Reflection Post

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

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

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

HI

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

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

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

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