Monday, November 9, 2009
Morgan's Journal (freewrite)
This weekend I went horseback riding and it was cool except for the partwhen we had to go to the cave. There was a cliff and you had to jump up on a rock to get across a waterfall and I didnt think my horse could make it and I was scared. So my papaw jumped it and came back across and got on my horse and went across. Then when my step dad tried to go across his horses back leg slipped off the rock and when tumbling down the hill. It was sooooo scary. :/
Ryan's Reflective Piece
During this semester I have learned alot. I have learned how to be responsible and turn in work on time. Also I have learned that zeros will dramatically bring your grade down even if its not very many points. I expect that next semester I will have better grades because I am going to try harder. I expecially know antebellum because its also in the name of a band.
Morgan's Reflective Article.
I learned that I have a hard time catching on to things. For example I had a hard time understanding the PA and SSA sheets. Not really the paper but what is supposed to go on the paper in some parts. But I expect to get better grades and try harder to understand what we are doing in the class and what I need to do to bec ome a better student.
Destineys Reflective Piece
I have learned alot from this past semester. For example, get your work turned in on time or you will be behind even If It's just one paper. I think that I have became alot more responsible this year. Next Semesterr I expect the samething.
Tuesday, November 3, 2009
Six Phrase Journal
The Christmas trees, strung with gold lights and seeing everything lit up always makes me happy. Sitting beside the warm fire talking to family and friends. I like to go outside and play around in the snow. Making snowballs can be a difficult thing to do so I find just throwing large globs of snow to be more fun. To slide in the snow quickly always makes me excited. Coming in from building a snowman, our faces red, hands frozen, I like to drink hot chocolate to make me warm. To give presents and make people happy is one of my favorite things about Christmas and of course getting them also. Christmas is one of my favorite times of the year.
Monday, November 2, 2009
Turkey Vocabulary
1.) May I have _____ of that turkey?
2.)Will you _______ me on how to cook a turkey?
3.)Be _______ While the turkey is in the oven.
4.)Be ______ when measuring the ingredients
Words-
Acumen
Moeity
Inculcate
Obsequious
2.)Will you _______ me on how to cook a turkey?
3.)Be _______ While the turkey is in the oven.
4.)Be ______ when measuring the ingredients
Words-
Acumen
Moeity
Inculcate
Obsequious
Ryan's Poem
The Bug In The Rug And The Pug
Who gets the crackercrumbs from the snackerthe ones the dogs can't get at?For there is a bugdeep down in the rughe's small ..........
Who gets the crackercrumbs from the snackerthe ones the dogs can't get at?For there is a bugdeep down in the rughe's small ..........
Thanksgiving Article
Thanksgiving
In the month of November, we all think of fall colors, hot cocoa, and cozy nights by the fire. Many also think of a long weekend, with football, family, and promising food. November graces us with the festive holiday event of Thanksgiving. Over the years, we all have found what it means to be thankful cherishing our families and friends, and the beauty that surrounds us everyday is a day of giving thanks. During this time we tend to reflect back to the teachings of the great meal the Pilgrims and Indians shared, complete with turkey, pumpkin pie, corn, cranberries and sweet potatoes, marking the first Thanksgiving Day in the New World. Was it really that simple? The flowering of the Thanksgiving holiday was a bit more than that. Many analysts argue that although the Pilgrims did indeed hold a thanksgiving celebration, it did not become an annual tradition, thus, this celebration did not initiate the Thanksgiving holiday. Also, some argue that the settlers did not view it as a thanksgiving holiday. It was merely a harvest festival, and these devoutly religious people would give thanks to God by fasting and prayer. In truth, several such one-time thanksgiving celebrations occurred before the holiday was set in place.When George Washington became president, he declared a day of thanksgiving and prayer, but the nation was not yet united enough to launch such a national holiday. The Pilgrims' celebration was initially referred to as the first Thanksgiving in 1841 by Alexander Young in his Chronicles of the Pilgrim Fathers. At that point the holiday was slowly becoming more widespread and was declared a national holiday in 1863 by President Lincoln. Many people take a step back into history to relive these experiences and mingle with famous statesmen, soldiers, craftsmen, clergymen and citizens who gather for a Day of Public Thanksgiving at the annual Jeffersonian Thanksgiving Festival in historic downtown Charlottesville. There are over sixty events and activities that are designed to let you experience what that community was like during the American Revolution. At several different venues, you will meet about 150 costumed professional and amateur living historians and dramatic artists portraying famous people from the past who lived or visited the area. Many of these people will be interpreted using their own original writings, either in short dramatic discussions and meetings, or in informal conversations as you meet them roaming about Court Square, Lee Park, or the Downtown Mall.An important historical place to visit is Plymouth Rock. It's housed within the smallest state park in Massachusetts, Pilgrim Memorial State Park, which is visited by nearly one million people each year. According to legend, Plymouth Rock is the boulder upon which the Pilgrims landed when they arrived at the location of their permanent settlement in Plymouth, Massachusetts, in 1620. Most first-time visitors to "the rock" are a bit surprised by its smallness. How could such a monumental artifact in American history be so puny? For starters, the well intentioned residents of Plymouth who first set out to preserve the symbolic rock in 1774 had the unpleasant experience of watching the rock split in two when a team of oxen attempted to raise it. only the upper portion of Plymouth Rock left the waterfront originally for display in the Town Square. Remember the bottom part of the rock that was left behind at the waterfront? The Pilgrim Society acquired the other half of Plymouth Rock in 1859, and in 1867, a Plymouth Rock canopy structure was completed at the waterfront to house it. Unfortunately, the canopy was not large enough to hold the whole rock, so a few pieces had to be hacked off and sold as souvenirs.Plymouth Rock remains a powerful tribute to the courage of the 102 Mayflower passengers who founded the land we know as New England.
