1- WHAT DO YOU THINK MADAME LOISEL'S LIFE WILL BE LIKE NOW THAT SHE HAS PAID OFF HER DEPTH AND FOUND OUT THE REAL VALUE OF THE NECKLACE?
I think Madame Loisel's life will be like now that she has paid off her depth and found out the real value of the necklace is maybe she got married with another rich man but now she will apreciate all the real value that she didn't before because, the necklace gave her an example not to be greedy and vain with her self having a new experience of how hard work is.
2- DO YOU THINK MONEY CAN BRING HAPINESS?
I think money can not bring because, when rich people have everything for life they don't really know the real value of it and they don't appreciate things knowing where hard work come from.
Wednesday, February 27, 2008
Tuesday, February 26, 2008
DEFINITIONS AND SENTENCES:
1- TO SCRUB: To rub hard with a brush, cloth, etc, or against a rough surface in washing.
- Last night my sister scrub the wall with pink color.
2- WINKED: Extremely troublesome or dangerous.
- The snow storm was so winked.
3- CINDER: A partially or mostly burned piece of coal, wood, etc.
- Forest workers cinder all the wood last night.
4- SPUNKY: Plucky; spirited.
- The darkness of the room is spunky.
5- TO TRIM: To put into a neat or orderly condition by clipping, paring, pruning etc.
- I went outside to trim a hedge.
6- OCCASION: A particular time, esp.as marked by certain circumstances or accurrences.
- They met on three occasions.
7- ORPHAN: A child who has lost both parents through death,or,less commonly, one parent.
- My little cousin is orpan since she was three years old.
8- CASSEROLE: A small dish with a handle, used in chemical laboratories.
- My mom use a big casserole to cock.
9- TO SCRUMBLE: To strike the foot against something,as in walking or running, so as to stagger or fall; trip.
- I always strumble over the words.
10- PROFILE: The outline or contour of the human face,esp. The face viewed from one side.
- My space has a profile.
LANGUAGES AND LANGUAGE DIVERSITY:
A VOCABULARY:
systems, characters, form, meaningful
borrow, specializes, refer, to, divided
past, rate, estimate, linguists
1- THERE ARE MANY DIFFERENT WRITING systems THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE USES THE ROMAN ALPHABET.
2- A DERMATOLOGIST IS A DOCTOR WHO specialist IN PROBLEMS OF THE SKIN.
3- THE UNITED STATES IS divided INTO FIFTY STATES.
4 IN THE past FIFTY YEARS,THE POPULATION OF THE WORLD HAS INCREASED RAPIDLY.
5- CAN I borrow YOUR PEN FOR JUST A MINUTE?
6- IT'S MUCH EASIER TO form WET SNOW INTO BALLS THAN TO USE DRY SNOW.
7-IN SOME COUNTRIES, STUDENTS refer THEIR PROFESSORS BY THEIR FIRST NAMES.
8- NOAM CHOMSKY,A PROFESSOR AT MIT,IS ONE OF THE MOST FAMOUS meaningful IN THE WORLD.
9- A TEAM OF WORKERS CAN BUILD A CAR AT A FASTER rate THAN PEOPLE WORKING ALONE.
10- THE WORD diversity HAS NINE characters.
B VOCABULARY:
1-THE BEST WAY TO BECOME linguistics IS TO LIVE IN A FOREIGN COUNTRY.
2- HIS FRIENDS BEGAN TO WORRY ABOUT HIM WHEN HE SAID THAT THERE WAS NO LONGER ANYTHING meaningful IN HIS LIFE.
3- IF YOU WANT TO STUDY HOW PEOPLE LEARN LANGUAGES, YOU SHOULD TAKE A linguistic COURSE.
4- MOTORCYCLISTS WEAR HELMETS TO PREVENT brain INJURY IN AN ACCIDENT.
5- I DON'T KNOW THE EXACT POPULATION OF MY CITY, BUT I estimate THAT THERE ARE ABOUT 2 MILLION PEOPLE.
6- MY DENTIST SAID THAT I NEED TO GO TO A specialist TO GET MY TOOTH FIXED.
7- DURING THE PRESIDENT'S SPEECH, SHE MADE reference TO AN IMPORTANT NEW MEDICAL STUDY.
