Reflection

All of us have that fond memory from our childhood that we will never forget, and as for me my memory it was more than one time. When I was around 10 years old I went to England. After the first time I was hooked! I had been to England before a couple times before but I loved to come back. I loved everything about England, the snow, the people, getting to visit my family and getting to explore it. England was so beautiful in the winter time, even though it would get below zero most of the time. This trip was memorable because we actually got to go in a real castle. It was the Warwick castle; it was amazing because you could tour the whole castle. After that we went to a town called Warwickshire and what made it a day to never forget was I got to go see where Shakespeare was born. I got to tour around the house in which the greatest play writer was born. This memory means so much because it was the last vacation my whole family took together. My grandfather died before we got to go to England again, and he loved to go to England to visit his family. England has brought me and my family together over the holidays and I think that’s what makes these memories so important. This has made me appreciate my family and friends more so it has shaped me into a better person today.

Reflection

All of us have that fond memory from our childhood that we will never forget, and as for me my memory it was more than one time. When I was around 10 years old I went to England. After the first time I was hooked! I had been to England before a couple times before but I loved to come back. I loved everything about England, the snow, the people, getting to visit my family and getting to explore it. England was so beautiful in the winter time, even though it would get below zero most of the time. This trip was memorable because we actually got to go in a real castle. It was the Warwick castle; it was amazing because you could tour the whole castle. After that we went to a town called Warwickshire and what made it a day to never forget was I got to go see where Shakespeare was born. I got to tour around the house in which the greatest play writer was born. This memory means so much because it was the last vacation my whole family took together. My grandfather died before we got to go to England again, and he loved to go to England to visit his family. England has brought me and my family together over the holidays and I think that’s what makes these memories so important. This has made me appreciate my family and friends more so it has shaped me into a better person today.

Mantra

The Word: Mantra

Part of Speech: noun

The source sentence and Page #:
“I should’ve sold everything and brought the money to America a long time ago” became his mantra. P. 129

Context Clues: This was a logic clue because the phrase was put into quotation marks so you can tell it was something he said.

Definition: chanted or sung as an incantation or prayer.

Your Original Sentence:
“Get a job, get a job, get a job” became my mantra.

Baklava

The Word: Baklava

Part of Speech: noun

The source sentence and Page #:
In Berkeley, and only in Berkeley, my name drew people like flies to baklava.
p.64

Context Clues: You can tell that it was food because flies love food.

Definition: A dessert made of paper-thin layers of pastry, chopped nuts, and honey.

Your Original Sentence:
The Baklava was extraordinary at the restaurant.

Staunch

The word: Staunch

Part of Speech: Verb

The Source Sentence and Page #:
In 1980,however, despite my father's staunch devotion to freedom and fairness, he was still a foreigner with an accent, an accent that after the Iranian Revolution was associated with all things bad. P. 119

Context Clues:
This is a logic vocabulary word because he uses devotion i immediately thought of loyalty to his freedom.

Definition:
Strong, Substantial, firm or steadfast in principle, adherence; loyalty as a person

Your Original Sentence:
The stuanch of tina's devotion to friendship was heartwelming.

Reflection

My reading habits today and when I was a child have changed in many ways. My reading habits are basic, although I only read when I have to I actually pay more attention when I read now. I look for new vocabulary words and try to make sense of the text by learning about the background and thinking outside the box. My reading habits today are improving and I am still going to work on them so there is no room for improvement anymore. I don’t have many strengths as a reader but I have a lot of weaknesses. When I read I get distracted easy and tend to take a lot of breaks. I don’t like to read so I think that’s why I get distracted so easily. My grandmother loves to read. She will seat on her couch and read a book in one day. Every since I was little she has read and she told me she loves to read. When I was growing up I wasn’t really encouraged to read. I would get books from the school library and read the required reading. I just wasn’t into reading that much, it wasn’t one of my favorite hobbies. My parents did not read to me as a child because my mom was busy, she was a single mother so she didn’t have the time to read. My grandmother read to me for a little bit because my mom had to work so I was with my grandmother but she didn’t read to me continuously.

Frugal

Word: Frugal

Part of Speech: adjective

The source sentence and page #:
After having baby-sat for every frugal family in town, I eventually hit the mother lode. p. 123

Context clues: She says she hit the mother lode after babysitting for every family in town, i think it means like they were average or they were bad familys that were cheap or something.

Definition:
prudently saving or sparing, not wasteful, entailing little expense

Your Original Sentence:
My frugal manager was short on my paycheck.