Something Interesting

So something interesting that I found out was that when a person cries , if the first drops of tears come from the right eye it's happiness , if it comes from the left eye it's pain .

Immigrants in Our Own Land

• Theme - In my opinion , the theme of the poem is hope .
• Tone - accept reality
• Mood - serious
• Devices - realization

Vocabulary List #2

• faith - confidence or trust in a person or thing
• threshold - the entrance to a house or building
• tarry - of , like or covered with tar
• resolve - to come to definite or earnest decision about
• discern - to perceive by the sight or some other sense or by the intellect
• martyr - a person who willingly suffers death rather than renounce his or her religion
• mirth - gaiety or jollity , especially when accompanied by laughter
• catechism - an elementary book , containing a summary of the principles of the Christian religion
• pious - having or showing dutiful spirit of reverence for God or an earnest wish to fulfill religious obligations
• frenzy- extreme mental agigation

What's your big question?

Why is it that the children hurt the most in family problems?

The Socratic Seminar #1/ Earth On Turtle's Back

Couldn't find these notes , but I remember me and Regina had the same question , but we both didn't understand it .

Ancient Stories

1. The language used in the story compared to the language I use in my everyday life is really similar , but also in a way that it's different because there's words used in the story like " shall " that I don't use in my everyday conversations.
2. I don't seem to understand that question , but what I have in mind is that the reason why we need to read the story more that once is because in the first time we just skim through it , we don't really pay attention to it. Once you read it a second time , you start getting what the story is actually about.
3. Couldn't find one .

Today's Class Notes ( August 17 )

• Diction - the words an author uses to tell a story
• Syntax - the way an author chooses to tell a story

Transmitter - Message - Receive

                      ( medium )

( 5% ) Verbal

Paraverbal

Nonverbal

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100%