Tuesday, February 9, 2010

Book of Qualities page

The most important thing to work on today is your Book of qualities page (s).

These pages will be saved on Ms. Gamzon's flash drive when you have completed them.

Continue with the next 5 vocabulary words and your readings in The Bean Trees as time permits.

HWK: read Ch. 5 and 6 for Thursday

10 comments:

  1. 11. dilapidated; fallen to a state of despair
    12. reverence; act of respect
    13. aptitude; talent
    14. pandemonium; chaos
    15. picayune; not worth arguing about

    The monkeys dilapidated when all of their bananas were taken away from them.

    She bowed as a reverence to her dead ancestors.

    The teacher told his student that he has an aptitude for learning quickly.

    There was pandemonium when the employee shaved off all of her hair.

    The situation was picayune, there was a huge commotion over a tiny bug.

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  2. Erin Cotton
    The Bean Tree-Answers

    1. The narrator seems to be very quiet and more to herself. She seems like she wants different than what her town is known for.
    2. Alice Greer seems to be close with her daughter and is trying to teach her daughter what else is out there in the world other than pregnancy while Mr. Hardbine and Mr. Shanks seem to more go with the flow of things and not try and prevent their children from falling in the circles that the town has.
    3. She left Kentucky because she didn’t want to become one of the girls that became pregnant at a young age and have to drop out.
    4. She noticed that there were not any hills but that was something that she grew up with. She said that the Cherokee Nation was crap.
    5. A home is somewhere where you feel safe and you have family and people that have your best interest at heart.
    6. The girls and women were taken for granted. They were expected to clean and have babies.
    7. In chapter Missy (Taylor) is telling the story from her point of view then it shifts it LouAnn telling her view of the story. It goes from Taylor telling her arriving to LouAnn being there.
    8. It is relevant that LouAnn came from Kentucky because later in the story that is what connects her and Taylor together and the story overall.
    9. LouAnn is more into herself and she was married (but now going through a divorce) and Taylor has just left home for the first time by herself and looking for her place in life.
    10. Angel is a Mexican but was born in America and is married to LouAnn. Angel has an artificial leg below the knee due to a truck accident. He has a very aloof attitude and blames others for his problems.
    11. She really took in the environment first. Then after looking at it for a while she thought that the scene looked very goofy. Overall she said it was the best thing she had seen in years and she planned to stay. I think part of the reason she stayed was because her car wasn’t going anywhere so she was kind of stuck but also because she thought it was a good place start over.
    12. Their names were very similar but 1-800-The Lord is a shopping network that actually deals with the lord and Jesus is Loved Used Tires is actually a car shop where cars are repaired.
    13. They are both very fruitful. They both seem to be able to produce in all types of weather conditions
    14. This is the chapter where her mother and grandmother come and visit her. The problem is that they don’t know two things. One is that she is getting a divorce, which are sort of forbidden in her family. The other thing is that they don’t know that she is not going to baptize. She solves it by asking Angel to move back in and pretend that they are still a couple and she just didn’t say anything about the baptism. This shows that she is willing to put her feeling aside and please other before pleasing herself.
    15. Chapter four shows that women are tight as it gets. It also shows that some relationships between women will be challenged and someone will always have to put their pride aside and fix whatever is broken.
    16. tug fork was the place that LouAnn was baptized at and it symbolized that there is deep meaning behind the words to LouAnn
    17. They all seem very hippi-ish. Fei had multiple earrings and La-isha was a thick-bodied, with broad bar feet and round calves. Timothy was a tall, thin guy with a hairless chest. They all seemed to be about Taylor’s age.
    18. Her description suggests that she keeps up with everything in her garden. It shows that she is very productive and well maintains things.
    19. Taylor and LouAnn both begin to talk down about the men. They say how they are so undependable and not good for anything.

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  3. Gabriela
    Dilapidated - reduced to or fallen into partial ruin or decay, as from age, wear, or neglect

    Her skin was dilapidated after all of her years of wearing heavy make-up.

    Reverence - a feeling or attitude of deep respect tinged with awe; veneration

    I bowed my head in respect as I noticed everyone paying reverence to the king.

    Aptitude - capability; ability; innate or acquired capacity for something; talent

    She had a special aptitude for understanding Shakespeare and other English literature.

    Pandemonium - wild uproar or unrestrained disorder; tumult or chaos

    The crowd of people was a pandemonium, and was unable to be controlled by the police.

    Picayune - of little value or account; small; trifling

    The picayune necklace was worthless and didn’t receive the money she was expecting to get.

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  4. Dilapidated: reduced to or falled into partial ruin or decay, as from age, wear or negelct
    Sentence: The house had been dilapidated by neglect.