8- THE COMPUTER system FOR THE WHOLE OFFICE WAS DOWN FOR TWO DAYS.
9- WHEN YOU EXERCISE, YOUR HEART rate GOES UP.
10- WE HAD SUCH A LARGE CLASS THAT THE INSTRUCTOR HAD TO divide IT UP INTO THREE GROUPS.
C VOCABULARY REVIEW: ANTONYMS:
1- HARMLESS j. hazardous
2- INSTRUCTOR e. student
3- ONCE IN A WHILE d.often
4- LIFT k.drop
5- MAYBE c.certainly
6- TERRIFY g.calm
7- EMPTY b.full
8- POSITIVE a.negative
9- DEMAND f.request
10-TAKE OFF h.land
E COMPREHENSION QUESTIONS:
1- WHAT IS THE DEFINITION OF A LANGUAGE?
A definition of a language is a systems of sounds,gestures,or characters used to communicate ideas and feelings.
2- WHAT IS A SIGN LANGUAGE?
A sign language is a method of communication which gestures do the work.
3- IN ENGLISH, THE BASIC ORDER OF WORDS IN YOUR FIRST LANGUAGE? OBJECT. WHAT IS THE BASIC ORDER OF WORDS IN YOUR FIRST LANGUAGE?
The basic order of words in my first language is expressed through a system of characters.In spoken languages, meaning is expressed through a system of sounds and rules for combining those sounds.
4- WHAT IS AN EXAMPLE OF BORROWED WORD?
An example of a borrowed word is tomato.
5- WHAT IS AN EXAMPLE OF AN INVENTED WORD?
The English word byte was invented by a computer specialists.
6- WHAT IS ONE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN THE AUSTRONESIAN LANGUAGE FAMILY AND THE INDO- EUROPEAN LANGUAGE FAMILY.
The difference between is that Austronesian family contains at least 500 languages and the Indo- European language family contains fifty- five languages.
7- WHY IS IT USEFUL TO GROUP LANGUAGES INTO FAMILIES?
It is useful to group languages into families because there are different groups and you compare the similarities between the languages.
8- SHOULD WE TRY TO KEEP LANGUAGES ALIVE?WHY OR WHY NOT?
We should keep languages alive because if not then by the time past they will die and that language it would not communicate that culture.
9- WHY IS IT MORE DIFFICULT FOR ADULTS THAN CHILDREN TO LEARN A SECOND LANGUAGE?
It is more difficult to adults than children to learn a second language because they use the same size of their brain and dults learn their first language because they already learn their first language.
F PARAPHRASING:
1- THERE ARE ABOUT 150 AMERICAN INDIAN LANGUAGES SPOKEN TODAY. THESE LANGUAGES HAVE MANY DIFFERENCES AMONG THEM AND HAVE BEEN DIVIDED INTO MORE THAN FIFTY LANGUAGE FAMILIES.
There are about 150 American Indian languages around teh world spoken today.Thas why these languages have many differences among them and have been divided into more than fifty language families.
2- MOST CHLIDREN LEARN THEIR FIRST LANGUAGE EASILY AND SOMETIMES OTHER LANGUAGES AS WELL. ADULTS OFTEN MUST WORK HARDER AT LEARNING A SECOND LANGUAGE.
Childrens attend to leran their first language easily and sometimes other languages as well.Adults frequently must work harder at learning a second language.
G MAIN IDEA:
1- WRITE A SENTENCE FOR THE MAIN IDEA FOR PARAGRAPH 4.
Languages are always changing, trough words borrowed or changing the meaning of words.
2-WRITE A SENTENCE FOR THE MAIN IDEA FOR PARAGRAPH.
Today,50% of the world's population speaks one of the top fiften languages.
i WORD FORMS: ACTIVE AND PASSIVE.
1- THE LECTURE ON SAFE DRIVING WAS VERY instructive.
2- Honesty IS AN IMPORTANT CHARACTERISTIC FOR SOMEONE WORKING IN A BANK.
3- THAT MYSTERY PROGRAM WAS VERY imaginative. I DIDN'T KNOW HOW IT WAS GOING TO END UNTIL THE LAST MINUTE.
4- THE TELEPHONE invent BY ALEXANDER GRAHAM BELL.
