Latin Roots #6

Roots and Derivatives

1. corp(or) (body): corpse, corporation, corps
2. cred (to believe, to trust): credo, credit, credentials 
3. cur(r), curs, course (to run, to  flow): current, excursion, concur, curriculum
4. dic(t) (to speak, to say): diction, dictionary, addict, interdiction

Word List

1. benediction n: the invocation of a divine blessing, as at the close of a religious service; a blessing or state of blessedness -We attended the benediction at St. Mary's church.
2. concourse n: a running or flowing together; a broad public walkway or hallway; a crowd or throng -Entering the park, there is a concourse for the public to take their dogs.
3. concurrent a: occurring at the same time; meeting or acting together -It will be a concurrent meeting in the school library with all the teams in there.
4. corporal a: related to the physical body -Your arm is a corporal.
5. corpulent a: very stout; fleshy and obese; fat -The corpulent pig experienced his last time in the mud.
6. credibility n: the quality of being believable or trustworthy -The bank my mom has been using for almost eight years must have great credibility.
7. credulity n: the (naive) willingness to believe too easily without proof -You should not have too much credulity because people may take you for granted.
8. cursory a: done in a superficial or hasty manner -We got a cursory basketball team this year.
9. dictum n: an authoritative saying or maxim -For the speech, we all have a dictum of how much to say.
10. incorporate v: to form into one body or functioning unit; to combine several different things into a whole -Our mission was to incorporate the puzzle in twenty minutes.
11. incredulous a: not believing, skeptical, or doubting -She was known as a incredulous person ,therefore, no one really talked to her.
12. indicative a: characteristic of or very much like; suggestive -He bought me indicative shoes for my birthday. 

Literature Analysis #2

Their Eyes WereWatching God

Janie Crawford is a young girl returning back home to Eatonville. The people of the town gossip about her and her troubles. Phoeby Watson, Janie's best friend goes and sees how Janie is doing and why she's back in town. Janie begins to tell Phoeby her life story starting with her childhood living with Nanny, Janie's grandmother. Phoeby is the audience in this case and Janie is the storyteller. When Janie was a little girl she and her nanny lived in the backyard of white people who treated them as family. One night, Nanny caught Janie kissing Logan Killicks. Janie then marries Logan, but ends up leaving him after her makes her do men work. Janie moves to Florida with her new husband, Joe Starks. Starks becomes mayor of Eatonville and Janie feels like he's using her for power of the town. Janie leaves Joe and marries Tea Cake, her first real love. At the end of the story, Tea Cake and Janie have problems and Janie ends up shooting him. Tea Cake's death is the reason for her return.

The main theme of this book would be love and relationship versus individual. The author, Zora Neale Hurston, wrote about this topic because the novel is a female book and explains how complicated loving someone can be. Hurston's use of language in the book shows Janie's quest to find her voice.

Janie is the protagonist in Their Eyes Were Watching God. Janie is a dynamic character. She goes from one husband to another trying to find what she really wants. It changes her because with each man, she learns something different about herself. Another major character would be Tea Cake because he is Janie's first real love. He attracts Janie and takes good care of her until they get really comfortable with each other and have arguments. He changes how he is with her, and Janie still loves him.

One significant symbol from the book would be the big hurricane in the Everglades. The hurricane kills some of Janie and Tea Cake's friends. Some are saved by staying inside of Tea Cake's home. The hurricane represents how chaotic and cruel the world can be. It shows how some people have bad and mean  personalities when you really get to know them. Their friend, Motor Boat, joins Janie and Tea Cake in their house and the narrator notes everybody is united in the same struggle.

The book's title came to my attention because of God's name. I'm into reading books that have some religion in it, it interests me. I googled the book and read about what it was about and thought it would be a good book for me to read, and it was. Once I started reading the book, I was already into it because of the authors quotes in the first chapters.

Janie is a young girl, trying to find what she wants and what is right for her. I can relate to that because I'm at the point in life where I choose what I want to do after high school. I have to find what is right for me also since I want to be dong something I love when I'm older. I can also relate Janie to my Aunt who has had three husbands, trying to find the right one.

From reading this book, I've learned how men and women want different things from each other. I'll remember the way the author describes men and women when it comes to love. I chose this because sooner or later, everyone finds their own love and this will help and give others some type of advice when that time comes. 

Greek Drama Questions

1. What kind of prize is given for dancing choruses of worshipers? -The dancing choruses of worshipers began competing for prizes such as a bull or a goat.
2. How many spectators would gather in the open-air theatre of Dionysos? -As many as fourteen thousand spectators gathered in the open-air of Dionysos.
3. How does the mask affect the voices of the actors? -Masks had exaggerated mouthpieces that amplified the actors' voices.
4. Why was Antigone suspenseful to viewing audiences? -Greek audiences' suspense did not come from their anxiety about what would happen next, because they already knew the story. 
5. How is the shepherd to leave the infant on the mountainside? -The shepherd was ordered to leave the baby on the mountainside with his ankles pinned together.
6. What is the riddle the Sphinx gave to Oedipus? -The riddle of the Sphinx is "What creature goes on four legs in the morning, two legs in the afternoon, and three legs in the evening?"
7. Who are Oedipus' kids? -Oedipus' kids were: Polyneices, Eteocles, Antigone, and Ismene.
8. After Oedipus is exiled, who takes over Thebes? -After all disasters, Creon takes over Thebes.
9. What did the family do to the dead body? -The family buried the body as greatest heroes die.

Antigone Quick Write

My family and I are in a place that I'm unfamiliar with. We're surrounded by the men of the women of the place and they're assuming that we are there to take over the place. My parents are out of their minds and my brother have killed each other fighting for the throne. The only person I have left is my sister. My uncle, the king, has ordered that my favorite brother is to have no burial, but my other jerk brother is to be buried as a national hero. This is not right and it's up to me to figure out what to do with this problem.

I plan to take the body of my favorite brother and bury him myself. Even though the king has declared that whoever buries the body is to be executed, I believe that what I plan to do is right for the family. First, I'd try to convince my sister to help me. If not I'd go to the body by myself and take him to a place where no one could find him. To not get caught up, I'd kill somebody else and put the body where my brother was so that they still think he's there. When I finally have my brother, I'd take him somewhere in the woods to bury him as he should be buried.