Saints basketball game

We lost a tough one, in the final minute of the game, we were up most of the game and played hard against the 5 time defending league champions. We have a lot of things to be excited about and a lot of season left, we also had a great student section supporting us.

Different Poem

I read over the poem "From violence to peace" and i liked it. Something up about the poem was intriguing it might have been how he started the poem, and giving the reader detail about his life and how he could've been dead. That was what got me most and made me realize you never know when your time will come so live every day like it's your last.

Something interesting

Something i find pretty interesting the life of a homeless person. This can be touchy subject for some people but to me it's sort of interesting. If i had a chance to sit down and talk to someone that is homeless and  lives in the street i would have so many questions to ask.

MY MAD DREAM OF AN ESSAY

     The choices you make in the moment can impact yours or anybody else future in a huge way. We see this in everyday life, one persons choice of wanting to use their cell phone can cause another person to be severely injured or killed in some cases. One expirence that i had with making a descion that messed up in the future was the descion to argue with my sister and keep on going when my mom told me to stop, this caused me to get phone taken away and to be grounded for a couple weeks. It was all because i was in the heat of the moment and didn't think about the consequences in the future. One example from "A sound of Thunder" was Eckels choice to get off the path and accidentally step on the butterfly. This was what caused the election of the president to change in the future and what actually led to Eckels death. There are many examples from the story "on Slef Reliance" but i chose a quote that says "Nothing can you bring you peace but yourself". This quote is great example of making a descion that will affect your future because you pretty much hold your future in future in your hands and you make great descions to affect your future or you can make bad descions that will affect you in a negative way.
   

AN EARTH-SHATTERING FART

wow that was a pretty intense ending, I was not expecting that ending through out reading the story. the author did a great job of giving me a visual as a reader and i would surely recommend this book to other readers.

EMERSON PRESENTATIONS DAY 3

something new power point group: "society is a wave that moves onward but the water it is composed"
author Sarah ban: quotes is similar to "nothing can bring you peace but yourself"
Be yourself no base imitator but your best self. don't try to be someone you're not

A lot of quotes I heard today were said the past 2 days, so now much to cover.

EMERSON PRESENTASTIONS PART 2

"To be great is to be misunderstood" People that are often considered crazy, are the ones to be really creative and full of ideas.  For example Albert Enstien was "crazy" now he's considered a genius.
" I am ashamed to think how easily we capitulate to badges and names, to large societies and dead institutions" Don't give into labels and don't let people judge you or sterio type you into being someone you're not or don't wanna be.

EMERSON PRESENTATIONS DAY 1

"nothing can bring you peace but yourself" people will make you happy, but no one will you make you as happy as yourself. you control your thoughts and emotions.
 • being the person you are brings, trust in yourself and believ in yourself
 • be open minded, don't let other people control your thinking and live life to the fullest

Emerson for the young buck

In the story of I have learned that as a human you have to find ways to marinate your self and make your self feel at peace. I have also learned that you need to trust yourself.

Emerson said it

" the secret of fortune is joy in our hands." This quote is saying that fortune is made from your hands and you make your self happy.
"nothing can bring you peace but yourself." This is saying that only your self can bring you peace and   you cont ok your happiness.

Career Festival

The career festival was a great expirience. I went to different career booths, and learned about different routes to take after high school. There is many options in the future and I was able to get some information about them.

The debate between Hillary Clinton and Domald Trump to has caused the people of the U.S to worry about the status of the country. Both of these candidates have a history of not being the best people, and neither of them seem to be trust worthy. As the

Letter to Mentor

Dear mentor,
I have many thoughts about if the president was really in on the attack of 9/11? I am confused on who to ask and where to find to find answers. Since you are my mentor I need assistance on where to find answers to my big question.

voacabulary #5

1. venomous - full of malice or spite.(She replied with a venomous glance.) 
2. stolid - calm, dependable, and ahowing little emotion or animation. (The man was stolid at the park.)
3. hypnotized - capture the whole attention of someone; fascinate. (Hypnotized by the rain, Eric stated across the street.)
4. suspended - temporarily percent from continuing or being in force of effect. (Work on the dam was suspended.) 
5. transformed - make a thorough or dramatic change in the form, appearance, transmute. (Lasers have transformed cardiac surgery.)
6. accuse - claim that someone has done something wrong. (He was accused of favoritism.) 
7. anticipate - regard as probable; expect or predict. (She anticipated scorn on her return to the theater.) 
8. fringe - decorate clothing or material with a fringe. (A rich robe of gold, fringed with black velvet.) 
9. melancholy - a feeling of pensive sadness, typically with no obvious cause. (An air if melancholy surrounded him.)
10. earnestly - fervent, intent, purposeful, determined, industrious. (The boy was an earnest student.) 
11. dissolve - close down or dismiss. (The country's president can dissolve parliament under certain circumstances.)
12. aggravate - make worse or more serious. (Military action would only aggravate the situation.)
13. illuminate - light up. (A flash of lightning illuminated the house.) 
14. capillary - a tube that has an internal diameter or hairlike thinness. 
15. proboscis - the nose of a mammal, especially when it is long and mobile, such as the trunk of an elephant it the snout if a tapir. 

