Response to A Sound Of Thunder

Isnt it weird how in A Sound Of Thunder, Eckels just killed a butterfly and everything changed. They had a different president and the sign said something else. He was so confused and scared. This story was actually interesting.

Emerson said it

1. "Society is a wave. The waves moves onward, but the water of which it is composed does not"

• society should move on even though something is holding you back

2. "All men plume themselves on the improvement of society, and no man improves"

• everyone tries to be themselves nut turns out to be exactly like everyone else

3. "There is a time in every man's education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance"

• Jealous  about someone else because he's not aware of himself/gift

4."Society everywhere is in conspiracy against the manhood of every one of its members"

• society is a place whether you fit or don't. For example school is a place where you keep yourself from being your true self

5."He has a fine Geneva watch but he fails of the skill to tell the hour by the sun"

• we built all these wonderful things  and we don't know how to use our "natural resources"

I'm Self-Reliant

While reading "On Self-Reliant" my brain was just like "what are you reading I can't comprehend these words." (Only in some parts.)

"Society is a wave. The wave moves onward, but the water of which it is composed does not"

"For everything that is given, something is taken"

Author in progress

honestly I feel like I didn't do so good on the quiz yesterday. I feel like I should've read the story over again. I need to start studying so I can be ready for when ever we have a test or a quiz.

My American Voice

Vocab: Fall List #6

1. Meme: an element of a culture or system of behavior that may be considered to be passed from one individual to another by non-genetic means, especially imitation
2. Virus: a piece of code that is capable of copying itself and typically has a detrimental effect, such as corrupting the system or destroying data
3. Viral: an image, video, advertisement, etc., that is circulated rapidly on the internet
4. Blog: a regularly  updated website or web page, typically one run by an individual or small group, that is written an informal
5. Wiki: a website that allows collaborative editing of its content and structure by its users
6. URL: the address of a World Wide Web page
7. Website: a location connected to the Internet that maintains one or more pages on the World Wide Web
8. www: World Wide Web
9. Internet: a global computer network providing a variety of information and communication facilities, consisting of interconnected networks using standardized communication protocols
10. 2.0: Web 2.0 describes World Wide Web sites that emphasize user- generated content, usability, and interoperability
11. Open source: denoting software for which the original source code is made freely available and may be redistributed and modified

Vocabulary

Letter to a mentor draft 1

Dear Mentor,

       I was wondering why are items/things designed as they are? Why are the items in that shape? For example a computer used to be like a big box and now it's just basically a screen. Why do they change it?


Sincerely,
       Neri Jijon 

Vocab. Fall List #4

1. Venomous: full of or containing venom; poisonous
2. Stolid: calm, dependable, and showing little emotion or animation
3. Hypnotized: to influence, control, or direct completely, as by personal charm, words or domination
4. Suspended: temporarily prevent from continuing or being in force or effect
5. Transformed: make a through or dramatic change in the form
6. Accuse: charge (someone) with an offense or crime
7. Anticipate: regard as probable; expect or predict
8. Fringe: an ornamental border of threads left loose or formed into tassels or twists, used to edge clothing or material
9. Melancholy: a feeling of pensive sadness, typically with no obvious cause
10. Earnestly: full seriousness, as of intention or purpose
11. Dissolve: in act or instance of moving gradually from one picture to another
12. Aggravate: make (a problem, injury, or offense) worse or more serious
13. Illuminate: light up
14. Capillary: any of the fine branching blood vessels that form a network between the arterioles and venules
15. Proboscis: the nose of a mammal, especially when it is long and mobile, such as the trunk of an elephant or the snout of a tapir

Respect my authority

Sometimes my mom doesn't really care how I am. I mean like ya she thinks I'm pretty weird but she just wants me to be happy. I like being happy all the time I hate when people are all sad and quite.

Inciting incident

In the "The Pedestrian" Mr Leonard Mead was walking at one point he was almost to his house but then all of a sudden a car stopped him. The police officer made him put his hands up and if he didn't he would shoot but he hadn't done anything bad.

Fall vocabulary 4

Intermittent: stopping or ceasing for a time
Ebb: a flowing backward or away
Refress: to move backward
Tendency: a natural or prevailing disposition to move
Antiseptic: exceptionally clean or neat

My Aeries

I got an A-/B+. I honestly thought I was going to get a worse grade because I didn't even study. I think I received that grade because I actually tried and I tried adding different stuff from the stories so I could explain everything better. For the first grading period I feel like I earned at least a B because I actually do most of my work.