5- THE MINISTER OF HEALTH DIDN'T LIKE SOME OF THE QUESTIONS THAT THE interviewer ASKED HIM. HE interview BY A FOREIGN JOURNALIST.
6- MARGE STARTED A FIGHT WITH HER SISTER. THIS WAS VERY characteristically OF MARGE; SHE IS USUALLY NICE TO HER SISTER.
7- BARBARA IS GOING TO STUDY psychology. THEN SHE WILL WORK WITH PEOPLE WHO HAVE psychological PROBLEMS.
8- DAN beg HIS FRIEND TO LEND HIM HIS CAR.
9- MR.THOMPSON IS A DEPENDABLE PERSON. YOU KNOW THAT HE WILL DO WHAT HE SAYS. YOU CAN depend (on) HIM.
J NOUN SUBSTITUTES:
1) Page 134 line 15 it: word.
2) Page 134 line 19 they: languages.
3) Page 134 line 30 they: scientists.
4) Page 135 line 61 they: adults.
5) Page 135 line 68 they: languages.
K ARTICLE:
1- SOME LANGUAGES ARE USED BY MILLIONS OF PEOPLE.
2- MANY HEARING- IMPAIRED PEOPLE USE SIGN LANGUAGES, IN WHICH GESTURES DO THE WORK OF SOUND SYSTEM OF SPOKEN LANGUAGES.
3- WORD ORDER IS MORE IMPORTANT IN ENGLISH THAN IT IS IN SOME OTHER LANGUAGES SUCH AS RUSSIAN.
4- The ENGLISH WORD BYTE WAS INVENTED BY COMPUTER SPECIALISTS IN 1959.
5- ENGLISH WORD MEAT ONCE REFERRED TO FOOD IN GENERAL.
6- EXPERTS ESTIMATE THAT, ON AVERAGE, THE WORLD LOSES a LANGUAGE EVERY TWO WEEKS.
7- TODAY, 50% OF the WORLD'S POPULATION SPEAKS ONE OF the TOP FIFTEEN LANGUAGES.
8- RECENT RESEARCH INDICATES THAT a CHILD'S BRAIN LEARNS a NEW LANGUAGE DIFFERENTLY THAN an ADULT'S BRAIN DOES.
I TWO- WORD VERBS:
1- U.N. stand for UNITED NATIONS.
2- TOM HAD A BIG PARTY. AFTER WARDS, HE HAD TO clean up THE HOUSE. THREE OF HIS FRIENDS STAYED TO help out.
3- ALI STUDIED AT NEW YORK UNIVERSITY FOR FIVE YEARS. WHEN HE LEFT, TWENTY PEOPLE WENT TO THE AIRPORT TO pick him up.
4- LET'S GO TO THE PARTY TOGETHER. I'LL pick YOU up AT 9:00.
M GUIDED WRITING:
1- COMPARE YOUR FIRST LANGUAGE TO THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE. HOW ARE THEY SIMILAR? HOW ARE THEY DIFFERENT?
My first language is Spanish it is similar to the English because, the meaning is expressed through a system of characters and rules for combining those characters. On the other hand they are different since, English is pronounced as it is and written in the different hearing sound. However, Spanish is written as it is sound. Moreover it is different by the ascent of pronunciation.
2- WHAT IS EASY ABOUT LEARNING A SECOND LANGUAGE? WHAT IS DIFFICULT?
The main idea about learning a second language is listening, reading, and using the language. The difficult part is that it takes time for the brain to memorize a new language.
systems, characters, form, meaningful
borrow, specializes, refer, to, divided
past, rate, estimate, linguists
1- THERE ARE MANY DIFFERENT WRITING systems THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE USES THE ROMAN ALPHABET.
2- A DERMATOLOGIST IS A DOCTOR WHO specialist IN PROBLEMS OF THE SKIN.
3- THE UNITED STATES IS divided INTO FIFTY STATES.
4 IN THE past FIFTY YEARS,THE POPULATION OF THE WORLD HAS INCREASED RAPIDLY.
5- CAN I borrow YOUR PEN FOR JUST A MINUTE?
6- IT'S MUCH EASIER TO form WET SNOW INTO BALLS THAN TO USE DRY SNOW.
