Monday, December 10, 2012

Sunday, December 9, 2012

Finals

Tomorrow begins the first day of finals.
I have Chemistry at 7:30am
:(

And Patrick leaves for the Navy that morning too.
Its going to be a long day.

Saturday, December 8, 2012

No more secret worrying!

I just got acepted to fresno state!
I am wait to hear from more schools but i was secretly freaking out no one would take me.
Maybe thats a comman senior year fear!
Who know!
Im just glad its over haha

Monday, December 3, 2012

One of those days

Today I believed a close friend of mine died. He didn't (though is is and has been extremely ill) not more than an hour later i found out one of my other close friends is moving in a week.
Yeah. Then of course I have 4 tests tomorrow before finals week.
Yep.
One of those days.

Thursday, November 29, 2012

4th period No Exit

4th period.
Sometimes... we have good days.
This was one.
Nice talk on No Exit.

Wednesday, November 28, 2012

Maybe its the lack of sleep

What we are doing in this class, may seem to some a easy out to getting hand cramls from hand writing our papers and such.
To others we are children playing college and getting credit for it.
Many don't know what to make of this class. I believe the problem is about trying to figure out what this class is, but figuring out what this class will be.
Last year, the lab rats of this course were poked and prodded. This year we have them to thank for taking the maskera in the eyes for the team. This year we know the major effects of the experiment and are making our way to make it public friendly. Every year we can do nothing but grow and better ourselves for the next class to come.

Ok. That was all. I need sleep.

Monday, November 26, 2012

Sunday, November 25, 2012

Still thinking about Hamlet


Take a Breath

Well I've spent all day applying to colleges... So This is how I take a break.

165 days

There are 165 days till the AP Lit exam. With only about 15 days left before Christmas break its hard to believe that half of Senior Year has gone by.

Saturday, November 24, 2012

Allegory of the Cave Sonnet

Restrained by chains of ones own mind
Surrounded by dank shadows and fear
A sight never seen, you might find
Only if out of the cave you leer.

As unfamiliar as it may seem
Embrace the light
The darkness was only a dream
Be willing to stand and fight.

Freedom awaits you
Only then does life begin
See the world in its true hue
a cross your lips let grin.

Change is not easy as we know
But do not be your own foe.

Thursday, November 1, 2012

Takes on Hamlet. Page 1


Takes on Hamlet page 2


AP Hamlet PLN

1. http://aplove.blogspot.com/2007/11/ap-lit-hamlet-actscene-notes.html
So when i first Duckduckgo 'd this, and saw blogger I thought it might be one of our students! It's not but its funny how it seemed like a high possibility. I liked this site because it was completely dedicated to AP student's trying to understand Hamlet!

2. http://millsenglish.com/wordpress/?cat=16
This sight is made by a teacher and it a mush-pot of different study forms.

3.  http://quizlet.com/subject/hamlet-ap-english/
This sight looks pretty nifty. it is a collection of flashcards on Hamlet vocab and other such things!

4. http://www.clubbennett.com/juliana/index.htm
A nice power point. Focus's a lot on Hamlet and his connection with Ophelia. A break down of lines and interpretations!

5. http://www.webenglishteacher.com/hamlet.html
Breaks down different characters, and their lines and decodes them.

