vocabulary #3

Chronic-constant; habitual; inveterate
Sentiment-an attitude toward something; regard; opinion.
Morality-conformity to the rules of right conduct
Remorse-deep and painful regret for wrongdoing; compunction.
Defect-a shortcoming, fault, or imperfection
Acquaintance-a person known to one, but usually not a close friend
Sanity-the state of being sane; soundness of mind.
Implication-something implied or suggested as naturally to be inferred or understood
Alternative-a choice limited to one of two or more possibilities
Savage-fierce-ferocious, or cruel; untamed
Phenomenon- a fact, occurrence, or circumstance observed or observable

BOB 1

1.Teanna Silvera:  57 posts; work is doing good keep up a good work
2. Chance Miranda: 49 posts,the work posted is very well done3.Miya Velazquez : 49 posts; plain design but good work
4.Danny George:  47 posts,thoroughly done work
5.Syerra Fox:  46 posts, beautiful  blog and good work posted
6.Alyssa Barajas: 41 posts, colorful blog with great work
7.Michalia Bohard: 39 posts,needs work on it alittle
8.Roman Davis: 38 posts, nice blog and excellent work
9. Cameron Reese: 32 posts; nice work
10.Karla Paredes:  31 posts, beautiful blog and nice work
11.Alicia Ramierz: 30 posts, beautiful blog and consistent work for the most part
12.Matt Reynolds:  28 posts but very nice work
13.Nick Paulus:  28 posts; great content but needs some work on relating to the cource
14.Diego Tejada-More: 22 posts; nice design but litter description with work
15.Jarrett Anzalone:  22 posts,good blog but needs work.
16. Shelby Hennick:  about 21 posts, beautiful blog setup
17.Carlos Serranos: 21 posts; plain blog but good content
18.Patricia Tuttle: 16 posts;  very nice work
19. Derek Gonzalez:  16 posts,need to show more work
20.Jacob Bigelow: 15 posts, nice blog and work are very nice
21. Jessica Wilkins :  12 things posted; beautiful design
22.Frank Limon: Only has 12 posts but his blog makes many people smile regardless of the lack of content
23.Jonah Maher:  11 posts, new student and is caught up very well for his first semester. good job

24. Jose Farias:  10 posts?  the work posted is good

25.Taylor Martinez:  10 posts, not much work besides the vocab needs more work

26. Joseph Beas:  10 posts, not very much work, need progress

27. Amanda Cagle:  7 posts, new student. Appears to post good work

28. Kyler Stickler:  7 posts, calming background but not much work is posted

29.Melissa Hernandez:  7 posts, gorgeous blog but lacks much of the course work, you need more progress.

30. Miguel Moreno: about 6 posts? This blog was nice but difficult for me to navigate compared to the other blogs

31. Shelbi Nunes:  6 posts, eye catching background but not much work

32. Cory Grant:  5 posts, nice blog but not much work

33. Trevor Henson:  1 post, that’s about it. . .You need more work

 

spring vocab #3

brouhaha-excited public interest, discussion, or the like, as the clamor attending some sensational event;
 cloy-to weary by an excess of food, sweetness, pleasure,
 demeanor-conduct; behavior; deportment.
 deference-respectful submission or yielding to the judgment, opinion
 enigmatic-resembling an enigma; perplexing; mysterious.
 definitive-most reliable or complete, as of a text, author, criticism, study
 bumptious-offensively self-assertive
 choleric-extremely irritable or easily angered; irascible
 bulwark-a wall of earth or other material built for defense
 curtail-to cut short; cut off a part of; abridge; reduce; diminish.
 adamant-utterly unyielding in attitude or opinion in spite of all appeals
 profligate-utterly and shamelessly immoral or dissipated; thoroughly dissolute
 mawkish-characterized by sickly sentimentality; weakly emotional; maudlin
 thwart-to oppose successfully; prevent from accomplishing a purpose
 onus-a difficult or disagreeable obligation, task, burden
 requisite-necessary for a particular purpose, position
 mollify-to soften in feeling or temper, as a person; pacify; appease
 sartorial-of or pertaining to tailors or their trade
 presentiment-a feeling or impression that something is about to happen, especially something evil; foreboding
 impromptu-made or done without previous preparation
 forbearance-the act of forbearing; a refraining from something
 remit-to transmit or send (money, a check, etc.) to a person or place, usually in payment

ESSAY POSTGAME ANALYSIS

       I think that the first essay was okay then when I turned it in I realize that I wouldnt want to turn anything in like that... so before I left school and Dr. preston left his classroom and asked him if I can re-write the essay... he told me that I was able to write it again and turn it in tomorrow.  I was thankful to get another chance because I didnt want to go home with my mind saying I didnt do a good job with my work. On the first essay I did I would have gane myself a C but since I re did it I give myself a B+

PARLOR POETRY

 I thought that this poem was very similar to the "Dove Beach"  because I thought that it showed the same strength of loss in faith and need of integrity. I also thought that it would show what she probably though before she burnt herself with her books. For example, wen it says "Your scars weighing heavy"... I think it can refer to the books burning because that can be a weekending to her. 



Place your hopes on high
Make way by dim candle light
Play it out like you have before
This shell isn't you
Optimist with a pessimist view
These times bind you in doubt
Your scars weighing heavy
I see it in your eyes
Regret of failure in doing it all right
How can so many choices
Turn out with such consequence's
Starve the meaning
And build the reaction
Carve doubt from dreaming
And it all collapses

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LAQ #1

Twenty-two-year-old Skeeter has just returned home after graduating from Ole Miss. It is 1962, Mississippi, and her mother will not be happy till Skeeter has a ring on her finger. Skeeter would normally find solace with her beloved maid Constantine, the woman who raised her, but Constantine has disappeared and no one will tell Skeeter where she has gone.
Aibileen is a black maid, a wise, regal woman raising her seventeenth white child. Something has shifted inside her after the loss of her own son, who died while his bosses, looked the other way. She is devoted to the little girl she looks after, though she knows both their hearts may be broken.
Minny, Aibileen's best friend, is short, fat, and perhaps the sassiest woman in Mississippi. She can cook like nobody's business, but she can't mind her tongue, so she's lost yet another job. Minny finally finds a position working for someone too new to town to know her reputation. But her new boss has secrets of her own.
Seemingly as different from one another as can be, these women will nonetheless come together for a clandestine project that will put them all at risk Because they are suffocating within the lines that define their town and their times.Sometimes lines are made to be crossed.
In pitch-perfect voices, Kathryn Stockett creates three extraordinary women whose determination to start a movement of their own forever changes a town, and the way women - mothers, daughters, caregivers, and friends view one another. A deeply moving novel filled with poignancy, humor, and hope. The Help is a timeless and universal story about the lines we abide by, and the ones we don't.

 

spring vocab #2

Praetorian - a member of the roman guard

Sieve - a utensil of wire mesh or closely perforated metal used for straining

Veiled - partially concealed with a veil

Saccharine - of or relating to sugar

Harlequin - a comedian

Toil - to work hard or incessantly

Delinquents - group of persons offending by neglect or violation of law

Gibbering - speak rapidly or unintelligibly

Insidious - proceeding in a gradual subtle way

Strewn - scatter or spread untidily over a surface or area

Cadence - pace

Centrifuge - a piece of equipment used to spin an object around a fixed axis

Patronage - act of buying

Suffused - to spread over or through

Leisure - time free from work or duties

Dentifrice - toothpaste

Vessel - big boat

Profusion - an abundance of something

Phonograph - a record player