SAT words

1. In many Native American cultures of the American southwest, the presence of an owl heralds the coming of death.







2. In Oedipus Rex, King Oedipus reinforces his formerly stated proclamation of punishing the killer of King Laius-- he blinds himself.







3.Lindsay Harper made national news by crossing the finish line of a five mile marathon. Miraculously, she crossed the finish line with a broken femur suffered from a fall at mile marker four; therefore, she prevalied in overcoming the immense pain of her broken bone to finish the marathon.







4.Abraham Lincoln will always be known as the American president who emanicipated the slaves from oppression, thus changing the course of American history.







5.Although Reverend Harper claims to be a pious man of God, he can of often be found at Juice's, a bar on the outskirts of town, on Saturday nights gulping Hennesy and dealing poker cards to his buddies.

Whigs vs Democrats

Whigs: Weaker government and more more citizen participatiuon
Democrats: Stronger government less citzen participation

Manifest Destiny

belief that the United States was destined, even divinely ordained, to expand across the North American continent, from the Atlantic seaboard to the Pacific Ocean

Journal

It is a cold wet day, my clothes are ruined and my shoes are no more. My work on the plantation tomorrow will be difficult now since my protection for my feet is useless now. My back is painted in red from the beating I got from working to slow today. I contiune to dream of a day when I will be free, I have to go now master is coming.

SAT Words week 11

1.My mother warned me to never ___________________ in the home life of friends; she said it is a speedy way to lose friends and create enemies; therefore, it is best to focus one's own life.








2.With one feathery breath, Tanisha ________________ Jessica's tower made of a deck of poker cards.







3.Some teachers punish students for being ____________________ while other teachers welcome the verbal energy created by those types of students.







4.My new boss seems to ___________________ even the most skilled and competent workers, making them feel as important as gum at the bottom of a trash can.







5.Against our desire for a school free weekend, my fourth block AP Calculus teacher _______________ us with an eight page worksheet to complete by Monday.



Meddle

Obliterated

Loquacious

Belittler

Bombarded

If I was President

If I was president I would only fight if there was an specific reason. I would try to have peace with other countries and try to take a dispute out before taking actions; This way many lives and money can be saved.

War of 1812

1. Embargo
2. England and US

Campaign

The rumors that would come out against me would be:

• I'm on drugs
• I sleep around
• Bad Influence
• I hang around the wrong people
• Dropped out of school
• Heartless and cruel

Vocab Practice Test

The perpetual whining of the spoiled children at the daycare vexed Anita more than hearing nails scraped across a chalkboard.




Knowing he was responsible for someone's death due to drunk driving encumbered Shawn's peace of mind; he never overcame the guilt.



The wrecking ball annihalated the dilapidated school within minutes leaving little more than dust.



In order to make her twin sister feel inferior, Jackie flunted her nearly perfect report card in front of her parents and her twin sister; her twin sister's report card had many more flaws.



When a person has the first major fight with his or her lover, he or she must employ grace under pressure in order to not make the situation worse and lead to a break up.

Victory

Standing here as your new president, I would like to take the time out to show my gratitude.  I would like to thank the many voters that believed in what I represented, I would like to say that my competitors fought a good match, and last but surely not least I would like to give all thanks to the almighty God.

To Do List

• Finish The 5W's Notes
• Start on the Shoe narrative
• Keep up with the Virtue Schdule
• Study For Chemistry Test
• Study For Pre Cal Quiz
• Biboliography
• Ben Frank Poster

Narration

The things done well and liked:
1) Flow from one event to the next
2) The actions of the shoe
3) How the characters emotions and the shoe connected
4) The ending of the shoe life during that event
5) The imagery

Bibliography

Thomas, Alice. "You are What You Eat." discoveryhealth.com. Discovery Health, 3 June 2010. Web.
      12 August 2010.

SAT Words

 On Wednesday, Kaleb hurled a marble across the classroom to crack Denise's computer monitor; on Thursday, he cackled uncontrollably when Amy tripped over a stray book; his _______________ behavior landed him a week of ISS. asinine


Having been replaced by the more modern CD's and MP3 players, record players and eight track tapes are considered ________________ technology. obsolete



 After struggling miserably with quadratic equations for two weeks, the structure of the formula suddenly made sense to Keith; he had an ___________________ and from that point forward he never missed another quadratic equation on a test.

epiphany


 In order to escape the monotony of life in Ellebre and his ______________ existence, Brad moved to Las Vegas, Nevada on a whim.  humdrym


 In his English 405 class at UNC-Chapel Hill, Donovan is studying how the syntax of Shakespeare's writing influenced modern sentence structure; he is studying ______________.

lingusitics

Travel back in time

If I could travel back in time, I would want to go back to my 8th grade year. Going back to this time I would be with most of my friends and it would be less stressful. Going back I could also prevent my self from signing up for SEarCH.

Need to know

What topics need to be covered
How much information is needed
Is there a certain amount of sources needed

A Great Story

What makes a story great is it ability to create an mental image and its the story has to appeal to my interest. One can write a great story by using a great diction and use figuritive lanuage. The story should have a attention grabing opening, attention keeping events, and characters that are interesting.

123 vs 60

If I was blessed with the long life of Margeret James, I would have been able the withness the evolution of technology. I also would have been able to experince the fashion change that changes from generation to generation. I would also be able to meet my great great grand children if I lived to be 123 years old.

CLICHE'

A cliche' I use frequently in speech is "Get right or get left".

live in the present not in the past- Don't keep talking about stuff that happened a long time ago, talk about the things thats going on now.


suffer the consequences- Whatever you choose, wrong or right, yiou have to live with the outcome.