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My Video Presentation
The link to my video presentation on “What You Pawn I Will Redeem written by Sherman Alexie below..
Glossary Write-Up
- Bier
- Firmament
- Fatuity
- Florid
- Idyllic
- Cinder
- Dray
- Muslin
- Aleut
- Capricious
- Sassafras
- Monotonously
- Pleating
- Austere
- Arbor
Reflection
I really liked the idea or looking up words as they are needed. This is a great way of learning new vocabulary. You get an example of how the word used, and rewriting them helps commit them to memory. I’ve been doing this with my own reading, and learned many new words this way. I find myself using these words in everyday conversations. I also try and spend some time trying figure out what the word means from context.
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Arbor
1. a leafy, shady recess formed by tree branches, shrubs, etc.
2. a latticework bower intertwined with climbing vines and flowers.
3. Obsolete. a grass plot; lawn; garden; orchard.
“I never saw such a garden -large and shady, full of box-bordered paths, and lined with long grape-covered arbors with seats under them.”
In “The Yellow Wallpaper” by Charlotte Gilman
My presentation
The story I have talked about is “What You Pawn I Will Redeem” BY Sherman Alexie.
Beloved Visual
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=99yZg9HEzbw
I chose to create a video depicting a similar scene Paul D could have experienced when he escaped the chain gang during the rainstorm. I used a video editor to overlap both the sound of thunder and the chains, while using several images representing slave labor. The first two images show slaves working with the sound of the chains playing in the background. When the chain sounds stop, the final image shows a group of slaves running away.
15 Words
1. Jutting
2. Monotonously
3. Reins
4. Ravenous
5. Febrile
6. Larynx
7. Posse
8. Flaws
9. Wharf
10. Evangelists
11. Vexed
12. Cistern
13. Muslin
14. Impertinence
15. Dainty
Throughout all the readings we had in class some of these words I didn’t really know while reading. While looking them up, I then understood what it meant and made the sentence much more clearer. For example while reading “Beloved” by Toni Morrison, while reading the book it was already a pain trying to understand what was going, but with words I don’t know made it even worse. After looking some of the words, it helped me understand the book a little better. Sometimes I even come across these words while reading articles online. The glossary helped my range of vocabulary and made understanding many things much more easier. I can say that I can always do this while I’m reading anything. I can look up the word and find out whats the definition and make a list for later preferences. This will help me in other classes when I won’t understand a word, I would remember what I have learned in this class and use it to my advantage.
15 WORDS, 1 SEMESTER
1. Cupola
2. Tumultuously
3. Powwow
4. Riotus
5. Querulous
6. Calceolaria
7. Impertinence
8. Rendezvous
9. Pilfer
10. Camphor
11. Spigot
12. Shawl
13. Serenading
14. Savage
15. Regalia
When reading, whether it is a newspaper, a book, manga, etc, I tend to come across words I don’t really know about. I think what does this and that mean? When or how should I use this word in real life? Later on however, I tend to ignore it and make my own definition based on context clues but I guess based on the SATs from the past 2 years, I shouldn’t have done that. Now that I’m in college, I should be using more complex words in my work. This now brings me up to this assignment. This glossary assignment did in fact help me improve my vocabulary. Not only that, I can improve it further just by looking back at the other classmate’s words. By doing this, I also did something that I haven’t done before and that is to stop reading and look up the definition online. By doing this, I’m now guaranteed to know what the word I’m looking at means. Not only am I implementing this strategy in this class, I’m also using this as I read other writings. For example, if I’m reading something online and I see a complicated word, I would stop reading and look it up online. It may seem like a hassle however it actually helps. To sum things up, this Glossary project helped me a lot when it came to vocabulary and it helped me improve my reading skills. The strategies I use will definitely be used in the future.
Dainty
1.of delicate beauty; exquisite:a dainty lace handkerchief.
2.pleasing to the taste and, often, temptingly served or delicate;delicious: dainty pastries.
3.of delicate discrimination or taste; particular;fastidious: a dainty eater.
4. overly particular; finicky.
“Here was the friend I lived so happily with, and all this fairy land of sun and shadow, the free immensity of our view, and the dainty comfort of the Cottagette.”
The Cottagette by Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Impertinence
1.unmannerly intrusion or presumption; insolence.
2.impertinent quality or action.
3.something impertinent, as an act or statement.
4.an impertinent person.
5.irrelevance, inappropriateness, or absurdity.
“I get positively angry with the impertinence of it and the everlastingness. Up and down and sideways they crawl, and those absurd, unblinking eyes are everywhere.”
The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman
