Tuesday, 3/12/02
Warm Up. Copy.
  1. *"around stand things" = _____________ 
  2. *roadblock : obstacle :: goal : _____________ 
  3. *"across carry" = ___________ 
  4. *"between throw thing" = _____________
  5. fact : objective :: __________ : subjective 
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WarmUp II--Emily Dickinson

Fame is a bee
It has a song--
It has a sting--
Ah, too, it has a wing.

1)What does the "song" represent? 2)What does the "sting" represent? 3)What does the "wing" represent? 4)What is a comparison like this called?

"Mr. Morton is the subject of the sentence, and what the predicate says, he does."
Identify the simple subject and simple predicate in each of the sentences below:
1. During the winter, many birds fly south.
2. There on its back was a large tortoise.
3. The famous star signed autographs for hours.
4. My whole family heard the famous vocalist sing.

Model of persuasive essay.

"All Summer in a Day" p107
"Venus is sometimes regarded as Earth's sister planet. In some ways they are very similar:
       -- Venus is only slightly smaller than Earth (95% of Earth's diameter, 80% of Earth's mass). This means you would weigh 80% of what you do on Earth.
       -- Both have few craters indicating relatively young surfaces.
       -- Their densities and chemical compositions are similar.
Because of these similarities, it was thought that below its dense clouds Venus might be very Earthlike and might even have life. But, unfortunately, more detailed study of Venus reveals that in many important ways it is radically different from Earth."

    "The pressure of Venus' atmosphere at the surface is 90 atmospheres (about the same as the pressure at a depth of 1 km -- 2.2 miles -- in Earth's oceans). It is composed mostly of carbon dioxide. There are several layers of clouds many kilometers thick composed of sulfuric acid. These clouds completely obscure our view of the surface. This dense atmosphere produces a run-away greenhouse effect that raises Venus' surface temperature by about 400 degrees to over 740 K (854 F--hot enough to melt lead). Venus' surface is actually hotter than Mercury's despite being nearly twice as far from the Sun."

"Venus probably once had large amounts of water like Earth but it all boiled away. Venus is now quite dry. Earth would have suffered the same fate had it been just a little closer to the Sun. "

"Venus' rotation is somewhat unusual in that it is both very slow (243 Earth days per Venus day, slightly longer than Venus' year) and retrograde." (Extra Credit: What's that mean?)

"Venus is usually visible with the unaided eye. Sometimes (inaccurately) referred to as the "morning star" or the "evening star", it is by far the brightest "star" in the sky."
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