5|4|3|2|1 228-248

5 Comments

• This chapter is about Europe in the 18th Century.
• Alothough. agains its vast Asian background, the rise of European scientific method was much more important than the power politics of the age, to western contemporaries their pompous and glittering panache of moncarchs.
• War was taken for granted and so was economic advantages.
• This chapter was also about European expansion overseas which was a social and political event that was going on.
• The Spaniards had dominated South Americia: their goverment was stictly centralized, urban and Catholic.

4 Questions

• Why did Europe being to start expanding in the 18th Century?
• What was so important for Europe to expand?
• Did Europe expanding have a big effect of the World?
• Would Europe not expanding greatly affect the World?

3 Vocabulary

• pompous-characterized by an ostentatious display of dignity or importance
• panache- an ornamental plume of feathers, tassels, or the like, esp. one worn on a helmet or cap
• hastings-Warren, 1732–1818, British statesman: first governor general of India 1773–85.

2 Literary Terms

• Simlie
• Allusion

1 Overview Sentance

This chapter was mainly about Europe and its changes.

5|4|3|2|1 202-228

5 Comments

• These chapters are about the Western Centuries of Genius.


• Far to the west of the oceanic world of Polynesia, Europeans were also exploring new horizon, intellectual as well as maritime.


• Those new dynastic great states were best exempplified by the Habsburg and the French mornarchies.


• The French monarchy, already very formidable under Francis I was based on the most populous and favorably situated country in the West, and inherited the predominance of the French mediveal kings, resserted under Louis XI.


• This chapter was also about Mughal India , Iran. and the Ottman Turks.
  

4 Questions

• What exactly were the Ottman Turks?
• Where did Hinduism come from?
• Who was Aurangzeb?
• What effect did the Ottman Turks?
  

3 Vocabulary

• chequered-patterned with alternating squares of color



• perennial-lasting for an indefinitely long time; enduring



• diplomacy-the conduct by government officials of negotiations and other relations between nations.
  

2 Literary Terms

• Allusion



• Conflict

1 Overview Sentence

This chapter was about how the wester part of the world contributed to the stability of the world now.

5|4|3|2|1 175-202

5 Comments

• Christopher Columbus discovered an Island called the Hispaniola and he encountered Indians called the Tainos.


• The King and Queen of Spain were to reward Columbus for his discoveries by letting him become the Viceroy of the Island.


• His discoveries helped with the creation of the Columbian Exchange.


• This chapter is also about Medieval Africa , the Spaniards went into Africa to get slaves because they had killed most of the Tainos.


• This part of history had a very big impact on the World.

4 Questions

• Why didn't any one but the King and Queen of England want to support Christopher Columbus?


• Would things be different if some one other than the King and Queen of England would have supported Christopher Columbus?


• How long did it take Chrsitopher to get to the Island of the Hispaniola?


• What made Christopher bealive if he kept sailing west he would reach India?

3 Vocabulary

• derived-to receive or obtain from a source or origin


• fringed-a decorative border of thread, cord, or the like, usually hanging loosely from a raveled edge or separate strip


• culminate-to reach the highest point, summit, or highest development

2 Literary Terms

• Irony


• Flashback

1 Overview Sentance

These chapters are about the Pre-Columbian America which means when Christopher Columbus had settled in the Hispaniola.

5|4|3|2|1 150-175

5 Comments

• These chapters are when Europe decided that they should explore the oceans and trade.


• Europe had began trading with the help of Asian technology.


• Asia had better technology to trade with other countries but Europes technology wasn't as advanced as theirs was.


• The Chinease were very skilled at making their ships they had special ships built to sail for monsoon wheather.


• Europe mainly wanted to trade with Asia to get spices to preserve their food for longer.

4 Questions

• What made Europe want to trade?


• Did trading work out for Europe?


• Did Europe trading have a big effect on the World?
  
• Did all of Europe trade?

3 Vocabulary

• rustic-simple, artless, or unsophisticated.


• arable-land that can be or is cultivated.