    Reverence: felling or attitude of deep respect tinged with awe; veneration
    Sentence: They paid reverence to the surviving veterans of World War II.

    Aptitude: capability; ability; innate or acquired capacity for something; talent
    Sentence: She has a special aptitude for geometry with trig.

    Pandemonium: wild uproar or unrestrained disorder; tumult or chaos
    Senetence: There was an overwhelming pandemonium. Several people were killed and/or injured in the panic.

    Picayune: of little value or account; small; trifiling
    Sentence: We are to recive a Picayune of rain despite the fact that a hurricane just passed through below us.

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  5. Dilapidated - broken down, partially ruined, decaying.

    The house was dilapidated after the fire that destroyed the roof.

    Reverence - a feeling of profound respect, almost a fear.

    The religious leaders had great reverence for God.

    Aptitude - the potential of how much you can learn and understand, knowledge, talent.

    The young girl had an excellent aptitude for a fifth grader; she already knew how to do algebra and understood chemistry.

    Pandemonium - chaos, confusion, disorder

    During Hurricane Katrina, the people of New Orleans went into a state of pandemonium because they needed help and didn't know where to go.

    Picayune - small or of little importance

    The girls' fight was picayune, because they were only fighting about what movie they were going to see.

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  6. Invocation -the act of invoking or calling upon a deity, spirit, etc., for aid, protection, inspiration, or the like; supplication: “this man is wanted for murder and receives no invocation.”

    Perturbed -to throw into great disorder; derange: “I’m a bit perturbed about this whole marriage tradition thing.”

    Prudish -excessively proper or modest in speech, conduct, dress, etc: “today is a day of a prudish mood.”

    Compulsion -the state or condition of being compelled: “I cant deal with all of this compulsion.”

    Gumption - initiative; aggressiveness; resourcefulness: “his gumption made him what he is today.”

    Deprivation -the fact of being deprived: “is it me or am I in a state of deprivation.”

    Incarnate -embodied in flesh; given a bodily, esp. a human, form: “he was just another liar and stealer incarnate.”

    Dormant -lying asleep or as if asleep; inactive, as in sleep; torpid: baby is still dormant in the crib.
    Pungent -sharply affecting the organs of taste or smell, as if by a penetrating power; biting; acrid: “the aroma was just pungent to describe.”

    Noncom -a noncommissioned officer: “your now noncom ‘private.”

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  7. 11. Dilapidated- to cause something to fall into despair or ruin.
    “The scandal dilapidated the entire corporation.”
    12. Reverence- deep respect for someone or something.
    “We have many rituals to show reverence for the dead.”
    13. Aptitude- natural ability or talent to do something.
    “The ill-fated boy had a natural aptitude for failure.”
    14. Pandemonium- wild and noisy disorder or confusion, uproar.
    “Pandemonium broke out after the assassination of the senator.”
    15. Picayune- petty, worthless.
    “I listened to my parent’s picayune squabbling from upstairs.”

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  8. Donyel Jackson


    Dilapidated-reduced to or fallen into partial ruin or decay, as from age, wear, or neglect.


    After it rained my bike was dilapidated



    Reverence-a feeling or attitude of deep respect tinged with awe; veneration.

    People showed great reverence for the heroes of 911

    Aptitude-capability; ability; innate or acquired capacity for something; talent

    He had a great aptitude for mathematics

    Pandemonium-wild uproar or unrestrained disorder; tumult or chaos.

    After the showed there was pandemonium

    Picayune:of little value or account; small; trifling: a picayune amount.

    He saved me a picayune of chocolate

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  9. 16. invocation; calling for superior being
    17. perturbed; disturbed or flustered
    18. prudish; easily offended or shocked
    19. compulsion; an irrational need to perform some action
    20. gumption; bold

    Everyone was shocked when the teacher did an invocation in the middle of class.

    She was perturbed when she walked in the room and saw a brand new car.

    Everyone thought that it was annoying that he was prudish about everything.

    Her mom had a compulsion to buy everything in that store.

    It was gumption when he told off the teacher.

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  10. 11.) Dilapidated- Reduced to or fallen into ruin or decay, as from age, wear or neglect.

    The artifact was dilapidated because it was so old.

    12.) Reverence- A feeling, attitude or gesture of deep respect.

    The audience gave reverence toward the performer’s for doing such a good job.

    13.) Aptitude- Capability, ability or acquired capacity for something having to do with talent. Readiness or quickness in learning.

    Rachel made the choir team because she has a great aptitude for singing.

    14.) Pandemonium- Wild uproar or unrestrained disorder; chaos.

    The class was in such a pandemonium that the principal had to come down to control the students.

    15.) Picayune- Of little value or account.

    Her check was a picayune amount, giving her only enough money to buy groceries instead of paying her bills.

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