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Who understands Me but Me

My first impression on this poem by Jimmy Santiago Baca was that when I read it I realized that the poem was talking about how Baca's life was like when he was in prison. Through his own emotions he was describing what he felt at that time and the things he has seen. Also he describes that he lives like an animal.

Theme: experience in prison
Tone: lonely, abandoned, depressed
Imagery: "they paint my windows black so I live without sunshine"

Baca is talking about how things in jail were like because when someone is in jail they don't really see the sun because in a cell it's not colorful like in a real home and they don't have windows so you can look outside to see the sun or the world that is out there.

Immigrants in Our Own Land

My first impression on this poem was that the author sounds lonely and wondering how his life would have been different. When he talks about the immigrants that leave their countries because they have dreams and expectations but at the end those expectations and dreams are nothing anymore.
Theme- the night allows us to escape from reality to find peace in the harsh world.
expectations vs. reality
Tone- sad, depressed &lonely
Devices- metaphor: "Immigrants in Our Own Land", that the immigrants are actually the prisoners that are not free in their own country.
Free verse- the poem does not rhyme

Study Guide for "A Sound of Thunder"

I. VOCABULARY:

•  annihilate- destroy or defeat
• expendable- a little significance to an overall purpose
• infinitesimally- vessels in the circulatory system
• primeval- earliest age in the history of the world/an instinct of a felling or action
• resilient- to recover quickly or back into shape
• revoke- put an end to the validity or operation
• sheathed- encase something in a close fitting or protective covering
• subliminal- affecting someones mind without them being aware of it
• taint- a bad or undesirable quality or substance
• undulate- move with a smooth wavelike motion

II. LITERARY TERMS:

• foreshadowing- be a warning or indication of a future event

Describe what is foreshadowed in this story: 

When Eckels says that how different it would have been if Deutsher had won the election and when they get back to the future and Eckels finds out that Deutsher has actually won the election when at first it was the other person who won.

• simile- comparing two things using like or as

example: "There was a sound like a gigantic bonfire burning all of time."

• metaphor- a word is applied to an object or action 

example: "A Sound of Thunder"

• protagonist- the main character if the story the leading role and most important person

Who is the protagonist of this story?

The protagonist of the story is Eckels. His main goal is to get home safely and kill the dinosaur.

III. QUESTIONS:

 1. What company does Eckels visit? 

the safari that Eckels visit was Time Safari Inc.

2. What are the penalties for disobeying instructions?

the penalties for disobeying instructions was extra $10,000 + government action.

 3. About what is Eckels thankful? 

Eckel is thankful for that Keith was elected president of the US.

4. What did some people want to do if Deutscher had won the election and why? 

what some people wanted to do if Deutscher had won the election was that they wanted to go back to 1492 because they didn't wan't a man who was a dictatorship.

5. What does the man behind the desk tell Eckels happened last year that makes Eckels think about going on the safari? 

what happened last year was that 6 safaris leaders and 12 hunters were killed by dinosaurs.

6. Who is the Safari Leader? 

the safari leader is Mr. Travis.

7. How many people besides Eckels are on the trip? Name them.

there were 4 other people on the trip who were Mr.Travis, Lesperance, Billings, and Kramer.

 8. What does Travis tell Eckels is the best way to kill a dinosaur? 

Travis tells Eckels that the best way to kill is to shoot them first in the eye to blind them then shoot them in the brain.

9. When the hunters arrive at their destination, what does Travis tell them hasn’t happened yet in history? 

what has not happened yet in history was that Christ was not born yet, moses has not gone to the mountains to talk to God, pyramids are still on earth, and that Alexander, Caesar, Napoleon, and Hitler did not exists yet.

10. How many years did the men travel? 

they traveled 60,002,055 years ago.

11. What is the antigravity metal path and why must the men stay on it? 

it is were you walk on so no one disturbs the past.

12. What happened to the machine and the men’s clothes before they made their journey? 

they were sterilized.

13. Why do the men wear oxygen helmets? 

they didn't want to bring back bacteria and to have extra oxygen.

