caminar - to walk
vivir - to live
lavarse - to clean self
vestirse - to get dressed
estar - to be
poder - to be able
venir - to come
andar - to walk
poner - to put
decir - to say
saber - to know
tener - to have
traer - to bring
ser - to be/to go
dar - to give
hacer - to do
ver - to see/watch
buscar - to find/search
almorzar - lunch
llegar - to get
empezar - to start
oir - to hear
leer - to read
creer - to believe
caerse - to fall
pedir - to ask
sentir - to feel
preferir - prefer
sugerir - suggest
divertirse - to enjoy/have fun
vestirse - dress up
dormir - to sleep
morir - to die
VOCABULARIO
El hermano paisaje - beautiful landscape
los bosques - forest
la sierra - short mountains
la tienda de acampar - tent
el saca de dormir - sleeping bag
la lintera - flashlight
la brujula - compass
suceder - to occur
aparecar - to show up/appear
perderse - to get lost
acercarse - to approach
impresionarse - to surprise
asustarse - to scare
un rato - in a while
hacia - toward
una vez alli - once there
truenos - thunder
relampagos - lightning
caer granizo - to fall hail
llover - rain
dejar de - stop doing
asi - this way
refugansa - to take shelter
el rio - river
la locas - rocks
el mar - sea
el rio - river
el campo - countryside
el sendero - trail
al amanecer - at dawn
al anochecer - at dusk
Thursday, December 1, 2011
Sunday, November 13, 2011
Write an essay analyzing how the attitudes toward dreams in "Harlem" and "Kitchenette Building" differ.
Langston Hughes's "Harlem" frankly expresses the speaker's direct frustration towards dreams that are deferred as opposed to Gwendolyn Brook's "Kitchenette Building" where the speaker's attitude is not as instigating, but more accepting. The two speakers contrasts in an active vs. passive sense. Harlem defines deferred dreams as things that "dry up" or "fester like a sore." For the speaker, dreams that are postponed will end up losing its strength and vitality. The speaker in Kitchenette Building describes dreams as "grayed in, gray" and "not strong, Like rent, feeding a wife, satisfying a man." To the speaker, the importance of dreams begin to fade as other aspects of life reveal itself as more of a priority.
"Harlem" begins by challenging dreams that are deferred by questioning "what happens." This identifies dreams as something that painfully seems unattainable. The idea of dreams is actively confronted with questioning. This is contrasted with "Kitchenette Building" which begins by accepting the fact that "we are things of dry hours and the involuntary plan." The speaker sees her situation as one that she did not voluntarily choose. She is confined to "dry hours" and "the involuntary plan," things that embody the everyday obligations in order to make a living. The speaker's struggle to make ends meet squander or weakens any dreams that she has.
In "Kitchenette Building", the speaker's feelings to how dreams affect her daily life is clear in the next transition of words as the speaker in "Kitchenette Building" compares her aspirations to that of the faint scent of "onion fumes" This suggests that her dreams of anything beyond herself and her daily life is weak, having to "fight with potatoes." The potatoes are what symbolizes her struggle to make a living, because basic necessities include food. The speaker accepts the fading of her dreams because she is more preoccupied with working. On the other hand, the speaker in Harlem portrays weakening dreams as, paradoxically, something strong. He describes weakening dreams as things that could elicit strong actions in that it could "fester like a sore - and then run" or "stink like rotten meat." The personification suggests that there is strength in dreams, even if it is deferred. The imagery also conveys strength because festered sores, the stink of rotten meet, and things that are "syrupy sweet" are all strong effects the senses.
The final lines in Kitchenette Building passively accepts the hastily dismissed idea of dreams. The speaker does not do much to dwell on the opportunity to dream, but when she does it is "not well! not for a minute!" Her preoccupation with getting the basic necessities such as "lukewarm water" which is is revealed as something of more significance to her than dreams because she "hope to get in it". This illustrates that her attitude towards deferred dreams is dismissive and passive which differs from Harlem's: active and burdensome like a "heavy load" that "sags." This allows the reader to infer that deferred dreams have such a large impact on the speaker's well-being that it can potentially explode.
Langston Hughes's "Harlem" frankly expresses the speaker's direct frustration towards dreams that are deferred as opposed to Gwendolyn Brook's "Kitchenette Building" where the speaker's attitude is not as instigating, but more accepting. The two speakers contrasts in an active vs. passive sense. Harlem defines deferred dreams as things that "dry up" or "fester like a sore." For the speaker, dreams that are postponed will end up losing its strength and vitality. The speaker in Kitchenette Building describes dreams as "grayed in, gray" and "not strong, Like rent, feeding a wife, satisfying a man." To the speaker, the importance of dreams begin to fade as other aspects of life reveal itself as more of a priority.
