"Drumbeats and Bullets" & "The Drummer Boy of Shiloh" Vocabulary (:

1. I instantly became absent-minded and my ears were about to explode by the time I heard the music volume intensified.

2. Our brain is responsible for basic vital life functions such as breathing, heartbeat, and blood pressure.


3. I personally believe in God and his immortality.


4. There is a legitimate consequence that if one passes the red light, they will get caught by the police immediately.


5. Haitians tumbled one after another when the earthquake caused an enormous tremor in the ground.

Propaganda Poster on Animal Farm (:

~Ami & Antonia

"Academic & Camp Harmony" Vocabulary (:

1. After testing food with sugar in Science, I had an observation that coke contains a high amount of sugar in it.


2. Mr Blake usually makes the class emphasize by telling funny jokes which makes my classmates and I more energetic.


3. After watching "Scarlet Takes a Tumble" on YouTube, a lot of people had made videos of their reactions and they gave me a good time by cracking me up.



4. When it comes to new vocabulary, some students do not understand and Mr Patrick has a solution by defining it very clearly.


5. The principle tersely gave the bullies a lecture after hitting others for no reason.


6. It would be terrible if there was a breach on a ship because it would gradually sink.


7. I was riveted by the demonstration Ms Sarah was giving us on floor plan.



8. There was about ten guards who kept a vigil over a castle in Norway when I paid a visit.

"Camp Harmony" Literary Focus (:

5. Interpret- How would you define the mood of the people on the bus at the beginning of the journey to Camp Harmony? At the end of the journey?

At the beginning of the journey, all the college students on the bus seemed pretty excited to see and live in the camp because they were singing joyfully. Some Japanese-Americans were annoyed by the college students and horrified because the Americans would probably harm them. They all expected for the best, wished that everything would go right. But they thought wrong. They were assigned to a big room and it seemed like a prison in some way. They got blamed, had to live like prisoners. Sone's mother seemed like a woman that never got depressed or upset. She turned every bad thing to a good thing. Monica, who seemed a lot positive in the very first place but had changed at the end. She considered herself as a native American but her thought sadly got lost after she was blamed for being a Japanese.
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