As you begin reading the book, what are your first impressions? Make as many comments on this post as you wish, but you must create at least two. ONE of those comments must be a well-organized paragraph. Use specific details from the reading in your comments: characters, events, setting, or other details from the book. If you're having trouble coming up with a way to start your comments, check out the sentence starters, which might give you direction on this generic first post. You have until Monday, November 26 to comment.
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As you begin reading the book, what are your first impressions? Make as many comments on this post as you wish, but you must create at least two. ONE of those comments must be a well-organized paragraph. Use specific details from the reading in your comments: characters, events, setting, or other details from the book. If you're having trouble coming up with a way to start your comments, check out the sentence starters, which might give you direction on this generic first post. You have until Monday, November 26 to comment.
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Hani B
11/24/2018 07:11:47 am
I find the book to be interesting so far. The beginning was slow, but I feel it will be more exciting later. George De Long is the main character who is going to lead the Arctic expedition. He partners up with James Bennett, a wealthy New York businessman, who will fund it. Preparation took a very long time. George searched for boats, maps, and books about the arctic. He also needed smart men to help him on the voyage. The famous cartographer August Peterman, proposed many theories about the Arctic that were interesting. One said there was an open polar sea that was surrounded by a belt of ice. No matter what, the crew would be headed into the unknown, and they would need all the support they could get.
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Thomas Zoldowski
11/26/2018 03:11:27 pm
I agree that the book was not the interesting at the beginning. Once you get further in the book it starts to get more action packed and we start to introduce more characters.
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Curtis N
11/26/2018 02:50:59 pm
So far I find this book to be really boring and complex. It is based in the late 1800s so of course the wording is going to be really different from ours today. Right now the main characters are James Bennett and George De long. James Bennett is the third richest man in New York and he wants to work with George to go to the arctic. In the arctic they have seals where they can be skinned as used a fur for cloths (which cost a lot of money). In this point of time they do not have a lot of information on the arctic and they need more men with the knowledge of travel in harsh conditions. I think the concept of the book is interesting, but the content is not so far. I think it will escalate later when they go on there voyage.
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Sajan Shah
11/26/2018 06:38:54 pm
I actually disagree. I think this book is more interesting in the beginning because we know that there's going to be a voyage to the North Pole, but what we don't know is why. What caused these people to go on this dangerous expedition. What were they thinking? This is what is explained in the first few chapters.
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Thomas Zoldowski
11/26/2018 02:57:15 pm
The first couple chapter were not very entertaining and hard to keep reading. As I got into the next chapter I could start to see the adventure the book promised me, I could see as you main character George De long starts to gather his crew and the money to do so. He goes to a man named James Bennett who was a very wealth. He asked him to sponsor the trip Arctic and provide them with food, maps, people, a their boat the U.S.S. Jeannette. There was also a bunch of interesting ideas that science community thought of. One idea that I thought was really cool is they theorized that the north pole was covered by a body of warm, ice-free water they called the Open Polar Sea. This was surrounded by a wall of ice and there was one "gate" to get in the circle.
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Hani Barakat
11/26/2018 05:32:54 pm
I also thought found the theories of the North Pole to be interesting. Another one is that their might have been a lost civilization living there. August Petermann contributed many theories as he was one of the leaders in Arctic exploration. These theories helped boost interest in the in Arctic exploration.
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Sajan Shah
11/26/2018 06:33:54 pm
Unlike my classmates, I actually found that the book to be pretty interesting even at the beginning because it talks about the history of how George De Long developed his interest in leading an exploration to the North Pole. The first couple of chapters lay the foundation for what's to come later in the book. De Long who is one of the main characters, is a Navy officer, whose assignment on the USS Juniata to Greenland, led to his growing desire to solve the mystery of the North Pole. "The polar virus was in George's blood to stay" said his wife Emma. The book goes on to talk about how De Long meets Henry Grinnell who is an Arctic enthusiast. Grinnell had funded several expeditions to the High North in the past, so it was surprising when Grinnell said no to George's request to fund his expedition. This is when Bennett comes into the picture. James Gordon Bennett Jr. is an eccentric multimillionaire, who will later fund the expedition led by De Long. Now George is looking for the latest equipment and maps, and the best ideas of how to reach the Arctic. The idea of the Open Polar Sea and Bent's new route which he called the "Thermometric Gateway to the Pole" was what De Long was about to test. I can't wait to read about what happens next!
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Curtis N
11/27/2018 09:27:55 am
I like how you have a different interpenetration of the book in your perception. I thought the book was very unattractive and didn't grab any attention. The concept is cool like you said but the display of what the author is subscribing is not effect to persuade anybody attention.
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ms.p
11/30/2018 06:01:19 am
You boys need to veer away from summarizing. That's not what these blogs are about.
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