Vocab #7

1.Ad Infinitum-Repitition
We should always do important processes ad infinitum. 

2.Apportion-To assign
They did not apportion blame to anyone.

3.Bona Fide-Sincerely
The court will assume that they acted bona fide.

Vocabulary Midterm Reflection

A. What went well for me on this test was that I felt like I did good and I think I earned a good grade.
B. The thing that did not go well was that the ones I did not know very well were the ones on the test for part 2.
C. About half of the context will stick with me because we are constantly getting new words.
D. The thing that I learned from this experience to help me improve for the next one is to just study the words every week so that way I do not have to study a lot of words before the midterm.

LAQ #1

 General

1.)The plot of The Hunger Games is that Katniss Everdeen has volunteered to be a contestant for the hunger games because her younger sister Prim was chosen. Throughout the Games she is doing all that she can to survive with the help of Peeta who is the boy from her district. When all seems lost she pulls herself together and becomes the winner of the Hunger Games with Peeta. Katniss also does not know what she will do ounce she gets back and she is concerned that she has fallen in love with Peeta when she only pretended to in order to make people like her. The narrator fulfills the author's purpose of the story because she explains everything well and makes sure that the ideas of the main characters are heard from there thoughts and their actions.

from thoreau's walden

Resignation-An act of retiring a position.
Sublime-Excellence
Clout-Heavy blow
Superflous-Unnecessary
Frittered-Waist of time
Swath-Cut a path

Vocab Midterm Review

My midterm review and strategy for my vocab should help me do well on the test. I am first going to go over all of the vocab and figure out which ones I know and need to work on. After that I am going to begin by breaking the ones I need help on and dividing them equally so that way I go over all of them before Friday.

Dream Within a Dream

2. While I was on my walk I was thinking of a few different things. The first thing that came into my head was baseball. I was thinking how I could better myself so that way I become a better better. The next thing to come into my head was how quiet everything was when I was walking by myself. It was very peaceful. I was also thinking of my Cousin Serinna who is in Palm Springs. Her husband is in the Marines there and  I was just thinking and hoping that they both stay safe. The last thing to come to my head was the camping trip we always take and  I was just thinking of how fun it was.

Dream Within A Dream

From the poem I got that the author puts himself in the poem. The author also puts his own feelings and talks about them in the poem. The poem is also about nature and it makes us feel like everything is calm. It is also about love because he is willing to put his personal feelings inside the poem.