Thursday, 4/10/03
Warm Up. Copy 1-5 into notebook.
  1. *"saying person" = __________
  2. *expensive : expense :: suspend : ________
  3. *"under hang thing" = ___________
  4. *leg : appendage :: foreshadowing : ___________
  5. *psychic : prediction :: dictator : __________
  6. (1) True or False? Father and MS are moving into Mrs. Whitlaw's stable.
The sounds of Chinese.
Nickelodeon (the Real ones...)...The Great Train Robbery
"Simple Gifts.mp3", St. George and the Dragon
Reading Check (6)
  1. Why was Moon Shadow's mother "always polite to everyone"?
  2. Name one expectation MS had about Miss Whitlaw.
  3. (2) Why was it "customary every New Year's to bribe the little Stove King"? Give an example of this "bribery."
  4. (2) What does Moon Shadow think that milk is? After he tastes it, what does he think of the taste?
San Francisco 1906 Video. 10+ minutes.
Listening Exercise. (7)
  1. San Francisco was described in the video as all of these things except...a) the "most pleasure loving" city. b) a "mad" city. c) the "garden of the Lord." d) the "best of the West. e) the "promised land."
  2. Who was President in 1906?
  3. All of these things are true about San Francisco in 1906 except...a) more than a half million people lived there.  b) it was the nation's 9th largest city.  c) it was the biggest city in the West. d) All are true.
  4. True or False? San Francisco had burned down 5 times already before 1906.
  5. True or False? Two-thirds of San Francisco's population was either first or second generation immigrants from other countries.
  6. True or False? The immigrants from the various countries all stuck to their own neighborhoods.
  7. True or False? The Barbary Coast neighborhood and Chinatown were described in very different terms.