Thursday, October 31, 2013

Vocab. #10

1) bemoan: complain about
2) pensive: deep in thought
3) devoid: entirely without
4) melancholy: sad/ emo
5) mollify: to calm someone
6) memento: a keepsake or souvenir
7) illicit: illegal
8) ascend: to climb/ to go up

1) My friend always bemoan of his shoes so I mollified him.
2) The boy was melancholy, because his only memento of his friend was a bird who went ascended to the sky.
3) The car crash of his parents left him in pensively.
4) In Iran it's illicit to go outside and even more devoid of a veil.

Thursday, October 24, 2013

Vocab. # 9

1) savory: delicious
2) entice: to tempt
3) tactless: insensitive
4) integrity: self-worth/ self-respect
5) compensate: to pay for services
6) aloof: disinterested/ spaced-out
7) goad: to taunt
8) cohort: friend

1) My best cohort's mom made some savory dinner.
2) I always entice to not try to drink soda every week.
3) The tactless brother asked my aunt that if she had cut her hair.
4) America shows integrity in the soldiers who fought for their country.
5) If the men fixing the sink gets aloof he must not expect to be compensate.
6) If you goad the beehive the bees will sting you.

Thursday, October 17, 2013

Vocab. # 8

1) Malignant: harmful
2) Ornery: irritable/ cranky
3) Indolent: lazy
4) Belittle: to insult or put down
5) Jeopardize: to put in danger
6) Demise: downfall or death
7) Awry: not according to plan
8) Frugal: cheap

1) Acid is a very malignant substance.
2) My ornery cousin would not let us touch his new I pad.
3) He was to indolent to take out the trash.
4) We had to belittle our backpacks when we toke the test.
5) When someone is driving drunk they jeopardize their life.
6) Playing with fire can sometimes  lead you to demise.
7) I had to sleep early so that I can wake up in the morning but instead I was watching tv. that was awry
8) That pen is frugal in doesn't paint.

Thursday, October 3, 2013

Literature Analysis #1

            The Lightning Thief  by: Rick Riordan

1)When the lightning bolt got stolen, Zeus accuses Poseidon's son Percy Jackson and gives Poseidon's son fourteen days to return it, otherwise he will initiate a war amongst the gods. Meanwhile the teenager, Percy, who is dyslexic and has ADHD is visiting The Museum of Metropolitan of Art and is attacked by a Fury disguised in his teacher. His crippled best friend Grover reveals that Percy is a demigod and that he is his protector and his teacher Mr Brunner gives him a pen telling him that it is a powerful weapon. They go to Percy's house and together with his mother Sally they drive to the Camp Half-Blood. However Sally is attacked by a Minotaur and vanishes before Percy can help her. In the camp, Percy meets the gorgeous Annabeth; when they are attacked by Hades who wants the lighting bolt for himself, Percy discovers that his mother is in the Underworld with Hades. Percy decides to travel on a dangerous quest to retrieve the lightning bolt and save his mother. Grover and Annabeth join him. The way to enter the underworld is getting to L.A. When they bypass the safeguards surrounding the Underworld, they are taken to Hades, where they confront him and demand Percy’s mother back. When Percy get out s the under world he finds out that Ares has the Helm of Darkness and is angry because Percy ruined his plan for war between the gods. Ares and Percy fight, and as consequence of Percy winning, Ares gives Hades his Helm back. Hades then returns Percy’s mom. Then Percy has to go Zeus to give him the lightning bolt. Then he returns back to camp.

2)Theme : the lightning thief is all about identity and about discovering identity. 

3) The authors tone was action and some mystery as you read more the he talks about who is the father of Percy.  Ex:  "Look, I didn't want to be a half-blood", son of the sea god.

4) Literary elements/techniques: 
Zeus has a master bolt, and this bolt is used as symbol by symbolizing Zeus’ power.
 When Percy has his mysterious dreams they show foreshadowing, each in its own way. 
Also when Percy is with Luke in the Cabin of Hermes, and Luke looks somewhat peculiar, and tells Percy that he has a disliking feeling towards the gods. At the end of the book Luke appears to be the person who many didn’t expect him to be, the lightning thief. 
Percy is also described as a dynamic character in the way change at the end of the story from being the boy getting kick out of schools and then the one who saved his father. 

Vocab. #7

1) inhibit: to slow or stop something from happening.
2) aberrant: unusual / unexpected
3) loathe: to hate
4) prowess: exceptional skill or ability
5) incoherent: unable to be understood
6) epitaph: a headstone or what's written there
7) elaborate: having many details or steps
8) countenance: face / facial expression

1) He hit him self the door so he put some ice to inhibit his finger from being purple.
2) My cousins came to visit me aberrantly with out me knowing.
3) I loathe waking up on a monday.
4) My brother has the prowess to do some good art.
5) When he talks to low I was incoherent of what he was saying.
6) The epitaph was really big and fancy.
7) Some instructions have many elaborate to follow.
8) When you had tasted something sour you make a funny countenance.