Women Writers

* We have only read two women writers so far: Barbara Kingsolver for The Bean Trees and now Edith Wharton with Ethan Frome. Are women writers any different from men? Do they choose different topics? Do they have different writing styles? Do you prefer to read stories by men or women? Does it matter if a book is by a man or a woman?

I think that it isn't a lot of difference from a woman's and a man's writing styles. Well, the woman's writing style a bit different because woman writers tend to write about deeper and sensitive topics. I really don't mind if I am reading a man's or/ a woman's books, I say as long as I find the book interesting to read then I will read it.

Edith Wharton

* Skim the information about Edith Wharton. Write down five interesting facts about her life:

- In 1902 she built The Mount, her estate in Lenox, Massachusetts, which survives today as an example ofher design principles

- Edith Wharton wrote several of her novels, including The House of Mirth (1905), the first of many chronicles of the nature of old New York, and entertained the cream of American literary society, including her close friend, the novelist Henry James

- Many of Wharton's novels are characterized by a subtle use of dramatic irony.

- Wharton was a committed supporter of French imperialism, describing herself as a "rabid imperialist". After World War I, she travelled to Morocco as the guest of the Resident General, General Hubert Lyautey, and wrote a book In Morocco, about her experiences. Wharton's writing on her Moroccan travels is full of praise for the French administration and for Lyautey and his wife in particular.

- Wharton continued writing until her death, lying in bed and dropping each finished page to the floor to be collected when she finished. Wharton's last novel, The Buccaneers, was unfinished at the time of her death.

Vocabulary Review

In the Vocabulary Section, look at words 106-135. Write a short story using 10 of the words. Put the vocabulary words in bold.

Words :

1. 119. siesta- midday nap

2. 133. generation- period of time between the birth of one group and that of its offspring

3. 122. anon- soon; shortly

4. 110. desperado- bold outlaw; dangerous criminal

5. 107. barrio- neighborhood

6. 109. bravado- pretended courage

7. 118. renegade- deserter; turncoat; traitor

8. 111. flotilla- a small fleet

9. 115. machismo- manly self-assurance; masculine drive; virility

10. 108. bonanza- rich pocket of ore; any source of wealth

Story: 

Generation after generation my barrio has had the reputation of many desperado's living as a family of anger towards the rest of the world. They sometimes call my home the island for dangerous criminals or/ the d.c. The d.c. flotilla maybe small, but we all are stronger put together especially after the  siestas we all take. The Island maybe filled with criminals, but that doesn't mean that we don't have rules. We have only three major rules on the island. Rule number three, always show machismo. Even when you get down you must show bravado to keep safe from everyone in d.c. We may all consider each other family, but on this island everyone is your enemy too. Rule number two you must be alert for the renegade that are only there to help the enemies. Never let your guard down completely, but just enough to lead them in. Rule number one stick together while retrieving the bonanza, but I can feel it anon, we will not have to do this anymore  longer. We will take over everything!

Renegades of Funk

Who are some of the people mentioned? What does Zack de la Rocha (the singer) admire about them?

A.) Some of the people mentioned into his song were:

 Tom Paine
Dr. Martin Luther King

Malcom X

B.) Zack de la Rocha admires them because they were renegades of their time and age
He also may admire them because they changed the world of history by them contributing their feelings among others around them.

Seattle 1999

What is the WTO? 

The World Trade Organization (WTO) involves the discussion of the world trade. 

In the movie This is What Democracy Looks Like, what are they protesting about the WTO?

They were protesting about the world trade and the unfair treatment of factory workers.

Thoreau's View of Technology

What is Thoreau's view of technology?

He isn't very happy with the creation of technology, he felt that it was poison to the world by hiding and distracting the people with known sense.

Do you agree or disagree with him? 

I don't agree with Thoreau's view of technology because I think that technology is a really good resource. It's a great contributor to my life and others because we use technology for mostly everything now a days.

What are the advantages and disadvantages of technology? 

Advantages:

used for travel

for communication

for entertainment 

for shopping

Disadvantages:

can brake down

not very reliable

it pollutes our minds

What technology do you use every day?

  I use lights

computer

 phone

the television

Could you go without technology for a day?

. Honestly I don't think I can go with out technology for one day, the reason being that it's located everywhere I go.