14. What is unique about the dinosaurs that the men can shoot? 

Lesperance marked the dinosaurs with red paint and only killed those with no future ready to die.

15. What is a paradox? 

a situation, person or thing that combines features or qualities.

16. What does Eckels jokingly pretend to do? 

he pretends to shoot in the air waving the gun around.

17. How does the reader know Eckels is afraid? 

he knows because he says, "I'm shaking like a kid."

18. What does Eckels say when he sees the size of the dinosaur? 

he said it could touch the moon.

19. How do the men know which dinosaurs they can shoot? 

they had red paint on their chest.

20. Where was Eckels on his way to when he stepped off the path? 

he was heading to the time machine.

21. What do Billings and Kramer do after the dinosaur is dead? 

they throw up

22. What does Lesperance offer Billings and Kramer that they turn down? 

he offers them trophy picture

23. What does Travis tell Eckels they are going to do to him? 

that they are going to leave him in the past.

24. What does Travis make Eckels do in order to go back with them? 

he cuts the bullets out of the dinosaur.

25. What does Eckels notice about the sign on their return? 

the future was changed the letters on the sign were changed.

26. What does Eckels find on the bottom of his boots? 

a dead butterfly from the past

27. What does Eckels learn about the election? 

Deutscher won the election

28. What is the reader to infer that Travis does to Eckels? 

Travis shoots him

Emerson's child

1. The way Emerson view the 2016 presidential election is that it would be important for him but to not worry too much. He would suggest us to move forward with our lives be believing in ourselves because we can make the world a better place for ourselves and for our community we should not let anyone tells us what to do or how we should act not even someobe that is racism like Donald Trump.
2. The way Emerson would suggest us to learn in school or elsewhere is that we should pursue our goals is that it does not matter where we learn as long as we learn something new. The way he would view our school and aspirations is that he would tell us to pursue your dreams and do not let anyone stop you from accomplishing anything in life. What Emerson would tell you to do after high school and how you should prepare is by having a goal and making everything possible to accomplish that goal no matter what happens because everything is possible in life.
3. What Emerson means by "yourself" is that he is trying to tell you to be yourself the person you are truly are when you are with parents or family members or when your in your safe zone. Many people are really different when others are not seeing because they are afraid to show their true self to the world because they might judge you because of your personality.
4. The way I would express Emerson's main idea to a 10 year old is that they should be who they really are like how they act when they are at home with their parents because their is nothing wrong with being yourself and you should not be afraid to be you to the world because every human is special in their own way nobody can be perfect. Every person is special and don't be afraid to be yourself because there is nothing wrong with that.

An Earth-Shattering Fart

What I thought about "A Sound of Thunder" is that the words of the author are very descriptive that you can pictured what the author is taking about. Another thing that I noticed was that "A Sound of Thunder" is easier to understand better than Emerson's Self Reliant. At the end of the story I learned that every action have consequences at the end and that if something was done differently then it was done before even if it was something of no importance it could have a big impact on the world. Like at the end of the story when I think it was Eckels that killed the butterfly and when they got back to the future everything was different because of the choice that he made he changed the world even thought it was something of not very importance bit actually it was very important in history.

Emerson Presentation Day 22 Notes

• all people that were consider crazy were actually the people that would make a change in the world

Emerson Presentation Day 1 Notes

• "trust thyself, every heart vibrates to that iron string"

speak up trust your feelings and your mind

• "nothing can burn your peace but yourself"

now in days you ask others for advise but you need to ask yourself for advise, trust in yourself ask yourself first then ask someone else

My Emerson

Our project is that my group and I are making a poster with the body of Emerson and then we write some of his quotes in the figure it looks cool because all the quotes represent Emerson and the person he is.

Emerson said it

• "to believe in your own thought, to believe  that what is true for you in your private heart is true"

- there is nothing better than your original self don't be afraid to speak up because of  what others may say don't every care about what they think about everyone is special in they own way.

• "The secret of fortune is joy in our hands"

- taking joy in your working is to enjoy doing something because you love doing it don't let nobody stop you, if done something and you feel proud of it then you know you have done something great.

