Vocab words

Vocab words

Optimist: An optimist is someone who always sees the bright side of any situation — a trait that can be either encouraging or annoying, depending on your frame of mind.

He was an optimist, he always looked at the bright side of life.

Pessimist: Pessimists always see the worst.

She was a pessimist, as she always said that she will fail her test.

Oscillate: On a hot day, you’ll be happy to have a fan that can oscillate, meaning it moves back and forth in a steady motion.

The steam engine's piston oscillated as it went back and forth.

Cog: An engine needs each of its part to work. It has gears which have wheels. Each wheel has cogs, or tiny teeth that fit together, making the wheel turn, the engine run. Every cog is essential to that engine.

I added the cog to the laptop and it worked fine.

Chime:
A percussion instrument.

I hit the chime and it went : gonggggg...

Dynasty:
A dynasty is a series of leaders in the same family, like the British Royal Family, or a local business dynasty, in which four generations have made their fortune at the family store.

The royal family is a long dynasty.

Heir:
If your grandfather leaves his candy factory to you in his will, it means you're the heir to the family candy business, and after your grandfather dies, you will inherit the factory.

I am the heir to the throne.

Glower:
If you see someone glower at you, you might consider glowering back, but no one likes an angry staring contest. To glower is not only to stare, it's to stare angrily, as if you're going to throttle someone.

I hate to be in a glower contest with Bob.

Landlady Genre Description

The Landlady is a mystery and suspense story.

This is a mystery:

"such a very great pleasure when now and again I open the door and I see someone standing there who is just exactly right.” (Exactly right- exactly right for what???)

“No, my dear,” she said. “Only you.” (That is mysterious that nobody had come to this Bed and Breakfast in two years.)

This is a mystery because weird and mysterious things happen.

This is also suspense:

"The tea tasted faintly of bitter almonds, and he didn’t much care for it" (Bitter almonds is poison for humans and to other too animals.)

“Oh, it’s the perfect age!" (The landlady is thinking about the perfect age to stuff a human.)

“Five and sixpence a night, including breakfast.” (This is the 'too good to be true' price to lour people in.)

Raymond's Run Genre Descriptions

Raymond's run is a realistic fiction story.

"if I am a little girl with skinny arms and a squeaky voice, which
is how I got the name Squeaky."

This shows that the main character is; a human- not an animal or any other living or non living thing.
This is a realistic story, being  a really fast runner could be the matter for anyone.
Also any girl could be skinny and have a squeaky voice.

Kensuke's Kingdom

  Kensuke's Kingdom

This book is a suspense, realistic fiction and last but not least a coming of age story.

This is a suspense story. "We were in the cold of the sea before I could even open my mouth to scream." This is because because the main character, Michael is thrown off a sailing boat, falls into the sea and disappears. The rest of the book is full of suspense about the way he is going to get off the island and if he is going to be able to get home safely.

This is coming of age. "It has been honour to know you, great honour of my life." This is because Michael spends a substantial amount of time on an island living with a old Japanese man, and during this period of time with the man he grows up and becomes a mature young man.

This is a realistic fiction. "Until I was nearly eleven, until the letter came, life was just normal." There is a good chance of this happening to a sailing family; it is realistic to fall off a boat, it can happen to anyone, especially to real people. This is what makes it a realistic fiction.

Diary of a Wimpy Kid:Old School

Old School (book no. 10)

This story is a realistic fiction, a suspense story, a mystery and coming of age.

This is a mystery. "BEWARE of Silas Scratch" This is a mystery because there is a quest to find a mysterious figure- which turns out to be completely fake.  This is because Silas is just the main character's dad's made up story to hide a shed.

This is a realistic fiction. "And if you ever do something in a public place, trust me, its gonna get recorded." This is because it is fiction and also there is a possibility that this could happen to a real person. The characters are all human so it could be real.

This is suspense. "So I went to look for firewood by myself." This is because Greg (the main character) walks in the dark woods on his own and thinking about Silas.

This story can be a coming of age story. "But I think they're just jealous because MY generation has all this fancy technology and stuff they didn't have growing up." This is because this book is written about children growing up and coming over their fears.

Sink or Capture

Sink or capture

This story is historical fiction, realistic fiction and suspense.

