Fat Americans?? Fat World!

If you’re cool (and I think you are), check out this link. It’s a TIME Photo Essay illustrating the food families will eat in one week according to which part of the world they live in. Check it out!

Seriously!??!

Wow. Do you REALLY think I am that mean? Turn in your homework on a day we don't even have school??? No, you do not have anything due on community service day. On Monday, however, your final photo from OB (or wherever you chose) is due (although you should email me by then your THREE photos I asked of you from OB)- bring it either printed, or put it on your blog, and your creative writing from MOPA should be posted on your blog. If you are in honors, you need to have your book report due by Monday(it is only ever due on Mondays). Furthermore, we will work on the FBI project at school - but if you want to do research to make your life easier, feel free to do so. Hope everyone has a great community service day and an amazing weekend.

All my love,
Elika :)

FBI Project Sign-Ups

Below, find the dossier assignments for the FBI project (since this is first come, first serve, these are who have responded with their options):

Period 1/2:

Zoli: Thomas Paine
Zach: St. George Tucker
Alina: Catherine Macaulay Graham
Anthony: James Monroe
Paris: Aaron Burr
Xochil: Richard Henry Lee
Daniel: Daniel Shays
Mason: Lord Cornwallis
Viktor: Marquis de Lafayette
Nikolai: Philip Mazzei
Matt: Thomas Jefferson
Alex: Sam Adams
Colleen: George Washington
JeRevien: Phillis Wheatley
Nathan: John Locke
Maryross: Benedict Arnold
Anna: Anne Hutchinson
Sophia: King George
Molly: Ben Franklin
Minh: James Madison
Ethan: Alexander Hamilton
Jordan: Patrick Henry
Myles: John Jay



Period 3/5:

Eli: Adam Smith
Cori: King George III
Alejandra: Thomas Jefferson
Hilary: James Monroe
Jackie: John Jay
Ellis: Daniel Shays
Sandra: Richard Henry Lee
Veronica: Aaron Burr
Mayra: Ben Franklin
Mya: Marquis de Lafayette
Chris: Lord Cornwallis
Garrett: Benedict Arnold
Giselle: George Washington
Danielle: John Locke
Michael: Sam Adams
Yura: Governor Morris
Addilene: Catherine Macauley Graham
Enrique: Alexander Hamilton
Haidee: Patrick Henry
Bree: Thomas Paine

Welcome Novice Agents...

Colonial F.B.I. Project

Create an FBI file on one of the following explorers, scientists, or leaders who played a pivotal role during the American Revolution.

King George III; George Washington; Thomas Jefferson; James Madison; James Monroe; Patrick Henry; Marquis de Lafayette; John Jay; Sam Adams; Richard Henry Lee; Benjamin Franklin; Alexander Hamilton; St. George Tucker; William Franklin; George Mason; John Locke; Aaron Burr; Samuel Chase; Robert Morris; Richard Dobbs Spaight; Daniel Shays; Philip Mazzei; Benedict Arnold; Edmund Randolph; Gouverneur Morris; Catherine Macaulay Graham; Phillis Wheatley; Thomas Paine; Lord Cornwallis; Jonathon Mayhew; Anne Hutchinson

It should include, at the very least, all of the following information:

· Name

· Brief history (family, personal, significant dates/events)

· Known contacts

· Stats – height, weight, clothes size, hairstyle

· Financial statements (bank accounts, investments, and the like)

· Favorite foods

· Favorite drink

· Jewelry preference

· Embarrassing moments

· Naughty facts – taste in women/men; affairs with other(s)

· Secret conversations

Dossier must also have:

Image:

· Digitally modified to represent the person twenty years older or younger than actual age

· Aim to resemble F.B.I. aesthetics

Works Cited

Written component:

· Three to four page mini research paper. What has your individual contributed to our world? What do you imagine we would be like without their existence? (SIGNIFICANCE) Is there someone similar from society today or modern history you can compare this individual to? You must utilize the following source:

Trial Research Site:

http://infotrac.galegroup.com/itweb/sand07018

Password:

peace

Due:

Digital Bit: December 20

Fact Sheet: December 20

Essay Outline: December 20

Final Product: January8

E:prompt - Thomson's Violin

Please take some time to reflect on the following classical ethical dilemma.

Thomson’s Violin

One day, you wake up in hospital. In the nearby bed lies a world famous violinist who is connected to you with various tubes and machines.