7-IN SOME COUNTRIES, STUDENTS refer THEIR PROFESSORS BY THEIR FIRST NAMES.
8- NOAM CHOMSKY,A PROFESSOR AT MIT,IS ONE OF THE MOST FAMOUS meaningful IN THE WORLD.
9- A TEAM OF WORKERS CAN BUILD A CAR AT A FASTER rate THAN PEOPLE WORKING ALONE.
10- THE WORD diversity HAS NINE characters.
B VOCABULARY:
1-THE BEST WAY TO BECOME linguistics IS TO LIVE IN A FOREIGN COUNTRY.
2- HIS FRIENDS BEGAN TO WORRY ABOUT HIM WHEN HE SAID THAT THERE WAS NO LONGER ANYTHING meaningful IN HIS LIFE.
3- IF YOU WANT TO STUDY HOW PEOPLE LEARN LANGUAGES, YOU SHOULD TAKE A linguistic COURSE.
4- MOTORCYCLISTS WEAR HELMETS TO PREVENT brain INJURY IN AN ACCIDENT.
5- I DON'T KNOW THE EXACT POPULATION OF MY CITY, BUT I estimate THAT THERE ARE ABOUT 2 MILLION PEOPLE.
6- MY DENTIST SAID THAT I NEED TO GO TO A specialist TO GET MY TOOTH FIXED.
7- DURING THE PRESIDENT'S SPEECH, SHE MADE reference TO AN IMPORTANT NEW MEDICAL STUDY.
8- THE COMPUTER system FOR THE WHOLE OFFICE WAS DOWN FOR TWO DAYS.
9- WHEN YOU EXERCISE, YOUR HEART rate GOES UP.
10- WE HAD SUCH A LARGE CLASS THAT THE INSTRUCTOR HAD TO divide IT UP INTO THREE GROUPS.
C VOCABULARY REVIEW: ANTONYMS:
1- HARMLESS j. hazardous
2- INSTRUCTOR e. student
3- ONCE IN A WHILE d.often
4- LIFT k.drop
5- MAYBE c.certainly
6- TERRIFY g.calm
7- EMPTY b.full
8- POSITIVE a.negative
9- DEMAND f.request
10-TAKE OFF h.land
E COMPREHENSION QUESTIONS:
1- WHAT IS THE DEFINITION OF A LANGUAGE?
A definition of a language is a systems of sounds,gestures,or characters used to communicate ideas and feelings.
2- WHAT IS A SIGN LANGUAGE?
A sign language is a method of communication which gestures do the work.
3- IN ENGLISH, THE BASIC ORDER OF WORDS IN YOUR FIRST LANGUAGE? OBJECT. WHAT IS THE BASIC ORDER OF WORDS IN YOUR FIRST LANGUAGE?
The basic order of words in my first language is expressed through a system of characters.In spoken languages, meaning is expressed through a system of sounds and rules for combining those sounds.
4- WHAT IS AN EXAMPLE OF BORROWED WORD?
An example of a borrowed word is tomato.
5- WHAT IS AN EXAMPLE OF AN INVENTED WORD?
The English word byte was invented by a computer specialists.
6- WHAT IS ONE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN THE AUSTRONESIAN LANGUAGE FAMILY AND THE INDO- EUROPEAN LANGUAGE FAMILY.
The difference between is that Austronesian family contains at least 500 languages and the Indo- European language family contains fifty- five languages.
7- WHY IS IT USEFUL TO GROUP LANGUAGES INTO FAMILIES?
It is useful to group languages into families because there are different groups and you compare the similarities between the languages.
8- SHOULD WE TRY TO KEEP LANGUAGES ALIVE?WHY OR WHY NOT?
We should keep languages alive because if not then by the time past they will die and that language it would not communicate that culture.
9- WHY IS IT MORE DIFFICULT FOR ADULTS THAN CHILDREN TO LEARN A SECOND LANGUAGE?
It is more difficult to adults than children to learn a second language because they use the same size of their brain and dults learn their first language because they already learn their first language.
F PARAPHRASING:
1- THERE ARE ABOUT 150 AMERICAN INDIAN LANGUAGES SPOKEN TODAY. THESE LANGUAGES HAVE MANY DIFFERENCES AMONG THEM AND HAVE BEEN DIVIDED INTO MORE THAN FIFTY LANGUAGE FAMILIES.
