Tools That Change the Way We Think

Extensive Internet, media, and technology changes the way I think, because it makes me not think. By having technology set right in front of me I am able to just go online type in a couple of key words and find the direct answer. I’ll read the information “copy paste” or write it down and get it over with. The internet is full of ads and pop ups which are distractions. While using the internet, if I click on an add or pop up or even direct myself to a similar page, in a couple of minutes I am bound to go from Rhetorical Devices to the origin of why black cats are believed to be bad luck. This of course isn’t always the case. Most of the time, the internet is useful for educational purposes. By properly using the internet for educational purposes it is easy to collaborate with other students or find the right information.

Fall Vocab list #8 dfenitions

Abeyance: temporary inactivity

Ambivalent: simultaneous and contradictory feelings

Beleaguer: trouble, harass

Carte blanche: full discretionary power

Cataclysm: a momentous and violent event marked by overwhelming upheaval and demolition; event that brings great changes

Debauch: to lead away from virtue or excellence

Éclat: ostentatious display; publicity

Fastidious: having high and often capricious standards; difficult to please

Gambol: to skip about in play

Imbue: to permeate or influence as if by dyeing

Inchoate: being only partly in existence or operation

Lampoon: a harsh satire usually directed against an individual

Malleable: capable of being extended or shaped by beating with a hammer or by the pressure of rollers

Nemesis: a formidable and usually victorious rival or opponent

Opt: to make a choice especially to decide in favor of something

Philistine: person guided by materialism and is usually disdainful of intellectual or artistic values

Picaresque: of, relating to, or being a type of fiction dealing with the episodic adventures of a usually roguish protagonist

Queasy: causing nausea

Refractory: resisting control or authority

Savior-faire: the ability to say or do the right or graceful thing

Fall Vocab list #9 remix

Abortive: failing to produce the intended result

Bruit: spread a report or rumor widely

Contumelious: scornful and insulting behavior

Dictum: a short statement that expresses a general truth or principle

Ensconce: establish; settle

Iconoclastic: characterized by attack on established beliefs

In medias res: a narrative that begins somewhere in the middle of a story rather than the beginning

Internecine: destructive to both sides of a conflict

Maladroit: bungling clumsy

Maudlin: self-pitying or tearfully sentimental, often through drunkenness

Modulate: exert a modifying or controlling influence

Portentous: done in a pompously or overly solemn manner

Prescience: the power to foresee the future

Quid pro quo: a favor or advantage granted in return for something

Salubrious: health-giving, healthy; pleasant

Saturnalia: the ancient Roman festival of Saturn in December; an occasion of wild revelry

Touchstone: a standard by which something is judged or recognized

Traumatic: emotionally disturbing or distressing

Vitiate: spoil the quality or efficiency, destroy or impair the legal validity

Waggish: humorous in a playful manner

Midterm Strategies

To study for the vocab midterm I will be using the linking system. It is easy for me to make connections to words and then remember them.  I will also be reviewing vocabulary lists and repeating the word over and over again. By rewriting the words I will remember how to spell them and what their definitions are.

Literature analysis #1

 

General:

1. Janie Crawford, the protagonist, is a black woman who comes back to her hometown after being gone for a long time. She returns without her husband Teacake and this gives the townspeople a reason to gossip and talk behind her back. The townspeople eventually begin to spread a rumor that Teacake took her money and left her so she came crawling back to her town. When pheoby, her close friend, goes to visit her, Janie tells her how she has been raised by her grandmother but has the primary purpose of marrying Jaine off.  Her grandmother marries her off to Logan Lillicks who is old and doesn't have any respect for her. Feeling is treated she meets a an by the name of  Joe Starks. after a couple of weeks of knowing him she runs off and marries him. Once they are married, Jody becomes the mayor. The power gets to his head and he does not allow Jaime to talk to normal townspeople.  After years of not being heard by her husband, she is berating him and he passes away.  not too long after his death Janie is with Teacake and get married. One night, Teacake taker her money and leaves her alone. Jodie begins to think that he doesn't love her and is only in it for the money. They remain together and after a while they move to the Everglades. When a hurricane hits everglades hey try to flee and Teacake is bit by a rabid dog. a couple of weeks later he falls ill due to the bite and becomes mad. he blames Jodie of cheating on him and as he tries to shoot her with a pistol she is forced to save her life and end his. she is put on trial but is proven innocent. After that she returns to her hometown where the town awaits her to bad mouth her and make her feel unwelcome without even knowing what she has gone through.

