Vocab List # 8
1. abeyance- a state of temporary disuse or suspension
2. ambivalent- having mixed feelings or contradictory ideas of something or someone
3. beleaguer- set with difficulties
4. carte blanche- complete freedom to act as one wishes or thinks
5. cataclysm- a large-scale and violent event in the natural world
6. debauch- destroy or debase the moral purity of; corrupt
7. eclat- enthusiastic approval
8. fastidious- very attentive and concerned about accuracy and detial
9. gambol- run or jump about playfully
10. imbue- inspire or permeate with a feeling or quality
11. inchoate- just begun and not so fully formed or developed
12. lampoon- publicly criticized (someone or something) by using ridicule or sarcasm
13. malleable- easily influenced; pliable
14. nemesis- the inescapable or implacable agent of someones or somethings downfall
15. opt- make a choice of a range of possibilities
16. philistine- a person who is hostile or indifferent to culture and the arts, or who has no understanding of them
17. picaresque- of or relating to an episodic style of fiction dealing with the adventures of a rough and dishonest but appealing hero
18. queasy- nauseated; feeling sick
19. refractory- stubborn or unmanageable
20. savior-fair - the ability to act and speak appropriately in social situations
Tuesday, October 9, 2012
Reflection on Midterm
1) I studied the days prior to the test and felt some what confident. But coming to the test and sitting there just waiting I told myself to be confident and just relax and basically have a positive attitude while taking the test.
2) I didn't give myself enough time to study as much as I would have liked too. And when i was taking the test I was surprised in how many words I did remember and didn't leave so many blanked. But there were those blank moments were i just could not remember the word and the extra help in studying would of helped more.
3) After the taking the test, through out the day I was just going over some of the words that I still remembered and would just keep telling myself the definitions. I want the words to stick and am going to have to get use to putting the words into context. To keep practicing them.
4) Next time I am going to take the test much more seriously and be even more confident and just believe in myself more so I can receive the result I want to earn.
1) I studied the days prior to the test and felt some what confident. But coming to the test and sitting there just waiting I told myself to be confident and just relax and basically have a positive attitude while taking the test.
2) I didn't give myself enough time to study as much as I would have liked too. And when i was taking the test I was surprised in how many words I did remember and didn't leave so many blanked. But there were those blank moments were i just could not remember the word and the extra help in studying would of helped more.
3) After the taking the test, through out the day I was just going over some of the words that I still remembered and would just keep telling myself the definitions. I want the words to stick and am going to have to get use to putting the words into context. To keep practicing them.
4) Next time I am going to take the test much more seriously and be even more confident and just believe in myself more so I can receive the result I want to earn.
Wednesday, October 3, 2012
Hamlet! Full movie
If anyone would like to watch the full movie of Hamlet, well here is one source that I have found so far. It is off PBS.org. Comment and let me know what you think!
http://www.pbs.org/wnet/gperf/episodes/hamlet/watch-the-film/980/
If anyone would like to watch the full movie of Hamlet, well here is one source that I have found so far. It is off PBS.org. Comment and let me know what you think!
http://www.pbs.org/wnet/gperf/episodes/hamlet/watch-the-film/980/
Dear Ophelia,
Love is a very beautiful thing in life and everyone should feel the wonderful feeling of love. It can be a hard subject to touch on at times because some people are just too sensitive. The key is just trying to figure out the way to go about with Love. But don't get me wrong when your so full of beatitude your can get lost in the feeling of love. You begin to blind yourself from reality. And having your father and brother advising you that it might not be such a good idea probably is best. In there point of view they believe it is a quixotic relationship. But now if you choose to go against your family then a vendetta might occur.. Especially how your father and brother see the situations your prince is in they do not want you to get in a parlous relationship. Now to expound my opinion of all this your family's opinion should come into consideration. And if they see something that you might not, that is possibly not healthy for you well in the end you are going to need the volition to try and make the most reasonable decision. Maybe if you and the prince can coalesce abut things and be civil then there is nothing wrong with that either. But falling into a relation would be risky with his life style.
Love is a very beautiful thing in life and everyone should feel the wonderful feeling of love. It can be a hard subject to touch on at times because some people are just too sensitive. The key is just trying to figure out the way to go about with Love. But don't get me wrong when your so full of beatitude your can get lost in the feeling of love. You begin to blind yourself from reality. And having your father and brother advising you that it might not be such a good idea probably is best. In there point of view they believe it is a quixotic relationship. But now if you choose to go against your family then a vendetta might occur.. Especially how your father and brother see the situations your prince is in they do not want you to get in a parlous relationship. Now to expound my opinion of all this your family's opinion should come into consideration. And if they see something that you might not, that is possibly not healthy for you well in the end you are going to need the volition to try and make the most reasonable decision. Maybe if you and the prince can coalesce abut things and be civil then there is nothing wrong with that either. But falling into a relation would be risky with his life style.
Monday, October 1, 2012
Thursday, September 27, 2012
Pre- Will Questions
a) What do you know about Hamlet, the "Melancholy Dane" ?
-- I have not read anything from Hamlet. I for sure has heard about him and knows he has written literature. The definition of "melancholy" is having to do with something sad or gloomy. So I would want to assume that the story is not going to be in such a upbeat mood.
b) What do you know about Shakespeare?
-- Shakespeare was an amazing writer. He wrote poems and discovered new styles of writing poems. His literature was in the romantic period.
c) Why do so many students involuntarily frown when they hear the name "Shakespeare"?
-- Students are not even aware exactly what Shakespeare offers in his literature. They just know that it is going to be a lot of reading and has to deal with romanticism.
d) What can we do to make studying this play an amazing experience we'll never forget?
-- My summer entering freshman year I went to Cal Poly, part of the Upward Bound summer program were we would take classes like English, math and science that will help us prepare for the up coming school year. Well in my freshman English class we read Romeo and Juliet. Our teacher wanted to make it fun for us so we would read the scenes and then we would draw them out on a paper, share how we would imagine the scene and then we would head outside and try and act out the scenes. I enjoyed acting the scenes out because i got us moving and not just sitting down at a desk and just reading/ discussing the reading. We got to be active and creative. Which attracts many people.
a) What do you know about Hamlet, the "Melancholy Dane" ?
-- I have not read anything from Hamlet. I for sure has heard about him and knows he has written literature. The definition of "melancholy" is having to do with something sad or gloomy. So I would want to assume that the story is not going to be in such a upbeat mood.
b) What do you know about Shakespeare?
-- Shakespeare was an amazing writer. He wrote poems and discovered new styles of writing poems. His literature was in the romantic period.
c) Why do so many students involuntarily frown when they hear the name "Shakespeare"?
-- Students are not even aware exactly what Shakespeare offers in his literature. They just know that it is going to be a lot of reading and has to deal with romanticism.
d) What can we do to make studying this play an amazing experience we'll never forget?
-- My summer entering freshman year I went to Cal Poly, part of the Upward Bound summer program were we would take classes like English, math and science that will help us prepare for the up coming school year. Well in my freshman English class we read Romeo and Juliet. Our teacher wanted to make it fun for us so we would read the scenes and then we would draw them out on a paper, share how we would imagine the scene and then we would head outside and try and act out the scenes. I enjoyed acting the scenes out because i got us moving and not just sitting down at a desk and just reading/ discussing the reading. We got to be active and creative. Which attracts many people.
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