Skies+Over+Sweetwater

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April 18, 2012

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 * 1) [|fantastic---it's about women who are pilots & serv],
 * 2) [|historical fiction],
 * 3) [|pilots],
 * 4) [|wasps],
 * 5) [|women],
 * 6) [|wwii],
 * 7) [|young adult fiction]
 * 8) Planes

Page 24- Byrd and Sadie is off the train they meet this girl named Cornelia and she is a rich girl, and Sadie is really mean to her im guessing cause she looks like a rich girl and Sadie comes from and average family and Bryd comes from sorta poor family. As they are talking they see a plan coming down and Sadie and Bryd are like omg I think that is a AT-17. And Cornelia says it is I flew one of those before and Sadie does not believe her.

Page 25- So as they were waiting they go inside were everyone else was, waiting and they meet a girl named Opal that was asking everyone were they from Boston cause her boyfriend is a Doctor based there.

Page 26- Sadie asks the girl were she is from and she is from New York and Sadie says I which I was from New York not from Iowa and Opal says yout not there anymore your in Texas. Then a whistle was blown and it was a man named Lieutenant William McCarthy, he told the girls all the rules and that everytime they here a whistle they need to be in a line and give him there attention. He told them that they will be getting unifroms and sheets and pillows for there beds and they need to get six people cause there is six people in a bay. He told them that breakfast is in the morning at 6:00 and then they will start there day. There are two weeks into flying a plan and if one of three girls fail they are sent home.

Page 27- Bryd is really afraid of getting sent home she is wondering what she got herself into. And the others are just happy to be there and talking about PT-14s, until they get there suits when they get them they are not happy cause they are huge, they are the ones from the boys.

Page 28- There are only four of them and they have to have six girls in a bay, and so one girl that they have meet her name is Deirdre goes and find they girl she was talking to earlier and she says she would be good to bunk with in our bay. So they only have five and then they say thats good enough they will give us someone else to bunk with. And when they get in there bay they complain about how they dont have enough room for there things and dont have hangers to hang up there dress's for nights out.

Analyzing Question

What can be concluded about Sadie being so mean to Cornelia? A.) Cause she can fly and she is rich and thinks she knows it all B.) Cause she is confident and is popular C.) Cause she is a poor girl but also is very smart

Maya's feed Back ! This is A good question, It is very detailed and uit explains alot.

Summary Page 61-71 The girls fly planes by themselves and they all do good and Ol' Pick thinks there all going to do a terrible job, but only one did and that was Jean the girl that never talked and was sorta shy when she first got put in the bay, and she was one of the girls that had to leave. So the next day they get their pay check and Sadie and Bryd got down to a bank and opens a savings account. And then Opal comes running down the street and says that life magazine is doing a photo shoot with all the girls and making a top story about it, and when the day is over they all cant sleep and is ready to write there parents about it.

Intergating Question

Conclude what the results would be if Bryd goes home? A.) She would be sad and disgusted cause she has to go home B.) She would be happy and ready to see her family C.) She would would want to go home but still want to stay

Summary Pg71-86 Bryd and Cornelia land in another city of sweetwater cause oil spills out of the plane and that have to call there Lieuantent to come and get them. When they got back everyone was worried, but the next morning the fly AT-17s and Bryd does bad on her dives so she and Corneila go in the morning at 4 and work on them, and Bryd didnt know she liked her as a friend.

Summary Page 124-134 The girls find out that they have to leave cause they dont need the girls anymore. The girls are sad but one night the girls say they dont care anymore and lets sneak out and do something crazy. But the next day is graduation and when the girls leave out they find a truck and they drive it to a hotel were they arent allowed but they go anyway.

Summary- The book Skies over Sweetwater is a good book, it is about these teenage girls wanting to fulfill there dream of flying in the Air Force. Which does come true, they go to a training camp in Sweetwater, Texas were WASP training camp teaches these girls how to fly bombes, pursuits, trainers, and utility planes. In this book there is a main character name Bernadette Thompson, but she has nickname and that name is Bryd. She meets new friends at the came and becomes real close to them. But farther in the book one of the girls she has met died in a plane crash and everyone is sad about it. So when graduation comes her Mom and Charlotte is there and they are angry with her cause she didnt tell her that she was leaving to come the to camp, but in the end of graduation everything is alright.

__**Generation Question**__

What would you predict or infer from Skies over Sweetwater after the WASP left and went on with their lifes?

A.) They went home to their parents and lived there for the rest of their lifes

B.) Went on with their life by themselfs and didn't do anything

C.) kept in touch with other WASP's

D.) Went on with their life and became a pilot and went on to big and bigger things


 * __Analyzing Question__**

What patterns or relationship do you see in Bryd and Lieutenant Andrews?

A.) That they have alot in in common cause the Lieutenant knew Bryd's father, so he knew Bryd would overcome things just like her father did.

B.) That they have alot in common and he sees Bryd being something in her future just like Miss Cochran

C.) They dont have alot in common Lieutenant really doesnt know alot about Bryd

D.) They have alot in common he gets to know Bryd and some of the girls think they like each other, he sees alot of things happeining in her future

__**Authors Purpose**__

What was the Author trying to make you understand about Bryd's character when she revealed the "Stick Comes Loose, But Girl Flyer Climbs Over Seat and Lands Plane"?

A.) That she is a liar but knows how to make it seem real

B.) That she tells the truth but she also is sneaky

C.) That she thinks she is someone she is not so she tends to lie about things

D.) That she thinks she can get away with alot of things cause her father was a pilot

__**Compilation Project**__ __**Article**__ []

This article is consider alike to the book skies over sweetwater, in this article pilots are need for combat duty. Which left piloting jobs open across the world leaving answer like who would train and who would fly, and the answer to that was women pilots. And military officials didn't think women could do that but the women turned out and was able to fly B-29's and all the others, they were the (WASP) they earned their wings and they were able to undertake different planes. Even though they were sadly times but they were able to do it. Thats how this article is common with the book Skies Over Sweetwater. I choose this article because it was interesting and it had alot in common with my book that I read, its sorta of different in a way but not really its both really talkin about the same thing and wanting women to take place for the men for a little bit. I would say its just different with the ages of the women in Skies Over Sweetwater the girls are teenagers and in the article im thinking its just women.

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 * Poem**

This poem is about a women pilot that has flown high up in the sky just like other women and men pilots have flown. She has flown in stroms and passed by egales just the girls in the book Skies Over Sweetwater have done, in the poem the girl couldn't just start flying by herself so she had to get trained just like the girls in the book, thats how the poem realates to the book.

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 * Picture**

The picture shows how the women is getting ready to fly the plane, it shows how she is a (WASP). It connects with the book because she is a women pilot and also is a (WASP) and in the book the women are training to become one. It connects with the book by the time period and the suit in the book it's called a zoot suit. Im pretty sure thats what it was during world war one and two. I included this photo cause it shows what I had pictured when reading the book Skies Over Sweetwater, it ties in with the theme of the book.

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 * Piece of Art**

The piece of art shows how she loves to be a WASP and how she has just flew a plane and it shows that she cares to fly and that it's her passion and that she wants to do it. Just like the girls in the the book its their dream to fly planes and become a WASP.

[|http://www.timelessmyths.com/classical/trojanwar.html#Penthesileia] The myth tells how Athena and Posedion are the most powerfull allies in Greek forces. Through out the war they go through so much and sacarfice just as much as the WASPs in the book they have given up alot. In the myth it talks about wrecking ships, in the book that relates to the crashing of the planes when the girl had died from flying her plane up in the air.
 * Myth**
 * Aftermath Of War**

__**Authors Purpose**__

What was the Author trying to make you understand about Bryd's character when she revealed the "Stick Comes Loose, But Girl Flyer Climbs Over Seat and Lands Plane"?

A.) That she is a liar but knows how to make it seem real

B.) That she tells the truth but she also is sneaky

C.) That she thinks she is someone she is not so she tends to lie about things

D.) That she thinks she can get away with alot of things cause her father was a pilot


 * __Analyzing Question__**

What patterns or relationship do you see in Bryd and Lieutenant Andrews?

A.) That they have alot in in common cause the Lieutenant knew Bryd's father, so he knew Bryd would overcome things just like her father did.

B.) That they have alot in common and he sees Bryd being something in her future just like Miss Cochran

C.) They dont have alot in common Lieutenant really doesnt know alot about Bryd

D.) They have alot in common he gets to know Bryd and some of the girls think they like each other, he sees alot of things happeining in her future

__**Generation Question**__

What would you predict or infer from Skies over Sweetwater after the WASP left and went on with their lifes?

A.) They went home to their parents and lived there for the rest of their lifes

B.) Went on with their life by themselfs and didn't do anything

C.) kept in touch with other WASP's

D.) Went on with their life and became a pilot and went on to big and bigger things

The authors past might have been similar to the book he might have trained to become a pilot, just like the women did in the book.

, and NC State Archives Last. //ncculture.comNC Cultural Resources NewsroomCultural News from Around the State of North CarolinaSkip to contentAboutFAQ//. N.d. Photograph. NC Cultural Resources Newsroom
 * Citations:**

Hornung, Jan. "I Am A Pilot." //authors den//. (03/07/2002): n. page. Print. [].

langley, Wanda. "Flying Higher." n. page. Print. []