There are about 150 American Indian languages around teh world spoken today.Thas why these languages have many differences among them and have been divided into more than fifty language families.
2- MOST CHLIDREN LEARN THEIR FIRST LANGUAGE EASILY AND SOMETIMES OTHER LANGUAGES AS WELL. ADULTS OFTEN MUST WORK HARDER AT LEARNING A SECOND LANGUAGE.
Childrens attend to leran their first language easily and sometimes other languages as well.Adults frequently must work harder at learning a second language.
G MAIN IDEA:
1- WRITE A SENTENCE FOR THE MAIN IDEA FOR PARAGRAPH 4.
Languages are always changing, trough words borrowed or changing the meaning of words.
2-WRITE A SENTENCE FOR THE MAIN IDEA FOR PARAGRAPH.
Today,50% of the world's population speaks one of the top fiften languages.
i WORD FORMS: ACTIVE AND PASSIVE.
1- THE LECTURE ON SAFE DRIVING WAS VERY instructive.
2- Honesty IS AN IMPORTANT CHARACTERISTIC FOR SOMEONE WORKING IN A BANK.
3- THAT MYSTERY PROGRAM WAS VERY imaginative. I DIDN'T KNOW HOW IT WAS GOING TO END UNTIL THE LAST MINUTE.
4- THE TELEPHONE invent BY ALEXANDER GRAHAM BELL.
5- THE MINISTER OF HEALTH DIDN'T LIKE SOME OF THE QUESTIONS THAT THE interviewer ASKED HIM. HE interview BY A FOREIGN JOURNALIST.
6- MARGE STARTED A FIGHT WITH HER SISTER. THIS WAS VERY characteristically OF MARGE; SHE IS USUALLY NICE TO HER SISTER.
7- BARBARA IS GOING TO STUDY psychology. THEN SHE WILL WORK WITH PEOPLE WHO HAVE psychological PROBLEMS.
8- DAN beg HIS FRIEND TO LEND HIM HIS CAR.
9- MR.THOMPSON IS A DEPENDABLE PERSON. YOU KNOW THAT HE WILL DO WHAT HE SAYS. YOU CAN depend (on) HIM.
J NOUN SUBSTITUTES:
1) Page 134 line 15 it: word.
2) Page 134 line 19 they: languages.
3) Page 134 line 30 they: scientists.
4) Page 135 line 61 they: adults.
5) Page 135 line 68 they: languages.
K ARTICLE:
1- SOME LANGUAGES ARE USED BY MILLIONS OF PEOPLE.
2- MANY HEARING- IMPAIRED PEOPLE USE SIGN LANGUAGES, IN WHICH GESTURES DO THE WORK OF SOUND SYSTEM OF SPOKEN LANGUAGES.
3- WORD ORDER IS MORE IMPORTANT IN ENGLISH THAN IT IS IN SOME OTHER LANGUAGES SUCH AS RUSSIAN.
4- The ENGLISH WORD BYTE WAS INVENTED BY COMPUTER SPECIALISTS IN 1959.
5- ENGLISH WORD MEAT ONCE REFERRED TO FOOD IN GENERAL.
6- EXPERTS ESTIMATE THAT, ON AVERAGE, THE WORLD LOSES a LANGUAGE EVERY TWO WEEKS.
7- TODAY, 50% OF the WORLD'S POPULATION SPEAKS ONE OF the TOP FIFTEEN LANGUAGES.
8- RECENT RESEARCH INDICATES THAT a CHILD'S BRAIN LEARNS a NEW LANGUAGE DIFFERENTLY THAN an ADULT'S BRAIN DOES.
I TWO- WORD VERBS:
1- U.N. stand for UNITED NATIONS.
2- TOM HAD A BIG PARTY. AFTER WARDS, HE HAD TO clean up THE HOUSE. THREE OF HIS FRIENDS STAYED TO help out.
3- ALI STUDIED AT NEW YORK UNIVERSITY FOR FIVE YEARS. WHEN HE LEFT, TWENTY PEOPLE WENT TO THE AIRPORT TO pick him up.
4- LET'S GO TO THE PARTY TOGETHER. I'LL pick YOU up AT 9:00.