This is a historical fiction "leave one company here to hold the place. Embark the other three companies in Cassandra." This is said by the Captain to an officer. This is what could have happened in WW2  - HMS Cassandra was an actual ship in the Royal Navy at the time of the Second World War.

This is a realistic fiction because this could have happened to a Captain of a battle ship in WW2. "This could have happened to any Captain." This is a realistic story ; the ship is real, the Captain is real in the story, as well as the operation that was carried out could be similar to a proper operation carried out at the time.

This is also suspense. "Smith said OK, and he was left on his own." this is because there are breath holding moments; when the Captain was wounded and was in a critical state. These parts were also exciting because I was really interested about the next happenings.

Old School Fiction Genres

My Folk tale: The Tree

http://dinolingo.com/blog/2012/07/24/great-greek-folk-tales-for-kids/#.Vj9HzstdGHs

My Fairy tale: Fairy Gardens

http://europeisnotdead.com/disco/books-of-europe/european-fairy-tales/greece-fairy-gardens/

My Fable: The Monkey and the Camel

http://www.read.gov/aesop/059.html

My Legend: Heracles

http://europeisnotdead.com/disco/books-of-europe/european-legends/greece-heracles/

My Myth: Poseidon

http://www.talesbeyondbelief.com/myth-stories/poseidon-the-god-of-the-sea.htm

My Story I chose. (a fable)

The Monkey and the Camel

One day all the animals celebrated the king lion. The monkey showed the king his dancing as he danced well and did clever new dance moves. The king and all the animals were happy to see the monkey dance. But then through the crowd there was a Camel who was envious. He wanted to show the king and the animals that he was better at dancing. So he started it. The camel’s dancing was really weird and the king didn’t like it, but nor did the other animals. The monkey didn’t even think that that is called dancing. Then as the camel came nearer to the king the camel nearly stepped on the lion. All the animals got angry at this and chased the ridicules dancing camel out into the desert.

 

The moral of the story is do not try to ape your betters.

(Aesop 6th century BC)

I know that this story is a fable because:

Fables are usually short stories. Often animals are given human like characteristics in fables.
They are either in verses or in prose.
Fables end with a moral to teach a lesson.

The short story above satisfies all the requirements, therefore I would call it a fable. 

Fairy Gardens (a fairy tale)

Long, Long ago Uncle Kostas lay under a tree and snoozed off, after he awoke he saw fairies jumping around him. He was about to get his gun when, he couldn’t move the fairies went away then came back with their queen. Kostas was whizzed with a super power to the fairy gardens as prisoner. The queen said:

“Here you must stay
For a year and a day,
And never, oh never,
Will you wish to go away.”

As he was taken through the gardens he saw amazing flower beds. He was then sent to an island on a lake in the middle of the gardens.

A year and a day past and the queen asked Kostas if he wanted to stay, but he said no. The queen was fine with that but Kostas needed to take a challenge first; the queen said that she had lost a golden vase in the gardens and Kostas’s job was to get that back to the queen before the sun set. So Kostas went and looked everywhere in the gardens, but after a while he gave up hope. So he sat next to the lake and stared into the mirroring of the water. Then all of a sudden up floated the golden vase to Kostas, he quickly went and gave it to the queen.

Kostas could go back to his home land again. (happily ever after)

 

The story I read out has most of the following statements that makes a story a fairy tale so it is one.

Fairy tales have magical and enchanted forces.  They often have a "happily ever after" ending, where good is rewarded and evil is punished or sometimes good escapes something or gets rewarded.

 

 

 

 

 

A Sound of thunder comprehension

Comprehension Questions:

1. The penalty for disobeying instructions is $10,000 and possible government actions.

2. If Deutscher had gotten in they would have wanted to go back to 1492.

3. Trevor says that this is the best way to kill a dinosaur :  Put your first two shots into the eyes, if you can, blind them, and go back into the brain.

4. The men travelled sixty million two thousand and fifty-five years back in time.

5. The ant-gravity metal path's purpose is so the men don't touch the world of the past in any way.

6. The machine and the men's clothes were sterilized.

7. The men wear oxygen helmets so the ancient atmosphere is kept clean of the men's bacteria in there breath.

8. The unique thing about the dinosaurs that they can shoot are animals that are going to die soon later in the nature.

9. "I'm shaking like a kid." said Eckels jokingly.

10. "It can't be killed," said Eckels after he met the dinosaur.

