Comments:
1. The white girl has married a black boy which treats her very nice.
2. I thought she was a servant to those people but she is not.
3. They both feel that Jamaica and England is like a dream they which to wake up from.
4. Antoinette is the girl that went through that tragic with the fire burning her house down.
5. They don't mind getting their dress dirty since they are rich.
Questions:
1. Is there any other white person in the house?
2. What is Antoinette afraid of?
3. Where did they get the other girl from?
4. What did the rats represent?
Vocabulary:
1. Commemorating: to serve as a memorial or reminder of pg. 77
2. Chemise: a woman's loose-fitting, shirt like undergarment pg. 82
3. Plaits: to make, as a mat, by braiding pg. 84
Literary Terms:
1. "It was cold as ice in the hot sun." Simile pg. 77
2. "...and the noise, subdued in the inner room, was deafening Crack - Cracks..." Onomatopoeia pg. 81
Overview Sentence:
1. The black man treats her nice but she does not want to be there with him.
Monday, April 27, 2009
Wide Sargasso Sea
Comments:
1. She got married to some man and is now in Massacre coming from Jamaica.
2. This is almost like Dominican Republic carrying baskets on top of their heads.
3. She has been sold to some stranger she doesn't even love.
4. She is not happy where she is and is very lonely.
5. She is getting married in a place called Granbab.
Questions:
1. Who is Antoinette?
2. What is the young bull ?
3. How are they happy in a house full of strangers?
4. What is she afraid of?
Vocabulary:
1. Melancholy: a gloomy state of mind, esp. when habitual or prolonged; depression pg. 67
2. Menacing: something that threatens to cause evil, harm pg. 69
3. Veranda: a large, open porch, usually roofed and partly enclosed, as by a railing, often extending across the front and sides of a house; gallery pg. 74
Literary Terms:
1. "Long, sad, dark alien eyes." Metaphor pg. 67
2. "... a little sad as if it knew it could not last." Simile pg. 72
Overview Sentence:
1. A girl and women arrived to a house that belongs to the Mason.
1. She got married to some man and is now in Massacre coming from Jamaica.
2. This is almost like Dominican Republic carrying baskets on top of their heads.
3. She has been sold to some stranger she doesn't even love.
4. She is not happy where she is and is very lonely.
5. She is getting married in a place called Granbab.
Questions:
1. Who is Antoinette?
2. What is the young bull ?
3. How are they happy in a house full of strangers?
4. What is she afraid of?
Vocabulary:
1. Melancholy: a gloomy state of mind, esp. when habitual or prolonged; depression pg. 67
2. Menacing: something that threatens to cause evil, harm pg. 69
3. Veranda: a large, open porch, usually roofed and partly enclosed, as by a railing, often extending across the front and sides of a house; gallery pg. 74
Literary Terms:
1. "Long, sad, dark alien eyes." Metaphor pg. 67
2. "... a little sad as if it knew it could not last." Simile pg. 72
Overview Sentence:
1. A girl and women arrived to a house that belongs to the Mason.
Tuesday, February 10, 2009
Spook
5-Comment
1. They are trying to reach out to the dead in a University of Arizona lab.
2. Gary Schwartz is a psychology professor at the University of Arizona.
3. Schwartz have a data to show people can communicate with the dead.
4. John Edwards (of Crossing Water) was tested in the Afterlife Experiment.
5. Allison DuBois is also part of the their research called Asking Question Study.
4-Questions
1. Are there angels?
2. Do afterlives eat?
3. Does it mean in the afterlife, people still behave like normal humans?
4. He keeps switching universities, does that mean all universities in America study the afterlife?3-Vocab
1. Robust - strong and healthy
2. Dateline - a line giving the place or origin and usually the date of a news dispatch
3. Discarnate - without a physical body
2-Literary Term
1. "...showing up in a double-breasted suit, with a white Jaguar parked in the lot..." [imagery]
2. "...a stout woman with gray hair..." [imagery]
1-Overview:Finding out more about the afterlife at the University of Arizona by asking questions.
1. They are trying to reach out to the dead in a University of Arizona lab.
2. Gary Schwartz is a psychology professor at the University of Arizona.
3. Schwartz have a data to show people can communicate with the dead.
4. John Edwards (of Crossing Water) was tested in the Afterlife Experiment.
5. Allison DuBois is also part of the their research called Asking Question Study.
4-Questions
1. Are there angels?
2. Do afterlives eat?
3. Does it mean in the afterlife, people still behave like normal humans?
4. He keeps switching universities, does that mean all universities in America study the afterlife?3-Vocab
1. Robust - strong and healthy
2. Dateline - a line giving the place or origin and usually the date of a news dispatch
3. Discarnate - without a physical body
2-Literary Term
1. "...showing up in a double-breasted suit, with a white Jaguar parked in the lot..." [imagery]
2. "...a stout woman with gray hair..." [imagery]
1-Overview:Finding out more about the afterlife at the University of Arizona by asking questions.
Spook
5-Comments
1. Winter is the most quiet season, and summer is most when everybodu goes out to have fun, its very civalized.
2. Woodhull moved to Amos Underhill's house to do most of the spying.
3. Intellegence of privateer-building activity was going to be in some anxiety.
4. Americans bought 3,100 vessals from merchants to fight against the British.
5.Woodhull wrote to Washington a full 7 pages report about what was happening and will be returning.