• "Nothing can burn your peace but yourself"

- when you see someone that didn't something the wrong way but were rewarded and you have done something the right way and you didn't get rewarded then you don't feel good because it's not fair, if you do something and feel proud of it you know you have done it right 

• "Speak your latent conviction, and it shall be the universal sense; for the inmost in due time becomes the outmost, and our first thought is rendered back to us by the trumpets of the Last judgment"

- your first thought is important because it's our first choice of how believe in life to be whether you choose good or bad.

• "Just as a man who stands on his feet is stronger than a man who stands on his head"

- people that stand on their feets can be independent and see the world for what it really is and people who stand on their heads are more dependent on someone or something and they don't see the world for what really is they have another perspective of the world.

Author In Progress

On my writing about Emerson is that I think I did well on is when I wrote about Emerson's use of diction, and syntax. I think that I knew what I was talking about. What I need to work on more is expressing my ideas further more to really know what am I talking about. I hope that I did a good job on my writing prompt.

Something interesting about the book I'm reading

Something interesting from the book is that Sirius Black a prisoner from Azkaban escaped and Harry's friend Ron whose parents were talking about that sirius Black was looking for Harry and wanted to kill him.

LITERTAURE ANALYSIS #3 book

I book I choosed was Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban by J.K. Rowling because it's an interesting adventure and the author describes the story very well that makes you feel like if you were in the story yourself.

Vocab Fall List #6: sentences

1. The word meme is a general concept for any replicated unit of cultural data.
2. When I visited a website my phone got a virus.
3. I hope that the video I posted on YouTube would go viral.
4. My blog has many posts and I always try to update it every time.
5. The URL I was searching for was fake.
6. I have to create my own website for my project.
7. The www has developed into a phenomenal medium.
8. The internet is a very useful tool.
9. Maybe we can record some ideas at our new wiki site.
10. It would be an open source if it was free and offered to everybody.
11. The 2.0 version of the app is better than the 1.0 version.

Vocab Fall List #6: definition

• meme- an element of culture or system that can be considered to be passed from one individual to another 
• virus- a piece of code that is capable of copying itself 
• viral- of the nature of caused by or relating to a virus or viruses
• blog- regularly updated website or web page
• wiki- a website that allows collaborative editing 
• URL- is an address to a resource on the internet 
• website- a location connected to the internet 
• www- system of internet servers that support specially formatted documents 
• internet- global system of interconnected computer networks 
• 2.0- to denote a superior or more advanced version of an original concept 
• open source- its a software for which the original source code is made freely available 

Team vocab

The actions of Donald Trump always see to aggravate the people to the US. Donald Trump always tries to illuminate Hillary's emails. With all the lies of Trump is telling his proboscis would grow like pinoqious. Trump as president could dissolve many problems. Trump earnesty fired insults back at Hillary. Hillary Clinton seems to be stolid with her responses. In the beginning Trump seemed like a good person but in the end he transformed into a bad guy. When he said he was going to suspend the immigration when he becomes president. The wall Trump wants to build hypnotized all the racist in the US. Some of Trump's comments were very venomous to some people.

LITERTAURE ANALYSIS #2

1. Old Yeller was about a boy name Travis and he was 14 years old and his dad left him in charge of the family and of their farm while is dad went away on a cattle drive. After his dad, one day the dog Old Yeller dog showed up and steals the meat that was hanging from the air from a rope and because of that he breaks the fence.
2. The theme is mainly about Travis becoming a man when he has to take care of his family and having to shoot his own dog.
3. The tone is worried, sad, frustrating, and mad sometimes and happy when the father returns to his family.
4. Travis is a dynamic character at the end of the story Travis gets a different point of view on things and grows up more to become a real man.
5. I choosed this book because it's about the life of a dog and i love dogs their my favorite animal and the title captured my attention that it would be about a dog that is old and has a hard time in life.
6. I expected that this book would be about a dog that had a hard time in life who was looking for a family to love him and eventually he will find that but instead he gets shot by his owner.

