Vocabulary #3

accolade - noun a tangible symbol signifying approval or distinction

            The cardiology team at ealing hospital has been awarded the prestigious accolade of cardiology team of the year 2004 by hospital doctor magazine

acerbity - noun a sharp sour taste; a sharp bitterness; a rough and bitter manner

            The acerbity of Kathy’s tone was hard to listen to.

attrition - noun the act of rubbing together; wearing something down by friction; a wearing down to weaken or destroy

            When the scientist rubbed together the two mattertials but by the end of the experiment the materials had attrition by the end.

bromide - noun; a trite or obvious remark

            Alex during his speech had a few bromide remarks put in there.            

chauvinist - noun an extreme bellicose nationalist; a person with a prejudiced belief in the superiority of his or her own kind

            The chauvinist person advocated his own country and rights were more important then others.

chronic - adj. being long-lasting and recurrent or characterized by long suffering

            The adventure Odysseus had was chronic and lasted several years in the tragic epic.

expound - verb add details, as to an account or idea; clarify the meaning of and discourse in a learned way, usually in writing

            The teacher expounds the lesson to make sure everyone got a clear picture as to what was happening.

 factionalism- self interested; partisan: Factional interests had obstructed justice.

            Ethno-religious and tribal factionalism predominate over nationalism.

immaculate - adj. completely neat and clean; free from stain or blemish; without fault or error

            Kathy makes sure her room is immaculate for others to view and for herself.

imprecation - noun the act of calling down a curse that invokes evil (and usually serves as an insult); a slanderous accusation

            The three witches imprecated a spell on Billy for making fun of them.

 
ineluctable - adj. impossible to avoid or evade: "inescapable conclusion"

            Graduating and going to college is ineluctable and it really scares me at times.

mercurial - adj. changeable; volatile; fickle; flighty; erratic: a mercuria lnature

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            Together, the steady dandelions and the mercurial orchids offer an             adaptive flexibility that neither can provide alone.          

           

palliate - verb provide physical relief, as from pain; lessen or to try to lessen the seriousness or extent of

            When I broke my foot I tried to palliate the pain by getting my mind of the pain.

protocol - noun code of correct conduct; forms of ceremony and etiquette observed by diplomats and heads of state; (computer science) rules determining the format and transmission of data

            The protocol for dances is to no rub on each other, but not a lot of students follow the rules at school which is horrible.

           
resplendent - adj. having great beauty and splendor

            Kathy is resplendent yet treats everyone at her level.

stigmatize - verb mark with a stigma or stigmata; to accuse or condemn or openly or formally or brand as disgraceful

            The teacher stigmatized for the rest of the year me right when I got in the door and was late on the second day of class.   

sub rosa- Happening or done in secret

            The sub rosa event was put on and no body had a clue it was planed until it actually happened.

 vainglory - noun outspoken conceit

            In performing their funerals, they show no state or vainglory.

vestige - noun an indication that something has been present

            When the teacher came back after the weekend he vestige that someone was in his classroom after he left.

volition - noun the act of making a choice; the capability of conscious choice and decision and intention

            Everyday people need to make millions of volition decisions that may effect them closely or later on in life.

Beowulf Questions: in collaboration with Rheanna Crawley

Rheanna and I worked together on this over the week end. The other half (beginning is on her wall) We will put them together to make it complete on each of our blogs tomorrow. For now here is her blog as well.http://rcrawleyrhsenglitcomp.blogspot.com/ 

Further Celebration at Heorot

1. Beowulf gives Hrothgar Grendel’s head and the hilt of an ancient sword.
2. Hrothgar’s message for Beowulf is that a good leader looks for eternal rewards not earthly rewards. Hrothgar tells us that Heremond was evil, and he because he left his troops for the Jutes and died from betrayal. The lesson you can take from that is you should be good to others around you and have respect for your peers or else you are ultimately in trouble. 
3. Beowulf gives Unferth his sword back that Unferth gave to him earlier on.