Podcast About Thoreau

1. What is the host's view of Thoreau?

The host's view of Thoreau was that he leads his followers to think and know what is going around them. He makes people believe that each person has a right to think and speak out what they feel. 

2. What is Kathryn Todd's view of Thoreau?

Her view of Thoreau is that he was a important contributer to the history of time. She understands that he was a great part of history, but he was in some ways blind. She doesn't believe that he should have be given advice to no one when he doesn't take advice from other more experienced people (senior citizens).

3. What are the advantages of living your life like Thoreau?

The advantages of living Thereau's life is that you let your heart speak out and have believe in what you decide to do.

4. What are the disadvantages?

The disadvantages is that people do tend to push you away because most of the time your roaming around your own believes and don't ever take the time to listen to other peoples opinions and believes. 

Civil Disobedience

*What actions by the government are you against?

The only main action that I am against the government is war. I dislike people fighting each other.

*What is the best way to change these actions? Can you use any of the ideas of Martin Luther King Jr. or Henry David Thoreau?

One way that I find helpful is peaceful protesting. I would maybe make a huge group and have them all understand where I am coming from and make in-powering speeches just like Dr. Martin Jr. Luther King.

Google Jockey

Images: 

~ cindy sheehan: A lady in front of the White House. A peace maker.

Images: 

~ Seattle in 1999: A shattered window with a person through it. The WTO gathered in Seattle, to protest to protest. 

Image:

~ Do the right thing: it's a man, that seems like he is yelling at someone. It was a movie that helped open peoples eyes to what was going on around.

Image:

~ Gandhi: A peaceful man trying to make peace among everyone. He was inspired by Henry David Theoreau. He is famous for civil obedience.

Image:

~ Henry David Theoreau: He is famous for civil obedience.

English Binder Check

1.How have you organized your assignments? 

I have organized my binder by importance:

I have all of my packets together

I have all of my SAT packets together (in-order)

I have all of my Fahrenheit 451 assignments together

I have all of my poetry together

I have all of my essays together

2.Look through your assignments, what kinds of assignments have we done this year? 

How is English class different from other classes? How is it the same? 

The most amount of assignments that I have in my binder are the SAT packets and a few from fahrenheit 451.

English class is different from other classes because we get to analyze the language and we get to compare our tongue with other languages around the world.

3.What are some things you have learned so far this year? 

Some things that I have learned this year, so far are the different kinds of words that exist and the different kind of writing styles. 

4.Look at your American Literary Periods Timeline, what periods in American Literature 

have we covered so far? 

5. How can you be a more successful student in this class? 

The way I can be more successful in class is to complete my assignments and enjoy the learning experience I receive.  

Science Fiction

What is Science Fiction? 

It is a genre of fiction. It differs from fantasy in that, within the context of the story, its imaginary elements are largely possible within scientifically-established or scientifically-postulated laws of nature (though some elements in a story might still be pure imaginative speculation).  

Who are some of the famous authors? 

Jonathon Swift

Cyrano de Bergerac

Ibn al-Nafis'

Mary Shelley

Edgar Allan Poe 

What are the settings like?

"a handy short definition of almost all science fiction might read: realistic speculation about possible future events, based solidly on adequate knowledge of the real world, past and present, and on a thorough understanding of the nature and significance of the scientific method."

Banned Books

The general reason why books are banned because the government doesn't want to let you know certain information(censorship). They only want people to know only certain information that they only like. Some other reasons why certain books are banned is because of profanity, the books contain religious or/ references, sex, violence, and etc. They may only want to protect us in some kind of way, but we should still have the right to know about them and read them, w/ FREEDOM. Our education would be affected because, within all of those books that I have read, I have learned new and knowledgeable information. 

Section 9

Words

• Ravaged, ravishing, a queen, sleek, ermine. He makes this comparison because he shows how an animal can have human qualities
• "bewildered" meaning he really isn't used to the world today
• renal failure, dialysis, biopsy, the words are used to put the reader in like the doctors perspective.
• It explores the issue of how some owners spend thousands of dollars on their pets.

Sentences

• It's useless
• to the author it's pretty interesting, but really not important
• to show how significant the unit is

Paragraphs

• It's really more like a novel

Essay

• It is divided because if it was smashed into one article the reader might lose interest
• The tone is like informative
• It would change drastically

Discussing ?