11. The men know which dinosaurs to shoot by marking the dinosaurs with red paint before the actual safari.

12. Billings and Kramer threw up after the dinosaur was dead.

13. Travis makes Eckels take the bullets out of the dinosaur.

14. Eckels notices the sign was different, it sounded the same if you read it out but spelt differently.

15. Eckels found a dead butterfly on the bottom of his boots.

Extension Questions:

1. What I inferred was that something tragic was going to happen.

He did not move. Eyes shut, he waited, shivering. He heard Travis breathe loud in the room; he heard Travis shift his rifle, click the safety catch, and raise the weapon.

 

This means that Travis is going to shoot Eckles. This is an inference.

 

 

2.My Paragraph: Eckels stood smelling of the air...

 

'His body screamed silence in return.'

 

This helps enhance the story by saying that Eckels was screaming inside because of the horror of Travis' madness.

 

'The colours, white, grey, blue, orange, in the wall,'

 

This shows sight imagery this makes the story more 'colourful '

 

'What sort of world it was now, there was no telling.'

 

This is saying that the world as they knew it in the story was probably changed dramatically.

 

3.

 

a) 'Eyes shut, he waited, shivering. He heard Travis breathe loud in the room; he heard Travis shift his rifle, click the safety catch, and raise the weapon.

There was a sound of thunder.

This foreshadows that Travis shot Eckels.'

b) 'You joking? You know very well.'

This foreshadows that everyone knows except for them because they changed the whole world, especially the new president of the USA.

c) "I've hunted tiger, wild boar, buffalo, elephant, but now, this is it," said Eckels.

This foreshadows that Eckels is an experienced hunter but he is really scared of the
Tyrannosaurus Rex.

d) 'I might kill you yet. I've got my gun ready.'

This foreshadows that Travis is mad at Eckels and Travis could kill Eckels.

e) "We guarantee nothing," said the official, "except the dinosaurs."

This foreshadows that Eckels is probably going to hunt dinosaurs. 

Bonus Question:

Anaphora: When the same word or phrase is used at the beginning of a series of sentences, that's anaphora.

The Machine slowed; its scream fell to a murmur. The Machine stopped.

Metaphor: To transfer a quality from one thing to another.

Each leg was a piston.

Simile: comparing two things using like or as.


My symbolism from the story:

'They're marked with red paint,'

The colour red symbolises danger.

figarutive language

Simile- comparison
(the things that are the same)
 Using 'like' or 'as'.

the toy bear was cute as a kitten

the student was as busy as a bee

he was as agile as a monkey

the sky was as black as coal

the man was as blind as a bat

Metaphor- transferring
a quality from one thing to another

the big kids called me mercury because I am the swiftest thing in the neighbour hood

computers are complicated idiots

he drowned in a sea of grief

she fishing in troubled waters

outside was a freezer


Symbols- something that represents something else.

Raymond's Run JKay

1. signify


Denote or connote
"I don’t think you’re going to win this time
," says Rosie, trying to signify with her
hands on her hips all salty, completely
forgetting that I have whupped her behind
many times for less salt than that.
He wanted to signify that his food was better quality.
　


2. prefer


Like better; value more highly
I’m ready to fight, cause like I said
I don’t feature a whole lot of chit-chat, I
much prefer to just knock you down right from the jump and save everybody a
lotta precious time.
I prefer wireless mouse over a mouse with a cable.


3. hustle


Move or cause to move energetically or busily
And I don’t have to earn my pocket money by hustling; George runs errands
for the big boys and sells Christmas cards.
"What’s all this hustle about?" Asked the man.


4. periscope


An instrument providing a view of an obstructed field
He
looks around the park for
Gretchen like a periscope in a submarine movie.
When the submarine captain announced "Up periscope." All of the crew immediately got the periscope ready for action.


5. static


Not in physical motion
Raymond is hollering
from the swings
cause he knows I’m about to do my thing cause the man on the loudspeaker has
just announced the fifty-yard dash, although
he might just as well be giving a
recipe for angel food cake cause you can hardly make out what he’s sayin for the
static.
The boy became static after he saw the cat jump of the fence.
　


6. rowdy


Disturbing the public peace; loud and rough
The parkees unfolding chairs and chasing the
rowdy kids from Lenox as if they had
no right to be there.
The drums were too rowdy next to the Maths room.


