Sound of Thounder Study Guide

1. Vocabulary 

Annihilate: Destroy 

Expandable : unneeded 

Infinitesimally: small

Primeval: resembling the earliest ages in the history. 

Resilient: flexible 

Revoke: put an end

Sheathed: put (a weapon) in the shed. 

Subliminal: unconscious 

Taint: trace

Undulate: move with a smooth wavelike motion.

2. Literary terms 

Foreshadowing: a literary device in which a writer gives an advance hint of what is to come later in the story. 

Example: 

Emerson's child

1. I feel like Emerson would view the 2016 presidential election like how everybody is reacting too. I mean it just depends on like who he votes. But I think that he would choose Donald trump because he
speaks the truth just like Emerson. And he would like straight forward things that Donald trump is saying and doing. He would like to move forward by individuals because In the story, he's basically saying you can do anything by yourself.

2. Emerson would suggest that we learn in school to pursue our goals is by working hard. Don't ever give up on yourself. Further more he would view our school and career aspirations by telling us what we really want to be. And for that I would prepare by doing something that I've never thought I would do or not heard about. Just do something that you thought and DO IT.

3. Emerson means by "be yourself" is what's really inside of you that no one knows. I feel like we put masks on for people to see the outside of us.  My true nature is basically deep down inside of me that no one knows. But what I really want is to see people the REAL ME..  I think that to reconcile the wisdom and ispiration is that just to be myself and that's all.

4. I would explain Emerson main ideas to a 10 years old is that don't think what other day about you. Just be yourself and be confident. Sometimes your gonna have to be alone with your self with out any friends. You can do anything with your self. And it's ok if you're alone sometimes.

5. That's all what I really think about Emerson. It was hard at first, but hey I least I got through this and this essay. I think that there's more to the story once you get really into it. The more you talk and do notes etc.. you'all get through this. And that's what I think.

Emerson presentations Day 3

• "The secret of fortune of joy is in our hands" means you are the key to the happiness..

• Married to Ellen tuck
• Died on April 27, 1882

• He urges his readers to follow their individual will instead of conforming to social expectations.

Emerson Presentations Day 2

• To be great is to be misunderstood
• "Society everywhere is in conspiracy against the manhood of everyone of its members".
• You must court him he does not court you. But the man is, as it here, clapped into jail by his consciousness.

• "A man is his own star" which means no one in the world out there will help you.
• To be great, to be understood
• Believe what you can do..

Emerson presentation day 1

• this group wrote down quotes to understand more about Emerson
• "The only way to have a friend is to be one" which means being nones is what you gets you to have friends".

My Emerson

Basically we're gonna put some peoples quotes & emerson's together. My group & I gonna put it on a poster & it's gonna be shaped "E" (for Emerson).. and in the "E" it's gonna be the quotes. And all of this is to understand more of Emerson.

Emerson for the young buck

What I learned was that don't care what anybody thinks. Always speak what's on your mind & what's right. Be true to your self... that's what I learned..

Emerson said it

"The secret of fortune is joy in our hands".. what I think it means do what makes you happy and don't care what anybody thinks... 

"But if I am the devi's child, I will live then from the devil".. what I think it means is if you do bad things it will come back?... like Karma example... 

"Speak your latent conviction, and it shall be the universal sense; for the most in due time becomes the almost" what I think it means is speak out your mind, you shouldn't be afraid what others think..

Author in progress

what I need to do is post more blogs..

My American voice

I speak up up when people bug or bully that person. Sometimes it depends on the situation too. But I speak up when something is not right.

Vocab fall list #6

1. Meme - basically a picture making fun of people.
2. Virus - an infective agent that typically consists of nucleic acid molecule in a protein coat.
3. Viral -  of the nature of, caused by, or relating, to a virus or viruses.
4. Blog - where people put their thoughts on the blog.
5. Wiki - a website that allows collaborative editing of its content and structure by its users.
6. URL - a reference to a resource on the Internet.
7. Website - a location connected to the Internet that maintains one or more pages online.
8. Www- where documents and other web resources are identified.
9. Internet - the global system of interconnected computer networks.
10. Open source - denoting software.

1. He made a meme about her.
2. There's a virus spreading around.
3. It's really viral.
4. I put thoughts on my blog everyday.
5. I used wiki to edit stuff.
6. Here's a url to the blog.
7. Here's the website you wanted the other day.
8. The website link starts with "www".
9. I don't believe everything on the Internet.
10. Here's a open source you can use.