• despotic-of, pertaining to, or of the nature of a despot or despotism; autocratic; tyrannical

2 Literary Terms

• Foil


• Mood

1 Overview Sentance

These chapters are about Europe in the later middle ages which was when they began to trade with countries like Asia and Africa.

5|4|3|2|1 119-150

5 Comments

• These chapters are about Western Chritendom



• At first when I read the title to this chapter I thought it would be about Christianity but instead it is about the Eastern Roman Empire.



• In this chapter is when the Barbarians who moved south into the late Roman Empire had tried to take over.


• It also mentions Asia, China, and India. But it mostly mentions China and the Mongols and it breafly mentions India.


• It mentions how the people from India bealived in Hinduism.

4 Questions

• How many religions are there?



• What was the Chritendom effect on the World?



• What effect did the Barbarians have on the World?



• What did the fall of the Roman Empire have on the World?

3 Vocabulary

• acclimatized- To become acclimated or adapted.



• incoherent- lacking unity or harmony of elements



• gartered-An elasticized band worn around the leg to hold up a stocking or sock.

2 Literary Terms

• Tragedy



• Puns

1 Overview Sentance

These chapters are about the impact on the World the Western Christendom had on it.

5|4|3|2|1 92- 119

5 Comments

• This chapter mostly mentions the expansion of Islam.


• I think that these are the most intresting chapters so far.


• This chapter mentions what happened in the World during AD 571.
  
• This chapter alos mention the South and East Slavs.


• I dont think that the South and East slavs had a big impact on the World because it had a very short section.

4 Questions

• Why did they call the South and East slavs , slavs?


• Why was Gold so important back then?


• Why was the expaction of Islam so important?


• What did the South and East slavs have to do with North America?

3 Vocabulary

• Semitic-a subfamily of Afroasiatic languages that includes Akkadian, Arabic, Aramaic, Ethiopic, Hebrew, and Phoenician.


• reverberation- the fact of being reverberated or reflected.


• caliphate-the rank, jurisdiction, or government of a caliph.

2 Literary Terms

• Allusion


• Conflict

1 Overview Sentance

This chapter is about the expansion of Islam and the South and East Slavs.

5|4|3|2|1 69-92

5 Comments

• In these chapters we learn about Israel and Christianity.



• Jerusalem was the Capital of Israel and was considered Holy Land for the Christians and Muslimas and there was a war between them to decided who should own the land.



• These chapters also mention the Jewish people and how they effected that era.



• The Religion that had the greater impact was Christianity because it was spread through most of Europe including Spain.



• This chapter was divided into sections and one of those sections mentioned the Guptas.

4 Questions

• What were the effects of the Guptas?



• Where did people get the idea of religion from?



• Why did they name Christianity , Christianity?


• Why was there conflict between the religions?

3 Vocabulary

• tortuous- full of twists, turns, or bends; twisting, winding, or crooked


• chasm-a yawning fissure or deep cleft in the earth's surface


• catafalque-a raised structure on which the body of a deceased person lies or is carried in state.

2 Literary Terms

• Irony


• Mood
  

1 Overview Sentance

These few chapters mention how religion was a big part of the making of the Earth.

5|4|3|2|1 42-69

5 Comments

• The Hellene tribes men of the Iron Age, who moved down through Thessaly and Boetia, took Cointh, burt Mycenae and overran the Pelpopponnease.


• These few chapters were about the Hellas and Alexander.


• The greeks created the vocabulary of the European Philosophy, politics, science and arts.


• The greeks first devised constitutional self- goverment by the citizens of a slave-owning society, and plato and Aristotle analysed phtics more deeply than Confucis.


• There was also information about Rome in these chapters.

4 Questions

• What made all of those things occur?


• Where Hellas and Alexander important to the history of the world?


• Why did the Greek create sculptures?


• Does Religion have to do with the creation of the world?

3 Vocabulary

• evoked- to call up or produce


• degrogatory-having or characterized by financial success or good fortune; flourishing; successful:


• armament-the arms and equipment with which a military unit or military apparatus is supplied

2 Literary Terms

• Allude


• Similie

1 Overview Sentance

In this chapter I leared about the impact Greeks and Romans had on the World.

