Vocabulary Words List Two

Anachronistic – chronologically misplaced; adjective

Circuitous – roundabout, not direct; adjective

Deleterious – harmful, injurious to health; adjective

Ephemeral – lasting a very short time; adjective

Evanescent – vanishing, fading away, fleeting; adjective

Fortuitous – happening or produced by chance, accidental; adjective

Intrepid – absolutely fearless; dauntless; adjective

Precocious – unusually advanced or mature in development; adjective

Sagacity – the quality of having good judgment; noun

Tenacious – holding fast, characterized by keeping a firm hold; adjective

1. Because Gosnald died, and Kendall was deposed.

2. Captain Kendall wanted to change the course and Smith had forbid it.

3. He was hunting birds when he was surrounded by “200 savages” and was brought to Werowocomoco to be murdered.

4. He is going to be killed but Pocahontas saves him

8. Smith over-exaggerated and twisted the works, and used the third person point of view to boast himself.

Daily life in Jamestown – I think he may have been semi-honest about this, but I honestly don’t believe he had as much control over the town as he implied.

Native American culture – He referred to the natives as savages, so that shows he doesn’t think much of them. But even so, it would be more of an observation of the group, and I think he would be able to write about it without twisting it too much because it doesn’t have a lot to do with him.

Smith’s own actions – smith has an ego the size of Neptune, so he felt the need to make himself look like a hero in A General History of Virginia. He was not particularly honest in all of his writings, thus causing me to doubt his credibility.

Conflicts in Jamestown – John Smith was never the bad guy in his recount of the conflicts, so he would not be particularly reliant.

John Smith wrote a General History of Virginia because he wanted to make himself look like a hero.

For example, he wrote the paper in third person to make it more dramatic, as well as make himself seem more heroic, as shown in the following quote: “…Captain Smith, who, by his own example, good words and fair promises… himself always bearing the greatest task for his own share, so that in short time he provided most of them lodgings, neglecting any for himself.” If Smith had written the paper in his point of view, he would seem much more boastful when talking about what a wonderful, hard-working person he was. In addition, Smith wrote of being “beset with 200 savages” which may be a bit over-exaggerated, considering he came out of the situation alive. After being taken to their village to be killed, Pocahontas, who was just ten years old (a bit different from the Disney version) “got his head in her arms and laid her own upon his to save him from death.” For some reason that is still up for debate, Pocahontas didn’t hate this man and so Smith was allowed his life. And thus Smith’s relationship with the savages continued, trading things and helping the other group survive. Smith speaks of how he was almost put to death because of Robinson and Emry, the president “…pretending the fault was his that had led them to their ends…” The third person point of view is very important again, because it heavily implies that he was not, in fact, guilty. It would be less believable if he had denied his guiltiness outright. These quotes made him appear innocent, and just someone who was trying to make the colonies a better place.

grammar sentences

Dash

Don’t forget to buy me school supplies–like pencils, pens, notebooks, and erasers.

Comma

Sally wanted to stay up late on Saturday reblogging things on Tumblr, but her mother confiscated her laptop.

Semi-Colon

I traveled the country this summer and bought many gifts: for Sarah, a horse statue from Kentucky; Kaylie, a bumper sticker from Texas; and Tyrone, a stuffed cow from Wisconsin.

Colon

There was a car crash at the racetrack and a woman in the front row screamed: “help, that’s my son!”

Vocabulary words list 1, sentences 3

Misogynist – a person who hates women; noun

Jessica accused Robert of being a misogynist after he listed off why he thought women were inferior.

Vindicate – to uphold or justify something; verb

Robert attempted to vindicate his sexist views, but failed miserably as his only evidence was the opinions of other lady-haters.

Coyote and The Buffalo

"What makes Coyote appealing, despite his character flaws?"

            Coyote’s character flaws are what makes him so appealing. He started out the story by abusing the skull of Buffalo Bull, which was rather pointless but it helped him get out his pent-up anger with the larger creature. Even though he was rightfully being chased by the reincarnated buffalo, coyote’s rebellious nature had you rooting for him. After helping Buffalo Bull form new horns and defeat his enemy, Coyote seems like he’s changed his character, to the point where Buffalo Bull trusts him with the youngest cow. Unfortunately, Coyote ignores the readers’ pleas for peace and kills the cow. In the end, he is tricked by the old woman and gets what he deserves, but the reader still is sympathetic towards the creature. Why? People love a good villain, someone so terrible yet intriguing you have to just root for them. Because goodness is so heavily promoted in our society, bad characters 

Vocabulary Words List 1, Sentences 2

Dotard – a person, especially an old person, exhibiting a decline in mental faculties; noun

Marissa pitied the old dotard, who was wandering around shouting at nothing for most of the day.

Atrophy – a wasting away of something; noun

Sasha's strength declined due to her terrible muscle atrophy.