Monday, October 29, 2012

Vocabulary #10

1. aficionado--an ardent devotee; fan, enthusiast
--The man is an avid Star Trek aficionado and owned just about all the memorabilia you could buy.   
2. browbeat
--to intimidate by using overbearing looks or words; bully
--Johnny's brother often tries to browbeat him into doing his chores.
3. commensurate
--having the same measure; of equal extent or duration/proportionate, adequate
--The criminal's sentence should be commensurate with the gravity of his or her crime.
4. diaphanous
--very sheer and light; almost completely transparent or translucent
--The angel appeared in a white gown topped with a diaphanous robe.
5. emolument
--profit or fees from office or employment
--Emoluments for politicians had risen by almost 25% that year; this enraged the suffering citizens.
6. foray
--a quick raid, usually for the purpose of taking plunder/a quick, sudden attack/an initial venture
--In order to maintain their status as dominant clan, the Offdensons would carry out near-regular forays.
7. genre
--a class or category of artistic endeavor having a particular form, technique, content or the like
--While my friend prefers to read books belonging to the magical realism genre, I prefer mystery novels.
8. homily
--a sermon, usually of a biblical topic and usually of a nondoctrinal nature/an inspirational saying or cliche
--Whenever Suzy went to her grandmother's house, she was usually met with a biblicalhomily; this started to bother her when she developed her own ideas about life and religion.
9. immure
--to enclose within walls/to shut in, seclude or confine/to imprison
--The child felt as though her overprotective parents were just trying to immure her in her own home.
10. insouciant
--free from concern, worry or anxiety; carefree; nonchalant
--I had assumed that my senior year would be the year that I relaxed and became insouciant; it turns out that I'm just as busy as ever.
11.matrix
--something that constitutes the place or point from which something else originates, takes form, or develops/a formative part
--Cells exist within and gather nutrients from the extracellular matrix around them.
12. obsequies
--funeral rites or ceremony
--They performed the obsequies at the local church several days after his passing.
13. panache
--a grand or flamboyant manner; verve; style; flair
--When Jessica visited Brazil, she happened to be there during Carnaval, all of its panacheand excitement displayed in a colorful parade.
14. persona
--the narrator of a character in a literary work, sometimes identified with the author/a person's perceived or evident personality, as that of a well-known official, actor, or celebrity
--The public seemed to love their governor; that is, they loved his governor persona--away from the public eye, he was a deeply flawed man.
15. philippic
--any speech or discourse of bitter denunciation
--When asked for justification in her proposal to impeach the corrupt leader, the woman presented the board with a scathing philippic about the man.
16. prurient
--having, inclined to have, or characterized by lascivious or lustful thoughts, desire, etc./having a restless desire or longing 
--Avid readers have a prurient interest in books.
17. sacrosanct
--extremely sacred or inviolable/not to be entered or trespassed upon/above or beyond criticism, change, or interference
--Those scriptures are considered sacrosanct to those of that faith.
18. systemic
--of or pertaining to a system/pertaining to or affecting the body as a whole
--The patient has a choice between local, topical treatment and systemic treatment in the form of pills.
19. tendentious
--having or showing a definite tendency, bias, or purpose
--She was obviously highly tendentious when it came to choices like this. 
20. vicissitude
--a change or variation in the course of something/interchange or alternation, as in the course of things
--When starting a business, the founder must know how to endure the vicissitudes of the market.

Monday, October 22, 2012

Vocabulary #9

Abortive: failing to produce the intended result
Bruit: spread a report or rumor widely
Contumelious: scornful and insulting behavior
Dictum: a formal pronouncement from an authoritative source; a short statement that expresses a general truth or principle
Ensconce: establish or settle
Iconoclastic: characterized by attack on established beliefs or institutions 
In medias res: a narrative that begins somewhere in the middle of a story rather than the beginning 
Internecine: destructive to both sides in a conflict
Maladroit: ineffective or bungling; clumsy
Maudlin: self-pitying or tearfully sentimental, often through drunkenness 
Modulate: exert a modifying or controlling influence on
Portentous: of or like a portent; done in a pompously or overly solemn manner
Prescience: the power to foresee the future
Quid pro quo: a favor or advantage granted in return for something
Salubrious: health-giving, healthy; pleasant, not run-down
Saturnalia: the ancient Roman festival of Saturn in December; an occasion of wild revelry
Touchstone: a standard or criterion by which something is judged or recognized 
Traumatic: emotionally disturbing or distressing; relating to or causing psychological trauma
Vitiate: spoil or impair the quality or efficiency of; destroy or impair the legal validity of.
Waggish: humorous in a playful, mischievous, or facetious manner

To Facebook or Not to Facebook?

As a Freshman I thought I was real cool to have a Facebook, saying things such as "Hey Facebook me!" "Friend me!" "I am going to win this poke war!" I would add anyone who added me, people I knew people I didn't. I was young, new to the internet and a tad reckless. The summer before my junior year of High school  those pesky boys messaging me "hey cutie" and... other such messages from strangers really creeped me out. So I did what I should have done ages ago and went through my friends list deleting strangers, jerks, people who posted themselves doing drugs or such. Lets just say i ended up with about 200 friends after being at about 700. I still really enjoy Facebook to this day, its not perfect but at this point in life what really in life??

Thursday, October 4, 2012

Tell Me a Story Dad


To be, or not to be. SPOILER ALERT Great planning


Dear O

Dear O,
To see that you are writing me tells me you have convictions about your possible relationship.
To go against your families wishes is an almost agrentee of anguish in your household.
Listen to your heart and mind. Only you can pick your path.

Thursday, September 27, 2012

Shakespeare

a) What do you know about Hamlet, the "Melancholy Dane"?
-Lion King!!  
b) What do you know about Shakespeare? 
-He married below himself pissing off his father... Iambic contaminator ... Mary and Elizabeth why don't you get along?  
c) Why do so many students involuntarily frown when they hear the name "Shakespeare"?
-They lack the capability or desire to understand his craftsmanship    
and 
d) What can we do to make studying this play an amazing experience we'll never forget?
- Keep calm

Shakespeare on. 

