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Weekly Vocab list

2009-04-30T19:51:00.000-07:00

1)Topographic-(pg 369.) R&FR
Source Sentence-The most distinctive topographic features would be the enormous mountain ranges arranged in linear patterns that extend for thousands of kilometers.
Context clue- since it mentions mountain ranges and patterns i can sort of guess taht topographic means land features.
Original Sentence- The topography of the himalias mountains is very treacherous and cold.
Definition-the relief features or surface configuration of an area.
2)Disdain-(pg 386) R&FR
Source Sentence-The withdrawn child eyed her teacher with a hostile disdain.
Context Clue-Since the child's look is hostile i think the kid is ticked off so it must mean angry with.
Definition-to look upon or treat with contempt; despise; scorn.
Original Sentence- The little girl looked at what her mother had served her for lunch and gave off a disdained look.
3)Psuedo- (pg 437)R&FR
Source Sentence- At thanksgiving, thousands of children parade in school pageants wearing plastic headdresses and psuedo-buckskin clothing.
Context Clue- since it is attached to buckskin im thinking that it might me mean something along the lines of half of or semi.
Definiton-almost, approaching, or trying to be.

Academic Relection=My Way Of Learning

2009-04-30T19:38:00.000-07:00

My Spanish class is fun and its fun I guess because we talk just as much and goof around just as much as in reading class. I noticed that its in my nature to be a smart ass. I like to make jokes, even though they sometimes fail. However my nature of playfulness makes school less stressful and im able to enjoy it more and remember it more because im having fun and im not bored or falling asleep. I figure if its fun then ill remember it more compared to being somewhere in between sleep and unconsciousness. I seem to remember more about my classes compared to the classes I had last year where everyone sat in their own chair and did their own work. No one made eye contact or friends. I only was able to mess around a bit in my English 60 class and I remember mostly everyone’s name and the reading we did because I was allowed to make jokes of an appropriate nature and show my newly found friends what I was doing right to try to help them. Same thing happened this year with my Spanish class I learned new words, made new friends, and a had a lot of fun so it makes me want to continuer college and see if I can change my undecided nature to a more adamant position for a career. I hope that more of my classes are small and I can learn the way I have been learning. Also I didn’t get to know any of the teachers like I have in my Spanish Class or Reading 96 class. Since they are both small that makes it easier to learn I remember my English teacher saying last year that the more students there are in a class the learning curb goes down usually after 20 students. It makes sense that smaller numbers of students are allowed a bit more freedom than a class of 60 students in a lecture hall.

Calender 4/24/09

2009-04-30T19:36:00.000-07:00

1.)Work
2.)Go to classes
3.)Go to Math lab one hour after reading class
4.)Wash my car

Vocab Words

2009-04-23T09:25:00.000-07:00

Words From TTTC

Ordnance pg 203-Source: I rigged up my special effects, ordnance and equipment we'd need.
Context Clue- Since he mentions equipment im going to guess that its probably a supply or something generally used in the military.
Definiton-military weapons with their equipment, ammunition, etc.
Original Sentence- The dropships contained boxes of ordnance to be dropped down to the areas in need of supplies.

Zeal pg 203-Source:I didn't have that patriotic zeal.
Context Clue- Since the only word i can relate to patriotic would be pride im guessing that's what zeal means.
Definiton-fervor for a person, cause, or object; eager desire or endeavor; enthusiastic diligence; ardor.
Original Sentence- i have a zeal for money making.

Gyroscope pg 205-Source:The hours go by and you lose your gyroscope.
Context Clue- Im not even going to try and youll see my reason why when you see the entire defenition.
Definition- an apparatus consisting of a rotating wheel so mounted that its axis can turn freely in certain or all directions, and capable of maintaining the same absolute direction in space in spite of movements of the mountings and surrounding parts: used to maintain equilibrium, determine direction, etc.