• What is wrong with Lady? What is the treatment? How much will

it cost to treat her?

Lady was in chronic renal failure(kidneys weren't filtering out the toxins) . The treatment is to have a transplant. The cost for the surgery was 15,000 dollars.

• What kind of person is Shawn Levering, her owner? How can you

tell?

Her owner is very loving to his cat because it really did hurt him,to see his animal in pain.

• What kind of person is the veterinarian, Cathy Langston? How

can you tell?

The vet, seemed nice and did seem like she cared because she tried to give him the option to treat the cat.

• Why do you think Shawn is willing to pay for Lady’s treatment? Is

he the kind of person you would expect to pay for high-cost treat-

ment for a pet?

Shawn was wiling to pay for the surgery because he loves Lady. I wouldn't expect him to pay because he doesn't have much money.

Section 3

It is informal and touching at the same time.

The Meow, Meow

46 | THE LAST MEOW CSU EXPOSITORY READING AND WRITING COURSE | SEMESTER ONE

Using Key Vocabulary

Complete the following sentences by changing the verb in parentheses
into either an –ed form or an –ing form:
1. The patient, _Ravaged__________________ (ravage) by the effects of diabe-
tes, was a candidate for a kidney transplant.
2. The disease was _Ravaging____________________ (ravage) the kidneys of
the cat.
3. The _________Drooping___________ (droop) cat was held in the arms of her
owner.

4. The cat ____Drooped________________ (droop) as the owner handed her
to the veterinarian.
5. __Bewildered_________________, (bewilder) Shawn Levering looked around
the veterinary hospital.
6. He was given a _______Bewildered ____________ (bewilder) number of
choices.
7. The veterinarian made a ___Compelling______________ (compel) argument
for saving Lady’s life.
8. He was ____Compelled________________ (compel) to choose between his
hot rods and his cat.
9. The _Transplanted___________________ (transplant) kidney was working fine.
10. The surgeon had ______Transplanted________________ (transplant) the kidney
the night before.

Last Meow

I have truthfully, never had a pet except for a goldfish and It didn't live really long. Even for the small time the goldfish lasted, I care of it a lot. The truth, is that I couldn't do anything if it did get sick. If I did have a better pet I would, absolutely care for it.

The Crucible Drafts

2. Crucible Reputations Essay
Oscar Wildes, an Irish novelist and poet once said, "One can survive everything
nowadays, except death, and live down anything, except a good reputation." Through
this, Oscar acknowledges that everything in society is pretty much escapable, but living
up to a good reputation within the community, is a constant and continuous effort. In the
book "The Crucible," Arthur Miller portrays multiple characters outliving and getting past
the strict moral values in an attempt to keep up with a good reputation through John
Proctor, Reverend Paris, and Abigail Williams.

This is a great introduction of the book. Mainly, because it starts out w/ a quote. That involves reputation and how it is hard to keep up w/ it.

In Arthur Miller's famous play The Crucible, innocent people are accused of witchcraft
and are killed as a result. The importance of one's reputation is one of the major themes
shown in the play. The townspeople are held to very strict moral values and must uphold
their good name in Salem's community. John Procter, Elizabeth Procter, and Abigail all
have there reputation misrepresented in some way. Each one was being accused of
witchcraft or lies to protect ones name.

I like the way this person starts out by saying that, innocent people were being killed.

In Arthur Miller's widely known play The Crucible, harsh punishment and even death is
given to faultless citizens who are accused of being involved with witchcraft. The name
of people held their reputation. People strive to keep a good name in the village so that
they are portrayed as affable people. The majority of people that were accused of being
witches were the outcasts of the town that had bad names in the village. Many
characters see their name or reputation as their position in society. Abigail
Williams, John Proctor, and Reverend Hale all value their reputation in the village and
are willing to do anything to keep their good name.

I like the way the this person starts out by saying that innocent people were being killed, too. I really like the way he or/her goes into detail and examples of how there reputation is being ruined.

