Wednesday, September 24, 2008
Wednesday, September 17, 2008
Vocabulary Exercise
The Scarlet Letter Crossword Puzzle
http://puzzlemaker.discoveryeducation.com/code/BuildCrissCross.asp
1. abase- base, Abe
2. abate- ate, bat
3. abstruse- abuse, bust
4. abyss- bass, byass
5. acuity- cut, cat
6. affinity- faint, tin
7. alacrity- trial, trail
8. alchemist- mail, salt
9. alloy- all, lay
10. amenable- amen, able
11. antipathy- paint, path
12. append- nap, den
13. arduous- soar, sour
14. ascend- dance, send
15. ascetic- cite, cast
16. audacity- city, act
17. augury- Ragu, rag
18. auspicious- soap, sip
19. austere- steer, rust
20. balm- bam, lamb
21. benevolence- Ben, Noel
22. benign- nine, bin
23. betoken- ten, token
24. blighted- light, diet
25. buoyant- boy, ant
1. aaesb- abase
2. tabea- abate
3. eutbsrsba- abstruse
4. ysabs- abyss
5. iycuat- acuity
6. nifitafy- affinity
7. ciyrtaal- alacrity
8. ynuboat- buoyant
9. dtglehib- belighted
10. nktbeoe- betoken
11. nbgein- benign
12. ebcenneelvo- benevolence
13. malb- balm
14. earuest- austere
15. taslcimhe- alchemist
16. asuusoipic- auspicious
17. ylalo- alloy
18. yarugu- augury
19. eamlbena- amenable
20. yanhttpip- antipathy
21. caiscte- ascetic
22. danpep- append
23. yatuidca- audacity
24. saurdou- arduous
25. cadsne- ascend
http://puzzlemaker.discoveryeducation.com/code/BuildCrissCross.asp
1. abase- base, Abe
2. abate- ate, bat
3. abstruse- abuse, bust
4. abyss- bass, byass
5. acuity- cut, cat
6. affinity- faint, tin
7. alacrity- trial, trail
8. alchemist- mail, salt
9. alloy- all, lay
10. amenable- amen, able
11. antipathy- paint, path
12. append- nap, den
13. arduous- soar, sour
14. ascend- dance, send
15. ascetic- cite, cast
16. audacity- city, act
17. augury- Ragu, rag
18. auspicious- soap, sip
19. austere- steer, rust
20. balm- bam, lamb
21. benevolence- Ben, Noel
22. benign- nine, bin
23. betoken- ten, token
24. blighted- light, diet
25. buoyant- boy, ant
1. aaesb- abase
2. tabea- abate
3. eutbsrsba- abstruse
4. ysabs- abyss
5. iycuat- acuity
6. nifitafy- affinity
7. ciyrtaal- alacrity
8. ynuboat- buoyant
9. dtglehib- belighted
10. nktbeoe- betoken
11. nbgein- benign
12. ebcenneelvo- benevolence
13. malb- balm
14. earuest- austere
15. taslcimhe- alchemist
16. asuusoipic- auspicious
17. ylalo- alloy
18. yarugu- augury
19. eamlbena- amenable
20. yanhttpip- antipathy
21. caiscte- ascetic
22. danpep- append
23. yatuidca- audacity
24. saurdou- arduous
25. cadsne- ascend
Monday, September 15, 2008
Anne Bradstreet
Anne Bradstreet Analysis
In Anne Bradstreet’s poem “The Author to Her Book”, a young child tells how their parents control their life. They explain how they aren’t the author of their own book and that everything in their life is being controlled. “Till snatched from thence by friends, less wise than true” (Line 3). Even their friends are being controlled. Their friends are being taken away from them because their parents believe that they are foolish and unfaithful. The adults say they are being too “exposed to the public view” (Line 4), meaning they are being showed and introduced to things their parents don’t want their child to experience.