"Harlem" begins by challenging dreams that are deferred by questioning "what happens." This identifies dreams as something that painfully seems unattainable. The idea of dreams is actively confronted with questioning. This is contrasted with "Kitchenette Building" which begins by accepting the fact that "we are things of dry hours and the involuntary plan." The speaker sees her situation as one that she did not voluntarily choose. She is confined to "dry hours" and "the involuntary plan," things that embody the everyday obligations in order to make a living. The speaker's struggle to make ends meet squander or weakens any dreams that she has.
In "Kitchenette Building", the speaker's feelings to how dreams affect her daily life is clear in the next transition of words as the speaker in "Kitchenette Building" compares her aspirations to that of the faint scent of "onion fumes" This suggests that her dreams of anything beyond herself and her daily life is weak, having to "fight with potatoes." The potatoes are what symbolizes her struggle to make a living, because basic necessities include food. The speaker accepts the fading of her dreams because she is more preoccupied with working. On the other hand, the speaker in Harlem portrays weakening dreams as, paradoxically, something strong. He describes weakening dreams as things that could elicit strong actions in that it could "fester like a sore - and then run" or "stink like rotten meat." The personification suggests that there is strength in dreams, even if it is deferred. The imagery also conveys strength because festered sores, the stink of rotten meet, and things that are "syrupy sweet" are all strong effects the senses.
The final lines in Kitchenette Building passively accepts the hastily dismissed idea of dreams. The speaker does not do much to dwell on the opportunity to dream, but when she does it is "not well! not for a minute!" Her preoccupation with getting the basic necessities such as "lukewarm water" which is is revealed as something of more significance to her than dreams because she "hope to get in it". This illustrates that her attitude towards deferred dreams is dismissive and passive which differs from Harlem's: active and burdensome like a "heavy load" that "sags." This allows the reader to infer that deferred dreams have such a large impact on the speaker's well-being that it can potentially explode.
Discussion Questions:
1). Which linkage institution do you think is most dominant?
2). What are the top 3 largest impact on power on the government?
3). What is the next most popular political party after democrats and republicans?
4). What political party is the majority of the govt.?
5). What are some factors that cause an extended party era?
1). Which linkage institution do you think is most dominant?
2). What are the top 3 largest impact on power on the government?
3). What is the next most popular political party after democrats and republicans?
4). What political party is the majority of the govt.?
5). What are some factors that cause an extended party era?
Tuesday, November 8, 2011
Period 8
11/06/11
Questions
On My First Son
1.The phrase "right hand" connotes a significant part of the father who is the speaker of the poem. Most people are right handed and need their right hands to do many things, so it is a really important part of them. Describing his son as his right hand says that the son is really important to him, and losing the son is like losing a right hand. It could also be a connotation for the father's affection toward the son, or it could mean that the son is his first son. The denotation of "Exacted" in this poem's context is inflicted. The denotation for "just" is rightful.
A son's life and death is compares to a loan that falls due because of the son's death, the father saw it as if the son's life was a loan to him that had to be given back (death).
2. Poetry is a form of written art so calling his son his "best piece of poetry" is to say that his son is his best work of art or best creation.
3. Hope can be interpreted as a sin especially when there is "too much hope" because it can be seen as a selfish desire. Hope can also be seen as sinful because it lengthens or intensifies pain. Being too hopeful can result in bigger disappointment.
The World Is Too Much With Us
1. Relevant denotations of wreathed could be coiled, or moving in a curling motion.
2. "World" is more effective than earth because world entails everything that is included and living in the world. Earth gives off more of a feel of nature rather than everything that is in the world. There is more quantity to "world" than earth. "Getting and spending" is more effective than "selling and buying" because getting and spending sound more wasteful. Selling things and buying creates a balance; you sell things in order to gain money to buy things. Whereas getting and spending sound a lot more wasteful because you're just getting things and then spending it. The word dozing is a more heavy term than sleeping. Dozing gives the sense that you're heavily asleep, whereas sleeping just means that you're sleeping without describing the state of your sleep. Glimpses is used instead of visions because glimpses is more subtle, when visions is too strong for simple glances. Blow is used because it is a heavier word than sound. A blow indicates a heavier and more intense sound, so using the word sound isn't as specific as blow.
3. "Great God!" is more of an expletive term because it says "I'd rather be" after the exclamation.
4. Being distant from nature can trigger superficiality in the way we perceive things.
One Art
1. Denotations of lose to the context of the poem is to "suffer deprivation of", "destroy", "to miss from a customary place", "to fail to use", and to "wander from". Connotations of lose in this poem include moving away from one's home (losing a continent, two rivers and a continent). Another connotation is forgetting, when the speaker says to practice "losing farther, losing faster: places and names, and where it was you meant to travel."
2. The speaker is essentially saying that "losing things isn't hard to master" and when you do master it inadvertently, the scale of the importance of things increase. In the speaker's case it is her mom's watch, the places she's visited or come from, her lover, and her keys, and how these things "seemed filled with the intent" of being lost.