To your horror, you discover that you have been kidnapped by the Music Appreciation Society. Aware of the maestro’s impending death, they hooked you up to the violinist.

If you stay in the hospital bed, connected to the violinist, he will be totally cured in nine months. You are unlikely to suffer harm. No one else can save him. Do you have an obligation to stay connected?

Make sure to explain your reasoning thoroughly. Note what assumptions your choices make about your ethical value system. Is one life ever worth more than another? Is saving one life worth a terrible inconvenience to someone else - even a random stranger? Are there certain conditions under which you might agree to remain hooked up to the violinist, but not others? What if it weren’t a violinist (how dated is that?), but instead your favorite musician or artist? What if it were me...better yet, what if it were ROSS!?!

I’m also asking that you reflect and comment on at least two of your classmates posts on this topic. Thoughtfully challenge their thinking! We’ll be doing E:prompts like this regularly now. Sometimes we will use classic ethical dilemmas - which moral philosophers make careers out of debating and thinking about - and sometimes we will use ethical dilemmas from my own personal life. Eventually I’ll be inviting you to offer different dilemmas you’ve encountered in your life, and as a class we’ll wrestle with the ramifications.

Barder and the Flying Turban - Creative Reflection

Assuming the dog in your story is named Barder, and that the orange turban gives him the power of flight, anyway…

Your assignment is to respond to the above visual prompt. Write something you’ll be proud to share and display.

Charity Event - Thursday, December 14th

Vocabulary.Week.13.

Back to another round of fresh vocabulary words this week. The set has several closely related words, so pay attention to the connections and use them as cues to help you study.

You also have a set of photovocabulary due Thursday. I’d like you to choose FOUR words to respond to, with explanations. Bonus if you take any of the pictures yourself. About the picture above (by Rene Gagon) I might say the following:

There is clearly a blatant parallel to the Creation of Adam by Michelangelo, pictured below. But there’s something more subtle happening here too; almost a power hand-off between the traditional ‘arts’ (indicated by the paint brush), to the more modern, often marginalized forms of art such as tagging (indicated by the aerosol spray paint).

Your words for the week below. Study!

subtle -
vehement -
zealous -
adverse -
averse -
blatant -
alleged -
aggravate -
discreet -
factoid -
flout -
forte -
disinterested -

The Crucible, Act I Review Questions

In case anyone was absent or did not get the assignment, these were the questions from Tuesday (you need to turn it in IMMEDIATELY):

1) What is an allegory? Give 1+ example.

2) What is a tragedy? Give 1+ example.

3) What is a historical fiction? Give 1+ example.

4) What does "crucible" mean?

5) One theme that this play illustrates is how rumor is harmful and how well meaning people often participate in rumor making and spreading without realizing what the consequences could possibly be. Describe an event or situation from your own experience where this theme applies. (paragraph form)

Book Report Options

Below, you can find the different options for your book reports (personal outside reading). You MUST write the book report after you have read the entire book. You may do a reader response, etc. instead of book club meetings (must be due BY book club time to show have done the reading). Email me with any questions. Have fun reading!

Book Report / Novel Summary

Author Last, First Name. Title of the book. Place of Publication. Company: Date.

Reason, Type and Setting: Explain why you selected this book. Explain what type of book it is? (For instance, Western, adventure novel, teen romance, action, mystery, etc.) Where does you novel take place? In what time period does your book take place?

Plot: Give an account of the books major conflicts and action. Describe the parts which interested you. Don’t include every detail, just main ideas. The plot is all about the action which takes place, the story told. The plot of a book is composed through the conflict or points of interests that call for resolution. Recount your book’s plot in this section.

Character: Select a character. Describe your character’s physical appearance. What qualities does he or she possess? What roles does you character play in the plot? Why did you select this character? What interest you about the character? How did the plot change the character in the end?

Evaluation: Did you like the novel? Was it interesting? Did the book entertain you? Did it inform you? What main point about life and values did the novel make? What did it teach you? Would you recommend this book for others? Why of why not?

How does this book compare to real life? What situations, problems, current events, or issues does this book remind you? Is this book important for others to read? Why or why not?

Put yourself in the plot. Compare yourself with the main character. Would you have acted in the same way? What other conclusions might work for the book? How would you have wanted the book to end?

Author, Context and Trivia: What others books did this author write? What do you know about that author? What other books like this one have you read? How does this one compare to those others? If you have never read a book like this before, say so. Do you plan to read more of this author or type? What have you not mention in the report above that you feel might be important? Make you case in this section.

