Vocab 9/5/2011 [Alice in Wonderland]

1) Contribute to - play a part in. Add in

Example - In the Natsu Matsuri festival, I contribute the fun by singing a Japanese song

2) Insight - understand how things work and how people think or act. 

Example - When acting, the director have to insight the character personalities. 

3) Evident - Obvious clue. 

Example - Her reaction make a evident that she is extremely happy and surprise right now.

4) Express - Show your feeling ; put into words. 

Example - You can learn more about the character by how they express themselves.

New Vocab

Potentially - likely, possible able to happen

The giant earth quake and tsunami potentially have the most effect in the world because that can be a signal of the earth changing. 

Proposal - To confess, suggest, recomended

The man make a proposal to marry her in a very romantic way

Hazard - Dangerous

All of these signs are represent hazard things like poison, fire, electrical....

Empower - authorise, allowable, enable

Gun are empower in some jobs like police so they can make sure the country is safe 


Ample - Wide, extendsive...

From 2PM to 5PM, we have an ample of time. 

Vocabularies Historical Fiction

1) Intensified - Become more intense, to become stronger or angrier in a situation.

Example - The angriness of the man on the right hand intensified because the man of the left doesn't get what he is saying. 


2) Vital - Important for your life.

Example - Water is vital to your life, without water, you will die for sure.

3) Immortality - Undead

Example - People believe that God live immortality.

4) Legitimate - Doing something legally due to a law
Example - A couple want to get married have to have a wedding to be a legitimate husband and wife.

5) Tremor - Tremble, shivering, shaking.

Example - When the timperature get too cold, we usually tremor.

My Glogster

Vocabulary - All Americans

Observation - Looking at something, notice things to learn.

 Example - This guy is looking through a binocular, he is having an observation of something.

2) Emphasize - Pay special attention

Example - When you are looking at this picture, you emphasize the bug immediately.

3) Reaction - response to something

 Example - There must be something really surprise and sudden happen to make her have such a reaction.

4) Define - to clear the meaning of the word ; to make something clear.

 Example - A dictionary is a good tool when you want to define the definition of the word that you don't know.

5) Tersely - short but easy to understand; to the point

 Example - When the guess saw the rude attitude of the police, he said tersely: "Your attitude is unacceptable!"

6) Breach - to make a hole

Example - This must be a very strong person hitting the wall to make a big breach like this.

7) Riveted - Hold someone attention

Example - When I'm writing a story, I'm always trying to rivated my reader to my story.


8) Vigil - keep watching over something.

Example - When we are at the camp, someone should vigil the fire to keep it burning to keep the animals and dangerous away.

Camp Harmony - Answer 1 question

Camp Harmony is told from 1st person POV. What info might a 3rd POV include that Sone can't?

If the story told from a 3rd person point of view, meaning that the writer will be using 'he, she...' their probably will be more informations abou the camp and more about what Sone did in the camp. Because in the story that she wrote, she didn't write much about what she did and react to what happened in the camp. If the story was told from 3rd person, their likely to be more infomations on Sone and so we can know about her. We can also know more about how people felt about the camp. They might describe Sone's reaction and their reaction on the camp, and we can experience another person feeling about the camp, not just only Sone. The 3rd person might be an adult, so he/she would explain more why the Japanese-America were send to Camp Harmony and what happened in the world at that time.

Expository essay

Response to literature

Today I will talk about a short story call “Aunty Misery”. This story is about an old woman lived in an old hut with no relative but a beautiful pear tree. She spend all her time taking care of it but the neighborhood children keep coming and steal her fruit and insult her as “Aunty Misery” . One day, a stranger came to her house and asks to stay for one night. She let the stranger stay and serve him with her hearth. The next day before the stranger left, he grants aunty misery a wish. She wish that anyone who climb up her tree who climbs up her pear tree should not be able to come back down until she permits it. And so, the children came to steal her fruit but they can’t get down until she permits them to. Time passed by, another stranger pass by but looked suffocated and exhausted, it’s Death. He said it’s time for her to come with him but she told Death to climb up the trees to get some pears before they leave but Death end up stuck one the tree. Aunty Misery would only allowed Death to come off if he promised not to come back for her. That’s why now Misery live forever. The story take place in a small hut of Aunty Misery, there are 3 characters but the main character are Death and Aunty Misery.

About Aunty Misery, we can see her as a very lonely and independent person, she doesn’t need anyone to take care of her, she can take care of herself. But as you read the story, we can see that she is also a selfish and a little bit greedy. The conflict in this story is just that when she capture death, there will be no more death in the world. No more job for the doctors, pharmacists etc. So people are complaining about her. After reading this story, I found different themes of the story.

The first one is there are two things that you can't escape in life: death and misery. Everyone have to face misery more than 100 times in their life. Death is something you can’t avoided, you have to face it once and once only in your life, but that’s the end of your life. Misery is something really bad, but you can get over it in time, so don’t give up, calm down and don’t be greedy and cause trouble for other people around you.

The second theme is that what you have now can be better than changing your life. Sometimes you want to change your lifestyle because you don’t like the way you are living right now. But in some situation, they can make your life upside down.  Maybe you are not meaning to harm the people around you but if there is a mistake in your choice, then it can make everything worsen. So think clearly before you decide to change something that is going to affect a lot in your life.

In my opinions, this story is a really good written short story that fits for teens like us to understand misery and death.  Even though it’s quite confuse at the beginning but from the small pieces of literature, the author teach and give the audience a lot of lessons, themes or you can call it moral too. I feel like learning that we shouldn’t fear misery or death because it’s not only myself that have to go through this, every single person in the world have to go through this. It’s a common thing; there is nothing that we should fear about. And don’t think only for yourself; think for other people after you think of yourself also so that there will be less misunderstanding and having trouble for other people. 

Attacking with "10 words power"

1) Mesmerized - Being attracted by something ; like the mind is being control by something else.

Example - The kid is being mesmerized by a huge cupcakes. He wants to eat it

2) Impeccably - Complete, totally perfect. Not a single mistake

 Example - When my mom tries to do something, she want it to be impeccably because she doesn't like messing the works

3) Petrified - A cause to become stonelike or dazz or stunned.

Example - The baby seems to be Petrified when his mother took his picture.

4) Chaotics - Messy; not really organize

Example - My room is quite chaotic so sometimes my mom have to yell at me to get me clean up the room.


 5) Dissuade - To convince or suggest someone from doing something.

Example - I and my friends went to the cinema to see "Resident Evil" but the people dissuade us not to go because the movie is only for 16+

6) Negotiated - discuss the term of an arrangment

 Example - Before you buy something, you should negotiated.

7) Acquisition - To archieve something, to reach the goal ; to get something that you want

Example - I want to acquisition an Iphone, so this term I'm gonna study hard!

8) Commemorate - Memorial, flash back and remember

Example - Uncle died in 2nd September 1969, so every year on 2nd September, we had a commemorate of him.

9) Mimicking - to copy or repeat the actions of other people 

Example - Children mimicking their parent's action and repeat their words for learning and gain knowledge. That's how they learn

10) Resemble - not exactly the same ; something that look similar to something we saw before.

 Example: These two are not twin, they are two completely different person but they resemble each other.

Vocabulary - Rio En Medio

1) Descendant - Someone or something come after a specific ancestor.

Example -  I'm descendant of my parent

2) Negotiate - To make a deal 

Example - I made a negotiate with my parents that I will get better grade in second quarter 


3) Innumerable - More than needed ; countless

Example - The human population is innumerable 


4) Boundaries - something that indicates bounds or limits

 Example - Vietnam and China have a boundary to seperate the lands