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5.Comments:
- I agree with the reasons that the students came up with about the paper clip experiment; not all paper clips are equally strong and not every student bend the clips the same way.
- On page 29, Petroski mentioned Calvinism in which I had learned in history class.
- On page 30, Petroski mentioned anthropomorphic in which I had learned the definition of in ELA class.
- Father like son; Henry Petroski's son is into engineering which I think is a good thing.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes' poem (The Deacon's Masterpiece) is very long.
- How old is Henry Petroski's son now?
- Why did Oliver Wendell Holmes write that poem (The Deacon's Masterpiece)?
- Are there more than one type of slingshot?
- Why did Petroski call the third chapter "Lessons From Play; Lessons From Life"?
- Fastidious: requiring or characterized by excessive care or delicacy; painstaking
- Serendipitous: come upon or found by accident; fortuitous
- Permanence: the condition or quality of being permanent; perpetual or continued existence
- Direct Characterization: "Oliver Wendell Holmes is remembered widely for his humor and and verse..." (page 28)
- Simile: "What my son had in mind for a slingshot was a massed-produced , metal-framed object that was as far from my idea of a slingshot as an artificial Christmas tree is from a fir." (page 31)
- Describes Henry Petroski's son's experiment with a slingshot and Oliver Wendell Holmes' poem.
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