1. In the first paragraph, what did the writer expect from going to war?
2. In the second paragraph, what did the writer find instead?
3. In the third paragraph, what advice would the writer expect from his mother, and what did he think of that advice?
4. In the forth paragraph, what was going to happen next?
5. What was in the letter that surprised you? Was anything missing from the letter that you expected to be there?
42 comments:
darlene and carlos m. period 3
1. it is not going to be a fun trip to mexico. he thought it was going to be great looking at the sites but wen war started his thoughts changed.
2. he found lots of violence and people get physically hurt.
3. The advice wouldn't help him in the battels he is fighting , but to still remember to thing of god all time fighting .
4. the battle was going to begin nextweek. they were going to execute the mexicans.
P3 Veronica L Anais O
1. In the war, the writer expected to see nice things, like sunny skies, and rare things, and fruit.
2. In reality the writer did not see these things, but he saw people screaming, in pain, and suffering.
3. The adivse that the mother gave them was that why read the bible if everything they did was the opposite of what it said and he thought that if he wanted to be a good soldier that not to request him to read the bible.
4. They were going to kill Mexicans the following week, and he feels sorry for them, because he promises to kill half a dozen.
Esmeralda.V. Steven.L. Per.(3)
(1) The solider thought Mexico was going to be a nice sunny place with exotic fruits. So he probably thought the war was not going to be a big problem.
(2) It was not has he thought is was going to be. He explained it as "a butchery" They were disecting Mexicans since they were at war.
(3) The solider mother told him to read the bible. He said what was the point of reading the bible were he has to be fighting the whole time for his country and life. He also said why pray for those he is going to kill next.
(4)The American war was going to be an invasion. He said he will try his best to run his sword into a half dozen Mexicans.
#1 he expected that it will be an adventure.
#2 he says its not fun its very sad to kill and hear there scream.
#3 he things that what his doing is wrong.he things that why he prays if in the next minute he will have to kill them.
#4 he wants to kill himself because he hates to kill people
Elizabeth Cano
Anthony Guillen
per3
Lucero Eric & Barrios Vanessa Per.3
1.He did not want to go to war because he thought that they may kill him.
2.Its no fun to kill the people and to hear the people scream in the war.
3.
Ivan G & Stephanie O
P3
1] He expect it to be ,fun, easy, and like a vacation.
2] They found out that the battle was more like a buchary it was no fun kuting trots
3]
hector flores, Anaid R. Period:3
1. he thought the cold war was an anventure.
2.In the second paragraph the writer find that its very sad to kill and he doesnt like to scream.
3.
Ramiro.B Valerie.B P.3
1. He thought that he will be seeing nice sights.
2. He saw horibble sights like people cutting each other throats and people screaming in agony.
3. That the advice wouldn't help him in battle.
4. Attack the people.
Kimberly Alcantar Per.3
1) He thought it was gunna be fun and easy like a vacation.
2) They found out instead that the battle was like a butchery there was no fun in cutting throats.
3)
P.3 Vanesa E. & Carlos H.
1. He explained to his father that he did not enjoy being in the war. He said that it was a nice subject to talk about but it was different to be there. He blamed his father for sending him to war.
2.
Hugo S. & Stephanie D. periiod:3rd
1. He didn't want to go to war because he asks his father why did he send him.
2.He found that it wasnt fun to kill and hear people scream.
3. The advice he would expect is to pray for his enamies.
4.He is going to go to start the war.
Per:3 Estacey O. and Sandra C.
1. In the first paragraph, what did the writer expect from going to war?
The writer expected from going to war would be an adventure.
2. In the second paragraph, what did the writer find instead?
The writer found instead was a living nightmare and was not fun to kill other people.
3. In the third paragraph, what advice would the writer expect from his mother, and what did he think of that advice?
The advice was that to pray and read the bible for god could help him win the war.
4. In the forth paragraph, what was going to happen next?
That he wrote that he was cleaning his sword because he was chosen to go for battle.
Alan P and Javier C Per.3
1. He did not expected himself to go to war because his father went to war so the son had to go to war.
2. He found stirring music and fine dresses and pass with other butchery.
3. The advise he would expect was pray for his enemies but he should feel hate for them but his mother's advise is to pray for them.
4. The son will get his sword and slash as many soldiers.
Jorge C. Alisson D. period 3
1. He expected it that there were giong to be exotic food but it was sunny.
2.He found out that his son was having a bad war but his team needs more people.
Sergio O. eric p. per.3
1) He expected from the war to see the pretty sight.
2) He never expect to see his fellow Mexican american with there throat open and gut out.
3) His mom advice was to read the bible he thought it was to late because he had kill several people already and the bible says you shouldn't kill.
4) next week they were going to a war and kill more people
Melissa Aguilar & Amy Moran
Period 4. 2-26-10
1. He wanted to reprsent the repuation of the United States.
2.
