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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