In the month of November, we all think of fall colors, hot cocoa, and cozy nights by the fire. Many also think of a long weekend, with football, family, and promising food. November graces us with the festive holiday event of Thanksgiving. Over the years, we all have found what it means to be thankful cherishing our families and friends, and the beauty that surrounds us everyday is a day of giving thanks. During this time we tend to reflect back to the teachings of the great meal the Pilgrims and Indians shared, complete with turkey, pumpkin pie, corn, cranberries and sweet potatoes, marking the first Thanksgiving Day in the New World. Was it really that simple? The flowering of the Thanksgiving holiday was a bit more than that. Many analysts argue that although the Pilgrims did indeed hold a thanksgiving celebration, it did not become an annual tradition, thus, this celebration did not initiate the Thanksgiving holiday. Also, some argue that the settlers did not view it as a thanksgiving holiday. It was merely a harvest festival, and these devoutly religious people would give thanks to God by fasting and prayer. In truth, several such one-time thanksgiving celebrations occurred before the holiday was set in place.When George Washington became president, he declared a day of thanksgiving and prayer, but the nation was not yet united enough to launch such a national holiday. The Pilgrims' celebration was initially referred to as the first Thanksgiving in 1841 by Alexander Young in his Chronicles of the Pilgrim Fathers. At that point the holiday was slowly becoming more widespread and was declared a national holiday in 1863 by President Lincoln. Many people take a step back into history to relive these experiences and mingle with famous statesmen, soldiers, craftsmen, clergymen and citizens who gather for a Day of Public Thanksgiving at the annual Jeffersonian Thanksgiving Festival in historic downtown Charlottesville. There are over sixty events and activities that are designed to let you experience what that community was like during the American Revolution. At several different venues, you will meet about 150 costumed professional and amateur living historians and dramatic artists portraying famous people from the past who lived or visited the area. Many of these people will be interpreted using their own original writings, either in short dramatic discussions and meetings, or in informal conversations as you meet them roaming about Court Square, Lee Park, or the Downtown Mall.An important historical place to visit is Plymouth Rock. It's housed within the smallest state park in Massachusetts, Pilgrim Memorial State Park, which is visited by nearly one million people each year. According to legend, Plymouth Rock is the boulder upon which the Pilgrims landed when they arrived at the location of their permanent settlement in Plymouth, Massachusetts, in 1620. Most first-time visitors to "the rock" are a bit surprised by its smallness. How could such a monumental artifact in American history be so puny? For starters, the well intentioned residents of Plymouth who first set out to preserve the symbolic rock in 1774 had the unpleasant experience of watching the rock split in two when a team of oxen attempted to raise it. only the upper portion of Plymouth Rock left the waterfront originally for display in the Town Square. Remember the bottom part of the rock that was left behind at the waterfront? The Pilgrim Society acquired the other half of Plymouth Rock in 1859, and in 1867, a Plymouth Rock canopy structure was completed at the waterfront to house it. Unfortunately, the canopy was not large enough to hold the whole rock, so a few pieces had to be hacked off and sold as souvenirs.Plymouth Rock remains a powerful tribute to the courage of the 102 Mayflower passengers who founded the land we know as New England.
Destiney's Journal: A Poem I Have Recently Read.
We're having a Halloween party at school.
I'm dressed up like Dracula. Man, I look cool!
I dyed my hair black and I cut off my bangs.
I'm wearing a cape and some fake plastic fangs.
I put on some makeup to paint my face white
like creatures that only come out in the night.
My fingernails, too, are all pointed and red.
There's no doubt I look like the evil undead.
My mom drops me off and I run into school
and suddenly feel like the world's biggest fool.
The other kids stare like I'm some kind of freak.
The Halloween party is not till next week.
--Kenn Nesbitt
I'm dressed up like Dracula. Man, I look cool!
I dyed my hair black and I cut off my bangs.
I'm wearing a cape and some fake plastic fangs.
I put on some makeup to paint my face white
like creatures that only come out in the night.
My fingernails, too, are all pointed and red.
There's no doubt I look like the evil undead.
My mom drops me off and I run into school
and suddenly feel like the world's biggest fool.
The other kids stare like I'm some kind of freak.
The Halloween party is not till next week.
--Kenn Nesbitt
Randa's Cycle 7 Journal- A poem I have recently read
Hope is the thing...
Hope is the thing with feathers
That perches in the soul,
And sings the tune without the words,
And never stops at all,
And sweetest in the gale is heard;
And sore must be the storm
That could abash the little bird
That kept so many warm.
I've heard it in the chillest land,
And on the strangest sea;
Yet, never, in extremity,
It asked a crumb of me.
- Emily Dickinson
Hope is the thing with feathers
That perches in the soul,
And sings the tune without the words,
And never stops at all,
And sweetest in the gale is heard;
And sore must be the storm
That could abash the little bird
That kept so many warm.
I've heard it in the chillest land,
And on the strangest sea;
Yet, never, in extremity,
It asked a crumb of me.
- Emily Dickinson
Cycle 6 Vocabulary Words
Moiety-One of two parts
Inculcate-to teach by repitition
Obsequious-Obedient
Acumen-Keen in sight
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