Embedded Quotes

1. The poppet is dangerous w/ all of it's witchcraft, “hard proof."

2. There shall be no hiding of,"fear."

3. I have seen nothing of both my niece and money"vanished."

Fill in the blank story for SAT Words 1-15

The first day of school led to the last day of three kids lives. Yaquiline, the lothario, Yessica, the maverick, and Yanessa, the nemesis of Yaquiline. On that day, they expirienced a philippic between each other in english class. It started fine, they all sat down in class while Mr. Schreiber introduced himself and the class. They figured out he was a jingoist, because he was wearing a red, white, and blue tuxedo. But after seeing that, they realized who was amongst them. . . the infamous “Y Ladies.”
Yaqualine, and Yanessa, hated each other because Yaqualine took a bite of Yanessa’s Spicy Chicken Sandwhich, which led to Yanessa calling Yaqualin tawdry. Yaqualine, or “Yaquie”, stated that as a philanderer, she slept with Yanessa’s boyfriend. Yanessa’s previous view of as a quixotic young girl, immedietly went away.
One day Yessica came to school and yelled at Yanessa and Yaqualine using solecism, Yessica couldn’t say anything because she felt saturnine beacause of all those spicy chicken burgers that she ate. Yaqualine didnt really care because she was a procrustean, she was tired of arguing. So the rivalry between Yanessa and Yaqualine came to an end. Many people say it was a Pyrrhic victory, because even after the arguement, they still were not friends.
But the wierd part of the story is, why didn’t Yessica get involved? She has the spoonerism of words that confuses the Y Ladies to death. But recently she found the Y Ladies protean and unbearable. She could have won this arguement and be the number one Y lady and live in sybarite for the rest of her life!!

Vocabulary

act- do : actant

aud- hear : audio

cred- believe : credible

dic- speak : dictionary

graph- write : graphemes

loc- place : location

man- hand : manipulate

mot- move : motivate

ped- foot : pedal

pop- people : pop-culture

port- carry : portable

sign- mark : signal

spec- see : spectacular

tract- pull, drag : traction

vid- see : video

volve- roll : involve

English Handbook Questions

1. The heading goes in the upper left corner. The heading includes your name, teacher's names, subject, period, and date.

2. She wore huge dark glasses, so no one recognized her.

3. The difference between a comma and a fused sentence:

comma slice: it is an error of joining two complete sentences w/ nothing but a comma.

fused sentence: runs two complete sentences together w/ no punctuation or/ conjunction between them.

4. Two uses of the commas are:

to list items w/ pauses

to have space between two statements

5. The semicolon is used to combine to different statements in one.

6. The numbers that should be spelled out should be numbers that are ninety-nine and below.

7. Plays are underlined.

8. The difference between "affect" and "effect":

"affect": it means "change," "disturb," or/ "influence."

"effect": it means "result," or/ "impact."

9. The difference between "there," "their," and "they're":

"there": it is meaning towards the other person.

"their": it is meaning possessive, towards the other person.

"they're":it is a contractive of they are.

10. A parallel structure:

they express parallel elements in the same grammatical form.

Are Ideas Worth a Life

I don't really have any ideas or situations that I would die for. It really depends on the idea or/ situation. The only one I can think of is, if I had to choice between the lives of thirty, young children or/ my own. I have to admit that I would be sad to die. Yet, it doesn't matter if I did choose myself. I wouldn't be able to live with myself, and sooner or/ later I would kill myself. This is one of the few ideas or/ situations I would die for. The truth is that who really knows, when you will be pushed into a situation, that may end up with death.

Rumers

I have heard pleanty of rumors, the most recent rumor is about a horrible teacher. I can say that, a lot of people can agree w/ this person. By now there are a lot of followers saying this rumer is true. I completly beleive this rumor because I have this teacher and I can see the bad teaching skills this person has. The person controlling this rumor is the person spreading it.

The Crucible

I have lost trust in a person, in the past. That was close to my heart, this person was great towards me. Well, up to the situation that really hurt our relationship. I was hurt what this person did to me, but I didn't really want to end our friendship that we shared. I did forgive this person, but the whole relationship from the past wasn't completely re-gained. We still are close yet, not as much as the past I ail for.

Reflection on Project

The group worked really well together. We had fun playing other people and we all loved the way the script was written. My performance was not that great, but I would say that I did a pretty good job. I had lots of fun playing Hale. The one major detail that I would like to change about my performance was to read a little slower. I read too fast, that I read another person's character. Besides my mistake, I have to say that our group worked well.