M GUIDED WRITING:
1- COMPARE YOUR FIRST LANGUAGE TO THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE. HOW ARE THEY SIMILAR? HOW ARE THEY DIFFERENT?
My first language is Spanish it is similar to the English because, the meaning is expressed through a system of characters and rules for combining those characters. On the other hand they are different since, English is pronounced as it is and written in the different hearing sound. However, Spanish is written as it is sound. Moreover it is different by the ascent of pronunciation.
2- WHAT IS EASY ABOUT LEARNING A SECOND LANGUAGE? WHAT IS DIFFICULT?
The main idea about learning a second language is listening, reading, and using the language. The difficult part is that it takes time for the brain to memorize a new language.
Wednesday, February 20, 2008
CHARACTER ANALYSIS
MADAME LOISEL(CHARACTERISTICS):
Madame Loisel was one of those pretty and charming young creatures who sometimes are born, as if by a slip of fate, into a poor family.She had no dowry, no expectations, no way of being know, understood , loved, married by any rich and clasic man; so she let herself be married to a little clerk of the Ministry of public Instruction, she dressed plainly because, she could not dress well, but she was unhappy as if she had really fallen from a higher station. However after she spend 10 years for just to replace the necklace became uggly and poor again and learned a lesson from her own mistake not to be vain and greedy with her self.
Madame Loisel was one of those pretty and charming young creatures who sometimes are born, as if by a slip of fate, into a poor family.She had no dowry, no expectations, no way of being know, understood , loved, married by any rich and clasic man; so she let herself be married to a little clerk of the Ministry of public Instruction, she dressed plainly because, she could not dress well, but she was unhappy as if she had really fallen from a higher station. However after she spend 10 years for just to replace the necklace became uggly and poor again and learned a lesson from her own mistake not to be vain and greedy with her self.
Wednesday, February 13, 2008
UNDERGROUND RAILROAD:
The Underground Railroad was a highly organized system.
FALSE.
Many of those involved in the Underground Railroad were,
Free blacks.
Why would the escape of a small percentage of slaves cause so much trouble?
The owners would not let them go and they new who were their slaves.
Harriet Tubman was not important to the Underground Railroad.
FALSE
How did the Fugitive Slave Law of 1850 affect escaped slaves?
Anyone caught helping the runaways could be prosecuted. The runaway slaves themselves were no longer safe just getting to the northern states. Their journeys suddenly became longer and even more dangerous. Now they had to make it across the border to Canada.
The first Canadian African American newspaper was produced by,
Josiah Henson
What might have happened if the Underground Railroad hadn't existed?
It might happen that the slaves wouldn't have no way to scape since the Railroad was the only secret to run away.
Why did so many escaped slaves move to Canada?
The Underground Railroad didn't stop until it reached the border.
If I were a slave who was planing to runaway the kind of plans that I would make is come through my mind is the "Undergroung railroad" since that was the word and the truth that all slaves believed. The second plan is follow the instructions of those who guided the runing aways along the highly secret system of the underground railroad which call themselves "conductors". I would know when the time was right to leave at night spreading on the wind down to the riverbank resting without fear covering my selflike a blanket as I skept meaning that nobody could buy or sell me. The river might be covered in fog and hidden deep in the mist on the shore, a running away could clearly hear the bell that I could follow its ringing all the way over and to a safe house.
FALSE.
Many of those involved in the Underground Railroad were,
Free blacks.
Why would the escape of a small percentage of slaves cause so much trouble?
The owners would not let them go and they new who were their slaves.
Harriet Tubman was not important to the Underground Railroad.
FALSE
How did the Fugitive Slave Law of 1850 affect escaped slaves?
Anyone caught helping the runaways could be prosecuted. The runaway slaves themselves were no longer safe just getting to the northern states. Their journeys suddenly became longer and even more dangerous. Now they had to make it across the border to Canada.
The first Canadian African American newspaper was produced by,
Josiah Henson
What might have happened if the Underground Railroad hadn't existed?
It might happen that the slaves wouldn't have no way to scape since the Railroad was the only secret to run away.
Why did so many escaped slaves move to Canada?
The Underground Railroad didn't stop until it reached the border.