Monday, September 17, 2012

Vocabulary #6

Beatitude: supreme blessedness; exalted happiness
--They say Heaven will fill you with beatitude.
Bete noire: a person or thing especially dislike or dreaded; bane
--Voldemort's name was to be unspoken because he has a bete noire to the rewarding world. 
Bode: to be an omen of; portend
--My three previous failures on AP tests might be a bode to my upcoming if I don't change my methods.
Dank: unpleasantly moist or humid; damp, and often, chilly
--The haunted house was dank, many children avoided it walking home.
Ecumenical: general, universal
--The foreign exchange club is a safe place for ecumenical students, no matte where they come from. 
Fervid: heated or vehement in spirit, enthusiasm, etc./burning, glowing, intensely hot
--When the artist was feeling it, he would work fervidly on a project nonstop and get it done in less than a day.
Fetid: having an offensive odor, stinking
--My brother's room is fervid so I like to spray glade into it.
Gargantuan: gigantic, enormous, colossal
--The titanic's last night was a gargantuan, and is still not forgotten. 
Heyday: the stage or period of greatest vigor, strength, success, etc.
--During the company's heyday, it was raking in millions of dollars from customers from around the world.
Incubus: an imaginary demon or evil spirit supposed to descend upon sleeping persons,especially one fabled to have sexual intercourse with women during their sleep/a nightmare/something that weighs upon or
oppresses one like a nightmare
--When I asked the women why she was selling her house, she began to yell and rant about an incubus that lived there and visited her every night...needless to say, I did not buy that house. I also do not talk to that woman anymore.
Infrastructure: the basic, underlying framework or features of a system or organization/thefundamental facilities and systems serving a country, city, or area, as transportation andcommunication systems, power plants, and schools
--One of the reasons why Rome fell was because of its crumbling infrastructure; perhaps we should be looking after ours a little better.
Inveigle: to entice, lure, or ensnare by flattery or artful talk or inducements/to acquire, win, or obtain by beguiling talk or methods
 --He had to inveigle his mother and compliment her until she finally let him go to the concert on a school night.
Kudos: honor, glory, acclaim
 --I give Kasie kudos for recognizing the word "kudos" in class today.
Lagniappe: a gratuity or tip/an unexpected or indirect benefit/a small gift given with a purchase to a customer, by way of a compliment or for good measure; bonus
 --The customers treated Jessica, the waitress, so well that she through in some extra dessert as a lagniappe on their way out.
Obsequious: characterized by or showing servile complaisance or deference; fawning/servilely compliant and deferential 
--Nobody cared much for the obsequious student; he proved himself a "teacher's pet" early in the year.
Prolix: extended to great, unnecessary or tedious length; long and wordy
--The professor's stories could have been around five minutes long, each, but she made themprolix and stretched them into twenty or more minutes.
Protege: a person under the patronage, care, or protection of someone who is interested in his/her care or welfare
 --As my little cousin stared up at my kayaks, I imagined taking him out on a lake one day and having him as my little boating protege.
Prototype: the original model on which something is based or formed
--The prototype of the app needs allot of improvement before the app can go on the market.
Sycophant: a self-seeking, servile flatterer; fawning parasite
--High school is full of sycophants, in fact one can't even speak with out making sure she kisses ass.
Tautologyneedless repetition of an idea, especially in words other than those of theimmediate context, without imparting additional force or clearness/an instance of repetition
--My little cousin told me her mother was pregnant and would be having a little baby, her tautology made me smile.
Truckle: to submit or yield obsequeously or tamely
--My dog never listens to me. I wish she were more truckle.

Wednesday, September 12, 2012

We See it Everyday


Vocabulary #5

acumen (noun)- keen insight.
-When I need advice, I always go to my mother for her acumen.
adjudicate (verb)- to settle or determine.
-The dispute was adjudicated when they sat down down and talked.
anachronism (noun)- something or someone that is not in its correct historical time.
-When I saw Abraham Lincoln talking on the phone, I knew Mr. Lincoln was an anachronism
apocryphal (adj)- of doubtful authorship or authenticity. 
-When a D student turned in an A paper the teacher thought the paper was apocryphal.
disparity (noun)- inequality
-There will always be disparity of wealth within this society.
dissimulate (verb)- to disguise or conceal under a false appearance.
-The masquerader allowed everyone to dissimulate themselves.  
empirical (adj)- derived from or guided by experience or experiment
flamboyant (adj)- strikingly bold; showy
-The Mardigra  parade was very flamboyant. 
fulsome (adj)- offensive to good taste, especially as being excessive;overdone or gross
-My brother is very fulsome when he farts next to me. 
immolate (verb)- to sacrifice
-He immolated the dove to his god.
imperceptible (adj)- very slight, gradual, or subtle.
-I missed the imperceptible hint from my friend that the girl I was gossiping about was right behind me.
lackey (noun)- a servile follower
-Robin is Batman's lackey. 
liaison (noun)- a person who initiates and maintains such a contact or connection. 
-He was England's liaison to the United States.
monolithic (adj)- consisting of one piece; solid or unbroken
-Sometimes kids with their phones are monolithic.
mot juste (noun)- the exact, appropriate word 
-It it is all about time, place,  and mot juste
nihilism (noun)- total rejection of established laws and institutions.
-His nihilism for the law ended him up in jail. 
patrician (noun)- a person of noble or high rank; aristocrat. 
-Jean Valjean began his life poor but turned himself into a patrician.
propitiate (verb)- to make favorably inclined; appease; conciliate.
sic (verb)-to incite to attack 
sublimate(adj)-to make nobler or purer
-When he let God into his life, it became sublimate. 