Team vocab

The team vocab is about the vocab use to explain the presidential debate. This years debate was very aggravating Donald trump's words were very venomous towards Hillary Clinton. Neither of them were stolid and hypnotized towards the audience. I really want Hillary Clinton and Donald trump to dissolve from the preisdential election because we won't be able to spread the transformation the U.S. Is about to experience. Donald trump was constantly accusing Hillary Clinton about her emails. No one anticipated that their arguments would be so weak. When they were arguing I felt as if my capillaries we're about to burst from anger

Literature Analysis

1. This story is called The Fault In Our Stars by John Green. This book is about this girl name Hazel, she has long settled satellite colony in her lungs. She usually does the basic stuff of everyday like going to the doctors, take medicine watch American Next Top model. She has always gone to this Cancer Kid Support Group where kids that kids that have been sick. But really she doesn't like going to those because they are boring, but one day she went & saw this cute guy. His name was Augustus Waters. He's friends with one of Hazel's friend from the support group. During the support group, all the kids were talking about their sickness they have and each person of the group had to talk. So Augustus was only their because his friend was blind and went to the group. So it was Augustus turn to talk and he's sick too from his half bottom leg that wasn't there anymore but had a fake bottom leg under his pants. After that he kept staring & staring at Hazel. Right after the group was finished, they talked. He asked her name, & said that she was beautiful. Later on they talked and get know each other. And they fall in love. They talked on the phone, sent texts to each other. They always go on cute days like at this cool park. She has always been wanting to meet her Favorite writer. She tell Augustus that she wants to meet him & how his books are so good. So one day she emailed her favorite writer and got a email from him saying he would like to meet her where he lives is Amsterdam. So they both went and Hazel's mom too and loved going over. Later on one day he called her saying that he blood was coming out of his mouth. So went Straight off where he was at and days later he died. She was so sad that her boyfriend, best friend died and that's it.

2. Basically the theme is both people fall in love and never forgot about each other.
3. The author's tone is he's the type of person going to Barnes & Noble and just read books. And likes to drink Starbucks too.
4. The literary techniques are allusion, foreshadowing and Imagery.


1. I hoped it was a romantic story and it was. It showed to people becoming friends and fall in love.
2. The first ten pages were interesting as i kept reading.
3. My reading habits are okay because I don't really love books.

1. Both fall in love for the plot of the novel.
2. In the story there were sick people.
3. The authors tone is romantic, sad, happy.
4.  For the literary techniques are allusion which in the story explained what happened, foreshadowing is the death that happened at the end of the story. And for Imagery is the love from Hazel and Augustus.

1. For the direct characterization in the story is when the feeling of love during the story and for indirect characterization is when Augustus died, when they first met each other.
2. The syntax for this story is when in the story, Hazels friend (the blind guy) and his girlfriend would say "always" and hazel and Augustus  say "okay"
3. The protagonist is dynamic because in the story there's changes.
4. Right after i read the book i have the feeling i read a character

Letter to a mentor draft 1

Why do we have homework? i would want to ask why if we're basically stressing already of school , quizzes etc... Why ?

Fall list #5

1. Venomous - bite or sting.
Ex. When I went camping, I got a venomous bumble bee sting.
2. Stolid - showing little emotion.
Ex. I am very stolid today.
3. Hypnotized - put to sleep.
Ex. He was hypnotized by that lady.
4. Suspended - temporarily prevent from continuing or being in force or effect.
Ex. The light was suspend from the celling.
5. Transformed - make through a change.
Ex. I've transformed many costumes for all Halloweens.
6. Accuse - charge (someone) with a offense or crime.
Ex. He was accused of stealing that woman's purse.
7. Anticipate - expect or predict.
Ex. We don't anticipate any trouble.
8. Fringe - an ornamental border of threads.
Ex. I fringe the clothes I was sewing.
9. Melancholy - a feeling of sadness.
Ex. I was feeling melancholy today.
10. Earnestly - serious in intention.
Ex. There was earnestly attention to her.
11. Dissolve - become or cause.
Ex. Glucose dissolves easily in water.
12. Aggravate - make a problem worse.
Ex. Military action would only aggravate the situation.
13. Illuminate - light up.
Ex. A flash of lighting illuminated the house.
14. Capillary - any of the line branching blood vessels that form between the venues.
Ex. He has capillary in his hair.
15. Proboseis - the nose of a mammal.
Ex. That animal has proboseis.

Respect my authority

I think that my authority hears what I would want to say & listen to me.

Inciting incident

My first impression of the pedestrian is that it's werid

Mistakes for president

I feel that Hillary had good answers and trump didn't let the guy asking questions to them.

Big Question Discipline

Why people quickly judge right away?

