English by Ramsey Walker https://padlet.com/rwalker18/xs5geezvom5l en-us 2016-10-04 23:53:35 UTC 2024-05-17 17:35:56 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/icons/Clouds.png Portmanteau- Filthausted rwalker18 https://padlet.com/rwalker18/xs5geezvom5l/wish/128357508 Definition: Extremely tired and dirty. 
Etymology: A combination of filthy (14th century England- physically unclean, dirty, noisome) and exhausted (16th century Latin- drained out). ]]> 2016-10-05 00:33:51 UTC https://padlet.com/rwalker18/xs5geezvom5l/wish/128357508 Six-Word Story rwalker18 https://padlet.com/rwalker18/xs5geezvom5l/wish/130405326 Exercise: Write and post to your Padlet your own six-word story. The story needs to project a backstory and perhaps a future story. In “Baby shoes” we can see a past, a baby’s death. And we see a present, selling the shoes either due to hardship or for closure.
  • After a great fight, hair returned. 
  • The noon sky was newly blue.
  • Nine months left her weak, exhausted.
  • A great fight, decidedly little gained.
]]> 2016-10-13 12:35:45 UTC https://padlet.com/rwalker18/xs5geezvom5l/wish/130405326 Three Most Beautiful Words From Buzzfeed rwalker18 https://padlet.com/rwalker18/xs5geezvom5l/wish/130526005 Nefarious, Sonorous, Effervescence 

]]> 2016-10-13 17:06:05 UTC https://padlet.com/rwalker18/xs5geezvom5l/wish/130526005 The Phrontistery rwalker18 https://padlet.com/rwalker18/xs5geezvom5l/wish/130528825 two-letter words:
PE PI QI RE SH SI SO TA TI TO A AB AD AE AG AH AI AL AM AN AR AS AT AW AX AY BA BE BI BO BY DE DO ED EF EH EL EM EN ER ES ET EX FA FE GO 
 HA HE HI HM HO ID IF IN IS IT JO KA KI ]]> 2016-10-13 17:12:39 UTC https://padlet.com/rwalker18/xs5geezvom5l/wish/130528825 "Well Defined" Poem rwalker18 https://padlet.com/rwalker18/xs5geezvom5l/wish/131665780 Unfathomable  is impossible to comprehend
even by a friend
he claims no one can truly know him
such a loner
some even mistake him for a stoner
they do not understand him
for he is a great conundrum
to many his mystery is beguiling
sadly what they find so alluring they are incapable of procuring 
he resides on the outskirts of society 
for he gives people great anxiety
they fear what they can not know
how his truth will never show
[unfathomable: incapable of being fully explored or understood]
]]> 2016-10-19 00:52:34 UTC https://padlet.com/rwalker18/xs5geezvom5l/wish/131665780 A look at Orwell's Newspeak rwalker18 https://padlet.com/rwalker18/xs5geezvom5l/wish/132164936 The aim of newspeak is to consolidate language, to make it as simple as possible. Removes synonyms and antonyms. comparative and superlative adjectives are dispatched. The rules are forced on the characters in the book. Some of his words such as big brother have entered popular use. Much of Orwell's novel had a large impact on society and some of the words from Newspeak affect people today.]]> 2016-10-20 17:38:05 UTC https://padlet.com/rwalker18/xs5geezvom5l/wish/132164936