Vocab sentences

Subpoena: a writ ordering a person to attend a court; noun

Dylan sent a subpoena to Mr. Walter, demanding he be at the Court House by 3:30pm.

Fey: giving an impression of vague unworldliness; adjective

Jim looked into her fey eyes and see a glimpse of happiness that had been missing for so long.

Venerable: accorded a great deal of respect, esp. because of age, wisdom, or character; adjective

Venerable Doctor Willis was renown for his heart surgeries and operations.

Uncouth: lacking good manners, refinement, or grace; adjective

The uncouth young man drover down the street, blasting provocative music from his radio.

Sundry: of varies kinds, several; adjective

The children played in the garden, passed a sundry of vegetables and herds.

Begrudge: envy the possession or enjoyment of (something); verb
Daisy begrudge Andy for his natural talents in art and literature.

Elucidate: make (something) clear, explain: verb
"Ellen, you need to elucidate this statement before I will even look at it." complained Ms. Willis

Acquiescence: the reluctant acceptance of something without protest; noun
I acquiescence the fact that I, still young and naive, need to grow up quicker than most of my peers.

Succinct - adjective; briefly and clearly expressed

Molly wrote a succinct letter, describing her hatred of Ms. Lahrman

Facade - noun; the front or face of a building, an artificial appearance

"Underneath that facade of ego, there lies a vulnerable heart."

Chapter 10

Atticus is nearly fifty, and Jem has found a new interesting in football. As Atticus is much older than most of the other children's fathers in Maycomb, Jem and Scout wonder what their father can do anymore thanks to his age. Scout talks to Miss Maudie and Calpurnia about what Atticus can still do, but it wasn't until that afternoon both Jem and Scout learn something new about their father. While walking down the street to go play with his air rifle, Jem spots Tin Robinson, the "mad dog", roaring down the street and steadily coming closer. They ran home and told Calpurnia, who upon examining the dog at the same place Jem did, warning the entire neighborhood and called Atticus who arrived with the sheriff. When the "mad dog" was finally in range, the sheriff handed Atticus the gun and saying only he could make the shot. Within seconds, Atticus (who claimed he didn't know how to shoot) had the gun on his shoulder, aimed, and killed the dog. After the incident, Scout was ready for school tomorrow to tell the kids about her father's skill, but Jem told her not to speak it, that if he wanted them to know, he would have told them, that if he was proud of it, he would have told them.

Symbol - the "mad dog" aka Tim Johnson

Atticus, the sheriff, Jem, Scout, Calpurnia, Miss Maudie, and Miss Crawford

Rising action

Chapter 9

Scout has developed a cursing problem. She and Atticus discuss the future trial of the black man vs an Ewell. Atticus made her promise no matter what she hears about him or about the trial, she is to not lost her temper. This lasted a total of a day, before Cecil Jacob called her father a "Nigger-lover". She refrained for actually fighting him, as she had promise Atticus, but was called a coward as she walked away.  Three weeks later in was Christmas vacation, and her Uncle jack, Atticus's brother, come to town. He brought gifts for Scout and her brother, two air guns, but as lectured Scout of her use of the words damn and hell. Later they all went to Finch's Landing and had Christmas dinner with the rest of the Finch family. Towards the end of the evening Scout got into a fight with her second cousin, punching him in the face at least twice before Jack caught her and held her arms to her side. She tried to run but ended up getting spanked, screaming how much she hated Jack. When Atticus, Jack, Scout and Jem returned home, Scout ran up to her room, locking the door. Jack knocked on the door asking permission to enter, and they discussed what happened and that it wasn't all Scouts, the her second cousin started it by insulting Atticus, Jack because annoyed and felt a tiny bit guilty for only blaming Scout.

allusion: Uncle Jack's beard was compared to General Hood, a civil war general

Atticus, Scout, Uncle Jack, Francis, Aunt Alexandria

Plot is inciting event, then rising action

Chapter 7 & 8

Chapter 7:
Jem has been moody and silently since the pants incident, and Scout is having about as much fun in second grade as she did first (which was very little). As the two were now on the same schedule, they walked home together that day, to find a new thing in the tree knot. Two soap cravings of people, that looked identical to themselves. The craving lead them to believe Mr. Avery, the only man they know that whittles, must be putting thing in the tree. But the after numerous more visits to the tree, Nathan Radley plugged up the tree with cement, claiming thats what you do to "dying trees". Atticus when asked later that day, told Jem and Scout that the tree wasn't dying. Jem took the news hard, and when he returned to the house, his face showed he had been crying.