4-Questions
1. Is 3,100 vessals really enough agaisnt the British?
2. How come so far in the book, there isn't any names of women mentioned?
3. Were all spies men back then?
4. Was there even any women living in the American colonies?
3-Vocab
1. Regiments - military ground troops
2. Reluctance - unwillingness
3. Countenance - calm facial expression
2-Literary Terms-
1."....bought in 3,100 merchant vessals..." - Foreshadow
2. They ready to go agains the British.- "...Roe bought it from Woodhull..." - Irony - He should be spying and not selling things.
1-OverviewThe Americans were getting all the supplies they need to get ready.
1. Winter is the most quiet season, and summer is most when everybodu goes out to have fun, its very civalized.
2. Woodhull moved to Amos Underhill's house to do most of the spying.
3. Intellegence of privateer-building activity was going to be in some anxiety.
4. Americans bought 3,100 vessals from merchants to fight against the British.
5.Woodhull wrote to Washington a full 7 pages report about what was happening and will be returning.
4-Questions
1. Is 3,100 vessals really enough agaisnt the British?
2. How come so far in the book, there isn't any names of women mentioned?
3. Were all spies men back then?
4. Was there even any women living in the American colonies?
3-Vocab
1. Regiments - military ground troops
2. Reluctance - unwillingness
3. Countenance - calm facial expression
2-Literary Terms-
1."....bought in 3,100 merchant vessals..." - Foreshadow
2. They ready to go agains the British.- "...Roe bought it from Woodhull..." - Irony - He should be spying and not selling things.
1-OverviewThe Americans were getting all the supplies they need to get ready.
Spook
5-comments
1. They started hunting the souls with microscopes and scalpels.
2. Took man 6,000 years to figure out how life started.
3. They didn't know about life because they couldn't see specifics.
4. In 1675, Leeuwenhock discovered the life of bacteria and protozoa.
5. Harvey was atonished to find out how life of a dear began.
4-questions
1. What is Chamberlain of the Council-Chamber of Worship Sherifts of Delt?
2. Did he find animacules?
3. What is the material of human soul?
4. If the souls would arrive in conceptiors, what would happen then?
3-vocab
1. Globules - a small spherical mass
2. Minted - to produce (money) by stamping metal; coins
3. Rennet - a lining membrane on the fourth stomach2
2 Literary Term
1. "...some with tails straight look like hat pins..." [simile]
2. "the luz is shaped like a chickpea" [simile]
1-Overview:This chapter is about discovering how life began.
1. They started hunting the souls with microscopes and scalpels.
2. Took man 6,000 years to figure out how life started.
3. They didn't know about life because they couldn't see specifics.
4. In 1675, Leeuwenhock discovered the life of bacteria and protozoa.
5. Harvey was atonished to find out how life of a dear began.
4-questions
1. What is Chamberlain of the Council-Chamber of Worship Sherifts of Delt?
2. Did he find animacules?
3. What is the material of human soul?
4. If the souls would arrive in conceptiors, what would happen then?
3-vocab
1. Globules - a small spherical mass
2. Minted - to produce (money) by stamping metal; coins
3. Rennet - a lining membrane on the fourth stomach2
2 Literary Term
1. "...some with tails straight look like hat pins..." [simile]
2. "the luz is shaped like a chickpea" [simile]
1-Overview:This chapter is about discovering how life began.
Thursday, November 20, 2008
Basketball History
5-Comments
- James Naismith graduated as a medical doctor
- Naismith watched his sport, basketball, introduced in many nations by the YMCA movement as early as 1893.
- Basketball was introduced at the Berlin Olympics in 1936.
- The first game was played with a soccer ball and two peach baskets.
- He needed a game that could be played indoors in a relatively small space.
4-Questions
- Was the YMCA a big support of this movement?
- What made the olympics choose basketball for their events?
- Why was the first basketball game played with a soccer ball?
- Why did he create his own ball for basketball instead of using the soccer ball?
3-Vocabulary
- Foul shot (free throw): A throw from the foul line, given a player after a foul has been called against an opponent.
- Foul: Act of violation; When someone violates the rules and they're penalized for it;A person creating contact to another opponent.
- Turnover: When the offense loses possession through its own fault by passing the ball out of bounds or committing a floor violation.
1-Summary
- In this chapter it showed some of the violations that James made for the basketball game and how his creations had become this big popular sport that everybody liked.
Basketball History
5-Comments
- The guy that created basketball was Dr. James Naismith.
- He was born in 1861 in Canada.
- Dr. James Naismith had set thirteen rules for the game of basketball.
-He went to McGill University.
-He was an athletic director at the university also.
4-Questions
- What made Dr. James Naismith start thinking about this game?
- Was this a game that he thought everybody would enjoy and love to play or just a game that he would just like to play?
- How did he make this game "Basketball" world wide?
- How did he come up with the thirteen rules to the game?
3-Vocabulary
- Basketball- A round objet that you use to score, pass, and dribble in the game of basketball.
- Basket- Something that you use to score in a basketball game.
1-Summary
- In this chapter they told me the person that created the game and how one person had made this game world wide.
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