"Young Goodman Brown" Symbols

    The Staff

1. The old man gave this staff to goodman brown.
2. This symbolizes evil.
3. This influences my understanding of the story becasause it told me that evil things were about to happen.

     The Old Man

1. This is the man that Goodman brown ran into in the forest.
2. He symbolizes the devil.
3. This influences my understanding of the story by telling me that he is evil.

     Goodman Brown

1. This is his name.
2. This symbolizes that he is a goodman.
3. This influences my understanding of the story by telling me that he is a goodman.

     Faith

1. This is Goodman Browns wife.
2. This symbolizes that she is faithful.
3. This influences my understanding of the story because later she is confused by who she should trust.

     Pink Ribbons

1. The ribbons on her cap.
2. This symbolizes her purity.
3. This influences my understanding of the story because later her ribbons are lost and her purity is lost.

     Thick Boughs Ahead

1. The forest he is going to go through.
2. This symbolizes a scary place.
3. This influences my understanding of the story because the forest becomes a scay place for the characters.

     Goodman Woke Up In The Forest

1. He wakes up later in a confused state of mind.
2. This symbolizes that he was dreaming.
3. This influences my understanding of the story because it tells us that he was dreaming.

Notes on Meanings, Signs, and Symbols (Part 1)

• a meaning is something that we get out of, for example why do we breath in oxygen...to live.
• a sign is something something that stands for something else but then we connect to another thing. For example when we see a cloudy sky we think of rain.
• a symbol is something that stands for something esle.

Don't know why vocab came out like that!

Vocabulary: Fall List #2

Intercede- to act or interpose in behalf of someone in difficulty or trouble as by pleading or petition.
Ex: We must intercede for that defendant. 
Hackneyed- made commonplace or trite; stale; banal
Ex: The hackneyed images of his story.
Approbation- official approval or sanction.
Ex: We must get their approbation before we go.
Innuendo- An indirect intimation about a person or thing, especially of a disparaging or a derogatory nature.
Ex: Their are so many innuendos for what you just said.
Coalition- A combination or alliance, especially a temporary one between persons, factions, states, etc.
Ex: The two countries went into coalition when war started.
Elicit- To draw or bring out or forth; educe; evoke.
Ex: To elicit a response with a question.
Hiatus- a break or interruption in the continuity of a work, series, action, etc.
Ex: This problem is causing a hiatus.
Assuage- to make milder or less severe; relieve; ease; mitigate.
Ex: To assuage one's pain.
Decadence- the act or  process of falling into an inferior condition or state; deterioration; decay.
Ex: Some historians hold that the fall of Rome can be attributed to internal decadence.
Expostulate- To reason earnestly with someone against something that person intends to do or has done.
Ex:  His father expostulated with him about the evils of gambling.
Simulate- To create a simulation, likeness, or model of a situation.
Ex: To stimulate crisis conditions.
Jaded- Dulled or satiated by overindulgence.
Ex: A jaded appetite.
Umbrage-  Offense.
Ex: To give umbrage to someone.
Prerogative- An exclusive right or privilege.
Ex: The prerogatives of a senator.
Lurid- Gruesome or horrible.
Ex: The lurid details of an accident.
Transcend- To rise above or go beyond.
Ex: To transcend the limits of thought.
Provincial- Belonging or peculiar to some particular province.
Ex: The provincial newspaper.
Petulant- Moved to or showing sudden, impatient irritation, especially over some trifling annoyance.
Ex: A petulant toss of the head.
Unctuous- Charactrized by excessive piousness or moralistic fervor, especially in an affected manner.
Ex: He has an unctuous personality.
Meritorious- Derserving praise.
Ex: To receive a gift for meritorious service.

Tone and Mood of "Earth on Turtles Back"

I think the tone of this story is very meaningful. I think it is meaningful because it is one cultures perspective on how the earth was created. I think the mood of this story is serious and happy beacuse when they couldn't bring the earth from under the sea it was very serious, but when the muskrat finally did bring it up and the earth started to grow on the turtles back, it became happy.

Notes from today's Socratic seminar

• The purpose of arguing is to find the truth.
• Ad Hominem- to the man instead of the argument.
• Most people that are in an argument and know that they are going to lose tend to keep on saying that they are right and they do that because they are to stubborn to say that they are wrong.

Assignment #1

The reason that I am taking this course is because I like english classes and I have to take it in order to graduate. I am excited to use this whole blogging idea as a new way to learn english. I think that it is a really good idea to do this because all teens our age spend most of their time on the internet anyways. I am kind of nervous of the fact that it is all going to be online and it might become a little confusing, but it shouldn't be that hard to get the hang of. My goal for this course is to get an A in the class. I  expect my knowledge of online blogging to grow and for me to understand literature better too as well.