Historical Fiction Vocabulary

1/ Intensified
- Thinking about my hard-working and painstaking face makes me have an intensified determination to earn money for the family so they can have a better life.










2/ Vital
- I want to be a pharmacist,
it's a vital job to me.


















3/ Immortality
- Micheal Jackson is immortality singer in my heart because of his singing voice and his movement.














4/ Legitimate
- The police shot a thief legitimately
because the thief shot
other people illegally.














5/ Tremor
- An earthquake made all the house tremor and
everybody ran out of the house immediately.

Homework for Jan. 13, 2011

VOCABULARY

1. Observation
- John is blind. A man of no observation.
2. Emphasize
- Zou's emphasize her lesson's title by highlighting it.
3. Reaction
- When someone give you a secret gift, you will be surprise, that's the normal reaction.
4. Define
- Mr.Patrick ask me to define the word emphasize and my definition is to give importance to, pay special attention to.
5. Tersely
- I tersely show an example of a question about math question to my friends.
6. Breach
- Sarryna erased the wrong part of the test but unfortunately she erased so fast and it made a breach in her paper.
7. Riveted
- When she sang "White horse" everyone riveted because her voice was so sweet.
8. Vigil
-The security gurad keep vigil on the museum to make sure that it's safe.

Literary Focus - Literary Analysis

5. Interpret: How could you define the mood of the people on the bus at the beginning of the journey to Camp Harmony? at the end of the journey?

-At the beginning everyone was quiet except for a chattering group of university student, who soon started singing the college song. They seem exited because they are going to see their new place to live.
-At the end everyone seem scared and sad because that's not what they want it to be, the food is bad, everything is not good at all, they lost their identity. They seem like they are prisoner.