poem

Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveler, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth;

Then took the other, as just as fair,
And having perhaps the better claim,
Because it was grassy and wanted wear;
Though as for that the passing there
Had worn them really about the same,

And both that morning equally lay
In leaves no step had trodden black.
Oh, I kept the first for another day!
Yet knowing how way leads on to way,
I doubted if I should ever come back.

I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.”
― Robert Frost

What would you do

If someone gave you 10 billion dollars and told you to fix the country by any means you see fit how would you do it.

comment below and tell me your answer.

Spring Vocab 2

Patronage- The power to control appointments.

Cadence- A rhythmic flow of a sequence of sound or words.

Suffused- To overspread with a liquid.

Sieve- A strainer.

Centrifuge- A compartment spun around an axis to separate contained materials of different densities.

Dentifrice- Tooth paste.

Leisure- Unhurried ease.

Vessel- A hollow container to hold liquid.

Saccharine- Excessively sweet.

Phonograph- Record player.

Profusion- Abundance.

Praetorian- Forming or resembling the Roman Imperial bodyguard.

Veiled- Having or wearing a veil or a concealing cover.

Harlequin- A character in comedy with a shaved head, masked face, tights and wooden sword.

Toil- Hard work.

Delinquents- People who commit crimes.

Gibber- To speak meaninglessly.

Insidious- Intended to entrap or beguile.

Strewn- To scatter or sprinkle.

Spring Vocab  1

Proboscis- the trunk of an elephant.

Pantomime- the art or technique of conveying emotions, actions, feelings, etc. by gestures without speech.

Proclivities- natural or habitual inclination or tendency.

Centrifuge- an apparatus that rotates at high speeds.

Odious- deserving or causing hatred.

Jargon- the language, especially the vocabulary, peculiar to a particular track, profession.

Ravenous- extremely hungry, famished.

Parlor- a room for the reception and entertainment of visitor's to one's home.

Stagnant- not flowing or running.

Cacophony- harsh disordenance of sound.

Tamped- to force in or down.

Flourish- to be in a vigorous state.

Plateau- a flat stand.

Rollick- to move or act in a carefree, frolicsome way.

Asylum- an institution for the maintenance and care of the mentally ill.

▶ David Foster Wallace- -This Is Water- (part 2)

▶ David Foster Wallace- -This Is Water- (part 1)

LAQ 1

1. I read the perks of being a wallflower and its told in first person and is about this kid whos just starting high school and just before school starts his best friend kills him self and the book is about how and what its like to go through high school for the main character.

2. The theme of the book is what its like to go through high school.

3. The way Charley tells it (the main character) is he writes these letters to the stranger and these letters are what we read and what makes up the book and so his tone is more empethetic.
“
we accept the love we think we deserve.”
― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower
“So, this is my life. And I want you to know that I am both happy and sad and I'm still trying to figure out how that could be.”
― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower
“I think that if I ever have kids, and they are upset, I won't tell them that people are starving in China or anything like that because it wouldn't change the fact that they were upset. And even if somebody else has it much worse, that doesn't really change the fact that you have what you have.”
― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks Of Being A Wallflower

LAQ 2

1. I read Go ask alice and this is being read in first person and is about a girl who trys drugs and her decent in to the life of drugs an what her life is because of the drugs.

2. The theme of the book is the how drugs can effect your life.

3. The tone of Go ask alice is more of a moral and whats right and wrong.

“I'm partly somebody else trying to fit in and say the right things and do the right thing and be in the right place and wear what everybody else is wearing. Sometimes I think we're all trying to be shadows of each other, trying to buy the same records and everything even if we don't like them. Kids are like robots, off an assembly line, and I don't want to be a robot!”
“I really am only one infinitely small part of an aching humanity.”
― Beatrice Sparks, Go Ask Alice
“The same old dumb teachers teaching the same old dumb subjects in the same old dumb school. I seem to be kind of losing interest in everything. At first I thought high school would be fun but it's just dull. Everything's dull. Maybe it's because I'm growing up and life is becoming more blase.”
― Beatrice Sparks, Go Ask Alice




Im looking for my third one and will post it when i find it thank you.