Vocabulary #10

aficionado- a serious devotee of some particular music genre or musical performer
browbeat- intimidate
commensurate- able to be measured
diaphanous- Of such fine texture like transparent
emolument- Payment for an office/ employment
foray- A sudden raid
genre- A realistic style of painting that depicts scenes from everyday life
homily- An inspirational saying
immure- To confine within or imprison
insouciant- carefree or unconcerned

matrix- a substance, situation, or environment in which something has its origin, takes form, or is enclosed
obsequies- A funeral rite or ceremony
panache- A bunch of feathers or a plume,
persona- one's public image or personality

philippic- a bitter speech of denunciation
prurient- unusually or morbidly interested in sexual thoughts or practices
sacrosanct- Regarded as sacred
systemic- relating to systems
tendentious- Marked by a strong implicit point of view; partisan
vicissitude- A change

Tools That Change the Way We Think

How does extensive Internet/media/technology use change the way you ?

Extensive Internet, media, and technology changes the way I think, in many ways it makes me think and not think. By having technology I am able to just go online and find the answer like nothing which uses hardly any of my effort at all. It can also be used as a resource to help you gain knowledge. It teaches you things like vocabulary. Another thing it does is help you stay connected and collaborate with others. It is very helpful because it is simple and easy to use.

To Facebook or Not to Facebook?

Write about your initial impressions of Facebook, the benefits and risks associated with using Facebook, and an explanation of how reading the article and discussing in class informed your thinking.


At first it was boring because I didn't know what to do. After I had friends on Facebook began to notice that I have been on it more and more throw out the day just wasting time because nothing that is in there is important. It keeps you posted on the new things that are happening such as scholarships and collaborative groups. It helps you communicate with others throughout the world. But Facebook isn't used for that. People only use it to look at what other people are up to. Not only is it to communicate it can also be to bully people like saying rumors or doing things that embarrass them. People should only use Facebook to stay communicated with the outside world.

Who was Shakespeare ?

Do a quick search and see if you can piece together who Shakespeare was. What do we know about him, and what are we left to wonder? Write about how Shakespeare is perceived by students? How you have progressed in your understanding of his work over the years. What do you "get" now that you didn't before? What still causes you to struggle?

William Shakespeare, from England and was born on 04/23/1564. He was an English play writer and poet, which he is what he is known for. Shakespeare was son of William and Mary.  By the age 18 he was married to Anne Hathaway and had three children, Hamlet, Susanna, and Judith. He wrote 154 sonnets about lost love and 36 plays about tragedy, which have been studied and translated. He died in 1664 at the age of 53. Usually when students think of Shakespeare they think of these plays that are very difficult to understand because of the structure and the language.Analyzing his work helps a lot it helps you get the full understanding of the play. His piece of literature aren't as hard as they seem you just need to be able to analyze what is going on. the language that he uses is hard for me to understand as well as for over because it is so different then the way we speak now.

Notes on Hamlet

Explain how your thinking about the play has evolved from the time we began reading to the end of Act III. Has anything changed your mind about the plot or characters since the ghost showed up at midnight? Where do you see things going from here?

All of Shakespeare’s plays are tragedies such as Hamlet and Romeo and Juliet. they are both to different types of tragedies one is based on getting revenge on his father’s death, while the other is a romantic tragedy. As you can see he uses tragedy in his plays. Usually when you hear of Shakespeare you automatically think it is all going to be confusing and hard to understand, or at least in my opinion. It still was confusing to understand, but analyzing it really helped me understand it because I was completely confused. I believe that it also helped others get the full understanding of Hamlet. It seems as Hamlet is having more reasons to kill him than just getting revenge or justice on his father’s death.

Vocabulary #9

Definitions:

• Abortive: failing to produce the intended result
• Bruit: spread a rumor widely
• Contumelious: insulting behavior
• Dictum: a formal pronouncement from an authoritative source; a short statement that expresses a general truth or principle
• Ensconce: establish 
• Iconoclastic: characterized by attack on established beliefs
• In medias res: a narrative that begins somewhere in the middle of a story rather than the beginning
• Internecine: destructive to both sides in a conflict
• Maladroit: clumsy
• Maudlin: self-pitying or tearfully sentimental
• Modulate: controlling influence on
• Portentous: of or like a portent; done in a pompously or overly solemn manner
• Prescience: the power to see the future
• Quid pro quo: a favor granted in return for something
• Salubrious: healthy; pleasant,
• Saturnalia: the ancient Roman festival of Saturn in December
• Touchstone: a standard by which something is judged or recognized
• Traumatic: emotionally disturbing; causing psychological trauma
• Vitiate: spoil or impair the quality or efficiency of; destroy or impair the legal validity of.
• Waggish: humorous in a playful