Diana Rojas & Destiny Murillo per 4
1.He expected to be like his father, which was a hero in the war.
2.idk
3.to read the bible because he wanted to go in war.
4that they wre going to war.
Iliana Mejia & Alexandra Descalzi Per.4
1:He wanted to represented the united states.
2:
Erik Molina Rudy Trejo
1.He expected to be a hero like his father.
2.He saw that there was bodys everwhere.
Manuel Ornelas & Alejandra Raygoza
Period 4
1. In the first paragraph, what did the writer expect from going to war?
He expected to go to war and become a hero.
2. In the second paragraph, what did the writer find instead?
He found that he had to kill people to win even tought they would win he still had to take people's lifes, he found out that it was very brutal.
3. In the third paragraph, what advice would the writer expect from his mother, and what did he think of that advice?
His mom said to read the bible, but he thought thatthe bible was useful because how was he supposed to pray for the people he killed if it is his job.
P.4 Daniel Macias
1. He expected he would be a hero and have glory.
2. He expected he would be a hero and then when he saw tat th wa was bvery brutal he changed his mind about it.
3. His mom said to read the bible and he said that what was the point of reading the bible and then killing people.
4. They killed the mexicans tht survived.
#1 he was expecting for there to be sunny skies, for example. he was xpecting a war but as well as tropical fruits and nature.
#2he found people cutting other peoples throats.
#3that he needed to read the bible.
#4he is going to kill as many mexicans.
Julia Lopez and Jairo Martinez
period#4
2/26/10
1.He expected the war to be diffrent
stephen calderon p.4
1.The author is telling us what hapend in the war.
Michael B. & Misael G. Period 6
1. The writer thought that war was an going to be a place full of fine dresses and tropical fruits and rare sitings of an unseen world.
2. He found that war was no wonderland and that he took no joy in cutting throats and that even his platoon, a rough looking group, seemed as if they were afraid of dying in war.
3. The writer didn't want to read the Bible because what he was reading and what he was doing were not at one.
4. The writer was going to start an invasion and he hoped to kill one dozen soilders.
5. What suprised us was that the mother told the writer to read the Bible even though what he was doing was against what he was reading.
P:6 Alexander M. and Cynthia G.
1. The writer expected the war to be somehow interesting and probaly not as bad as it was.
2. He found the war to be devastating and horrid since his job was to kill many people and that there is no fun in cutting throats.
3. He would expect his mother to tell him something useful. His mother advised him to read the bible and to pray for the people he were to kill.His job was to kill and he could not do so if he had to pra, his spirit in the bible and in killing did not make one together.
4. There was going to be a brush and he was going to run his sword into 6 Mexicans at at time and would blow out the brains of the jubilating simpletons.
5. What suprised us about the letter is that the writer would actually expect the war to be delightful and that he would have fun and enjoy the fact that he would be killing many Mexicans.
1.He expected it to be a horrible, but there were trees and rare fruits. Also how he dislikes the war.
2. He found that it is horrible and devastating.
3.He expected to be something useful but instead she told him to read the bible and he thinks that its useless to read it if he is about to kill someone in a few minutes.
4.He is being send into battle thinking that he will kill a dozen Mexican soldiers and how he doesn't really want to.
5. What surprised me was that he didn't have a rush of having the urge of killing them all and making it out alive, and not accepting fate to come to his mind.
P:6 Christian C. & Stephanie C.
1. He thought it was going to b e horrible, but he liked the trees and the fruit in Mexico.
2. He liked the music and the clothes but he hated killing people and seeing his conrads hurt or dying.
3. He expected her advice to be worse than him been thrown away,instead of her giving him advice she told him to read the bible.He said it would be useless to follow her advice.
4.He is being sent into battle afraid because he thinks hes going to kill lots of soildiers.
5.He didnt want to kill people.He didnt give any names
Jc barragan p6
1.He expected sunny skies and tropical landscape.
2.he found no fun and games that it gets to him that he is in a war.
3.that his mom expect to that thare is good in all people and he thinks that is dumb that how can he pray for a guy that he is going to kill next.
4.that he is going to die that he is going to run into a crowd of solgers and more are on the way.
5.no thats ok and that he was writing during a war.
Alan R. & Andrea O.PER.6
1.He expected it to be like the war his dad fought in revolutionary war. His dad expressed the war as a glorious thing and what he had been experincing was not that glorious feeling.
2.He thought he was gonna have a good time but instead he found that he had to slit throats.He didnt like it because he didnt like the people screaming in agony!
3.His mother told him useless advice to"have good will among men", he found it lousy because what he's doing is not really a good thing
4. they are going to ambush mexican soilders
5.what surprised me the most was that he did not enjoy cutting the peoples head off.I expected him to talk about how he was doing and how he was feeling,and we expected his name to be written in the letter.
Per6. Brandon O. Marina P.
