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=__Group Members: Ryan Lewis, Harrison Milacek, Matt Velthaus, Brandon Latteri, and Ari Levin__=


 * Week One: December 17**

Topic: Characters (Section 1 out of 5 of your text)

Assignment: 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) 2. Person B should share and discuss their selected quotations, using Save The Last Word techniques. 3. Person C should post the meeting summary on the group's wiki page after class. 4.Person D should share his/her questions with the group, as well as post the questions on the group's wiki page


 * Brandon Latteri Group leader**- Marcus is adventurous, he is also very smart. He liked to hack computers at his school and liked to play Harajuku fun madness. It is a game were you must decode messages which leads you to more coded messages. He grew up in California and is 17 years old. He gets in trouble a lot at school, his best friend is Darrel and his is also into computers. I personally don’t like the main character. I think Marcus likes computers to much. The group thinks Marcus is kinda a nerd and they don’t like him that much. I like Darrel more then i like Marcus because he seems cooler and he seems like he is less obsessed with computers then Marcus.

Harrison Milacek “The schoolbooks were the snitchiest technology of them all, logging every keystroke, watching all the network traffic for suspicious key words, counting every click, keeping track of every fleeting thought you put out over the net.” “Someone freaking stabbed him in the crowed,” Jolu said, his hands clenched into fists. “Christ that’s vicious.” “He saluted the people in the truck and they saluted him back and that’s when I knew that I wasn’t a prisoner of some terrorist-I was a prisoner of the United States.” “In hindsight, maybe I should have unlocked my phone for them.” “You can cooperate, or you can be very, very sorry.” A: Gamer Chick A: Marcus’s friend who got in trouble a lot in school and now is facing the consequences. A: Darryl in the middle of the crowd. A: He put rocks in his shoes to not get detected by the cameras. A: He sent 1000 text messages to shut down the phone.
 * Ryan Lewis**
 * 1) What do you think of Van?
 * 1) What is your opinion on Darryl?
 * 1) Who got stabbed?
 * 1) What did Marcus do to get out of school?
 * 1) What did Marcus do to Charles phone?


 * Ari Levin**

Who abducted Marcus and his friends? The Untied States Department of Homeland Security.

Where were Marcus and his friends taken to? They were taken to a government facility in a unknown location?

What was Marcus initial reaction to extreme haircut lady? Marcus was commenting about her appearance, and was acting almost shady and was not answering any of her questions?

Why do you think the extreme haircut lady gave him “rewards” for unlocking his devices? Since they wanted to find evidence and by going through Marcus’ personal belongings they could eventually fully arrest him for the terrorist attacks.

Why do you think the extreme haircut lady asked where were the charges placed on the bridge? Since apparently the United States government think Marcus is tied into the terrorist attacks somehow.

Little Brother is a very interesting book. This book contains a lot of words that have to so with technology and computers. In the group we talked about how the main character, Marcus, and how he is in to technology. He plays a game that is called Harajuku fun madness. We discuss the questions that Ryan made. Then we discussed the questions that the discussion direct had. We discuss some of the opinion questions like the following: Who is favorite character? What do you like of Marcus?
 * Matt Velthaus- Group Summarizer**


 * Week Two: January 7**

Topic: Language (Section 2 out of 5 of your text)

Assignment: 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) 2. Person B should share and discuss their selected quotations, using Save The Last Word techniques. 3. Person C should post the meeting summary on the group's wiki page after class. 4.Person D should share his/her questions with the group, as well as post the questions on the group's wiki page\ Ryan Lewis-C The first thing we did was discussed what the major events were in the book. Then we talked about how we understood the book. Then we talked more about what happened in the book. Brandon started to ask questions about the book that started more discussion about the book. We talked about how the reading in the book is and if it is hard or not. Then Harrison finished his questions and started to ask them. Everyone in the group answered the questions and we talked about the questions that were about it.

**Brandon Latteri Questions**

Do you think DHS is good or evil and why? We think there bad because they are creating to much security and think its unconstitutional.

Do you think the book uses to many tech words and are they hard to understand? Yes it uses words that most people don’t know and that are used in computer science.

Do you think the police should of arrested Marcus for no reason? No because they were concerned about terrorist attacks and were just being protective.

Do you think its safe for them to use xnets? Yes because they are untraceable and you don’t know who’s using it.

Do you think marcus should be mad about the police almost arresting him? Yes because they took him without any evidence and mistreated them.

