Vocab Words #3

Subtle:

There is just a subtle difference between a legitimate brand and its impostor. For example in this picture the only difference is in the spelling of "Adidas", where in the picture to the left, a black-market product, is spelled "Daiads".

Vehement:

The fans are clearly expressing their loyalty to their team with a vehement enthusiasm. They are unanimously standing, most focused on the game.

Adverse: The two forces here are adverse. The Jedi on the left is on the side of good according to the star wars timeline, and Darth Maul on the right is on the dark side. It looks as if they are about to duel.

Discreet: Kanye was not at all discreet at the Video Music Awards (VMA) when he took the microphone from Taylor Swift and declared Beyonce the rightful winner of the award for best video of the year. he was certainly not sober or judicious in doing so.

Flout:

This renown scene from Oliver Twist illustrates the flout Oliver was treated with. When Oliver asks the person in charge of distributing the food to the orphans, the person scoffs and humiliates him in front of everybody.

Barder and the Flying Turban

Assuming the dog in your story is named Barder, and that the orange turban gives him the power of flight…

Your assignment is to respond to the above visual prompt. Write something you’ll be proud to share and display.

The small italian man decorated with a black, bushy, mustache and a red hat is dropped from the heavens above. His mission? The same everlasting monotony that consumed his life since the late 80's: save the princess.

Step by step he cautiously weaves in an out of pipes, climbs flowers, swiftly avoiding the turtles known as "Goombas". That is until he finds it. He found it while walking across another 2-D surface created to look like grass. What he found was the mysterious yellow brick. As the brick taunted him floating in mid-air, a white question mark revolved around it. Mario wondered what he would get out of it this time.

Mario jumps smashing the brick with his head. From the top of the brick emerged Barder the dog. This was quite a surprise to MArion since he was expecting his usual companion Yoshi the green dinosaur. Oh well. Mario got on Barder and proceeded to find a magical turban that gave him the power of flight. MArio knew what he had to do.

Mario and Barder retraced their steps to find a long, flat, stretch of grass that would act as their run-way. As they sprinted swiftly they until they took off into flight. They flew until they reached in the end of the level taking advantage of this glorious glitch in the game.

Vocabulary #1

Tempo:
Tranquility:

Tundra:

Unanimous:

Tarriff:

Flourish- To be successful/thrive

As we practice soccer our skills flourish.

Guerilla- a member of a band of irregular soldiers that uses guerrilla warfare, harassing the enemy by surprise raids, sabotaging communication and supply lines, etc.

Guerilla warfare was popular during the war.

renegade - a person who deserts a party or cause for another

Throughout our history renegades are evident.

repose:

-the state of reposing or being at rest; rest; sleep.

I am ready to repose after a long day.

stereotype -a process, now often replaced by more advanced methods, for making metal printing plates by taking a mold of composed type or the like in papier-mâché or other material and then taking from this mold a cast in type metal.

They do not use stereotyping for making metal printing plates anymore.

symbiosis - the living together of two dissimilar organisms, as in mutualism, commensalism, amensalism, or parasitism.

The bee and the flower form a symbiosis.

tariff -an official list or table showing the duties or customs imposed by a government on imports or exports

The colonists were enraged by the british tarriffs.

tempo - relative rapidity or rate of movement, usually indicated by such terms as adagio, allegro, etc., or by reference to the metronome.

Hip-hop songs usually have a fast tempo.

tranquility -quality or state of being tranquil; calmness; peacefulness; quiet; serenity

I like the state of tranquility, it is peaceful.

tumult - violent and noisy commotion or disturbance of a crowd or mob; uproar

The tumult at the store on Black Friday was crazy.

tundra - one of the vast, nearly level, treeless plains of the arctic regions of Europe, Asia, and North America.

We do not have tundras in California.

unanimous - of one mind; in complete agreement; agreed

The decision about gum in school was unanimous.

Creative Writing #1: MIchael's Story

Our Assignment:

"Pictured to the right is an excerpt from Bill Sullivan’s Turnstile Photography Project. Sullivan took pictures of strangers in New York City the moment they pushed through the turnstiles to ride the subway. The results are surprisingly intriguing - The faces are so expressive; the props and things we carry, revealing. You will be following the preceding link to Bill Sullivan’s project website and choosing a character (or two) to base your story around.

You will be writing a narrative fiction surrounding this pivotal(?) moment of your character(s) day. Is the gentlemen on the left, above, on his way to a bank heist? Is the woman to his right the lifeline for a friend appearing on tonight’s episode of Who Wants To Be A Millionaire, and is she fretting because she’s unsure of a question she should know the answer to? Or is thinking too hard about it going to put her on the wrong train, which starts a whole domino of bad (or brilliant) things to happen to her that day?"

http://www.3situations.com/BillSullivanWorks/MT%20MASTER%20pre%20.html

T-boy, otherwise known as Michael, woke in the morning feeling like P-Diddy. Grabbed hi "Phat Farm" shirt out the drawer, he's gonna hit this city. Before he leaves, brushes his teeth with a bottle of Jack, 'cuz when he leave for the night he ain't commin' back.

Better Known as MIchael Fisher, T-boy had nothing handed, took nothing for granted, took nothing from no man, man he's his own man! But as a shorty he looked up to the dope man only adult man that he knew wasn't broke man.

Flicker starter coats man, man you 'ount know man. Michael doesn't care what people say....or does he?

See michael sittin' in the hood at community colleges, cause there ain't no tuition for having no ambition and he knows that ain't no loans for sittin' at home, so MIchael's forced to sell crack, rap, and get a job, he as to do something he's already grown!

This proceeding verse is for the hood dogs like Michael who still workin' from nine to five that still hustle 'cuz he know he can;t shine of $6.55.

He's commin' back from selling make-up, Jacobs, and bootleg tapes just to get his cake up. He put something on layaway and he's came back, he claimed other people's kids on his income tax!

He's saving up to buy the car with the chromy wheels here, 'cept they tryin' to cut the lights out like he don't live here!.

He just want it better for his wife and three kids. Despite the fact that he livin' in the projects. But every time they want something, layaway or deposit, Daddy Michael says "When you see clothes, close your eyelids."

His situation is sort of like Will Smith and his son, in the movies and I ain't talkin' 'bout the rich ones, 'cause every summer Michael will get a brand new hare-brained scheme to get rich from.