5|4|3|2|1 pggs 20-42

5 Comments

• These two chapters are mostly about the Bronze age of Europe.
• The Neolithic culture of Crete is immensely old.
• By rge 1150 BC these Bronze Age lords were being overwhelmed by new invaders from the north the iron weapons and greater manpower.
• Bronze Age of Europe, like Mycenae, now had to face the infiltration of new invaders
• The decline of the Hittie and Egyptian empires in the thirteenth century BC gave the Phoenician cities a short lived independence, and afterwards they were far too useful for the Assyrians and Persiajs to destroy.

4 Questions

• What type of Evidence do the people who wrote this have?
• Do any of these stories have to deal with religion?
• Is the book wrote by the date of the incidents?
• What would happen if the Bronze age in Europe would have never tooken place?

3 Vocabulary

• Hellenic- of, pertaining to, or characteristic of the ancient Greeks or their language, culture, thought, etc., esp. before the time of
• Ionia-of, pertaining to, or characteristic of the ancient Greeks or their language, culture, thought, etc., esp. before the time of
• Savagery- an uncivilized or barbaric state or condition; barbarity

2 Literary Terms

• Foreshadowing
• Similie

1 Overview Sentance

• I leared about most of the history of the Bronze Age of Europe

5|4|3|2|1 # 1 Man through the ages pgs. 1-19

5 Comments

• This book is about the history of the worl and of the archaic origins to the present.
• This book mentions the roots of the World and how it all got started.
• The book mentions that by 4000 BC lower Mesopotamia was being colonized. probly from Iran, by a people now called Ubaidans from a site near Ur.
• It also describes the Bronze age of the Empires of Asia.

4 Questions

• Why were the Bronze age of Empires of Asia important
• What would happen if the civilazation in Mesopotamia never took place?
• What are Ubaidans?
• What did that have to do with the first civilazations?

3 Vocabulary

• Orthodox- conforming to the Christian faith as represented in the creeds of the early church.
• Docile - an uncivilized or barbaric state or condition; barbarity
• Apartheid-
  any system or practice that separates people according to race, caste, etc.

2 Literary Terms

• Aliteration
• Hypervalie

1 Overview Sentance

In these few chapters it is like an introduction to the historyof civilazations.

5|4|3|2|1 284-314

5 Comments

• Richard had to eat alot so he can gain 15 pounds so he can become a postal worker.


• Richards hours in the post office became less because of the great dreppession.


• Richard meets his Irish friend , friends and they become a group of blended friends
• Some of his friends didn't gte cash payments from their clients so instead they get sex from house wives so he follows in their foot steps.


• The Garveyites' doctrines do not appeal to Richard, but he admires their dignity and passion

4 Question

• Why didnt the Graveyites not appeal to Richard?


• Why did Richard follow in the mens foot steps?


• Why did Richard have to gain 15 pounds?


• Was Richard upset when he lost his job?

3 Vocabulary

• Regalia-the ensigns or emblems of royalty, as the crown or scepter.


• Rickety- likely to fall or collapse; shaky


• Affably- pleasantly easy to approach and to talk to; friendly; cordial; warmly polite:

2 Literary Terms

• Metaphor
• Personification

1 Over view Sentance

In this chapter Richard gets a new job but then looses it and he gets another which didn't always pay cash.

5|4|3|2|1 254-284

5 Comments

• Richard gets a new job where he cleans and runs errands
• Mrs.Moss finnaly accepted the fact that Richard didn't like her daughter.
• Richard was offered food by a white person because he was so skinny but Richard was to ashamed to take it.
• Maggie moves to Menphis because her husband abandoned her.
• Richard had went to the library and got some books.

4 Questions

• Why did Maggies husband abandon her?
• Why did she choose to go to Menphis?
• Does Richard mind that Maggie went to Menphis?
• Why was Richard ashamed to take the food he was being offered?