Harrison-c What does Marcus do to retaliate against the DHS? He hands out copies of paranoid Xbox. Do you think that Marcus was imprisoned and held on just reasons? No he didn’t do anything wrong. Do you think that the DHS over reacted to the terrorist attack when they abducted innocent citizens? Yes because the citizens didn’t do anything that would cause them to be suspicious. Do you think that Marcus will be able to not get caught by the DHS? Yes, he is smart enough to avoid being found out. What do you think happened to Daryl and do you think it will have effect in the future? He might of gotten abducted by the DHS and it might affect the future of the book because he was an important character.


 * Week Three: January 14**

Topic: Mood/Tone (section 3 out of 5 of your text)

Assignment: 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) 2. Person B should share and discuss their selected quotations, using Save The Last Word techniques. 3. Person C should post the meeting summary on the group's wiki page after class. 4.Person D should share his/her questions with the group, as well as post the questions on the group's wiki page

I think the mood of the book is upsetting, there is a lot of upsetting moments and a lot of terrible things happen. The book is based on a terrorist attack in San Francisco and Marcus loses his bet friend during it. It is also rebellious because the may character is fighting against the government for what he believes in. He makes a wireless network called X net that cant be tracked by the government and starts a resistance group to attempt to stop police tactics.
 * Brandon Latteri Group leader**

Harrison Milacek This week in our book groups we discussed the mood of the book. We decided that the mood was rebellious because it was about rebellion against the government. Ari found quotations from the text to discuss with the group. We also discussed what happened in the section that we read. Matt wrote down questions that he asked the group. we spent more time discussing the text then finished our discussion.


 * Week Four: January 21**

Topic: Themes/Images (section 4 out of 5 of your text)

Assignment: 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? 2. Person B should share and discuss their selected quotations, using Save The Last Word techniques. 3. Person C should post the meeting summary on the group's wiki page after class. 4.Person D should share his/her questions with the group, as well as post the questions on the group's wiki page

Harrison Milacek: A group leader The theme from this section of the book is standing up for your rights and not backing down. A major image used is the unity of the x-net against the oppressions of the DHS. The author depicts this unity in the vamp-mob game when so many people show up to play. Another image is the influence that Marcus has over the x-net is another image that the author has. He shows this by how when Marcus puts something on a blog most people will listen to it.

What is the major theme in the book? A major theme is rebellion the government.
 * Ryan Lewis (D)**

What is a conflict of the chapter? The terrorists attacking San Francisco was a big conflict.

What was the most important part of the chapter? People who walk around town dressed as vampires and are called the vam mob

How did you feel at the end of the chapter? It was a confused feeling at the end of the chapter.

Was the ending of the chapter suspenseful? Yes, it was very suspenseful.

**Brandon Latteri- Group summarizer** - This week, We talked about the story and what we though about it. We like the book so far and think it is well written. Ryan and Ari asked the group there questions. We answer ed them and the we discussed what we though of the book. Harrison asked the group some questions. Matt discussed his quotes and why he picked them. We all think the book is slightly confusing and a little hard to understand. The book uses tech words that are confusing and most people don’t know.


 * Week Five: January 28 (LAST MEETING)**

Topic: Responding to the Text (section 5 out of 5 of your text)

Assignment: 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) 2. Person B should share and discuss their selected quotations, using Save The Last Word techniques. 3. Person C should post the meeting summary on the group's wiki page after class. 4.Person D should share his/her questions with the group, as well as post the questions on the group's wiki page Ryan Lewis Group Leader- Would you recommend it to peers? Yes it would be a good recommendation because it was a very entertaining book.

Has this topic been discussed more/less effectively in another book or books? We have never read a book that has talked about technology to the extent of this book.

Should this book be considered for the school’s curriculum? No, because it was too complex and some information was unnecessary.

BRANDON LATTERI- “If your reading this, there’s a good chance your underground.”

“When morning came, two efficient, impersonal guards cut the bindings off my wrist and ankles”

“The guards pulled my arms over there shoulders and half dragged, half carried me down the family corridor”

“Of all the things she could of said, nothing could of hurt me more. It was like another kick in the stomach”

“When in trouble or in doubt, run in circles, scream and shout”

Harrison Milacek D

1. Do you think that the DHS had the rights to torture Marcus and other inmates to find out information? Yes, because they may be withholding information that could help their cause.

2. In your opinion, why should or shouldn’t Marcus have trusted Ange? He should of because he had no reason to distrust her.

3. Would you say Marcus gives up after he is capture for the second time? No, he still has hope that he could be rescued.

4. Do you think that the new policies will help this not happening again? Yes because it will give more power to the state and less to the government.

5. How has this experience changed Marcus’s life? He was definitely scared after this experience. He will probably never fully trust his government.