Tuesday, September 4, 2012

Vocabulary #4

Apostate: a person who forsakes his religion, party, cause, etc. 
--The pastor's daughter was a apostate to her father's religion. 
Effusive: unduly demonstrative, lacking reserve/pouring out, overflowing
--When meeting boy foreign exchange students, I notice American girls become effusive with flirtatious behavior.  
Impasse: a position or situation from which there is no escape; deadlock
-- Death is impasse.
Euphoria: a state of happiness and self-confidence/a feeling of happiness, confidence, or well-being sometimes exaggerated in pathological states as mania 
--Lidia though being married would make set her in an euphoria state. But her fiance's death brought an end to her fantasy. 
Lugubriousmournful, dismal, or gloomy, especially in an affected, exaggerated, orunrelieved manner
--Lidia was lugubrious after the death of her fiance. 
Bravado: a pretentious, swaggering display of courage
--Conner Patzman is full of Bravado.
Consensus: majority of opinion/general agreement or concord; harmony
--the consensus was that we would order pizza instead of going out.
Constrict: to draw or press in; to cause to contract or shrink; compress/to slow or stop the natural course of development of
--The snake constricted around the child's neck rendering him helpless. 
Dichotomy: division in two parts, kinds, etc./division into two mutually exclusive, opposed, or contradictory groups
--The dichotomy within the party itself is what caused the loss of the election to the rival party.
Gothicnoting or pertaining to a style of architecture, originating in France in the middle ofthe 12th century and existing in the western half of Europe through the middle of the 16thcentury, characterized by the use of the pointed arch and the ribbed vault, by the use offine woodwork and stonework, by a progressive lightening of structure, and by the use ofsuch features as flying buttresses, ornamental gables, crockets, and foils/pertaining to the Middle Ages; medieval
--The architecture student visited France to study Gothic cathedrals, so he may bring that style back in his works.
Punctilio: a fine point, particular, or detail, as of conduct, ceremony, or procedure/strictness or exactness in the observance of formalities or amenities
--The club insisted that every little punctilio had to be followed during initiation, or else the ceremony had to start over.
Metamorphosis: a complete change of form, structure, or substance, as transformation by magic or witchcraft/any complete change in appearance, character, circumstances,etc.
 --The boy seemed to undergo a complete metamorphosis into a respectful young adult after going through the Scared Straight program.
Raconteur: a person who is skilled in relating stories and anecdotes interestingly
--The children's grandfather was a true raconteur, he had an interesting story for just about any situation.
Sine qua non: an indispensable condition, element, or factor; something essential 
--Kasie is sine qua non for parties; you just can't have one without her.
Quixotic: extravagantly chivalrous or romantic; visionary, impractical or impracticable/impulsive or rashly unpredictable
--The man figured that any day might be his last, so he lived his life quixotically and didn't worry about consequences.
Vendettaa private feud in which the members of the family of a murdered person seek toavenge the murder by killing the slayer or one of the slayer's relatives, especially suchvengeance as once practiced in Corsica and parts of Italy/a prolonged and bitter feud, rivalry, contention, or the like
--Jessica swore a vendetta on the person that cut in front of her in line at Six Flags.
Non Sequitur: an inference or conclusion that does not follow from the premises
--Her argument was solid until she reached the end, where we found an obvious non sequitur. 
Mystique: a framework of doctrines, ideas, beliefs, or the like, constructed around aperson or objectendowing the person or object with enhanced value or profoundmeaning/an aura of mystery or mystical power surrounding a particular occupation orpursuit
--I am eternally occupied with the mystique behind surfing and the surrounding culture.
Quagmire: an area of miry or boggy ground whose surface yields under the tread; a bog/a situation of which extrication is very difficult
--The man seemed to be stuck forever in the quagmire that is credit card debt.
Parlous: perilous, dangerous
--Some times the most parlous journeys have the biggest pay off. Other wise they woulddn't be worth making.