7. slosh


Spill or splash copiously or clumsily
And sometimes after a rain he likes to step down off his tightrope
right into the gutter and slosh around getting his shoes and cuffs wet.
The baby sloshed the milk out of her Mother’s hands.


8. uptight


Being in a tense state
I’ll high-prance down 34th Street like a rodeo pony to keep my
knees strong even if it does get my mother
uptight so that she walks ahead like
she’s not with me, don’t know me, is all by herself on a shopping trip, and I am
somebody else’s crazy child.
The girl was uptight with the boy.
 
9. glockenspiel 
A percussion instrument consisting of a set of metal bars
Most of the kids in my class are carrying bass drums and glockenspiels and flutes.
The boy played the glockenspiel gracefully.

Second list.
1.

prodigy

wonder child

He had an amazing prodigy - he had finished his university degree at aged 14. 

2.

corsage

bouquet

The man's corsage fell off his jacket un-noticed.
 
3.


spiel

plausible glib talk

The man told a boring long spiel.

 

4.

 

liable

non-resistant

The country was liable to loosing the war.

 
5.

ventriloquist

a performer who projects the voice into a wooden dummy

The man liked the ventriloquist, because he was funny.

 

6.
 

jam-packed

crowded
The book was jam-packed with funniness.
 

 

Question 2

“I always win cause I’m the best,”
I infer that Squeaky is a fast runner.

“Well, Hazel Elizabeth Deborah Parker, going to give someone else a break this year?”
I infer that Squeaky was won the race every year.


Question 3

I much rather just knock you down and take my chances even if 'I am a little girl with skinny arms and a squeaky voice,' which is how I got the name Squeaky.
This shows the how 'Squeaky' looks like: She is a girl, with skinny arms and a squeaky voice.
This is showing sight imagery.

I was once a strawberry in a Hansel and Gretel pageant when I was in nursery school,
This is also imagery of sight.

I’m the fastest thing on two feet.
Also imagery of sight.

Question 4

But a lot of people call him my little brother cause he needs looking after
cause he’s not quite right.
This tells us that Raymond is (unfortunately) mentally handicapped.

the landlady

1.

Foreshadowing is an advance sign or warning of what is to come in the future. The author of a mystery novel might use foreshadowing in the early chapter of his book to give readers an inkling of an impending murder.

I foreshadowed that there will be a storm tomorrow. 

2.

An inference is what you think will happen usually really soon but foreshadowing is what will happen in the fare future.
“Left?” she said, arching her brows. “But my dear boy, he never left. He’s still here. Mr Temple is also here. They’re on the fourth floor, both of them together.” 


3.
swanky

1. They had porches and pillars and four or five steps going up to their front doors, and it was obvious that once upon a time they had been very swanky residences.

On the other hand, a pub would be more congenial than a boarding house.

The name itself conjured up images of watery cabbage, rapacious landladies, and a powerful smell of kippers in the living room.

After dithering about like this in the cold for two or three minutes, Billy decided that he would walk on and take a look at The Bell and Dragon before making up his mind.

Each word was like a large black eye staring at him through the glass, holding him, compelling him, forcing him to stay where he was and not to walk away from that house, and the next thing he knew, he was actually moving across from the window to the front door of the house, climbing the steps that led up to it, and reaching for the bell.

The compulsion or, more accurately, the desire to follow after her into that house was extraordinarily strong.

The old girl is slightly dotty, Billy told himself.

“Dear me,” she said, shaking her head and heaving a dainty little sigh.

There is nothing more tantalizing than a thing like this that lingers just outside the borders of one’s memory.

There is nothing more tantalizing than a thing like this that lingers just outside the borders of one’s memory.

Emanate

To give out, a breath or an odour.

A pleased and satisfied look came over his countenance as the cooking odours emanating from the kitchen became more pronounced.

 

Malevolent

Wishing or appearing to wish evil to others.

The man before him did not speak, but those glittering eyes—burning, malevolent, ominous—seemed to cry out with surprise, hatred, and threats.

 

Naive

Marked by or showing unaffected simplicity.

But many nuns are highly educated, well-travelled and sophisticated, not naive and cloistered.

 

Gullible

Easily tricked because of being too trusting.

Kids are more impulsive, gullible, and trusting, and don’t focus as much on long-term consequences.