LETTER TO MY MENTOR DRAFT 1

Dear mentor, why do you think that people are afraid to show the real person they are inside to the world? How come people think this why how come they are afraid or what are they scared of what going to happen? Many people are this way because they think that other people are going to judge them because they are not like them and because they don't like almost the same things that the others like. What is your opinion on why people act this way why they are afraid to show themselves to the world.

Vocabulary: fall list #5 sentences

1. The venom from a snake can kill a person.
2. A stolid person never gets into trouble and always has goods grades.
3. The speaker hypnotized the audience with his powerful personality.
4. The boy got suspended becuase he got in a fight with another boy.
5. The young girl transformed into a beautiful women over the years.
6. They accused the man for stealing a good amount of money.
7. You should anticipate being in the hospital for at least three days.
8. The fringe of her jeans got caught in the escalator.
9. Sometimes I feel melancholy but I don't know why.
10. The priest will always give you an earnest answer.
11. The lawyer dissolved the case of the man as fast as he could.
12. Vitamin E in large doses may aggravate iron deficiency anemia.
13. The room got illuminated when the windows were open.
14.  Whenever my sister has a nosebleed, l know that a capillary vessel has burst.
15. The proboscis of a elephant is very long and strong.

Vocabulary: fall list #5

• venomous- liquid that comes from an animal or a persons behavior 
• stolid- a person calm, dependable & showing little emotion or animation 
• hypnotized- produce a state of hypnosis in someone
• suspended- temporarily prevent from continuing 
• transformed- make a through or dramatic change 
• accuse- say that someone has done something wrong 
• anticipate- regard as probable; expect or predict
• fringe- a border of thread left loose 
• melancholy- a feeling of pensive sadness with no possible reason
• earnestly- serious in intention, purpose, or effort 
• dissolve- a solid becoming a liquid or close down or diss something 
• aggravate- make a problem worse or more serious 
• illuminate- light up
• capillary- a tube that has an internal diameter 
• proboscis- the nose of a mammal

INCITING INCIDENT:The Pedestrian

The inciting incident in The Pedestrian to me was when the police stopped the Leonard Mead and he was surprised that there was only one police car left in the lonely place in 2052. The most odd thing was that the police car didn't actually have a person driving or talking to him it was a self driving car that someone was speaking through a radio and took him away.

Respect My Authority

A figure authority helps me be my best self because they tell me what is the right things to do and say and they also tell me stuff that I'm not supposed to do and what the consequences of the actions could lead me to. They also tell me how to behave in public because that is how they can tell the person I am by my actions.The always tell me to be who I am and to never be ashamed of myself. The person who I am is a wonderful person and if people dont like me that is their problem not mine. Another things is that I shouldn't hide my beauty over a mask because the true beauty is inside.

My objective

My objective is to attend a four year university and study for the major that I've chosen. After maye I would attend a medical school then find a job that goes with my major and do what I like which is helping others.

Literature Analysis Book

The theme of my literature analysis book is about a boy becoming an adult and having to kill his dog at the end because he got rabies from a wolf. The tone is sad, happy,mad and frustrating becuase the character doesn't know what to do and doesn't want to make the wrong choice.

First Impression on The Pedestrian

My first impression on The Pedestrian is that the author describes the story with many details and describes the character actions with many details about was he is doing. I also noticed that the author also describes the setting with many details.

MY YODA

An ideal mentor could be anyone that is close to you that you have confidence in someone you can trust it could be a parent, teacher, coach or consulor.

Big Question Disciplines

The Disciplines they could need is therapy to help them solve and understand what they are feeling. Other sbujects can't solve a problem like this.

Fall Vocab 4 sentences

1. When the parents arrived the loud intermittent noise stopped.
2. The water level in the ocean would ebb during the night.
3. After being an A-student for the first month, I have started to regress- into the practice of not studying.
4. When a kid drinks milk at night they have the tendency to wet their beds.
5. Antiseptic helps to prevent infection in a wound.