Reader Response

Quote and Comment: Select a quote of interest. Copy it down and record the page number. Comment upon the quote. What does it remind you of? Why is it significant? How is it connected to other things? What difference does it make? What if things had been different? What evidence does it present?
Photo Copy Mark Up: Go to copy machine and make copies of ten pages of your reading. Take a highlighter and highlight the important passages. With a pencil or pen make comments in the margins. Ask questions about the text. See the above question for comments you might make in the margins.

Reciprocal Teaching Response: Before you begin reading, write these four points down on a sheet of paper. Leave some space after each.
1. What is this going to be about?
2. What don’t I understand?
3. Draw a conclusion.
4. What is going to happen next?
Repeat as necessary.

Quote and comment: Select an important quote from the text you are reading. Place you selection in quotation marls and provide the page number. Comment upon your selection. Why did you choose it? Why is it important?

Quote and Comment using the Habits of Mind: Who said it? (Perspective) How do we know that it is true? (Evidence) Why is it important? (Significance or Relevance) How is it related to other things? (Connections) How could it be different? (Supposition)

An example of using Montaigne’s The Apology:

“Preachers especially know that the feeling that comes to them as they talk even makes the preachers themselves believe what they are saying.”

Who says? Where is this person coming from? Who is Montaigne anyway? What did he do? Why is he important? (Perspective)

How do you know? How does Montaigne know this? Is Montaigne a preacher? Has he talked to preachers about this? Would you admit to him that they talk themselves into what they are saying? (Evidence)

“The same horse moving in the same way seems to me now rough, another time easy”

What is this connected to? This reminds me of people I see on and off. Sometime they look bigger than at other times. I don’t think they are just gaining weight either. Maybe there health has changed? (Connections)

“The passion caused when we resist the pressure and violence of authority, or caused by danger, or caused by a desire for reputation, has led some men to accept death… when later, when relaxing with friends they wouldn’t be willing to burn the tip of their finger.”

Who cares? Why is this important? How true. What are the passions won’t lead us to. When we get mad we can get into trouble, only conclude later that it wasn’t even worth it. We need to always be control of out passions? (Significance or Relevance)

“When I pick up books, my soul is sometimes struck by passages which consider beautiful and great.”

What if? Could this be different? I wonder if Montaigne would be the same way is he did not have any books. Would he still be filled with wonder if he couldn’t read? What influence did books have on him? (Supposition)

Other Types of Readers Response:

Chapter Summary

Dialectical Journal

Reading Log

Close and Recall

What is this thing called love? What? Is this thing called love? What is this thing called? Love.

What is love? It is one of the most difficult questions for us, as a society. Centuries have passed by, relationships have bloomed and so has love. Poets and songwriters would be in a fine mess without it. Plus, it makes the world go round. But…no one can give the proper definition of love. No matter how you define it or feel it, love is the eternal truth in the history of mankind. Love is patient, love is kind. It has no envy, and it is never proud. Love protects, preserves, and hopes for the positive aspect of life. Always stand steadfast in love, not fall into it. It is like the dream coming true. Love can occur between two or more individuals. It bonds them and connects them in a unified link of trust, intimacy and interdependence. It enhances the relationship and comforts the soul. Love should be experienced and not just felt. The depth of love can not be measured. Look at the relationship between a mother and a child. The mother loves the child unconditionally, and it can not be measured at all. A different dimension can be attained between any relationship. Love can be created. You just need to focus on the goodness of the other person. If this can be done easily, then you can also love easily. And remember we all have some positive aspect in us, no matter how bad our deeds may be. Depending on context, love can be of different varieties. Romantic love is deep, intense and unending. The term Platonic and familial love are also matter of great affection. The meaning of love will change with each different relationship…But at times, the very existence of love is questioned. Some say it is false and meaningless. It says that it never exists because there have been many instances of hatred and brutality in relationships. The history of our world has witnessed many such events. There has been hatred between brothers, parents and children; sibling rivalry and spouses have failed each other. Friends have betrayed each other; the son has killed his parents for the throne, the count is endless. Even our modern generation is facing such dilemmas everyday. But “love” is not responsible for that. It is us, the people, who have forgotten the meaning of love and have undertaken such gruesome apathy. In the past, the study of philosophy and religion has speculated much on the phenomenon of love. But love has always ruled, in music, poetry, paintings, sculptor and literature. Psychology has also done lot of dissection to the essence of love, just like what biology, anthropology and neuroscience has also done to it. Psychology portrays love as a cognitive phenomenon with a social cause. It is said to have three components: Intimacy, Commitment, and Passion. Also, in an ancient proverb, love is defined as a high form of tolerance. And this view has been accepted and advocated by both philosophers and scholars. Love also includes compatibility. But it is more of journey to the unknown when the concept of compatibility comes into picture. Maybe the person whom we see in front of us, may be less compatible than the person who is miles away. We might talk to each other and portray that we love each other, but practically we do not end up into any relationship. Also in compatibility, the key is to think about the long term successful relationship, not a short journey. We need to understand each other and must always remember that no body is perfect. Be together, share your joy and sorrow, understand each other, provide space to each other, but always be there for each others need. And surely love will blossom to strengthen your relationship with your matter of affection. Look below at the several different poems. Which definition of “love” do you most agree with or relate to most? Which is your favorite? Leave me a comment with your opinion of these poems (and maybe love, in general) – they range from sappy to desperate to beautifully insightful.