2. The main theme in this novel was a relationship of love versus a woman's independence. Although Janie is constantly falling in love with different men and trying to find the right one, she still wants to feel the sense of independence.she believes t hat when she is in a relationship she feels restrained and pushes the man away. when she is alone she is content. After Jody passes away, she feels free and independent. 

3. The authors tone is loving when she talks about her grandmother and how much she loves her. It is loving when the author talks about how Janie's grandmother is very dedicated to her. The author tone is passionate when Janie talks about how she is developing feelings for a man. she talks about Joe starks and how he is a smooth-tongued ambitious man who treats Janie kindly. The authors tone is also frustrating because Janie cant seem to find happiness throughout the novel.

4. The author uses perspective in her novel because the story is told from the protagonists point of view. most of the story is about Janie and her life story so it is told in her perspective. The author uses Bildungsroman because theme is the moral or psychological growth of Janie. The author uses colloquialism when Janie spoke. Janie used words that were not used around the word and more used in her culture and where she lived. The author also used In medias res by opening the story towards he end of the story where Janie was already returning to her home town. requiring filling in past details by exposition
or flashback.The author uses imagery when the protagonist Jamie is talking about what she has gone through and why she has returned to town.

Pre-Will questions

A)     William Shakespeare is the author of many works including Hamlet which is one of his most famous and lengthy pieces of literature. The play consists of the main character Hamlet attempting to gain revenge on his uncle. The play all together is a tragedy.

B)      I know that Shakespeare is known for using iambic pentameter in his style of writing to make his writing unique and different from any other authors of his time. I also know that two of his very famous plays were Romeo and Juliet and Macbeth.

C)      Many students frown at Shakespeare’s writings because they imagine a long boring poem which is made up of words they don’t even understand. Students are not used to the style of writing during Shakespeare’s time or his use of rhetorical devices such as alliterations or imagery.

D)     In order for students to understand what the play is about we should have a visual such as a movie or have students get into groups and reenact parts of the play. In this way we will find the play entertaining and the main ideas of Shakespeare’s messages will come across to us.

Vocabulary Fall list #4

Definitions:
apostate: not faithful to religion or party or cause
effusive: express gratitude
enthusiasm: a feeling of excitement
impasse: situation in which no progress can be made or no advancement is possible
euphoria: a feeling of great (usually exaggerated) elation
lugubrious:sounding sad and dismissal
bravado: show of boldness intended to impress
consensus: general agreement
dichotomy:contrast between two opposites
constrict: make narrow by encircling pressure
gothic: Old architecture 12th to 16th century
punctilio: fine point of conduct
metamorphosis: a change of a person or thing into a complete new one
raconteur: person who tells anecdotes in a skillful amusing way
sine qua non: essential condition that is necessary
quixotic: exceedingly idealistic
vendetta: bitter quarrel Or campaign against someone
non sequitur: conclusion that does not follow previous statement
mystique: fascinating aura of Mystery or awe
quagmire:awkward complex hazardous Situations
parlous: greatly and excessively

Sentences:
1.During her rebellious stage, Stephanie was apostate to her church.
2.Greg was very effusive and emails thank you letters to scholarship foundations.
3. Her enthusiasm to go to Disneyland made her parents happy
4. Because the computers were down the college applications were impassive and all the seniors had to wait patiently
5. Many people spend their whole lives looking for an euphoria To overcome them.
6.the family's loss made tgeembers lugubrious for months.
7. The weight lifter had a very bravado personality and was often called cocky.
8. The parents and their child came to a consensus in her curfew and avoided an argument.
9. The mother and daughter often faced dichotomy and found it ironic because they were complete opposites.
10. The snake constructed the rat to suffocation before she ate it.
11. He studied gothic architecture and found the buildings amusing in detail.
12.He was always punctilious in providing the information for club meetings.
13. After college alex had metamorphosed into a mature educated man.
14. The raconteur was entertaining the whole crowd that night with his stories.
15. The art piece had a random bar that was sine qua non.
16. Erika was very quixotic and was elected spirit leader.
17. The two next door neighbors had an ongoing vendetta that bothered the rest of the neighborhood.
18. Knowing that she had lost the argument she stated a non sequitur and walked away in shame.
19. The men were fascinated by the woman's mystique and wondered what she was hiding.
20. The stranger stood alone in a quagmire position not knowing what to do or who to talk to.
21. He is parlous handsome.