1. He expected that there was going to be a good day in Mexico and lots of fruit
2. He hears their cries of agony and their bowels coming out.
3. He obliged his mother's advise but its useless to him because here is no point of rading the bible when there are bayonets and swords in the midst.
4. He says that they are going to have a brush and he would love to dive his sword in to a dozen Mexicans.
5. What suprised us was that he says that there are going to be alot of fruit and sunny skies.
Abraham L. & Arturo V.
1. He expect a nice sunny day.
2. He hears their cries of agony.
3.HE thinks its good advise but its wrong advise.
4.He is going to kill in the fight.
5.
Hugo Tejeda Per. 6 Maggie is (absent)
1) He thought that there would be sunny skies, tropical fruits, and beautiful girls.
2) He didn't like to cut throats of his partners. He didn't like war.
3) He expected good advise from his mother. His mother only critizised him.
4) They are going to have a war and he had to fight.
Stephanny s. Muriel P. period6
1. In the first paragraph the writer expected it to be beautiful filled with sunny skies and rare fruits he had a good vision of it.
2.He found terror in cuting throats and he did not like things. It was like an old butchery. He thought it was not plesant to see guts come out of his partners.
3. He expected good advice from his mother but his mother only critisiced him.
4. In the next week he was going to war. Witch he really did not want to do.
5 i thought his mother was going to supprot him.
Jasmin R.& Nathalie G. per.6
1.The writer expected something like a tropical paradise.
2.Instead the writer found out that it was very boring and dull.
3.The advice that the writer would expect from his mother is that he would have to follow his daily routine.
4.There was going to be a brush where everyone just starts to attack its enemies.
5.The letter had a section where the writers mother wants him to still follow her orders.The missing part was that it didn't have the amount of how many people have died throughout the war.
Period 6 Sheila and Jasmin
1. A person is writting to his father, saying that he does not enjoy being in the war but he wants to bring glory to his dad and his family.
2. In the second paragraph, the writter feels irritated and can't stand to kill others, he finds himself shuddering to the sound of people in agony and the cries of the defenseles.
3. In the third paragraph, what advice would the writer expect from his mother, and what did he think of that advice?He expects his mother too tell him too read the bible,and pray for the people who he is killing.The writer thinks that its not true because he isnt doing what the bible is telling him to do,he is doing the opposite.
4. In the next paragraph the writer is talking about how they called him out too go fight,and he will now have to murder Mexicans.
5.What we found surprising was the fact that he didn't want to fight in the us army.I expected him to not fight and go back home.
Michael N. & Nancy C. P.6
1. In the 1st paragraph the author dested the war because it was a tough job to manage.
2. The writer found animals, he would kill them in the same fashion he would if he was fighting.
3. He thought his mother would give him advice to kill the Mexicans . He didn't like the advice because he thought to himself how can i kill someone how can he love his enemies and keep killing them .
4. they got ready to attack the Mexicans.
5. Even though he was a solider he didn't want to kill anyone. That how many people he would have killed.
Alexandra G.&Luisa G. Per.6
1. I think the writer doesn't want to go to war, and expects the war to be glorious and have his father be proud.He also expects Mexico to be beautiful with tropical things, vacation like.
2. He found that it wasn't fun killing people, and that he disliked it.
3.He expected for his mother to tell him better advice than to read the bible and to pray for the others. He didnt like the advice because how can he read the bible, where it says that everybody is family , and for him to be their killing people.
4.He was going to fight in the war now and was going to slash his swords through many Mexicans
5. It suprised me that he didn't want to fight and he didn't want to take his mothers advice because he felt like sinner reading good will while he's killing.
Nothing was missing.
Isaac J. & Carla Z.
1) The writer expected it to be drastic, pretty gross and he enjoyed the sites of Mexico.
2) He liked the music and they way they dressed but he didn't like killing people or seeing his friends get hurt.
3) He expected better advice fro his mother and he didn't use her advice that often, it was useless because of the position he was in.
4)He was going into battle , not knowing whether he was going to kill may soldiers or not.
Juan B. period 6
1 He expected that it would be very good and that everything fine.
2 He found that there wasnt any fun in killing mexicans
3 she toldhim to read the bible but he thought it was wrong.
4 he was going to have to brush.
5 Tha he didnt say how e felt
Leslie Benitez Per.6
1.He expected that it would be different but he detests it now that he went to war.
2.He liked the music&fine dresses but he didnt like killing people or seeing his friends hurt.
3.He was obliged to his mothers advice
4.He was going to go into battle
5.What surprised me was that
1) The writer expected it to be beautiful with sunny skies and tropical fruits. He had good visions of it.
2) In the second paragraph he feels really bad about having to cut peoples throats, He hates hearing the cries of the people in agony.
3)His mother tells him to read the bible, he feels its no use, he says "how can i pray for people i will kill the next minute."
4) I was in shock when the first thing he did was ask his mom for advice.
brenda and stephanie o
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