Friday, January 14, 2011

Vocabulary - Americans All and Camp Harmony

Observation

She just bought a new binoculars and she could observe the birds that she had saved from when she was a kid.

Emphasize

The Ninjas sent the Pirates the message and emphasized it by threw their weapons at the Pirates' ship.


Define
Helga defined the word Love like she was a professor about it, "Love means a strong feelings toward someone you have affection for."

Reaction
Jim's Mom grounded him for staying out late and hiding himself in his room. Jimmy's reactions were priceless, he got sad, he started to cry and then screamed angrily at his Mom for not letting him go outside anymore.

Tersely
Lily had done her work tersely. At the end of the quarter, Lily got her "Best homework participated" award

Breach
Jimmy breached through the big crowd and got into the backstage secretly without anyone stopping him. Then he lurched to the front and then saw his idols on stage singing wildly to the music.

Riveted
Everybody riveted into the big fire that was roaring at the end of the village. The villagers were surprised by the fire and forgot to put it out.

Vigil
Queen Elizabeth's house was tightly vigil by the big and strong guards, even a normal fly couldn't get in it.

Monday, January 10, 2011

Camp Harmony Literary Focus

Camp Harmony - Nisei Daughter

Literary Focus #6: Sone says the camp "Was hopefully called Camp Harmony." Do you think the name is appropriate or ironic? Support answer with evidence text.
I think the name for this interment camp, Camp Harmony, is a very ironic name for the camp. Since the camp is like prison, but just for the Japanese-American people. Harmony means agreement in feeling or opinion, and in the camp, it is not very harmony at all. The military that rules that camp might be very harsh and strict about living in there, there might be strict rules that is necessary in order to keep the people in there organized. Organizing the camp must be an important thing in this camp, because the government sorted the camp out into different separate areas, alphabetically and numerous. It is also very dirty, so maybe the government didn't care about making this place beautiful or peaceful to live in, and it's maybe a part of the get back from the Japanese when they bombed the Pearl Harbor in the past.