Remix

HAMLET ACT 3 SCENE 1(Ruth and I ) did this as a group)

(King-Enrique Iglesias, Queen-Ruth Sierra, Hamlet-Channing Tatum, Ophelia-Rocio Reyes, Polonius-Bruce ,Rosencrantz (1) and Guildenstern(2)-Twin Brothers)

Enrique-Why is Channing so confusing, what has gotten into that boy's mind?

Twin brothers- Channing is just plain weird. He doesn't show his emotions towards anything. The way he acted was indifferent to us.

Ruth- Well, was he at least being respectful?

Twin 1- A gentleman, I shall say.

Enrique- Thanks for informing me, my fellow good nosy twins. Now if I may asked go and see if there's anything I need to know about with Channing.

Twin Brothers- We sure will.

Twin Brothers exit.

Enrique-Looks like Channing is just suffering for love.

Ruth- This behavior of his is either for the love that he has for Rocio or his father's death. But as you all know I have remarried to his uncle, I doubt his behavior is beacuse of this. You know Rocio, it's probably the beautiness that brings Channing's wild side.

Rocio- It probably is.

Ruth walks away.

Bruce to Rocio-Rocio, hold on to this book. This book is the one that will help you throughout your whole situation.

Bruce-Shhh! I hear Channing coming! Let's withdraw Enrique afterall we will find out later on and we do know the "situation", might as well hear it.

Channing enters.

Channing to Rocio-I need to tell you something.

Rocio-What is it my lovely man.

Channing-Well how would I say this.....in a short term......umm my heart is no longer yours.

Rocio-How could you? Why would you ever lied to me? Why didn't you tell me?

Channing-Umm you never asked...you should of known better. I never loved you.

Rocio-(**sigh**)

Channing-Where's your father?

Rocio-Home.

Channing- Good.

Rocio-Oh for the love of god, help him!

Channing-We are done! Any wise man knows perfectly that he should never marry a woman just like you! Go on with your life, become a nun if you must. Do as you please, I can careless.

Channing exits.

Rocio-Channing has something in him that makes him so perfect. He has no clue of what kind of a man he is, I just wished he knew what I see in him.

Bruce and Enrique come out.

Enrique- Wow, that was intense. But Rocio is not the cause of his behavior. (thinking in his head) oh shoot! what if he finds out the truth and comes at me.

Bruce-Did you see what I just saw? I truly believe the cause for Channing's behavior is Rocio.

Enrique-Yeah sure whatever you say Bruce.(looks down at the ground)

The Fin

vocabulary #8

Abeyance: temporary inactivity

Ambivalent: simultaneous/contradictory feelings

Beleaguer: trouble

Carte blanche: Complete freedom to one
cataclysm: A large-scale and violent event

Debauch: corrupt.

Éclat: enthusiastic approval

Fastidious: difficult to please

Gambol: Run or jump playfully

Imbue: influence as if by dyeing

Inchoate: being only partly in existence or operation

Lampoon: publicly criticize by using sarcasm

Malleable: easily influenced

Nemesis: inescapable agent of someone's /something's downfall

Opt: to make a choice especially in favor of something

Philistine: person guided by materialism

Picaresque: being a type of fiction dealing with the episodic adventures of a usually roguish protagonist

Queasy: causing nausea

Savior-faire: the ability to say or do the right thing

Mid-term Reflection

a) What went well?  
-Overall the midterm went well. I knew most of the material and I was satisfied with my matching.
b) What didn't go well?  
-The last section of the Midterm was the hardest for me. I was beginning to questioning my answers. Also I was beginning  to mixed up the definitions.
c) How much of the content will stick with you?  
- I'm sure that at least half of the words will stick with me, but I might need to look over my flashcards. I mostly likely will forget some words but I can always go back.
d) What can you learn from the experience to improve for next time?
- I think I did a good job studying but I could have studied more. So I wont be reluctant on my choice of the definitions. All of the words and definitions made me confused especially if the words were similar.