3 Vocabulary

• Ravages-To bring heavy destruction on; devastate
• Depicts-to represent by or as if by painting; portray; delineate
• Gaudy- brilliantly or excessively showy
• Sneered-To assume a scornful, contemptuous, or derisive facial expression

2 Literary Terms

• Foreshadowing
• Indirect Characterization

1 Over view sentance

In this chapter more of Richards family moves to Menphis and they keep him company.

5|4|3|2|1 222-254

5 Comments

• Richard met a woman named Mrs. Moss and she wants him to marry her daughter.
• Richard wasn't attracted to the Mrs.Moss daughter at all.
• But then Richard meets another young woman by the water front and they drink alchol.
• Richard had been used by a white man to move his illegal liquor and he became mad.
• Richard didnt have that much of a hard time in Menphis.

4 Questions

• Why was Richard so upset about Mrs. Moss trying to set him up with her daughter?
• Why did Mrs.Moss want Richard with her daughter?
• Why did Richard get upset when the white man hustled him?
• Is Richard gonna move out of Menphis?

3 Vocabulary

• Tangible-capable of being touched; discernible by the touch; material or substantial.
• Injuction- a judicial process or order requiring the person or persons to whom it is directed to do a particular act or to refrain from doing a particular act.
• Emphatically- uttered, or to be uttered, with emphasis; strongly expressive.

2 Literary Terms

• Aliteration
• Foreshadowing

1 Overview Sentance

In these chapter Richards meets new people in Menphis.

5|4|3|2|1 194-222

5 Comments

• Richard got himself into lots of trouble in this chapter


• Richard takes a job in a clothing store.
• Richard drifts from job to job he drifts from job to job because he gets fired because of racism.
• Richard gets a job moping at a hotel.
• Richard goes to Menphis with the money from his earnings.

4 Questions

• Why did Richard chose to go to Menphis?
• What was Richard going to do in Menphis?
• Does Rivhard meet neww people in Menphis?
• Does Richard get into any trouble in Menphis?

3 Vocabulary

• Unwittingly -inadvertent; unintentional; accidental


• Brooding -preoccupied with depressing, morbid, or painful memories or thoughts


• Bashful-uncomfortably diffident and easily embarrassed; shy; timid


• Bleak -bare, desolate, and often windswept

2 Literary Terms

• Personification


• Indirect Characterizarion
  

1 Overview Sentance

In this chapter Richard changes his life and goes to Menphis.

5|4|3|2|1 160-194

5 Comments

• Richards mom was recovering but she was going to remain cripple for the rest of her life.
• Richard got exicted when he was told by the man from the newspaper that his story was going to be puslished.
• Richards grandmother wasn't happy thta he was publishing fictional stories in the newspaper.
• Richards mom was also upset that he was writting fiction in the newspaper
• Richards dream was to go to the North and write books and novels

4 Questions

• What did Richard do to provoke the dog into biting him?
• Why did Richard choose to write his story as Athmospheric, emotional,inatailively psyological?
• Why did everything Ricard do disappoint his grandmother?
• Why couldnt Richards mom and grandmother be happy that he was being published in the newspaper?

3 Vocabulary

• bewildering- To confuse or befuddle, especially with numerous conflicting situations, objects, or statements.
• retentative- having power or ability to remember; having a good memory.
• bleak- bare, desolate, and often windswept.
• dubious -doubtful; marked by or occasioning doubt

2 Literary Terms

• Similie
• Metaphor

1 Over View Sentance

In this chapter Richards life makes a big change he actually got a job that he could keep.

5|4|3|2|1 142-160

5 Comments

• Now the taunting from the White people is getting to Richard and he gets into a fight on the first day of school.
• Richard couldn't find a job that his grandmother would approve of.
• A classmate suggest to Richard that he works for the newspaper.
• Richard took a job for Brother Mance who had lived next door to him.
• When Richard Grandfather dies he was sent out to his Uncle.

4 Questions

• Why was Richards grandmother so strict with him?
• Why did one of Richards friends suggest that he work for the newspaper?
• Why couldn't Richards grandmother tell Richards uncle herself that Grandfather had died?

