JOHNNY CYBERPUNK:

Oops. Turns out this never posted, just saved as a draft. Sorry : I read most of the story, but I didn't understand it. People had devices in them? With other people controlling them? Toootallllyyy confusing if you ask me. People are totally different in that story then we are now in life. Girls definitely dress different in the story then we do now.. But what is the point of this story really? It's kinda like these people are computers, they have a device in them and other people are controlling them.. I guess you can say more like a bunch of robots?

Brave new world: essay reflection:

Well, first off I definitely should have finished the book. Not reading the whole book screwed me up. Also another key thing I need to make sure I do before an essay is understand what I have read about the book. If I don't get something I just keep reading and figure I will understand it later on in the novel but really I just need to ask questions because They dont always get answered by just moving on

MAPLAN: Modernist Author Project

Project?: News Report/ Broadcast
Name?: Daily Modernist News
Channel?: Channel 72
We will be acting it out
Include background music based on what they liked
Interview the authors
start with the Credo: words to live by/ life philosophy
Genre?: Report on a novel (what it's talking about)
Report on the person behind the book:
Life circumstances
Behaviors
Ideas
Religion & Politics
Childhood/ Family Background
Previous Work
Personality
Ask random people on what their input is
Have a "commercial" with one author talking about themselves and how they "help the community".
Pressing Question?: Do it at the end (During Credits).... Have the question at the end and have the author answer it.

Back-up ideas in case this doesn't work!!!
Make a group story about the authors.
Write an essay with links to other websites with great information on the author.

"The First Seven Years" by Bernard Malamud

Feld agreed for Sobel to talk to his daughter Miriam and then everything changed, before he got the approval, Sobel left his job because he thought he wouldn't have a chance with the shoemakers daughter. But then after Sobel finds out he has the shoemakers approval, he went from being very depressed to the happiest guy and he then returned to work. This story was full of unexpected events. I originally thought that Miriam and max were going to last, but I guess I was wrong.

spring vocabulary #2

1. Praetorian: Resembling the Roman guards.
2. Sieve: Utensil with a meshed surface for straining.
3. Veiled: Covered or in disguise.
4. Saccharine: Artificially sweet.
5. Harlequin: Character in a comic theater.
6. Toil: Hard and continuous work.
7. Delinquence: Neglectful; failing.
8. Jibbering: To move relatively sidewise or backward instead of forward.
9. Insidious: Intended to entrap or beguile.
10. Strewn: To let fall in separate pieces or particles over a surface.
11. Patronage: Act of buying something.
12. Cadence: Pace
13. Suffused: To spread through or over
14. Centrifuge: Machine that separates substances by spinning fast.
15. Dentifrice: Toothpaste.
16. Leisure: Time free from work or duty.
17. Vessel: Large craft.
18. Phonograph: Record player.
19. Profusion: Abundance of

vocabulary feb. 19

• brouhaha: A noisy and overexcited critical response, display of interest, or trail of publicity

• cloy: Disgust or sicken (someone) with an excess of sweetness, richness, or sentiment

• demeanor: Outward behavior or bearing

• deference: Humble submission and respect.

• enigmatic: Difficult to interpret or understand

• definitive: serving to provide a final solution or to end a situation; serving to define or

specify precisely

• bumptious: Self-assertive or proud to an irritating degree.

• choleric: bad-tempered

• bulwark: solid wall-like structure raised for defense

• curtail: To cut short or reduce

• adamant: extremely hard substance

• profligate: Recklessly extravagant or wasteful in the use of resources.

• mawkish: Sentimental in a feeble or sickly way

• thwart: Prevent (someone) from accomplishing something

• onus: Used to refer to something that is one's duty or responsibility

• requisite: Made necessary by particular circumstances or regulations.

• mollify:Appease the anger or anxiety of (someone).

• sartorial: Of or relating to tailoring, clothes, or style of dress

• presentiment: An intuitive feeling about the future

• impromptu: Prompted by the occasion rather than being planned in advance

• forbearance: refraining from the enforcement of something

• remit: Cancel or refrain from exacting or inflicting

Fahrenheit 451

Notes Of The Day:



          - Utopian: idea that the future is perfect.
          - Dystopian: negative view of the future.