Fall Vocab 4

1. Intermittent - occurring at irregular intervals.
2. Ebb - the movement of the tide out to sea.
3. Regress - return to a former or developed state.
4. Tendency - an inclination toward a particular characteristic or type of behavior.
5. Antiseptic - antibiotic





1. The teacher corrected intermittent on my paper.
2. The ebb is rising.
3. She is regress to her new town.
4. She has a werid type of tendency in her.
5. Some people that are sick are antiseptic.

MY AERIES

The grade I got was kinda ok I would say... But I think that I would've did a lot better if I didn't leave one or two parts..
I've done so far this course by doing daily stuff, stay on task..

Vocab 3

1. Coherent - of an argument, theory, or policy.
2. Belabor- argue or elaborate in excessive detail.
3. Eschew - deliberately avoid using.
4. Acquisitive - excessively interested in acquiring money or material things.
5. Emulate - March or surpass.
6. Banal - so lacking in originality as to be obvious and boring.
7. Excoriation - a harsh criticism.
8. Congeal - solidify or coagulate, especially by cooling.
9. Carping - difficult to please.
10. Sunstantiate - provide evidence to support or prove the truth of.
11 . Temproize - avoid making a desicison or committing oneself in order to gain time.
12. Largesse - generosity in bestowing money or fits upon others. 
13. Tenable - able to maintained or defended against attack or objection.
14. Insatiable - impossible to sastify.
15. Reconnaissance - military observation of a region to locate an enemy or acerstain strategic features.
16. Germane - relevant to a subject under consideration.
17. Ramify - from branches or offshoots.
18. Intransigent - unwilling or refusing to change one's view or to agree about something.
19. Taciturn - reserved or uncommunicative in speech.

Literature Analysis Questions #1

1. This book is about this boy named John & his sister Lisa moved to a new house. He thought at first that his house is nowhere near his school or his bestfriend. They were both crazy about old houses. Later on, the house that their living right now is haunted by the Revolutionary War solider killed in the famous and bloody Battle of Princeton.
2. I think that the Theme is scary & werid..
3. I think that the Author Margery Cuyler tone is thrillingly combines creppy chills. I feel like that she's that type of person that likes to walk to the cemetery & likes to drink black coffee.

Young Goodman Brown Vocab #2

1. Faith - complete trust of confidence in someone or something.
2. Threshold - a strip of wood, metal, and crossed in entering a house or room.
3. Tarry - to remain or story.
4. Resolve - settle or find a solution to (a problem)
5. Discern - perceive or recongize (something)
6. Martyr - a person who is killed because of their religious or other beliefs.
7. Mirth - asmusement, especially as expressed in laughter.
8. Catechism - a summary of the principles of Christian religion in the form of questions and answers, used for the instruction of Christmas.
9. Pions - devoutly religious.
10. Frenzy - state or period of uncontrolled excitement or wild behavior.

Young Goodman Brown Questions & Answers

1. What do you think Hawthorne's purpose was for writing this story?
      I think it's to get people's attention. 

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?
   Yes because it's odd that It doesn't really fit to her.

3. What do you think the pink ribbons signify?
The pink ribbons signify how werid and innocent she is.

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 it's his imagination because his friend just came like out of no where.

5. Who do you think the old man really is?  What textual clues tell you this?
    Maybe his old friend...

6. What does the staff represent?  Do you think the staff leads Brown onward or is the primary motivator Brown's own conscience/mind?
 I think that the motivator has conscience in his mind.

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
 I think that his life would've been the same because he'd still be with faith..

Young Goodman Brown

My first impression was that in this poem, it shows symbols like "ribbons on her hair".

Conscience of a Hacker

My first impression was that the guy in the poem sounded like he was frustrated..

My big question

Do we get to have a life we've been planning since we were little kids later in life?

Ancient Stories

1) Basically the text of my everyday conservation is similar because I use short not hard words like in "The Earth on Turtle's Back" you can read it good because there's no hard words... 

2) It's important for a story to be repeated word for word because we can understand the meaning of the word. 

Notes

Theme - the central message to the story
Tone - the authors attitude tords the character
Mood - the readers action

"The right to your opinion"
Syllogism - simplist
Truth - can be factically verified in the world
Validity - a test of reason
Argument - the search for truth

Diction - an author that chooses to define a story
Syntax - the way the author organizes the words
The difference of learning and hearing is thinking

The earth on turtle's back

The poem "the earth on turtle's back" is that a woman had a dream about failure. And how all the animals tried to pull up the lady up to earth, but can't. But at the end the muskrat ended up taking the lady up to earth, even though the muskrat was tired and almost died

Richard Cory

                                                                            Richard Cory
My first impression of "Ricard Cory" by Edwin Arlington was that I thought it was gonna be like one of those type of poems that are happy, humble. But I wonder why he killed himself? When I read at the end it was to happy to sad...  Sometimes we put on a mask to not really show how we feel..

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