UNDERGROUND RAILROAD:
You are a member of the Underground Railroad. A small group of runaway slaves has come to your home to be hidden. All goes well until a neighbor who is not sympathetic to the cause becomes suspicious. What do you do?
If a neighbor who is not sympathetic to the cause becomes suspicious the first step that I will do is before oppening the door make sure that all the runaway slaves are in a special safe place were no one could find them.The second step that I would do is act normal and relax like I am not hidden something for no one but at the same time make sure that person dosen't search my house around were the slaves are situated.
If you were a slave who was planning to runaway, what kind of plans would you make? How would you know when the time was right to leave?If I were a slave who was planing to runaway the kind of plans that I would make is come through my mind is the "Undergroung railroad" since that was the word and the truth that all slaves believed. The second plan is follow the instructions of those who guided the runing aways along the highly secret system of the underground railroad which call themselves "conductors". I would know when the time was right to leave at night spreading on the wind down to the riverbank resting without fear covering my selflike a blanket as I skept meaning that nobody could buy or sell me. The river might be covered in fog and hidden deep in the mist on the shore, a running away could clearly hear the bell that I could follow its ringing all the way over and to a safe house.
SLAVER: A dealer in or an owner of slaves.
- A slaver person treat bad his slaves.
DANGEROUS: Full of danger or risk; causing danger.
- Global warming is dangerous for our environment.
SUCCESSFUL: Having attained wealt, position, honors, or the like.
- I am successful in my spanish class.
YOKE: A device for joining together a pair of draft animals, esp. oxen, usually consisting of a crosspiece with two bow-shaped pieces, each enclosing the head of an animal.
- The farm has a group of yoke.
ACTUALLY: As an actual or existing fact; really.
- Regents are actually important.
TREASURE: Wealth or riches stored or accumulated, esp. in the form of precious metals, money, jewels, or plate.
- Rich people have a lot of treasure in the bank.
EXTREMELY: Most remote in any direction; outermost or farthest.
- Outside is extremely cold.
IDUSTRIOUS: working energetically and devotedly.
- An industrious person is so dedicated.
RUNAWAY: A person who runs away; fugitive; deserter.
- Some slaves runaway under their secret system.
FORMER: Preceding in time; prior or earlier.
- My father wakes up early to former to work.
VARIOUS: Marked by or exhibiting variety or diversity.
- Various experiments have not proved his theory.
BONDAGE: The state of being bound by or subjected to some external power or control.
- The bondage of the box does a great job.
TRICKLE: To flow or fall by drops, or in a small, gentle stream.
- Tears trickled down her cheeks.
THINK CRITICALLY
1. What might be Mme. Loisel's thoughts and feelings right after she learns that the diamond necklace was only a paste?
Mme.Loisel's thoughts and feelings might be right after she learns that the diamond necklace was only a paste was that meybe she felt angry or stupid because she spent 10 year for working very hard just to pay a fake neckclace or she learn in life what is really important in life learning the balue of working hard.
2. How does Madame Loise changes as a result of her experiences?
Madame Loisel changes as a result of her experiences is that she would have to tell the truth and never lie and not to be vaine with her self. Also she learn the value of her self on everything to be satisfied with her self.
3. Madame Loisel pays dearly for losing the necklace. Do you think that experience ruins her life or saves her life? Explain your answer.
I think that experience saves her life since,now she had an example on how not to be the same greedy person that she was before. Also she learn to appreciate what she has and learned from her mistakes to become a better person.
4. The literary critic Edward D. Sullivan declares that "The Necklace" is showing that in people's lives "blind chance rules". Do you agree or disagree? cite evidence to support your opinion.
I agree because Mme Loisel was the kind of person that only thinks on her self. Also just in one night she lost everything that she had before.
5. Suppose that Madame Loisel had not lost the necklace. On the basis of her feelings and actions in the story, what do you think her future would have been like?
I think madame Liosel future will have been like the same greedy person that she was before, and never change. Also she would married a diffrent rich man since she never love him.
6. Do people still chase after wealth and social status today? Explain.
People still chase after wealth and social status today because now people think money is more important than anything.
7. What do you think Madame Loisel's life will be like now that she has paid off her debt and found real value of the necklace?