Beowulf Returns Home

1. Hrothgar predicts that when Beowulf comes home he will be great with rewards and become a great hero.
2. Hygd is Hygelac’s wife who is also the queen. She is very young but also wise and beautiful. Queen Modthryth on the other hand is old and against her people and would kill people if they upset her.
3. Hygelac wants to marry Hrothgar daughter Freawaru to Ingeld so it may bring peace to the kingdoms. If they have eachothers ancestral belongings then it will cause a feud between the Danes and Heathbards. That way they can not fight with themselves.
4. Beowulf reports his own adventures accuaratley and plays up the monsters for being bigger and stronget then they actually were. He shares a lot about his performance of the daunting feat of might and courage.
5. Beowulf gives away most of his treasure to Hygd and Hygelac and in return receives more treasure and land.

Beowulf and the Dragon

The Dragon Wakes

1. Part two takes places about 50 years later. Hygd has dies and Beowulf has taken over. During this time there is a dragon nearing Beowulf’s kingdom.
2. The dragon is upset because his goblet was stolen along with treasure he has been guarding for 300 years. The treasure was left because it was from and accident civilization and everyone died which they knew was going to happen and left it there.
3. The dragon went in and destroyed the village rampaging and buring down everything.
4. Beowulf thought the gods were punishing him. He wants to defeat the dragon himself so the shield will assist him in doing that. Beowulf doesn’t realize is that he is 50 years older and doesn’t have as much endurance or strength and a sword and a little bit of armour won’t do him much.
5. Hygelac died in combat in Friesland. Beowulf survived thanks to his great swimming abilities. He didn’t want to take the thrown away form his son so he just helped and guided him along as a mentor till he was ready himself.
6. Hygelac’s son Heardred died in a skirmish against the Swedes.
7. When Beowulf meets the dragon he takes along with him eleven men to investigate.
8. Herebeald died in the grendel attack which made the king ready for revenge. Beowulf finally got the Swedes and Geats to a peaceful state.

Beowulf Attacks the Dragon

1.      Beowulf tells his companions to leave him to fight alone.

2.      When Beowulf first fights the dragon they wrestle as fire is shooting out and tires to cut the sword through him, but doesn’t work. Wigalf ties to stick by his side while the others run away.

3.      The second time Beowulf meets the dragon, once he got to the dragons head the sword breaks. The dragon then bites open Beowulf’s neck, and was probably going to die because it was so severe.

4.      Beowulf instructs Wigalf to go inspect the treasure so they can see what they obtained. He is was pleased with what he acquired and wanted to be buried in “Beowulfs Barrow”

Beowulfs Funeral

1. When the companions retuned ashamed for leaving. Wiglaf told the men that all of Beowulf’s generosity was wasted on them. He also predicts that because of their coward ness it will not only effect his great ruler but other things they come across as well.
2.  The messenger gets sent to the Geats to tell them the verdict of the battle.
3. Wiglaf tells the crowd that comes to see the dragon and Beowulf that it was his dieing wish to seek the treasure and buried in the burrow.
4. The dragon is thrown into the water.
5. For Beowulf they burn his body and then mourn his death. Then celebrate such a heroic king.
6. “quoth that of all the kings of earth, of men he was mildest and most beloved,to his kin the kindest, keenest for praise.” I would say that the Geats had high praise for Beowulf. Maybe it wasn’t what some people would say about a military hero, yet  as  person should take it in respect. 

AP English Test Essays

Here is the First Esaay:
- I did time myself on these so that is why they are so short. I also believe we get about 40 minutes per essay question. Am I right?

            Leisure is a privilege in some societies, where to others it is a necessity to have it. In the poem “Adam Bede” George Elliot in 1859 expresses how leisure is not the same as it use to be, “old leisure” has gone to the way-side and what the author views leisure in her time differently.

            Old leisure was not having so many problems or thoughts to deal with explains the author. “… he only read one newspaper, innocent of leaders, and was free from the periodicity of sensations which we call post-time.” If they only had one newspaper there wouldn’t be differing views and innocent leaders meant nothing was changing or getting done to advance culture. So by that does old leisure mean life was just so simple with everything static in life? “Happy is the inability to know the causes of thing.” Leisure means no worries and to have full leisure back then it was to be care free of politics, issues, or knowledge.

