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Today Jane,Valentina,Jelly,and I were talking about our bookclub book.We sarted to talk about how we think that kevin, Dana"s husband is going to act like dana's owner. Since kevin is white and dana is black people can believe them. And since they are in the time of 1815 they have to do it so that dana wont be passed on as a run away slave. And if Kevin pretends to be Dana's owner maybe Dana can save rufus much easier, she can probably also save other people in that time. By:Leslie Amador 2/23/09

In our group club book Leslie and Jane established their ideas on what the thing was going to occur next, and Anjelika and I discussed the lead up to our last major event. I want to know if Kevin is going to be able to transport with her? I think that if he were to he would find away to protect her and make sure they both get back home safley. I do agree with Leslie I think he will pretend to be her Master. My last question was that if Kevin goes there with her, will this affect Rufus or Alice? Can it change the fact that she has to save him so he can be alive in the future? -I also made a T-chart about the historical and fictional events.

HISTORICAL EVENTS.- 1815 slavery/runaway slaves. - blacks were treated unfairly. - masters were creul to there slaves. - you had to have a free pass in order to be free. -california was spanish. FICTIONAL EVENTS. - the main characters ( Dana,Kevin,Rufus,Alice.) - the event in which she transports to 1815.

- Valentina Leto 825

Today in our groups, we created a hill chart insluding the events and history from the book. From the begining will be the start, and then going up to the top hill will be the problem of the story. Then towards the end will be the end of the book, also will the sulution. As valentina listed above of all the historyical facts, i just want to add one more thing. The blacks werent allowed to read or write. I also argree with leslie, because the fact that keivn is white, it can help Dana get around easier without having to have a pass to be a "free slave" --Jane wu

In our book group today we talked about how Kevin might be dead. We are trying to figure what happened when Dana and Kevin went to Las Vegas. All we know now is that Dana is trying to figre out what happened that night. I Kevin is in the time period of 1815 then Kevin and Dana are in a lot of trouble. Yesterday our group made a hill chart and we discussed about the book and the climax of the historical and fictional events. I think that if we keep on reading we might get to the problem of our book.

-Valentina Leto 825 2/25/09

Today When our groups were talking about our books we thought that, if kevin stayed in 1815 then he would age according to the time there.But i think that he cant because his body is agusted to his time. So i think that when dana gets back to 1815 she will find him just the way she left him .And if kevin is stuck in 1815 maybe he can help rufus from ever dying. Or maybe since he is white he can help the blacks with slavery. -Leslie Amador 2/25/09

Today in class, we were talking about opposite chacarters aginst our book. The character we created was black himself. Although he was a slave, he believe in slavery. He is a snitch on his own people just to be rewarded. He thought if he kept that up, him and his family members would we treated well and protected. And so that 10 year old black boy starts to be hated by all the other blacks. --Jane Wu

Today was half a day so we missed are group club books buti do agree with Jane and Leslie now. As i read farther into the book I am getting the cahnce to see that with Kevin dying, the book won't really go on. He is one of the main character's and also because it's giving you clues that he is going to come back. When Dana transported to that time period she didn't change, and she won't be able to. I really like this book, I never really read a historical fiction book, so to me the character's and the time periods are so much different then a realistic fiction book. Yes, it does have the same qualities but it is different and it does focus on a different time period. Which in this case is Slavery in the 1810's (1815.)

- Valentina Leto 2/26/09 825

I really didnt like how Rufus died, but not everything goes perfect, and i agree with Valentina above. -anjelika shkreli 3/3/09