Unlicensed Love

On a summer's day long, long ago I fell in love and I'll never know Just what it was that made me feel So drawn to her, what the appeal That set my pulses so to race When e'er I gazed upon that face Of one who was scarce but a child Yet even then could drive me wild I'll never know the how's and why's I lost my heart to Hazel Eyes But when I got that long sought kiss I knew I'd found my Perfect Miss My elfin girl from down the lane And I'll never let her go again For how could I describe our love? Romantic love, all hearts and flowers No way to count the days and hours Spent in self-indulgent wishes And thoughts of long awaited kisses Of sweet embraces, tender sighs And gazing into love filled eyes Oh yes, it is that kind of love Or, is it yet the love of passion The ecstasy that knows no ration That shuddering nerve-tingling feeling The climax with your senses reeling The wondrous joy when you discover That sweet surrender to your lover Oh yes, it's that kind of love too. Or even yet a love that grows One that cares and one that knows That sees beyond the outer skin Into the person deep within That loves the spirit and the soul The inner self that makes the whole Built on trust and empathy A love you know was meant to be The love we share is all these things A love that has no need of rings A love you never need to doubt A love I cannot live without A love to last us all our days A love I'll share with you always .

- Jim Sharman

Love Sonnet XVII

I don't love you as if you were the salt-rose, topaz
or arrow of carnations that propagate fire:
I love you as certain dark things are loved,
secretly, between the shadow and the soul.
I love you as the plant that doesn't bloom and carries
hidden within itself the light of those flowers,
and thanks to your love, darkly in my body
lives the dense fragrance that rises from the earth.

I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where,
I love you simply, without problems or pride:
I love you in this way because I don't know any other way of loving

but this, in which there is no I or you,
so intimate that your hand upon my chest is my hand,
so intimate that when I fall asleep it is your eyes that close.
- Pablo Neruda

Love Sonnet XI

I crave your mouth, your voice, your hair.
Silent and starving, I prowl through the streets.
Bread does not nourish me, dawn disrupts me, all day
I hunt for the liquid measure of your steps.

I hunger for your sleek laugh,
your hands the color of a savage harvest,
hunger for the pale stones of your fingernails,
I want to eat your skin like a whole almond.

I want to eat the sunbeam flaring in your lovely body,
the sovereign nose of your arrogant face,
I want to eat the fleeting shade of your lashes,

And I pace around hungry, sniffing the twilight,
hunting for you, for your hot heart,
like a puma in the barrens of Quitratue.
- Pablo Neruda

Love is not a Sound

Love is not a sound
often times spoken in haste
or promises you intend not to keep
or a walk down a one way street

Love is hope where hope was once severed
from your mind
Love is living each moment with the person
or love you find
Love is trust when trust repeatedly stole
from your life
Love is never giving up when you're
despondent
or in strife
Love is seeing all you can
in each and every man
'tis not a sound
that makes love profound
- Walter Rinder

Sonnet 43 When most I wink, then do mine eyes best see,

For all the day they view things unrespected;

But when I sleep, in dreams they look on thee,

And darkly bright are bright in dark directed.

Then thou, whose shadow shadows doth make bright,

How would thy shadow's form form happy show

To the clear day with thy much clearer light,

When to unseeing eyes thy shade shines so!

How would, I say, mine eyes be blessed made

By looking on thee in the living day,

When in dead night thy fair imperfect shade

Through heavy sleep on sightless eyes doth stay!