            Leisure in the authors’ time seems non-existent because during her time things were being invaded. “Ingenious philosophers tell you, perhaps, that the great work of the steam-engine is to create leisure for mankind. Do not believe him:” This is the perfect example of the author being stuck in his tracks that just now that people are doing innovated things you can’t have leisure. This to some people could be totally right, and to other an interesting thought.

            Elliot portrays leisure in an interesting way, making it predominate in that there is none in her culture. Others could argue that, but not being in her time you most likely couldn’t. She conveys her views by examples of old leisure versus new leisure with advance syntax and diction. The authors’ tone is very clear and gets the message across to the reader.



Essay Number Two:

Social attitudes changes with the time, place, and people. In Catcher in the Rye by written by J. D Salinger, the main character Holden a young adult male decides to leave his private school and go an adventure to the big city. Holden makes a lot of changes in his views and grows up quickly during the wild weekend in the city. He meets people that guide him along, the author guides Holden in the right direction for growing up and becoming an adult.

            Holden has to deal with many different types of people along his journey. He had to deal with his roommate Stradlater who likes to edge him on and tries his best to make Holden upset. Holden would sometimes give in which shows how immature people can be at times.  Then once he gets into the city he ends up meeting a prostitute and is frighten by this. They end up just chatting and having good conversation while he tells her his problems. This is a mature decision that he has to make and the point in the story where you can see he starts to really make grown up decisions. Holden has a little sister who he really cares for, and when he had to tell her all about his adventures she wanted to run away with him. He was at a standstill at that point and didn’t know what to do, he was very emotional about it. The fact that Holden was moved emotionally by that shows that he is not immature and the author has advanced him and his thinking in sociall attitudes towards life.

            By the end of the book we find that he is looking back at all this and is now going back to school in fall. This shows how much he has changed in the positive direction. Salinger does an excellent job at progressing Holden through the whole book. As well when the novel first came out it was can from school for being to vulgar, you look now and it is a classic novel. That goes to show you how thrilling it is to watch social attitudes change over time meaning to and not meaning to.  

Socratic Seminar: Right to your own opinion

-opinions can be validated if you have a fallacy. then change your opinion to make it better.
-there are a lot of people (adults) who are so thick headed that they can't even understand that their opinion isn't valid. When they can't take in someone opinions then they don't have a right to one.
-be open minded, if you have things to back up your opinion then you have a right to it.
-as a class we need to communicate with each other to share what everyone is thinking.
-poison wood bible: the father price didn't have any progressive ideas meaning he didn't have a right to his opinion. He was afraid to adapt.

The Laughing Heart

Here it is! It was very simple and how I did it was I uploaded Google plus on my phone and did it straight from there! Super easy, I will for sure keep using this tool!

Learn to Fly

Although we didn't get the chance to listen to our journal topic music. It caught my eye that Dr. Preston would play to versions of the same song. (Not that it surprises me) Yet I did happen think of a better replacement for Pink Floyd. (Don't get me wrong he is amazing) I Just have happened to see Foo Fighters last weekend and I felt like this would be a better substitute.

p.s. They jammed on this song hard core. They defiantly play for the fans.

Reflections on Week One

1. This AP english class is the only AP class I am taking this year, so I'm not supper worried about my other core classes getting in the way too much. I am involved with ASB and oversee a lot of different activities and need to attend different events which takes up time. There will be a few days in the semester where I will not be able to attend class because of that. I do plan on getting work before and catching up right away.

2. The best learning experience I've ha is being in ASB in high school. Debo (our advisor) has pushed to take ownership of all our actions and responsibilities. Freshman year it was hard to realize that everything wasn't served to me on a silver platter. After that initial shock I worked very hard at being the best leader and promoting Righetti in general. Working with the same ASB students has taught me how to deal with a lot of situations for school and beyond. I pride myself with being very responsible and sophisticate with my words an actions.

3. What I am most excited about for this class is getting to work with technology and see where that can take our class. I am very pleased to be in fourth period where it is a very manageable class. It is going to be a new and exciting experience to lend ideas on how the class will work. What I am nervous about is all the work that goes with it. Not that I don't want to do it. It's just going to be a lot of hard work. Which is all leading up to the AP exam that I am determined to pass. This class will hopefully prepare me for college course classes, one of the main draws for the class actually. It will be a good year!

Summer Homework