In another part of the poem the author talks about how as much as they try to please others they still see imperfections within themselves. “I washed they face, but more defects I saw, and rubbing off a spot still made a flaw” (Lines 13-14). They made the child feel as though they weren’t good enough. As hard as they washed their face, it still would be a flaw there unable to be washed away. Constantly trying to improve themselves didn’t help them any. The more they tried to perfect themselves they saw more and more faults. One might believe that this would eventually cause their self esteem to drop dramatically, if it wasn’t already low. As they said in the beginning of the poem, “Who after birth didst by my side remain” (Line 2), this was relevant because it shows how the parents started out wanting to have the power in their child’s life without any of the child’s say.
On the other hand, the adults do try to make an effort to let their child walk on their own two feet and be their own person. “I stretched thy joints to make thee even feet, yet still thou run’st more hobbling than is meet; In better dress to trim thee was in my mind, but nought save homespun cloth i’ th’ house I find…In critic’s hands beware thou dost not come, and take thy way where yet thou hadst not known” (Lines 15-21). Though the parents did try to let them be on their own, they saw that the child couldn’t handle it. They still saw flaws they wanted to fix and problems they wanted to saw but, they realized that their child can no longer be sheltered under their parents’ wings. It was time for them to let loose into a world unknown to their child.
The end of the poem was actually the beginning because it was a release for the child to venture off and explore new things. It was also time for them to let go of their parents, but it didn’t seem to be as hard as it was for the parents to let go. “If for thy father asked, say thou hadst none; and for thy mother, she alas is poor, which caused her thus to sent thee out of door” (Lines 22-24). The mother is poor because she does not have her child with her any more, her little bird had to leave the nest. It seemed as though she wanted nothing to do with her father. It was like they didn’t have one or he didn’t exist. Even in the poem they don’t mention the father. The child had disowned their father and left their mother, not out of rebellion, but just because they felt as if it was their time to be by themselves and to experience the abundance of life without the help of their parents.
In Anne Bradstreet’s poem “The Author to Her Book”, a young child tells how their parents control their life. They explain how they aren’t the author of their own book and that everything in their life is being controlled. “Till snatched from thence by friends, less wise than true” (Line 3). Even their friends are being controlled. Their friends are being taken away from them because their parents believe that they are foolish and unfaithful. The adults say they are being too “exposed to the public view” (Line 4), meaning they are being showed and introduced to things their parents don’t want their child to experience.
In another part of the poem the author talks about how as much as they try to please others they still see imperfections within themselves. “I washed they face, but more defects I saw, and rubbing off a spot still made a flaw” (Lines 13-14). They made the child feel as though they weren’t good enough. As hard as they washed their face, it still would be a flaw there unable to be washed away. Constantly trying to improve themselves didn’t help them any. The more they tried to perfect themselves they saw more and more faults. One might believe that this would eventually cause their self esteem to drop dramatically, if it wasn’t already low. As they said in the beginning of the poem, “Who after birth didst by my side remain” (Line 2), this was relevant because it shows how the parents started out wanting to have the power in their child’s life without any of the child’s say.
On the other hand, the adults do try to make an effort to let their child walk on their own two feet and be their own person. “I stretched thy joints to make thee even feet, yet still thou run’st more hobbling than is meet; In better dress to trim thee was in my mind, but nought save homespun cloth i’ th’ house I find…In critic’s hands beware thou dost not come, and take thy way where yet thou hadst not known” (Lines 15-21). Though the parents did try to let them be on their own, they saw that the child couldn’t handle it. They still saw flaws they wanted to fix and problems they wanted to saw but, they realized that their child can no longer be sheltered under their parents’ wings. It was time for them to let loose into a world unknown to their child.