Fall Vocab 4

• Intermittent- not continuous or steady
• Ebb- movement of the tide out to sea
• Regress- return to a former or less developed state
• Tendency- particular characteristics or type of behavior 
• Antiseptic- prevents the growth of disease causing bacterium

Vocabulary list #3

• coherent- of an argument, theory or policy logical and consistent
• belabor- argue or elaborate a subject in excessive 
• eschew- avoid or reject
• acquisitive- excessively interested in acquiring money or material things
• emulate- match or surpass a person or achievements typically by imitation  
• banal- lacking in originality as to be obvious and boring 
• excoriation- the state of being excoriated
• congeal- solidify or coagulate especially by cooling 
• carping- difficult to please 
• substantiate- provide evidence to support or prove the truth
• temporize- avoid making decision or commuting oneself in order to gain
• largesse- generously
• tenable- able to maintained or defend against attack or objection
• insatiable-of an appetite or desire impossible to satisfy
• reconnaissance- military observation of a region to locate an enemy or uncertain strategic features 
• germane- relevant to a subject under consideration 
• ramify- from branches or offshoots; spread or branch out
• intransigent- unwilling or refusing to chance one's views or to agree about something
• taciturn- of a person reserved or uncommunicative in speech; saying little

My Aeries

The grade I got on my essay was an A. My reaction was surprised because I didn't expect to get the grade I got on my essay because English is not may favorite subject. I think that I received this grade because I new what I was talking about and I new what to write about. I think that I agree with it because I knew what to write and my work was good. Other works that I have done so far in this course is complete almost all of my journal entries and have almost all my post on my blog. I think that the grade I earned for the first grading period is either an A or B becuase I have all my work and I understand what I am working on and I understand the stuff I learn about.

Literature Analysis Questions #1

1. A group of British school boys plane crashes on a island. Two of the boys find a conch shell and their names are Ralph and Piggy. They use the shell to call the other boys on the island. Once they were all together they choose a leader and they picked Ralph and then he picked Jack to be the leader of the hunter who were going to gather food. After Ralph, Jack and another boy name Simon went out to explore the island and when they come back Ralph tells the others that they should make a signal fire so passing ships can see them. So then they went to collect wood and the used the focus on Piggy's glasses to make the fire. The boys wanted to have more fun and play around then keeping an eye on the fire because of this the wood burns out of control and the forest is on fire and one boy disappears during the fire probably burned to death. The boys loved their life without any grownups around and all they did was play around. Ralph was mad because they should be building a shelter and keeping the fire on instead of goofing around. Also the hunter didn't catch the wild pig and Jack started caring more about hunting then building a shelter and getting rescued. 
2. The theme of Lord of the Flies is the conflict between civilization and savagery. This conflict is shown through Ralph and Jack in which Ralph represents civilization and Jack represents savagery. Ralph wants to set rules and protect the group and enforce their English society behaviors. On the other hand Jack wants to have power over the boys so he becomes the leader of his own group and makes them worship and serve him. As you can see civilization and savagery are two very different things.
3. Based on the author's tone I imagine the author's morning routine that the author sleeps late. Drinks coffee with no caffeine. The author does no type of meditation and wishes he wasn't so hungover. At breakfast he eats cold food with no flavor that doesn't taste very good. The author lives in his house that is dark with no sunlight shining through the window. He lives by himself with no one else only him. The author writes about death and evilness. Examples in the story are: Piggy's death and Simon's death, Ralph and Jack's conflict and the evil that controls some of the boys.

Hack to school

1.  The purpose of this course is to show use how we can use the technology we have now in days and the advantage we have of having internet access. We should learn in a new way and not keeping on learning the same old fashion way.

Vocabulary list #2

• Faith- trust or confidence in someone or something 
•  Threshold- a strip of wood, metal, or stone forming the bottom doorway 
• Tarry- to remain or stay in a place
•  Resolve- find a solution to a problem
•  Discern- perceive or recognize something 
• Martyr- a person who is killed because of their religious beliefs
•  Mirth- amusement especially as expressed in laughter
•  Catechism- summary of principles of religion in form of Q&A 
• Pious- devoutly religious
•  Frenzy- a state or period of uncontrolled excitement or wild behavior 

1.  I have faith in my family and in god to help me get through life.
2.  In every house, all the doorways have thresholds.
3. My grandparents were tarry in Mexico for many years.
4. The girl resolved her conflict with er friend.
5. In Young Goodman Brown the women discern the old man.
6. Hitler martyred all the Jews just because he didn't appreciated them.
7. The girl sister goes to catechism.
8. Christians are very pious in their beliefs. 
9. Church persons are very pious in their beliefs.
10. Kid get very frenzy when they eat to much candy.

