College Word of the Day... 1/7/15

Facetious

Dictionary Definition: Not meant to be taken seriously or literally.

In my own words: Meant as a joke.

2 Familiar Synonyms: Humorous, Sarcastic

Using it in a sentence: My brother make facetious comments about my height.    

College Word of the day.... 1/6/15

Neologism

Dictionary Definition: The introduction or use of new words or new senses of existing word. 

In my own words: A new word(s) to use in a new sentence or phase to expand your vocabulary.

2 familiar synonyms: Slang, new phrase.

Using it in an original sentence: While reading a book, the author said a neologism word that I have personally never heard.   

Today, we worked on our essay. We finished our art project. We our writing about reputation instead of loyalty because we feel that's what was important to Beowulf

5 Keys to Chromebook Handling 10/17

1.)  NEVER carry an open chromebook.
2.) Avoid touching the screen at all times.
3.) Do not bang/beat on it. Be gentle.
4.) Be patient-even if the network is slow.
5.) Remember- you are liable for damages.

Blog 10/10

Today Angelica and I are going to my house to start our art project. We are still brainstorming our essay portion. I think the hardest part of this project about is the writing portion. Only because we don't know how we will be combining our work.

blog 10/9

I am working with Angelica Stone and we discussed that we would do the art for our creative project. Our art project will be about Beowulf and Grendel's fight. For our critical writing project we will be writing about the code of royalty described in Beowulf. Angelica and I have decided what picture we will be drawing and also we have started our rough draft.

blog entry 10/8/14

what is your first impression of the chromebooks?
I think they're pretty cool and neat.
what do you think they will be useful for in this class?
for our blogs and when we type up essays it will be easy to do during class.
how would you like to see what they would be useful for?
everyday use