Academic Vocabulary [Collection 8]

1. Contribute to - Eric didn't contribute to the fight between Blake and Patrick for a girl, he was just a bystander, but he didn't try to stop them either. 
2. Insight -Alex showed off his significant insight when Mr.Blake asked us about our religion presentation, he kept on talking about things only he and Mr. Blake could understand, the rest of the class just sat there and stared at them.
3. Evident - He told me he had some business to finish but the truth is he was going to a party with his friends, it was evident he lied to me, and he knew that, but he kept on telling lies. 
4. Express - When Mr. Patrick saw me crying in his class yesterday, he told me whenever I felt depress, I should write poems to express my feelings, I would feel better.

Vocabulary

1. Potentially - Mr. Patrick is potentially "The Teacher of The Year" this year.
2. Ample - I had an ample of money after Tet but I spent all of them on my field trip at Cat Tien
3. Hazard - I was in a hazard when I found myself standing in the middle of the road where cars were almost flying on the road.
4. Proposal - If you want to have a party in my backyard, I suggest that you give my dad a proposal about it.
5. Empowered - Mr. Sam empowered me to guard the class for him when he was out.

The Drummer Boy Vocabulary

1. Intensified - The relationship between us had been intensified in these last few days.
2. Vital - I had never thought that he's vital to my life that much.
3. Immortality - I wish that I could live a life of a immortality.
4. Legitimate - After the wary, the dictator must give the power back to the legitimate council.
5. Tremor - When I was crying, there are always slightly tremors in my voice.

Old Major's Speech Propaganda

Camp Harmony Vocabulary

1. Observation - They kept him under closely observation so they can control the beast in him.
2. Emphasize - I needed to emphasize that I'm fine so my mom would let me hangout with my friends on Saturday.
3. Reaction -   I would love to see how the girls react when Justin Bieber walks by.
4. Define - How would you define a word without knowing what it meaning is???
5. Tersely - I usually get annoyed by people who answered my questions with a tersely voice.
6. Breach - The zombies had made a breach in my defense system in my backyard.
7. Vigil - I kept vigil all night waiting for a good news from my friends in Ha Noi. 

Literary Focus ( Question 5)

Before the characters and author got onto the bus, they were smiling and waving, but when they got onto their bus, their expressions changed immediately. They all became very quiet, (except for a group of university students) concentrated, kind of sad and angry, even annoyed. Like how the author described in her autobiography, " when our bus turned a corner and we no longer had to smile and wave, we settled back gravely in our seats." When they come to the end of their journey, they felt surprise and angry. Because they saw the place that they would have to live in.

My Expository Essay

Love the way you lie [part 2]

INVISIBLE - JONAS BROTHER

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Vocabulary of Stories We read this week

1. Mesmerized - When I finally got to Da Lat, the view of mountains and clouds there mesmerized me, it was so beautiful, I looked at it, unable to say a single word.
2. Impeccably - To the outsiders, it was an impeccably couple, but that was because they wasn't there, watch them fight with each other.
3. Petrified - I stood there petrified as the image of the truck smashed the body of a poor little puppy on the middle of the road into pieces appeared right before my eyes.
4. Stoically - I looked down at my feet, stoically listened to the coach's judgment about the final score of the game, although I didn't agree with it.
5. Dissuade - I tried to dissuade David not to rob the bank for money for drugs, but he didn't listen to me, and guess what, he ended up in prison.
6. Chaotic - The school canteen was just chaotic, because all of the students of the school were pushing each other to order food at lunch
7. Negotiated - I negotiated with my brother so that both of us can use the computer on Saturday and Sunday so that our dad won't have to yell us for fighting over it.
8. Acquisition - I like your new acquisition of shoes, can you tell me where did you buy them?
9. Corps - In sixth grade, I learned about the Peace Corp and I was very impress about what they did together to help our world better, and I would want to be one of them in the future. 
10. Commemorate - I will go to Japan and see Sadako's statue in real life, she's a hero to me, although she was dying from the atomic bomb, she still had hope and she also passed the hope to other people.
11. Mimicking - She was mimicking the teacher and the whole class was laughing so hard, then suddenly, the teacher walked into the classroom and gave her 2 hours detention for a week.
12. Resembles - My dad always says that I resembled him when I was a little girl, but I think I still do now, I walk like him, talk like him, even sometimes I found myself think like him.
    