Weekly Calend 4/17/09

2009-04-23T09:23:00.000-07:00

Things To do
1)READ 96 project
2)WORK
3)Go To School

Weekly Calender 4/3/09

2009-04-03T11:20:00.001-07:00

TO DO LIST
1)GO TO WORK
2)RELAX
3)DO HOMEWORK

Reflection Post

2009-04-02T19:13:00.000-07:00

Not a lot of events in my life had a significant impact on my life so i remember the ones that did happen clearly and in great detail. One such event was in third grade i had a problem with blaming people and everything else except myself for my own shortcomings and failures, but then again i guess so did a lot of kids my age. It was like if i got trouble for talking i would blame it on the person i was talking with and cause a huge problem and a ugly mess. If I failed a test i blamed the teacher for not teaching me properly although i knew well enough i had not payed attention. Or i really didn't get it and didn't ask for help even though i knew i desperately needed it. So after a half of year of failures my parents were called in and im not sure what i did but i had an epiphany about how my actions were affecting my classmates, myself, and my future. So i buckled down and soon i became known as one of the smartest kids in my class and my teacher kept making jokes about how she was going to bring in everyones parents to make them work as hard as i had started working. It made me feel accomplished and as if you werent born smart but you had to work to attain the knowledge you gained and you had to work hard for good grades. So in my memories this was the point in time i stopped at the crossings between a delinquent and a good student and i turned the other way back and i havent ever turned around since although i do get lazy sometimes and procrastinate more than i should.

Vocab List

2009-04-02T17:44:00.000-07:00

1)Elusive(TTTC pg 170)-
Context Clue-"he seemed to be chasing some creature just beyond reach, something elusive, a fish or a frog."; Since is says chasing and beyond reach i can infer that elusive means something hard to grasp, attain, or catch.
Original Sentence-The fugitive had been elusive from the police for years.
Definition-eluding clear perception or complete mental grasp; hard to express or define
2)Traction (TTTC pg 174)
Context Clue-I was hard to get traction; with each movement the muck would grip their feet and hold tight.; Since it has something to do with restricted movement and since it also mentions it was hard to get "traction" i can infer that traction means forward movement.
Original Sentence-Since the roads were wet the car had poor "traction" and could not avoid the accident.
Defintion-the adhesive friction of a body on some surface, as a wheel on a rail or a tire on a road
3)Happenstance(TTTC pg 175)
Context Clue- "Because even the rain was preferable to being sucked under a shit field, and because it was all a matter of luck and happenstance"; Since it happenstance sounds like circumstance and seems to have the same meaning i can infer that happenstance means that its dependent on certain events.
Original Sentence- It was a matter of happenstance that i was able to find parking this morning.
Definition-a chance happening or event.

Weekly Calender 3/27/09

2009-04-02T17:42:00.000-07:00

TO DO LIST
1)DROP OFF DAD
2)DROP OFF PATI AND MOM
3)PICK EVERYONE UP
4)GO TO MATH LAB

HI

2009-03-26T17:46:00.003-07:00

yes i know its late but my computer broke down and i had to do a system restore and i forgot about it and since theres no harm in doing it i hope youll give me partial credit if not its still okay.

Reflection Post

2009-03-26T17:37:00.000-07:00

Studying new vocabulary words has had me notice different things such as if i smell something i might think of the word putrid which leads me to think of squalid and i remeber what it means. So different every day connection keep me from forgetting the word and i tend to use it more in my writing. I do notice a lot of the words ive learned and the new words im learning are useful but half the time a lot of people dont know those words and have no clue what im talking about. When im learning a new word now i just tend to relate it to one word that i already know such as my example above i know the word putrid and and i know that squalid means dirty and or filthy, but it can also mean piquant which is a strong pungent smell. So by mememorizing one word i can memorize a huge array of other words with little to no effort on my behalf. As i mentioned earlier i did find myself using about half the words ive learned and the stories we made in class this week make it funny to rememeber the words. Im remembering about seventy five to eighty five percent of all the words im remembering inevitably i cant memorize them all some are just too odd and uncommon for english words when you could just say it in lamens terms and get your point across much easier.