Respect my Authority

My parents and my coach are figures that are there to push me and support me because they want the best for me in life. They know how to get the best out of me. My coach knows what drives me on the court and my parents know what drives me to do homework and clean up around the house. Though there are figures that that affect my willingness to be myself in public such as the police. When I'm in public and I see a police officer it sort of changes my thinking, and I get an odd feeling knowing they have a power over me, that no one else has.

Inciting incident

The pedestrian gets stopped by the cop.

Big Question Discipline

The fields that inform my big question are the government, and the people of the country.

vocabulary #4

1. intermittent: occurring at irregular intervals.
•The patient had a intermittent pain.
2. ebb: the movement of the tide out to the sea.
•The fish were not ready for the ebb.
3. regress: to move backward, or the act of going back.
•The car regressed as it was downhill.
4. tendency: a natural or prevailing diposition to move, proceed, or act in some direction or toward some point.
•The football team had the tendencies that were easy to see.
5. antiseptic: exceptionally clean or neat.
•The doctors office was antiseptic.

Young Goodman Brown theme

The theme of Young Goodman Brown is our deacons make us who we are.

Earth on Turtkes back theme

The them of  this story is we can accomplish great things no matter who we are.

YGB Questions

1. Hawthornes purpose in writing this story was to show the reader what evil may actually look like in the human eye.
2. Yes, faith fits her name, and fits her personality.
3. The pink ribbons signify Fates innocence, and they could also signify the torment that Goodman Brown expirenesses when he's on his journey.
4. I believe that everything Goodman Brown witnessed was something conjured by evil. "There may be a devilish Indian behind every tree."
5. The man may be a demon in disguise. 
6. The primary motivator is Browns conscience/ mind. 
7. If Brwin stayed home I believe that he would still have faith, and he would still trust his wife and the townspeople. 

Vocabulary #3

1. coherent - able to speak clearly and logically.
2.belabor - argue or elaborate in excessive manner.
3.eschew - deliberately avoiding using.

4.acquisitive - tending or seeking to acquire and own, after greedily. 
5.emulate - to try to equal or excel. 
6.banal - devoid of freshness or originality. 
7.excoriation - the act of excoriating. 
8.congeal - to change from a soft it fluid state to a rugid or solid state, as by cooking or freezing. 

9.carping - characterized by fussy or petulant fault finding.
10.substantiate - to establish by proof or competent evidence. 
11.temporize - to avoid making a decision . 
12.largesse - generous bestowed of gifts. 
13.tenable - capable of being held, maintained, or defended, as against attack or dispute. 
14.insatiable - not satiable; incapable of being satisfied or appeased. 
15.reconnaissance - the act if reconnoitering.
16.germane - closely or significantly related. 
17.ramify - to divide into branches or branch like parts; extend into subdivisions. 
18.intransigent - refusing to agree or compromise. 
19.taciturn - inclined to silence; reserved in speech. 

My Aeries

The grade on my essay is understandable, I believe I could have been more clear in my writing and I know what to clean up for the next essay. I think I deserve about a C grade, there's many things I need to improve on in the class, it was a little different getting adjusted to a new learning style but now that we are in the swing of things I know what needs to be done. I'm excited to keeping learning new things everyday in this course.

Big Question

Was the president really in on the attack of 9/11?

Conscience of a Hacker

Conscience of a Hacker really connects with myself as a reader. I feel that the the writer is getting his point across to many high school readers that read this story. Not all students are the same and all students have a different type of creativity, students do not have the same ability as others to just sit in classes all day and write what sometimes can be pointless sentences. Some students have the ability to express their creativity in ways such as hacking and/or drawing etc.

The Earth on Turtle’s Back

The Earth on turtles back is a short story that portrays heroism. Once the muskrat had the earth and brought it back up, the whole mood of the story seemed to change it was as if she brought back life. The woman had let the seeds fall and life began to come alive on the soil.

Welcome to my blog page. Excited to be in Dr. Prestons class and also looking forward to learning in a new way.