Literature Analysis #1: to be continued...

1. So far in the novel Marked by P.C. Cast and Kristin Cast, A girl named Zoey is a normal human until one day she is in school and she feels really sick. She noticed a guy standing by her locker the guy started telling her that she wasn't actually sick. He said that she was becoming a fledgling (a human that's in the process of becoming a vampyre) She then gets marked and she has to hide from everyone else because she had a symbol in between her eyebrows. the symbol represents the she's a fledgling.

For the rest of the questions I haven't actually read enough to actually answer them but hey at least I have something.

Vocabulary: Fall List #2

Faith: complete trust or confidence in someone or something
Threshold: a strip of wood, metal, or stone forming the bottom of a doorway and crossed in entering a house or room
Tarry: of, like, or covered with tar
Resolve: settle or find a diluting to (a problem dispute, or contentious matter)
Discern: perceive or recognize (something)
Martyr: a person who is killed because of their religious or other beliefs
Mirth: amusement, especially as expressed in laughter
Catechism: a summary of the principle as a Christian religion in the form of questions and answers, used for the instruction of Christians/ or, a series of fixed questions, answers, or precepts used for instruction in other situations
Pious: devoutly religious/ or, making a hypocritical display of virtue
Frenzy: a state of period of uncontrolled excitement or wild behavior

YGB Questions

1.What do you think Hawthorne's purpose was for writing this story?
• I think that Hawthorne's purpose on writing this story was because to say that you can change and you wont notice.

2. Hawthorne states that Brown's wife is "aptly named" Faith.  After reading the story, do you agree?  Does Faith's name fit her personality?  Does Brown have true faith in her?
• After reading the story I agree that Brown's wife is aptly named faith. I feel like Faith's name fits her personality. I think that Brown has true faith in her because he loves her and he doesn't want anything bad to happen to Faith.

3.What do you think the pink ribbons signify?
• I feel like the pink ribbons represents how innocent Faith is and how she cares so much about his husband.

4.Was everything Brown witnessed real, a figment of his imagination, something conjured by evil, or a dream?  Support your answer with passages from the text.
• I think that everything Brown witnessed was a figment of his imagination because he says "What if the devil himself should be at my very elbow" maybe because he was thinking that he imagined the devil being there with him.

5. Who do you think the old man really is?  What textual clues tell you this?
• I think that the old man is the devil.

6. What does the staff represent?  Do you think the staff leads Brown onward or is the primary motivator Brown's own conscience/mind?
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7. If Brown had not ventured into the forest, how would his life be different?  If he'd stayed home, would Brown still have Faith?  Would he still trust his wife and his fellow townspeople
• If brown wouldn't have gone to the forest he would still have Faith.

Vocabulary sentences

Vocabulary definitions

Richard Cory respond

I feel like in Richard Cory the author was trying to say that even if you have everything you want as in clothes, money, etc. It doesn't mean that your happy.

Conscience of a Hacker

In his article the boy is really smart. He feels like he's not the same as everyone else. He feels like he belongs with the criminals since they actually understand him. He feels like they understand him because they do the same thing.

Young Goodman Brown

I read some of the story but I was kind of confused. The more I read the less I understood. In the begging Goodman Brown was with his wife Faith. Faith didn't want him to leave. They were praying together when they were finished Goodman Brown left and he felt bad for Faith. He felt bad because he had left her.

My Big Question

Is there such thing as a "perfect person"? 

Ancient Stories

•The Language in the text is similar to our everyday conversations. It is similar because well we use the easiest words we can to explain ourselves when we are talking. It's different because normally we don't use "big words" or whatever.

•It is important for this story to be repeated word for word because if you don't it might change the meaning of the story.

This Weeks Notes

•Tone is the authors attitude towards audience topic and sometimes characters.
•Mood: how we feel when we read.
•Every argument is a search for truth.
•Truth is that which can be factually verified in the world.
•Validity is a test of reason.
•Does my conclusion follow from my premises?
•Diction: the words an author chooses to tell a story.
•Syntax: the way the author writes something.
•Transmitter->medium/message/noise -> Receiver
•5% Verbal means the words when someone is talking to you.
•Para Verbal that refers to the volume or speed we spek.
•Non Verbal: body language or gestures. The proximity. How far you stand next to a person.

Response to The Earth on Turtle's Back

I feel like this story is saying that everyone should be respected equally. Towards the end the Muskrat is determined to complete her goal even if it meant that she had to die. It showed that the Muskrat was the most determined and that the other animals wouldn't give up their lives to save the Sky Women.

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