Allusion: the Egyptian walk
Atticus, Jem, Scout, Nathan Radley, (mentioned but to seen: Miss Maudie, Walter Cunningham, and and Mr. Avery)
This chapter was exposition.

Chapter 8:
Old Mrs. Radley has died, not that it effected much of the community. The morning after the old woman's death, Scout and Jem both look out the window and see snow for the first time. After breakfast, they asked Atticus if he knew how to build to snowman, but he said no and that there was barely enough snow to make a snowball. But that didn't stop the children, for they borrowed snow from Miss Maudie and used mud from around their house to create a snowman that resembled another one of their neighbors. His father praised Jem for the good job, which made Jem redden. That night was freezing, but by 1am Atticus had woken the two up and hurried to get them out of the house. A fire had started next door at Miss Maudie's house, so all the men and firemen worked together to put it out and prevent the other surrounding houses from catching fire as well. By the end of the night and early dawn, the fire was out, and the men all returned home. Half frozen and tired, Jem and Scout didn't have to go to school that day, but Atticus noticed a new blanket wrapped around Scouts shoulders. When asked about it, Scout and Jem both didn't know where the blanket had come from, but their father had, Boo Radley had wrapped it around the freezing girl while she wasn't looking.

Allusion: Appomattox - a former village in central Virginia
Atticus, Jem, Scout, Miss Maudie, Miss Crawford, Mr Avery, Nathan Radley, Boo Radley, Calpurnia, and Miss Rachel
Chapter 8 was the beginning of the inciting event

Chapters 5 and 6

Chapter 5:
Jem and Dill start excluding Scout more and more, so she seeks the company of her neighbor, Miss Maudie. As the two's friendship grows, Scout feels more comfortable around her, and brings up the topic of Arthur "Boo" Radley. Miss Maudie claimed she only knows as much as she does, and that the stories were "three fourths colored folks and one fourth Miss Stephanie Crawford''.  The nexted morning Dill and Jem decide they want to make Boo come out, so they come up with a plan. Using a fishing pole, they stuck a note to the end of it, and Jem along with Scout and Dill as lookouts, repeated tried to stick the note in the Radley's broken shutters. Before he could complete his task, Atticus found them, demanded an explanation of what in they were doing, and told Jem, as well as the other two, to leave that man alone.
Chapter 6:
Its the day before Dill has to leave Maycomb, but before he left, he and Jem decided they wanted to got one look at Boo. Scout was very reluctant of this idea, but after Jem told her to stop acting like a girl, she had no choice but to go along. They sneak around in back yards until they reached the house, where Dill had Scout and Jem lift him to see over the window sill. After only seeing the faintest glimpse of light, a shadow appeared, crossed over the children, and disappeared again. They ran to hide from the mysterious figure, only to hear a gunshot from the direction of the house. They sprinted away, climbing under a fence where Jem got stuck and had to remove his pants to free himself. When they returned to the Finch house they rejoined the neighborhood outside the Radley house where Boo's brother stood with a gun, and heard him say if he hears another noise in his collard garden again, he wouldn't miss. Suddenly after asking what was going on to Miss Maudie, everyone noticed Jem wasn't wearing pants and the three were sent home to get them. That night Scout was anxious and terrified by very little noise. Jem told her he was going to go get the pants he lost and if she told, he would kill her. So after a small argument and some pleading, Scout helped and waiting for his return, nervous he wouldn't come back. But minutes later he did, with his pants in his hand, he laid on the cot, and fell asleep.

Allusion - The lady in the moon, who sats at a dressing combing her hair
Foreshadow - Atticus asks Jem after scolding if he still wants to be a lawyer, but once his father was out of earshot Jem yells "I thought I wanted to be a lawyer but I ain't so sure now".

Atticus, Scout, Jem, Dill, Miss Maudie, Nathan Radley, Miss Rachel, Miss Crawford.

Both chapters were still part of the Exposition.

To Kill a Mockingbird

In this chapter, the school year has steadily and boringly passed by for Scout and now summer is approaching. On one of her famous runs homes, she saw tin foil poking out of the trees by the Radley place, she took the tin foil, discovering it was gum, and continued running home. When her brother Jem returned home as well he saw her chewing the gum and told her to spit it out immediately. The last day of school they found two coins in the tree, Jem said they needed to find the own, and would do so by the start of next school year. Dill arrived back in the Finches lives the following day, and they started a new game (thanks to Jem trying to prove he wasn't afraid of anything) about the Radleys. The game was supposed to be a secret, until their father arrived home without them seeing him. He scrawled at Jem to not be cutting up today's paper and put the scissors back. This made Scout very uneasy, even more so than she already was, but she kept playing with her brother and Dill, regardless of her anxiety.
2) One literary element - Metaphor, 
3) List of characters
Dill, Jem, Atticus, Calpurnia, and Scout
4) Part of plot - exposition

