THE PEEVED PEDESTRIAN

I think that Ray Bradbury wrote this book to help us sort of figure out what our future would be like. In his story he foreshadowed many things like flat screen TV's and ear buds. He speaks in a very informative tone and that helps us to understand the story better.

SPRING VOCAB #1

Proboscis- any long and flexible snout.
Pantomime- the art of conveying emotions, actions and feelings by gestures without speech.
Proclivities- natural or habitual inclination or tendency.
Centrifuge- an apparatus that rotates at a high speed and separates substances of different densities.
Odious- deserving or causing hatred.
Jargon- confused unintelligible language.
Ravenous- very eager or greedy for food.
Parlor- entry way into a house.
Stagnant- showing no activity.
Cacophony- harshness in the sound of words or phrases.
Tamped- to pack down tightly.
Flourish- grow or develop in a healthy or vigorous way.
Plato- an area of fairly level high ground.
Rollick- an act or behave in a jovial and exuberant fashion.
Asylum- shelter or protection from danger.

FAHRENHEIT 451

1. One thing that I learned is that he predicted that television would destroy our interest in reading.
2. Reading is now illegal.
3. You are not allowed to own a book at all.
4. If you are found with one in your house the fire department will come to your house and burn down the entire house.
5. There are a bunch of old scholars and teachers that have remembered parts of different books so that they can preserve them.

THEME FOR ENGLISH 3

1. For me I think I am the person my teachers think I am, in most of my classes at least.
2. I believe we can be ourselves  as we pursue knowledge and find our place in the world because if we weren't oursleves then we would all be the same and in this world that we live in today, that wouldn't work at all.
3. Some elemts that I have to check at the gate before I go to school is my quick reaction to say something back when somebody corrects me or tells me something that I don't like. So when I get to school I know that when a teacher corrects me it's for the best and I know that they are probably right.
4. Something that I could add to the class to help enhance the learning experiences of others...to be honest that's a tough question because I don't know what I could do to help out the WHOLE class but I do know that I could help out the people that I sit by and I know they can help me out when I dont understand something.
5. Some elements of me that I think are valued by the school and the "powers-that-be" is my cooperation that I show when I am asked to do solething.
6. Something that I am compelled to keep private are my inner thoughts. I think it is imprtant to keep some of those thoughts private and not tell anyone.
7. I think we are able to take ownership of our learning process and demonstrate what we know ultimately because we ourselves control our own lives and no one can ever take that away from us. We can especially do this in your class because unlike in most classes you give us many opertunities to express ourselves and take control of how we want to learn.

SPRING SEMESTER PLAN 1

My plan is to get my blog noticed by people outside of this school. If I do that I know I may have helped somebody out with a certain subject  and gave them an explanation of something from a different perspective. That would really motivate to me to do my best, not only in this class but in everything that I do in life.

Spring Post 1: Music As Literature

To me I believe that you can consider music to be literature. We define literature as a piece of work that was made by an author.  To be honest I don't think that there is a difference between a novel, a poem, a rap, a song, an opera, and a symphony, because of the fact that they all tell a story I some way. It was made by an author and was made to be either heard or read and that is what literature is.