Vocab list

2009-03-26T17:22:00.000-07:00

1.Flam: (E&FR pg 381)
original sentence: "If you were asked whether you would rather be the victim of a hoax, a fraud, or a flam, what would you say?"
Knowing that hoax and fraud is the same thing i can infer that flam probably means the same thing as a hoax or a fraud.
verbatum definiton: a deception or trick.
2.Emulate (E&FR pg 390)
original sentence: "These types of films also give our young people the introduction to real accessible heroes about whom they can learn more and perhaps even emulate."
Since children are always trying to copy thier heroes i can make a educated guess that emulate means to copy or impersonate.
verbatum definition: to try to equal or excel; imitate with effort to equal or surpass
3.refutation: (E&FR pg 439)
original sentence: "An effective arguement often includes a refutation of counterarguments a line of reasoning that can be used to deny or refute what the writer is arguing for"
Context clue: they compare deny and refute so i can infer that refute means to deny an arguement since arguement and counterarguments are menttioned, so in other words argue a opposing view.
verbatum definition: Something, such as an argument, that refutes someone or something.

Weekly Calender 3/20/09

2009-03-26T17:16:00.000-07:00

Things to do
1.Drop off dad daily
2.Pick up Dad and Pati daily
3.go to classes
4.go to math lab for an hour

Reflection Post #2

2009-03-18T22:47:00.000-07:00

This past week looking back i did everything i planned to do with my classes and my reading. I was able to do my reading for Read 96. Using what i learned so far i annotated, rephrased titles to make them into questions, highlighted the first sentence of every new heading, and highlighted all the important parts to make rereading easier. Using such techniques i was able to rememeber most of the answers for the quiz this friday. My Math class went as planned and i breezed through that and it still doesnt seem to be getting any harder. My spanish class is pretty easy since im a native speaker already i dont really need to concentrate on anything other than spelling but i still use some of highlighting and annotating to remember new words i never knew. Now looking forward my Math class still seems like its on the same direction so i dont plan to change anything there. My reading class has stabilized over the last several weeks and ive gotten used to the workload all i need to do is utilize the new patterns and graphs we've learned over the past week and ill be fine. My spanish class is still the same with occasional quizzes here and there but no increase in difficulty, workload, or reading so i dont plan on changing anything there either.

Weekly Calender 3/13/09

2009-03-18T22:44:00.000-07:00

TO DO LIST
1)Pick up Mom and patty
2)Go to Spanish Class and do Spanish online homework
3)Go to Math class
4)Go to Math Lab 50 mins sometime during the week

Vocab Words # 4

2009-03-18T22:26:00.000-07:00

Tangible(TTTC pg 155)
Original Sentence: At one point he had enrolled in the junior college in his hometown, but the course work, he said, seemed too abstract, too distant, with nothing real or tangible at stake, certainly not the stakes of a war.
Dictionary Verbatum-real or actual, rather than imaginary or visionary

Omit(TTTC pg 159.)
Original Sentence:I had been forced to omit the shit field and the rain and the death of Kiowa, replacing this material with events that better fit the book's narrative.
Context Clue: From the way the sentence is worded i can infer that omit means to leave out something.
Dictionary Verbatum:to leave out; fail to include or mention

Fritter(TTTC pg 196)
Original Sentence: You just don't fritter away all your luck.
Context Clue:From the orignal sentence i can guess that fritter means to throw away.
Dicitonay Verbatum: to squander or disperse piecemeal