3. The personal experiences make things more honest and believable. The art of losing is not hard to master so if someone were to question it, personal experience holds merit. It's related because despite the loss, no matter how grand, one must not lose themselves because it "is not disaster."
4. These details reveal that the speaker actually isn't actually indifferent to losing things even though she suggests that we lose things. All losses can't be mastered with one art of losing, because there are different kinds of losses, not just losses of tangible things.
11/06/11
Questions
On My First Son
1.The phrase "right hand" connotes a significant part of the father who is the speaker of the poem. Most people are right handed and need their right hands to do many things, so it is a really important part of them. Describing his son as his right hand says that the son is really important to him, and losing the son is like losing a right hand. It could also be a connotation for the father's affection toward the son, or it could mean that the son is his first son. The denotation of "Exacted" in this poem's context is inflicted. The denotation for "just" is rightful.
A son's life and death is compares to a loan that falls due because of the son's death, the father saw it as if the son's life was a loan to him that had to be given back (death).
2. Poetry is a form of written art so calling his son his "best piece of poetry" is to say that his son is his best work of art or best creation.
3. Hope can be interpreted as a sin especially when there is "too much hope" because it can be seen as a selfish desire. Hope can also be seen as sinful because it lengthens or intensifies pain. Being too hopeful can result in bigger disappointment.
The World Is Too Much With Us
1. Relevant denotations of wreathed could be coiled, or moving in a curling motion.
2. "World" is more effective than earth because world entails everything that is included and living in the world. Earth gives off more of a feel of nature rather than everything that is in the world. There is more quantity to "world" than earth. "Getting and spending" is more effective than "selling and buying" because getting and spending sound more wasteful. Selling things and buying creates a balance; you sell things in order to gain money to buy things. Whereas getting and spending sound a lot more wasteful because you're just getting things and then spending it. The word dozing is a more heavy term than sleeping. Dozing gives the sense that you're heavily asleep, whereas sleeping just means that you're sleeping without describing the state of your sleep. Glimpses is used instead of visions because glimpses is more subtle, when visions is too strong for simple glances. Blow is used because it is a heavier word than sound. A blow indicates a heavier and more intense sound, so using the word sound isn't as specific as blow.
3. "Great God!" is more of an expletive term because it says "I'd rather be" after the exclamation.
4. Being distant from nature can trigger superficiality in the way we perceive things.
One Art
1. Denotations of lose to the context of the poem is to "suffer deprivation of", "destroy", "to miss from a customary place", "to fail to use", and to "wander from". Connotations of lose in this poem include moving away from one's home (losing a continent, two rivers and a continent). Another connotation is forgetting, when the speaker says to practice "losing farther, losing faster: places and names, and where it was you meant to travel."
2. The speaker is essentially saying that "losing things isn't hard to master" and when you do master it inadvertently, the scale of the importance of things increase. In the speaker's case it is her mom's watch, the places she's visited or come from, her lover, and her keys, and how these things "seemed filled with the intent" of being lost.
3. The personal experiences make things more honest and believable. The art of losing is not hard to master so if someone were to question it, personal experience holds merit. It's related because despite the loss, no matter how grand, one must not lose themselves because it "is not disaster."
4. These details reveal that the speaker actually isn't actually indifferent to losing things even though she suggests that we lose things. All losses can't be mastered with one art of losing, because there are different kinds of losses, not just losses of tangible things.
Sunday, November 6, 2011
Xin Phong
Period 3
Lab Report
The purpose of our lab was to find out if objects we drop at a certain height fall at a constant rate in air. What we did was similar to Galileo's experiment with acceleration with two falling objects. My group and I chose 4 different sized and density balls. We had a tennis ball, a ping pong ball, a golf ball, and a training ball. Two of us were at an elevated ground, throwing the ball down to the lower ground for our other teammate to observe and record the time it took for the balls to hit the ground. We repeated the process four times for each of the four balls we used. Then we took the average time and with that we found the acceleration by d=1/2(a)(t)^2. The first four measurements for the golf ball is .99, .97, 1.03, and .98. The time measurements for the ping pong balls were 1.00, 1.25, 1.36, and 1.06. The measurements for the training ball were 1.41, 1.36, 1.30, and 1.13. For the tennis ball we got the measurements of 1.17, 1.14, 1.21, and 1.13. Some possible errors could have been the amount of air resistance that was present, or the initial external forces that could have pushed the ball.
Monday, October 24, 2011
questions chapter 6
1) Do threats to the U.S such as 9/11 justify getting into the privacy citizens? (Patriot Act)
2) Which is more influential: the media, parents, or school?
3) What are other factors that can affect your political stance?
4) What political/social impact would it have if our country has a minority majority?
5. What are the different issues specific to different ethnicities?
2) Which is more influential: the media, parents, or school?
3) What are other factors that can affect your political stance?
4) What political/social impact would it have if our country has a minority majority?
5. What are the different issues specific to different ethnicities?
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