8. Analyze Madame Loisel and Monsieur Loisel' characteristics.
9. SYMBOLISM: What does the necklace symbolize in the story?
The necklace is the symbol of wealth, social class and richness.
10. From which point of view is the story told? Explain.
The story is told by the narrator.
11. What is the main conflict in the story?
The main conflict in the story is Eventhough she is not rich but she things that dosent belong in her secial class and wants more living a life that she dosen't have.
12. What is the theme of the story?
13. What is the moral of this story?
14. Outline the events in "The Necklace" that form:
* EXPOSITION: Is when it says she was a charming young lady married to a minor clerck and having a middle class life.
* RISING ACTION: When her husband brought the necklace.
* CLIMAX : The climax is when Madame Loisel lost the necklace.
Mme.Loisel's thoughts and feelings might be right after she learns that the diamond necklace was only a paste was that meybe she felt angry or stupid because she spent 10 year for working very hard just to pay a fake neckclace or she learn in life what is really important in life learning the balue of working hard.
2. How does Madame Loise changes as a result of her experiences?
Madame Loisel changes as a result of her experiences is that she would have to tell the truth and never lie and not to be vaine with her self. Also she learn the value of her self on everything to be satisfied with her self.
3. Madame Loisel pays dearly for losing the necklace. Do you think that experience ruins her life or saves her life? Explain your answer.
I think that experience saves her life since,now she had an example on how not to be the same greedy person that she was before. Also she learn to appreciate what she has and learned from her mistakes to become a better person.
4. The literary critic Edward D. Sullivan declares that "The Necklace" is showing that in people's lives "blind chance rules". Do you agree or disagree? cite evidence to support your opinion.
I agree because Mme Loisel was the kind of person that only thinks on her self. Also just in one night she lost everything that she had before.
5. Suppose that Madame Loisel had not lost the necklace. On the basis of her feelings and actions in the story, what do you think her future would have been like?
I think madame Liosel future will have been like the same greedy person that she was before, and never change. Also she would married a diffrent rich man since she never love him.
6. Do people still chase after wealth and social status today? Explain.
People still chase after wealth and social status today because now people think money is more important than anything.
7. What do you think Madame Loisel's life will be like now that she has paid off her debt and found real value of the necklace?
I think Madame Loisel's life will be like now that she has paid off her debt and found the real value of the necklace will be that she will had sell the necklace and get all her husband saving's and had her life like she wanted to be.
8. Analyze Madame Loisel and Monsieur Loisel' characteristics.
Madame Loisel characteristic is pretty, selfless, greedy, vain, want to be rich.Also felt like she deserves more than a little clerk in the ministry of education.
9. SYMBOLISM: What does the necklace symbolize in the story?
The necklace is the symbol of wealth, social class and richness.
10. From which point of view is the story told? Explain.
The story is told by the narrator.
11. What is the main conflict in the story?
The main conflict in the story is Eventhough she is not rich but she things that dosent belong in her secial class and wants more living a life that she dosen't have.
12. What is the theme of the story?
The theme of the story is vanity is the enemy of logic.
13. What is the moral of this story?
The moral of the story is not to be greedy and appreciate what you have.
14. Outline the events in "The Necklace" that form:
* EXPOSITION: Is when it says she was a charming young lady married to a minor clerck and having a middle class life.
* RISING ACTION: When her husband brought the necklace.
* CLIMAX : The climax is when Madame Loisel lost the necklace.
* FALLING ACTION: When Madame's husband sold all his savings accounts.
* RESOLUTION : When they found out that the necklace was "paste".
Sunday, February 10, 2008
HOW PEOPLE ARE INFLUENCED BY THEIR ENVIRONMENT
The main two reasons that people are influenced by their environment are.First Indoor getting and learning the cultural education that their parents or guardians give them since they were little. Second Outdoor meting new people of different kind of cultures learning different experiences.
The influence of people indoors is in their neighborhood were they grow up and the environmental society of culture that goes on. In addiction, the education that their parents give to their children's to prepared them sending them to school so they can get better education and can become professional or getting a career for their own benefits in life.
People are affected everyday Outdoor. They learn different experiences. For example, how to defend and survive in the world it just depend in what situation their in.
To conclude, people are influenced by their environment and the neighborhood that they grow up in.
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