Tuesday, May 26, 2009

14

words:

plot:
in this chapter billy and tomi become friends again and they play a little ball but thats about it short filler chapter

other:

Thursday, May 21, 2009

chapter 13

words

plot: in this chapter we found out that keet was the one who told the army about the racers and tomis dad got shot at he went to jail and his boat is sunk with sanji in it all because they dident have an american flag or a raido

other

chapter 12

words:

plot: in this chapter the army men told tomi and oji chan to kill the racers because he thought he might be sending them out to signal or for messages but oji chan proved he was american by killing the birds

other:wr

Friday, May 15, 2009

chapter 11

words:
tinny 1
Adjective
[-nier, -niest]
1. (of a sound) high, thin, and metallic: the tinny sound of a transistor radio
2. cheap or shoddy: a tinny East European car

plot: this is the after meath of the attack and us soilders came around asking if they had been signaling the japs in the attack because there was a report of a flag man ang tomis grandpa had been waveing the flag so that made every one scared and in the night there was the sound of jackhammers digging graves of in the distance and the ablolute black out made every fear bigger

other: the death toll for the attack reached 2350

Thursday, May 14, 2009

chapter 10

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plot: in this chapter keet shot his dads window and the attack on pearl harbor happned it got bombed and they had to bury the japanese flag because the might be accused of conspiricy

other: there was soppused to be a third wave of bombing but it dident happen

Tuesday, May 12, 2009

chapter nine

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plot:in this chapter the kakaako base ball team gets a new pitcher and he is good but has no controll over the ball and billy and the gang almost get into a fight if it wasent for a stranger

other:

Thursday, May 7, 2009

chapter 8

words:N/A

plot lucky gave birth to puppies there is the first us destroyer that got sunk in the war also there is training excorsizes nothing to important in this chapter

other: i actualy did a project on pearl harbor and the bombing which might be in this book later on

Tuesday, May 5, 2009

chapter seven

words na

plot: in this chapter there is a baseball game and keet is running through the woods pretending to shoot nazis and billy and tomi both bet on the game and the doggers lost to the yankies and a new character is introduced named charlie

other: did you know hitler died because he did crack and that killed his immune system so when he shot him self in the shoilder he died of the infection he shot him self because he found out he was jewish

Friday, May 1, 2009

chapter six

words
glowered: to look or stare with sullen dislike, discontent, or anger

plot
in this chapter they went fishing and billy and sanji became friends billy and tomi both caught really big fish and billy gave some fish to keet and there was some fore shadowing adout keet spying on them

other: the largest Bluefin ever caught is 679kg, or 1496lbs

Thursday, April 30, 2009

chapter 5

word:
itadakimatsau: it means lets eat
gochisohsama: it means youre done eating
kerosene: combustible hydrocarbon liquid
sanji: three o' clock

plot: in this chapter tomi and his papa take billy out to go fishing and they see a p-40 tomahawk and a new character is introduced named sanji

other did you know sharks are more scavenger than predator

Tuesday, April 28, 2009

chapter four

words:
butsudan: a alter like thing

plot:
tomi was talking to billy and tomi has a katana under his bed and it talked about how this is the honor of his family and tomi's dog lucky is going to give birth

other: did you know a tatami mat rolled up has the same denseity as bone

Friday, April 24, 2009

chapter three

words
tumbler:One of a breed of domestic pigeons characteristically tumbling or somersaulting in flight.
convoy:a group of vehicles or ships travelling together [Old French convoier to convey]
stucco:
plaster used for coating or decorating outside walls
howitzer: a large gun that fires shells at a steep angle [Czech houfnice stone-sling]

plot:
there were talkin about the war going on and about how they are afraid of being drafted out and they talked about mr raymos's life and how he wanted to be a lawyer but he decided to teach because his brother got arrested for robbing a convienience store and how he wanted to make a diffronce before not after the fact

other: the new york yankies are one of the most well paid base ball teams in the world

Thursday, April 23, 2009

chapter two

words:
hana-kuso: booger


plot:
in the plot a new character named keet is introduced and he is a bully to tomi but a flash back reveals that once there were good friends then keet said he didn't want to hang out with tomi anymore and took a pocket knife he found in the forest and then they got into a fight. and his papa was very angry at him because he had desgraced the family name

other:when you blink your eyes go into the back of you head faster than 70 miles an hour

Tuesday, April 21, 2009

chapter one

words:
issei: means first generation in the united states

suitable: adapted to a use or purpose

plot: this chapter was just the introduction to the story the characters were being introduced and mainly the story of this chapter was that the grandfather of tomi (main character) does not like how they cant speak his language and how he cant hang the flag of japan and how tomi says he is more American than Japanese

other: a bond called fort minor made a song titled kenji which tells the story of a man who moved to los angeles from japan he to was issei and when the bombing of pearl harbor happened he was taken to the interment camp