 

Beguiling

Misleading by means of pleasant or alluring methods

Kids of all ages are riveted, in the palm of his gently beguiling hand.


4.

“It said BED AND BREAKFAST. There was a vase of yellow chrysanthemums, tall and beautiful, standing just underneath the notice.”

This shows an example of sight. This helps to tell the story by telling us what Billy sees.

“Billy started sipping his tea. She did the same. For half a minute or so, neither of them spoke.”

This shows an example of hearing. This helps to tell the story by telling us what the characters hear.

5.

Stuffing her pets and stuffing people she murdered (Poison).

“The tea tasted faintly of bitter almonds, and he didn’t much care for it.”

“He put out a hand and touched it gently on the top of its back. The back was hard and cold, and when he pushed the hair to one side with his fingers, he could see the skin underneath, greyish black and dry and perfectly preserved.”

6.

“Not in the least,” she said. “I stuff all my little pets myself when they pass away. Will you have another cup of tea?” 

“No, thank you,” Billy said. The tea tasted faintly of bitter almonds, and he didn’t much care for it. 

“You did sign the book, didn’t you?” 

“Oh, yes.” 

“That’s good. Because later on, if I happen to forget what you were called, then I could always come down here and look it up. I still do that almost every day with Mr. Mulholland and Mr. . . .

Mr. . . .” 

This is the climax of this story were you notice the big turnaround, hence the; “The tea tasted faintly of bitter almonds, and didn’t care much of it.”

I didn’t realised that she was a murderer until I understood ‘the bitter almonds’ phrase.

7.

After I understood that the burnt almonds were poison I really wanted to read on- unfortunately the story ended and I didn’t appreciate that. (I enjoyed the story even before I knew what the smell of burnt almonds meant, even after I understood what it meant I still liked the story but I didn’t understand the story properly.)



8.

Even though I like stories with cliff hangers I think that this story has a too much cliff hanger in it. That is why I dislike the story especially the ending.

 

pejorative

 

A Barbarian

Is an insulting word for a person from an uncivilized culture or a person with no manners. Barbarians aren't known for their etiquette. Those barbarians — back in an

arbarian is an insulting word for a person from an uncivilized culture or a person with no manners. Barbarians aren't known for their etiquette. Those barbarians — back in ancient times they were always invading and pillaging and generally unleashing their fury on the more "civilized" Greeks and Romans. The barbarian hordes are long gone, but we still use this word as an insult for anyone who's acting rude, uncultured, or particularly savage. If you pick up a whole turkey leg and start gnawing like an animal at the dinner table, the other guests might call you a barbarian.

 Hun an offensive word to a German descendent

Vandalism is the destruction of someone else's property. Some people think of graffiti as public art, while others dismiss it as nothing but vandalism. If you damage public or private property on purpose, you've committed the crime of vandalism. The range of vandalism can vary from carving your initials in a desk at school to tearing pages out of a library book to breaking windows of a building. The word vandal comes from the Vandals, the Germanic tribe that attacked Rome in 455. The tribe's name meant "wanderer," but the word vandal was used in the 1600s to mean "destroyer of what is beautiful."

Mongol is a member of the mongoloid race.

Call a word or phrase pejorative if it is used as a disapproving expression or a term of abuse:

Goth

Cohee

Cannibal

 

cient times they were always invading and pillaging and generally unleashing their fury on the more "civilized" Greeks and Romans. The barbarian hordes are long gone, but we still use this word as an insult for anyone who's acting rude, uncultured, or particularly savage. If you pick up a whole turkey leg and start gnawing like an animal at the dinner table, the other guests might call you a barbarian.

 Hun an offensive word to a German descendent

Vandalism is the destruction of someone else's property. Some people think of graffiti as public art, while others dismiss it as nothing but vandalism. If you damage public or private property on purpose, you've committed the crime of vandalism. The range of vandalism can vary from carving your initials in a desk at school to tearing pages out of a library book to breaking windows of a building. The word vandal comes from the Vandals, the Germanic tribe that attacked Rome in 455. The tribe's name meant "wanderer," but the word vandal was used in the 1600s to mean "destroyer of what is beautiful."

Mongol is a member of the mongoloid race.

Call a word or phrase pejorative if it is used as a disapproving expression or a term of abuse:

Goth

Cohee

Cannibal