Tuesday, September 27, 2011

PG157 1-4ab

1. using debate to arrive to the truth /he believes it is his duty and if he dosent he isn't doing his duty

2.the enemy is already there and waiting on us to get there/ because they are smiling and nodding there heads like bob a heads.

3.give me liberty or give me death  /they would be come slave

4. the british just brought there solders in and used forsed and the colonist wanted to do it peacefully by   petitioning the king but sadly the king ignored theme  /to take the British out of bosten

Monday, September 26, 2011

compound sentence 4

The big bear broke open the garbage and it ate the lefter over pizza; Dan cried becuse Dan's father shot the bear.

Wednesday, September 21, 2011

compound sentence 2

The history of espionage goes back over two thousand years; espionage was started in china by Sun Tzu; espioage is the secret collection of intelligent information.

Tuesday, September 20, 2011

combo sentences

John loves to wear hats, Johns hero is john Wayne; his girl friend loves it when he wears hats, especially cowboy hats.

Monday, September 19, 2011

Vocabulary 2

1) Disdain-verb- to look upon or treat with contempt; despise; scorn. Nick really wanted to show disdain to a annoying little girl who would not stop sining  but he didn't.


2) dogmatic-adjective-asserting opinions in a doctrinaire or arrogant manner; opinionated. Anna and her dogmatic views on life mad every one mad at her.

3) Egregious-adjective- extraordinary in some bad way; glaring; flagrant: an egregious mistake; an egregious liar. The boys egregious foul language got him bet up by the school bullies.


4) Emulate-verb to try to equal or excel; imitate with effort to equal or surpass: to emulate one's father as a concert violinist. All the pizza place should emulate how Papa Jons makes there pizzas.


5) Dissipated-adjective- scattered or dispersed.: The rain dissipated and the runners went to there meat and NIck did not have to practice.


6) Diminution-noun-the act, fact, or process of diminishing;  lessening; reduction. The cross-country team diminution on hell ya days because they dont like that

7) Disparage–verb-to speak of or treat slightingly; depreciate; belittle: Do not disparage good manners. Nick


8) Effervescent-adjective-vivacious; gay; lively; sparkling. The boy was effervescent when he saw the cheerleading squad in the panther uniformes.

9) Distraught-verb to make lucid or clear; throw light upon; explain: an explanation that elucidated his recent strange
 the distraught teaching of the class mad he get the best teach award.


10) Distraught-adjective- mentally deranged; crazed. The man being distraught plead insanity was the reason he merderd 7 people.

Tuesday, September 6, 2011

pg 108

1a. over 200 grim men and wemon stod they had there sholders painted red. but Powhatan who was dreased in his finest robs mad of racon

2a  Powhaten was the won who orderd the execution, Pocahontas saves john by lying over him so her head covered his head.


3a. food so they dont die of hunger. it helps by keeping the men full so the dont start eating of there mussels and die.

1b. to show how powerful and mighty he is that is why he whore his greatest braveries. Becouse he killed so many of the natives he feels they should think of him as a monster. its a natrol reaction to think of somthing as a monstrer becouse some one kills other people so natroly you would be afrad of it.

2b. Becouse pocahontas has a kind soule and dosent feall like john deserved to die not. It was just a family ritual to show him he is now  part of the family and his family would save him.

3b. becouse the pepole where dieing and ther only other pepole weth food where the natives so they nead to fgo get food so they whould not die. in order to get the food they had to have a mmeting weth the nateves in order to get it.

5a. i think that he whated 15 yers later so that the other men from his tribe whould have ether forgot about what had happend or whould have died so there whould be now one there to say what was the trueth and what wasent so he whated to tell it so he could get moor fame and not have there be any one that could have taken it iaway from him.

Friday, September 2, 2011

english 11 vocabulary

1) Callous  (adj) showing or having an insensitive and cruel disregard for others.
Nick was callous tourds the basketball coach when he said he played like a drunken hobo, so the coach suspended him from the team.
2) Capricious(adj) given to sudden and unaccountable changes of mood or behavior. Nick after geting back from his vacation had a vary capricious week from geting to fare behind on work.
3) Cajole (verb) persuade someone to do something by sustained coaxing or flattery. Nick having being behind in work he had to cojole his boss into giving him more time by .
4. Censure-(v)-express severe disapproval- nick  censured the fact that people could smok in family restaurants.
5. Catalyst-(n)-speeds up something with out changing itself- the army was catalyst on how Nick need to clean his room.
6. Caustic-(adj)-sarcastic in a scathing and bitter way- Mr. Feilding, after reading Nicks homework, was vary caustic about how bad Nick did.

7. Capitulate-(v)-surrender- Nick after holding out for five years final capitulate his reading strick.
8. Celestial-(adj)-positioned in or relating to the sky, or outer space as observed in- nick when he was locking up in the sky so a celestial star moving at hight sped's.
9. Catharsis-(n)-the process of releasing, and thereby providing relief from, strong or repressed emotions.-nicks catharsis of running cross-country went down every day he ran.
10. Carping-(v)-complain or find fault continuallytypically about trivial matters - the carping of nicks thoughts to cross-country gave him a headache.