YGB Ouestions

1.  Hawthorne's purpose of writing the story is that a man makes mistakes like everyone else and someone can appear to be a good man but deep inside they all have a dark side that makeshe them break their own rules.
2. Young goodman brown wife's name does fit her at first but at the end the name faith doesn't fit her anymore. Brown does have faith in his wife at the beginning of the story but at the end he loses faith in her and even suspects of her.
3. The pink ribbons in young goodman brown  signifys faith because she is innocent, youth and playfulness but not innocent at first because the color pink is made of two colors red and white. The red could represent evil and the white can represent goodness.
4. What Brown witness could have been real, imaginary or a dream but what did happen was that he changed and he died unhappy and not trusting anyone from the man he was who was happy and trusting that went for a walk.
5. The old man was actually the devil that appeared to look like a regular old man in Salem Village.
6. The staff was motivating Brown to go into the forest. The staff were leading him to the devil but not actually leading him but it was the attraction of evil that lead him.
7. If he had not gone into the forest he would still trust his wife faith and the townspeople and still have faith and die happy and trusting everyone. He wouldn't have know who the true evil was.

Reflection from week 1

The first week of school in Dr. Preston's class was okay. His class is not hard so far just that you need to post on your blogs a lot. I think that I will do okay in his class but I still need to catch up with some work that I am missing but so far it'seems been okay.

YOUNG GOODMAN BROWN

Young Goodman Brown is a very interesting story. It's a gentleman looking for his wife and meets new people on his journey and they are all nice to him. One strange thing is that he thinks that the devil is coming for him but it is just his imaganation. The story is a little confusing to.

Response to "The Conscience of the Hacker"

The Conscience of the Hacker was an interesting story to read because it talks about teenagers that hacks computers but get arrested. There is also a boy who is a hacker who is smarter then most of the kids in class but he does not like school he thinks it's boring. The story talks about technology being more advanced because the boy talks about finding a computer that does what he wants. The boy feels like a computer because he is very smart and computers are smart so he see himself as one of them. He thinks that he belongs with the computers and not humans.He also thinks the world should be made of technology.

Socratic Seminar #1/ Earth On Turtle's Back

Big Question

Why are people afraid to show the real person inside of them to the world?

Ancient Stories

• The language in the text is different to the language we use in our everyday conversation because when someone writes something they can use punctuation, heading, capital letters, different types of layout and different letter texts. in our conversation we can't use any of those affects. In a conversation you can hear the persons tone and see the persons emotions and how loud their voice get when they speak. in a writing peace you can't feel the writer's emotions only if they tell you how they are feeling and you can't hear how loud their voice gets in the text. Another reason is that when you write you use proper English, but when you talk you talk slang and don't speak proper English.

• It is not important that the story should be repeat word for word because no one can repeat a writing word from word. Anyone can tell the same thing but in their own words it doesn't have be the same as the original text if they are trying to say the same thing. An example is the telephone game. When the first person tells a phrase to the second person and they keep on going until they get to the last person and by then the phrase is not the same no more because the others have changed the phrase completely.

the earth on the turtle's back response

The story talked about a man and his wife and she fell into a hole that they pulled the tree that had four white roots. The wife fell into a water land place then the animals were trying to find the earth for the women to stand on. Then the tiny muskrat found earth and placed her paw onto the turtle's back and that is how earth was formed. I thought that the story was confusing but also made a little sense. a person can't live in the water life because they need to live on land.

welcome message

Hi,
my name is Araceli i am 16 years old. I'm excited to learn something new this year and excited to meet new people and see old friends again. I am hoping to actually learn something new this year. I'm hoping that my junior year would be a awesome year for me. Another thing is that I am excited to use open source learning instead of reading and doing work out of a textbook.