Week 3

When I was a little girl, about 10 years old, I would watch people on TV dancing as stars. Professional dancers on TV shows. I would imitate them and dance all around my living room. My parents never had the money to put me into dancing classes or anything like that. So as I grew older I still had that passion. Something in me told me I wanted to dance. I entered middle school and joined a dance class. From then I realized that it got my mind off a lot of thing and I loved the feeling. I then saved up money and put myself into a dance academy. I dance with many people and love doing it. I entered high school and joined dance class. That was the one class that I would look forward to going into. I performed in front of many people and enjoyed that rush. I think dancing has changed my life. Every time I feel upset or sad, all I do is go to a place were I can make up choreography and it really does clear my head. I entered college with my mind made up that I would like to become a dance choreographer. There are many people that are better then me and I do believe that I can get better. It just takes a lot of practice and that’s what I plan on doing. Out of all my free time I would say that I dance 68% of that time.

The word: Apathetic

Part of speech: Adjective

Source sentence and page number: Funny in Farsi (page:118) ".....That perhaps included in the freedoms in this country is the freedom of apathetic."

Context Clues:"Freedom in the country' Meaning not feeling anything from the freedom because they cant feel the freedom. Apathetic meaning not feeling.

Definition: Having or showing little or no emotion.

Your own Sentence: When im at work i dont feel apathetic anymore.

The word: Baklava

Source sentence and page number: Funny in Farsi (page:64) "In berkeley, and only in Berkeley, my name drew people like flies to baklava.

Context clues: :"drew people like flies." the flies were drawn th the food.

Definition: A near Easter pastry made of many layers of paper thin dough with filling of nuts, baked dough and honey.

Your own definition: My mom buys baklava from Sams Club when we have some time of gathering at our house.

Anomaly

Part of speech: adj

The source sentence and page number: Funny in Farsi not seem such a big deal in other families, but my parents, both of whom are painfully shy, looked upon their outgoing anomaly, just as Native Americans regard an albino buffalo-he was a miracle."

Context Clues: I use logic because they refer that the albino buffalo-he was a miracle, it meant something weird, peculiar to them

Definition: something different, peculiar, not easily classified.

Your original sentence: The girl was anomaly different then all the rest of the people in the classroom.