Gentleman of Río en Medio Vocabulary

1. Negotiation - There was a negotiation about between my brother and I on how long should each of us use the computer.
2. Innumerable - I forgot the innumerable times I called my mom to pick me up when she threw her phone at home and went hang out with her friends.  
3. Boundaries - There's an invisible boundary between my mom and I because we don't get along with each other very well
4. Descendants - I don't think I will have any descendant because I am not gonna marry anyone.

Stop The Sun Vocabulary

1. Commotion - She couldn't move while watching the commotion in the horror movie in the theater.
2. Founder - I was foundered when my brother proposed to his girlfriend at our house last night.
3. Ruin -  Yesterday Rome was a city, today it is nothing but a ruin. 
4. Inert - I looked inert at the beautiful artwork that was turning into pieces.

Literary Focus Question # 6

Don Anselmo didn't reveal who "owns" the trees at his first visit because of many reasons. Firstly, he thought he doesn't "own" the trees so it wasn't his right to tell the lawyer who really "owns" the trees. The Americans thought they got the land and house for a cheap price, but instead, they got all these children annoyed them for another price to pay. Secondly, he didn't tell them because he respects the children and their trees, he could ask for their permission to sell them in the first place, but he didn't. He wanted them to keep their trees, and also their culture. I think it's something cultural about those trees that he didn't want the Americans to know about. And finally he honored his culture and he also wanted the children to honor the culture by keeping them, not selling them, but he decided it is their choice sell it or not, because they "own" the trees. 

Literary Focus

I think Terry was right when he asked his father about his experiences in the Vietnam war. Although his father said that talking about it doesn't help make things better, I believe he just didn't find the right person to talk and share about his time there. By asking his father about his experiences, he helped his father talk about things that mentally tormented him for years. And it helped Terry's father feels better and it also healed his heart from what he had seen in the Vietnam war. Terry also understands his father better by talking to him and cares about his father more, Terry won't be embarrass of his father again because he understands what his father had been through. I think Terry made a right choice by asking his father about his experiences in the Vietnam war.

OUR FUTURE

OUR FUTURE

“Hurry up, son! You’re gonna be late for work and we won’t be able to find enough oil for today” – shouts the Father, and he flee out of the old wooden door for his daily work at the dirty diamond mine not far from their old house.

“June 17^th, 2510,

Just another day of hard working but still no food…..” The Son closes his diary and jumps down the archaic floor that had broken for years even before he was born, and almost fall. He’s a fine young man, at the start of his twenties. He has beautiful blonde hair like his mother, big, blue eyes like his father. He is the strongest kid in the whole village, he’s always the winner in those muscle contests.

“Wait son, you forgot your lunch box, AGAIN!” The Mother calls out to her son with a tired voice from their small kitchen at the back of the house.

“Thanks, mom! Take care, don’t work too hard or you’ll get sicker. We’ll bring you some good food today for you to improve your health.” The Son talks softly to his little mother. He smiles to her, takes her hand, kisses it, takes his lunch box and runs after his dad. He doesn’t know that is the last time he would ever see her alive again.

They are living in the year 2510 of the future, at a place called Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. In the past few hundreds years, mankind had created robots that is as smart as people to provide enough workers for the population that is growing non-stop, but it was the stupidest idea of our children in the future.

….Year 2450, there was a mistake in the process of creates a mind for a kind of robots. They had to destroy and throw away a thousand robots of that kind, but they didn’t do it properly. Year 2455, in only 10 years, those robots raised, mesmerizes all kinds of robots to come together and they killed anyone who doesn’t obey and rebels against them….

The Son and his dad are working in the dirty diamond mine. This is a new mine of this area, they didn’t know there is oil here until the robots took over and forced them to dig to find oil. The Son stops digging, looks around, all he could sees is worried faces, dirty clothes, they all try to find as much diamond as they could for food. The funny thing is he’s doing it himself. He was lazy; he doesn’t want to touch or even walk into these dirty mine full of dirt. He had changed, because his dad couldn’t find enough food for his mom and himself when she became sick. He loves his mom a lot, so he begged his dad so he could work here and help him take care of his mom.

“STOP!!!!....” A voice of a robot suddenly brings him back to the mine, he looks up, all he could see is hatred, he curses them, and it is all their faults that his mom is sick.

“You” The robot points at him, he steps forward, all the other people around him look scares, and they don’t want to be involved, indeed they don’t, those robots are nothing but troubles and deaths.

 “Where’s your dad????”  “I don’t know” “Go look for that old man, fools, and keep the child here, don’t let him run away.” The robot in charged demanded his soldiers. The Son knows what’s going on, he tries to get away from those robots but couldn’t. He wanted to go home to find his mom; his dad can take care of himself but his mom…. She’s sick and weak.