I KNOW EVERYTHING

2009-03-15T00:44:00.000-07:00

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Reflection Post

2009-03-06T11:27:00.000-08:00

In the coming weeks it seems as though my Math class, for the most part has passed the difficult curriculum. My Spanish class is easy because I am a native speaker so i dont really need to worry about studying, but i do need to get my online work done before the next quiz. My Read 96 class, this class has a bit of a hefty burden but if i spread it through the week i can usually get it done with ease. Lately my big sister's and father's problems has been affecting my schoolwork and the time i am able to sleep. My sister and father crashed thier cars and ive been taking them to work. I wake up at 4:30 am Monday through friday just to take my dad to work, come back eat breakfast go pick up my little sister and mom to take them to her school(mom and sister live in a different house), come back take my older sister to work, lately ive been spending about three to four hours daily just driving on the freeways and i rarely have time to spend on my homework or myself. luckily my sister's car is supposed to be fixed by afternoon today so i wont have to take her to work anymore which will shave about an hour and forty five minutes of driving. But unfortunately i still need to take my father to and from work. Fortunately my work doesnt start until next week since i work at the Angel stadium. So until my father buys another car i need to get my work done in my spare time, so that i can be able to sleep all night instead of doing homework the night before. Fortunately after reading most of my reading and utilizing SQ3R i wont need to spend a long time studying and can rest with ease instead of cramming the night before, i will only need to spend time on the important parts ive already highlighted. My key terms and important dates have symbols next to them to help me indicate that they are important. My texts have been highlight to summarize the difficult parts of the reading. My math and spanish classes are easy and to the point already so i dont really need to use SQ3R in them.

Vocab list #3

2009-03-06T11:13:00.000-08:00

Attrition-(pg.948 Firsthand America)
Context Clue-"Ho's native forces knew the land and fought an effective guerrilla war of attrition" from this passage i can infer that it has something to do with the wearing down of American Forces.
Verbatum Definition-a wearing down or weakening of resistance, esp. as a result of continuous pressure or harassment

Clandestine-(pg.951 Firsthand America)
Context Clue- "Washington also expanded the elaborate clandestine war against North Vietnam" from this passage i can infer that clandestine has something to do with a sneaky sense.
Verbatum Definition- kept or done in secret, often in order to conceal an illicit or improper purpose.
Dissedents-(pg.947 Firsthand America)
Context Clue-"the following day he referred to sstudent dissidents as "bums"" from this passage i can guess that dissidents means someone with an opposing idea.
Verbatum Definition- Disagreeing, as in opinion or belief

Calender week 3/6/09

2009-03-06T11:05:00.000-08:00

Things to do
1)Pick up Mom and Patty
2)Go to school
3)Drop Dad off at work

Vocab Words #2

2009-02-18T22:06:00.000-08:00

Punitive(E&FR)pg 63
Sentence:Therefore the threat of death and destruction can have little punitive value.
context clue: puni derived from the word puny as in small. From the context clue i can determine that the meaning of the word is small or little.
Verbatum Definition-serving for, concerned with, or inflicting punishment: punitive laws; punitive action.
Unnerving(E&FR)pg 67
Sentence:That first encounter, and those that followed, signified that a vast, unnerving gulf aly between nighttime pedestrians particularly women and me.
Verbatum Definition-to deprive of courage, strength, determination, or confidence; upset: Fear unnerved him
Cosmopolitan(E&FR)pg 77
context clue: politan so ideas or governing, from the root word politan i can determine that it has something do with a variety of ideas or politcs.
Verbatum Definition-free from local, provincial, or national ideas, prejudices, or attachments; at home all over the world.

Week Calendar 2/6/09

2009-02-06T11:26:00.000-08:00

Things to do:
Pick Up Mom
Go To Class
Read
Study

Vocab List #1

2009-01-30T11:14:00.000-08:00

Harried-to harass, annoy, or prove a nuisance to by or as if by repeated attacks (pg 417 Efficient and Flexible Reading)
Synonyms: Agitated, Anxious
Antonyms:Carefree, Relaxed

Incredulity- Inabiltiy or unwillingness to believe, def. inability of patients to believe; the quality or state of being incredulous; inability or unwillingness to believe. (pg 88-90 Efficient and Flexible Reading)
Synonyms: Disbelief, Discreditable
Antonyms:Approval, Acceptance

Glucagon- A hormone that raises levels the levels of sugar ; a hormone secreted by the pancreas that acts in opposition to insulin in the regulation of blood glucose levels.
Context Clue: In the following sentence the synonym Hormone explains what Glucagon and i relied on my backround information as to what a Hormone is to determine the meaning.