The end of the poem was actually the beginning because it was a release for the child to venture off and explore new things. It was also time for them to let go of their parents, but it didn’t seem to be as hard as it was for the parents to let go. “If for thy father asked, say thou hadst none; and for thy mother, she alas is poor, which caused her thus to sent thee out of door” (Lines 22-24). The mother is poor because she does not have her child with her any more, her little bird had to leave the nest. It seemed as though she wanted nothing to do with her father. It was like they didn’t have one or he didn’t exist. Even in the poem they don’t mention the father. The child had disowned their father and left their mother, not out of rebellion, but just because they felt as if it was their time to be by themselves and to experience the abundance of life without the help of their parents.
Monday, September 8, 2008
Diction
Write a simile comparing a tree with a deomesticated animal. In your simile, use a word that is normally used as a noun (like lipstick) as a adjective (like lipsticked). Share your simile with the class.
A palm tree like a necked giraffe.
(I actually posted this like maybe early sunday morning I don't exactly remember but i just found out how to really work this thing so here it is Ms. Brown)
A palm tree like a necked giraffe.
(I actually posted this like maybe early sunday morning I don't exactly remember but i just found out how to really work this thing so here it is Ms. Brown)
Visual Aid Analysis
This picture represents the turmoil and harships that Christopher Columbus had to go through on his journies. It also expresses the trials and pain he went through before his voyages. Columbus endured dreadful storms and many problems during his travels. He went through severe winters going from coast to coast on the island of Espanola and having to fight off enemies. Like stated before, the image shows the trials that he met. Being a prisoner with his brothers was a troubling time for Columbus, but I believe that experience was just there to make him better serve his country. He would have never thought he would do the things he did or discovery the many places he discovered.
In the end, even though that he had to grow through that whole process he was able to represent his country in a good way, and that is what the clear blue sky represented. He had a clear and bright future ahead of him and it turned out like that when he discovered the little island of Espanola.
Christopher Columbus
Faith McCullough
September 7, 2008
Period 11
AP English III- Ms. Brown
Christopher Columbus
Christopher Columbus had a series of four voyages between 1492 and 1504. He had developed good, sound relations with the Taino Indians on the island of Hispaniola. However, the settlers went wild after Columbus departure. He met with so much controversy and lies, he found himself trying to clear his name. He was clearly devoted to the queen, yet his heart was heavy with the wrong he had suffered.
In writing the letters to his confidants, he clearly wants them to know he is very compassionate about his voyage; however he realizes that he went through a lot of turmoil and hardships. In his first voyage, he travels from coast to coast in search for new land. Columbus goes through terrible weather. Though he had to go through that dreadful process, he did find an island called Espanola. “All are most beautiful, of a thousand shapes, and all are accessible and filled with trees of a thousand kinds and tall, and they seen so touch the sky” (Paragraph 3). Those kinds of discoveries made his findings all worth while.
The writer was very descriptive about Espanola. He wants us to feel the beauty and the warmth of the island. I feel that he wants to share the loveliness of this awesome place with us. He allows us to do this with his magnificent description. “All are most beautiful, of a thousand shapes and all are accessible and filled with trees of a thousand kinds, and tall and they seem to touch the sky. Am I told that they never lose their foliage, as I can understand, for I saw them as green, and as lovely as they are in Spain in May, and some of them were flowering, some bearing fruit, and some in another stage, according to their nature. And the nightingale was singing and other birds of a thousand kinds in the month of November there where I went. There are six or eight kinds of palms, which are a wonder to behold on account of their beautiful variety, but so are the other trees and fruits and plants. In it is marvelous pine groves, and there are very large tracts of cultivatable lands, and there is honey, and there are birds of many kinds and fruits in great diversity. In the interior are mines of metals and the population is without number. Espanola is a marvel.” (Paragraph 3)
Based on the text from the fourth voyage Columbus writes to Ferdinand and Isabella, the king and queen of Spain. I feel the author really wants the reader to feel the pain and intensity that Columbus endured. “I came to serve at the age of twenty-eight and now I have not a hair on my body that is not gray, and my body is infirm” (Paragraph 4). “I was made a prisoner and with my two brothers was thrown into a ship, laden with fetter skin stripped to the skin, very ill-treated, and without being tried or condemned” (Paragraph 3). My heart really goes out to Columbus because we see so much of this type of brutality in our society today. Young men and women are beaten, shot or even killed before given the right to due process. I feel Columbus’ pain.
