahead.


 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">- Reflect - Gianna **

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">The books message to me as that just because your dying doesn't mean that you should waste the rest of the days you have left away, live life to the fullest and don't stop till you have successfully reached everything you wanted to do in life. Tessa in the beginning didn't care much about dying or leaving the people she loved behind; death was like a holiday that she didn't care came. Towards the end she realized their was things she wanted to see and do, things she could remember in life. When she finally becomes closer with her family and herself, she comes in contact to her fist love Adam.


 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">- Reflect - Courtney **

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">To me this book was one of the best books I've ever read. It taught me that no matter what happens you need to live life to the fullest. You can't just give up on life because something doesn't go your way. Tessa, the main character, suffered from cancer through the entire story. In the beginning she just wanted to die and didn't care about anything or anyone. But as the story continued she realized that she needed to do the things she always wanted to do. Although she dies in the end, I think she left her friends and family the way she wanted.

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%;">**WE ALL LOVED BEFORE I DIE! WE REALLY RECOMMEND IT! **