reflection

This is what made me who I am today. The only reason I am here in college is because, my brother went to college. I know what you think anyone’s brother can go to college. My brother encourage me and he didn’t know he always seemed so smart and had good jobs and has a lot of things that I want but without a degree theses days it hard to get a good job. I just always looked up to him like he was so smart and educated and I wanted to be just like my brother. Also, I know that he would always be there to help me on anything I need help on he always showed me how to do something if I didn’t understand it. My brother shaped me into the guy I am today by just setting a good example for me and show me you can accomplish anything with just hard work and time. I wonder what I would be doing now at this time if I didn’t go down this road to college and just did high school and that’s it. I think I choose the better route and it going to shape me into a greater person then I am at the moment as I progress the years in college. Even thinking to myself being in college everyday slowly but surely shapes me in to a successful person everyday. So to think only if my brother wasn’t a positive role model it wouldn’t have probably shaped me to who I am this moment this day.

vocabularry

Noxious

Part of Speech: Adjective

Sentence/Source: Funny in Farsi (pg 127): Without taking a break, I scubbed intensely, trying my best not to inhale the noxious fumes.

context clues: trying my best not to inhale and also my logic I knew.

Def: harmful or injurious to health or physical well-being

original sentnce: The car was running in the gurage and the noxious fumes made me pass out.

Frugal

Part of Speech: Adjective

Sentence/Source Funny in Farsi (pg123):After having baby-sat for every frugal family in town, I eventually hit the mother lode.

context clues:in the sentnce she had baby-sat for ever family in town.

Def: not wasteful

original ssentance: After having to wash cars for every frugal nighbor in the city , I eventually hit the jack pot.


Constructive

Part of Speech: Adjective

Sentence/Source: Connect (pg 153)And what are those scripts? some may seem constructive: "You're so talented!"

context clues: my logic I knew this word.

Def: Helping to improve

original sentance: The students were very contructive in thier auto class with helping the teacher lift heavy parts.

reflection

My reading habits would be. I would not read everything I would sometimes skim thought the paragraphs. Instead I would read the first sentence and the last sentence in the paragraph. I would read a chapter are so then stop. Go do something else then come back to it. I read better when it quiet and I have plenty of time to read and trying to understand the story. Once in a blue moon I like to go on the roof and read my book. It’s really nice and peaceful. I do not have any strength as a reader. Only if I can relate to what I am reading then I can use my logic to figure out something that I do not know. And I can use context clues to figure it out, but not all the time. My mom loves to read she always reading these big long books really fast .I did not grow up being encourage to read well now that I think about it. I’m not that sure. I might have but I didn’t want to because reading wasn’t really what I like to do and I wanted to go do other things. I think my mom read to me but not that much I was really young and I didn’t remember but when I was reading a book and I didn’t understand what I was reading she would read it and help my understand what it was that I was reading and puts an image in my head to be more aware what it about.

vocabulary

Word: Strewn

Part of Speech:Verb

Funny in Farsi (pg 113)To my delight, I found that the lawn had been strewn with miniature Iranian flags.

Context Clues:my logic

Def: Spread out or scattered

Original Sentence: I had to strewn ferterlizer across the lawn.

Word: Enviable

Part of Speech: Adjective

Funny in Farsi (pg 98)Even though their condominium has only a tiny garden, they have managed to cultivate an enviable cornucopia of figs, pomegranates, sweet lemons, and herbs.

Context Clues:my own logic

Def:Desirable

Original Sentence: Eveb though the store didnt have all the cokes we wanted they still had an enviable dink

Word: Deranged

Part of Speech:Adjective

Funny in Farsi (pg 123)I felt like King Tut, expect that I was alive and trapped in the mausoleum with a deranged koala.

Context Clues: my logic

Def: Crazy

Original Sentence:Once in a whiole whenh my mom comes home i feel like she is deranghed beacsue she doesnt know what she saying.

reflection

The impact of studying the vocabulary words. Has been learning but yet confusing learning the new words. I hear the word when i am in my class and my other professor use them when they are explaining an assignment. When i come up to words i don't know i try to look at the sentence before and at the sentence after. I try to find the context clues within the sentence, but then if i still cant figure it out then i look it up in a dictionary. The definition in the dictionary can help me figure out the words meaning. Also if i really don't understand the meaning of the word i ask someone who may know the meaning of the word. and get feed back from them. I try to use some of the words in my everyday life, but it is very challenging at times. This is why because i sometimes don't fully understand the meaning our i don't want to use the word in the wrong way. Since i do not use the words all the time i don't remember them after the test i forget the word. cause there are so many new word that are be introduced to me. Most, of the word are hard to use in my everyday life but yet i try to use a word when i can. I should pick one word a day and try to use that word when i am with my friends. Our i could even be with anyone as long as i try to use one word maybe it will stick in my head after a long time .

vocab

word: dote

part of speech: verb

the source sentence and page number: pg103 Now whenever we visit my relatives all of whom dote on my husband ,i realize that he didn't marry despite my tribe,he married me because of them,

context clues:married because of her family

definition: to bestow or express excessive love or fondness habitually (usually fol. by on or upon):

original sentence : My family dote on my because i am the youngest boy in the family.


word: strewn

part of speech: verb used with objects

the source sentence and page number : to my delight, i found that the lawn has been strewn with Iranian flags.

context clues: the lawn particles or objects speed thought

definition:to let fall in separate pieces or particles over a surface; scatter or sprinkle: to strew seed in a garden bed.

original sentence: i had to strewn the cow manure all on my front lawn.


word: enviable

part of speech :adjective

the source sentence and page number :pg.98 not sure on wrong page

context clues : Synonyms:advantageous, fortunate, lucky.

definition :worthy of envy; very desirable: an enviable position.

original sentence : I enviable people who have expensive car.

vocab

the word: proverbial

part of speech: adverb

The source sentence and page number: But, like all buffalo , he eventually grew big and turned into proverbial bull in the china shop. Pg. 57

Context clues: bull strong

Definition: Of relating to, or resembling a proverb.

original sentence: The text books are proverbial


the word: clandestine

part of speech: adjective

The source sentence and page number: This clandestine operation, however, required a handshake with a five dollar bill enclosed. Pg. 51

context clues: operation= a mission Synonym:secret, unrevealivy .

definition: kept or done in secret often in order to conceal an illicit or improper propose.

you original sentence: Mike clandestine his homework in class and went after class.


the word :Elite

part of speech : noun.

source sentence, text connect pg 40

context clues: The elite may de vive their culture.

definition: The choice best of anything.

your own original sentence: i had to make the elite choice at the last minute.