All days are nights to see till I see thee,

And nights bright days when dreams do show thee me. - William Shakespeare

The minute I heard my first love story,
I started looking for you, not knowing
how blind that was.

Lovers don't finally meet somewhere,
they're in each other all along.
- Pablo Neruda

Love

Are you fleeing from Love because of a single humiliation?
What do you know of Love except the name?
Love has a hundred forms of pride and disdain,
and is gained by a hundred means of persuasion.
Since Love is loyal, it purchases one who is loyal:
it has no interest in a disloyal companion.
The human being resembles a tree; its root is a covenant with God:
that root must be cherished with all one's might.
A weak covenant is a rotten root, without grace or fruit.
Though the boughs and leaves of the date palm are green,
greenness brings no benefit if the root is corrupt.
If a branch is without green leaves, yet has a good root,
a hundred leaves will put forth their hands in the end.
- Pablo Neruda

Love Sonnet XLV

Don't go far off, not even for a day, because--
because--I don't know how to say it: a day is long
and I will be waiting for you, as in an empty station
when the trains are parked off somewhere else, asleep.

Don't leave me, even for an hour, because
then the little drops of anguish will all run together,
the smoke that roams looking for a home will drift
into me, choking my lost heart.

Oh, may your silhouette never dissolve on the beach;
may your eyelids never flutter into the empty distance.
Don't leave me for a second, my dearest,

because in that moment you'll have gone so far
I'll wander mazily over all the earth, asking,
Will you come back? Will you leave me here, dying?
- Pablo Neruda

vocab.week.11.

I chose the comic at right to illustrate apathy. I think it’s a clever commentary on the state of the American life and politics. So here we go, your words for the week:

loquacious -
metamorphosis -
nihilism -
obsequious -
oligarchy -
quotidian -
reparation -
tempestuous -
tautology -
supercilious -
fatuous -
apathy -

Friendly Updates :)

A couple things...

Happy National Novel Writing Month!! I am SO excited to see what marvelous pieces of work you come up with! In case you forget the link: ywp.nanowrimo.org - remember, do not worry about the grammar, spelling, etc. just WRITE!! (better known as: "bleh") Write every night, as much as you possibly can, and we will upload word counts into your nanowrimo accounts. READY!??! BREAK!!!

By the way, you do not actually do the writing on the website - it is more there for you to be able organize your word count and be there as a resource for tips and motivation!!! Not that you need any... :)

Also, if you look on my blog page to the right, you can click on a link called "del.icio.us" - this is where you can find all the links/bookmarks I have saved, and also where you can find all of your individual blog addresses organized in one place.

Friday, November 2nd, we are going to be doing a Socratic Seminar on the two readings from Wednesday - both John Winthrop's "A Model of Christian Charity," and William Bradford's "The Pilgrims' Landing and First Winter." Your essential questions for the seminar are:
--> Did the Puritan lifestyle impact our society today?

Couple more things:
1) INTERNSHIP PACKETS ARE DUE FRIDAY!!
2) Your Huck Finn and Vocab images are due TODAY!!!
3) Your short story/poem for the quilt is due MONDAY!!! (If you want me to look over it, feel free to come to me AFTER you have self-revised and gone over it yourself a few times)

Thanks for being so inspiring! :)

Reach Your True Potential...

Dearest lovelies,

Needless to say, the fires in San Diego are wreaking havoc on many lives. No matter how badly some of us may have it, there are always others less fortunate than ourselves. In the larger scheme of things, our families and loved ones are safe...and a house is just a house; it can, and will, be rebuilt.

On that note...let's help rebuild San Diego and the lives within it.

Since school will not be in session this week, I wanted to see who would be interested in coming to an evacuation site with me and volunteering on Thursday morning at 9:30 am. Please reply and let me know if you can come.

Hope you are all keeping safe - please try to give me an update on how you are doing, if you can!

Thank you!

Elika

Huck Reflection

It is impossible to read Huck Finn intelligently without understanding that Mark Twain's consciousness and awareness is larger than that of any of the characters in the novel, including Huck. Indeed, part of what makes the book so effective is the fact that Huck is too innocent and ignorant to understand what's wrong with his society and what's right about his own transgressive behavior. Twain, on the other hand, knows the score. One must be skeptical about most of what Huck says in order to hear what Twain is saying. In a 1991 interview, Ralph Ellison suggested that critics who condemn Twain for the portrait of Jim forget that "one also has to look at the teller of the tale, and realize that you are getting a black man, an adult, seen through the condescending eyes -- partially -- of a young white boy." Are you saying, I asked Ellison, "that those critics are making the same old mistake of confusing the narrator with the author? That they're saying that Twain saw him that way rather than that Huck did?" "Yes," was Ellison's answer.