To Kill A Mockingbird

What do you learn in this chapter about Maycomb, Atticus Finch and his family?
Maycomb is a small town in Alabama, (in my mind a lot like Skagway). Atticus Finch in lawyer in the town, and in one way or another he is related to everyone in town whether by marriage or blood. He has two children, Scotty and Jem, his wife died two years after the youngest, Scotty, was born. 
What do you learn about Dill's character?
Dill is a theatrical character, who can read, and persistent.
What, briefly, has happened to Arthur “Boo” Radley.
He started hanging out with a group of guys, they got into some trouble, and Arthur got locked under house arrest for 15 years.
Why does the Radley place fascinate Scout, Jem and Dill?
The stories about the Radleys are still unknown to the young children, and house has a sick, ghostlike appearance; attracting the kids curiosity, especially Dill's.
What do you notice about the narrative voice and viewpoint in the novel?
Its in first-person point of view, where the narrator, Scotty, tell it from how she saw it as a child but also input from her now that she looks back on it.

Vocabulary

1.)    Subpoena: a writ ordering a person to attend a court; noun

2.)    Fey: giving an impression of vague unworldliness; adjective

3.)    Venerable: accorded a great deal of respect, esp. because of age, wisdom, or character; adjective

4.)    Uncouth: lacking good manners, refinement, or grace; adjective

5.)    Sundry: of varies kinds, several; adjective

6.)    Begrudge: envy the possession or enjoyment of (something); verb

7.)    Elucidate: make (something) clear, explain: verb

8.)    Acquiescence: the reluctant acceptance of something without protest; noun

9.)    Succinct: briefly and clearly expressed; adjective

10.)  Façade: the face of the building, esp. the principal front that looks onto the street or open space; noun

Rough Second Draft (advise please and help with MAL citation)

Most of us as children imagined adventures beyond wildest dreams (and modern science), but what if you could actually live one of those fantastic dreams; only down fall is that you could never return from the excursion. Mars One mission, expected to take action in 2024, has narrowed down 200,000 applicants, to 100 candidates and will continue narrowed down to 24 people. Out of the thousands of people wanting to go one this one way trip, each had their own reasons and purposes for volunteering for this mission: the spirit of adventure, doing something great with their life, having their names written in history books, and benefiting man-kind.

The spirit of adventure and curiosity go hand in hand. This mission is designed to broaden our understanding on our solar system. Bas Lansdorp and Arno Wielders, both with a master in science and co-founders of the Mars One mission, announced the planned in 2012.

One British applicant has claimed that although concerned family members don’t want her to go on the one way, seven month journey in the unknown space, she believes that the mission will, “Inspire a new generation and that she has a responsibility to those who come after her.” Sounds noble right? Doing something that will be your possible death for the benefit of newer generations, but some applicants’ reasons aren’t so . Not wanting to live an ordinary life; instead of going to work, coming home, and having the “American Dream” some would rather go and be legends, with their names in history book, like Neil Armstrong and his team of fellow astronauts. Instead of being the first on the moon, these new breed of astronauts will be the first on Mars.

Similar to how greatly the man on the moon mission educated the world, the Mars One is hoped to have similar effects. Benefits of the exploration would increase the development of modern technology. Much of the raw materials humans need to survive are already present on “The Red Planet”, just some necessary technology needed to complete this mission will to be sent along with the astronauts to the colony to increase its success. The choice of creating a permanent settlement on Mars eliminates some of the need for some devise, such as a heavy lift launch vehicle. Solar panels will be the main source of energy in the settlement, 3,000 square meters of panels will be installed on the planet to save both time and money. The panels risk of sending a nuclear reactor to the colony.

200,000 applied, 100 were selected, and now the to the final 24 that will actually see the mission through, each with their own motivation: adventure, greatness, and benefiting man-kind. Is it all going to be worth it though? This mission is still in preparation level so non of the specifics are known by the public.

http://www.mars-one.com/about-mars-one/team

http://www.mars-one.com/mission/technical-feasibility

http://www.mars-one.com/mission

Anthony Sebastian “first Mars One colonists will suffocate” http://www.extremetech.com/extreme/191862-the-first-mars-one-colonists-will-suffocate-starve-and-be-incinerated-according-to-mit

Lee Kevin “Advantages of Going to Mars” http://education.seattlepi.com/advantages-going-mars-scientific-point-5563.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mars_One