3 Vocabulary

• Flouncing-to go with impatient or impetuous, exaggerated movements
• Gaping-to open the mouth wide involuntarily, as the result of hunger, sleepiness, or absorbed attention.
• Regality-Royalty; sovereignty; sovereign jurisdiction.
• Disembodied-To divest of material existence or substance.

2 Literary Terms

• Foreshadowing
• Metaphor

1 Overview Sentence

In what I read so far I have noticed that Richard wants to make a change with his life so he gets a job.

5|4|3|2|1 Pages 118-142

5- Comments

• Richard and Addie were intimately related to his problem with God and religion.
• In what I've read so far Richard gets his grandmother mad and he promises to pray every day.
• Richard also tries to ignore the white people rude comments that he is told because hes black.
• Richard went to a school where Addie taught and he thought that they were boring.
• Richard wasn't able to be alive in god completely because the religions story didn't make any sense to him.

4- Questions

• Why was Richard unable to bealive in god completly?
• Why did Richard Wright title his book Black Boy?

3- Vocabulary

• Nostalgia -a wistful desire to return in thought or in fact to a former time in one's life, to one's home or homeland, or to one's family and friends; a sentimental yearning for the happiness of a former place or time


• Vague-not definitely established, determined, confirmed, or known; uncertain


• Tantalizing-having or exhibiting something that provokes or arouses expectation, interest, or desire, esp. that which remains unobtainable or beyond one's reach


• Wallowing-To roll the body about indolently or clumsily in or as if in water, snow, or mud

2- Literary Terms

• Simile


• Direct Characterization

1- Overview Sentence

In this chapter Richard tries to ignore the White people tauntings and ridicule.

5|4|3|2|1 # 2.

5 Comments

• In this chapter Richard becomes friends with some colored boys in his neighborhood in Arkansas.
• He also encounter some white people and him and his friends get into fights with them.
• Richard had begun to work multiple jobs to help with expenses.
• In this chapter Ella suffers a paralytic stroke, and, though the neighbors assist in caring for his mother.
• Richard also wrote to his Grandmother for some help with his mother.

4 Questions

• What did Ella get that she became so ill she couldn't work?
• What did Richards Grandmother do to help him?
• Why didn't Richard want to feel like an object of Charity?
• Why was there tension between Richard and Addie?

3 Vocabulary

• retentive- having power or ability to remember; having a good memory
• denounced- to condemn or censure openly or publicly
• dwelling- a building or place of shelter to live in; place of residence; abode; home.

2 Literary Terms

• similie
• metaphor

1 Overview Sentence

In this chapter Richard realizes that he does need help from some of his family members.

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5 Comments

• The reoson why Richard had ste the curtains on fire was because he was really bored and had nothing to do beacause his mother didnt want him making any noise that might disturd his sick grandmother.
• Richard had found watching things burn facinating so he wanted to see the white curtains his mother had burn so he set them on fire and that caused the whole house to burn.
• I don't think that Richards parents should have beaten him for somethin that he really want to happen.
• Richard has a younger brother
• I also noticed that Richard had a very hard child hood.
• After the house had burned down the family had to burn.

4 Questions

• Why was Richards family so poor?
• How does Richards house burning effect him later on his life?
• Did Richards parents effect him emotionally?
• Does Richard get over his house getting burned down?

3 Vocabulary

• chattered-To talk rapidly, incessantly, and on trivial subjects; jabber
• salient-prominent or conspicuous
• refrentiality-
  of the nature of or characterized by reverence; reverent

2 Literary Terms

• myth
• direct charezation

1 Overview Sentance

In this chapter it shows how the begining of Richards life will effect him later own in his life.

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The book I am reading is Black Boy by Richard Wright and I am plannig on doing my 54321 by the end of this week. =]

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We're friends, real friends.& that means, no matter how long it takes,when you finally do decide to look back,I'll be here.

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atter me, & I may not believe you.Criticize me, & I may not like you.Ignore me, & I may not forgive you.Encourage me, & I will not forget you.Love me, & I may be forced to love you.-William Arthur Ward

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