In a five-paragraph essay, please choose one of the following two prompts, and back up with proof from book.

• Is Mark Twain speaking through Huck, or do you think Huck's point of view is different from Twain's? Explain.
• Is Twain speaking through Jim, or is Jim's point of view different from Twain's? Explain.

Have a great college weekend!!!

DUE Thursday.

vocabulary.week.9.

The above picture was chosen to illustrate the idea of “accord,” one of our vocabulary words this week. A simple definition of accord would be agreement, but what I love about the word is the sense of harmony that comes with it. Indeed, the resolutions of peace following periods of violence and conflict are often called accords (Paris Peace Accords of the Vietnam War, for instance), so the word carries with it that sense of history also. Which is why I chose this picture to illustrate my idea of the word:

In this photo the grenade, at once a symbol of war and conflict, is gutted and repurposed into something harmless and beautiful. A vase for roses. Someone sits on either side of the flowers too, suggesting at least a degree of copacetic negotiation or harmony.

By Thursday morning, please have a suitably well chosen photo-response to at least three of this week’s vocabulary words. You’ll be posting each picture with the vocabulary word it represents and an explanation of why you chose the illustration, as I did above (and as you did last week). I’m only requiring three because I want you to take your time, be creative, and find meaningful connections. If you’re feeling artistic you could, of course, draw any number of the pictures yourself! Either way, be mindful of the meaning and do your best to capture it.

Without further adieu, here are your words for the week - sans definitions, as always.

1. accord
2. bias
3. incognito
4. deduct
5. paradigm
6. plagiarize
7. objectivity
8. precipitous
9. recapitulate
10. reciprocate
11. empathy

“I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.”

~Albert Einstein

Writing in Reverse

Pivotal moments of a stranger’s life.

Pictured above is an excerpt from Bill Sullivan’s Turnstile Photography Project. Sullivan took pictures of stranger’s in New York City the moment they pushed through the turnstiles to ride the subway. The results are surprisingly intriguing - The faces are so expressive; the props and things we carry, reavealing. You will be following the preceding link to Bill Sullivan’s project website and choosing a character (or two) to base your story around.

You will be writing a narrative fiction surrounding this pivotal(?) moment of your character(s) day. Is the gentlemen on the left, above, on his way to a bank heist? Is the woman to his right the lifeline for a friend appearing on tonight’s episode of Who Wants To Be A Millionaire, and is she fretting because she’s unsure of a question she should know the answer to? Or is thinking too hard about it going to put her on the wrong train, which starts a whole domino of bad (or brilliant) things to happen to her that day?

Whatever story angle you choose, make sure to use facial expressions and props captured in the photo as cues. This story is not to be told in the first person. Altough that doesn’t mean you can’t be creative in the telling. You could have an omnipresent narrator who, for one reason or another, has a particular dislike for your protagonist and is continually antagonistic. The story could be told by an eventual son, recalling the cute (or hilarious, or unlikely) story of how his parents met and fell in love.

As an additional challenge you’ll need to post a picture of the character(s) you choose to your blog along with your story. You may need to do this in photoshop. It would be polite to provide a link to Bill Sullivan’s website, since you’ll be posting segments from his photographic work. And, as always, it’s a good idea to lead your post with some introduction. Your readers (from all over the world!) don’t know that your teacher is asking you to write a story. The things you post will seem rather random sans context.

Due Monday night.

vocabulary.week 8

repose - a state of peace, a temporary rest in order to regain composure. The image suggests with .html syntax that we ‘end war.’ I’ve never been a fan of bullies on the playground. As there is talk of mobilizing our military towards a new war in Iran I thought it might be nice to take a small break and have some rest before we do. Not that I hope we do. It’s sad that in the brief history of men peace has never been anything but temporary. A brief reprieve from the tensing storm, a quick repose before the coming war.

This weeks vocabulary will be posted on your blogs. You will also be posting three photo vocabulary words. Here we go:

flourish -
guerilla -
renegade -
repose -
stereotype -
symbiosis -
tariff -
tempo -
tranquility -
tumult -
tundra -
unanimous -