“They caught him…” He thought sadly and looks at his dad but. He doesn’t know what they are going to do with his dad, but when he sees the Executed robot comes, he tries to get out of this robot’s hold and comes to save his dad, but no use. His dad was killed right in front of his eyes, he tries to look away, but the robot wouldn’t let him. He couldn’t see anymore, his eyes are blurry, full of tears, and he couldn’t remember the last time he cried. As soon as the robots release him, he runs as fast as he possibly could home, but all he could find is the bloody body of his mom. He couldn’t make any sounds but his tears just keep dropping. His whole body is shaking; he can’t even stand properly. He lost both of his mom and dad, now he’s all alone in this big world

 He stayed there for hours, looking at the bodies of his mom and dad that a good neighbor brought to him. He falls asleep, wakes up, sees the bodies, cries again, and then falls asleep again. After two days, he decides to bring the bodies into his backyard and buries them.

A month after that, he is like a walking mummy. His face is pale, he never speaks to anyone, and the tears keeps falling from his eyes, and he can’t stop them. From a nice, lovely young man who always likes to help others, now there’s nothing in him but hatred. He even planned to run right into those robots to revenge for his parents, he feels like there is a fire in him, encourages him, and gives him inspiration.

Then one day, a person comes and changes his life. He explains himself as part of the rebellions who are working to overthrow the evil rule of the robots. And he would like The Son to join him. “We need more people to get things done and ready for THAT DAY” The Guy says.

The Son thinks about his dad, his mom, and all the terrible things those robots have done to mankind, the people who are still have to live under the cruel rule and deaths. He decides he needs to help them, so he joins them. For months, he goes to work at the mine like nothing’s happening, and in there, he works with rebellions to dig a way into the head quarter of the robots. They also make weapons and persuade people to join them for a better future for mankind. By working with these people, it helps him forget about sadness and makes him fit in and create good relationships with others. 

“June 17^th, 2515,

Today is the 5 years death ceremony of my parents and I’m going to revenge for them….”

“July 17^th, 2515,

WE LOST!!!! Wait for me, mom, dad, I’m coming with you, and all my rebellions friends……”

A Retrieved Reformation Vocabulary

1. Rehabilitate - People who was released from prisons should try to rehabilitate to have a better life in society and people will forget that they committed crime.
2. Clemency - His crime wasn't that bad, so the judge gave him clemency for telling the truth about it.
3. Elusive - I have an elusive memory, I can hardly remember what happened in Mr. Blake's class at the end of the day.
4. Anguish - My anguish after we lost the basketball game was so clear that people was scared of me.

Writing Focus: Think as a Reader/ Writer

She was playing basketball with the boys in the schoolyard when her mom arrives to pick her up.  She ran to the fifth floor as fast as she could and came back in two minutes with her schoolbag and a bunch of heavy-looking books. Her mom gave her the helmet but she denied it with a tired, sleepy expression on her face. She was almost falling as sleep on their way home, but she was managed to over come and stay awake. And she fell asleep before she could finish all of her homework.

Weekend Homework

Dear Alex the Genius,

I am hosting a pool party at my house this weekend, which is in district 1, near to our school, and I would love to have you join with me. Don’t tell me, I know that you would probably say no, but let me tell you a few reasons why you shouldn’t miss my pool party. We have a lot of homework from our beloved teachers this weekend, so if you come to my house, we can do the homework together and still have fun. It is way better than staying home, trying to do that homework for all day long, which is BORING!!!! Many brains work better and faster than just one.

You’ll be staying at my home all day and we can many different activities other than just swimming. We can watch movies; but you would have to bring whatever movie you want to watch. While watching it, we can eat popcorn, and still discussing about the homework, if you want to, but I don’t the others would like to. There will be a lot of people hang out with us, don’t worry, I wouldn’t invite you if there are just you and me. After that, we can hangout for a little bit, go shopping for a little bit at Parkson Hung Vuong. Or we will just go around the city, it will be fun.

My mom will cook for us food at lunch; she’ll cook healthy foods that I bet you would love to eat. And you can choose where we’ll be eating dinner, if you guys will be staying that late. We can eat KFC, Lotteria… Whatever you want. Then we can go back to my house and continue our homework. When we finished all of that homework, we can watch some more movies and of course with popcorn.

You can choose to go or not to, but I’m telling you, this will be fun, I’m excited about it. You can go home any time you want, but you wouldn’t want to miss all the fun, right???? Hope to see you there.

Love,

Jessica