Columbus wanted greatly to please his leaders. He wanted to ensure that the wealth was put in the hands of the rulers. But, this did not happen. The joy and victory was stolen from him with great force and violence. He explains how he became a prisoner with two of his other brothers and now is a servant to his captures. “Who will believe that a poor foreigner could in such a place rise against Your Highnesses, without cause, and without the support of some other prince, and being alone among your vassals and natural subjects, and having all my children at your royal court” (Paragraph 4). He says even though he has gone through that whole process, they will now be glorified for his works instead of talked down upon. Columbus was determined to make his country proud.
September 7, 2008
Period 11
AP English III- Ms. Brown
Christopher Columbus
Christopher Columbus had a series of four voyages between 1492 and 1504. He had developed good, sound relations with the Taino Indians on the island of Hispaniola. However, the settlers went wild after Columbus departure. He met with so much controversy and lies, he found himself trying to clear his name. He was clearly devoted to the queen, yet his heart was heavy with the wrong he had suffered.
In writing the letters to his confidants, he clearly wants them to know he is very compassionate about his voyage; however he realizes that he went through a lot of turmoil and hardships. In his first voyage, he travels from coast to coast in search for new land. Columbus goes through terrible weather. Though he had to go through that dreadful process, he did find an island called Espanola. “All are most beautiful, of a thousand shapes, and all are accessible and filled with trees of a thousand kinds and tall, and they seen so touch the sky” (Paragraph 3). Those kinds of discoveries made his findings all worth while.
The writer was very descriptive about Espanola. He wants us to feel the beauty and the warmth of the island. I feel that he wants to share the loveliness of this awesome place with us. He allows us to do this with his magnificent description. “All are most beautiful, of a thousand shapes and all are accessible and filled with trees of a thousand kinds, and tall and they seem to touch the sky. Am I told that they never lose their foliage, as I can understand, for I saw them as green, and as lovely as they are in Spain in May, and some of them were flowering, some bearing fruit, and some in another stage, according to their nature. And the nightingale was singing and other birds of a thousand kinds in the month of November there where I went. There are six or eight kinds of palms, which are a wonder to behold on account of their beautiful variety, but so are the other trees and fruits and plants. In it is marvelous pine groves, and there are very large tracts of cultivatable lands, and there is honey, and there are birds of many kinds and fruits in great diversity. In the interior are mines of metals and the population is without number. Espanola is a marvel.” (Paragraph 3)
Based on the text from the fourth voyage Columbus writes to Ferdinand and Isabella, the king and queen of Spain. I feel the author really wants the reader to feel the pain and intensity that Columbus endured. “I came to serve at the age of twenty-eight and now I have not a hair on my body that is not gray, and my body is infirm” (Paragraph 4). “I was made a prisoner and with my two brothers was thrown into a ship, laden with fetter skin stripped to the skin, very ill-treated, and without being tried or condemned” (Paragraph 3). My heart really goes out to Columbus because we see so much of this type of brutality in our society today. Young men and women are beaten, shot or even killed before given the right to due process. I feel Columbus’ pain.
Columbus wanted greatly to please his leaders. He wanted to ensure that the wealth was put in the hands of the rulers. But, this did not happen. The joy and victory was stolen from him with great force and violence. He explains how he became a prisoner with two of his other brothers and now is a servant to his captures. “Who will believe that a poor foreigner could in such a place rise against Your Highnesses, without cause, and without the support of some other prince, and being alone among your vassals and natural subjects, and having all my children at your royal court” (Paragraph 4). He says even though he has gone through that whole process, they will now be glorified for his works instead of talked down upon. Columbus was determined to make his country proud.
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