reflection

The article I read last week was "Generation Divorce." The reading strategies that I used for it worked well. There were a few words in it that I had to look up, but that wasn't a problem. One of the words that I had to look up was churn, which I later found out meant to violently stir something. Another word that I had to look up was congeniality, which meant allied in disposition and taste. So that was one strategy. Another one was to outline the article. I didn't really go into great detail on it, but I got all of the main ideas out and I put in some supporting details that helped hold up the main ideas. I got about a page an a half on it, and it helped me with organizing my thoughts. To help myself with the outline, I had to hightlight all of the important parts of the article. I also numbered all of the paragraphs to organize my thoughts better, and just in case I had to go back and look for a specific part I knew where to find it.
For the other article I had to read, I chose to do an article called, "Where Have You Been?" It was about the music group Portishead, who had not released an album in eleven years. There wasn't much to read on this article, it had only been about a page long and only had about five paragraphs in it. It mostly talked about their new album and their past successes in the 90's. The only reading techniques that I had to use on this were a little bit of outlining and some highlighting.

Vocabulary

1.Conscription
Context: It has the word script in it so it has to do with a piece of paper that notifies military service. It looks like it is just another word for draft.
Sen.: During war time, it has been known that countries some times use conscription to fill their ranks if there aren't many volunteers.

2. relegate
Context: Relegate sort of sounds like relocate, maybe there's a connection.
Sen.: The upper command office decided to relegate some of the lower ranking officers, in order to go through with their greater plan.

3. candor
Context: i don't know the context of this word but, if I had to make a guess I'd say it had to do with honesty and honor.
Sen.: The boyscout went to the witness stand and spoke of the defendents actions that night with great candor.

Calandar/To Do List

To Do list:
Todays top priorities:
1.Go to school
2.Go to Work
3. Research life insurance for essay #5 in Eng.100

Weekly schedule:
Monday: English 100 10:00
Reading 096 12:00
Work 5:15
Tuesday: History 127 10:30
Reading lab 11:50
Work 5:15
Wednsday: (same as monday)
Thursday: (same as Tuesday)
Friday: Work on The Things They Carried essay
Work on essay #5
Go to Work 5:15
Saturday: Work on essay #5
Work on essay for The Things They Carried
Have dinner with family
Sunday: Work on essay #5
Work on The Things They Carried essay
Hang out with my homies

Refelction post

This week I will be reading a few articles out of Newsweek magazing. One article is titled, "Generation Divorce." I aven't read it yet, but I assume that it is about families that went through divorces, and the effects that it had on them over the years. The article probably also talks about how divorce is a common trend in the United States, but I guess I'll find out after I read the article. For this article, I will probably do some alot of highlighting. There are about five pages in this article so, yeah I'll probably be doing alot of highlighting actually. Another strategy that I will be using is marking unfamiliar words in the article. If the word looks unfamiliar to me, and I don't know what it means then I will look it up in the dictionary and find out what it means. Another important strategy would be to outline the article. outlining is sort of difficult for me, but I think that I'm starting to get the hang of it. Its mostly just organizing main ideas, and points that are important to the main ideas of the article. Besides reading "Generation Divorce", I have to read one more article out of this weeks issue of Newsweek, but i haven't decided on which one yet. i saw one on the Iraq war, where the U.S. Army is sending in 'experts' to analyze the Iraqi society. I also have to finish reading "The Things we Carried", which is a pretty good book. I was surprised when I saw it on I-Tunes the other day under classics. I'll probably give it to my dad to read when I'm finished with it. I think that he'll enjoy it, because he's a war veteran and he likes those kind of books.

to do list

Monday: 7:00 AM - 9:25 AM Get ready for the day
10:00 AM - 12:00 PM English 100 essay 4 due
12:00 PM - 2:00 PM Read 096
2:30 PM - 5:15 PM study for hist. exam
5:15 PM - 11:?? PM Work
11:?? PM - 1:00 AM Study
1:00 AM - 7:00 AM sleep

Vocab

1.ideology
Context clues/ Word analysis: ide- made me think of idea, and then -ology made me think of the study of. So could it be the study of an idea?
Original sentence: The ideology of the wilderness tribe was some what primitive and out of date.

2.Xenophobia
Context Clues/ Word Analysis: I didn't know what xeno- meant but from what i had read it mus tmean like an outsider or foreigner. I knew waht -phobia meant, so to conclude xenophobia means fear of outsiders.
Original sentence: The villagers off of the islands coast were xenophobic towards the island's new inhabitants, by throwing spears and rocks at them so they would leave.

3.ascension
Context clues/ Word Analysis: To move upward.
Origingal sentence: The audience was amazed at the spectacle of the hot air balloon moving up towards the sky, and never seen or heard from again.

I call this little piece of mud pie"Monday"

"To Do" List:
1.Woke up
2.Took a shower and got dressed
3.watched news, drank coffee, read "The Things They Carried"
4. Went to English class
5. Went to Reading class
6. Got lunch
7. Went home to study
8. Go to Work
9.Go home
10. Take shower
11. Eat dinner
12. Watch Jimmy Kimmel Live, Jay Leno, and Conan O'Brien
13. Go to sleep

Vocab.:
1.Intuit

"Personal, Social- Old friends recall or intuit a mix of reasons for the name change."

Context clues/word analysis: This sentence is about the reasons given about why Barak Obama had changed his name from his friends point of view.

Original Sentence: A mother's intuition made her realize that her daughter had been lying.

2. Composites

Context clues/word analysis: the beginning of the word, comp-, made me think that it probably has to do with being made of more than one material.

Original sentence: Many of the characters in Roger's story are composites of people that he knew when he was growing up in his old neighborhood.

3.Kinship

context clues/word analysis: probably has to do with family relations. The word kin means family, and ship I think has to do with a relation of some kind.

Original Sentence: The kinship between Robert and his sister Stacy had been strong up until Robert had been shipped to Iraq to serve in the Marines.